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[Q] Nook color screen not working

Have a nook color, cm7 - screen will not light. Power will cut on and off (i can tell because volume buttons produce noise when on). Screen gives no illumination when on.
Nothing software or programming updated or changed that would have caused it. I've charged it overnight and attempted to cut on while plugged in.
Plugged back into laptop via USB and I can see (nook color icon with yellow exclamation point) but still no screen.
I'm at a loss. Searched all posts but cannot find one similar. Thx!

I know that this happens and is fixable, although I cannot remember where I saw the "official" fix. If you have nandroid backups on a SD card, you could hard reboot the nook with the 8x reboot, and then reflash CWM and restore your backup.
Are you willing to lose your data and temporarily revert to stock?

I'll give anything a try.
Thanks for the idea. I'll try this in the morning and repost. I had thought about hard booting and taking it back but was worried they wouldn't replace it since it had been rooted. I'll go back and research the steps you mentioned. I'm not a techie so it will take a fresh mind and some coffee to pull it off. I was beginning to think it was a bad screen.

Power off nook, and power it back on. As soon as it begins to load, press n, power, and volume+ (I learned it with both volume keys, but I just heard it may only need the +) and hold for about ten seconds. The nook will flash off, release buttons. The nook will automatically restart, so after you release the keys, you want to repress them gain right as it starts to boot (where you would normally see the cyanogen logo). After the eigth time it will load into froyo firmware. If you. Misstime the sequence you will need Ronstadt over, so if it doesn't work the first time, just try again. Maybe a dark room, so you can see the slight illumination somewhat.
Bad screens do happen, I suppose, but the nook is unbrickable from a software standpoint. The primary boot is off the sdcard, so there is always a way to circumvent or preempt anything that may be corrupted internally. If you were to have a bad screen, after you hard reboot the nook, it will load the stock OS, but if you flashed CWM internally that will still be in your emmc. The way to get rid of the CWM is to follow the hard reboot with a factory reset through the froyo menu (standard nook OS for any future readers). If your screen is indeed bad, you can take your chances that they wont notice since they are replacing an obvious hardware issue, or you could hold it next to a working nook and base your touches approximately off that. There aren't that many steps, but you.do have to go through the B&N registration process, and your user name and password would be a *****.
I might just hard reboot and roll the dice myself, although I haven't personally heard of a bad screen yet. Good luck.

Solution worked!!
Thanks so much.....I couldn't get the 8x to work because the screen was not on and I couldn't time it right. The only way I could tell if it was on or off was with the power button making noises. So I held down power and N button together until flash. After the flash the cm7 open screen popped up. woot woot. and many thanks but I can only push the button once.

Nook -completely- unresponsive/truebrick,full battery,unrelated to Rooted Forever scr

Hello all, I'm curious to hear your thoughts and advice.
My nook is completely unresponsive. It is not stuck at rooted forever.
In fact this has nothing with a root attempt/reset/restore/power on.
I had done a a fresh reset/root with touchnooter about four months ago and was happily and smoothly reading for about two months. I then got busy and put the nook down, did not touch or use for about another two months. I tried to use it about a week ago but found that it had run out of battery in sleep after the two months of disuse (not surprising). I put it on charge overnight and everything booted right and functioned well once it turned on, except that the battery indicator in the statusbar showed a "?" and the battery info in system info showed 100% "unknown". After alot of fruitless research I put it down with the intention of reset/restore/root when I had the time.
I just picked it up this morning and was faced with the expected "Press then button below to wake up your NOOK" screen. But when I pressed the "n" button nothing happened. Obviously holding the "n" did nothing as well.
I tried to power it off and on- nothing
holding power for 20- nothing
power for 30- nothing
8 failed boots- nothing
left right- nothing
left right power-nothing
random pushing and holding of power- nothing
all these with mem card in and out- nothing
all these plugged usb- nothing
all these pugged ac- nothing
I let it charge some more- nothing
None of the buttons do anything, the screen stays inevitably at the " press the n button to wake" screen. no activity whatsoever except that when It is plugged in, the green light shows. NO ORANGE LIGHT... it is fully charged by both usb and ac.
It is not detected at all by windows anywhere.
In Linux- lsusb, bklid, and df -h yield nothing. My nook might as well be the invisible stupid ereader.
I did not drop it, sumbmerge it, perform magic around it... It has been sitting on a shelf doing nothing.
To repeat, the only thing my nook does is light up green when plugged.
It is unchangeably stuck on poe's face...
If this isn't true brick, I don't know what is.
I'm exhausted. Any ideas? I appreciate the help.
Best,
Thomas

