I had my Nook go into SOD today and hard powered it down and rebooted. I got stuck in a boot loop so attempted to boot to recovery and wipe cache/dalvik-cache.
After doing this and attempting to reboot, I'm getting the boot menu that is always sending me back into Clockwork Recovery. Even after powering up with Power + n and selecting to boot from emmc and standard boot, it's still sending me into Clockwork Recovery.
I'm completely lost on why this is happening to me. I'd updated to the latest Clockwork Recovery through ROM manager a few days ago and haven't had any issues up to this point aside the random SOD.
Anyone have any tips/tricks that might help me out?
there is a zip file floating around here in one of these posts that you can flash from sd card that will basically "break" CWM.
it'll then allow the nook to boot up normally. You can then reinstall CWM. let me see if I can find it.
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found it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=982935&highlight=zip+break+CWM
read the discussion on that link, the zip is in the 3rd or 4th post.
This happened to me when I first got my nook for other reasons (installed wrong version of CWM basically) and running the zip got me out of the boot loop.
GSUBass05 said:
there is a zip file floating around here in one of these posts that you can flash from sd card that will basically "break" CWM.
it'll then allow the nook to boot up normally. You can then reinstall CWM. let me see if I can find it.
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found it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=982935&highlight=zip+break+CWM
read the discussion on that link, the zip is in the 3rd or 4th post.
This happened to me when I first got my nook for other reasons (installed wrong version of CWM basically) and running the zip got me out of the boot loop.
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Oh thank you for this! I'm finally getting my NC running again and updating to nightly 100!
My problem is at one time or another I must have accidently installed clockwork recovery on the emmc of my nook. I can boot into the nook's software just fine, but when I tried to apply the update it boots into clockwork mod and gives an error and won't install the update.
I normally always use cm7 off the sd card, but I want to have the new update on the nook when I want to boot to it.
My question is how do I get clockwork recovery off the emmc so I can install the update? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Dude, I'm in the same boat. I didn't think I had CWM on there, but alas, I do...
The problem is that when it tries to execute the install an error comes up saying that the ROM is unsigned. Weird cause it came from the Nook website...
This might help
I had the same problem. This thread solved it for me. I used the file to remove CWM.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
I think I soft bricked my a500. I made a backup using thor's recovery 1.6 and when i tried to restore, it complained of md5 error. So what I did was to make a new nandroid.md5 by deleting the old one and doind md5sum. It was able to do the recovery but it will not boot past the acer logo.
I can still see the stuff when I adb in recovery, especially /data/media but not booting past the acer logo. What can I do? Is there a boot log or something I can look at?
************* udpate there seems to be boot log file that I can find. I have installed 3.2 rooted stock via the recovery after wiping everything. It did not work. Changing another sdcard worked. So it seems that it was a bad sdcard that was causing the problem.
If mods see this, might want to delete this thread Cheers
I can access my recovery, and flash roms from the SD, however no matter what ROM I tried, I get a boot loop.
I have Skrilax_CZ bootloader v8
CWM Recovery v5.5.0.x
Any suggestions or ideas?
Thank you!
Another note, I used to have a working rom in my downloads folder on the device, however from recovery, when i go to choose zip from internal storage i get "E:Can't mount /sdcard/"
Thank you!
jrichardsMav said:
Another note, I used to have a working rom in my downloads folder on the device, however from recovery, when i go to choose zip from internal storage i get "E:Can't mount /sdcard/"
Thank you!
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Just tried to do a restore on a backup I made sometime ago.
I got "Error formating data"
Rebooted, and I get a screen saying
"Encryption Unscuccessful" with a button to reset tablet
I press that, tablet reboots to recovery, and i get an android bot with a spinning pentagram, then the bot is on its back with a red exclamation point.
Okay got it booting! Well, booting to honeycomb, everything is kind of a blur right now, but I flashed a 3.2 rom
got the enter a password screen
did the following:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33607638&postcount=9
Now i can boot to android, but i can't boot to a recovery!!
Help?! lol
jrichardsMav said:
Okay got it booting! Well, booting to honeycomb, everything is kind of a blur right now, but I flashed a 3.2 rom
got the enter a password screen
did the following:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33607638&postcount=9
Now i can boot to android, but i can't boot to a recovery!!
Help?! lol
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Im actually on 3.1! and I've rooted 3.1. I'm trying to install a recovery image now, TWRP or CWM. I've tried the Goomanager method and the Acer REcovery Installer method, both force close before the recovery is installed.
jrichardsMav said:
Im actually on 3.1! and I've rooted 3.1. I'm trying to install a recovery image now, TWRP or CWM. I've tried the Goomanager method and the Acer REcovery Installer method, both force close before the recovery is installed.
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Had to install ARI from PLAY, not MARKET.
Now flashing 4.2 + gapps. Crosses fingers.
jrichardsMav said:
Had to install ARI from PLAY, not MARKET.
Now flashing 4.2 + gapps. Crosses fingers.
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Everything working. 4.2.1 on A500 is very nice. Multi user is beautiful.
Sorry have only just seen your posts - awesome you managed to get yourself fixed!!!!
So you had HC 3.1 with the v8 bootloader and you flashed the JB rom directly from there?? I know doing it this way has worked for me in the past its great to know someone else has luck doing it as well...
one more thing can you edit the subject line of your original post to "fixed" or "solved" - this will help others who may be in the same postion!!!
thanx and have a great 2013!!!
dibb
Sure can, if I can figure out how to edit the title.
I had 4.1, a tegraowners rom, then i had a random reboot and no matter what rom I flashed it would fail.
I tried to install a 3.1 rom, which gave me the encrypted message asking me for a password.
I then booted to fastboot, ran a few commands that I found, and got 3.1 working.
Rooted, Installed a new recovery (mine was botched) and got 4.2 working on it!
I'd like to learn more about rom development. Any good places to start?
Thanks for that...can't help re rom dev but XDA have new site"xda-university" there's a bit about rom dev there that may be helpful...good luck tho
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Hey guys,
I am really going crazy with my A500 and I really need help!
I tried to Update my Taboonay to the newest Flexreaper Edition. In the desciption it said that I need to have one of that custom recoverys to use Aroma installer. Because I had CWM with Thor 1.3.4 and 1.7.3 is neccessary I wanted to Update CWM via installing the zip from SD Card. Before installing the zip I accedientially deleted the update.zip from the SD Card. Tried to restart CWM than but it didn't work out and I could not enter CWM. I was stuck on booting recovery kernel image, waited about a minute and than the screen turned dark. Since that point the tablet doesn't start anymore and the tablet does not enter CWM.. What can I do to fix it?
I summarize:
- can't enter CWM
- cant boot the ROM
- deleted update.zip
Thank you in advance
GamerAlive said:
Hey guys,
I am really going crazy with my A500 and I really need help!
I tried to Update my Taboonay to the newest Flexreaper Edition. In the desciption it said that I need to have one of that custom recoverys to use Aroma installer. Because I had CWM with Thor 1.3.4 and 1.7.3 is neccessary I wanted to Update CWM via installing the zip from SD Card. Before installing the zip I accedientially deleted the update.zip from the SD Card. Tried to restart CWM than but it didn't work out and I could not enter CWM. I was stuck on booting recovery kernel image, waited about a minute and than the screen turned dark. Since that point the tablet doesn't start anymore and the tablet does not enter CWM.. What can I do to fix it?
I summarize:
- can't enter CWM
- cant boot the ROM
- deleted update.zip
Thank you in advance
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I would guess, you are still running an HC bootloader? You must update your tab to the V8 unlocked bootloader from Skrilax_cz.
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