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Hi everyone! Please help me! I've spent most of the last 18 hours on this, rested, and have come back hoping to start today off positively.
I have a new "blue dot" nook with the new partitioning scheme. Not realizing that, I tried to install CM7 internally using a youtube video from huskermania (sorry, XDAforums will not let me link). All went fine, I assume, except for an error in Clockwork that read: Error: can't format /data" error. I believe, after researching, this is a result of the change in partitioning.
Frustrated that I had bricked my nook, and not really wanting to run an internal anyways so I can revert back to regular ROM if I want, I tried to unroot using directions from huskermania again. I really thought it had worked, but it is now stuck on the rainbow Nook Color screen, which will disappear and come back repeatedly.
Please help. My goal is to reinstall the original ROM, then try to install another using SD, but that's not my main priority right now.
HURRAY!!!!
Ok, success!!!! I cannot believe something finally worked. The 8 step reboot did not work, but using power, home, and +volume did.
I am saving the SD card I used to reboot this. Any thoughts on the best way to root a new "blue dot" nook using external so I don ever have this issue again? I know I need to change the partitioning, but I'm still not sure how, even after reading what Maurice Mongeon has to say in his post "how to repartition a blue dot nook color." Thoughts?
How exactly did you finally get it to work? I've done the exact same thing and I'm not sure what to do next. I have a refurbed NC that came with 1.2 installed and I rooted it with manualnooter and immediately flashed CM7.02 stable from CWM 3.0.2.8. It had all kinds of force close issues so I tried to restore to stock but keep getting stuck on the boot animation. I re-flashed CM7 and it still works but I still have all kinds of force close issues. When I try to format data in CWM it says can't format /data! I'm kind of at a loss right now...
UPDATE: Got it working. I had been using the wrong cwm...
Hey Guy's could somebody give me some advice here as i'm well and truly stuck with adding ROM's to my wildfire. . .
Right i'll try break this down as easy as i can, i bought my wildfire 3 days ago, and its running 2.2.1, i watched one of the latest video tutorials on how to root using Unrevoked (which i now know doesnt work), I installed HTC Sync to get the drivers, then uninstalled it. I then Added the modded Android USB Drivers. Run Alpharex to change my Hboot, and set to S-Off, Then tried running the latest version of Unrevoked, i got the dreaded "Is your firmware to new" message. . . I've always got debugging mode running and allow 3rd party apps!
I then mentioned this to somebody who told me of a different way around rooting my device so . . .
I then downloaded Gingerbreak.apk, then i got Astro off the Market and run Gingerbreak, my phone restarted and WAYHEY I've now got superuser access!
I got ROM Manager off the Market, then i downloaded Clockwork recovery mod 2.5.0.7, CM 7.03, Gapps 20110115, formatted my SD to fat32, put the zips directy onto the root of the SD card. . .
I made a flash recovery, go to install ROM from SD, phone restarts then i get the "Red Exclamation mark triangle"??? i've tried two different SIGNED versions of CM with no luck with either. I've tried running the Anonimo ROM and yet again i get the same red exclamation mark. . .
I've manually tried running recovery from hboot and yet again i get the same problem. . . .
I'm not doing nothing wrong here am i? As ive watched/read/researched dozens of how to's and followed every step exactly as it says!
I will be watching this post constantly as i'm itching to get rid of this nasty FROYO.
Thank you for your time.
I just had to reboot into recovery from hboot menù and selected the zip I put there before (SD root)... If you're trying to istall cm then you don't need to use Rom manager, u can use the usual recovery.
I just tried to istall the latest CM Nightly Builds and 7.1.0 release candidate, I dind't have problems!
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Oh dude, it seems you don't have recovery istalled, just follow this tips :
Put the file attached into root of your sd card, then power down your phone, and boot into hboot menu.
let the phone check for a "PC49IMG.zip" file and then press volume up.
after that remove the "PC49IMG.zip" from your sd card and put the rom you want to istall always into root of your sd card, then just istall the rom from there!
