Ok guys, here's my setup. I am a a ROM and developer and have yet to be stumped until I received this tablet from a user.
The tablet is stuck in a bootloop, no clockwork recovery, only stock, and will not respond to adb. Flashing various imgs all warrant the same response: A quick progress bar and then back to the stock Android/exclamation point screen.
After hooking up a keyboard via USB 2.0, I can move around within stock recovery. I can wipe data and cache. When trying to flash via external SD like it prompts, I get bad volume for /sdcard. I have formatted, diff SD cards, etc. Is there anyway to recover? Willing to donate to the cause.
Thanks!
Have you tried manual flashing via external SD card with image in it and then power on decvice with Vol- and power button held together?
Is this going to be yours or are you trying to repair it for someone?
It might be fubar without adb and no ability to read the sd.
I would assume knowing you that you have already dl'd the acer drivers
thatdudebutch said:
Ok guys, here's my setup. I am a a ROM and developer and have yet to be stumped until I received this tablet from a user.
The tablet is stuck in a bootloop, no clockwork recovery, only stock, and will not respond to adb. Flashing various imgs all warrant the same response: A quick progress bar and then back to the stock Android/exclamation point screen.
After hooking up a keyboard via USB 2.0, I can move around within stock recovery. I can wipe data and cache. When trying to flash via external SD like it prompts, I get bad volume for /sdcard. I have formatted, diff SD cards, etc. Is there anyway to recover? Willing to donate to the cause.
Thanks!
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Dude I didn't know you were a Rom. Bet you get flashed a lot huh.
On a serious note, TDB is worth helping if someone wonders into this thread and knows how to help, pm him or something. Dude is a damn good dev and all round helpful guy. He'd be a welcome addition here.
I have no experience with these things, but a good starter point would be to explain exhaustively what exactly happened before this issue arised. Were you installing a custom ROM? Did the tablet just reboot in the middle of you doing something? Do you know if it has overheated?
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I will post the long version here, mainly because I have nothing better to do.
Here is the situation. I bought a NC about 6 months ago. I rooted it using Auto Nooter. I have no idea what ROM I installed to be honest. I'm very much a novice at this. And I'm quite stupid to boot, I might add. It has worked relatively ok since then. The ROM seemed a bit buggy and I had some initial troubles with constant reboots, in addition to some basic things not working and way bogging the thing down, but in general it was ok. I haven't used it much since unless I was traveling.
Today....I was traveling. Traveling to BFE. As such, I decided to bust out my trusty NC and download a new book while I was waiting for my flight. I did so, and something went a bit haywire. It seems that somehow, without prompting, the device has restored itself to the stock B&N ROM (1.1 maybe?). Yet - the Android OS is still there. For example I can click on my task manager app in the lower left corner of the homescreen and it shows that all of my apps are running and I can even switch to them. But my homescreen is defaulted to the B&N one showing my eBooks and I can't figure out how to get my Android launcher back. I have tried to reboot and it does the Droid boot up but reverts to the same B&N home screen.
I was thinking about trying to update to a new ROM since it had been awhile and I figured there must be something better/more stable out there now - Honeycomb or whatever. I guess this is the kick in the ass that I needed.
So now here I sit in a hotel room in BFE. There are no restaurants open past 9. There are no bars. There IS a Super Wal Mart but I think I'm gonna pass on that.
I figured I would look into this. Where to start? Should I re-set this thing to stock and then just pick a new ROM and re-root? Can I do any of this without having a SD card slot in my laptop - just using a USB cable? Will I lose any eBooks that I downloaded?
I await your sage advice.
rooting actually means gaining super user access to the current android rom. B&N, i believe is Froyo, so you did not install any rom so to speak. you were probably just rooted.
I think the issue is with the launcher and not that it is back to stock. What happens when you long press on the home screen?
If you plan to do anything, you will definitely need an sd card reader.
If you autonootered, then you were running stock, but rooted. With a custom launcher replacing the stock launcher, it sounds like.
At any rate, you were probably hit with the automatic update to B&N 1.2 (which is Android 2.2, iirc.) You almost certainly aren't rooted anymore, but it may allow you to run any apps that you already had downloaded, just from the stock app launcher.
When you get an SD card reader, you can check out Manual Nootering. It's basically the same as the old Auto Nooter, but for B&N 1.2. If you change the rom entirely (install CM7) or just run a different rom from an SD card, you'll avoid having B&N overwrite your root access in the future.
