I have a NC 1.2. I am able to root using a CWM 3.0.2.8 Msd card with Manual Nooter no problem. The problem occurs when I shut it off and then reboot. It gets to the part where the words "Nook Color" start scrolling across the screen. "Nook Color" completes one time successfully and when it starts scrolling again, it stops halfway through the first "o" in "Color", and just repeats indefinitely. The only thing I could do is completely reset, eight failed boots. At first I thought it may be an older version of CWM on my Msd card so I made a new one with v. 3.0.2.8 and rooted successfully, but first time I shut it off and rebooted, it happened again. I am thinking only thing to do is never turn it off. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
reebz said:
I have a NC 1.2. I am able to root using a CWM 3.0.2.8 Msd card with Manual Nooter no problem. The problem occurs when I shut it off and then reboot. It gets to the part where the words "Nook Color" start scrolling across the screen. "Nook Color" completes one time successfully and when it starts scrolling again, it stops halfway through the first "o" in "Color", and just repeats indefinitely. The only thing I could do is completely reset, eight failed boots. At first I thought it may be an older version of CWM on my Msd card so I made a new one with v. 3.0.2.8 and rooted successfully, but first time I shut it off and rebooted, it happened again. I am thinking only thing to do is never turn it off. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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What version MN are you using? You’re not wiping anything when you flash MN, right?
reebz said:
…At first I thought it may be an older version of CWM on my Msd card so I made a new one with v. 3.0.2.8 and rooted successfully, but first time I shut it off and rebooted, it happened again. I am thinking only thing to do is never turn it off.
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Are you saying that after you flash MN, you remove the SD card, it will fully boot up into the OS, then when you turn off the device and try to turn it back on, it will then not boot up? Or, are you saying that after you flash MN, you remove the SD card, and then the device fails to boot?
It sounds to me like you are wiping the system before you flash MN, but until I get the answers to the above questions, I can’t say for sure. MN is a add on pack for the stock OS, not a full rom, so you don’t wipe before you flash.
I have latest version of MN. I do not wipe anything. I boot into CWM and install MN with a msd card. Upon successful installation of MN, I remove msd card and reboot successfully that one time into a rooted NC. I can use Gmail app, download and install from both Android and Amazon markets. However, if I power down completely and reboot, it loops as explained in my OP.
reebz said:
I have latest version of MN. I do not wipe anything. I boot into CWM and install MN with a msd card. Upon successful installation of MN, I remove msd card and reboot successfully that one time into a rooted NC. I can use Gmail app, download and install from both Android and Amazon markets. However, if I power down completely and reboot, it loops as explained in my OP.
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Are you updating Adobe Flash? You can't directly update Adobe Flash from the Nook Color. The most common issues that will cause a boot loop on a NC after having a fully working device, are installing the wrong kernel, and updating Adobe Flash from the Market. If you updated Adobe Flash, download the attached file, and flash with CWM. The file should delete the old flash player, and install the updated one. This should give you a working device again. If it does work for you, please report back here so others will know what the fix it.
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Are you updating Adobe Flash? You can't directly update Adobe Flash from the Nook Color. The most common issues that will cause a boot loop on a NC after having a fully working device, are installing the wrong kernel, and updating Adobe Flash from the Market. If you updated Adobe Flash, download the attached file, and flash with CWM. The file should delete the old flash player, and install the updated one. This should give you a working device again. If it does work for you, please report back here so others will know what the fix it.
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I have updated Flash Player from the Market after rooting. If I remember correctly, I've powered down after rooting and installing numerous apps, including Flash, and rebooted . Maybe that's the culprit. I have not installed a different kernel. I'll go ahead and install the attached zip, with much thanks, but I don't know if I want to power off and reboot, for fear of dreaded boot loop.
Ok, I installed Flash Fix and rebooted, and the same boot loop is occurring. Looks like time to reset and reroot, and for now, never turn it off.
reebz said:
I have updated Flash Player from the Market after rooting. If I remember correctly, I've powered down after rooting and installing numerous apps, including Flash, and rebooted . Maybe that's the culprit. I have not installed a different kernel. I'll go ahead and install the attached zip, with much thanks, but I don't know if I want to power off and reboot, for fear of dreaded boot loop.
