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Completely Dead Nook Color CM10

Hello everyone,
Im new to this forum but have lurked for a few years. I consider myself reasonably familiar with android and have installed custom roms on various devices in the past.
Yesterday I installed the latest CM10 Color Nook Rom to an micro SD and on to my wife's Nook Color. Install went great, Wifi up and working and I went to install Gapps via recovery. When it came back on the keyboard kept dying and I realized I had installed too new of Gapps. My bad. I shut off the nook and removed the micro SD with the intentions of wiping it out and starting fresh.
I put the nook off to the side and about 15 mins later went to install my fresh install of JB when I found the nook completely dead and unresponsive. The battery was at about 90% when i turned it off.
This was only supposed to be a install to the sd, I dont know why it's affecting the nook when theres no sd card in it.
So far I have tried:
pulling out the sd card
hard reset
creating a nook color restore micro sd and booting from that
charging
The nook remains completely dead and 100% unresponsive and I have no idea where to go from here! I keep reading its hard to brick these but im starting to think thats what happened!
I was thinking of taking off the cover and doing a battery pull. Any ideas?

If you truly have nothing happening, it certainly sounds like a hardware problem. Pulling battery to reset is worth a try. It's worked for me on several Android devices (never tried it with a Nook, though). Somewhere recently in the forum I read how to do a safe battery pull on a Noo, but don't recollect where. Search for it. If that fails, I'd say your Nook is kaput.

scthomps said:
Hello everyone,
Im new to this forum but have lurked for a few years. I consider myself reasonably familiar with android and have installed custom roms on various devices in the past.
Yesterday I installed the latest CM10 Color Nook Rom to an micro SD and on to my wife's Nook Color. Install went great, Wifi up and working and I went to install Gapps via recovery. When it came back on the keyboard kept dying and I realized I had installed too new of Gapps. My bad. I shut off the nook and removed the micro SD with the intentions of wiping it out and starting fresh.
I put the nook off to the side and about 15 mins later went to install my fresh install of JB when I found the nook completely dead and unresponsive. The battery was at about 90% when i turned it off.
This was only supposed to be a install to the sd, I dont know why it's affecting the nook when theres no sd card in it.
So far I have tried:
pulling out the sd card
hard reset
creating a nook color restore micro sd and booting from that
charging
The nook remains completely dead and 100% unresponsive and I have no idea where to go from here! I keep reading its hard to brick these but im starting to think thats what happened!
I was thinking of taking off the cover and doing a battery pull. Any ideas?
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No, don't pull the cover. What happened is your boot files got corrupted on internal memory. It will not power on unless those files are there or a valid bootable SD is in the slot.
You need to get my bootable CWM SD from my tips thread linked in my signature. That should boot. Then you need to reinstall whatever ROM you had on internal memory. If it was stock you can get the CWM flashable version also from my tips thread.
Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium

Thanks!
leapinlar said:
No, don't pull the cover. What happened is your boot files got corrupted on internal memory. It will not power on unless those files are there or a valid bootable SD is in the slot.
You need to get my bootable CWM SD from my tips thread linked in my signature. That should boot. Then you need to reinstall whatever ROM you had on internal memory. If it was stock you can get the CWM flashable version also from my tips thread.
Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium
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Im going to try your linked CWM and create the SD from your tips first. The last I saw the battery it said roughly 80% and assuming it wasn't stuck in some loop it should be still good.
If the battery IS actually dead will the nook charge with no OS installed? My charger cord came apart months ago and I have been charging (slowyly; lol) off a generic cord plugged into the computer. Will this make a difference or should I wait to try this when I have a proper charger cord?
Thanks for everyone's help! You guys are lifesavers!

scthomps said:
Im going to try your linked CWM and create the SD from your tips first. The last I saw the battery it said roughly 80% and assuming it wasn't stuck in some loop it should be still good.
If the battery IS actually dead will the nook charge with no OS installed? My charger cord came apart months ago and I have been charging (slowyly; lol) off a generic cord plugged into the computer. Will this make a difference or should I wait to try this when I have a proper charger cord?
Thanks for everyone's help! You guys are lifesavers!
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It should charge slowly with that cable. Even if not booted to anything.
Sent with XDA Premium from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on SD

leapinlar said:
It should charge slowly with that cable. Even if not booted to anything.
Sent with XDA Premium from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on SD
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I followed your instructions and the "battery too low to power on" message came up, which is the first sign of life I have seen out of the nook in a few days. Thanks!

leapinlar said:
No, don't pull the cover. What happened is your boot files got corrupted on internal memory. It will not power on unless those files are there or a valid bootable SD is in the slot.
You need to get my bootable CWM SD from my tips thread linked in my signature. That should boot. Then you need to reinstall whatever ROM you had on internal memory. If it was stock you can get the CWM flashable version also from my tips thread.
Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium
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My CM10 went completely dead last week. I put lepinlar's v6.0.1.2 Bootable CWM Recovery on and SD card and now have some sign of life.
I get to the cyanoboot universal bootloader screen, but it just sits with a Loading.... note. I've let it sit for about 10 minutes and nothing else happens. I also tried the N key and it does load the boot menu...but no option gets me past that initial screen...
should it just boot directly into CMW? any other suggestions would be appreciated!