i don't know. i just know my dog ate mine and i'm now in the market for a new screen, so if you don't get it working sell me the unit and get some money for yourself to purchase a new one =D
or you could google the disassembly instructions and try unplugging the battery, not very hard to do. could be of .. some help perhaps?

I would definitely take you up on your offer, but i'm still under warranty.
However, I would still like to have my original, and figure out what is going on and why it happened.
Ideas?
Thank you.

similar problem were solved
Hi! I might have read about similar problem solved on USB host mode here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23475998&postcount=131

That's it, thanks so much.

if it help
if it helps let them know in the tread that you had same problem. they are wondering whether it is due to host mode

[N2E]: After automatic update to 1.1, Nook Touch Screen absolutely DEAD--Nothing Work
THIS WAS A POST FROM ANOTHER SITE AS TO MY PROBLEM:
I was reading on my N2E last night. I put it down for about 30 minutes and when I came back it was displaying the default "Authors" screensaver (I had switched to the Nature photos) and asking to slide to unlock. I thought, "Oh, the new software update must have downloaded and installed. I'll check it out." To my shock, the touch screen was completely unresponsive--no amount of swiping would unlock from the screen saver. I let it set for a while longer thinking perhaps the softare update was not yet finished. No such luck.
As a result of the new update, my NOOK is now completly DEAD! I tried powering off, but couldn't do that because you are asked to confirm power off on the touchscreen, which no longer works. So, I looked online and tried the soft reset/reboot by holding down the "Home" or "n" button and then pressing the power button for several seconds. Great--it started rebooting...and came right back to the "authors" screen saver and asking to swipe to unlock. I tried this rebooting process several times, always with the same result: back to screeensaver mode with completely unresponsive touchscreen.
So, looked at the online technical troubleshooting discussion and helps and decided to try a downloaded manual install of the software update. Plugged my NOOK into my computer and it recognized it. So, I downloaded the manualo software update and dragged and dropped it onto the NOOK as directed and sure enough, it started to reboot itself. I thought, "whew, maybe this will fix it". NOPE--came right back to the locked screensaver, with no mention of attempting to update software, and the touchscreen is still dead. (By the way, all of this was done initially with the NOOK showing about 94% charged, so it was not a battery issue.)
Reconnected the NOOK to my computer and the software update file was gone from its home directory, which implies it did something with it. So, I tried repeatedly to install the software update manually, always with the same result: NOOK comes back to locked default "authors" screensaver wtih a dead touchscreen.
Looked online for B&N technical support again saw that others had this problem (though only found a couple references). Found the instructions to do a factory reset and reluctantly tried that, desparate to make my NOOK work again, but frustrated that if it did I would have to rebuild everyting on it and download my 400+ B&N book library all over again. But, guess what, factory reset just comes up to the "Welcome to your all-new NOOK" screen (sounds like progress), BUT the touchscreen is STILL dead, so I can't hit the "Next" button onscreen to proceed with setting up my factory-reset NOOK. Tried rebooting again (as this seems to be the only solution offered in the online tech support) and now it just keeps coming back to the "Welcome to your all-new NOOK" screen with a dead touchscreen keeping me from doing anything.
So, now I am taking it back to my local B&N store in hopes they will exchange it for a new NOOK.
I really want to see a feature to disable automatic updates in the future. I specifically didn't download and manually install when the update came out, figuring I'd wait for the automatic download to give time to B&N to work out the bugs and perhaps issue a patch (as they have done in the past for the N1E). Instead I get no warning about the automatic download (happens while I am reading and set the NOOK aside for 30 minutes), and then the update KILLS my NOOK.
I am not a satisfied NOOK customer at this point.
MY POST: (from the that site)
Not Sure how to do this post or whatever, but I was happy until the update and everything that happened to you is the same with me. This is the first post that describes what happened to me. I'm out of warranty and refuse (and can't) to buy another one of these. If their updates can do this, I'm not sure I want to sink another $100 into the shareholders pockets. I'd really like to know if anyone knows what may be wrong with it.
In addition to what was already mentioned, I took the battery out several times(which seems intimidating but very easy but voids the warranty) and took it completely apart cleaning the screen very well with water and another time a glass cleaner. I tried rooting also. Not sure of what to do now. It seems software related due to working fine until the update. Still at the "Welcome to your all-new NOOK" screen with unresponsive screen. I wasn't sure if the last sentence from B&N was a personal message to me welcoming me to the "new" state of the my nook.
Thanks for any help from anyone.
Thanks.

