I setup my memory card through WinImage to install size agnostic 1.3. I put CM7 Nightly #177 on my Boot partition of memory card and then put memory card in Nook and it installed and shutdown when completed. I turn on my Nook and it begins with the Read Forever Logo and boots off emmc... It doesn't even try to boot of the Memory card.... I noticed this after I updated my stock Nook on the emmc to B&N 1.3??? Any Ideas why my nook wont boot up Cyanogenmod boot able card? Before B&N 1.3 I would see the Cyanogenmod Logo and I could hold the home key to boot up the boot menu and select either memory card or Stock... But I can't get it too from the memory card? Any Ideas?
Thanks In Advance,
Jer
Any Ideas or Suggestions... What if I copied the u-boot.bin from the boot of the sdcard to the emmc... maybe then I could get it to boot into the cyanogenmod boot and choose the sd to boot.... I don't understand it booted up on the sd card to install the nightly(for the first time that is) and then it just doesn't boot again... it just goes directly to the stock... I know the memory slot works because I used a different memory card and it installed the nightly.... I even tried a different nightly and it install just fine but it wont boot from the memory card again.???
Power the NC off, remove the uSD, insert it back in the NC again, power on.
Try a couple times.
If still having problem, do a fresh clean install again.
Tried what you said... it still shows "Read Forever" instantly after turning it on... no cyanogenmod logo... so it is obviously not even trying to load the SD card. When you say fresh clean install, on what do I do it on... A new memory card and install the latest nightly or Factory reset on stock nook?
votinh said:
Power the NC off, remove the uSD, insert it back in the NC again, power on.
Try a couple times.
If still having problem, do a fresh clean install again.
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Press and hold the N button, then press the power button. Hold them until the green Cyangenmod logo shows AND "booting into recovery" shows up. Then release both.
It will explode CM7 the display will dim (around a 1 minute).
Watch the backlight and when it goes off, reboot the same way. It will flash the green Cyangenmod and the display will go back off (normal.)
Reboot again the same way and then instant you see the green Cyanogenmod logo release both buttons and let it boot up. It will take about 30 seconds for the CMy guy to show up and about a minute total to get to the main screen.
The problem still remains... I don't get to see the Cyanogenmod Logo... It shows the Read Forever logo and boots into Nook stock??? Its like I don't have a memory card in there.... When In stock nook it show the memory card logo in the bottom left and I can click on it it displays the files on it ... u-boot.bin file and all the others.... I just don't understand why it wont boot when turned on.
I wonder if it has anything to do with that I had Clockwork Mod on my emmc and I used the Clockwork Mod remover to get it back to stock recovery??? Maybe this messed up the boot sequence??? It s weird though when I put Cynogenmod on the memorycard the first time... it boots up the card correctly and begins the Linux Penguin install... So obvious it boots from the memory card.... I don't know what to do.
Help!!!
Just curious, but did you try to read the card in the card reader?
If you wrote it in Windows, you might have to check via disk management that a boot partition was made.
winimage sucks. Many, including myself, have had the same issue. Use win32diskimager instead. That's what worked for me.
Thank you Thank you
Win32Diskimager was the key... and too easy to use.... Thank you so much.... It took so long to find out the answer... Thanks to all that tried to help!!!
After several agonizing hours of writing image, formatting, reading, and panicking, I have finally installed CM7 via verygreen's method.
Thanks for the tip about win32diskimager. this made all the difference!
amp3d said:
After several agonizing hours of writing image, formatting, reading, and panicking, I have finally installed CM7 via verygreen's method.
Thanks for the tip about win32diskimager. this made all the difference!
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Check your stock Nook. Did you end up with Clockwork Recovery on it?
how do i check?
as far as i know, there wasnt a CWM on verygreen's method, was there?
When I wrote the image using WinImage, the NC always booted up stock. nothing out of the ordinary.
When I wrote it with Win32, it immediately loaded the installer.
but now after turning the device off, taking out the sd, booting stock, and powering off to put the sd card in, cm7 can't seem to get a wifi connection... hope to find the answer soon
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I've heard about how it's pretty much impossible to brick the nook... Mine seems about as useful as a brick though. I was trying to set up a dual boot following these instructions. Basically, I had HC installed to the internal memory. backed it up, formatted system and data, then flashed update-nc-stock-1.2. CWM said that was successful. Then I rebooted with my CWM SD card out. Screen said "read forever" or whatever, then went blank. I waited for about 5 minutes, and pressed the power button. The screen went from an 'on' blank to an 'off' blank. Since then, I haven't been able to get it to turn on at all. Just an 'off' blank screen with no signs of life, even with charger cable connected. Tried it with CWM SD in and out. None of the buttons seem to do anything...
Thanks in advance!!