ginhead said:
My CM10 went completely dead last week. I put lepinlar's v6.0.1.2 Bootable CWM Recovery on and SD card and now have some sign of life.
I get to the cyanoboot universal bootloader screen, but it just sits with a Loading.... note. I've let it sit for about 10 minutes and nothing else happens. I also tried the N key and it does load the boot menu...but no option gets me past that initial screen...
should it just boot directly into CMW? any other suggestions would be appreciated!
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Not really sure what you mean. You say you put my bootable CWM on SD. You mean you burned the image to an SD? And it boots to the cyanoboot screen but gets stuck on loading...?
Does the cyanoboot screen have a small s0 in the upper left corner? If does that means it is trying to boot from the SD. It should boot directly into CWM by itself.
Try reburning it or use my 5.5.0.4 version. Once it gets to CWM, install a new ROM with it. The original reason it went dead was corrupted files on your internal boot partition. Reflashing the ROM should fix it.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD

leapinlar said:
Not really sure what you mean. You say you put my bootable CWM on SD. You mean you burned the image to an SD? And it boots to the cyanoboot screen but gets stuck on loading...?
Does the cyanoboot screen have a small s0 in the upper left corner? If does that means it is trying to boot from the SD. It should boot directly into CWM by itself.
Try reburning it or use my 5.5.0.4 version. Once it gets to CWM, install a new ROM with it. The original reason it went dead was corrupted files on your internal boot partition. Reflashing the ROM should fix it.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
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thanks for the reply.
I've used Win32diskimager to burn both v6.0.1.2 and 5.5.04 to an SD card. I do see the S0 in the upper left corner, but the screen never moves past the initial Loading...screen.
I can get it to load clockworkmod using a '1gb_clockwork-3.0.1.0' recovery image (also tried 1gb_clockwork-3.2.0.1-eyeballer w/the same result). However, I get a message that states:
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/command
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/loginterrrupt
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
I then attempted to flash your Nook Color EMMC Partition Repair zips....The NookColor-emmc-repair-partitions-1-4-5-6-7-8.zip will complete the 'repartitioning /boot /system /data /cache and media' step.
it sticks on the Repartitioning internal memory - be patient this may take a while'...i've let it sit for about 30+ minutes...how long should this take? My nook is currently sitting in this phase now...I guess I'll let it sit for a while and see if anything else happens.
thanks for the help with this...from what I've read, I'm hopeful there is a solution...

ginhead said:
thanks for the reply.
I've used Win32diskimager to burn both v6.0.1.2 and 5.5.04 to an SD card. I do see the S0 in the upper left corner, but the screen never moves past the initial Loading...screen.
I can get it to load clockworkmod using a '1gb_clockwork-3.0.1.0' recovery image (also tried 1gb_clockwork-3.2.0.1-eyeballer w/the same result). However, I get a message that states:
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/command
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/loginterrrupt
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
I then attempted to flash your Nook Color EMMC Partition Repair zips....The NookColor-emmc-repair-partitions-1-4-5-6-7-8.zip will complete the 'repartitioning /boot /system /data /cache and media' step.
it sticks on the Repartitioning internal memory - be patient this may take a while'...i've let it sit for about 30+ minutes...how long should this take? My nook is currently sitting in this phase now...I guess I'll let it sit for a while and see if anything else happens.
thanks for the help with this...from what I've read, I'm hopeful there is a solution...
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Which recovery are you using to flash the repair zips? It needs to be at least 3.2.0.1. Don't use that 3.0.1.0. Don't worry about those E: messages, it just means cache is not formatted.
It is sounding like the first step of the repartitioning is not taking. That is fixing partition one. I'll be right back with another zip to see if you can flash that.
Try the attached and see what happens. You can also try the bootable TWRP to flash rather than CWM. I have that linked in that partition fix thread.
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Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD

leapinlar said:
Which recovery are you using to flash the repair zips? It needs to be at least 3.2.0.1. Don't use that 3.0.1.0. Don't worry about those E: messages, it just means cache is not formatted.
It is sounding like the first step of the repartitioning is not taking. That is fixing partition one. I'll be right back with another zip to see if you can flash that.
Try the attached and see what happens. You can also try the bootable TWRP to flash rather than CWM. I have that linked in that partition fix thread.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
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thanks a lot!
I did try with the 3.2.0.1 recovery and the flash you posted above. It is still sticking at the 'repartitioning internal memory' step...I also tried your TWRP bootable, but that still sticks at the loading screen.
I can't find my external sd writer, so I've been writing/burning using in internal writer in two different laptops and a camera in mass storage mode. I ordered a SD writer from amazon...should get it on Wednesday. I wonder if my issues are just with writing/burning the SD card..
I'll report back when I get the new writer and guess I might as well try another card too.

ginhead said:
thanks a lot!
I did try with the 3.2.0.1 recovery and the flash you posted above. It is still sticking at the 'repartitioning internal memory' step...I also tried your TWRP bootable, but that still sticks at the loading screen.
I can't find my external sd writer, so I've been writing/burning using in internal writer in two different laptops and a camera in mass storage mode. I ordered a SD writer from amazon...should get it on Wednesday. I wonder if my issues are just with writing/burning the SD card..
I'll report back when I get the new writer and guess I might as well try another card too.
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It is possible it is the card. It might be good enough to start the boot, but not good enough to read and write the files that are needed. Definitely try a different card.
EDIT: Now that I think about it, I am almost positive that is what is wrong. Try a SanDisk class 4.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD

scthomps, you could get a NC replacement charging cable from ebay, just do a search, it works good for me.