Thanks for the responses. I believe that you are correct. I actually was running 1.0.0. I used auto-nooter to root the thing and had it working with a custom launcher. I don't think it updated to 1.2. In fact I know that it didn't update to 1.2. I am trying to get it to do that right now.
I would like to install a new ROM or root or do something after it updates to 1.2 so that I have access to the Android market. What is my best way to do this? Should I just root again from 1.2? Should I install this CM7?
Can you help me understand the differences? Thanks again.
I could Super Wal Mart tonight for a SD card reader if I'm feeling frisky.
I've got all kinds of problems.
I went to update to 1.2 from 1.0. I removed my SD card and erased and deregistered device. I booted it back up and it thinks it's a phone. I put the 1.2 file in the root drive via USB, as I have read over and over that the thing should recognize the 1.2 file and reboot itself. It's not working. I erased and deregistered again. same deal.
Any advice?
I'd do a full factory reset, then try the update to 1.2 again.
A couple of things about the 1.2 update -- do not unzip the update file or rename it. Just drop it as-is into the nook. And make sure to eject the nook from your computer and unplug it.
Thank you aka. I got it to take. I am now at 1.2. Now back to square 1(.2). Any help on this?
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I would like to install a new ROM or root or do something after it updates to 1.2 so that I have access to the Android market. What is my best way to do this? Should I just root again from 1.2? Should I install this CM7?
Can you help me understand the differences? Thanks again.
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I booted it back up and it thinks it's a phone. I put the 1.2 file in the root drive via USB, as I have read over and over that the thing should recognize the 1.2 file and reboot itself. It's not working. I erased and deregistered again. same deal.
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ETA: lol, congratulations! I guess just skip to that link at the end.
I'd agree with akaCat that you should do a factory reset, BUT you can only do that if you still have the stock recovery utility, and it seems possible that you do not. Try to get the NC to reset by interrupting the boot 8 times. If it doesn't work, you may have installed ClockworkMod Recovery on your Nook Color in place of the stock recovery utility. You may have done so while rooting, or later from the ROM Manager app, perhaps even by accident.
Have you attempted to boot to recovery by holding down "n" while you power on the device, and continuing to hold power + n for about six seconds (1-one-thousand, 2-one-thousand, etc), then releasing both? If so, do you get a factory reset dialog (series of yes/no options) or a longer menu including items like "mounting and storage" and "flash zip from sd card?" If you get the longer menu, then that's ClockworkMod Recovery, and neither the 8-failed-boots-reset nor the automatic update are going to work.
If you do have ClockworkMod Recovery, don't do anything yet. Hopefully somewhere on the screen it tells you the version number, in the format 3.0.x.x. Just let us know that version number and power off the NC.
If you still have the stock recovery utility, then do the factory reset, boot into the stock OS, connect USB, drop the update file straight on the Nook (not in any folders), safely remove the NC from your PC, and let it sit. Hopefully it will reboot itself.
If not, the next step is probably going to involve preparing a bootable ClockworkMod SD and manually installing a CWM-compatible version of the update, or of a different ROM. This article may help you wrap your head around the different options: http://quinxy.com/guides/how-to-pick-your-nook-color-operating-system-and-install-options/
ETA: lol, congratulations! I guess just skip to that link at the end.
Thank you, Tao. I seem to be a bit stuck, though.
I'm at 1.2 stock. I was able to reformat and erase my sd card. I went to load the .gz image onto the card (for CM7, per instructions here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957) and I also loaded the nightly build. Then inserted card into NC and booted. Nothing.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Should I unzip either file?
One thing that might/might not matter....when I went to eject the SD card from my PC, I wasn't given that option so I just pulled it.
One more thing.....the instructions at the link above instruct you to "write the image to your SD card" but then go on to say "eject the SD card" and then further "insert the uSD card into your computer"
Huh?? Isn't it all on the same card? Why do I need two different cards? What am I missing?
This blog breaks down the same process a little more step-by-step, with videos: http://www.anamardoll.com/2011/04/ereader-running-cm7-firmware-on-nook.html
You can skip the long preamble down to "Ready? Let's get started."
You do need to unzip the disk image, and write it to the SD using a program like Win32DiskImager or WinImage. It's also definitely a good idea to safely eject the SD card from your PC.
Hi Tao and others. Thanks again for all of your help. I'm almost there!