Ok, I installed Flash Fix and rebooted, and the same boot loop is occurring. Looks like time to reset and reroot, and for now, never turn it off.
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I just realized that I missed a step in the install script for that file, that is why it did not work for you. Yes, adobe flash is your problem. To update Adobe Flash on the nook color, you have to uninstall the old version, and then install the new adobe flash.
For all future references, I have attached the working Adobe Flash fix file. It includes flash version 10.3.186.3, that was released today. It has been tested to work, and you can allow auto-update in the market without future problems.
Ok, thanks, I will reluctantly give this a try when I get home from work.
Edit: Ok, now. I'm trying to uninstall Flash Player and having difficulties. It doesn't show up in the app drawer, so I go to Market to see if there is an uninstall option, but there is only an update option, so I updated, and then uninstalled to see if that would work, but it still showed up in "my apps", in market. I opened up app drawer and selected manage apps and found it, but selecting the uninstall button does nothing. I then tried installing Titanium Backup and after installing, Titanium Backup won't open and doesn't even show up in my app drawer. So, I'm a little stymied now. Unsure what to do next
reebz said:
Ok, thanks, I will reluctantly give this a try when I get home from work.
Edit: Ok, now. I'm trying to uninstall Flash Player and having difficulties. It doesn't show up in the app drawer, so I go to Market to see if there is an uninstall option, but there is only an update option, so I updated, and then uninstalled to see if that would work, but it still showed up in "my apps", in market. I opened up app drawer and selected manage apps and found it, but selecting the uninstall button does nothing. I then tried installing Titanium Backup and after installing, Titanium Backup won't open and doesn't even show up in my app drawer. So, I'm a little stymied now. Unsure what to do next
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Titanium Backup is going to be your best bet to do the uninstall process. When you selected update Flash from the market, then went and uninstalled it, you were only uninstalling the update. If TB installed, then it should show up in the app drawer of Zeam launcher. You can go into the market, and select to open it from there. Sometime it will not open on first attempt, because it is trying to ask you to give it root permission. If you still have trouble with it not opening, then uninstall it, and try to install it again. You can also open up the “Superuser” app to make sure that it has not been denied root permission.
TB definitely didn't appear in Zeam app drawer. I'm charging now and give it another shot in a bit.
Edit: Success. I got TB installed. I made a stupid error. I only installed the paid app, not the free also. I got Flash uninstalled and installed your Flash Fix.zip with numerous reboots with no boot loops.
GMPOWER, Thanks for your assistance
GMPOWER said:
For all future references, I have attached the working Adobe Flash fix file. It includes flash version 10.3.186.3, that was released today. It has been tested to work, and you can allow auto-update in the market without future problems.
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I don't normally bump old threads, but this just saved me
Thanks a lot, I was at wits end figuring out why it was boot looping.
dreadwing said:
I don't normally bump old threads, but this just saved me
Thanks a lot, I was at wits end figuring out why it was boot looping.
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Same here. Big thanks to GMPower! (My first post here, now I can use the Thanks button!)
Total noob question. This is my first time rooting. I got the root to work fine but updated Flash before finding out about the loop. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do to fix this problem. OP in this thread said he reinstalled MN 4.6.16 via bootable SD with CWM and could get his nook to boot up. I tried that and rebooted but I'm still getting stuck in the loop.
Do I need to wipe my nook before reapplying MN?
dahcheet said:
Total noob question. This is my first time rooting. I got the root to work fine but updated Flash before finding out about the loop. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do to fix this problem. OP in this thread said he reinstalled MN 4.6.16 via bootable SD with CWM and could get his nook to boot up. I tried that and rebooted but I'm still getting stuck in the loop.
Do I need to wipe my nook before reapplying MN?
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Use the zip file in post #7 (in this thread). Drop it onto the same SD card you used to load MN 4.6.16. Put the SD card in and it'll boot to CWM....then flash that zip file the same way you flashed MN. Then, power off the NC, remove the CWM SD card and put in your regular SD and turn the NC back on. That should be it...no more boot loop.