Install Clockworkmod Recovery on your NAND Memory. There are 2 ways to achieve this:
1) Using Fastboot: (My preferred method)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14693680
2) PC49IMG
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1130044
If you face issues using the Fastboot technique (I haven't tried the other one), let me know, I'll help you sort it out.
WOW!!!!! It's actually doing it!!! You've both got a thanks vote off me but one thing now (sorry) . . . . ive rebooted my phone and its shown up the blue cyogen mod 7 screen with the blue circle, and it spins round a few times then shows the droid on the skateboard again and starts spinning again, its been doing this for way over 10 minutes now, is there something missing? do i have to boot Gapps from recovery off my sd card before i restart?
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WOW!!!!! It's actually doing it!!! You've both got a thanks vote off me but one thing now (sorry) . . . . ive rebooted my phone and its shown up the blue cyogen mod 7 screen with the blue circle, and it spins round a few times then shows the droid on the skateboard again and starts spinning again, its been doing this for way over 10 minutes now, is there something missing? do i have to boot Gapps from recovery off my sd card before i restart?
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No, Its not necessary to flash GApps beforehand. What you are getting is a bootloop.
Reflash Cyanogenmod, but, before doing that, make sure you do a wipe. (Factory Reset / Data Wipe Option in Clockworkmod). Also make sure you wipe cache, dalvik cache (Under advanced), and format /system partition (Also under advanced)
After clearing all this, then reflash the CM Zip file and try again.
Thank you kind sir i did these exact steps just after i wrote my last post and i'm now VERY HAPPILY running 2.3.4
Only problem i've come across so far is the vibrate option for calls/texts in any status (silent etc) doesnt work whats a bit of a shame, but with the improvement in my handset i won't complain!
I could get used to this android business
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Thank you kind sir i did these exact steps just after i wrote my last post and i'm now VERY HAPPILY running 2.3.4
Only problem i've come across so far is the vibrate option for calls/texts in any status (silent etc) doesnt work whats a bit of a shame, but with the improvement in my handset i won't complain!
I could get used to this android business
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Glad your sorted!
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ok so after 3 days of trying, i keep getting stuck on a boot-loop I am asking for some help.
before I begin, I have successfully rooted and installed cm7 on 2 nooks that came factory 1.2,I have searched google and these forums but can't find anything with my specific needs.
I have followed the directions on this thread to a tee:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054027
i am using a bootable cwm card (2GB) (cwm version 3.0.2.8)
after installing ManualNooter-4-5-18.zip then ManualNooter-4-6-16.zip I remove the sd card and reboot and I get a boot-loop with the "n color" screen animation. It has not booted successfully yet.
I have already used the 8 failed boots method to restore to factory and re-registered the nook.
Then I redid everything again and im back at the boot-loop.
any ideas
i do not have an answer but this answers my question of whether I want to run manual nooter on my 1.3 or try cm7. the cm7 steps seems more intimidating
Well i tried several more times last night with no luck. Then i got brave and just wiped everything (data,system,cache,dalvick) then flashed cm7 and gapps straight from my cwm boot card. I somehow
Ended up with a fully functional nook. App market works. Rebooted several times to be sure. I even tried usb host with my homemade adapter. Mouse, keyboard, and sandisk cruzer all work splendidly thru a powered hub.
My only mistake was i cant find my backup of stock 1.3 rom. Is there one floating around?
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If I'm understanding correctly, you're trying to go from CM to 1.3, correct?
From what you've described, I suspect Clockworkmod 3.0.2.8 is your problem. If you look carefully as you format /data in preparation for reloading the BN 1.3 firmware, I think you'll see that the format is actually failing. That version of CWM doesn't handle the partitions correctly.
You want 3.2.0.1. See the edits at the top of this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=987735
If you're already on CM7.1, you probably have the correct version of CWM installed. You can save yourself a step by formatting the /data and /system partitions using that, then continuing on with the rest of the procedure for restoring BN 1.3. I went through all this myself a few days ago while preparing to go to BN 1.4.1.