I followed this Ana chick's directions and I have CM7 booting up. I am now at the stage where I am trying to boot up in recovery mode so I can get the google apps and wifi thing going. I can't get it to work! I am holding down the "n"/home button and then the power button and it keeps booting up with CM7. I've tried it probably 20 times. Any help? Thanks!
Can someone also tell me how to access the book I just purchased and was in the middle of reading? Do I have to go somewhere and re-download?
Baboontyme said:
Hi Tao and others. Thanks again for all of your help. I'm almost there!
I followed this Ana chick's directions and I have CM7 booting up. I am now at the stage where I am trying to boot up in recovery mode so I can get the google apps and wifi thing going. I can't get it to work! I am holding down the "n"/home button and then the power button and it keeps booting up with CM7. I've tried it probably 20 times. Any help? Thanks!
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I should add that though I can get CM7 to boot, I never get "The Power of Reading". It's just kind of a flash.
That's all normal--verygreen had to make a new uboot, which no longer shows "The Power of Reading" and also flies through a recovery boot so fast you could miss it. If gapps didn't install, just make sure the .zip is still in the boot partition and keep trying. I'm pretty sure holding power > reboot > recovery boot works now from within CM7, but I would go into Settings>Accounts and try to sign in to Google before assuming it didn't install.
If the book was a B&N purchase, once you have the market working, just install the Nook app and sign into your account, and you should be able to re-d/l the book, possibly even still synced to where you left off.
Thank you so much Tao and others. Up and running with CM7. Any additional mods I should be messing with?
btw, you can also boot into recovery through rom manager, its easier.
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Thank you so much Tao and others. Up and running with CM7. Any additional mods I should be messing with?
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You can overclock: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=925451
Just make sure you grab the version for SD, and install it just like gapps, then set clock speed via CyanogenMod Settings>Performance>CPU
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btw, you can also boot into recovery through rom manager, its easier.
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Easier than holding power a sec, poking "Reboot," then "Reboot to Recovery?"
Really, it's about the same either way, depending how handy ROM manager is on your system.
Ok. Let me start by saying, I'm obviously not an expert on hacking/developing and stuff like that. I just love to tinker stuff so I learn in the process. So definitely not an expert. Just posted this thread hoping that someone whose possibly a lot more knowledgeable than I am would notice it and hopefully shed a light on this question.
Is TWRP 2.0 which can be seen here, working/compatible/available/will be available on our beloved NookColor?
All we are using right now is the ClockWorkMod Recoveries, right? Which I believe the latest is 3.2.0.1. I'm not saying at all that CWM is not sufficient enough to do whatever it needs to do, I just thought it would be awesome to be able to get your recovery things done THAT MUCH COOLER, navigating the device via the touchscreen rather than hardware buttons.
Hope this sparks more awareness!
+1 - I would like to see TWRP on our devices as well, BUT ... I would definitely miss the convenience of being able to install the nightlies directly from ROM manager.
OK, saying that, I also just had a perma-brick on my Nook and am getting a replacement due to an issue that occurred in recovery. I was stuck in the infamous CWR boot-loop, so did a restore, when I went to reboot, screen itself would never come on again - not after charge, not after holding buttons, nothing.
Is it related, I don't know, maybe not, but makes you think.
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+1 - I would like to see TWRP on our devices as well, BUT ... I would definitely miss the convenience of being able to install the nightlies directly from ROM manager.
OK, saying that, I also just had a perma-brick on my Nook and am getting a replacement due to an issue that occurred in recovery. I was stuck in the infamous CWR boot-loop, so did a restore, when I went to reboot, screen itself would never come on again - not after charge, not after holding buttons, nothing.
Is it related, I don't know, maybe not, but makes you think.
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Oooh, that's too bad. And scary. Makes you worry about doing something that's not tried on the NookColor before. I wont dive in unless the devs really says that it's safe.
Hey, about your NC being bricked. I had something pretty similar happened to my NookColor before. Got stuck into a boot loop. Now before, I had my TitaniumBackup folder stored in the eMMC and I didn't want to do anything that would delete it. What I did is, I had another microSD card and created a bootable CWM. I installed a CM7 nightly on the microSD. Upon booting to the microSD build, I went and have adb wireless transfer my eMMC files to my PC. Now that I've recovered my TitaniumBackup folder, I formatted everything on my NC using the bootable CWM. Then what I did is I flashed the stock NC Rom which was 1.2 version. I did a factory reset. After that I had everything back to normal again. I flashed the nightly build on the eMMC again and from then on, had my TitaniumBackup folder on the microSD. Have you tried creating a bootable microSD?
