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[Q][Help] Nook Color gone completely dark?

Last night I turned off my NookColor via Nookie Froyo, and since then I've been unable to get the device to turn back on.
When I plug it into the charger it appears to be charging, but doesn't boot like normal. (It was fully charged when I powered off, so I don't think it's out of battery)
When I hold the power button, nothing happens (Even for extended periods of time).
I've tried various key combinations, but it's seeming more likely that the thing has been completely bricked.
Any tips or advice?

Link3737 said:
Last night I turned off my NookColor via Nookie Froyo, and since then I've been unable to get the device to turn back on.
When I plug it into the charger it appears to be charging, but doesn't boot like normal. (It was fully charged when I powered off, so I don't think it's out of battery)
When I hold the power button, nothing happens (Even for extended periods of time).
I've tried various key combinations, but it's seeming more likely that the thing has been completely bricked.
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Most likely it discharged on you, they have a habit of waking up and draining at the nominal rate of 8-10%/hr. I've found mine dead or nearly dead about 3 times because of this.
It'll take about 15 minutes for it to come on after being on the charger if the battery is flat dead. So... is it working for you now?
It's not bricked.

Link3737 said:
Last night I turned off my NookColor via Nookie Froyo, and since then I've been unable to get the device to turn back on.
When I plug it into the charger it appears to be charging, but doesn't boot like normal. (It was fully charged when I powered off, so I don't think it's out of battery)
When I hold the power button, nothing happens (Even for extended periods of time).
I've tried various key combinations, but it's seeming more likely that the thing has been completely bricked.
Any tips or advice?
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I really hope you didn't replace your internal memory with that Ad 2.2 rom.
2 ways you may can find your nook back ( at least 1 of the 2 ways will work ):
1, hold the power button at least 40 seconds or longer, until you can see it restart. If this didn't work;
2, Burn a boot-able SD card with CWR, and recover your internal memory to stock rom.
Those are normal things what I did when the bad thing happened.

khaytsus said:
Most likely it discharged on you, they have a habit of waking up and draining at the nominal rate of 8-10%/hr. I've found mine dead or nearly dead about 3 times because of this.
It'll take about 15 minutes for it to come on after being on the charger if the battery is flat dead. So... is it working for you now?
It's not bricked.
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My first instinct was to let it sit for a few hours, then try and recharge it, but after having it on the charger for about 30 minutes now it's not seeming to respond.
Normally when it's died, I plug it back in and get the "Battery too low, wait 15 minutes" screen, but like I said, the device is just staying off.
franklicd said:
I really hope you didn't replace your internal memory with that Ad 2.2 rom.
2 ways you may can find your nook back ( at least 1 of the 2 ways will work ):
1, hold the power button at least 40 seconds or longer, until you can see it restart. If this didn't work;
2, Burn a boot-able SD card with CWR, and recover your internal memory to stock rom.
Those are normal things what I did when the bad thing happened.
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I've done #1 a few times now (Thinking that I could hard reset it, if that were the problem)
As for #2, I can't boot from an SD because the device won't power on! I'm running Nookie Froyo in a dual-boot state with the stock 1.1.0 rom in eMMC. I'm not quite sure what the "Ad 2.2 rom" is, though.
And thanks for both of your responses

Ad 2.2 = Android 2.2
If you do this : burn the SD like I mentioned, put that into your nook, plug in the power cable, and just hold the power button . It SHOULD turn on in 10-15 seconds.
I use this way many times to save my brick nook, so believe me it is worth to try.

Were you running froyo off emmc? If so:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=931720
I recommend flashing this ROM instead though (pre-rooted 1.1):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=932145
And yes if you insert the CWR sdcard into the nook and hold the power button, it will power on. The reason it isnt powering on currently is because your froyo boot partition is corrupted, not because of the nook itself. The CWR sdcard has a different boot partition that your nook will see and boot to when you hold the power button down with the CWR sdcard in.