I forgot to mention in my last post that i realized i was using the wrong cwm image and i burned another card with cwm 3.2.01.
I was still getting a boot-loop so i wiped everything and went straight to cm7.
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@bobstro
I didn't read your post correctly.
I had a stock nook that i want to install cm7 on. Not the other way around. I asked about a stock 1.3 file just in case i need to do a restore. The nook is done. Its running cm7 just fine and i have given it back to my friend.
I really need to get myself one :-(
I usually mess around with my sons but he's at his mothers for the weekend with it. After christmas im getting one. Dont know if it'll be a color or a nook tablet but im getting one for sure!
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If you intended to install CM7 from beginning, then why you wasted time messing around with ManualNooter?
Im still rather new to working on nooks. I thought that it was required to use manual nooter first. Im still not sure.
Can someone clarify for mr. If i just bought a nook and i want cm7 on it, whats the best procedure?
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pdrift said:
ok so after 3 days of trying, i keep getting stuck on a boot-loop I am asking for some help.
before I begin, I have successfully rooted and installed cm7 on 2 nooks that came factory 1.2,I have searched google and these forums but can't find anything with my specific needs.
I have followed the directions on this thread to a tee:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054027
i am using a bootable cwm card (2GB) (cwm version 3.0.2.8)
after installing ManualNooter-4-5-18.zip then ManualNooter-4-6-16.zip I remove the sd card and reboot and I get a boot-loop with the "n color" screen animation. It has not booted successfully yet.
I have already used the 8 failed boots method to restore to factory and re-registered the nook.
Then I redid everything again and im back at the boot-loop.
any ideas
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The only boot loop issue I'm aware of is related to Adobe AIR and Flash. The fix is to uninstall them and then reinstall from Market.
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pdrift said:
Im still rather new to working on nooks. I thought that it was required to use manual nooter first. Im still not sure.
Can someone clarify for mr. If i just bought a nook and i want cm7 on it, whats the best procedure?
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I hope you do use Windows at some points.
Let's put it this way.
You bought a PC with Windows XP pre-installed, get home, you don't want XP, so you install Windows 7 on the PC. You just whack the XP.
Same theory applied here, B&N shipped their NC out with the original stock ROM, which is Froyo-based OS. You want to install CM7, which is Gingerbread-OS ROM. You just whack the stock and install CM7.
oh I get it know. so its pretty easy if you want to go straight to cm7 just wipe and flash.
After reading some posts from the nook tablet section, i guess i'm getting a nook color.
what a shame about the locked bootloader :-(
i didnt technically solve the boot loop issue, i just erased everything, but should I mark this as solved and if so how?
The current Nook Color bootloader is not locked. The Nook Tablet's is. I wouldn't necessarily rule anything out, though. The bootloader on the Motorola Droid 2 is also locked, and there's quite an active Cyanogenmod community around it. The only problem is that we're stuck with whatever kernels B&N release, so ICS may be a long way off. I suspect the NC will remain the tuner's machine of choice, but the performance on the NT is very nice. If you can live with a rooted B&N ROM, it's a nice device for now.
billingdl said:
The only boot loop issue I'm aware of is related to Adobe AIR and Flash. The fix is to uninstall them and then reinstall from Market.
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No, it seems that some 1.3 based NC units will bootloop if 4.6.16 is used to root them. I'm not sure why. Even after repartitioning to original nook partition sizes, or using CWM 3.2.01 (which supports the new partitioning), it'll still bootloop if 4.6.16 is used. Might be because of the different kernal included, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to know for sure. They root fine with 4.5.18. Haven't tried one with the new 1.4.1 compatible nooters.
To the original poster;
I'm having the same problem here, installed 4.15 successfully, installed 4.16 and am getting stuck in boot loop at the rainbow nook color screen.