I'm actually running into this problem right now with two different nook color tablets.
One I've had CM10 installed to the EMMC for well over a month without any problems. The other Nook Color I followed the same procedure to install to the EMMC off a bootable SD card.
Regardless of how little or much power the Nook has, it will not even power on unless I have a bootable SD card installed.
Once I get to the menu, I can boot from the internal EMMC without any problems. Not sure what I did to correct the /boot partition on two different Nooks. Least of all one that's been working.
Going to try boot into recovery to see if I can fix whatever corruption got introduced.

phoenix1972 said:
I'm actually running into this problem right now with two different nook color tablets.
One I've had CM10 installed to the EMMC for well over a month without any problems. The other Nook Color I followed the same procedure to install to the EMMC off a bootable SD card.
Regardless of how little or much power the Nook has, it will not even power on unless I have a bootable SD card installed.
Once I get to the menu, I can boot from the internal EMMC without any problems. Not sure what I did to correct the /boot partition on two different Nooks. Least of all one that's been working.
Going to try boot into recovery to see if I can fix whatever corruption got introduced.
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You need a complete set of boot files on the internal boot partition or it won't even try to turn on by itself without a bootable SD. You don't. It needs MLO, u-boot.bin, uImage and uRamdisk there. You obviously have the MLO or u-boot.bin missing or corrupted because uImage and uRamdisk must be there to boot from the SD menu.
This is all fixable by just flashing your ROM again. Those files all get put back on fresh.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD

leapinlar said:
Which recovery are you using to flash the repair zips? It needs to be at least 3.2.0.1. Don't use that 3.0.1.0. Don't worry about those E: messages, it just means cache is not formatted.
It is sounding like the first step of the repartitioning is not taking. That is fixing partition one. I'll be right back with another zip to see if you can flash that.
Try the attached and see what happens. You can also try the bootable TWRP to flash rather than CWM. I have that linked in that partition fix thread.
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Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
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Hi leapinlar I think I have the same problem as this guy except its on a Nook HD +, becuase I get that same error message when I boot into a bootable cwm. Can you help me out please?

[Q] Formatted /boot - Cyanoboot stuck on "Loading" (All options)

Hey so I was trying to flash a dev build of Ubuntu Touch to my NC, and in the midst of excitement, I accidently formatted /boot.
Now my NC will come on, but hangs at Cyanoboot "Loading..." I've even tried flashing the 1gb CWM image to an sd and trying that. However, my nook will boot, I'll hold "n" to enter the boot menu, and I'll click "SD Card Normal". After that, it hangs at "Loading (SD)..."
Any ideas on how to fix my nook? I'd hate to have a $75 paperweight.

BrysonR said:
Hey so I was trying to flash a dev build of Ubuntu Touch to my NC, and in the midst of excitement, I accidently formatted /boot.
Now my NC will come on, but hangs at Cyanoboot "Loading..." I've even tried flashing the 1gb CWM image to an sd and trying that. However, my nook will boot, I'll hold "n" to enter the boot menu, and I'll click "SD Card Normal". After that, it hangs at "Loading (SD)..."
Any ideas on how to fix my nook? I'd hate to have a $75 paperweight.
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Go to my NC tips thread and make my 5.5.0.4 CWM bootable SD. It will boot. Then just flash a new CM rom and you will get your boot files back.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

leapinlar said:
Go to my NC tips thread and make my 5.5.0.4 CWM bootable SD. It will boot. Then just flash a new CM rom and you will get your boot files back.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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I dd'd the img file to the SD and it booted into Cyanoboot from the SD ONCE. After that, I had to format because choosing either option didnt work(?, I don't quite remember.) I figured I got a malformed download, so I redownloaded the file, extracted it, formatted my SD, dd'd the img file over to the SD, and now my Nook doesn't recognize it anymore. Turning it on boots me back into Cyanoboot on the EMMC.
Am I missing something? I've been flashing ROMs for over a year on 5+ devices and this is the first 'major' problem I've had.

BrysonR said:
I dd'd the img file to the SD and it booted into Cyanoboot from the SD ONCE. After that, I had to format because choosing either option didnt work(?, I don't quite remember.) I figured I got a malformed download, so I redownloaded the file, extracted it, formatted my SD, dd'd the img file over to the SD, and now my Nook doesn't recognize it anymore. Turning it on boots me back into Cyanoboot on the EMMC.
Am I missing something? I've been flashing ROMs for over a year on 5+ devices and this is the first 'major' problem I've had.
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I don't understand, choosing what options? It should have booted directly to CWM with no intervention from you.
The Nook family of devices are hard to get a bootable SD to boot. They have to be burned just right, especially if using DD on a Mac or Linux. Be sure to choose the whole device, not just a single partition.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

leapinlar said:
I don't understand, choosing what options? It should have booted directly to CWM with no intervention from you.
The Nook family of devices are hard to get a bootable SD to boot. They have to be burned just right, especially if using DD on a Mac or Linux. Be sure to choose the whole device, not just a single partition.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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The time it did work, I turned my NC on and it booted into Cyanoboot showing that it was ran off of the SD (by the SD0 label in the top left, currently, without the SD, it shows EMMC 01). I held down "n" to access the boot menu and two options were available, "SD Card Normal" and "SD Card Recovery". Neither option worked, so I ejected it and redid the whole process.
As for dd'ing, I'll look up how to write to the whole SD, as of now, whenever I dd the img file, it creates a seperate fat32 partition the house the files and leaves 15gb unallocated.

BrysonR said:
The time it did work, I turned my NC on and it booted into Cyanoboot showing that it was ran off of the SD (by the SD0 label in the top left, currently, without the SD, it shows EMMC 01). I held down "n" to access the boot menu and two options were available, "SD Card Normal" and "SD Card Recovery". Neither option worked, so I ejected it and redid the whole process.
As for dd'ing, I'll look up how to write to the whole SD, as of now, whenever I dd the img file, it creates a seperate fat32 partition the house the files and leaves 15gb unallocated.
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Don't hold n, just let it go.
And I did not say it should fill the SD, just be sure to pick the right device.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

This morning I switched over to a Windows box and used Win32DiskImager to write the CWM 5.5.04 img to the SD. Still a no go. Nook STILL isn't recognizing the SD. I don't get why it would work once, and not again.
Am I missing something? I feel like I've tried everything, but that I'm missing a very simple solution.

