Someone please help me! I've driven myself crazy on this one!
I foolishly installed and flashed a dual boot zip from some random website on my nook color and now I have 2 separate 3.9G or so media drives for my emmc internal storage. The nook only "see's" one of these partitions, but I have driven myself crazy trying to find a way to get my nook partitioned back to the way it came out of the box. I have tried all of the solutions proposed on this thread as well as many others and nothing helps! I'll admit I was pretty stupid for flashing a rom that would resize my internal memory but , damn! It doesn't seem like it would be that hard to remove those damn partitions and get my nook back to normal so that I can do a clean 1.2 install. Not helping matters is the fact that I can't get ADB to stay on this damn Windows 7 so I cant use that. Help me please!!! You guys are my only hope it seems.??
Note: I have already tried- repartition boot with stock zip, remove dual boot zip, nook color complete restore zip, and hard reset, erase and deregister.
Please guys help! Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, your my only hope.
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Hi everyone! Please help me! I've spent most of the last 18 hours on this, rested, and have come back hoping to start today off positively.
I have a new "blue dot" nook with the new partitioning scheme. Not realizing that, I tried to install CM7 internally using a youtube video from huskermania (sorry, XDAforums will not let me link). All went fine, I assume, except for an error in Clockwork that read: Error: can't format /data" error. I believe, after researching, this is a result of the change in partitioning.
Frustrated that I had bricked my nook, and not really wanting to run an internal anyways so I can revert back to regular ROM if I want, I tried to unroot using directions from huskermania again. I really thought it had worked, but it is now stuck on the rainbow Nook Color screen, which will disappear and come back repeatedly.
Please help. My goal is to reinstall the original ROM, then try to install another using SD, but that's not my main priority right now.
HURRAY!!!!
Ok, success!!!! I cannot believe something finally worked. The 8 step reboot did not work, but using power, home, and +volume did.
I am saving the SD card I used to reboot this. Any thoughts on the best way to root a new "blue dot" nook using external so I don ever have this issue again? I know I need to change the partitioning, but I'm still not sure how, even after reading what Maurice Mongeon has to say in his post "how to repartition a blue dot nook color." Thoughts?
How exactly did you finally get it to work? I've done the exact same thing and I'm not sure what to do next. I have a refurbed NC that came with 1.2 installed and I rooted it with manualnooter and immediately flashed CM7.02 stable from CWM 3.0.2.8. It had all kinds of force close issues so I tried to restore to stock but keep getting stuck on the boot animation. I re-flashed CM7 and it still works but I still have all kinds of force close issues. When I try to format data in CWM it says can't format /data! I'm kind of at a loss right now...
UPDATE: Got it working. I had been using the wrong cwm...
i dont know if im asking for help to the right person but if you can help me tank you very much.
today i tried to restore my nook color by pressing u button and power and he goes to the factory reset asks to press u button and i press then he asks again and i press and after the yellow bar moves too fast only last about 3 seconds and it should take some minutes and after reboots. i think my factory partition in damaged.
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Don't get too upset. You can still boot from SD. At worst, you may have to (re)install some firmware. If you want the B&N firmware, you can reinstall B&N 1.3 and update, or stay at 1.3 if you prefer.
It's hard to totally brick a NC.
Take a look at the restoring to stock section of the guide in my sig
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Listen to the two people above this post. They are right. It is nearly impossible to completely brick it. Trust me I've tried.:what:
Seems no matter what I do to it, short of kick boxing it, I've always been able to start from a brand new running nook. Just by reading many posts and the great help from everyone on this forum, who have usually, "been there, done that.", folks.
I'm sure this will work out and everything will be fine, but then you'll be able to help someone else too.
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i just use this command "fdisk /dev/block/mmcblk0 -l"
i think it was to see the partitions and they dissapeared just chek the image ;(
I think what you are looking at there is the partitions on a booted SD card which look correct for an 8GB card.
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I think what you are looking at there is the partitions on a booted SD card which look correct for an 8GB card.
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Nope... you can see he's looking at /dev/block/mmcblk0... that is internal.