Identical problem.... and no fix..
It is a shame you got no solution for this. and the worst, you are not the only one... it happened exactly the same with my Nook ST....
Hopeless...
Machiavelli_The_Man said:
THIS WAS A POST FROM ANOTHER SITE AS TO MY PROBLEM:
I was reading on my N2E last night. I put it down for about 30 minutes and when I came back it was displaying the default "Authors" screensaver (I had switched to the Nature photos) and asking to slide to unlock. I thought, "Oh, the new software update must have downloaded and installed. I'll check it out." To my shock, the touch screen was completely unresponsive--no amount of swiping would unlock from the screen saver. I let it set for a while longer thinking perhaps the softare update was not yet finished. No such luck.
As a result of the new update, my NOOK is now completly DEAD! I tried powering off, but couldn't do that because you are asked to confirm power off on the touchscreen, which no longer works. So, I looked online and tried the soft reset/reboot by holding down the "Home" or "n" button and then pressing the power button for several seconds. Great--it started rebooting...and came right back to the "authors" screen saver and asking to swipe to unlock. I tried this rebooting process several times, always with the same result: back to screeensaver mode with completely unresponsive touchscreen.
So, looked at the online technical troubleshooting discussion and helps and decided to try a downloaded manual install of the software update. Plugged my NOOK into my computer and it recognized it. So, I downloaded the manualo software update and dragged and dropped it onto the NOOK as directed and sure enough, it started to reboot itself. I thought, "whew, maybe this will fix it". NOPE--came right back to the locked screensaver, with no mention of attempting to update software, and the touchscreen is still dead. (By the way, all of this was done initially with the NOOK showing about 94% charged, so it was not a battery issue.)
Reconnected the NOOK to my computer and the software update file was gone from its home directory, which implies it did something with it. So, I tried repeatedly to install the software update manually, always with the same result: NOOK comes back to locked default "authors" screensaver wtih a dead touchscreen.
Looked online for B&N technical support again saw that others had this problem (though only found a couple references). Found the instructions to do a factory reset and reluctantly tried that, desparate to make my NOOK work again, but frustrated that if it did I would have to rebuild everyting on it and download my 400+ B&N book library all over again. But, guess what, factory reset just comes up to the "Welcome to your all-new NOOK" screen (sounds like progress), BUT the touchscreen is STILL dead, so I can't hit the "Next" button onscreen to proceed with setting up my factory-reset NOOK. Tried rebooting again (as this seems to be the only solution offered in the online tech support) and now it just keeps coming back to the "Welcome to your all-new NOOK" screen with a dead touchscreen keeping me from doing anything.
So, now I am taking it back to my local B&N store in hopes they will exchange it for a new NOOK.
I really want to see a feature to disable automatic updates in the future. I specifically didn't download and manually install when the update came out, figuring I'd wait for the automatic download to give time to B&N to work out the bugs and perhaps issue a patch (as they have done in the past for the N1E). Instead I get no warning about the automatic download (happens while I am reading and set the NOOK aside for 30 minutes), and then the update KILLS my NOOK.
I am not a satisfied NOOK customer at this point.
MY POST: (from the that site)
Not Sure how to do this post or whatever, but I was happy until the update and everything that happened to you is the same with me. This is the first post that describes what happened to me. I'm out of warranty and refuse (and can't) to buy another one of these. If their updates can do this, I'm not sure I want to sink another $100 into the shareholders pockets. I'd really like to know if anyone knows what may be wrong with it.
In addition to what was already mentioned, I took the battery out several times(which seems intimidating but very easy but voids the warranty) and took it completely apart cleaning the screen very well with water and another time a glass cleaner. I tried rooting also. Not sure of what to do now. It seems software related due to working fine until the update. Still at the "Welcome to your all-new NOOK" screen with unresponsive screen. I wasn't sure if the last sentence from B&N was a personal message to me welcoming me to the "new" state of the my nook.
Thanks for any help from anyone.
Thanks.
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The factory restore does not actually fix every possible problem with your Nook.
If your Nook responds at all, try to boot it up on an SD card like ClockworkMod or noogie.
At least that way you can see what is happening.
The partitioning might have become corrupted which the "factory restore" does not touch.
If no response with anything, try disconnecting the battery.
You might also try booting over USB using the techniques in rooting the new white glow.