BrysonR said:
This morning I switched over to a Windows box and used Win32DiskImager to write the CWM 5.5.04 img to the SD. Still a no go. Nook STILL isn't recognizing the SD. I don't get why it would work once, and not again.
Am I missing something? I feel like I've tried everything, but that I'm missing a very simple solution.
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I don't know why, but sometimes it makes a difference if the card is full wipe formatted with SDFormatter before reburning. Get it free on the web.
Sent from my rooted stock Nook HD

leapinlar said:
I don't know why, but sometimes it makes a difference if the card is full wipe formatted with SDFormatter before reburning. Get it free on the web.
Sent from my rooted stock Nook HD
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Did a full wipe with SDformatter, flashed the .img, Cyanoboot still isn't showing a SD is inserted.
I can flash an 8gb CWM image to the SD, and Cyanoboot will recognize it, but won't let me boot into it. It stills sticks on "Loading (SD)..."

BrysonR said:
Did a full wipe with SDformatter, flashed the .img, Cyanoboot still isn't showing a SD is inserted.
I can flash an 8gb CWM image to the SD, and Cyanoboot will recognize it, but won't let me boot into it. It stills sticks on "Loading (SD)..."
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Where did you get an 8GB image? Or did you mean my image to an 8 GB card?
Edit: I was just rereading your first post, and you said you formatted /boot. If that is true there is no way you are booting to emmc cyanoboot (showing EMMC01). You must either not have formatted it or flashed something else there after you formatted it. In any case, emmc boot partition may have bad files so you should never be trying to use the emmc cyanoboot. That may be why it gets stuck on loading. You must get an SD to boot on its own so you don't have to use emmc cyanoboot.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

leapinlar said:
Where did you get an 8GB image? Or did you mean my image to an 8 GB card?
Edit: I was just rereading your first post, and you said you formatted /boot. If that is true there is no way you are booting to emmc cyanoboot (showing EMMC01). You must either not have formatted it or flashed something else there after you formatted it. In any case, emmc boot partition may have bad files so you should never be trying to use the emmc cyanoboot. That may be why it gets stuck on loading. You must get an SD to boot on its own so you don't have to use emmc cyanoboot.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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I figured it out. I had flashed a modified Cyanoboot, and it had no ROM to boot into. I think it was my adapter that wasn't allowing me to boot into the CWM image. I got a new adapter, deleted all partitions off my sd and then dd'd your CWM image. Popped it onto my NC and it worked!

Put files into internal memory and now it won't boot

Hi, I'm a moron. I accidentally dragged some files that I meant to put in a different window onto my Nook's internal storage, and now I can't boot past "Read Forever"—it doesn't even continue to the N, shuts back down to black. It does this whether or not the SD card is in. Since I put CWM on it, now I can't restore from the 8 boot attempts, but I also can't seem to restore from anything else on the SD card.
I just erased everything on the card and put stock NC 1.2 on it, but I still have no luck booting up the NC to it.
How do I fix this? I can't even mount the NC on a computer to delete the files. (They were .just 2 zip files of CM10 and Google Apps.)

Hey, just to clarify, by "internal storage" I mean the same space where you can sideload files.

mooserampage said:
Hey, just to clarify, by "internal storage" I mean the same space where you can sideload files.
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That still does not help me. You mean the drives that show up in windows explorer? That should not have caused any problem. Give use a bit more info. There must have been something else that happened.
If you go to my NC Tips thread linked in my signature, I have both bootable CWM SDs and a zip you can flash to put stock recovery back on internal memory so you can do the 8 failed boot. There are even instructions on how to do the 8 failed boot. See item A12.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

leapinlar said:
That still does not help me. You mean the drives that show up in windows explorer? That should not have caused any problem. Give use a bit more info. There must have been something else that happened.
If you go to my NC Tips thread linked in my signature, I have both bootable CWM SDs and a zip you can flash to put stock recovery back on internal memory so you can do the 8 failed boot. There are even instructions on how to do the 8 failed boot. See item A12.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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Yeah, it was put into that space called "MyNook" (or such) where you can add other files. I also don't know what is going wrong, and I'm confused. I had just used uNooter and then CWM, and was going to load CM10 and GApps but I have not been able to boot beyond "Read Forever" since they were dragged to that internal drive.
I just put on the bootable CWM and a stock zip to the SD card but apparently now my Nook needs to charge before I can see if it works.

mooserampage said:
Yeah, it was put into that space called "MyNook" (or such) where you can add other files. I also don't know what is going wrong, and I'm confused. I had just used uNooter and then CWM, and was going to load CM10 and GApps but I have not been able to boot beyond "Read Forever" since they were dragged to that internal drive.
I just put on the bootable CWM and a stock zip to the SD card but apparently now my Nook needs to charge before I can see if it works.
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What is uNooter and where did you get it? I think that is your problem.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

leapinlar said:
What is uNooter and where did you get it? I think that is your problem.
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I found uNooter through the CyanogenMod wiki page for the NC. (I am not allowed to post URLs, apparently.) I followed that page and got as far as replacing the stock recovery, with everything working fine. Then I ran into issues with getting ADB to work with Terminal, so I never got CM10 or GApps onto the SD card. I dragged them to the internal storage and when I tried to reboot into the stock Nook, it didn't work. (I was able to reboot after rooting and replacing stock recovery before this, both with and without the SD card, there was only a problem after the files went onto the internal storage.)

