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Help I brick my Nook HD+ and CWM SD card no longer boot up

While I was DE-registering my NOOK HD+ I pull the SD card. It pop up a dialogue box saying something has crashed. I dismissed it and proceeded the process again. Now my NOOK stuck at the NOOK logo. When I put in a SD card with CWM it does not get pass cyanoboot logo. How have a CWM backup for my nook but since it can't load CWM I can't do any restore. Please help.

Zxa329 said:
While I was DE-registering my NOOK HD+ I pull the SD card. It pop up a dialogue box saying something has crashed. I dismissed it and proceeded the process again. Now my NOOK stuck at the NOOK logo. When I put in a SD card with CWM it does not get pass cyanoboot logo. How have a CWM backup for my nook but since it can't load CWM I can't do any restore. Please help.
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Try doing a 8 failed boot reset. Interrupt the boot without the SD in 8 times in a row. Just hold the power button for a few seconds after each boot try. It will format everything and install the factory rom. Then maybe you can boot the CWM SD and restore.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD

leapinlar said:
Try doing a 8 failed boot reset. Interrupt the boot without the SD in 8 times in a row. Just hold the power button for a few seconds after each boot try. It will format everything and install the factory rom. Then maybe you can boot the CWM SD and restore.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
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Dear Leapinlar,
Thank you very much for your advise. Have already done many power down and up etc. Just tried it again, see the Nook logo, press the power button until it disappear, press the button until it appear etc. Done more than 8, no luck. Is there some timing requirement? How does the home button come into play concerning some low level signal to which code? Tech support guy from BnN asked me to hold the two buttons for 30-40s, no luck there.
The fact that cyanoboot logo appear with the CWM does that mean code introduced by the SD card is gaining control but was stuck looking for something that was not there? Is there a version that can just boot up and let me do some restoring?

Zxa329 said:
Dear Leapinlar,
Thank you very much for your advise. Have already done many power down and up etc. Just tried it again, see the Nook logo, press the power button until it disappear, press the button until it appear etc. Done more than 8, no luck. Is there some timing requirement? How does the home button come into play concerning some low level signal to which code? Tech support guy from BnN asked me to hold the two buttons for 30-40s, no luck there.
The fact that cyanoboot logo appear with the CWM does that mean code introduced by the SD card is gaining control but was stuck looking for something that was not there? Is there a version that can just boot up and let me do some restoring?
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Without the SD in, the booting to n logo and powering off many times should kick in the reset. Maybe you are powering off when it is trying to reset. Let it go with booting for a few seconds before you power off, to make sure it is not in the reset mode.
EDIT: Wait till the n dims (or even a little longer) each time before you power off. That way you are sure it is not in the reset mode.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD

Try pressing N (or it could've been N + power button) without the SD card in, right after switching on the device. You should have a menu appear to hard reset the device.
EDIT: Actually, you might need to press N before turning on the device. I definitely seen this menu while playing around with the buttons.

leapinlar said:
Without the SD in, the booting to n logo and powering off many times should kick in the reset. Maybe you are powering off when it is trying to reset. Let it go with booting for a few seconds before you power off, to make sure it is not in the reset mode.
EDIT: Wait till the n dims (or even a little longer) each time before you power off. That way you are sure it is not in the reset mode.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
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Tried, still no luck. Notice that dimming does not happen any more. Nook logo stay at the same brightness forever.

Zxa329 said:
Tried, still no luck. Notice that dimming does not happen any more. Nook logo stay at the same brightness forever.
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Sounds like a hardware failure. I suggest a warranty exchange.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD

I say you can try put CWM on diff card and try booting off diff card. At least that's one last thing you haven't try. Still, that's not gonna fix your stock nook, unless you made a backup.
Zxa329 said:
When I put in a SD card with CWM it does not get pass cyanoboot logo. How have a CWM backup for my nook but since it can't load CWM I can't do any restore. Please help.
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I was a bit hasty posting that, but now that I can see that you can see 'cyanoboot' logo, it appear that it does boot from sd card, just not a successful one. So, at least it seem the bootloader partition on the nook isn't corrupt. So, I'm pretty sure trying a diff card should work. We have at least a few people confirming to have similar problem after running CM10.1 on the HD+.