I'm not understanding the 8 boot fail procedure though. Is this when you let the boot loop run through 8 times or when you get to the point of when the boot loop starts, shut the NC off and power it back on?
Also, to install cm7, all you did was put it on your sd card, and installed it through cwm?
The 8 boot method if i recall correctly is when you boot the nook and wait until the splash screen shows up immediately hold the power button and shut it down. Repeat 7 more times. If you did it correctly it should take over and do a restore on its own.
If you want to go straight to CM7 I dont think you need to go thru with this procedure because if you create a bootable cm7 card and insert it in your nook while its off then power up, it should boot you into cwm recovery. Once in the recovery you can flash cm7.
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pdrift said:
The 8 boot method if i recall correctly is when you boot the nook and wait until the splash screen shows up immediately hold the power button and shut it down. Repeat 7 more times. If you did it correctly it should take over and do a restore on its own.
If you want to go straight to CM7 I dont think you need to go thru with this procedure because if you create a bootable cm7 card and insert it in your nook while its off then power up, it should boot you into cwm recovery. Once in the recovery you can flash cm7.
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Thank you good sir! I was stuck in boot loop forever and couldn't find a clean explanation of the 8 boot fail process. I always tried to turn it off when the rainbow nook color screen came up.
I got it reset, made a flashable CWM SD card with 3.2 and then flashed CM7 on there and it works great!!
That was very frustrating, thank you!
Dont mention it, Glad to here I was able to help you out. I felt the same way when I was in that situation. Lots of googling to get a clearer idea on what that 8 boot method entailed. CM7 really makes it feel like a totally different device.
To all the devs that work on these projects, thank you
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ive recently purchased a nook color version 1.3 and did all the steps to build cm7 on sd ard inserted it into my nook it downloaded then rebot and seem to come up im cm7 but my touch screen isnt working any suggestions?
I installed CM9 Eyeballer the other day on my NC. It pretty much works, but if I go into the web browser or any other factory-installed app, hitting the "N" button takes me back to the factory-installed home screen, and I can't find any way to get back to the Android home screen, short of rebooting the device. Is this normal?
Also, I flashed Gapps using gapps-20120429-ics-signed.zip, and the only Google App that appears is Play Store -- I was able to sign in, but the next screen gave me a "Server Error," and that's all it's done since. I verified the md5sum, and also tried again to install it. No change. Is there some version conflict, or something like that?
Edit: did not install CM9, after all. I now have.
What is the 'factory installed home screen'? You mean stock? That is not possible if you installed CM9 over the top of stock on emmc. Can you explain a little more how you installed it and what you mean.
Well...
I followed the directions as closely as I could: create a recovery chip, copy over the zip file (manualnooter-5.08.20-apps2sd.zip), reboot, install from zip file, install Manual Nooter, flash update-Froyo1.2-dalingrin-OC-emmc-090111.zip, install Gapps, reboot again. As far as I could tell, my results were consistent with the directions, up until the symptoms I described. For example, the splash (smash) screen is right, and the rainbow-y thing, and so on.
This partial success is even more frustrating than a total failure.
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I followed the directions as closely as I could: create a recovery chip, copy over the zip file (manualnooter-5.08.20-apps2sd.zip), reboot, install from zip file, install Manual Nooter, flash update-Froyo1.2-dalingrin-OC-emmc-090111.zip, install Gapps, reboot again. As far as I could tell, my results were consistent with the directions, up until the symptoms I described. For example, the splash (smash) screen is right, and the rainbow-y thing, and so on.
This partial success is even more frustrating than a total failure.
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Your original post said you installed CM9. You did not. You just rooted your stock rom. You might want to edit the title of the post to 'Manual Nooter installed properly, Gapps not working. Then take that CM9 Eyeballer statement out of the text in the first post and you might get some proper responses from folks.
Sure enough.
leapinlar said:
Your original post said you installed CM9. You did not. You just rooted your stock rom.