mooserampage said:
I found uNooter through the CyanogenMod wiki page for the NC. (I am not allowed to post URLs, apparently.) I followed that page and got as far as replacing the stock recovery, with everything working fine. Then I ran into issues with getting ADB to work with Terminal, so I never got CM10 or GApps onto the SD card. I dragged them to the internal storage and when I tried to reboot into the stock Nook, it didn't work. (I was able to reboot after rooting and replacing stock recovery before this, both with and without the SD card, there was only a problem after the files went onto the internal storage.)
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It was not putting those files on internal memory that caused the issue. Something else happened with the uNooter after you installed it.
If my stock recovery zip and 8 failed boot does not fix it, I recommend you go to my NC partition repair thread linked in my signature and follow the steps there.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

leapinlar said:
It was not putting those files on internal memory that caused the issue. Something else happened with the uNooter after you installed it.
If my stock recovery zip and 8 failed boot does not fix it, I recommend you go to my NC partition repair thread linked in my signature and follow the steps there.
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Thanks, I will be trying the NC partition repair next. It seems to be ignoring the bootable CWM & stock zip entirely (or at least it will not boot at all) despite being fully charged.
EDIT: It looks like I spoke too soon! I'm now able to boot into CWM after leaving the NC sitting around for a few hours! I restored the ROM, put on stock 1.4.1, then did 8 failed boots and went back down to 1.2.0.
So, now I am now to 100% stock and debating my next steps.

mooserampage said:
Thanks, I will be trying the NC partition repair next. It seems to be ignoring the bootable CWM & stock zip entirely (or at least it will not boot at all) despite being fully charged.
EDIT: It looks like I spoke too soon! I'm now able to boot into CWM after leaving the NC sitting around for a few hours! I restored the ROM, put on stock 1.4.1, then did 8 failed boots and went back down to 1.2.0.
So, now I am now to 100% stock and debating my next steps.
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If you want rooted stock, go to my NC Tips thread, follow A15 and put 1.4.3 on it, then go to Manual Nooter 5.08.20 in the dev forum.
If you want CM10.1 on SD follow my updated NC SD guide.
If you want CM10.1 on internal memory, follow eyeballer's emmc guide.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

HELP BRICKED nook hd+

I used cwm and attempted to install cm 10.1 on nook hd. everything seemed fine, loaded OS, loaded gapps, loaded twrp, loaded backup cwm program. then rebooted to try and use and screen stalls on the cyanogen mod screen and stays there forever. tried even reformatting sd to a boot disc meant to factory restore to 1.4.2 but it just goes the same screen. it wont even load from sd card boot file, goes to cyanogen bootloader screen and stays there.
please help i can only get to twrp recovery program but can't figure out how to do ANYTHING to restore from there. please help, tried to do my daughters nook and now i bombed it.
i have read many other threads on this but none work. can only get to twrp.

soorockdude said:
I used cwm and attempted to install cm 10.1 on nook hd. everything seemed fine, loaded OS, loaded gapps, loaded twrp, loaded backup cwm program. then rebooted to try and use and screen stalls on the cyanogen mod screen and stays there forever. tried even reformatting sd to a boot disc meant to factory restore to 1.4.2 but it just goes the same screen. it wont even load from sd card boot file, goes to cyanogen bootloader screen and stays there.
please help i can only get to twrp recovery program but can't figure out how to do ANYTHING to restore from there. please help, tried to do my daughters nook and now i bombed it.
i have read many other threads on this but none work. can only get to twrp.
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Restore to 1.4.2? That is Nook Color or Tablet, not HD/HD+. And HD or HD+? Title says HD+ and text says HD.
What files did you use?
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

leapinlar said:
Restore to 1.4.2? That is Nook Color or Tablet, not HD/HD+. And HD or HD+? Title says HD+ and text says HD.
What files did you use?
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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sorry i meant factory install
bn_142_factory_recovery.zip
and made a bootable sd card but no luck with that either. it jumps to the same bootloader screen before the sd boot loads.
i REALLY appreciate your help here!
or is there a way to load anything from the pc via the cable?
are you familiar with twrp ? It seems to be the only interface i can even get into. otherwise just nook boot screen then the bootloader arghh

soorockdude said:
sorry i meant factory install
bn_142_factory_recovery.zip
and made a bootable sd card but no luck with that either. it jumps to the same bootloader screen before the sd boot loads.
i REALLY appreciate your help here!
or is there a way to load anything from the pc via the cable?
are you familiar with twrp ? It seems to be the only interface i can even get into. otherwise just nook boot screen then the bootloader arghh
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for the record it is a 16 gb hd + nook, here is the list of programs i installed on the cwm before i rebooted and it started getting stuck on that screen:
cm-10.1-20130904-UNOFFICIAL-ovation-sdcard
gapps-jb-20130812-signed
cm-10.1.3-RC2-ovation
NookHD-HDplus-stock-enable-Unknown-Sources-rev0-(09.08.13)
NookHD-HDplus-Universal-Root-rev3-(09.10.13)
i watched many videos and checked threads and these seemed good from multiple sources.
then i have tried this and a couple other things to get back running but really can only get TWRP recovery to fire up. : (
8gb-16gb_cwm_internal (1)

soorockdude said:
for the record it is a 16 gb hd + nook, here is the list of programs i installed on the cwm before i rebooted and it started getting stuck on that screen:
cm-10.1-20130904-UNOFFICIAL-ovation-sdcard
gapps-jb-20130812-signed
cm-10.1.3-RC2-ovation
NookHD-HDplus-stock-enable-Unknown-Sources-rev0-(09.08.13)
NookHD-HDplus-Universal-Root-rev3-(09.10.13)
i watched many videos and checked threads and these seemed good from multiple sources.
then i have tried this and a couple other things to get back running but really can only get TWRP recovery to fire up. : (
8gb-16gb_cwm_internal (1)
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You are mixing up Nook Tablet and Nook HD+ and emmc install and SD install. And stock. No wonder it won't boot. I'm sure that video you watched was for the Nook Tablet.
Edit: you should not have flashed that ...ovation-sdcard. That was for an SD install.
You should not have flashed the noohdplus...zips, those are for stock.
The 1.4.2 factory was for Nook Tablet
8gb-16g_cwm... was for Nook Tablet.
See what a mess you created?
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