someone0 said:
I say you can try put CWM on diff card and try booting off diff card. At least that's one last thing you haven't try. Still, that's not gonna fix your stock nook, unless you made a backup.
I was a bit hasty posting that, but now that I can see that you can see 'cyanoboot' logo, it appear that it does boot from sd card, just not a successful one. So, at least it seem the bootloader partition on the nook isn't corrupt. So, I'm pretty sure trying a diff card should work. We have at least a few people confirming to have similar problem after running CM10.1 on the HD+.
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He said he had a backup. But even if he did not, and he got a new CWM SD to work, he could flash my plain 2.0.0 stock zip linked in my HD/HD+ CWM thread.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD

leapinlar said:
He said he had a backup. But even if he did not, and he got a new CWM SD to work, he could flash my plain 2.0.0 stock zip linked in my HD/HD+ CWM thread.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
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I tried making another SD from the image that was proven to work before. The result is the same. See the logo and it stops there.

Zxa329 said:
I tried making another SD from the image that was proven to work before. The result is the same. See the logo and it stops there.
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Still sounds like a hardware failure to me.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD

Have you tried booting while the USB power plug in?

How do I reset my nook hd+ back to before I rooted it?

leapinlar: Ask the question on the forum. I don't like using PMs.
Recently the update allowing google play store somehow bypassed the anti-update thing on my nook, so now I can use play store on the nook home, but the update removed my root but kept the android system home.. It uses a lot of ram, which i'd rather have free to play games or other resource heavy apps on.
I know I have to get my nook to start unsuccessfully 8 times, but I don't know how I go about doing that, can I get some help?

flipperz said:
leapinlar: Ask the question on the forum. I don't like using PMs.
Recently the update allowing google play store somehow bypassed the anti-update thing on my nook, so now I can use play store on the nook home, but the update removed my root but kept the android system home.. It uses a lot of ram, which i'd rather have free to play games or other resource heavy apps on.
I know I have to get my nook to start unsuccessfully 8 times, but I don't know how I go about doing that, can I get some help?
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If you want to do it the easy way, just interrupt the boot by turning it completely off (hold power button for a few seconds) while booting eight times in a row. It will take you back to some version of stock, usually 2.0.0 or 2.0.4 then upgrade again to 2.1.0 when you register again.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

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leapinlar said:
... just interrupt the boot by turning it completely off (hold power button for a few seconds) while booting eight times in a row. It will take you back to some version of stock, ...
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After my HD+ locked up when I created a "Guest" ("child") profile and I had to do the 8-reboot process, after upgrading to B&N v2.1.0, I experimented with alternate button combinations at power-on. If I held the "n" button when pressing "power", I got a prompt that allowed me to do a factory reset.
Whether that is part of a later B&N recovery module, I can't say.

DeanGibson said:
After my HD+ locked up when I created a "Guest" ("child") profile and I had to do the 8-reboot process, after upgrading to B&N v2.1.0, I experimented with alternate button combinations at power-on. If I held the "n" button when pressing "power", I got a prompt that allowed me to do a factory reset.
Whether that is part of a later B&N recovery module, I can't say.
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That factory reset just wipes data, it does not reinstall the ROM. He probably needs to reinstall the ROM since some of the broken symlinks may still be in /system.
Power + n takes you to stock recovery, which, without other parameters being passed to it, asks if you want to factory reset.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

leapinlar said:
That factory reset just wipes data, it does not reinstall the ROM. He probably needs to reinstall the ROM since some of the broken symlinks may still be in /system.
Power + n takes you to stock recovery, which, without other parameters being passed to it, asks if you want to factory reset.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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Thanks for the help!

I'd like to return my Nook HD+ to stock, too. It has a Cyanogen mod that precedes that startup, and I think that's getting in the way of the 'eight reset' mechanism for a total factory reset to stock software.
Is there a bootloader, system, and gapps zip that I could just flash from an external SD card that would do the job? Seems like there was, at one time, but it's getting very difficult to find them. Any ideas for a quick factory reset (not a wipe, but a complete reset to original OS?).