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Did you try a formatted bootable sdcard? The nook is near indestructible. I had the same issue and recovered.
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Did you try a formatted bootable sdcard? The nook is near indestructible. I had the same issue and recovered.
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Same here, I put together a nookie froyo card, and got bootloops.I took the memcard out and still got bootloops. I put a cwm card in, and STILL got bootloops. Then I made a new cwm card, and it booted just fine.
Hey there,
I have trouble! I was playing with chrooted ubuntu, busybox, and so..
Than, I started getting error in terminal apps:
sh: applet not found
WiFi stopped working.
I tried cold boot.. Did not help.
SDCard is not accessible. I decided to wipe it. In recovery I choosed Wipe Data/Factory reset.
But after that, still no WiFi. I can see networks, I can click on them, but it is still getting IP address..
I would like to flash the ROM, but how? Recovery cannot mount /sdcard!
What should I do? Thank you
(asus transformer, sbkv2, B80)
i just got over the same exact issues caused by the same exact thing.
The only way to fix it was to flash either stock or a modified rom. What do you mean recovery cant mount sdcard. If you have cwm installed just put a rom on your microsd and use cwm to flash it. If you dont have cwm yet then you can take the stock firmware off the asus website, put it on the internal or external sdcard boot the transformer like normal, and you will see a little exclamation mark next to the clock in the bottom right corner, click it and it will take you through the motions of upgrading then reboot and reflash. o you probably lost root access too, I know i did, so reroot when done if you want.
There's no such thing as "half-bricked". It's dead or it's not. Yours fortunately still does stuff so you can keep trying.
Could it be this sdcard is moody? Tried a different sdcard?
Alternative ways could be using nvflash while connected to a PC with the USB cable. There are many guides on this forum.
Good luck.
Blaskovic said:
Hey there,
I have trouble! I was playing with chrooted ubuntu, busybox, and so..
Than, I started getting error in terminal apps:
sh: applet not found
WiFi stopped working.
I tried cold boot.. Did not help.
SDCard is not accessible. I decided to wipe it. In recovery I choosed Wipe Data/Factory reset.
But after that, still no WiFi. I can see networks, I can click on them, but it is still getting IP address..
I would like to flash the ROM, but how? Recovery cannot mount /sdcard!
What should I do? Thank you
(asus transformer, sbkv2, B80)
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You do have an external micro sd card correct?
You can try Team Rouge's CWM recovery, it work with internal sd card.
There's a modified RecoveryInstaller here that will flash Team Rouge's recovery
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22359727&postcount=218
After 2 days of trying, I did it
I rebooted it about 2 milions times. He did not see the SD card. But then he finally mounted it and I quickly installed ROM.. uhh..
So, it was my Asus Transformer's PMS or something
Thanks you guys. It was a fight
So.. I'm about to start tinkering with ubuntu on my TF101... I did this on my Droid 4 with no issues, the Tablet is next on the list... What exactly did you do to hose the tablet?
I just want to try to learn from your mistake.
Thanks.
Hey all! I've been lurking around XDA for years for various devices. I'm good with computers but newer to Android/Linux. And I don't have much of a programming background. I have done some installing of custom ROMS on a phone of mine and even dabbling in a kitchen some. So it's not totally foreign to me.
I've been reading about custom ROMS on and off for a few months thinking about installing a custom ROM. And then actually reading and researching it the last day or two. Since we're not going to get Jelly Bean I decided finally to update to a custom Jelly Bean ROM. I am finding all the information very unorganized and very spread out. And not very comprehensive. Which is making it hard to get a good grasp of everything. Things like what SKBs are and APX mode. And exactly what processes you need to take to install which ROMS. If you need to install a kernel or it does it automatically ect. Very confusing! I thought I had figured out enough to do it.
On my A500 I had the latest Acer ICS OTA update but rooted. I want to install the CM10 Jellytime ROM. I did a factory reset. Using AfterOTA v1.09 I installed first "Bootloader Ics v3.14.8+Thor v1.7.3". Then after that I changed to "Bootloader Ics v3.14.8+Recovery Twrp v2.1.3. It seemed to work fine. I got into the bootloader. I have the Jellytime ZIP file on my external SD card. The first time I think I just clicked install, picked the ZIP and did the swipe to install. Which brings me to my big question. What is it supposed to do after that? It just went back to the Recovery boot animation and back into the recovery without seemingly doing anything. If I rebooted holding the Vol-, it would just go into Recovery and not flash anything. If I just let it boot it would boot the factory ROM. The Thor recovery did something similar.