leapinlar said:
You are mixing up Nook Tablet and Nook HD+ and emmc install and SD install. And stock. No wonder it won't boot. I'm sure that video you watched was for the Nook Tablet.
Edit: you should not have flashed that ...ovation-sdcard. That was for an SD install.
You should not have flashed the noohdplus...zips, those are for stock.
The 1.4.2 factory was for Nook Tablet
8gb-16g_cwm... was for Nook Tablet.
See what a mess you created?
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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alright i see that was wrong, i wish there was a common set of things that had worked on there.
can you clarify this:
You should not have flashed the noohdplus...zips, those are for stock.
as for these I wasnt able to boot anything with them anyhow so i doubt they had a negative effect.
The 1.4.2 factory was for Nook Tablet
8gb-16g_cwm... was for Nook Tablet.
either way clearly got something off here. can you suggest anything to boot from twrp or an sd card. anything that works on this particular tablet? sounds like we have the same one.
do you have any ideas?

soorockdude said:
alright i see that was wrong, i wish there was a common set of things that had worked on there.
can you clarify this:
You should not have flashed the noohdplus...zips, those are for stock.
as for these I wasnt able to boot anything with them anyhow so i doubt they had a negative effect.
The 1.4.2 factory was for Nook Tablet
8gb-16g_cwm... was for Nook Tablet.
either way clearly got something off here. can you suggest anything to boot from twrp or an sd card. anything that works on this particular tablet? sounds like we have the same one.
do you have any ideas?
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To fix the mess you created, go to my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature and flash a plain stock ROM from item 6 using a bootable SD. If you don't have a working one, that thread has one too. Then do a factory reset via recovery too. Then take the SD out and boot back to stock. Once you have that working, boot back to SD recovery and flash the rc2 and gapps zips you listed above. Then factory reset again before you boot and and remove the SD and you should be ok.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

leapinlar said:
To fix the mess you created, go to my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature and flash a plain stock ROM from item 6 using a bootable SD. If you don't have a working one, that thread has one too. Then do a factory reset via recovery too. Then take the SD out and boot back to stock. Once you have that working, boot back to SD recovery and flash the rc2 and gapps zips you listed above. Then factory reset again before you boot and and remove the SD and you should be ok.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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ok awesome, I trust this is the bootable sd you referred to:
NookHDplus-bootable-SD-TWRP-2.6-for-emmc-BOOTFILES-rev0-(09.15.13).rar - [Click for QR Code] (6.67 MB, 9 views\
so i followed your instructions. reformatted my sd card via sd formatter, set partition 1 as active and applied on minitool partition wizard.
extracted the 5 files from the above .rar file to the sd.
booted the nook with new sd card in it. still got stuck on the bootloader screen,
rebooted and got into TWRP but can't find any way to open or execute any files on that sd card. (NOT REALLY SURE HOW to USE iT)
anyhow this would be great if i had any way to get into the cwm flashing program. I can't get anything BUT twrp open or the stalled boot screen for "cyanoboot universal bootloader", then it goes into twrp.
what would be my options? Thanks again I really am at my end, really nice to have a pro help. . : )

soorockdude said:
ok awesome, I trust this is the bootable sd you referred to:
NookHDplus-bootable-SD-TWRP-2.6-for-emmc-BOOTFILES-rev0-(09.15.13).rar - [Click for QR Code] (6.67 MB, 9 views\
so i followed your instructions. reformatted my sd card via sd formatter, set partition 1 as active and applied on minitool partition wizard.
extracted the 5 files from the above .rar file to the sd.
booted the nook with new sd card in it. still got stuck on the bootloader screen,
rebooted and got into TWRP but can't find any way to open or execute any files on that sd card. (NOT REALLY SURE HOW to USE iT)
anyhow this would be great if i had any way to get into the cwm flashing program. I can't get anything BUT twrp open or the stalled boot screen for "cyanoboot universal bootloader", then it goes into twrp.
what would be my options? Thanks again I really am at my end, really nice to have a pro help. . : )
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If you read my instructions, you know I don't like TWRP and I'm not going to tell you how to use it. You need to use the 6028 CWM version.
Do you read instructions?
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

soorockdude said:
ok awesome, I trust this is the bootable sd you referred to:
NookHDplus-bootable-SD-TWRP-2.6-for-emmc-BOOTFILES-rev0-(09.15.13).rar - [Click for QR Code] (6.67 MB, 9 views\
so i followed your instructions. reformatted my sd card via sd formatter, set partition 1 as active and applied on minitool partition wizard.
extracted the 5 files from the above .rar file to the sd.
booted the nook with new sd card in it. still got stuck on the bootloader screen,
rebooted and got into TWRP but can't find any way to open or execute any files on that sd card. (NOT REALLY SURE HOW to USE iT)
anyhow this would be great if i had any way to get into the cwm flashing program. I can't get anything BUT twrp open or the stalled boot screen for "cyanoboot universal bootloader", then it goes into twrp.
what would be my options? Thanks again I really am at my end, really nice to have a pro help. . : )
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Ok so I managed to figure out how to flash zip "NookHDplus - factory - 2.1.1 - plain - stock.zip" through twrp, it said "successful"
So i tried to reboot, same result. But then removed sd card and tried to reboot. Now it just keeps resetting on the nook black screen, but DOESNT get to the bootloader screen so that is different. Nice to have a change anyhow.
So now that I can flash zip's, how might i find the nook recovery tool you mentioned ? seems to be the only step i haven't gotten through.
: )

