I've installed Cyonogen V7 and Phiremod Test 2 CM7 and suddenly I've found that my Nook Color's "n" button stopped working. I've tried flashing Phiremod twice as was suggested in another forum but it's still not working.
First, has anyone got a quick fix for this?
Second, what is the "n" button, is it a Home or a Back button?
Thanks!!
This problem seems to be endemic to Phiremod.
The latest CM 7-08312011 nightly and it has no apparent problems with the "n" key.
I think it's assigned as "Home" on a Nook Color. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I found that the "n" button is a "Home" button as far as I can tell.
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I've had a Nook Color since a week after launch and it's been fine, but now my volume buttons don't work at all. I used them for page turning in aldiko, and obviously volume control, but now they do nothing. I booted into Clockwork recovery and I can't select any options! Any suggestions for a fix?
That is definitely a hardware problem you can confirm first by flashing one of the newest nightly's, that should change everything on your nook including kernel and u-boot if it still doesn't work restore it and send it back to b&n
I rooted my NST this morning but decided it was not for me. I restored it back to factory and then upgraded the to the latest firmware. Now, my home button no longer brings up the menu.
The home button appears to still be alive. When the nook is asleep, it says Press the n button below to wake up your NOOK - pressing the button does wake up the nook. When the Nook is awake I can hit the home button 4 times and it puts it to sleep.
Here's what I've done today:
I rooted with noogie.img.gz originally, then I tried touchnooter
To restore I used n2T-Recovery_0.1 to restore to factory
I then upgraded the firmware to 1.1.0 by transferring the .zip from B&N via USB
Please help!
Edit: The home button was not functioning correctly before I updated the firmware. I upgraded to 1.1.0 with the hope that it'd fix it.
esbe said:
I rooted my NST this morning but decided it was not for me. I restored it back to factory and then upgraded the to the latest firmware. Now, my home button no longer brings up the menu.
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Not sure why it would not be for you - rooting does nothing but add extra functionality the original functionality remains,
esbe said:
The home button appears to still be alive. When the nook is asleep, it says Press the n button below to wake up your NOOK - pressing the button does wake up the nook. When the Nook is awake I can hit the home button 4 times and it puts it to sleep.
Here's what I've done today:
I rooted with noogie.img.gz originally, then I tried touchnooter
To restore I used n2T-Recovery_0.1 to restore to factory
I then upgraded the firmware to 1.1.0 by transferring the .zip from B&N via USB
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First, noogie does not root your Nook - it is a bootable SD image that allows you to back it up - make sure to back up the whole physical drive not just a partition (learned that one the hard way).
Before trying to restore anything back it up now - then in case you really mess things up you will at least have an image with your serial and other device specific info.
Then since it is rooted you may try this application which allows you to map the N button to your choice :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1289894
That may let you reset it and you may find you like it rooted and keep it that way.
If that doesn't work try to restore the second n2T recovery image
failing that ask the owner of that thread for help.
Thanks for that response.
What I meant to say was that I used noogie to mount the Nook and then I replaced uRamdisk (and I first made sure to make an image of the Nook so that I could always restore it).
Since my original post, I reset the Nook using the L+R buttons and it has restored all functionality of the home button. Once again I have a fully functional Nook, albeit an unrooted one. I'll try rooting again soon because I'd still love the use of the Kindle app.
When I press the home button. It just vibrate and does nothing. All other buttons are working fine.
It was working fine on MIUI GB as main OS in internal storage. I'm using Froyo kernel on original Defy.
Also lockscreen is not working in both CM9 and WIUI V4.
Any solution? Thanks.
Same symptoms with vanilla system
ninekaw9 said:
When I press the home button. It just vibrate and does nothing. All other buttons are working fine.
It was working fine on MIUI GB as main OS in internal storage. I'm using Froyo kernel on original Defy.
Also lockscreen is not working in both CM9 and WIUI V4.
Any solution? Thanks.
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I saw the same behavior after the Republic OTA upgrade to build 65K. Home vibrated but did not go home. Luckily, the "back" button still worked, so repeated pressings would get me home eventually. System reboot seems to have fixed the home button.
Related maybe: my home-screen icons were lost/scrambled after the upgrade's auto-reboot. Fixed that by hand.
Instead of studying for my exams, I decided to try to root my new Nook Simple Touch.
Not very cleverly, I use a guide from the site lifehacker. Since that moment, my ereader has been blocked on the initial page : "read forever your nook is starting up" for about an half hour.
Panic-strucken, I went all around the web looking desperately for a solution.
Finally I tried a guide that can brought me to factory data (THIS http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1475613)
It worked and brought me the initial configuration. I logged in and... "Sorry we're having trouble setting up your nook. please shutdown the device and try again"
I don't know what to do.
Now I am paralized and desperate.
I'm so sorry, but I was not able to find anything on this site. Please, help me
Edit: Now it says
Restart required :
Your Nook encountered a problem that requires a system restart .
I restart system again and again but not solved problem;
Did you first make a backup before attempting to root?
What firmware version did you have on your nook before rooting?
Since your nook is new it is likely that you had FW 1.2
For FW 1.2 only tinynoot or NookManager can be used to root.
Have you tried a factory reset:
Power off the nook - hold down the power button (rear of nook)
When you have the msg 'your nook is off', then power on,
Quickly place the nook on a flat surface and press and hold the two lower page turn buttons.
Keep pressing...do not release....your fingers will be sore by now...
A msg will eventually come that asks if you want to do a factory reset
You can let go of the two page turn buttons, and press the 'n' button
Another msg asking to confirm, again press the 'n' button.
It will now attempt to restore your nook.
ladykayaker said:
Did you first make a backup before attempting to root?
What firmware version did you have on your nook before rooting?
Since your nook is new it is likely that you had FW 1.2
For FW 1.2 only tinynoot or NookManager can be used to root.
Have you tried a factory reset:
Power off the nook - hold down the power button (rear of nook)
When you have the msg 'your nook is off', then power on,
Quickly place the nook on a flat surface and press and hold the two lower page turn buttons.
Keep pressing...do not release....your fingers will be sore by now...
A msg will eventually come that asks if you want to do a factory reset
You can let go of the two page turn buttons, and press the 'n' button
Another msg asking to confirm, again press the 'n' button.
It will now attempt to restore your nook.
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I used NookManager and made a backup before rooting, do you know where I can find the backup so I can transfer it to my PC ?.
Has this ever happened to anybody before?
I performed a clean flash of N900W8VLU2DOD1 through Odin (pulled battery, booted straight into Download mode).
The menu softkey works, but seems to register as hitting/long pressing the menu button, so S Finder opens.
The Back button does not respond to touch, but will light up when the Menu button is pressed.
All of my softkeys are working just fine when I am running a custom Touchwiz ROM, or Temasek's CM12.1...
Does anybody know how to fix this?!