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Ah... I was under the impression that Eyeballer was a version name of CM9. None of the sets of instructions I read made it clear to me that wasn't the case.
I ended up doing a factory reset, then reinstalling everything. The picture is far rosier now -- it finally looks the way I pictured!
Thanks!
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Ah... I was under the impression that Eyeballer was a version name of CM9.
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Eyeballer does build a version of CM9. But that has nothing to do with what you did. You ran Manual Nooter, which is a tool to root your stock installation. CM9 is a completely different version of Android than stock is. And when you install CM9, your stock is completely removed and replaced by CM9.
You do not have CM9 installed, you have just rooted your stock rom.
Anyway, I'm glad you got it working.
Edit: I see you modified your original post to say you did later install CM9.
[ROM][NC] Unofficial CM9 Nightly builds - with/without OpenGL
I don't have enough posts in XDA to post in the (goo dot gl/vPJcM) actual ROM thread so I'm hoping someone will see it here.
After installing the CM7 ROM a long time ago. they Nook wasn't able to boot into CWM. I can only access the recovery using a bootable SD card. That may or may not matter.
Yesterday I installed both the 3 SEP OpenGL and 4 SEP versions of Eyeballers CM9 ROM along with GAPPS. In both versions I cannot get bast the Setup Wizard since it "unfortunately Closed" every time I "touch the Android".
I did install the ROM w/o GAPPS as a temporary fix but will need to eventually access the Play Store.
I did notice that CWM still wont boot into recovery and the Cyanoboot won't either. Cyanoboot takes me to what appears to be a stock Nook screen claiming that an install has failed and that I should power on/off or contact customer service.
Does anybody have any suggestions?
Thanks!
JC
jerrycrabb said:
I did notice that CWM still wont boot into recovery and the Cyanoboot won't either. Cyanoboot takes me to what appears to be a stock Nook screen claiming that an install has failed and that I should power on/off or contact customer service.
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You do not have CWM installed on internal memory (emmc). That message you are getting means you still have the stock recovery there. You need to flash a CWM to emmc using your bootable CWM card. Look in my tips thread linked in my signature. Look at item A8 and the subheading 'to fix a corrupted or missing recovery on emmc'.
I don't know how to solve your other problem with gapps, other than to do a factory reset with CWM.
From what I can tell, Eyeballer is mostly drinking.
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You do not have CWM installed on internal memory (emmc). That message you are getting means you still have the stock recovery there. You need to flash a CWM to emmc using your bootable CWM card. Look in my tips thread linked in my signature. Look at item A8 and the subheading 'to fix a corrupted or missing recovery on emmc'.
I don't know how to solve your other problem with gapps, other than to do a factory reset with CWM.
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Thank you very much for the response, I will try this as soon as I get some time (I have a selfish new baby) and get back.
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You do not have CWM installed on internal memory (emmc). That message you are getting means you still have the stock recovery there. You need to flash a CWM to emmc using your bootable CWM card. Look in my tips thread linked in my signature. Look at item A8 and the subheading 'to fix a corrupted or missing recovery on emmc'.
I don't know how to solve your other problem with gapps, other than to do a factory reset with CWM.
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Success! errr..sort of.
Prior to flashing gapps I was able to reboot into CWM. Thank you so much for your help!
Still having the same issue with setup manager after factory reset and wipe of all cache.
If anyone has a work around or another suggestions for CM9 on the NC I'd much appreciate it.
Thanks again.
I've spent hours at this now, and Im kind of wondering if my Nook Color is damaged in a way that it allows CWM to think it's written an image to the EMMC but it is actually failing to write anything.
I still have cyanoboot on the device, it still goes into Cyanogenmod boot screen and sits there indefinitely OR it reboots a couple times and gets stuck loading infinitely.
This is AFTER I have tried imaging it back to stock, CM 11, formatting it's partitions with the images on this site and various other things.
So either there is something common in all these tasks Im just blindly missing each time I try this and read/watch another tutorial that doesn't work out for me.....or something is wrong with my the Nook Color.