Hello I was wondering if I'm just screwed I bought 2 nook simple touch, one for me and one for a present to my mother for her birthday on march 16. I bought them at best buy for $40 a piece on January 30. I used mine and was perfect but when I tried to set up my mom it wouldn't load the license agreement, always got stuck or reboot or something, so I loaded cwm on an sd card just to play around, tested on my nook and was fine, then put it on my moms nook booted once then I didn't press anything and turn it off then I load the image but when I tried to boot again it got stuck on the load screen and wont do anything, no reset sequence will work with the sd card on or off the other nook boots with this sd card. at the end I exchanged with my mom she is happy with her nook an I have a useless unit do you think they will exchange it I didn't rooted it or did anything to it but has the n cwm splash on screen forever. I'm in Costa Rica right now and wont return home until May do you think I'll might be able to exchange it or should I just try to repair it.

I'm glad that your mother got the working one!
You say that that one will boot on your CWM SD card, but yours won't?
It may be hard to get your unit exchanged with a conspicuous screen on it, even if it's not your fault.
When you plug it into your desktop is there any indication of a new USB device found?
If it's charged and no amount of the power button gets a reaction, I'd open it up.

any news???
Hi endor43, same problem here, have been able to find any solution?
endor43 said:
Hello all, I'm curious to hear your thoughts and advice.
My nook is completely unresponsive. It is not stuck at rooted forever.
In fact this has nothing with a root attempt/reset/restore/power on.
I had done a a fresh reset/root with touchnooter about four months ago and was happily and smoothly reading for about two months. I then got busy and put the nook down, did not touch or use for about another two months. I tried to use it about a week ago but found that it had run out of battery in sleep after the two months of disuse (not surprising). I put it on charge overnight and everything booted right and functioned well once it turned on, except that the battery indicator in the statusbar showed a "?" and the battery info in system info showed 100% "unknown". After alot of fruitless research I put it down with the intention of reset/restore/root when I had the time.
I just picked it up this morning and was faced with the expected "Press then button below to wake up your NOOK" screen. But when I pressed the "n" button nothing happened. Obviously holding the "n" did nothing as well.
I tried to power it off and on- nothing
holding power for 20- nothing
power for 30- nothing
8 failed boots- nothing
left right- nothing
left right power-nothing
random pushing and holding of power- nothing
all these with mem card in and out- nothing
all these plugged usb- nothing
all these pugged ac- nothing
I let it charge some more- nothing
None of the buttons do anything, the screen stays inevitably at the " press the n button to wake" screen. no activity whatsoever except that when It is plugged in, the green light shows. NO ORANGE LIGHT... it is fully charged by both usb and ac.
It is not detected at all by windows anywhere.
In Linux- lsusb, bklid, and df -h yield nothing. My nook might as well be the invisible stupid ereader.
I did not drop it, sumbmerge it, perform magic around it... It has been sitting on a shelf doing nothing.
To repeat, the only thing my nook does is light up green when plugged.
It is unchangeably stuck on poe's face...
If this isn't true brick, I don't know what is.
I'm exhausted. Any ideas? I appreciate the help.
Best,
Thomas
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There are times when a Nook gets in a mode where it won't accept a charge.
Opening it up and disconnecting the battery for a minute might fix this.