I'm pretty new to the Nook having just got it today, but I did some reading prior to attempting anything to see how easily I could back out if I had to.
Have you tried basically starting over (ie. Let go of the multi-boot dream for a bit and get back to basics)
You know, take a SD card, use diskimager to put the clockwork 3.0.2.8 image on it with the CM7 full ROM and boot to that, then format system, data and cache with clockwork and finally install the CM7 zip image (and gapps I guess) just to get going again.
If it all works, maybe take another run at whatever you are trying to do with the multi-boot stuff.
Thanks for the reply.
Sounds awesome; problem is I can't get the thing to do ANYTHING. boot period, into recovery or otherwise. I plug it in and it displays nothing - no 'wait 15 minutes and try again'. Just a black screen no matter what I do. I have an SD card with recovery on it, and i've tried making it do something with or without the SD card. No luck.
Good luck with your nook; I had really been enjoying mine.
So holding the power button for 10-15 seconds doesn't do anything?
Or when you plug in the power does it try to boot?
I mean in a complete worst case scenario you could grab yourself a T5 and open it up, disconnect the battery, and then reconnect it.
Then something is wrong with your Recovery SD card, as no matter what, hardware dictates that it reads the sd card first. The problem with what you did through dual boot methods is you resized partitions. So even if you do back out of all of this, you're going to be losing space unless you setup dual boot.
Recreate the CWM recovery card, either redownload the image and reburn it. Find a different one or something else, because it should load on startup.
Thanks for the help!
Reformatted SD again, then tried powering up with the power cord unplugged. Apparently it won't boot into recovery as long as the power cable is in, and whatever the boot was on EMMC was messed up. Happily running stock 1.2 now, next step, dual boot with HC!
Anyone know how I can delete this thread as it's pretty unnecessary?
The Device:
Nookcolor Refurb - came with stock 1.2 installed. Rooted with CM7 - initially had boot partition problems and went back and did the fix for it. (was using an old CWR, so had to redo that, too). Worked mostly fine for a few weeks. Had a little trouble installing the recent cm7 stable update. But after clearing and redo, no problems. Then I updated Adobe flash to 10.3 through the market. bad, bad, bad. (I've discovered). It has gone into a bootloop, but it doesn't even get in far enough to bring up CWR either internally or on a bootable SD card. It brings up "loading" - whether in CM7 or CWR - then shuts itself off. I have tried the 3 button salute and 8 interrupted boots, but neither works in any way. Is there something else I can do?
Also, a side note, the device will not charge to green light - even if charging overnight. At first I thought it was a battery issue, but after a day of combing the boards, I'm thinking bootloop from hell.
Help!!!!
Are you running CM 7 internally or from a card? If internally, try making a bootable CM 7 card and booting from that.
I am running it internally. The device will not boot from a card or internally. It doesn't get far enough into the boot before it loops for CWR to start up - either internally or off the sd card. I can get to the boot menu (hold down n when it starts up), but it doesn't boot off any of the options there, just goes to black screen.
What happens when you do the 8 failed boots?
Nothing really happens with 8 failed boots. I think it terminates the boot process before it gets far enough along for it to "count". Loading comes up, I count one thousand one....all the way to one thousand seven. Then it shuts off, often reboots itself. Same deal with CWR. Loading comes up, count to 7, shuts off. I can get to the boot menu in CM7, but I it doesn't respond when I request any type of boot from anywhere. Either hangs or restarts.
I'm trying ADB, but it won't stay connected. Flicks on right at the end of the loading process and then shuts down. It really sucks.
Shelly, shoot me a pm... i'll give ya my phone number and we'll work on getting it going.
Sorry if this is redundant, but in very basic troubleshooting have you tried charging your Nook? It probably is more complicated/serious than a low battery, but it wouldn't hurt to rule it out.
I finally did get it to charge to green light. Didn't make a difference. I can get it to hang sometimes when it's trying to get into CWR. And it will stay on the Boot Menu.
Just a side note, I have another NC that I've had since Jan. Autonootered, Manual Nootered, CM7ed, brought back from the dead many a times.
Dizzy Den - am shooting you a message shortly. Thanks.
Has this been solved? If yes how?
Could you find a solution to your problem?
I'm having the same issue now. Bought a Nook Color in November, Autonooted, flashed recovery from ROM Manager, flashed CM 7.1.0 internally from downloaded ZIP files via ROM Manager, was working just fine for a week, stable, fast, perfect. Overclocked to 1200 MHz after a few days which made the experience even nicer.
Then installed and started Google Maps which didn't work - the Nook turned off on launch of Google Maps app.
I had set Wifi to "stay on all the time" beforehand (which might have been bad because it creates Sleep of Death syndrome as i now know).