Need to find the thread about the nook color partitions and create partitions 5-8 then dd the images to them.
i already fixed ! its working again
i can´t believe,
i was thinking about doing a tutorial in how to soft unbrick your nook, i´m not an expert but is a lot of people with the same problem as mine
basically when i enter in recovery receive errors in logs and he dont let me mount or format any of mine partitions(except boot and sdcard), a lot of people are having the same issues and i was thinking about doing a tutorial in how to do it.
should i do it??
thanks everybody
More tutorials are always good. One thing to remember though, is that if someone is looking for a tutorial that means they are usually starting with a small knowledge base. You not only need to be clear, you need to be right.
All I am saying is an underinformed/incorrect tutorial is worse than no tutorial at all. The information is out there, but can be hard to find. If you know your stuff, and have a place to present it where it doesn't already exist, then sure, people will benifit from your knowledge.
Just a guess, but problems mounting within CWM tend to come from old and/or incompatible versions of Clockwork. Is that where you had your problem? I definitely wished that had been stressed on the tutorial I first followed. Would have saved me untold hours of pointless reflashing.
you are right but in my case and i think that is the same of a lot of people (who follow this tutorial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szlGSBtWbKY) i tried about 7 to eight diferent versions of clockworkmod and including change of sdcard, i also tried DD the images of the boot and system, when nothing of this works we start get in panic, with no necessity because its only a partition problem, i fixed my 4 partition and he started working
Yeah, I can see where you are coming from. I followed an older tutorial as well, and never saw anything to indicate the link to the CWM image might be outdated.
For sure, that info should be wider spread.
Good luck on your video (?)
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i dont know if im asking for help to the right person but if you can help me tank you very much.
today i tried to restore my nook color by pressing u button and power and he goes to the factory reset asks to press u button and i press then he asks again and i press and after the yellow bar moves too fast only last about 3 seconds and it should take some minutes and after reboots. i think my factory partition in damaged.
;(
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I am not sure where to ask for help. I have been updating the CM9 nightly for a while, didn't have any problem. But when I tried to flash 02-17 nightly, I messed up and in the middle of the install, I power off forcing to reboot. Now, it keeps going loop back to the CW recovery screen every time I tried to reboot.
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I tried to reinstall the whole thing with the boot-able sdcard, but didn't work. Am I bricked my nook?? please help! someone?
I tried to wipe, reformatted the system, data, cash, boot. Still stacked at the cw recovery screen. Help...
HI All,
i'm newbie on this site and I've run into a scenario that I am unsure of what to do now. I believe that I may have soft bricked my Acer Iconia A200. Here is what happened:
[*]- My tablet is US, 64gb and on ICS ROM
[*]- Tried One Click tools to root, unlock bootloader and install CWM (Successful)
[*]- I then ventured in installing a custom rom
[*]- I panicked when I did not do a NAND Backup/ Wipe before flashing and my tablet froze when installing the custom ROM
[*]- My tablet is now stuck on the ACER Screen
[*]- Tried superwipe- did not work stuck on /data
[*]- Tried flashing Stock ROM WW/PA, was able to go to ICONIA TAB Screen but stuck
[*]- Factory reset, thru tiny hole and the three button manipulation step did not work. error on erasing user data
[*]- Tried AROMA, Flashed Ultrabase and my tab now boots and was able to start!.............................. BUT
MY INTERNAL STORAGE IS ONLY 66MB and it's always full! Therefore I cant download/install anything. I can still browse via wifi so that's fine. Also rebooting the device acts as if it was always it's first run (asking for gmail account, setting up time and everything)
So, Here is what's working and my main issues:
- Recovery (Thor, TWRP, CWM) works
- Fastboot and ADB also works
- Can mount everything but /data. Working SD and USB (Flashdrive plugged in works)
- Internal Storage always full and only 66MB!
Here is what I've tried already:
- ADB, mke2fs (I read somewhere that if data cant be mounted/reset, we can do this) but it is stuck at 50-60/224 when writing inodes
- Hard Resets (via phone itself(since I got it running), via pin hole, via power + volume up + toggle lock) error on userdata
- Wipes on recovery mode (superwipe, format on thor, twrp and cwm does not work freezing on data or can't mount data at all)
- Fastboot erase (-w, userdata, data) did not work, invalid argument
I am really thinking the data partition (/dev/block/mmcblk0p8) needs to be fixed, it can't be mounted, but adb still sees it (i tried fdisk shows it 29 GB, /dev/block/mmcblk0 still shows 32GB. I just dont know how to use fdisk in ADB to partition or something)
Any thoughts guys? You help would be greatly appreciated!
