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[Q] What am I doing wrong?

Using the verygreen instructions I have been running CM-7.0.3 encore signed off of SD for about 2 months now and want to try to update to the current nightly.
I put cm_encore_full-176.zip in the /boot directory of the SD and tried all of these without success:
1) Used the boot select u-boot.bin to boot from sd and recovery. It just hangs.
2) Used the boot select u-boot.bin to boot from sd and alternate. It just hangs.
I reverted to the standard u-boot.bin and did these without success:
1) Booted into CM7 then using the shut down menu rebooted into recovery. The update was not applied and boot was normal.
2) From power off, held down the power on and N buttons. After loading... appeared counted to 4 and released both buttons. No update applied and booted normall.
3) From power off, held down power on and N buttons. After loading... appeared, released power button, then pressed and held it for 5 seconds, waited for the screen to blank and let go of both buttons. No update applied and NC shut off.
Anyone know what I am doing wrong? I have been scouring all of the NC root sites and it seems everyone has a different hold buttons and release sequence. Is there a special /boot folder or something that can only be accessed while the sd card is in the NC where I have to copy the update zip file?

Imbroglio said:
1) Used the boot select u-boot.bin to boot from sd and recovery. It just hangs.
2) Used the boot select u-boot.bin to boot from sd and alternate. It just hangs.
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Why you doing that?

Because there were recommendations to do to those steps on this site and others.
Do you have a solution to my problem?

You are going from a .29 kernel to a .32 kernel... From VG's SASD thread... first post... you need to update the version of the SASD.
How to update if you already installed using older version of the installer and don't want to reinstall (understandably):
•Get update zip from http://crimea.edu/~green/nook/update-genimage-1.3.zip
•Put the zip file as is onto the first partition of your sdcard..
•reboot into recovery (triggered by the keys, the reboot into recovery does not work yet).
•The new version would be installed and you are done.
•You can combine this installation together with updating to .32 kernel in one step. Just put the update-cm file and the update-genimage-1.3.zip to the first partition. Make sure there is still at least 1M of space left!
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Imbroglio said:
Because there were recommendations to do to those steps on this site and others.
Do you have a solution to my problem?
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Just put the new nightly build into the root folder and boot into recovery.
The only thing you need to do is your skill to boot into recovery, that's all.
The rest should be taken off.

DizzyDen said:
You are going from a .29 kernel to a .32 kernel... From VG's SASD thread... first post... you need to update the version of the SASD.
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Ok copied the file onto /boot.
Tried a different button sequence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kps9cWvyzqo
It still will not go into recovery mode. The thing is that I used the instructions on the video to help me install CM7 and gapps in the first place and it worked fine.
What exactly is the correct button sequence to get the NC to power on to recovery mode?
As you can see I found 3 different people saying to do it 3 different ways and none of them seem to work.
I am waiting for someone to say you have to wait until the 4th tuesday of the odd numbered month and hold down the buttons to the count of pi * the number of times Lindsay Lohan violates her probation in the past 4.5 months.
Do I need another program installed for this to work? Something like clockwork recovery mod (whatever that is)? Is there a difference that my NC doesn't say "Touch the Future of Reading" but just says "Loading..."?
It is making me pull my hair out and I didn't have that much hair left to begin with!
Just wanted to add an observation that after doing the button sequence in the video, "Loading.." the screen blanks for about .5 second and then is displayed again off center. The it goes into normal boot up.