Now when i turn it on it shows "Loading" for 7 seconds and then the screen turns off. This is when booting CM, when booting the internal recovery (shows "loading recovery" for 7 seconds) and when booting from any SD card image (i've tried at least 10 different bootable SD card images, different cards and different card readers).
It recognizes and tries to boot off SD cards - i get different "Loading" screens depending on the image, honey-colored for a honeycomb image, with two skulls for a recovery, ... So that works.
The nook seems to be in some kind of "on" state because i need to hold the power button to turn it off before i can get it to boot again.
I can get to the boot menu as you could, but booting from there doesn't do anything at all. So the hardware seems to be OK because the boot menu itself works well and for more than 7 seconds.
I can charge it and it goes to a green light so it's no battery issue.
The nook does not show up on USB - well once it did for a second but that was it.
I even tried to let the battery run completely empty so internal registers can get reset - didn't change anything.
Help! Is it bricked now?
Going to a B&N store isn't an option btw - the next one is 6500 km from here.
(This is the first time i ever ask for help on a forum. I am running a ZTE Blade with CM7 just fine, and I've been stuck often enough but always found a solution myself...)
Gunnar
Have you guys tried this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1308304
Or completely restoring it to stock:
http://mrm3.net/nook-color-recover-any-bricked-device/
Tried, can't get far enough
Kingdruid, thanks, yes i've tried both of those links - sadly they don't help at all because i can't even boot SD card recovery images...
I tried various recovery images including the newest clockworkmod, but i am still stuck They all work for 7 seconds only.
So yes, a nook can actually be bricked it seems.
G.
tralulu said:
Kingdruid, thanks, yes i've tried both of those links - sadly they don't help at all because i can't even boot SD card recovery images...
I tried various recovery images including the newest clockworkmod, but i am still stuck They all work for 7 seconds only.
So yes, a nook can actually be bricked it seems.
G.
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When you overclocked it, did you notice it getting hotter than usual? I wonder if it was due to the overclocking. All the users I see with unrecoverable nooks is after they overclocked.
No, i did not notice much heat. And it was working well in its overclocked state for a few days.
Do you think it's CPU is fried now?
tralulu said:
No, i did not notice much heat. And it was working well in its overclocked state for a few days.
Do you think it's CPU is fried now?
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I own 4 of them so I would prefer the term "Unbrickable", but at this point I'm not really sure.
Try 8 failed boots and see if you can get into recovery to reset to factory.
cant get it working
so first noob post
i used this thread to root my nook color
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957
problem is i have followed the steps and re done it about 5 times and every time i turn on the nook it goes right to read forever and runs the stock OS
nook 1.2 brand new, and 8gig SD card
when i boot i hold the power button for the 5 seconds, am i missing something?
tntviper1 said:
so first noob post
i used this thread to root my nook color
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957
problem is i have followed the steps and re done it about 5 times and every time i turn on the nook it goes right to read forever and runs the stock OS
nook 1.2 brand new, and 8gig SD card
when i boot i hold the power button for the 5 seconds, am i missing something?
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how did you write the image to the SD card? you can't just do the write button in winimage, you have to use the "convert virtual hard disk image to drive" or something... really should be mentioned in the n00b guides.
Sequence in winimage:
Disk->Use disk (whatever your sd card is)
Disk->Restore virtual hard disk image on physical drive (select the image you're trying to write)
Click ok on the warning and you should have a boot disk
"Write disk" is prominent but just copies the files to the disk, not resize or make it bootable.
Nope - no change
DizzyDen, nope, 8 failed boots does nothing. Just fails 8 times, no restore.
I flashed an ICS nightly from over in the development forum and I'm left with a Nook that won't boot. Basically I flashed the nightly, booted ICS and then rebooted as I forgot to flash gapps. Upon rebooting I got the new cyanoboot bootloader however I can not boot into anything. I just get loading... If I try to boot into recovery I get loading recovery... and nothing. I tried flashing recovery onto my SD card and selecting each one of the 3 SD card boot options from the bootloader menu however none of them work. Everything hangs at loading. Any ideas one what my next step should be?
Sigh!!!
eMMC or uSD?
votinh said:
Sigh!!!
eMMC or uSD?
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Here's the original thread. My best guess is that it's eMMC.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1526115
Obviously the recovery image I tried was flashed to the external SD card.
Got it! Turned out to be a shotty card reader. Swapped it out with another I had lying around and it worked just fine. Thanks anyway!
EDIT: I got recovery working on the external SD card so I tried flashing a stock image. (nookcolor_1_4_1_signed-cwm-OC) I made sure to format everything first. After flashing I held in the power button, removed the sd card, placed it in my reader and formatted it. I reinserted it into the nook and booted. Everything seemed to boot fine until it got to the "nook color by barnes & noble" screen. The gradient bar goes back and forth across the lettering a bit and then I get a flash of a black screen and then back to the lettering. It keeps doing this over and over again like its in a boot loop. Any ideas?