endor43 said:
That's it, thanks so much.
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When this worked for you did the light turn orange right when you plugged the battery back in? I just took the battery out, plugged the nook into a charger, and with it plugged in plugged the battery back in and the light stays green the whole time yet I'm not able to use the nook at all.

My nook second generation is not responding to my touch I tried everything to get it to work and I eventually got it to completely power of what if it does not work when I turn it on what should I do

It could be power/battery problems.
Check to see if it makes itself known when the USB is plugged in.
If it reacts at all, that's an indication of life.

HD+ wont boot，need help

Hey guys, my hd+ was running CM10.1 and I was reading pdfs on it yesterday afternoon, and after I finished reading I just screen-locked it. But somehow it won't open. I thought it might running out of battery(80% left when I locked it) then i plug it on the charger then it gives me this black screen with a battery icon shows it was charging. It's been like hours and nothing changed, any idea I can save my nook, Im not in US so it's kinda impossible to repair it in a layer of hardware. The pic is showed below

Have you tried booting with your bootable cwm card you used to put CM10.1 on it? Also try holding the power key for several seconds.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

[Q] Nook simple touch stuck in USB mode

I connected the Nook simple touch to load some books from my laptop. Windows explorer and Calibre both recognize the device and show the books in the device. However, even after 'ejecting' the nook from the laptop, the screen is stuck in 'USB mode'. I have repeatedly connected it to the laptop and my desktop with no change. I have charged it many times.. None of the usual tricks of holding down the power button at the back, holding down the power button and N worked. I opened the nook and disconnected the battery for a few minutes but nothing happened. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. The device is out of warranty.
Thanks
Peeam

peeam said:
I connected the Nook simple touch to load some books from my laptop. Windows explorer and Calibre both recognize the device and show the books in the device. However, even after 'ejecting' the nook from the laptop, the screen is stuck in 'USB mode'. I have repeatedly connected it to the laptop and my desktop with no change. I have charged it many times.. None of the usual tricks of holding down the power button at the back, holding down the power button and N worked. I opened the nook and disconnected the battery for a few minutes but nothing happened. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. The device is out of warranty.
Thanks
Peeam
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Okay, I may be able to help.
Is there a microSD card in your Nook/is there one available?
Are you rooted? If so, what method did you use?
What model of Nook Touch is it? The Nook Touch Glow or just the plain Nook Touch?
What is the software version of your Nook?

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thenookieforlife3 said:
Okay, I may be able to help.
Is there a microSD card in your Nook/is there one available? : Yes, I have a microSD
Are you rooted? If so, what method did you use? Not rooted
What model of Nook Touch is it? The Nook Touch Glow or just the plain Nook Touch? Plain Nook touch
What is the software version of your Nook?
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Cannot tell as the device is frozen on the USB screen
I left the battery disconnected for 30 minutes. No change. The folders in windows explorer are showing date of 1/1/2000 !
I can transfer files to NST through USB or microSD but as the device is frozen, not sure how to reboot it to read those files.
Thanks for your help.
Peeam

peeam said:
My replies below in red
Cannot tell as the device is frozen on the USB screen
I left the battery disconnected for 30 minutes. No change. The folders in windows explorer are showing date of 1/1/2000 !
I can transfer files to NST through USB or microSD but as the device is frozen, not sure how to reboot it to read those files.
Thanks for your help.
Peeam
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Sure.
Alright, so just to make sure - holding the back power button has no effect whatsoever on the screen?