[email protected] said:
I'd like to return my Nook HD+ to stock, too. It has a Cyanogen mod that precedes that startup, and I think that's getting in the way of the 'eight reset' mechanism for a total factory reset to stock software.
Is there a bootloader, system, and gapps zip that I could just flash from an external SD card that would do the job? Seems like there was, at one time, but it's getting very difficult to find them. Any ideas for a quick factory reset (not a wipe, but a complete reset to original OS?).
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Go to my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature and flash the plain stock zip from item 6 there and follow that with a factory reset by CWM.
And it was not the cyanoboot that prevents the 8 reset, it is because when you originally installed CM you also replaced the stock recovery on internal memory with CWM. Stock recovery is needed for the 8 reset to work.
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Thanks, that worked. I also tried the rooted version of stock, but it has a problem: "Unfortunately, Home has Stopped". Is there a workaround to this?

[email protected] said:
Thanks, that worked. I also tried the rooted version of stock, but it has a problem: "Unfortunately, Home has Stopped". Is there a workaround to this?
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Don't use that version, I should remove it. If you want to root, do it per the thread with universal root rev 3.
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Hi there,
I have a device that is also candidate for unrooting to stock. The thing is that I have tried both CWM and TWRP on bootable SD to try and fix the situation tith the apropriate zips but unfortunately none of them can mount sd ot any internal memory for me to reset.
Maybe I should also add that the device is charging without turning on except if there is a proper bootable sd inserted.
I presume a rescue bootable SD of OEM type could bring the device back to life.
I`ll apreciate any help.

ValentinD said:
Hi there,
I have a device that is also candidate for unrooting to stock. The thing is that I have tried both CWM and TWRP on bootable SD to try and fix the situation tith the apropriate zips but unfortunately none of them can mount sd ot any internal memory for me to reset.
Maybe I should also add that the device is charging without turning on except if there is a proper bootable sd inserted.
I presume a rescue bootable SD of OEM type could bring the device back to life.
I`ll apreciate any help.
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When you say a candidate for stock, why? Is there something else wrong with it? I am just trying to see if it is bricked.
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leapinlar said:
When you say a candidate for stock, why? Is there something else wrong with it? I am just trying to see if it is bricked.
Sent from my BN NookHD+ using XDA Premium HD app
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Maybe Bricked is the situation. The device is charging (the green light is present when plugged to the charger or USB ) but the power button can no longer start any visible boot process on the screen.
The story of the device is nearly the following:
I was using the device for a long time rooted with installed CM updating even with over night builds from time to time.
Once I had a problem booting properly after update but easily booted to TWRP and restored the previouse update.
A week ago the same situation occured, after an update procedure I left the device plugged to the wall charger and on the morning it was stuck on the CYANOGEN universal boot logo. No way found to boot to recovery found.
I figured the recovery has gone bad. Started to prepare bootable SD to try and fox the mess somehow, but could not do the corect procedure of preparing a good bootable SD many times. The only time I successfuly booted CWM recovery from SD I tried to install a zip with CWM recovery and as far as I remember at that time the bootable recovery was able to mount another SD wile it was booted on the device and the zip installed with success according to the software. Sadly after a restart the device was as is, stuck on the bootloader logo.
After 2-3 times successfuly booting both CWM and TWRP recoveries from prepared SD card, doing nothing at all that can alter the device, just tried to see how to mount any usable memory, the device stopped visualy booting without an SD.
Thank you for the reply, hope you can add some wisdome to the happy end