Imbroglio said:
What exactly is the correct button sequence to get the NC to power on to recovery mode?
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I've had to use the "rhythm method" for the first time in a while this week, setting up my dual boot on eMMC, and verygreen's instructions were the only thing that worked for me:
verygreen said:
hold nook N key and then press and hold power until the "Loading..." message appears and then disappears with screen going blank. Release power button, then press it again and hold for ~5 seconds, the bootloader "Loading..." message should be on the screen for three seconds or so before you release power button, keep holding N button until screen blanks again. If the screen went off while you were holding the power key, that means you were holding it for too long
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This:
Imbroglio said:
Just wanted to add an observation that after doing the button sequence in the video, "Loading.." the screen blanks for about .5 second and then is displayed again off center.
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is what should be happening--when the message comes back, press the power button again for five seconds, then release. Anamardoll's videos were made prior to the B&N 1.2 update, prior to CM7.1's existence, and prior to any of verygreen's SASD updates, so the behavior was a little different then.
Also, you may have successfully booted into recovery and installed the SASD 1.3 update file without realizing it--small packages can flash very quickly in verygreen's installer, and iirc, the "Loading" message you describe is expected behavior for SASD 1.3. If you look at the SD's boot partition in your PC and the .zip file is gone, it very likely installed. If that's the case, Power > Reboot > Recovery ought to be working now; copy over the CM7 update .zip, attempt the rhythm method again (may as well), and if you go straight through to CM7, try Power > Reboot > Recovery.
If none of the above works, you have very likely hosed your boot sector with some of the shenanigans in your OP, and may as well format the card and start from scratch with an up-to-date SASD image.
Imbroglio said:
Do I need another program installed for this to work? Something like clockwork recovery mod (whatever that is)?
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CWM cannot help you with an SD install. If, however, you have chosen at any point to "Flash ClockworkMod Recovery" from ROM Manager, then you've already written CWM to your internal recovery partition, and might want to consider installing CM7 internally, as it would now be much easier than fixing your card (assuming none of the above got it done).

Thanks for the help all.
I am just going to redo the sd with the 177 nightly.

dead nook partly through rooting

Hi all,
I tried rooting my Nook today following this procedure using unooter
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Barnes_&_Noble_Nook_Color:_Full_Update_Guide
I got up to Gaining Root Access. After unplugging from the pc the nook won't power up.
After than the nook will not turn on. Hold the power button down, or all the buttons, nothing.
I plug the charger in and the green 'n' light on the usb cable is always green. Also when plugged into my PC and Mac.
If I plug into a Mac, it recognises it as an additional Ethernet device.
I tried restoring based on this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
But no luck. Nook won't boot or startup.
Any thoughts??

In either of those processes, did you create a bootable ClockworkMod Recovery SD card? If not, grab this image, extract it, and write it to your SD card:
1GB CWM Card
It doesn't matter how big your card is, the 1GB image will work for our purposes. After you write the image, put these two files on the card (do not unzip):
update-nc-stock-1.2-keepcwm-signed.zip
repartition-boot-with-stock.zip
Hopefully you'll only need to use the first one. Put the card in the NC and attempt to power on--hopefully it will boot to the recovery menu on the card. Volume buttons are up/down, home is select, power is back.
First, in mounts and storage format system and data. When done, go back to the main menu (power button). This step may not be necessary, but won't hurt.
Now, install zip from sdcard > choose zip from sdcard, and try update-nc-stock-1.2-keepcwm-signed.zip.
When it's done installing, hold the power button until the NC shuts off, remove the card, and power back on. If this works, the first boot will take a few minutes.
If it doesn't work, put the card back, boot to recovery again, install zip from sdcard > choose zip from sdcard, and try the repartition boot zip.
Let us know how it goes.

[Q]

Alright everyone, I have an NC that I rooted quite awhile ago to great success. However, in my quest for updating to ics, I completely deleted everything. Buttons don't work, and for some reason I can't have it access my computer's hard drive because it won't turn on.
So, if anyone has any ideas for fixing it, it would be much appreciated. All I think I need is the original NC software (everything) and a way to put it on the hdd that I can't access. Thanks in advance.

I think you should be able to make (or re-use) a CWM card and use it to install a fresh rom. Unless it's totally borked, the NC should still boot first from the SD card.

