i posted a while back in here, and the help i got didn't do much of anything. so now i'm desperate.
This isn't even my nook color, it's my dads and right now he's pissed because it's bricked more or less.
it boots, and gets stuck at the android screen. NOTHING was done to this other than installing CWM, CM7 and then it just sat there, no one used it for almost 3 months. Then when he tried to turn it on. stuck on android.
i tried holding down the power and N button, but it never boots into recovery.
So i had CM7 and CWM installed to the internal memory (because i couldn't get an sd to work properly)
now, i want to either wipe it and get it back to CM7 where i'll just reinstall everything, or totally wipe everything off it and get it back to stock.
aside from nexus devices, i'm a total n00b so please, i need easy to understand instructions here to get this thing working.
neok44 said:
i posted a while back in here, and the help i got didn't do much of anything. so now i'm desperate.
This isn't even my nook color, it's my dads and right now he's pissed because it's bricked more or less.
it boots, and gets stuck at the android screen. NOTHING was done to this other than installing CWM, CM7 and then it just sat there, no one used it for almost 3 months. Then when he tried to turn it on. stuck on android.
i tried holding down the power and N button, but it never boots into recovery.
So i had CM7 and CWM installed to the internal memory (because i couldn't get an sd to work properly)
now, i want to either wipe it and get it back to CM7 where i'll just reinstall everything, or totally wipe everything off it and get it back to stock.
aside from nexus devices, i'm a total n00b so please, i need easy to understand instructions here to get this thing working.
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Go here Dummies Guide to 'My Nook Won't Boot' and read.
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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...
So I think I've royally F'd my DX. I was going to try rooting and flashing a new rom. I'm not a total noob (rooted gtab, nook color, Le Pan) but this is ****ing me up.
It was running 2.3.3 605 originally. I started out with just root, that seemed fine. I got superuser and busybox installed without a problem. I install clockwockmod and dx bootstrap. I was even able to get CWM 5.0.2 or whatever installed without any trouble like I had read.
I tried reading and following threads but I couldn't fallow on if I was missing steps. I have zero experience with rooting via scripts and I have no intention to learn and would rather go back to stock.
I immediately got problems with rebooting. It would not reboot via the power button. It would go to the Red M then just black screen. But it would boot just fine if I pulled out the battery and tried that way.
I did a factory reset thinking that would help, it didn't. I was still rooted but the problems got worse. Now I boot directly into CWM recovery and have to reboot from in there to get to the OS.
I read some more, thought I had figured more out. Installed Rom manger, installed Liberty3. I'm still booting straight into recovery but when I reboot from there I'm stuck at the spinning Liberty logo.
I need help, I've read and searched, if you want to be a **** have run. But I need my phone fixed. Hold my hand like I'm Hellen Keller and help please.
I would recommend reading the Droid X wiki at the Cyanogenmod website. I had some of the same issues until I followed the downgrade + root method and then installed ROM Manager and CM7 manually through recovery. Good luck!
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Schwazilla said:
So I think I've royally F'd my DX. I was going to try rooting and flashing a new rom. I'm not a total noob (rooted gtab, nook color, Le Pan) but this is ****ing me up.
It was running 2.3.3 605 originally. I started out with just root, that seemed fine. I got superuser and busybox installed without a problem. I install clockwockmod and dx bootstrap. I was even able to get CWM 5.0.2 or whatever installed without any trouble like I had read.
I tried reading and following threads but I couldn't fallow on if I was missing steps. I have zero experience with rooting via scripts and I have no intention to learn and would rather go back to stock.
I immediately got problems with rebooting. It would not reboot via the power button. It would go to the Red M then just black screen. But it would boot just fine if I pulled out the battery and tried that way.
I did a factory reset thinking that would help, it didn't. I was still rooted but the problems got worse. Now I boot directly into CWM recovery and have to reboot from in there to get to the OS.
I read some more, thought I had figured more out. Installed Rom manger, installed Liberty3. I'm still booting straight into recovery but when I reboot from there I'm stuck at the spinning Liberty logo.
I need help, I've read and searched, if you want to be a **** have run. But I need my phone fixed. Hold my hand like I'm Hellen Keller and help please.
