I just wanted to get root access and Auto-Nooter 2.12.25 for v1.0.1 seemed to be the way to go, right? Well, after I purchased the last Nook Color from Best Buy yesterday and brought it home, I charged it to 100%, played with it loaded up and ran Auto-Nooter from a Sandisk mSD card. When I plugged in the cable to boot, it came up with the battery low-wait 15min screen. (Battery was at 100%) Tried again, same thing. Re-wrote Auto-Nooter to mSD card and tried again, black screen. Nothing. Bricked. What I do get is a black screen with a flash of backlight every 40 seconds or so. I re-created the boot SD Auto-Nooter (using Win32DiskImager) and boot, nothing.
Today same story, just wasted 5 hours trying: Auto-Nooter, Clockwork Recovery image (2gb & 1gb versions on different cards) with complete restore-1.0.1 and repartition-boot-with-stock.zip, Nookie-Froyo.......nothing brings up any life in the NC.
I did follow RileyGrant's "Dummies Guide to Fixing 'My Nook Won't Boot'" http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699 to no avail. I do not believe it is a partition issue. If it were, the mSD would at least try to boot to some screen and perhaps hang then. But CWR is not providing a spark at all.
I do believe it is in a boot loop of some sort, trying to boot, screen flashes, turns off, repeat continuously if plugged in. (It does stop the cycle after a while when not plugged in.)
Is that enough information? Ideas??
When you insert the Clockworkmod Recovery sdcard and turn the nook on, Does it boot into CWR?
RileyGrant said:
When you insert the Clockworkmod Recovery sdcard and turn the nook on, Does it boot into CWR?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No. It boots to nothing. Plug in, wait 10 seconds, a white screen flash (less than a second) then black. Repeats in about 40 seconds. I can tell that the backlight is on for about 30 seconds, back lighting a black screen, then it turns off. A few seconds later the screen flashes white and it is what seems to be a boot loop of not booting.
Create this Sdcard with the files here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922870
When you are done, connect your Nook with the SD card inside and make sure you press the power button until you hear it disconnect even tho its still plugged in. (This means its turned off) Then power it up. You should be in recovery. Make a full wipe and see if it turns back on. If it doesn't send me message. I'll be glad to help. Your Nook is fine.
Here are better instructions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
Fixter said:
Create this Sdcard with the files here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922870
When you are done, connect your Nook with the SD card inside and make sure you press the power button until you hear it disconnect even tho its still plugged in. (This means its turned off) Then power it up. You should be in recovery. Make a full wipe and see if it turns back on. If it doesn't send me message. I'll be glad to help. Your Nook is fine.
Here are better instructions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Have done all this. Will not go into recovery. Ideas? (PM sent)
Sounds to me like your battery is dead (it would NOT go from 100% to 15% like you say), or you're not burning the cards right.
khaytsus said:
Sounds to me like your battery is dead (it would NOT go from 100% to 15% like you say), or you're not burning the cards right.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I followed the Auto Nooter instructions to the letter. I would agree with both except:
1) After the first time I tried Auto Nooter, and it said 15% battery, I took the card out and it booted normal. I checked the battery and it was at 99%. Repeated the process and the same result. (Batt at 15% when trying to root, 99% when not.) I re-built the card and then nook bricked.
2) I have used 2 different cards on 2 computers with 2 different softwares for burning the image. Perhaps the second burn on the uSD card fried something? Perhaps, but the card still was readable by Windoz 7 on either computer. One bad apple can spoil the bunch.......
Heading back to BestBuy is sounding better all the time even though it is 40 min away. That said, I have still not lost faith in XDA and the great help. Anyone with a new suggestion?
IMO you just have a dead battery, plug into the wall and leave overnight. The Nooks ability to boot into sdcard first is built into the hardware, nothing you did could of messed this ability up. If you truly can't boot into clockwork from sdcard it can only really be a hardware failure.
carmicp said:
I followed the Auto Nooter instructions to the letter. I would agree with both except:
1) After the first time I tried Auto Nooter, and it said 15% battery, I took the card out and it booted normal. I checked the battery and it was at 99%. Repeated the process and the same result. (Batt at 15% when trying to root, 99% when not.) I re-built the card and then nook bricked.