I would, but the only problem is that I cannot even get the device to power on, the buttons don't work.
Edit: Here's the deal, I just need the damned thing to power up for me so I can mount the sdcard and restore it. But whatever utility makes the buttons work, is gone - they aren't just merely broken. So I can press the buttons and the kernel or whatever it is that interacts with the buttons will not understand what is going on because the utility is not there.
If anyone has a solution for either powering it on via usb (with the device off) or getting the buttons to work again, great.

Can anybody access their NC cwm for me and try to find whatever it is that I deleted? It has something to do with buttons or what not.

Are you holding the power button on for several seconds.. Until the screen flashes?

davidr415 said:
Are you holding the power button on for several seconds.. Until the screen flashes?
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^ What he said. Sometimes I have to hold the power down for quite a while, or try it several times. This is usually after an SOD (it may help to have it charging too).

Yes and yes. I hold it for quite awhile. Still does nothing.

Have you tried holding down the n button along with the power button?
Hold both for 10 seconds. Release. Hold power button alone for 10 seconds. Sometimes it takes 2 or three cycles of holding down both buttons, then the power.button to get the nook reset.
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Zoolu.Taylor said:
Alright everyone, I have an NC that I rooted quite awhile ago to great success. However, in my quest for updating to ics, I completely deleted everything. Buttons don't work, and for some reason I can't have it access my computer's hard drive because it won't turn on.
So, if anyone has any ideas for fixing it, it would be much appreciated. All I think I need is the original NC software (everything) and a way to put it on the hdd that I can't access. Thanks in advance.
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Just because the screen does not flicker, and you can’t access the file system from your computer using a USB cable, does not mean that the device has not powered on. I can format the whole file system, and the power button will turn it on every time. For turning on the device, the power button is independent of the file system.
It sounds like you have just screwed up the files in the boot partition. I screwed up my device to this point more than a couple times. I had the same none flickering screen, and no file system access from a USB cable. The NC is programmed to boot from a SD card before internal storage, there is really no way that you could have screwed it up to the point that it won’t continue to do that. Below are the steps that I have always taken to get back to a working device,
*fully charge the device, this is very important, because the device might have been on this whole time, and you just could not see it
*Download the stock 1.2 update.zip found HERE, get the “update-nc-stock-1.2-signed.zip” file
*Now download the file to make a bootable CWM card found HERE
*Follow the directions in that post to make your bootable CWM card, then place the “update-nc-stock-1.2-signed.zip” file onto that card
*Put the bootable CWM card into your NC
*Hold the power button, and count to 3, then let go
*If after a count to 10, nothing has appeared on the screen, repeat the last step, you most likely just turn the device off.
*This time CWM should load up, select “wipe cache partition,” followed by “wipe cache partition”
*Now scroll down to and select “mounts and storage”
*Now scroll down to and select “format /boot”
*When that has completed, you will then select “install zip from sdcard”
*Then select “choose zip from sdcard,” and select the “update-nc-stock-1.2-signed.zip” file
*If you receive an error at the very start of the install process, you need to select “toggle script asserts,” to disable script asserts
*When that has completed, remove the card, select reboot the device, and boot the device no SD card in it
Your device should now boot just like stock. At this point you should be back to a completely stock NC.
Report back with any results, good or bad.

Is it necessary to format /system and /data as well if changing between firmware?

Can't try it just yet, but after I'm done traveling it will be top-priority.

how to boot into CWR

hi, i have trouble booting into recovery. what i do is press "n" and power and it always goes to "Boot Menu" ... can someone tell me what that is and what it does ? ( i know i can boot into it by pressing power and selecting reboot and recovery just trying to find out how to from power-off) thanks.