Can't even do the 8 failed reboots thing Im ASSUMING because the cyanoboot thing is there catching all the failed attempts.
Hadn't used the Nook Color in awhile because my wireless router died and it was kinda pointless to try to use it...now got a nice new router and the damn Nook is making me want to strangle it. So it was in some state other than stock, and I really don't remember if I was trying something new or if it worked fine when the router died at this point. I am just trying to get it to some point where it boots into some kinda of OS so I got some kind of baseline to start from at this point.
So ideas? I can get more specific if need be on what exactly I tried if it seems relevant, but I pretty much pulled the images and guides off the various posts referenced all over the net back to this forum. Hoping I missed something, going to be rather upset if this device is essentially dead since I haven't used it a whole lot since purchase..
First off, make sure you really have a Nook Color and not a Nook Tablet. The Color has a black bezel and the Tablet is silver. If it is a Tablet, the files on this forum will not work.
If you really have a Color, you need to explain more the steps you have taken to try to revive it before we can help.
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It's a Nook Color, I've actually rooted and put it back to stock over a year ago. But even the methods I used then will not remove the Cyanoboot or whatever version of CM it's trying to boot into that never goes anywhere.
I've tried
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1759558
To see if it's a partition problem AFTER I tried to rewrite the boot/etc to stock and CM 11 with no luck.
Even went to Youtube to make sure I Was getting the proper screens and responses from the device.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUEoFPApfeQ To try to restore it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj_DGZaKwBw To try to put a different version of CWM on it.
Used this link for GApps http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Gapps, I tried the "small" version along side CM 11
Tried using http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22809801&postcount=148 to try to restore it to a Nook Color rom.
Tried following http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2653483 Which is a collection of help postings on the Nook Color....havent had any luck with anything on there.
http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=encore&type=snapshot is where I got my images for the Nook Color Cyanogenmod. I used M12, with no results.
And while Im posting all the stuff I used.... I had http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=50438799&postcount=4 opened if I ever got it to boot into CM to use for further issues....maybe it'll help someone else.
And I can't tell you what order I did them all in at this point because I tried and retried different things. And I still have cyanobootloader coming up, if I select EMMC recovery it goes to what looks like a barnes and noble original screen to me and says "Install failed". If I let it do the standard EMMC bootup it just loads forever.
I HAVE NOT tried to load a bootable SD with the OS, etc on it because I was trying to get the device to work properly on the EMMC first. But if that is something that needs to be done to fix it, I can do that if you point me in the right direction. I'll even try to use ADB on it if I can get some kind of guide to it...most of the ones I found were no longer valid /missing links and other things with just a few random command lines but no images or anything to use and I didn't want to risk screwing the device up even more.
Thanks.
The reason you see "install failed" when trying to go to internal recovery is because you still have stock recovery installed on internal memory.
And after you did the partition repair and you want to install CM11, you must upgrade your recovery to v6045 or newer before flashing the CM11 zip.
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leapinlar said:
The reason you see "install failed" when trying to go to internal recovery is because you still have stock recovery installed on internal memory.
And after you did the partition repair and you want to install CM11, you must upgrade your recovery to v6045 or newer before flashing the CM11 zip.
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Is this referring to the CWM version on the SD card, EMMC or both? I used some of the premade images for booting and they were all older versions of CWM.
I believe I attempted to use "cwm-6.0.5.0-encore-emmc+sd.zip" when I attempted to install CM11. If it wasn't that one it was "cwm-6.0.4.7-encore-signed.zip". It was CM11 Snapshot M12 with gapps-kk-20140105 since it's smaller than 20140606. It did the blue text scrolling install of both, autodetecting gapps and installing it. Then removed both from the SD card when I did it. I didn't catch any errors.
I have not been able to get the Nook Color to enter the CWM version on the EMMC to verify it's version number....but this may be because Cyanoboot is catching it or Im doing something wrong.