thenookieforlife3 said:
Sure.
Alright, so just to make sure - holding the back power button has no effect whatsoever on the screen?
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Unfortunately no. Tried all possible combinations too and for different durations. I read somewhere that after disconnecting the battery, press power button for 60 seconds and leave the device unconnected for 30 minutes. Did that too.

peeam said:
Unfortunately no. Tried all possible combinations too and for different durations. I read somewhere that after disconnecting the battery, press power button for 60 seconds and leave the device unconnected for 30 minutes. Did that too.
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How long has this problem been occurring for? (How long has your screen been stuck?)
I'm guessing that this is a hardware issue, as there is no way that the actual device is not responding to the on/off button on the back. I think that it really is responding to it, but you can't see it happening because the screen is stuck at the USB Mode box.

Try this:
Connect the Nook to your computer via USB.
Open Windows explorer to "My Computer" so that you can see the Nook "drives".
Now push the power button on the back of the Nook and hold it for up to 30 seconds.
Observe if the Nook "drives" disappear and then reappear in Windows Explorer.
If they do, that is an indication that your Nook has rebooted. If this happens, it is likely that your Nook is "functioning fine" and the eInk display is broken.

David0226 said:
Try this:
Connect the Nook to your computer via USB.
Open Windows explorer to "My Computer" so that you can see the Nook "drives".
Now push the power button on the back of the Nook and hold it for up to 30 seconds.
Observe if the Nook "drives" disappear and then reappear in Windows Explorer.
If they do, that is an indication that your Nook has rebooted. If this happens, it is likely that your Nook is "functioning fine" and the eInk display is broken.
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Ah, yes. This would be a good indicator.
Thanks, David!
Quick message to David0226:
Have you decided about your signature yet?

thenookieforlife3 said:
How long has this problem been occurring for? (How long has your screen been stuck?)
I'm guessing that this is a hardware issue, as there is no way that the actual device is not responding to the on/off button on the back. I think that it really is responding to it, but you can't see it happening because the screen is stuck at the USB Mode box.
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You may be right about the hardware. We had given this as a gift to someone in Australia who recently returned it as 'not working'. I do not have the details of what was not working. The screen looked OK with the screen saver but I did not check the functions except for charging it. I connected it to the PC to remove the books that were on it and load new ones which went OK. When I disconnected the device, I discovered the USB Mode screen not going away.
Now that it is 'bricked', I do not mind playing around with the hardware if you have any suggestions.
Thanks for your help.
Peeam

peeam said:
You may be right about the hardware. We had given this as a gift to someone in Australia who recently returned it as 'not working'. I do not have the details of what was not working. The screen looked OK with the screen saver but I did not check the functions except for charging it. I connected it to the PC to remove the books that were on it and load new ones which went OK. When I disconnected the device, I discovered the USB Mode screen not going away.
Now that it is 'bricked', I do not mind playing around with the hardware if you have any suggestions.
Thanks for your help.
Peeam
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Try this thread: kindle 3 lcd in nook ST - is it possible ???
There seems to be a bit about screen hacking/changing in there.
Let me know how it goes! :laugh:

thenookieforlife3 said:
Try this thread: kindle 3 lcd in nook ST - is it possible ???
There seems to be a bit about screen hacking/changing in there.
Let me know how it goes! :laugh:
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Thanks for the great suggestion- will keep you posted !

So it does appear to be a screen problem as the re-booting test in windows explorer was positive.
The replacement screens on ebay for NST or Kindle 3 start around $30. I do not think that it is worth the expense as used NST can be purchased for a few dollars more.
Thanks for your helpful suggestions in arriving at a diagnosis. I used this to become an expert in taking NST apart- did that 4 times !:fingers-crossed:
Regards
Peeam

peeam said:
So it does appear to be a screen problem as the re-booting test in windows explorer was positive.
The replacement screens on ebay for NST or Kindle 3 start around $30. I do not think that it is worth the expense as used NST can be purchased for a few dollars more.
Thanks for your helpful suggestions in arriving at a diagnosis. I used this to become an expert in taking NST apart- did that 4 times !:fingers-crossed:
Regards
Peeam
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I agree wholeheartedly to that - the only real reason to actually get a new screen would be if you were rooted and had a ton of stuff on your Nook that you seriously didn't want to lose.
Glad to help, though!

