Thanks to PeteInSequim, I had an ebay acquired HD running nicely on Lollipop, for about 6 hours. Next morning I lost control of it. The notification tab kept popping up and down about 3 times per second and other "ghost " input things were happening. I tried cleaning the screen, rebooting, etc and it mostly keeps doing this.
I assume this is a hardware issue,most likely digitizer gone bad? I took it apart and reseated the cables to the screen, but no improvement.
Any thoughts?
To answer my own post, over a month later, it seems to be a charger issue. This particular Nook HD does not like a particular LG 2 amp charger . A replacement NOOK HD doesn't have a problem with it. I got the "problem child" Nook to charge on an HTC 1 amp charger and bought yet another NOOK that had the original factory charger and its happy with that one too.
My second NOOK doesn't like another 2 amp charger I have and also gets unstable.
Does this make any sense at all?
rs899 said:
To answer my own post, over a month later, it seems to be a charger issue. This particular Nook HD does not like a particular LG 2 amp charger . A replacement NOOK HD doesn't have a problem with it. I got the "problem child" Nook to charge on an HTC 1 amp charger and bought yet another NOOK that had the original factory charger and its happy with that one too.
My second NOOK doesn't like another 2 amp charger I have and also gets unstable.
Does this make any sense at all?
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Yes, it makes sense. There are so many chargers out there, and some of them don't provide a clean supply to the device. Personally I haven't seen problems charging Nook HD and HD+ with random Amazon Kindle chargers, Nook HD and older Nook Color/Tablet chargers, and more modern Anker, Poweradd, and Photive multi-charger blocks.
I would try to clean off the screen really well. If the screen goes crazy, turn the device off (just tap the power button) and clean the screen off again and tap the power button again. Works for me on Nook HD and Nook HD+ using Cyanogenmod 10 and 11 hacks.
I have seen a bad SD card cause random evil strangeness before also. I would suggest a fresh install of everything after resetting to full stock Tom and recovery, use said recovery to do a factory reset, reinstall twrp, then flash as desired. This took care of a weird battery issue I had once also. As for ROMs, pick your poison.
^^ on the particular nook in question, all is well now. I haven't tried going back to the charger it didn't like. I askeered....
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Hi, so when I first got my Nook, and even after rooting it I think, the charger was orange when charging and green when it was full as it should be. Recently I noticed it's just green all the time, even with only half battery and plugged into a surge protector. Has anyone else seen this behavior? It seems to be charging fine but it's strange that that happened.
Same thing here. I just assumed it had something to do with basically changing how the Nook worked. There was probably some setting in the stock Nook software that the charger isn't seeing anymore since it's now running the CM ROM. No biggie.
In another thread someone said they had this and it was USB Host mode left on, check it you are playing with that.
I had the same issue with mine. In my case, it was a bad cable. Called B&N and they sent me a replacement.
So, I love my Nooks. I have an HD+ and an HD, and I've had a Nook Color or two in the past. I recently gave my Nook HD to my daughter in favor of my HD+. She brought it to me today and told me that it will no longer charge or power on. We know it's not the charger cable as I have used all three of the OEM chargers that we have on my HD+ with absolutely no issues at all. When I plug the HD into the charger, the battery indicator light turns from a flashing green to orange into a constant flashing red light. If I hold down the power button and release after 20 seconds, I get an image that looks like a triangle warning image with a red full thermometer inside of it. Above the triangle there are red "steam" squigglies as if to indicate that the unit is overheating, however, it's not hot at all and has in fact been off for over three hours. She told me yesterday that when she plugs it in, sometimes it doesn't recognize the charge at all. The battery indicator will show 13-15% and discharging until she unplugs and plugs the charger back in at which point it would show the actual current charge. Can't get anyone to help me out on the B&N website so I thought that I would come here. Her Nook is completely stock, unrooted and we are the first and only owners. Anyone out there have any idea as to what the heck is going on, or should I just take it back to B&N? (About a week after it came out of the box, she dropped it while it was inside it's case and ended up chipping off a part of the plastic shell, not sure if they will even touch it with that problem)
I am handy with electronics when it comes to replacing components but crap with the software... If they won't take it I feel comfortable in replacing any parts that need replacing by myself. I would rather not because it is only about 4 months old. It is also very VERY heavily used. She's always got that thing in her face. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Sounds like a hardware failure. I would try to take it back, chip and all. If they won't replace it, I would consider buying a new one while they are on sale.
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ook dead blinking yellow red wont charge [FIXED]
My Nook HD+ had been running great and was loaded with CM 10.1 for 09/01/2013. I had been on eleven day without a charge and finally widdled it down to 1% battery. This was with light usage of course. My nook powered off and from that point would not take a charge. I tried various hard reboot with the plug inserted and would get a brief battery icon with thunderbolt and then yellow and green flashing of the charging indicator light. It would often turn to red blinking as well. I let it charge for several days, tried different cables, and even tried to slow charge it from PC. I had read somewhere that sometimes when a battery got too low on some devices they would not charge. I decided to take my nook hd+ apart and attempt to hard wire the battery for a charge to a fabricated wall plug and wire cutters. Well it turns out that I didn't have to get that far. Just unplugging the battery cable from the motherboard somehow reset the battery and it started to finally power on. I immediately plug the charger back in and let it get a good charge before I put all the screws back in. The tear down process was very easy and I just followed a youtube video to do it. If anyone is in this situation, I would give this a try as it only took about 10 minutes and a small torx screwdriver.
My nook hd+ won't charge and blinks read I already changed the battery and tryed a different charger it still won't work
How long too recharge HD nook if battery completely dead, bought new charger flashing red
First of all, many thanks to Hashcode for his great work. Second think, please forgive my poor english skills
I succesfully installed CM 10.2 in my KFHD7. It runs smoothly but I found that the touchscreen behaves erratically when the kindle is hooked to its charger, ie, it's almost impossible to type anything because it keeps on inserting (or erasing) random letters. To solve the problem is enough to unhook the charger.