I've got the same issue as the thread started and I downloaded the zip from post 7 and flashed it just like I flashed MN, but it's still boot looping. It gets a bit farther into the "Nook Color" logo but keeps repeating.
Boot Loops NC 1.3
GMPOWER said:
For all future references, I have attached the working Adobe Flash fix file. It includes flash version 10.3.186.3, that was released today. It has been tested to work, and you can allow auto-update in the market without future problems.
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This problem started for me on Rooted 1.3. October 5th, Applied this fix.
Thanks GMPOWER
I figure I will explain my problem in more detail. I am working with my girlfriend's Nook trying to get it rooted. The first time I did she had 1.2 stock and I rooted it successfully. She updated flash not knowing that it would cause a boot loop. I had no idea how to fix it so she set it back to factory settings and procedded to update to 1.3 to see if that would solve the boot loop. I rooted it again and it started boot looping again. I found this thread and the flash fix. I flashed it onto the Nook and it fixed the loop problem.
Well she found out that the marketplace has limited visibility with 1.3 and wanted to go back to 1.2 to have her full visibility back. So she factory reset it again, I rooted it again and it started boot looping again. This time though the fix from post 7 isn't helping. I flash it and then reboot and it loads the "Nook Color" logo once fully and then stops and starts it over again and gets stuck at "Nook Col".
Is there anyone who might be able to help me with what the problem is, or am I gonna have to reset it back to stock, use Titanium Backup to remove flash and then use the zip from post 7? I know that it's not a root problem because I successfully rooted my mom's Nook before my girlfriends and her's is working fine.
Followed your instructions and my problem solved, many thanks!
johnny15 said:
Use the zip file in post #7 (in this thread). Drop it onto the same SD card you used to load MN 4.6.16. Put the SD card in and it'll boot to CWM....then flash that zip file the same way you flashed MN. Then, power off the NC, remove the CWM SD card and put in your regular SD and turn the NC back on. That should be it...no more boot loop.
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my first post. thanks GMpower
just had this happen to me too. I've tried the flash update, and I get slightly more of the nook color boot graphic but it still hangs.
any thoughts?
hey i just attempted to root my wife's nook color, 1.3, using this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054027
i have made the boot disk and pushed both nooter zips to disk, cwm comes up and it runs both zips just fine, ive tried both one after other ten reboot, reboot in between, wipe dalvik and the run but i always get stuck in the boot loop
can anyone tell me what im doing wrong here
and the plot thickens... so i did the 8 failed manual reset, and rebooted to stock, repeated process.. im out of bootloop but it appears the touch screen doesnt work anymore???
yeah so no matter how many times i 8 fail reset still no touch screen, all other buttons work, tried reinstalling clockwork and nothing...i bought the insurance, do i need to run it over cause im outta ideas, my first thought was ui was missing file but it should go back if i reset shouldnt it???
just shoot me..please
ok back to stock, re root, boot loop again, re stock , cm7 (update-cm-7.1.0-encore-signed) + gapps (gapps-gb-20110307-signed) and now application setup wizard has stopped unexpectedly.....stuck...thoughts? please am i over thinking/looking something
day two...
i created sd boot img with cwm 3.2.08, im seeing that i need to use cwm 3.2.01 in a few places.. when i get the file from clockwork (recovery-clockwork-3.2.0.1-encore) and try to write the image to the sd card something is wrong, its not a format that the windows recognizes and so i cant add zips to it and i get nothing in the nook. ive tried to reformat from the pc and in an old android phone i have but its always the same when i try to write to sd , is this the wrong image, can i find it somewhere else
i am using same 8gb sd card i made first boot disk out of, do i need to use a new one??
i got it to work i have good cwm 3.2.01 on nook...
stock + root?
ok it seems that cwm 3.2.0.8 was definitely my problem, i switched to recovery-clockwork-3.2.0.1-encore which i got from http://tinyw.in/0Vw
problem remains that when i flash man nooter 18 then 16 i get nothing, I was stuck on "n" load screen not even a boot loop
i then pushed cm7 again and i am operating as a full android tablet, i want the stock nook image with gapps can anyone help.. im leaving be till i get a answer, didnt want to update to 1.4 or downgrade to 1.2 havent seen a stock img of 1.3 anywhere
Hi, folks! I'll post this question here just in case I can get more help, as I've run out of ideas, and I've read all the threads on the specified subject, but none have helped. If it's against the rules, then Mods, please delete the thread. If not, Thank you.