Motorola Droid RAZR/Cyanogen mod problem?

I've had this Motorola Droid RAZR for like two years now and a friend of mine took it and worked on it, adding something called "Cyanogen Mod" and he 'rooted' it I believe? Ever since, phone has worked great. However, today I tapped the home button and the whole screen had a weird visual glitch where the wallpaper was entirely intact but the icons and such were only half appearing, like someone scratched them out with fingernails or something. It would go away and come back so I got frustrated and rebooted my phone. It starts up normally and goes to this screen where you can do different stuff with Cyanogen mod (like changing the rom? or changing boot options) and usually I just continue past that because for 1) I know nothing about it and 2) It always was fine. But when it did the typical boot up, it just skipped back to the first screen you get when you turn the phone on and repeats. It never goes to the second part of the Cyanogen Mod where the words appear and the little thing spins, it simply skips back to the screen you get when you power up and repeats. It keeps doing this and I looked online how to fix it, tried about twelve different things (like restoring different aspects and using different roms or making new roms) and it just didn't work. Eventually it got bugged out where the screen was just black, couldn't get it to do anything but reboot and go back to black. I let it sit until the battery ran dry I believe and now I'm at a brick wall.
Is there a way I can totally just revamp and start fresh? Like remove all of it and reinstall Cyanogen mod/the OS and all that jazz? I don't mind losing everything if I can just keep the phone, I don't pay for a cellphone and I don't want one I just use the droid for texting apps/games/reddit/etc. If anyone could help me save this thing I'd appreciate it.

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Hello? Can Somebody help me out, I've waited a couple days now and no one has said a thing?

You have safestrap installed, correct? If so, what version?

Dr. Mario said:
You have safestrap installed, correct? If so, what version?
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How would I know if I had it installed? I remember when I booted up the phone something came on with a picture of a little robot that said "Safestrap Enabled" and then when I had this problem it was saying "Safestrap Disabled". I can't get the phone to turn on right now though, is there a way I can check what version I have another way?

Ah. I see. First. try entering Safestrap menu upon rebooting, instead of allowing it to boot normally, and look at ROM slot and see if custom OS' ROM slot is active. If it's there and is not active try reactivate it. If it won't budge, get microSD card and find XT910 (RAZR - spyder) CM 11. If you don't know what to pick, I will look in a bit.

Dr. Mario said:
Ah. I see. First. try entering Safestrap menu upon rebooting, instead of allowing it to boot normally, and look at ROM slot and see if custom OS' ROM slot is active. If it's there and is not active try reactivate it. If it won't budge, get microSD card and find XT910 (RAZR - spyder) CM 11. If you don't know what to pick, I will look in a bit.
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Just tried booting it up, nothing is working I think the phone is dead. I plug it into the charger and only the notification light on the top left goes on a blueish white and stays on as long as it is plugged into the charger. Nothing will turn on at all and the phone doesn't seem to respond to anything. Is my phone just dead..?

Soft bricked. Try pushing both volume down and up button while plugged into either computer or charger, and hold down power button until it boots. I hope you won't need to buy Motorola factory cable at this point.

Let your device charge for a few hours until it boots up. Then boot it into APfastboot and flash the stock firmware with RSDLite.

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Let your device charge for a few hours until it boots up. Then boot it into APfastboot and flash the stock firmware with RSDLite.
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In English please?
Edit: Just plugged it in like you said and instantly the boot screen came on rather than simply that silly light so I think my phone is improving but I still would like to entirely revamp it or redo it or whatever you wanna call it so that everything is fresh and new and my phone is okay.

Good. I think it could be because the battery died somehow. Good thing the protection mechanism on the bootloader didn't have the wild idea of disabling the phone.