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Still not working. AS a workaround I tried the swap internal memory to SD card hoping that it would work (completely ignore the corrupted? 32GB) but i cant install apps and still boots as if it was first boot. I can however, take pictures download stuff but not install it. So I reverted back.
BY the way, when connecting my Tab to PC, the internal memory's file system is Hiererchical, is that normal? Is there any way for me to repartition/reformat my internal storage?
Thanks
akokokoy said:
Still not working. AS a workaround I tried the swap internal memory to SD card hoping that it would work (completely ignore the corrupted? 32GB) but i cant install apps and still boots as if it was first boot. I can however, take pictures download stuff but not install it. So I reverted back.
BY the way, when connecting my Tab to PC, the internal memory's file system is Hiererchical, is that normal? Is there any way for me to repartition/reformat my internal storage?
Thanks
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Hey man, I have the exact same problem did you make any move progress with your tablet??????????
Have you had any success at all? My Acer a200 has been bricked since the end of November, and I've been feverishly trying to find a solution (in my opinion, there should be a way to dual-boot to a real linux OS, but I can't even boot into android further than the "iconiatab" logo, so that's out of the question). I've looked at all the solutions concerning my softbricked a200, but nothing can really be applied if I can't get adb to work. Is there any help out there?
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Have you had any success at all? My Acer a200 has been bricked since the end of November, and I've been feverishly trying to find a solution (in my opinion, there should be a way to dual-boot to a real linux OS, but I can't even boot into android further than the "iconiatab" logo, so that's out of the question). I've looked at all the solutions concerning my softbricked a200, but nothing can really be applied if I can't get adb to work. Is there any help out there?
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Mine became softbricked around the same time. I've been looking around for solutions since then, and nothing has come up. I really feel like taking the tab and have someone video me smashing it on the ground. I am so frustrated that i can't get this thing fixed.
Hello xda experts!!!!! I really need some help!!! The thing is like this : I have installed cm10 alpha 1 for nook on sd card!!! While i was installing it my nook color was also connected to the computer. So in WinImage i accidently chose the 1 gb of nook color instead of the 32 gb sandisk class 10 which i had inserted in pc via card reader. So it began writing on nook color's internal 1 gb memory. More to that, I interrupted this procedure and performed full format in minitool partition manager. i didnt knew the format of internal memory of nook color so i chose fat32 formatting style. But when i rebooted nook color after disconnecting it kept on showing message that system has encountered some issue and it requires the system to restart.But even after reboot the same error kept on showing up!!!!! And since yesterday the stock b&n OS has stopped working completely!!! Doesnt even show the error which it previously used to show!!! Plz resolve this error and help ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Use my partition repair zips in my emmc partition repair thread linked in my signature. Flash with my bootable CWM SD in my tips thread also linked in my signature. Then you can reflash stock back to emmc as also explained in my tips thread.
leapinlar said:
Use my partition repair zips in my emmc partition repair thread linked in my signature. Flash with my bootable CWM SD in my tips thread also linked in my signature. Then you can reflash stock back to emmc as also explained in my tips thread.
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But now it has just black screen!! Not even a flick of light!!! Just plain lback as if the device is dead!!! I kept it with ac charger for over 2 hrs with a hope of its resurrection but no yield!!!! And how shall i decide which partition has corrupted!!!
I tried eyeballers cwm sd bootable img but no yield!!!! The screnn is just plain black!!!
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But now it has just black screen!! Not even a flick of light!!! Just plain lback as if the device is dead!!! I kept it with ac charger for over 2 hrs with a hope of its resurrection but no yield!!!! And how shall i decide which partition has corrupted!!!
I tried eyeballers cwm sd bootable img but no yield!!!! The screnn is just plain black!!!
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You need to use my CWM bootable SD. It has been modified to boot in bootloop situations. You can get it on my tips thread linked in my signature.
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You need to use my CWM bootable SD. It has been modified to boot in bootloop situations. You can get it on my tips thread linked in my signature.
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I dont know how but its on again !!! I think the device was hanged badly and when it was dicharged completely then it booted back up!!! However i still get system error in barnes and noble nook OS while cm10 is running like butter!!!