RileyGrant said:
Were you running froyo off emmc? If so:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=931720
I recommend flashing this ROM instead though (pre-rooted 1.1):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=932145
And yes if you insert the CWR sdcard into the nook and hold the power button, it will power on. The reason it isnt powering on currently is because your froyo boot partition is corrupted, not because of the nook itself. The CWR sdcard has a different boot partition that your nook will see and boot to when you hold the power button down with the CWR sdcard in.
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I can't thank you enough for this response! Saved me an embarrassing trip to B&N to get a replacement

Link3737 said:
I can't thank you enough for this response! Saved me an embarrassing trip to B&N to get a replacement
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Glad to be of use. Happy Nooking!

Not to hijack this thread but this has happened to me and I have tried to install the previous two ROMs with no luck... Any help would be appreciated...

I forgot I had a nandroid backup prior to going to Froyo... Lets see if that works... Restoring now...
UPDATE: Well that didn't work either... Still not able to boot up unless it is by using the SD card... Any suggestions?

flash my boot repartition zip. see my froyo on emmc thread..
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Kerflop said:
I forgot I had a nandroid backup prior to going to Froyo... Lets see if that works... Restoring now...
UPDATE: Well that didn't work either... Still not able to boot up unless it is by using the SD card... Any suggestions?
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Your boot partition probably got fu*ked somehow. Go to this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
At the very bottom (like the very last line) it says "-Download flashable repartition-boot-with-stock.zip here." Download that file and trying flashing that.

That was it, I must have done something when I tried to recover from the 1.1 push. Thanks to both of you for the help...

Nook Color charging issues

Ever since I ran manual nooter on my nook color it keeps telling me the battery is too low to power on and to wait 15 minutes. I have it plugged into the wall but I keep getting the same message and cannot power up my nook.
any thoughts?

Try to use different cable. BlackBerry one seems to work.

When you plug it in does the green 'n' light up?
Can you boot when plugged in? If so, wait til it has charged for a few hours and try the battery recalibrate app from the market.
Cheers

frogger55 said:
When you plug it in does the green 'n' light up?
Can you boot when plugged in? If so, wait til it has charged for a few hours and try the battery recalibrate app from the market.
Cheers
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Okay so here's the more specific story; I ran manualnooter on the nook but the sd card was too small and the file couldn't be created (on the nook). So I got a larger sd card and tried supernooter. I finally discovered that the nook WILL NOT boot up with an sd card in the slot anymore. the screen stays black. As soon as I take the sd card out it fires right up into the stock nook interface.
I'm reformatting the sd card and will try manualnooter again and update this thread.

[Q] Nook HD+ won't turn on

OK, I've seen this twice (so it isn't complete death) but wanted to see if anyone else had any ideas. I've done a complete shut down (power button for 8 sec) and then couldn't get it to turn back on. When this is happening, I can plug it in and see the green charging light. Holding the power button then for 8 sec will make the green light go out. Pushing it again, light comes on. So the button is working... If i leave it for awhile, the nook will then reboot and appear to work normally...
Rooted, stock, 2.0.5

dbh369 said:
OK, I've seen this twice (so it isn't complete death) but wanted to see if anyone else had any ideas. I've done a complete shut down (power button for 8 sec) and then couldn't get it to turn back on. When this is happening, I can plug it in and see the green charging light. Holding the power button then for 8 sec will make the green light go out. Pushing it again, light comes on. So the button is working... If i leave it for awhile, the nook will then reboot and appear to work normally...
Rooted, stock, 2.0.5
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If your device battery level is below 10 percent it will not turn on until it charges up to at leat 15 percent level. Then it will turn on.

hwong96 said:
If your device battery level is below 10 percent it will not turn on until it charges up to at leat 15 percent level. Then it will turn on.
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I think that is the mechanism stopping it, but it is malfunctioning, I'm at about 90% this last time...
Is there ther equivalent of 'battery stats' somewhere that can be affecting this? or is this hardware? It should be turning on fine at 80-90% but no. However, plug in for 10 mins and it works fine. So that seems to be the problem.

dbh369 said:
I think that is the mechanism stopping it, but it is malfunctioning, I'm at about 90% this last time...
Is there ther equivalent of 'battery stats' somewhere that can be affecting this? or is this hardware? It should be turning on fine at 80-90% but no. However, plug in for 10 mins and it works fine. So that seems to be the problem.
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OK, this is getting worse, I'm now at 100% charge and it happened. Weirder still, if I leave it plugged in for awhile, it will reboot on its own.