If I were going to describe this problem on a PC, I'd say it was pointed at a corrupted boot device and ignoring the one you're trying to use in it's place.
Xaxl said:
Is this referring to the CWM version on the SD card, EMMC or both? I used some of the premade images for booting and they were all older versions of CWM.
I believe I attempted to use "cwm-6.0.5.0-encore-emmc+sd.zip" when I attempted to install CM11. If it wasn't that one it was "cwm-6.0.4.7-encore-signed.zip". It was CM11 Snapshot M12 with gapps-kk-20140105 since it's smaller than 20140606. It did the blue text scrolling install of both, autodetecting gapps and installing it. Then removed both from the SD card when I did it. I didn't catch any errors.
I have not been able to get the Nook Color to enter the CWM version on the EMMC to verify it's version number....but this may be because Cyanoboot is catching it or Im doing something wrong.
If I were going to describe this problem on a PC, I'd say it was pointed at a corrupted boot device and ignoring the one you're trying to use in it's place.
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Blue text scrolling means you are trying to install to SD, not emmc.
What are you trying to install, emmc or SD? If trying for SD, you are using files made for emmc.
If you want to go back to stock, go to my NC tips thread linked in my signature and use an older version of CWM to flash the stock zip from item A15 there.
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Really Im just trying to get what's on it, replaced with something that is functional so I can tell when Im doing something right or wrong.
I will attempt to do this again and try to document it a little better. I would like the EMMC to be functional at the very least no matter what version it ends up being... I will attempt stock again from your guide which I thought I did right the other night but Ill try it again.
OK.
Using:
NookColor-emmc-format-partitions-5-6-7-8.zip
TWRP-2.1.8-bootable-SD-encore.zip
nookcolor_1_4_3.signed.zip
I imaged the TWRP img onto an SD, copied both zips onto it.
Put it in the Nook Color, powered on and I saw the cyanoboot, then it loaded into TWRP.
From the install menu I installed the format partitions zip. It ran without errors. I wiped the cache/dalvik.
Then went back into the install menu and ran the nookcolor_1_4_3signed.zip. I see this:
-- Install /sdcard/nookcolor_1_4_3_signed.zip ...
Finding update package. . .
Opening update package. . .
Installing update . . .
E: Error in /tmp/sideload/package.zip
(Status 0)
*Verifying filesystems ...
* Verifying partition sizes...
Error flashing zip '/sdcard/nookcolor_1_4_3_signed.zip'
I will try it with another microSD card just incase it's defective.......and then see if trying another signed nookcolor might work from the guide.
Tried a different micro sd and used signed version 1.4.1 stock.
Did same steps. It errors, but as soon as it errors, it's like the TWRP resets real fast and gets the blue boot screen, flickers a couple times then rolls back and away to show the buttons again...takes 30 seconds or so.
Xaxl said:
Tried a different micro sd and used signed version 1.4.1 stock.
Did same steps. It errors, but as soon as it errors, it's like the TWRP resets real fast and gets the blue boot screen, flickers a couple times then rolls back and away to show the buttons again...takes 30 seconds or so.
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Try it using the CWM instead of TWRP.
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leapinlar said:
Try it using the CWM instead of TWRP.
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Ok... I'm using CWM 6.0.1.2 from your guide. Format partitions zip and 1.4.3 stock signed that I used prior.
I just got done flashing the format and then stock to the nook color and no errors are reported untill...
I just finished writing Nookcolor_1_4_3_signed.zip...
Finding update packing
opening update package
installing update
boot files...
Install from sdcard complete.
And here's the first errors:
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
I don't know if they mean anything, but something similar popped up in other attempts. I am rebooting device now to see what happens.
Going to EMMC 01 in top left of Cyanoboot screen....blank screen...waiting.
Cyanomod rotating load screen comes up. And if it holds true, it'll do this until the battery dies.
I don't think the stuff is being written to the EMMC. Which...maybe it's damaged or maybe there's some kind of lock out in place preventing it that needs turned off?