2) I have used 2 different cards on 2 computers with 2 different softwares for burning the image. Perhaps the second burn on the uSD card fried something? Perhaps, but the card still was readable by Windoz 7 on either computer. One bad apple can spoil the bunch.......
Heading back to BestBuy is sounding better all the time even though it is 40 min away. That said, I have still not lost faith in XDA and the great help. Anyone with a new suggestion?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
make sure as well you are creating the SD correctly. WinImage can be a pain at times at times. If the bootable SD isnt created just right it wont boot. Im putting up a post in a few minutes to an IMG you might like to try to recover your NC.
Try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11321261#post11321261
Its how I have been rooting my devices, as well, I will be adding the prerooted 1.1 to my IMG soon to simplify things for everyone.
forsakenexile, I appreciate this and am downloading the file now overnight. Perhaps this will solve problems of my NC not booting up ANY rom/recovery solutions from SD, despite all the documented methods known to the community so far.
One thing I noticed under Win7 was to get an image to work properly I had to run winimage as administrator. Not sure if this is just an oddity with my computer or common knowledge I had to discover for myself.
I threw in the rowel
I charged the nook over night with the genuine nook charger and genuine nook cable and no difference this morning. I took it back to BestBuy and waked out with a new one. I charged it, powered up, logged in, powered down, inserted a monster root pack 7 uSD and booted no problem!
Thanks to all for the help in troubleshooting.
Note to self: Nook can be a brick!
Dead phone, not charging (via multiple chargers and usb), no battery symbol. Not detected via compute, currently charging battery via external charger and still no luck.
Hello, so here is what happened.
Running PA 1.6a (the most recent CM9-based release), stock kernel.
Tried setting up multiple programs to make a swap partition work.
Had class10 microsd and wanted to try a swap disc (stupid idea I know)
Used swapper 2 and formatted mmcblk03/ according to instructions elsewhere
Found out that error message "this feature is not implemented" meant that the stock kernel didn't support swap.
mmcblk03 was formatted a few times since the "format each time" feature was enabled.
A swap file was created/removed a few times.
So I proceeded to un-install swapper 2.
Then held power button, clicked "turn off", then "boot into recovery". Battery was at 9% according to display.
Phone did not turn back on.
Stupidest portion right here- phone was at 15% battery, drained to 9 during process- I knew better and deserve the brick if it happened.
Now phone is not booting (great).
If it matters, I had some apps which bind SD card directories running, mainly to remount the sd card under sdcard/external_sd so play music would recognize my music.
But now the note isn't booting, or charging, no detection via comp. Tried multiple adapters, tried charging via computer.I have not yet tried adb, Currently charging up the battery via external charger, but have had the battery in there for about an hour so far and still no luck (hoping it will give the battery enough 'juice' to charge via another charger.
I was using an anker battery, and I have had a somewhat similar situation before- battery drains 100% and then phone will not charge, need to use external charger.
Really upset right now, especially since I ordered a 150 dollar display to attempt to fix a crack in the screen a week ago. Any advice? I know JTAG is possible but I wonder if this is a true hard brick or something else (since the CM9 kernel supposedly does not suffer from the emmc_cap_erase bug). I know for sure I selected ext3 for formatting and created that partition using CWM recovery when I formatted the SD card (for clarity this was previously, when I first got the card).
Do you guys think this may be a physical issue with the power button or something else? The phone was working quite well before that for the entire day. Thoughts?
Bump- charged battery via external charger. still no response. a bit upset about all of this...
Hi,
I just got my Nook HD+ yesterday and installed CM10.1.3 (stable) right away. Great job guys, the OS is really running nice and smooth!
However I've got an annoying problem (2 to be precise):
The Nook won't charge from the charger and the LED stays green. When rebooting with the charger plugged in it goes orange, but turns green as soon as the Cyanoboot Logo shows.
The only way I can recharge the Nook is via my PC (although painfully slow, had I not found verygreen's Charger Control tool).
This leads right to problem 2: The Nook is not recognized by the PC at all via USB. On some of my ports it shows up as an unkown device, but there seems to be no traffic between the two (PID and VID of 0x0000).
Both problem could not be solved by updating to CM10.2 M1 or wiping caches or data.
Any ideas on this?
Thanks!