I still dont get it whether my partitions have been damaged in the nook OS. Beacause i had just formatted the 1gb of data which we get in nook and have nothing to do with partitions!!! However thanx leapinlar!!! You rock!!! Yur contribution in xda is noteworthy!!! Keep up the good work!!!::good:
Bricked while installing TWRP
Hi guys,
sorry to warm up this thread, but I think I have a similar Problem. I was running CMW with CM10.1 and I tried to install TWRP using the manager app, bit I think I chose the wrong model and now I am stuck with a loop of the nook logo at the beginning. I cant even boot from sd card or anything. Does somebody have an idea how to fix this?
Cheers!
chrizzl111 said:
Hi guys,
sorry to warm up this thread, but I think I have a similar Problem. I was running CMW with CM10.1 and I tried to install TWRP using the manager app, bit I think I chose the wrong model and now I am stuck with a loop of the nook logo at the beginning. I cant even boot from sd card or anything. Does somebody have an idea how to fix this?
Cheers!
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You probably messed up you partitions. Go to my NC partition repair thread linked in my signature. But you will somehow have to get the NC to boot to SD. Also make sure you really have a Color instead of a Nook Tablet. Colors have a black bezel and Tablets have a grey one.
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leapinlar said:
You probably messed up you partitions. Go to my NC partition repair thread linked in my signature. But you will somehow have to get the NC to boot to SD. Also make sure you really have a Color instead of a Nook Tablet. Colors have a black bezel and Tablets have a grey one.
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Thx leapinlar,
infact I do have an Nook HD+. Problem is I cant get it to boot from SD. I already tried the HD+ bootable CMW-Images u posted in ur other thread, however it never gets out of the nook-logo loop. It seems like the partitions are so messed up that it cant boot from sd... could one somehow solve this by connection the thing to a pc?
Cheers!
chrizzl111 said:
Thx leapinlar,
infact I do have an Nook HD+. Problem is I cant get it to boot from SD. I already tried the HD+ bootable CMW-Images u posted in ur other thread, however it never gets out of the nook-logo loop. It seems like the partitions are so messed up that it cant boot from sd... could one somehow solve this by connection the thing to a pc?
Cheers!
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I don't have a partition repair for the hd+. Why are you posting this in the Nook Color forum? The hd+ do brick easily.
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Hi all,
I bought my kids nooks for Christmas and rooted them all with cm7. Recently my oldest son decide he wanted to clear his nook and set it back to the factory state... (no idea why) regardless he decided to do it on his own which I only found out about after he had er bricked it. Here's a description of what he says he did.
1-Wiped the SD card
2-Copied the nook software to the sd card
3-rebooted into recovery mod
4-deleted anything he could delete? No idea, this is where I had to laugh
5-rebooted the nook, it didn't... Go figure
I'm not sure what version of recovery he had but it had to be an older version. I tried the various resets but I'm pretty sure the internals been wiped... now I did connect it to a PC and just cycled the power and it will chime recognition for a sec but then its still dead. Is there a way to create a new internal boot loader or is it spare parts?
Thanks either way, love the site
jgolds72 said:
Hi all,
I bought my kids nooks for Christmas and rooted them all with cm7. Recently my oldest son decide he wanted to clear his nook and set it back to the factory state... (no idea why) regardless he decided to do it on his own which I only found out about after he had er bricked it. Here's a description of what he says he did.
1-Wiped the SD card
2-Copied the nook software to the sd card
3-rebooted into recovery mod
4-deleted anything he could delete? No idea, this is where I had to laugh
5-rebooted the nook, it didn't... Go figure
I'm not sure what version of recovery he had but it had to be an older version. I tried the various resets but I'm pretty sure the internals been wiped... now I did connect it to a PC and just cycled the power and it will chime recognition for a sec but then its still dead. Is there a way to create a new internal boot loader or is it spare parts?
Thanks either way, love the site
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You may want to try to boot ClockWorkMod off an sd card(here is a link to a forum post about it) and if that works then you will want to follow leapinlar's post to repair the partitions here
Your issue is he probably formatted /boot (older versions of CWM allow that). If he did that it will not turn on unless there is a bootable SD in the slot. The solution is to go to my partition repair thread as the last user recommended and follow the instructions there.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.