If I can get it running off an SD I'll be happy at this point...perhaps it'll be easier to tell if the EMMC is screwed up then.. If you are out of ideas or think it's damaged. Only reasons I can think of since it's been sitting for a couple months is was kind of near a speaker and I know magnets can damage HDs but really strong magnets can fry phones and stuff....so might have gotten the EMMC in some weird way.
Or some sort of power surge got it when I had it plugged in before I stopped using it.
Did you try my partition repair zips from my partition repair thread linked in my signature?
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Did you try my partition repair zips from my partition repair thread linked in my signature?
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Yes I tried 1-4-5-6-7-8 and the separate 2 one. But if you want me to try again I can.....any specific version of CWM you want me to use?
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Yes I tried 1-4-5-6-7-8 and the separate 2 one. But if you want me to try again I can.....any specific version of CWM you want me to use?
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I've always liked the v5504. If the repairs do not work, something is wrong with the NC.
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I've always liked the v5504. If the repairs do not work, something is wrong with the NC.
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I figured.......I'll try it a little later and see if any luck with the repair partition zips..but I doubt it.
Meanwhile, I should probably get you to point me to some SD images to see if I can get it to boot up into CM something and work successfully off the SD card.
I'm hoping I can find a way to fix the EMMC once Im able to successfully boot the device....or even with ADB. I dunno. Pisses me off since I never used the Nook excessively and took pains to keep it safe.
Oh and I saw people asking for specific partition repair files (like unique to their device), does that sound like a possibility here?
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I figured.......I'll try it a little later and see if any luck with the repair partition zips..but I doubt it.
Meanwhile, I should probably get you to point me to some SD images to see if I can get it to boot up into CM something and work successfully off the SD card.
I'm hoping I can find a way to fix the EMMC once Im able to successfully boot the device....or even with ADB. I dunno. Pisses me off since I never used the Nook excessively and took pains to keep it safe.
Oh and I saw people asking for specific partition repair files (like unique to their device), does that sound like a possibility here?
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Go to my NC SD installation instruction thread linked in my signature to install CM to SD. I recommend CM10.1.3 from the CM site.
You can also put stock on SD. See my NC Tips thread, item B11 in the second post there.
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So using 5504 of CWM with your partition repairs did nothing...still has cyanoboot and infinite load screen.
Working on SD installation now base on your recommendations.
Is there something you can think of that could be done from the SD boot to diagnose the EMMC more? It doesn't seem like there's really anything coming up on google even remotely similar to my issue.
And I've done this once with a much larger SD card but it had kind of **** transfer speeds so it might be defective... So Im repeating it as I type this.
Generic-sdcard-v1.3......rev8c.zip is what I used to image the card.
Then I used CM-11-20141112-SNAPSHOT-M12-encore.zip
and gapps-kk-20140606-signed.zip
The device ran through all the blue text and turned itself off. Loaded up with Cyanoboot going to SD01 and then it would blank screen for awhile and reboot...and repeat itself.
Now this one just error with not enough space on google apps, but Im going to see if the thing will even attempt to boot up.
Then Ill try your recommended version of CM...I already had all these images and was just hoping to see some results after all this.
OK. Some kind of success....
I actually got it to boot up using your rev8c, CM 10.1.3 and gapps-jb-20130301
BUT it gives TONS of popup errors....I was able to get through the setups somewhat. But once it's at the desktop...
I see
Unfortunately, Email has stopped. ----- Press OK then I get
Unfortunately, Trebuchet has stopped. --- Press OK, back to email.
I can kind of get into the settings and stuff, but with the continuous errors popping up it's hard to do anything productive.
So I'm going to let it sit and see if you have any input on that. I find it weird that it loaded with this version...but not the other.
As soon as I got it connected to the wireless network, a couple errors popped up, screen flashed and it went back to the cyanogenmod loading screen WITHOUT rebooting.
I don't even know what information would be useful at this point, lol.