ValentinD said:
Maybe Bricked is the situation. The device is charging (the green light is present when plugged to the charger or USB ) but the power button can no longer start any visible boot process on the screen.
The story of the device is nearly the following:
I was using the device for a long time rooted with installed CM updating even with over night builds from time to time.
Once I had a problem booting properly after update but easily booted to TWRP and restored the previouse update.
A week ago the same situation occured, after an update procedure I left the device plugged to the wall charger and on the morning it was stuck on the CYANOGEN universal boot logo. No way found to boot to recovery found.
I figured the recovery has gone bad. Started to prepare bootable SD to try and fox the mess somehow, but could not do the corect procedure of preparing a good bootable SD many times. The only time I successfuly booted CWM recovery from SD I tried to install a zip with CWM recovery and as far as I remember at that time the bootable recovery was able to mount another SD wile it was booted on the device and the zip installed with success according to the software. Sadly after a restart the device was as is, stuck on the bootloader logo.
After 2-3 times successfully booting both CWM and TWRP recoveries from prepared SD card, doing nothing at all that can alter the device, just tried to see how to mount any usable memory, the device stopped visualy booting without an SD.
Thank you for the reply, hope you can add some wisdom to the happy end
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It sounds like it is bricked. If recovery said it installed successfully and it still will not boot normally, it is usually what that means. By bricking, I mean internal memory has become read only and nothing can successfully be written to it even if it said it was successful. Your probable only option is to use a noemmc version of SD CM. Search the dev forum for that term.
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leapinlar said:
It sounds like it is bricked. If recovery said it installed successfully and it still will not boot normally, it is usually what that means. By bricking, I mean internal memory has become read only and nothing can successfully be written to it even if it said it was successful. Your probable only option is to use a noemmc version of SD CM. Search the dev forum for that term.
Sent from my BN NookHD+ using XDA Premium HD app
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Apart from the the. Is that a BN at a point of too much geting on or it has to deal with the overal life of surge protection meh a chip?

ValentinD said:
Apart from the the. Is that a BN at a point of too much geting on or it has to deal with the overal life of surge protection meh a chip?
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No, it is probably from running CM11. That has a history of bricking devices with the faulty emmc chip due to applying trim automatically.
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Need help. Flash of stock recovery will not stick.

Hello folks. I got a Nook HD+ a few days ago. Made a CWM sd card and flashed emmc CWM. For some reason it didn't take. When I would reboot the stock recovery would still be there and the cyanoboot logo would not show.
I tried booting from a SD boot image and then using the newer method from a SD with only one fat32 partition with the boot files unzipped/unrared into it. It would boot into CWM fine from SD but would not flash into emmc.
After trying a bunch of other times I finally got emmc to flash. I think. The reason I say I think is because even though I would now see the cyanoboot logo but it wouldn't go past that.
I tried flashing back the stock recovery. Nothing. It wont stick. I'm not sure how to get into CWM if it really is in emmc. I also tried to flash CM but it will not flash either.
Please advise how I should progress from here.

kolosus said:
Hello folks. I got a Nook HD+ a few days ago. Made a CWM sd card and flashed emmc CWM. For some reason it didn't take. When I would reboot the stock recovery would still be there and the cyanoboot logo would not show.
I tried booting from a SD boot image and then using the newer method from a SD with only one fat32 partition with the boot files unzipped/unrared into it. It would boot into CWM fine from SD but would not flash into emmc.
After trying a bunch of other times I finally got emmc to flash. I think. The reason I say I think is because even though I would now see the cyanoboot logo but it wouldn't go past that.
I tried flashing back the stock recovery. Nothing. It wont stick. I'm not sure how to get into CWM if it really is in emmc. I also tried to flash CM but it will not flash either.
Please advise how I should progress from here.
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How are you knowing it is not sticking? Are you trying to boot to emmc CWM by using the key combination? Hold power and n simultaneously when booting for a few seconds, releasing power first before it turns itself off, followed by the n key. It should boot to whichever recovery you have installed.
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I'm turning the device on. I've tried holding the on and the n button while the nook logo is on the screen and when that didn't work once I see the cyanoboot logo on the screen. Both times of hold the power and the n button for roughly 7 seconds and then let go of the power button and then the n button. I've been asked if I want to test the nook to factory and haven't seen any other kind of menu. Certainly not CWM.
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Update. Got into some sort of stock recovery. Immediately did some sort of reset. And booted into nook software. At this point it is back to normal. Time to pay attention and try to get cwm in it again.
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kolosus said:
Update. Got into some sort of stock recovery. Immediately did some sort of reset. And booted into nook software. At this point it is back to normal. Time to pay attention and try to get cwm in it again.
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I would suggest re-downloading the cwm file from the site to make sure you don't have a corrupted file.