The Problem:
I recently upgraded to CM7.2 Mirage-KANG- from Phiremod 6.2. The Nook was running great until I tried to upgrade to the ICS/CM9 nightly from here. The Nook would refuse to boot. The only way I could get it to boot was with an old CWM sd card I'd used to root it in the first place. I figured I could fix the boot by wiping the /data, /system, and /cache files from the Nook. Bad move. That just made things worse, as now, the Nook doesn't even load from the SD Card anymore unless I hold the "n" key and hold the power button.
I tried restoring it to to stock 1.01 to possibly start from scratch, and all was well, until it was time to register it. It wouldn't let me, even while on wi-fi. It would give me an "error has occurred, Nook will now Power Off" message without weven loading or anything. Upon further inspection, I checked the properties tab by accessing the wi-fi menu and saw that the model number and unit I.D.(I think) were "unknown" and in red letters.
Presently:
Since then, I tried everything from the Autonooter to the Monster Recovery Pack and nothing works. The Nook, without the Micro SD loaded, shows the Cyanogenmod7 logo loading, then goes black, though the backlight remains on. With the card, it goes straight into CWM. It sometimes doesn't boot into anything at all.
Extra Info:
I'm using a Sandisk (4) 8 GB card for the rooting and such. I normally use the 16 GB (4) model.
So my question is:
What can I do from here? Can/should I go back to the beginning as a Stock Nook 1.0, or is there a better, wiser alternative that I can use to get the Nook booting into CM7 or higher normally?
Any help'd be greatly appreciated.
Did you try following the directions on this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=931720
Yeah, as a matter of fact, I tried the exact same directions on both those pages, and used that exact CWM 3.0.2 img file to install the Nook 1.01 file.
From there, my Nook boots up fine, gets past the "n" logo, but once in the setup, won't register because it's serial #, Model #, and Mac Address are "missing", and won't let me past the Setup Menu.
Update: I managed to flash Stock 1.0.2. to the Nook. Upon booting it up, it prevented me from registering the Nook, until I figured out the factory mode method to bypass it, and used Autonooter to root.
Now I have a dilemma: I want to ditch Stock and jump to some sort of CM7, but Stock won't allow me to reboot into CWM at all, even after having flashed it through Rom Manager or flashing it to EMMC.
I know there's a way out, I just don't see it.
Any advice would be appreciated.
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I would assume you already have CWM on a SD card. Drop your chosen CM 7 zip onto the card, boot into CWM recovery, choose the zip and install. Same should work with ICS zip but you shpuld prolly avoid it until its in more stable shape.
Hello!
I have some problems rooting my nc with manualnooter 5.02.12. Before this I unrooted my device (by doing that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szlGSBtWbKY) and then updated to 1.4.1 (working fine). Then I copied the manualnotter-zip-file on my "8gb_clockwork-3.0.2.8.img"-sd-card and installed the zip-file.
But at next start, my nook gets stuck at the "read forever"-screen forever. I tried this three times, always with the same negative result.
What am I doing wrong?
it seems your new image that you were installing may have had an error. I would try to download a new image, possible from a different site. It sounds like after wiping the boot not much else was installed
try wipe all, wipe cache and wipe dalvik cache, it's work for me
I had the same issue. I found that if I updated my sd card to CWM 3.2.0.1 and reloaded both the MN 5.02.12 and Dal's OC kernel zips I corrected the problem and didn't have to wipe or rebuild anything else.
edit the file in manualnooter-5.02.12.zip\tmp\scripts\uramdisk.sh
change the line below
mv /boot/uImage /boot/uImage.cwbak
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#mv /boot/uImage /boot/uImage.cwbak
save and flash again，it work for me
sorry for my late feedback, had not much of time.