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Don't use ROM manager and don't use dxbootstrap (unless you have usb debugging unchecked). I use d2 bootstrap always. And you will have the occasion of it going in to cwm when you boot phone back up. I dealt with it for while. And cwm should be 2502 or something like that when you're just rooted 605. Did you make a nandroid of your rooted 605 before you tried to flash liberty
? Hopefully you did. Go back to that. Then use d2 bootstrap to get in to recovery, wipe data, cache and dalvik, then select install ip from sd card, then choose zip, then scroll via volume down to the liberty file, select that and flash.
I used directions posted over at Androidforums.com under the All Things Root forum for the Dx. I had a couple of hiccups, but it was user error. I now have Liberty 3 running smoothly on my Dx. Check it out, including the guide and ROM lists.
HTH
chaz_
Schwazilla said:
So I think I've royally F'd my DX. I was going to try rooting and flashing a new rom. I'm not a total noob (rooted gtab, nook color, Le Pan) but this is ****ing me up.
It was running 2.3.3 605 originally. I started out with just root, that seemed fine. I got superuser and busybox installed without a problem. I install clockwockmod and dx bootstrap. I was even able to get CWM 5.0.2 or whatever installed without any trouble like I had read.
I tried reading and following threads but I couldn't fallow on if I was missing steps. I have zero experience with rooting via scripts and I have no intention to learn and would rather go back to stock.
I immediately got problems with rebooting. It would not reboot via the power button. It would go to the Red M then just black screen. But it would boot just fine if I pulled out the battery and tried that way.
I did a factory reset thinking that would help, it didn't. I was still rooted but the problems got worse. Now I boot directly into CWM recovery and have to reboot from in there to get to the OS.
I read some more, thought I had figured more out. Installed Rom manger, installed Liberty3. I'm still booting straight into recovery but when I reboot from there I'm stuck at the spinning Liberty logo.
I need help, I've read and searched, if you want to be a **** have run. But I need my phone fixed. Hold my hand like I'm Hellen Keller and help please.
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Just re-flash ur phone dude. do you know how to do that? It's a pain in the butt. but it is always failsafe.
I searched everywhere, but can't find the same problem as mine. I am stuck in the CW recovery screen, after rebooting times after times.
I have been updating the CM9 nightly for a while, didn't have any problem. But when I tried to flash 02-17 nightly, I messed up and in the middle of the install (flash), I hold the power forcing to reboot. Now, it keeps going loop back to the CW recovery screen every time I tried to reboot.
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I tried to reinstall the whole thing with the boot-able sdcard, but didn't work. please help! someone?
I tried to wipe, reformatted the system, data, cash, boot. Still stack at the cw recovery screen. Help...
I love my nook and have a road trip coming up. It will be nice to watch a kid movie to keep the kids entertained.
Had you flashed CmWR into eMMC?
Check the ROM information on /dev/block/mmcblk0p2.... this sounds a LOT like the problem 12paq had...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1495913
@Dizzyden, thanks for the tip.
I did repartition to 1g/5g awhile back. I am not sure where to start. 12paq tried many things, which one was the solution? Your rombackup.zip?
Many thanks....
@votinh
what do you mean? I am not using the N&O apps or OS. Pure CM9, therefore I guess it is flashed in eMMC. If not, please advice.
DizzyDen said:
Check the ROM information on /dev/block/mmcblk0p2.... this sounds a LOT like the problem 12paq had...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1495913
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how can I check this"Check the ROM information on /dev/block/mmcblk0p2"?
please advice.
I tried to adb shell the nook, but not devices found? please help.
Finally, with the help from the good people of this forum, I was able to restore back to B&N, and reflash CM9 from there.
Thank to you all.
Yesterday my nook color was working great. Today I turned the screen on and it hung. Now I'm having the above problem with it hanging at clockwork recovery.
I've got CM7.1 stable on there running from emmc.
can't get adb to recognize the device since it is in cwr... how did you do it?
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can't get adb to recognize the device since it is in cwr... how did you do it?
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Install the google drivers for adb... if you are in CWR adb is enabled... just have to get the drivers loaded on your computer.
try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=958748
dumper1234 said:
I searched everywhere, but can't find the same problem as mine. I am stuck in the CW recovery screen, after rebooting times after times.
I have been updating the CM9 nightly for a while, didn't have any problem. But when I tried to flash 02-17 nightly, I messed up and in the middle of the install (flash), I hold the power forcing to reboot. Now, it keeps going loop back to the CW recovery screen every time I tried to reboot.
