Hey guys,
I have a rooted Nook Color, that was running CM7 (very smoothly to say the least), and now it won't boot. Last time it actually turned on was a few days ago and I turned it off, at that point, and now it won't turn back on.
The really weird part is that if i put in my recovery sd card, it'll boot into recovery just fine. From there I've tried to flash pretty much every rom, take out my recovery sd card and boot.. with no avail (on the booting part).
If anyone knows how to get my nook to power on, i would be the happiest guy ever.
P.S. I've tried the whole 'hold power for 10 secs and plug in to have it turn on' deal, and even that doesn't work.
[EDIT] I found THIS xda page that helps you re-format boot. So if you have the same problem go here.
ryanolson7 said:
Hey guys,
I have a rooted Nook Color, that was running CM7 (very smoothly to say the least), and now it won't boot. Last time it actually turned on was a few days ago and I turned it off, at that point, and now it won't turn back on.
The really weird part is that if i put in my recovery sd card, it'll boot into recovery just fine. From there I've tried to flash pretty much every rom, take out my recovery sd card and boot.. with no avail (on the booting part).
If anyone knows how to get my nook to power on, i would be the happiest guy ever.
P.S. I've tried the whole 'hold power for 10 secs and plug in to have it turn on' deal, and even that doesn't work.
[EDIT] I found THIS xda page that helps you re-format boot. So if you have the same problem go here.
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I'm having the exact same problem. I'll follow that thread. Thanks for updating your post!
[HOW-TO] : Restore Nook Color back to stock EASILY!
Completely resets Nook to out of the Box condition.
Works every time
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japzone said:
[HOW-TO] : Restore Nook Color back to stock EASILY!
Completely resets Nook to out of the Box condition.
Works every time
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How is that possible if you can't get it to power back? I burned the clock recovery on it and the rootkit and it won't power on at all to even pick up the files.
mrairbrush said:
How is that possible if you can't get it to power back? I burned the clock recovery on it and the rootkit and it won't power on at all to even pick up the files.
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Just because the backlight isn't coming on doesn't mean it's not powering on
To the OP: sounds like you broke something in the boot partition. Follow the link japzone sent and see if that fixes 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?).
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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.
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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.
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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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Hello. As per instructed, I have search the threads, but haven't found anything like the problem I'm facing. Most can get to recovery or hand on the cyanogen loading. As such I am posting this query to see if anyone can help me.
I have been using Cyanogen 10.1 emmc on my new B&N HD+ tablet for about a week now, installed by following the guide found here. I made sure to make back up at every step; before flashing Cyrogen, and after. Anyways Yesterday, the tablet refuses to boot. I can press the power button, the Nook hd+ and connect it using usb, but the screen remains blank (black). It never gets to the nook screen or the cyanogen loading screen. I have tried to restore a backup, but no matter what I do, I can't get the nook to boot into recovery mode. I have tried 3 different boot sd, but none bring up the loader, not even the one that work when I first installed Cyanogen.
I have drained the battery completely and recharge it about 2 times now and I have held down the N + Power methods. I installed TWRP as a replacement over stock recovery mode. Any help would be appreciated.
23Exploreus23 said:
I installed TWRP as a replacement over stock recovery mode. Any help would be appreciated.
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Kind of out of my league, but search this thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2317500 for twrp. Reports of problems with backup/restore using twrp. Maybe try a bootable cwm card
Hi guys, I have bricked my nook hd+ and I hope to get some advice, thank you.
I had the problem where i was only able to boot to cwm recovery, I managed to solve it by using a stock backup, combined with flashing a 2.1 stock rooted rom as i had problems recovering the data partition.
After I did all that(I should have really stopped when I got it working) I tried to install cwm recovery by using the bootable sd card as i lost my custom recovery for some reason. However, I was not able to after rebooting 20+ times. I previously bought two nooks, my other nook had no problems but this particular device had to be rebooted 20-30 times before it worked the other time. Being the genius I am, I then tried to flash recovery using various apps since I still had root..one of the programs flashed and restarted my nook hd+ and I can only boot to the "nook" screen now. Holding power and the n button only restarts the tablet.
I guess my only way out is if i could somehow get adb to work? I know its a long shot but I have been trying for the past 1 hour and have not been able to do anything. My computer manages to recognize the tablet as "Blaze_Tablet" and i am unable to change the drivers. Anyway i was hoping if someone could give me an idea of what i could do or if i should give up on the device as it is unrecoverable. I would appreciate any response at all, thank you good people of xda!
I somehow managed to get fastboot working and flashed custom recovery and managed to restore from backup of stock :victory:
Hey guys,
My Nook had charging issues that has made my Nook go haywire. I am going to RMAing my Nook so I need to return it back to stock before I send it back in. The bad news is - I cannot find the original microSD that I did the back up on! UGH!
I now have the new replacement Nook and my old Nook. Is there a way I can do this? I can run out and purchase a new microSD but I cant seem to find anything regarding going back to stock. I did find: forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/52331-removing-cyanogen-from-nook-color/ but I am not sure whether this will work for me.
Any help would be fantastic!
Thanks!
You may not need an SD. Boot to internal recovery to see what is there. You can either do it with the CM reboot menu or use the key combo. Hold power and n while booting for a few seconds. Release power before it turns itself off followed by releasing n. It should boot to recovery.
If it boots to stock recovery it is easy to get stock back. Just interrupt the boot 8 times in a row by powering off before boot completes. It should then reset to stock.
If it boots to CWM then go to my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature and download the plain stock zip from item 6. Flash that followed by a factory reset.
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leapinlar said:
You may not need an SD. Boot to internal recovery to see what is there. You can either do it with the CM reboot menu or use the key combo. Hold power and n while booting for a few seconds. Release power before it turns itself off followed by releasing n. It should boot to recovery.
If it boots to stock recovery it is easy to get stock back. Just interrupt the boot 8 times in a row by powering off before boot completes. It should then reset to stock.
If it boots to CWM then go to my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature and download the plain stock zip from item 6. Flash that followed by a factory reset.
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Thanks so much Leapinlar! I was about to run through your CWM for dummies process to backup my replacement nook to restore to my old one! I just ran out to BestBuy to get another microSD to take of this!
So hopefully this all works well.
Thank you sir!
[EDIT]Thanks for the link to your stock ROM. It worked like a charm and now the unit is ready to go back![/EDIT]
Antshill said:
Thanks so much Leapinlar! I was about to run through your CWM for dummies process to backup my replacement nook to restore to my old one! I just ran out to BestBuy to get another microSD to take of this!
So hopefully this all works well.
Thank you sir!
[EDIT]Thanks for the link to your stock ROM. It worked like a charm and now the unit is ready to go back![/EDIT]
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Yeah microSD cards are cheap these days and they are so handy when flashing roms. I highly recommend keeping one around for any troubleshooting.