I tried other ROMs like Pac-man to no avail, same situation. All of them had 3.0.50+ kernel version. I wasn't able to patch and run a lower kernel version but I'm ready to additional testing.
TIA
That problem is because of the charger, I believe it is caused by it being slightly under the amperage it should be putting out, I have a similar issue with my iPod car charger, except it somehow effects devices around it in in a 3 foot radius as well.
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That problem is because of the charger, I believe it is caused by it being slightly under the voltage it should be putting out, I have a similar issue with my iPod car charger, except it somehow effects devices around it in in a 3 foot radius as well.
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Thanks for the tip. After some testing, in fact, it seems the charger is the problem's origin.
I didn't bought the original Kindle charger. I have several micro-USB chargers at home and I use them at will without repairing which one I'm using. Well, a couple of them are in the 750-850 mA range and every time that I connect the to the tablet the erratic behaviour arises again. If I connect the Kindle to a PC port (500 mA) or to an 1 A charger I have no problem.
So with your advice I was able to pinpoint the problem's source. Again many, many thanks :highfive:
My experience with four different chargers (all of them 5V):
- 2A/1A (Kensington iPad/iPod car charger): everything OK on both outputs (2A and 1A).
- 0.85A (Amazon wall charger for Kindle Keyboard e-reader): KFHD7 detects more than three touches for every real touch, unusable while charging.
- 0.7A (Blackberry 9700 wall charger): KFHD7 sometimes detects an additional touch (not for every real touch), you can use it while charging but you must be careful and stop undesired actions.
- 0.55A (Huawei Y300 mobile phone wall charger): everything OK (now connected, not sure it is really charging although it reports so).
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jmolinuevo said:
My experience with four different chargers (all of them 5V):
- 2A/1A (Kensington iPad/iPod car charger): everything OK on both outputs (2A and 1A).
- 0.85A (Amazon wall charger for Kindle Keyboard e-reader): KFHD7 detects more than three touches for every real touch, unusable while charging.
- 0.7A (Blackberry 9700 wall charger): KFHD7 sometimes detects an additional touch (not for every real touch), you can use it while charging but you must be careful and stop undesired actions.
- 0.55A (Huawei Y300 mobile phone wall charger): everything OK (now connected, not sure it is really charging although it reports so).
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Thanks for your information. It validates my own experience point by point.
BTW, my problematic chargers came from two mobile phones: 780 mA charger from a Samsung Galaxy SII and 850 mA charger from a Sony Xperia Mini Pro.
Saludos/Regards
I have an Atrix hd with the Maxx battery mod. No roms just stock android. The other day it was freezing and I did a hard reset. Got it up and running but later on it froze again and nothing. I opened it up and looked at the battery the ribbon cable looked like the connections have been severed so I bought a new battery thinking I could swap it out and solve it. Still nothing
I have no notification lights, doesn't look like the screen is getting power, I have tried charging it with 2 different chargers (stock and 2.1 amp from nexus tablet) before and after battery swap. Tried usb to pc to see if that would do something and nothing. It is totally bricked.
My question is is there any hope? All of threads I have found on getting it back up lead me nowhere. Thank You
My nook HD tablet's battery isn't wanting to charge after only a year and a few months change. I have tried different plugs, did a debris check on everything. Secure connections and LED turns on to green so power is getting to the thing. The brick it came with worked last might so I dunno.
This is a disgrace since it's only been a year and change. the laptop Google sent me? Ye Olde Underpowered CR48? After five years and nearly /destroying/ the keyboard to the point the letters and f/j guide bumps are gone... still gives 3ish hours of battery.
Technically the nook HD is not user serviceable, but if newpower99 still sells replacements, intend on ordering one end of the week. However I am open t any suggestions if anyone has them since I don't particularly like the idea of dropping $60 on a battery if I can avoid.
Charging while off? USB mode?
I am reasonably new to this device, but I have two observations. First, if you have used a tool such as @verygreen usb mode switcher to (attempt to) get host mode, then the charge light shows green even though it is not charging. See other threads about this - I can confirm this is the case. Also, not sure when this happened b/c I've been changing lots of things lately, but now I note that the powered-off Nook HD+ does not charge at all (no lights, no change in charge % at next power-on). This is from Nook wart or "smart charger" 2.4A. I can boot to recovery and that seems to allow charging. The only reason I mention this is because I am attempting the Advanced Battery Calibration (look in Play Store) which requires a shutoff plus recharge. If your Nook HD will still boot, maybe this will help.
cm-12.1-20150704-UNOFFICIAL-ovation.zip + ttk_gapps-modular-pico-5.1.1-20150628-signed.zip + wrp-2.8.7-ovation.img
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My nook HD tablet's battery isn't wanting to charge after only a year and a few months change. I have tried different plugs, did a debris check on everything. Secure connections and LED turns on to green so power is getting to the thing. The brick it came with worked last might so I dunno.
This is a disgrace since it's only been a year and change. the laptop Google sent me? Ye Olde Underpowered CR48? After five years and nearly /destroying/ the keyboard to the point the letters and f/j guide bumps are gone... still gives 3ish hours of battery.
Technically the nook HD is not user serviceable, but if newpower99 still sells replacements, intend on ordering one end of the week. However I am open t any suggestions if anyone has them since I don't particularly like the idea of dropping $60 on a battery if I can avoid.
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Mine did the same. Orange light is charging green isn't... Mine would sometimes charge on a computer USB port but never on any charger. A different charge cable and it works on stock charger as well as other high output chargers. Those are tough to find though. Battery life is still fine.
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