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I tried to reinstall the whole thing with the boot-able sdcard, but didn't work. please help! someone?
I tried to wipe, reformatted the system, data, cash, boot. Still stack at the cw recovery screen. Help...
I love my nook and have a road trip coming up. It will be nice to watch a kid movie to keep the kids entertained.
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It may be that your "boot to recovery" flag is set, and if so, it will always boot to that until it is cleared. When the cyanogenmod logo comes up hold the n button until the boot menu comes up. Then choose boot to emmc. If it works, go to ROM Manager and flash a new CWM Recovery to emmc.
Welcome to the nightmare I lived last week. Don't worry I woke up, was able to fully recover and forget the dream ever occurred.
I to tried to reformat to 1gb/5gb and ended up in the same boot loop.. If you are in the same spot I was, your boot partition got wiped out. And you may notice EMMC is gone.
After much searching I came across a file... Looking....Looking...Looking...
..........................Ah yes here it is. Here is what worked for me.
1. Boot to recovery (Should be easy at this point)
2. Format System, Data, and Cache.
3. Install the attached Zip file. (RecoveryFix.zip), this should recreate the Boot partition and fix the EMMC.
4. Reboot to recovery
5. Install favorite Rom or restore from backup.
6. Reboot to test.
Again this is what finally worked for me, and I went through a lot of trial and error to get there. I am guessing at your situation being exactly the same as mine.
PS. Ignore my since of humor if you need to.
OK, so I wasn´t paying much attention and instead of formatting the system, I formatted the boot of my Nook. After that my Nook wouldn´t boot into EMMC CM7 nor EMMC CWM.
After creating a bootable sd-card I manage to get the EMMC CWM going but, no matter what ROM I tried, or what I wiped, I can´t boot on CM7.
I tried reading every guide and post that would suggest a solution to my Nook but every time i try to download something that is supposed to work I get a broken link. I even try to go back to stock but I cant find a working link for that either.
Anyway, I dont want to go back to stock. I want to get the CM7 going again.
Can anyone help me here?
I got it working again!!!
So, in a overtime hail mary moment, i got it working again. Thank you, xawen!!
Here is how I did it:
I downloaded the "RecoveryFix_3.0.2.8.zip" file from xawen´s post (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=958748) and install it with the bootable sd-card CWM I had created.
After that, I removed the sd-card and reboot.
This time the Nook showed the "Touch the future of reading" screen (not the Cyanogen screen) and entered into EMMC CWM. I install the "update-cm-7.2.0-RC1-encore-signed.zip" file and reboot. I didn´t wipe anything this time (because I had wiped everything over and over again so I bother).
After the cyanogen screen everything went black and I waited. It took a while, but then, all of a sudden, that little blue fellow showed up. It had never made me happier!
I hope this can help someone else.
Hello, I am a pure noob here, and one to android in general.
I bought a TF101 a while back, and while complaining to a friend (over xbox live) that it was a bit slow at times, he told me to root it and install cyanogenmod.
So I started looking into it, and thought it looked well within my capabilities to do, so I went for it. I followed the instructions at the cyanogenmod wiki.
Wthout knowing the issues I was going to encounter before encountering them, I really didn't know what pitfalls to research, and thought I'd be fine if I just followed the instructions above.
So, I used Wheelie to root and installed CWM 6.0.1.3 using NVFlash. A little trouble, but I got through it, so far so good.
Here is my problem, in the instructions when they refer to the SD card, I took that to mean the microSD card. So now, when I go into CWM, I cannot install the rom from my external storage (CWM does not support this).
I thought I had created a backup of my current installation, but apparently, I failed at that as well.
And of course, since the instructions above, or the instructions on the Wheelie page don't mention it, I didn't enable debugging through USB before doing all of this.
So now, my tablet does nothing unless I access it with Wheelie and use NVFlash. Otherwise, it does nothing when i turn it on. I've looked around this forum and others this morning for about 2 hours and have not found any solution that will work for me. They all involve a backup on the internal SD storage (which I don't have) or using ADB (which I can't do without USB Debugging being enabled).
If any of you more knowledgeable about this stuff could take pity on my, I would appreciate any help.
Is my tablet now useless?