I'm not the most knowledgeable one to answer this. I was waiting to see if someone else would post here.
But here goes. When I want boot into recovery when my nook is off, I power on holding down the n key. When the boot screen appears, I use the n key to toggle different options on the first line. I opt to boot from emmc. Then use the volume keys to move down to the next line and use the n key again to choose boot into recovery.
I don't remember the exact order of the lines, so I may be a little off, but I hope this helps get you booted into recovery from the boot screen
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Thanks for trying to help. i was experiencing boot-loop i think.. ( i wasn't even able to turn my NC off at all. it just kept booting up and being stuck on the Cyanogenmod loading screen every time when i turn it off by holding down power), thats why i needed to boot into recovery from power-off. how it happened was i upgraded to cm9. i wiped cache and dalvik and formatted boot, system and data before flashing. ( i know some instruction here tells to do a wipe data/factory reset. i didnt do that ) I fix it and went back to cm7 by putting in a bootable sd with CWR in the two seconds that it stays off... but the strange thing was that once again i did it my way (wipe cache/dalvik and format boot, system, data) and this time it worked~ no boot-loop. now i wonder what really caused boot-loop the first time even when i had the bootable sd card in it didn't even boot into recovery itself i had to push "n" like crazy ... to get in ...
k8108 said:
I'm not the most knowledgeable one to answer this. I was waiting to see if someone else would post here.
But here goes. When I want boot into recovery when my nook is off, I power on holding down the n key. When the boot screen appears, I use the n key to toggle different options on the first line. I opt to boot from emmc. Then use the volume keys to move down to the next line and use the n key again to choose boot into recovery.
I don't remember the exact order of the lines, so I may be a little off, but I hope this helps get you booted into recovery from the boot screen
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Glad you got it fixed.
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also if you have cwr on a bootable sd card you can use rom manager to flash cwr internally, so you wont need a bootable sd card, if you want to get into cwr just use rom manager and select reboot into recovery, i use to have cwr on my sd and didnt like it because you would have to take out the sd card everytime you boot, but this way is much easier, you can back up in rom manger instead of doing it the manual way...holding n and power button, hope this helps

[Q] Lockscreen slider is gone. Please help!

I have CM7 running on an SDcard in my Nook Color. I turned off the lockscreen slider and selected Menu button for unlock. Well, it doesn't work and now I cannot unlock my Nook. I have tried booting into recovery but it just runs a regular boot up, then it shuts down. When I boot up again, still no slider.
When I power on and hold the N button, I get a boot menu that give me the option of booting from the SD card into Recovery (uRecImg/uRecRam). That does the same thing as above. I never get any options to restore from a backup or anything. Am i supposed to get such an option?
Please tell me there's a way to get the screen unlocked without having to wipe my SD card and start over!
Thanks,
Tzuriel

tzuriel said:
I have CM7 running on an SDcard in my Nook Color. I turned off the lockscreen slider and selected Menu button for unlock. Well, it doesn't work and now I cannot unlock my Nook. I have tried booting into recovery but it just runs a regular boot up, then it shuts down. When I boot up again, still no slider.
When I power on and hold the N button, I get a boot menu that give me the option of booting from the SD card into Recovery (uRecImg/uRecRam). That does the same thing as above. I never get any options to restore from a backup or anything. Am i supposed to get such an option?
Please tell me there's a way to get the screen unlocked without having to wipe my SD card and start over!
Thanks,
Tzuriel
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The SD card install does not have an ordinary recovery. It just has the script installer which is what you see scrolling by when you select recovery. But you can install a special alternate CWM recovery so you can wipe data and get rid of the lock problem. Go to my tips thread linked in my signature and look at item B5.
Sent from my NookColor running CM10 on SD using Tapatalk.

leapinlar said:
The SD card install does not have an ordinary recovery. It just has the script installer which is what you see scrolling by when you select recovery. But you can install a special alternate CWM recovery so you can wipe data and get rid of the lock problem. Go to my tips thread linked in my signature and look at item B5.
Sent from my NookColor running CM10 on SD using Tapatalk.
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Thanks. When I got home, I just had to connect via USB and the screen unlocked. Now I've disabled that pesky bugger!