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Got it! Turned out to be a shotty card reader. Swapped it out with another I had lying around and it worked just fine. Thanks anyway!
EDIT: I got recovery working on the external SD card so I tried flashing a stock image. (nookcolor_1_4_1_signed-cwm-OC) I made sure to format everything first. After flashing I held in the power button, removed the sd card, placed it in my reader and formatted it. I reinserted it into the nook and booted. Everything seemed to boot fine until it got to the "nook color by barnes & noble" screen. The gradient bar goes back and forth across the lettering a bit and then I get a flash of a black screen and then back to the lettering. It keeps doing this over and over again like its in a boot loop. Any ideas?
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Since you just flashed the stock firmware with OC and CWM (as alternate) you should also have the ability to boot eMMC Recovery Mode... do that... it will clear data... and restore the data from the original rombackup.zip file... should solve your problem.
DizzyDen said:
Since you just flashed the stock firmware with OC and CWM (as alternate) you should also have the ability to boot eMMC Recovery Mode... do that... it will clear data... and restore the data from the original rombackup.zip file... should solve your problem.
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I actually did something along these lines last night but since I flashed the stock firmware that was pre-rooted and with CWM... I booted into CWM, wiped everything, mounted usb, copied over the stock pre-rooted zip file, flashed it and then fixed permissions. Everything booted fine.
i have the same problem but im on emmc. im just stuck with loading... any solution for me?
First it tries to book to the menu on the SD card nearly every time you power it off and back on and from that menu you must tell it to reboot and then it boots to android. Also when playing music it skips like it is having trouble streaming mp3's from its own memory. Is this normal? Can i pull the SD card out and stop it from booting to that menu? Oh and the boot menu on the SD card is ClockwordMod Recovery v3.2.0.1 that it tries to boot into every time. Any help would be appreciated.
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First it tries to book to the menu on the SD card nearly every time you power it off and back on and from that menu you must tell it to reboot and then it boots to android. Also when playing music it skips like it is having trouble streaming mp3's from its own memory. Is this normal? Can i pull the SD card out and stop it from booting to that menu? Oh and the boot menu on the SD card is ClockwordMod Recovery v3.2.0.1 that it tries to boot into every time. Any help would be appreciated.
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What you have not told us is if you are running CM7 in internal memory or on SD. I am going to assume internal. And you need to tell us if you installed CWM on internal memory or are using a bootable card for CWM. If you are using a bootable card, you should definitely take the card out. With it in, it will always try to boot to it first. If you do not have CWM on a bootable card, then it is booting to the internal CWM. If it is doing that, then you need to take some other steps, which I will tell you later if that is still happening when you take the card out.
And you have your terminology a little mixed up. The boot menu is what shows when you hold the n key after the green cyanogen logo when booting to CM7. The menu you are talking about is the CWM menu.
I don't know what is causing the music skipping.
I will tell you more if the boot issue continues after taking the card out.
I've read the other posts, and there are some similarities, but I still don't get a clear picture... So here goes...
I've had my Nook Color for about two years and created a SD card boot to CM7 that worked like a charm for these last two years, then...
the system a few days ago went into a boot mode automatically, and just looped. All I could do was turn it off by long press on the power button.
I removed the SD card and booted to the Nook operating system and all went fine.
Re-installed the SD card and started the boot process, it again went to continuous CM7 logo looping.
Tried recovery mode, which seemed to go well, although it shut itself down without completing the boot process.
I have tried every imaginable switch combination (volume, power, n), all to no avail. Depleted power, full power, power connected, etc. Nothing breaks the cycle.
Recent app installations were Netflix, a word document processor, a speaker amplification. Titanium backup was running sometime in the near past. Most apps were loaded to the SD card.
I would like to be able to save some documents on the SD card, but now what to do?
Reload a fresh copy of CM7?
Load a new triple boot of basic, CM7 and CM9?
Just jump to a altogether new CM10.1?
Any suggestions (remember the forum rules, now...).
Thanks a million.
Well, here's what I've done.
Burnt another SD card with CM10.1 - works like a charm but don't have any of my old files on the card -started all new.
Downloaded CWM on another card, booted to it, but got menu choices I wasn't sure about, so chose "SD boot". removed the CWM card, put in my old CM5.7 card, pressed the "N" (to start the reboot), and got the same old loop.
I guess I just don't know enough, and don't know where to go to get smarter.
And the rest of the story...
CM10.1 ran fine for two days, then this morning on power-on, I got a message of "Trebuchet" error - no matter what I did, the error message prevented starting any other program or a normal power off. So...on restart, got LOOPING AGAIN! CWMod doesn't help.
Back to Google and forums.
Problem solved! (But, other than getting a good installation, I don't remember exactly HOW!)