I will try your proposals later that day, thanks!
Ive been having the same problem as well. So I updated CWM , redownloaded mn, read some of the tips and finally got it working. I ended up having to wipe cache and i used the app2sd w/ the dalingrin kernel. Rebooted and then it was good. I assumed app2sd needs a sd card, but apps from the market saves to internal memory. I'm confused, but at least its working.
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blackpiranha said:
Hello!
I have some problems rooting my nc with manualnooter 5.02.12. Before this I unrooted my device (by doing that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szlGSBtWbKY) and then updated to 1.4.1 (working fine). Then I copied the manualnotter-zip-file on my "8gb_clockwork-3.0.2.8.img"-sd-card and installed the zip-file.
But at next start, my nook gets stuck at the "read forever"-screen forever. I tried this three times, always with the same negative result.
What am I doing wrong?
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I fixed the script problem in the 5.02.19 release. You can flash one of the kernel images to fix the problem. I am sorry about the problem.
About a year ago I installed Cyagenomod using colockwork mod 3.2.01 (not sure the version of cyagenomod, but the android guy on the loading screen was on a skateboard if that helps) onto my nook color. It worked for a while, but then would get caught up in the load screen. I already had another tablet, so I just set it aside. Now my nephew is learning to read, and I'd like to get the tablet running again and deck it out with apps that can help us help him. The problem is, no matter what I do or which tutorial I use, when it comes time to remove the SD card and reboot to Cyagenomod 10, the device loads to the CWM recovery screen for version 3.2.01. I have tried following the tutorials and using different versions of CWM, but the old version seems to be stuck on there and blocking anything else from loading on startup. Most recently I tried 6.1.0.2. Here are the steps that I took:
Wrote CWM image file to sd card
Added CM 10 zip file
Added GAPPs zip
Added CWM zip file
Inserted sd card and turned on device
Loaded to CWM 6 from the sd
Flashed CM, then GAPPS, then CWM zips in this order per tutorial instructions
Did factory reset per instructions- which seemed a little weird, but I haven't tried skipping this step as all tutorials advise it.
Removed sd card and replaced with blank card
Rebooted
As with everything else I've tried, it booted right back to the old version of cwm. I've tried restoring the original software, and even tried TWRP, How do I remove the old version so that the new version can work it's magic?
Thanks! And go easy on me, I just follow instructions well. I'm only marginally knowledgeable when it comes to what I'm actually doing.
brentarmour said:
About a year ago I installed Cyagenomod using colockwork mod 3.2.01 (not sure the version of cyagenomod, but the android guy on the loading screen was on a skateboard if that helps) onto my nook color. It worked for a while, but then would get caught up in the load screen. I already had another tablet, so I just set it aside. Now my nephew is learning to read, and I'd like to get the tablet running again and deck it out with apps that can help us help him. The problem is, no matter what I do or which tutorial I use, when it comes time to remove the SD card and reboot to Cyagenomod 10, the device loads to the CWM recovery screen for version 3.2.01. I have tried following the tutorials and using different versions of CWM, but the old version seems to be stuck on there and blocking anything else from loading on startup. Most recently I tried 6.1.0.2. Here are the steps that I took:
Wrote CWM image file to sd card
Added CM 10 zip file
Added GAPPs zip
Added CWM zip file
Inserted sd card and turned on device
Loaded to CWM 6 from the sd
Flashed CM, then GAPPS, then CWM zips in this order per tutorial instructions
Did factory reset per instructions- which seemed a little weird, but I haven't tried skipping this step as all tutorials advise it.
Removed sd card and replaced with blank card
Rebooted
As with everything else I've tried, it booted right back to the old version of cwm. I've tried restoring the original software, and even tried TWRP, How do I remove the old version so that the new version can work it's magic?
Thanks! And go easy on me, I just follow instructions well. I'm only marginally knowledgeable when it comes to what I'm actually doing.
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It sounds like you are in a recovery bootloop. Go to my NC Tips thread linked in my signature and read about it. I also have a newer version of CWM made for internal memory that you can flash to replace the 3.2.0.1 version on internal.
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