€:I just tried reinstalling the stock im (from my cwm backup) to see if it works in there. Result: nope, same thing. Charging from the PC, but not from the wall, no USB connection. However after connecting to my wifi and reporting available updates the Nook suddenly rebootet only to get suck at a Cynaoboot screen followed by a flickering TWRP logo. Which is rather strange since I thought I had just installed a full backup thus removing both of those.. So I am guessing there is still some stuff gone wrong left on the device. Installed 10.2 M1 again afterwards.
So how can I make sure that I get back to a truly clean state on all boot-related partitions without having USB/ADB access? Which can be wiped from CWM or TWRP without risking a brick?
€€: Oh well.. I just set up a bootable sdcard with verygreen's 10.2 binaries on it and started the Nook from that.. Same behavior So it seems like either my hardware is bad (which would suck since I'm in Germany and shipping it to the US and back would cost more than the Nook did) or there is some serious weirdness going on...
A few months ago was trying to flash a new ROM onto my NC when the battery died..yea stupid me forgot to charge it.
Now, whenever I plug it in, I get the charging screen but it doesn't go any farther usually...sometimes it'll go into recovery after charging for a little, but thats where my second issue comes in
My NC won't recognize any memory card I put in it. I put them in my computer with an adapter and its fine, I put it in another phne and its fine...I put it in my NC and get "can't mount /sdcard/"
Its done it with many sdcards, not just one specific one
Lint6 said:
A few months ago was trying to flash a new ROM onto my NC when the battery died..yea stupid me forgot to charge it.
Now, whenever I plug it in, I get the charging screen but it doesn't go any farther usually...sometimes it'll go into recovery after charging for a little, but thats where my second issue comes in
My NC won't recognize any memory card I put in it. I put them in my computer with an adapter and its fine, I put it in another phne and its fine...I put it in my NC and get "can't mount /sdcard/"
Its done it with many sdcards, not just one specific one
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Try making a new bootable CWM SD per item A10 in my NC tips thread linked in my signature. See if that boots. If it does, go to my NC emmc partition repair thread and run the partition repair zips.
Sent from my BN NookHD+ using XDA Premium HD app
I had installed CM11 on my nook hd+ and it was working fine for about two weeks. Then while I was reading, the screen froze with lines on them and I had to do a forced shutdown. After that it wouldn't turn on. I tried all possible combinations of the buttons, left charging it overnight - no use. The only sign of life is when I connect the charger, the light glows green. If I press the power key for 8 seconds, it goes off and if I press the key again, it comes on. Also, when I connect it to my pc, the usb device found sound is heard, followed by 'usb device unrecognized' sound. This happens even if I connect to the pc after holding down the power key for 8 seconds. I'm out of warranty, so I openend it up, disconnected the battery and connected again. But no change. Please help guys. Is it something related to the ROM or is it a hardware defect?
Obviously if you had CM11 installed you first made a bootable CWM SD. Can you turn it on with that SD inserted? The device is designed to not turn on unless valid boot files exist either internal memory or on an SD.
Sent from my BN NookHD+ using XDA Premium HD app
leapinlar said:
Obviously if you had CM11 installed you first made a bootable CWM SD. Can you turn it on with that SD inserted? The device is designed to not turn on unless valid boot files exist either internal memory or on an SD.
Sent from my BN NookHD+ using XDA Premium HD app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No. I tried with and without SD card. Not happening. I'm pretty sure I once restarted the HD+ without SD card inserted, so boot files must be present in the internal memory.
Is it possible that there's something wrong with the battery? I plan to open the nook up again, remove the battery, plug in the charger and try switching it on. Apart from this, I think I've tried everything that this forum has mentioned in the posts.
leapinlar said:
Obviously if you had CM11 installed you first made a bootable CWM SD. Can you turn it on with that SD inserted? The device is designed to not turn on unless valid boot files exist either internal memory or on an SD.
Sent from my BN NookHD+ using XDA Premium HD app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I disconnected the battery, plugged in the charger. The led glowed red->amber->green->amber->green and stayed at green. I couldn't power it up. So I connected the battery again. This time, the led glows red,amber,green,amber,green and stays at green; instead of just green like in my previous post. I don't know what has changed in between. Does this strike you as the problem with the battery?