soorockdude said:
Ok so I managed to figure out how to flash zip "NookHDplus - factory - 2.1.1 - plain - stock.zip" through twrp, it said "successful"
So i tried to reboot, same result. But then removed sd card and tried to reboot. Now it just keeps resetting on the nook black screen, but DOESNT get to the bootloader screen so that is different. Nice to have a change anyhow.
So now that I can flash zip's, how might i find the nook recovery tool you mentioned ? seems to be the only step i haven't gotten through.
: )
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Did you factory reset before you booted as I said in the post above? And I did tell you to take the SD out before booting.
What nook recovery tool? I never said that. Maybe what you misunderstood was 'recovery' means either TWRP or CWM. They are both recovery.
Your problem is you don't read, you just skim. Read carefully and if you don't understand something, ask before moving on.
Do exactly what I said in my earlier post. If you don't follow my instructions, how can I help you?
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

soorockdude said:
Ok so I managed to figure out how to flash zip "NookHDplus - factory - 2.1.1 - plain - stock.zip" through twrp, it said "successful"
So i tried to reboot, same result. But then removed sd card and tried to reboot. Now it just keeps resetting on the nook black screen, but DOESNT get to the bootloader screen so that is different. Nice to have a change anyhow.
So now that I can flash zip's, how might i find the nook recovery tool you mentioned ? seems to be the only step i haven't gotten through.
: )
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OK so first off! THANK YOU SO MUCH! back to factory settings and it seems to be working. truly couldnt have done it without you.
now so I dont **** it up again, would this be the proper order to flash these files in using the current boot card and cwm.
(FLASH IN THIS ORDER)
cyanogen mod (CAN YOU SUGGEST A STABLE VERSION FOR NOOK HD+? I have heard 1.2 is buggy but I trust your opinion so if it is stable i will use that)
NookHD-HDplus-Universal-Root-rev3-(09.10.13).zip - [Click for QR Code] (9.86 MB, 401 views)
NookHD-HDplus-stock-enable-Unknown-Sources-rev0-(09.08.13).zip - [Click for QR Code] (727.9 KB, 415 views)
gapps-jb-20130812-signed
cm-10.1.3-RC2-ovation
Then when that is done just remove card and reboot no? Sorry to bug but haven't seen a clear layout that worked yet. : )

soorockdude said:
OK so first off! THANK YOU SO MUCH! back to factory settings and it seems to be working. truly couldnt have done it without you.
now so I dont **** it up again, would this be the proper order to flash these files in using the current boot card and cwm.
(FLASH IN THIS ORDER)
cyanogen mod (CAN YOU SUGGEST A STABLE VERSION FOR NOOK HD+? I have heard 1.2 is buggy but I trust your opinion so if it is stable i will use that)
NookHD-HDplus-Universal-Root-rev3-(09.10.13).zip - [Click for QR Code] (9.86 MB, 401 views)
NookHD-HDplus-stock-enable-Unknown-Sources-rev0-(09.08.13).zip - [Click for QR Code] (727.9 KB, 415 views)
gapps-jb-20130812-signed
cm-10.1.3-RC2-ovation
Then when that is done just remove card and reboot no? Sorry to bug but haven't seen a clear layout that worked yet. : )
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If you are going to use Cyanogenmod, you don't need to flash those 2 files.
NookHD-HDplus-Universal-Root-rev3-(09.10.13).zip - [Click for QR Code] (9.86 MB, 401 views)
NookHD-HDplus-stock-enable-Unknown-Sources-rev0-(09.08.13).zip - [Click for QR Code] (727.9 KB, 415 views)
I'm using cm10.2 and it's running perfectly.
Before flash another ROM (Cyanogenmod) you'll need to wipe your actual system. So in wipe menu, wipe everything (except SD card if you did a backup from your stock rom).
Then flash 1) cm10....-ovation.zip 2) gapps...zip.
Do you still have a recovery on your Nook? I mean, if you remove SD card, can you boot to recovery pressing power+n button?

My earlier post told you exactly what to do. Flash rc2 and gapps and wipe/factory reset. Nothing else.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc
soorockdude said:
OK so first off! THANK YOU SO MUCH! back to factory settings and it seems to be working. truly couldnt have done it without you.
now so I dont **** it up again, would this be the proper order to flash these files in using the current boot card and cwm.
(FLASH IN THIS ORDER)
cyanogen mod (CAN YOU SUGGEST A STABLE VERSION FOR NOOK HD+? I have heard 1.2 is buggy but I trust your opinion so if it is stable i will use that)
NookHD-HDplus-Universal-Root-rev3-(09.10.13).zip - [Click for QR Code] (9.86 MB, 401 views)
NookHD-HDplus-stock-enable-Unknown-Sources-rev0-(09.08.13).zip - [Click for QR Code] (727.9 KB, 415 views)
gapps-jb-20130812-signed
cm-10.1.3-RC2-ovation
Then when that is done just remove card and reboot no? Sorry to bug but haven't seen a clear layout that worked yet. :
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leapinlar said:
My earlier post told you exactly what to do. Flash rc2 and gapps and wipe/factory reset. Nothing else.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc
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thanks again,
so i want to make sure i got this right before proceeding. dont want to screw it up again.
so i tried to do the cmw recovery tool by holding nook and power button but it just rebooted. then tried pressing both but letting go of power button. no result. So I guess I should flash this file first to reinstall the recovery on the nook no?
cm-10.1.3-RC2-ovation
Then when that is done flash this 10.2 mod -
cm-10.2-20130913-NIGHTLY-ovation
then gaps:
gapps-jb-20130812-signed
and wipe factory reset after.
So for these 2 files you don't have to do anything? HOw do they work if you don't mind me asking?
NookHD-HDplus-Universal-Root-rev3-(09.10.13)
and NookHD-HDplus-stock-enable-Unknown-Sources-rev0-(09.08.13)
thanks again for your patience. : )