I have not had this happen on my HD but something similar has happened on my HD+. It seems to be related to whether an SD is plugged in. I have to take the SD out, press power off for a while, then release and momentarily press power again.
I know on the Nook Colors, they would not turn on unless it could find the boot files to boot from. So if a user formatted his internal boot partition by mistake, it would not turn on unless a bootable SD with active boot files was in the slot. Something akin to this may be happening, only in reverse.
Sent from my Nook HD+ Running CM10 on SD

Huh- will try removing the sd next time- it is a nd plus. Of course then how sui I boot to sd?
Sent from my BNTV600 using xda app-developers app

dbh369 said:
Huh- will try removing the sd next time- it is a nd plus. Of course then how sui I boot to sd?
Sent from my BNTV600 using xda app-developers app
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Once I got it booting, then I could put the SD back in and boot to it.
(And your thread title says HD).
Sent from my Nook HD+ Running CM10 on SD

leapinlar said:
(And your thread title says HD).
Sent from my Nook HD+ Running CM10 on SD
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Fixed
Sent from my BNTV600 using xda app-developers app

leapinlar said:
Once I got it booting, then I could put the SD back in and boot to it.
Sent from my Nook HD+ Running CM10 on SD
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OK, this seems to have worked. I tried to change the partition of my CWM SD card using EaseUS, but that seemed to make it no bootable, and removing it does seem to have worked. Now I can boot a new reimaged CWM card.
Thanks!

Good to hear that your nook is working again.
It seems i am having a similar issue, only a little more severe.
I described it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2088893

leapinlar said:
It seems to be related to whether an SD is plugged in. I have to take the SD out, press power off for a while, then release and momentarily press power again.
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Something similar happened to my HD+ running the 12/31 build of verygreen's CM. In my case, I think it was precipitated by the battery draining too far first, though. Very weird and a little spooky, but glad there's a workaround.

Wow, this is dumb. I can't believe a badly-formatted SD would cause it to look like it's broken. Put a message up or something. Thanks for the help, thought something was really wrong!

Nook HD Plus won't charge
I've seen dozens of reports of this. The symptoms are all about the same.
The unit drains the battery, even if you plug it in, it still drains, so although the charger and cable are fine, something inside the Nook doesn't get the memo.
It drains down to the point where it turns off. Then every time you plug it in, the light goes green, then amber, then off. The battery never charges.
I tried taking the unit apart and disconnecting the battery overnight, but that didn't seem to help. I suspect something in the software gets in a "vapor lock" where a dead battery condition is mistaken for a fully-charged battery condition. I only paid $109 for it refurbished, so it isn't worth another $60 for a new battery, and I don't think there is anything wrong with this battery.
If I knew the pinouts of the battery connector, I might try charging it without going through the Nook. Perhaps if it was actually fully charged, the "vapor" would realign.
Does anyone have another idea, apart from the nitwit stuff Barnes & Noble allows on its forums, like "push the cable in harder" or try another adapter. I notice they aren't interested in entertaining any idea that their firmware is at fault.

It will not charge when plugged in if OTG USB is activated (e.g., to connect a USB keyboard). That's happened to me a few times using unofficial VG CM versions where the USB state can be changed inadvertently from a pull down drawer. If the USB isn't toggled back to normal in time to recharge the battery before its completely discharged, it might not be revivable.
Sent from HD+ MAG2GA CM 11 from SD

dbh369 said:
OK, I've seen this twice (so it isn't complete death) but wanted to see if anyone else had any ideas. I've done a complete shut down (power button for 8 sec) and then couldn't get it to turn back on. When this is happening, I can plug it in and see the green charging light. Holding the power button then for 8 sec will make the green light go out. Pushing it again, light comes on. So the button is working... If i leave it for awhile, the nook will then reboot and appear to work normally...
Rooted, stock, 2.0.5
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I've the same problem, except even if I leave it a while, it doesn't boot or even appear to start. Is there something wrong with the battery or display? It was working perfectly fine until suddenly the screen froze and I had to do a complete shut down.