Thank you!
try this method at least you can go back how your tablet was before...let me know
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1688012
curmud6e0n said:
Hello, I am a pure noob here, and one to android in general.
I bought a TF101 a while back, and while complaining to a friend (over xbox live) that it was a bit slow at times, he told me to root it and install cyanogenmod.
So I started looking into it, and thought it looked well within my capabilities to do, so I went for it. I followed the instructions at the cyanogenmod wiki.
Wthout knowing the issues I was going to encounter before encountering them, I really didn't know what pitfalls to research, and thought I'd be fine if I just followed the instructions above.
So, I used Wheelie to root and installed CWM 6.0.1.3 using NVFlash. A little trouble, but I got through it, so far so good.
Here is my problem, in the instructions when they refer to the SD card, I took that to mean the microSD card. So now, when I go into CWM, I cannot install the rom from my external storage (CWM does not support this).
I thought I had created a backup of my current installation, but apparently, I failed at that as well.
And of course, since the instructions above, or the instructions on the Wheelie page don't mention it, I didn't enable debugging through USB before doing all of this.
So now, my tablet does nothing unless I access it with Wheelie and use NVFlash. Otherwise, it does nothing when i turn it on. I've looked around this forum and others this morning for about 2 hours and have not found any solution that will work for me. They all involve a backup on the internal SD storage (which I don't have) or using ADB (which I can't do without USB Debugging being enabled).
If any of you more knowledgeable about this stuff could take pity on my, I would appreciate any help.
Is my tablet now useless?
Thank you!
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kokobsb said:
try this method at least you can go back how your tablet was before...let me know
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1688012
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Wow, thanks so much. This worked! I thought it was done for.
Thank you!
Is there a thank 100 times button?
Ok, so I used this tool, and put a stock ICS on the tablet I downloaded from Asus. As I was setting everything back up, content to just have my old tablet back, it froze on me. I restarted, the tablet, and now it won't load again. It gets stuck at the EEE pad screen. Worse, when I turn it off, it automatically turns right back on.
I can manage to get this to load in recovery mode (vol down; I don't even need to hit the power button because it just automatically turns on) but I can't get it to boot up in APX for me to flash and restore again. I've tried several times, but there doesn't seem to be enough time to plug the cable in between reboots for it to not boot up regularly.
When I boot up recovery mode, it freeze there, unable to load any recovery tools.
Any more ideas? The help is much appreciated.
hmmm interesting try to reflash a recovery on it via this tool
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1681155
curmud6e0n said:
Ok, so I used this tool, and put a stock ICS on the tablet I downloaded from Asus. As I was setting everything back up, content to just have my old tablet back, it froze on me. I restarted, the tablet, and now it won't load again. It gets stuck at the EEE pad screen. Worse, when I turn it off, it automatically turns right back on.
I can manage to get this to load in recovery mode (vol down; I don't even need to hit the power button because it just automatically turns on) but I can't get it to boot up in APX for me to flash and restore again. I've tried several times, but there doesn't seem to be enough time to plug the cable in between reboots for it to not boot up regularly.
When I boot up recovery mode, it freeze there, unable to load any recovery tools.
Any more ideas? The help is much appreciated.
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kokobsb said:
hmmm interesting try to reflash a recovery on it via this tool
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1681155
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Thanks again for your help, but I got it another way. Holding volume + and power got the tablet to shut off and stay off. From there I was able to use the first tool you gave me pointed me to again, restored it all again, re-installed the stock OS.
From there I reflashed, re-rooted and all my issues with installing cyanogen went away. I'm not sure what went wrong the first time I tried to do this, but it all went away and installed with no issues.
Thanks again for all your help. Without it I'd have no tablet anymore.
Thanks!
yeah happy to hear you have your tab back ...i am using android revolution hd rom can you tell me which built of cyanogen your using and if you are happy with? cuz i tried a jb rom i hated it...
curmud6e0n said:
Thanks again for your help, but I got it another way. Holding volume + and power got the tablet to shut off and stay off. From there I was able to use the first tool you gave me pointed me to again, restored it all again, re-installed the stock OS.
From there I reflashed, re-rooted and all my issues with installing cyanogen went away. I'm not sure what went wrong the first time I tried to do this, but it all went away and installed with no issues.
Thanks again for all your help. Without it I'd have no tablet anymore.
Thanks!
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