Korgy said:
I would suggest re-downloading the cwm file from the site to make sure you don't have a corrupted file.
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I've done that. Checked the md5 on both the download and the sd card. It's still not sticking.

[Q] HD + Help, Device Wont Boot

So I Was In The Process Of Putting Cm11 On My Second Nook HD +, I Had Just Backed Up The Nook Image Locally On The Device, And Flashed Cwm recovery. Then I Tried To Flash Cm11 And It Failed. So I Pulled Out The Sd Card And Reformatted And Re Downloaded The Files And Copied Them To The SD Card. Then I Went To Reboot And I Accidentally Scrolled Down On A Question It Asked Me And I Selected Yes. Something About Disabling Stock Flash Or Something I Barley Saw It. What Was The Question And Why Wont My Nook HD+ Boot Anymore. Its Blank No Flash Of The Screen Or Anything.
Any Help Or Solution Would Be Appreciated.

Cornballclub said:
So I Was In The Process Of Putting Cm11 On My Second Nook HD +, I Had Just Backed Up The Nook Image Locally On The Device, And Flashed Cwm recovery. Then I Tried To Flash Cm11 And It Failed. So I Pulled Out The Sd Card And Reformatted And Re Downloaded The Files And Copied Them To The SD Card. Then I Went To Reboot And I Accidentally Scrolled Down On A Question It Asked Me And I Selected Yes. Something About Disabling Stock Flash Or Something I Barley Saw It. What Was The Question And Why Wont My Nook HD+ Boot Anymore. Its Blank No Flash Of The Screen Or Anything.
Any Help Or Solution Would Be Appreciated.
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First, it is very difficult to read your post with your capitalization technique. On any further follow-up posts, please don't do that.
Second, what version of CWM were you using?
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[Q] Nook HD+ mistake

I accidentally completely wiped my Nook in recovery without installing any other rom, because cm 11 had a problem installing. And then I turned it off. It doesn't seem to turn on at all. However, I can connect it to my PC and it reads the OMAP4770. Any way I can bring this tablet back? Or is it gone?
Also, I have tried every reset option I've seen online, like power and/or home button for amounts of time. I believe that since I lost the system files it won't start up.

Why don't you just follow the instructions here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2317500 and make yourself a sd recovery and take it from there?
Don't worry you are not lost

It won't boot at all, let alone into recovery. Of course I did try to boot into recovery since that's what I used to wipe it. Did not work.
I completely erased everything in the tablet's memory, including /system. I could be wrong but I think that's why it won't show up with anything when it turns on. No light or logo.

gtasmy said:
It won't boot at all, let alone into recovery. Of course I did try to boot into recovery since that's what I used to wipe it. Did not work.
I completely erased everything in the tablet's memory, including /system. I could be wrong but I thing that's why it won't show up with anything when it turns on. No light or logo.
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It won't turn on unless you have a bootable SD inserted. Go to my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature and make one per item 1a there
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leapinlar said:
It won't turn on unless you have a bootable SD inserted. Go to my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature and make one per item 1a there
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I know that. But nothing boots now. I wiped it originally with my bootable sd. It won't load that anymore or anything else...

OK just tried different Bootable with CWM instead of TWRP and it booted up to it.
Thanks for the help people.
Now I'm still having issues with flashing CM 11 on it. Status 7 error.
I think that's because I don't have stock installed right?
Anyone know of a CM 11 zip for HD Plus that won't check for stock first?

gtasmy said:
OK just tried different Bootable with CWM instead of TWRP and it booted up to it.
Thanks for the help people.
Now I'm still having issues with flashing CM 11 on it. Status 7 error.
I think that's because I don't have stock installed right?
Anyone know of a CM 11 zip for HD Plus that won't check for stock first?
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No, that status 7 error is because CM11 needs version 6045 or newer CWM. Go to the dummies thread linked in my signature and follow post 7 there.
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Thanks, upgraded from CWM 6028 to 6046 and it worked perfectly.
Thank you for the help and saving my tablet enough to let me breath new life into it.