I cant get my nook to turn on. I try charging it and a little green light comes on at the bottom and stays on for about 3 seconds and then a orange light comes on for about 3 seconds and then it shuts off. I dont know if the light is supposed to stay on while it is charging. Sometimes it comes up with a dead battery sign but it just goes right back off.

TiffanyLandis95 said:
I cant get my nook to turn on. I try charging it and a little green light comes on at the bottom and stays on for about 3 seconds and then a orange light comes on for about 3 seconds and then it shuts off. I dont know if the light is supposed to stay on while it is charging. Sometimes it comes up with a dead battery sign but it just goes right back off.
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Have you tried charging it with its wall-charger for an extended period (8+ hours)?

Nook color won't recognize sdcards, won't charge

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
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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

Nook HD+ with CWM will not charge or boot

I received a B&N Nook HD+ for Christmas last year, we put Clockwork Mod on it using the SD Card method. I lost the original B&N charge cable maybe 6 months ago and haven't used it since, so I removed the SD Card, backed up everything on it, and re-used it for my phone. When I purchased a 3rd party cable last week(every B&N I've been to is out of stock, could not order online either), I realized that the device was not charging or booting up. Here are the steps I've taken so far this week:
G: Green light
A: Amber light
O: light turned off
Charging:
Use 3rd party cable with Nook original wall adapter (GAO) (overnight charge)
Use 3rd party cable with PC USB port (GAO) (6 hour charge)
Attempt to turn on using normal hold, then 30 second hold, then holding power then N button, unsuccessful
Replace (windows formatted) SD Card with backed up file system into Nook (G intermittent A flash G) and repeat above charge steps
SD Formatting 2:
Format SD Card with SD Formatter v4
Create .img of backed up file system and applied to SD card using Win32img (data corrupt/damaged)
Format again with SD Formatter v4
Use EaseUs Partition Master 10.2 to set partition to active, copy backed up files to SD card, replace in Nook, GAGAO light sequence
I'm not really sure what to do at this point. I've got it charging through the 3rd party usb cable at the moment with the stock nook wall adapter, but I couldn't find any solid information at what the light sequences mean on the B&N forums. I read here about it potentially being the controller for charging. Not really a fan of that solution. Other responses to that thread imply that it's pretty much a crapshoot as to what is going to work if the cable you have is defective. My warranty ran out days before I went to B&N to get a replacement cable, and when I tried to buy one from them they were out of stock, and I was told to try to order one online. Proceeded to attempt that from my phone in store and their only option for the charge cable is to pickup in store (lol).
Not sure if the problem is hardware or software related, no one else mentioned their device having CWM on it, and I need to be told to what extent I'm being stupid about the issue, not having the SD Card with CWM on it in the device when I initially tried to turn it on. Could that have caused issues?
I'm not worried about losing anything because it's all backed up on the PC, so a fresh wipe would be no problem, but I can't even get the darn thing to turn on to start any of that nonsense. Is there hope or all lost to the ether?
Either way, any insight, solutions, or requests for more information welcome. Willing to try anything at this point.
I'm not sure what version of CWM we were using, but there are two archives in the backup that we have (01/07/14):
NookHD-HDplus-stock-enable-Unknown-Sources-rev0-(09.08.13)
NookHD-HDplus-Universal-Root-rev3-(09.10.13)
Steps taken since posting:
Reformat using SD Formatter v4, apply new .img of CWM (6028 for stock), attempt charge using wall adapter - in progress

Hi,
I will have your thread moved to your device section.
Good luck!

Thanks. Overnight charge unsuccessful. Going to try a PC USB charge next. If that doesn't fail, going to try to get it down to B&N. Still looking for other solutions.

I am not aware of any 3rd-party cable that can be used to charge a Nook HD+.

digixmax said:
I am not aware of any 3rd-party cable that can be used to charge a Nook HD+.
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The HD/HD+ accessories forum had this link:
http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/121503836833?_mwBanner=1
Sent from my BN NookHD+ using XDA Premium HD app

I got it to charge and boot. Having the SD Card in it was what was causing it not to boot/charge it seems. Also, it doesn't like to charge when wi-fi is on, but sometimes it does. Definitely not when the battery is above a certain unknown percentage.