I then did the wiping/formatting of all of the cache, factory resets and system. And when I tried to install it again basically the same results. Except now it won't boot into the factory ROM since I wiped the system. Which will also not let it connect over USB and to the AfterOTA. If I turn it on holding the Vol+ and get the boot menu and pick the fastboot it tries to do the fastboot but just hangs on the Fastboot notification.
I've been searching and reading but can't figure out if I didn't do something I should have or missed a step. Any help would be appreciated.
Ah! I figured it out! I didn't realize that even though you're using a custom recovery program that you still have to name the ROM file "update.zip". I thought that might be the case but couldn't connect the tablet to the computer via USB and didn't have an SD adapter to connect the card to the computer and change the name. I ended up getting a card adapter. After I changed the name it worked.
briwayjones said:
Ah! I figured it out! I didn't realize that even though you're using a custom recovery program that you still have to name the ROM file "update.zip". I thought that might be the case but couldn't connect the tablet to the computer via USB and didn't have an SD adapter to connect the card to the computer and change the name. I ended up getting a card adapter. After I changed the name it worked.
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great, thanks for posting your solution
This may humor some of you as to the stupidity I have displayed in messing around with rooting\rom'ing my i9505.
Sadly tho it's resulted in me bricking/semi-bricking the phone and I am tearing my hair out trying to fix it.
What I did to get me here:
- Within TWRP (existing recovery/root at the time) I wiped all my data from the internal storage. This in effect meant that I had no roms nor any backups to recover from. Super Doh! *facepalm* moment of the centuary... :S
- For one reason or another the existing rom i was on would not boot. I was effectively stuck in a boot loop on the Samsung Logo
What I have tried doing to fix it (and failed miserably):
- I thought that by at least getting a rom onto the device and flashing it I would be back in business however this proved to be a challenge as the samsung USB drivers do not work with TWRP so I cannot adb push or sideload as I have no rom/backup locally.
- So I rooted with CWM which worked a treat with sideload. So I rom'd the phone...however...the following now happens
- I cannot get into existing/current ROM. Boot loop
- I cannot get into CWM (frozen with blue text in the top left) and have re-downloaded ODIN, CWM several times and tried to flash several times. No joy...
- I can flash with TWRP however as mentioned above the drivers do not work so I cannot sideload.
Any ideas how to fix - very very very much appreciated.
Don't need comments how dumb I have been - I am kicking myself more than you ever will.
r34l1ty7 said:
This may humor some of you as to the stupidity I have displayed in messing around with rooting\rom'ing my i9505.
Sadly tho it's resulted in me bricking/semi-bricking the phone and I am tearing my hair out trying to fix it.
What I did to get me here:
- Within TWRP (existing recovery/root at the time) I wiped all my data from the internal storage. This in effect meant that I had no roms nor any backups to recover from. Super Doh! *facepalm* moment of the centuary... :S
- For one reason or another the existing rom i was on would not boot. I was effectively stuck in a boot loop on the Samsung Logo
What I have tried doing to fix it (and failed miserably):
- I thought that by at least getting a rom onto the device and flashing it I would be back in business however this proved to be a challenge as the samsung USB drivers do not work with TWRP so I cannot adb push or sideload as I have no rom/backup locally.
- So I rooted with CWM which worked a treat with sideload. So I rom'd the phone...however...the following now happens
- I cannot get into existing/current ROM. Boot loop
- I cannot get into CWM (frozen with blue text in the top left) and have re-downloaded ODIN, CWM several times and tried to flash several times. No joy...
- I can flash with TWRP however as mentioned above the drivers do not work so I cannot sideload.
Any ideas how to fix - very very very much appreciated.
Don't need comments how dumb I have been - I am kicking myself more than you ever will.
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Can u try flashing Stock firmware using Odin it should work and incase after flashing it does not boot go to stock recovery and wipe cache reboot
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Can u try flashing Stock firmware using Odin it should work and incase after flashing it does not boot go to stock recovery and wipe cache reboot
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Just wanted to say a big thanks. Your solution worked a treat. :good:
I take it I can now root as usual? Nothing else needed? ...apart from not trying to be stupid again