soorockdude said:
thanks again,
so i want to make sure i got this right before proceeding. dont want to screw it up again.
so i tried to do the cmw recovery tool by holding nook and power button but it just rebooted. then tried pressing both but letting go of power button. no result. So I guess I should flash this file first to reinstall the recovery on the nook no?
cm-10.1.3-RC2-ovation
Then when that is done flash this 10.2 mod -
cm-10.2-20130913-NIGHTLY-ovation
then gaps:
gapps-jb-20130812-signed
and wipe factory reset after.
So for these 2 files you don't have to do anything? HOw do they work if you don't mind me asking?
NookHD-HDplus-Universal-Root-rev3-(09.10.13)
and NookHD-HDplus-stock-enable-Unknown-Sources-rev0-(09.08.13)
thanks again for your patience. : )
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What is so hard about my instructions? Flash rc2 and gapps and wipe/factory reset. Nothing else.
That RC2 is not a recovery. It is a CM10.1 ROM, which is what I recommend you run instead of CM10.2.
Do not flash CM10.2 nightly zip. RC2 is what you want.
The gapps is right.
And yes, wipe/factory reset after flashing those two. Then remove the SD and reboot.
Do not flash the NookHD-HDplus zips. They are for stock. CM does not need them. CM is already rooted and the other is a setting in CM already.
Since you have recovery on SD, you do not need it on internal memory. You will just get yourself into trouble with it. So don't do the power/n key thing. It won't work.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

[Q] Stuck on Cyanoboot loading screen..

I have a Nook Color that I've used for some time with CyanogenMod 10.2 with no problems. Last night I was looking at the fixes for Netflix since CM currently has a problem with it, and followed the instructions on XDS for the xposed installer (loading Liquid64's NetflixHackPersist.zip). Things appeared to go fine, and it booted into CM again and I ran the app as instructed. Everything seemed fine up to that point.
But on rebooting, the Nook will not go past the Cyanboot screen. Whether I let it boot by itself, or go to the boot menu and select any of the emmc or SD card options, it just sits there saying it's 'loading xxx' whatever option I've selected and never gets past it. I cannot find a way to force it to boot to the SD card to try anything that way.
I've tried 2 SD cards, reformatted and reburned an 8gb clockwork 3.0.2.8 image to make them bootable...so I don't think it's a card problem.
I'd appreciate some help if anyone knows a way around this. I've had experience with rooting and loading from the SD card, but if it always gets to Cyanoboot and I can't get it to even boot the SD card, I'm stuck. (The 8-reboots trick doesn't seem to work..I've likely reworked too much to still do that.)
Thanks,
JT

jttraverse said:
I have a Nook Color that I've used for some time with CyanogenMod 10.2 with no problems. Last night I was looking at the fixes for Netflix since CM currently has a problem with it, and followed the instructions on XDS for the xposed installer (loading Liquid64's NetflixHackPersist.zip). Things appeared to go fine, and it booted into CM again and I ran the app as instructed. Everything seemed fine up to that point.
But on rebooting, the Nook will not go past the Cyanboot screen. Whether I let it boot by itself, or go to the boot menu and select any of the emmc or SD card options, it just sits there saying it's 'loading xxx' whatever option I've selected and never gets past it. I cannot find a way to force it to boot to the SD card to try anything that way.
I've tried 2 SD cards, reformatted and reburned an 8gb clockwork 3.0.2.8 image to make them bootable...so I don't think it's a card problem.
I'd appreciate some help if anyone knows a way around this. I've had experience with rooting and loading from the SD card, but if it always gets to Cyanoboot and I can't get it to even boot the SD card, I'm stuck. (The 8-reboots trick doesn't seem to work..I've likely reworked too much to still do that.)
Thanks,
JT
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Try using CWM 6.0.4.7.

hwong96 said:
Try using CWM 6.0.4.7.
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Hallelujah! I followed your link and (though what I saw suggested trying CWM 5.5.04 for CM 10.2) it WORKED!! It booted to the SD card from Cyanboot, and I had a CM 10.2.1 zip that I was able to install and I'm back in business.
Out of curiosity, is Cyanoboot something unremovable, meaning I can never simply boot straight to an SD card as in the past? It did let me get to the recovery on this SD card, so I guess Cyanoboot was actually working and my problem was something else...but if I simply did a factory reset and wiped everything, would that have removed Cyanoboot as well?
If anyone has suggestions, I'm trying to decide if I'll keep this thing or sell it, so I'm curious what the most fully functional ROM (CM or ?) is considered to be these days, if I didn't put it back to stock?
I've loved this Nook, and only got into the earlier predicament because I thought, if I sold it, a buyer might want to use Netflix...so I was hoping to have it working with a ROM that would please the average Joe user who might hit up Youtube, Netflix, etc.
Thanks for the help!
JT

jttraverse said:
Hallelujah! I followed your link and (though what I saw suggested trying CWM 5.5.04 for CM 10.2) it WORKED!! It booted to the SD card from Cyanboot, and I had a CM 10.2.1 zip that I was able to install and I'm back in business.
Out of curiosity, is Cyanoboot something unremovable, meaning I can never simply boot straight to an SD card as in the past? It did let me get to the recovery on this SD card, so I guess Cyanoboot was actually working and my problem was something else...but if I simply did a factory reset and wiped everything, would that have removed Cyanoboot as well?
If anyone has suggestions, I'm trying to decide if I'll keep this thing or sell it, so I'm curious what the most fully functional ROM (CM or ?) is considered to be these days, if I didn't put it back to stock?
I've loved this Nook, and only got into the earlier predicament because I thought, if I sold it, a buyer might want to use Netflix...so I was hoping to have it working with a ROM that would please the average Joe user who might hit up Youtube, Netflix, etc.
Thanks for the help!
JT
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If you installed CWM 6.0.4.7 to emmc and want to return to stock go to Leapinlar's tips item A12 on how to return to stock recovery. Or item A15 to flash BN stock recovery using CWM.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25354258#post25354258