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I've had my NC since February. It was factory 1.0.1 version, and I updated it to 1.2 when it was released. Everything worked okay, even after the upgrade, until - about 4 days ago - after I had used the 'Size-agnostic SD Card image and CM7 installer for SD Cards' (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957)
After I had removed the uSD I'd made for that, the NC seemed to take a lot longer to boot up. Next thing that happened was that the 'power off' pop-up would randomly appear. If I chose 'cancel' all would be well... but as likely as not the pop-up would reappear a second time. Once past the two pop ups it would operate normally as far as I could tell. But then it started to close itself down occasionally, and frequently failed to boot up fully, stalling on the first boot screen, so may times that it went into setup on its own and reinstalled the factory 1.0.1 firmware.
I had made a back-up uSD before all these troubles - using CW 3.0.1.0. I tried to restore my back-up (formatting 'data' and 'system' first). Didn't solve the boot problem, and even the boot of CW on uSD sometimes just stopped - as if the NC turned itself off - or stalled.
I have a uSD with phiremod 6.3 on, and that seems to run pretty well.
I've subsequently tried the 8 failed boots, power + n, repartition-boot-with-stock (using 4Gb clockwork 0.7), and using that same CW 'nook-complete-restore-1.0.1.zip.... all this without any real success.
The latest situation is that when I power on, there is a successful boot up - but slow, and when I try to power down the power off pop-up appears but before I can click on 'power off' the screen blanks. Pressing 'n' brings it back complete with the pop-up. I click on 'power off', something momentarily flashes on screen (so fast I can't see what it is, but guess it is the confirmation pop-up) and about 15-20 seconds later the unit turns off.
Does anyone have an idea of what my problem is? Is it faulty do you think? I'm in Europe so can't really return to B&N.
Any suggestions would be very welcome.
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
Hello,
So i've tried to root the nook. Copied the touchnooter on my card, booted the nook. And then : forever stuck on the "root forever" or the "read forever" (when i get the card off)..
The hard reboot (20 sec on power off) doesn't work and i'm stuck at this "read forever" screen.
Is there a way to recover the nook ?
Thanks.. !
When doing the hard power off (long press) the screen doesn't usually change and you might be fooled into believing nothing happened.
Have you tried to let the unit settle for 10 seconds and then press power for a few seconds to see if it tries to boot?
Hey,
thanks for replying. I have tried a 30 sec hard boot + a reboot try but nothing happened. It freezes on the "nook is starting screen".
I afraid i have broke my device... But strangely i followed the rooting steps and nothing seemed to do wrong.. I guess.
Bye
If you can in fact get the unit to start booting, just long press power (10s +) as soon as you see the unit try to boot to interrupt the boot, then power it on again and repeat this procedure for 8 times (sucks, yes I know) and you should drop into factory reset.
Ok so i have to say : WTF !
So this morning i looked at my nook and saw that it still was on the "reading forever"/"starting" thing. As i saw your advice i tried to boot 8 time..
On the first boot attempt : it worked ! So maybe is was the eighth..
The nook started and asked me if i wanted to continue with android guy or "es something"... so i pressed android guy..
SO now i don't really know if the procedure went well ? Is it supposed to be rooted now ?
Thanks anyway for the time you took replying !
I hope my english is not too hard to read.
Bye,
By "android guy" I guess you're referring to the Android Welcome screen?
That would suggest that the Touchnooter went trough successfully.
Did you get Go Launcher and ButtonSavior up and running?
IIRC, whenever you do a fresh boot and try to use ButtonSavior you'll get a notice saying ButtonSavior has been granted superuser access, which would indicate that you're successfully rooted.
I had a similar problem, using touchnooter 1.11.20 and it was too quick. Maybe 45 seconds, removed card and restarted. Stuck in a boot loop, on tne "Nook" screen with the little blocks move across the screen and just keeps restarting. Fortunately I made a backup and was able to restore. Not sure what the problem is but I tried TouchNooter 5 times, downloaded it twice, wrote it to the SD cars 3 times and same result, Stuck on the nook screen, animation gets to the 4th dot and restarts. Tried salsichaNooter .4 with the same result. Any ideas on what the problem could be? It would be really nice if I could get a decent reader on this thing.
I made my life a little easier by having 2 micro SD cards to use, nookie on one and touchnooter on the other. I also made sure I had a good backup of my original ROM by opening the image with 7zip and the nook with partition wizard and verifying they were the same. At least I can gat it back to a working stock rom.
Why dont you try my new method?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1346748
PS:
..... insomnia Sucks......
Thanks, I'll see if this works.
Not really insomnia, trying to get this fixed before I have to put my wife on a plane. It's her nook touch, I have a color, it was so much easier.
I'm having a similar problem: I used SalsichaNooter, I let Rooted Forever to be on the nook screen for an hour, there were no messages on the screen no progress indication of any sort. I did a hard reboot after an hour and it seems at least some part of the rooting script worked - but how do i know the nook was rooted all the way through since it didnt reaboot during the rooting process as it should?
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'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!)