If you were as stupid as i was,you went to twrp and wiped the sdcard which prevented you from finding the unbrick exe and had infinite recovery loop.download the update and copy the sdcard files back FROM ANOTHER KINDLE FIRE USER.If you live near no kindle fire users (which i fickin doubt lol) ask somebody to upload theirs online.insta fix
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I rooted my Nook had super user, market, rom manager etc. I backed my rom (I always do a nandroid back up). I haven't been able to get out of cwm recovery since the nandroid reboot. Can someone give me retard directions on what to flash to get out of recovery, also flashing roms looks very diiferent on the Nook compared to phones. Ion phones you put the zip on the root of your sd and flash.... is that the same here and how do I get the Nook to flash that zip if its not done through recovery via "choose zip from sd card". Sorry for spitting all this dopey **** but Im really frustrated because I know this **** and can't figure it out on my own. Also I really want cm7 on my Nook. I've been in some sticky situations with my evo and ALWAYS got out of it via restore, ruu, etc. Well anyways if anyone takes on this charity case (me) Im in debt to you for ever. I know android language so walking me through this should be farely simple. Everyone at XDA kicks ass! Peace and love.
Dave.
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It's more or less the same on the nook. The one difference is that the nook can boot from the sd card itself, so it's better put cwm on the sd card, not on the device. That way you can avoid problems like...getting stuck in a recovery bootloop ;-)
I'm guessing your bootcount is higher than 8 or something so it's trying to boot into recovery to recover, but your recovery is cwm not b&n recovery so...either that or your regular boot files are hosed and it's falling back to recovery but can't recover because your recovery files have been replaced...or...
To make matters even worse, last I saw making a nandroid doesn't even backup /boot files, so when these things come up, the nandroid is completely worthless, the B&N recovery which would at least get your system back bootable is also gone...
You get the picture.
I'd make a uSD card with cwm on it as detailed here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=987735
Then use that card to get rid of cwm on your nook. Just throw the files on the card and throw it in your nook, just like you would with a phone. More information on the files you need are here or here depending on what you want to do.
Getting the standard b&n boot and recovery files back on should get you out of your boot loop.
Then you can install cm7 or root stock or do whatever in the usual ways, just use the sd card to boot your cwm recovery instead of putting cwm recovery onto the actual device, at least until you are more familiar with mucking around on the nook.
ylixir said:
It's more or less the same on the nook. The one difference is that the nook can boot from the sd card itself, so it's better put cwm on the sd card, not on the device. That way you can avoid problems like...getting stuck in a recovery bootloop ;-)
I'm guessing your bootcount is higher than 8 or something so it's trying to boot into recovery to recover, but your recovery is cwm not b&n recovery so...either that or your regular boot files are hosed and it's falling back to recovery but can't recover because your recovery files have been replaced...or...
To make matters even worse, last I saw making a nandroid doesn't even backup /boot files, so when these things come up, the nandroid is completely worthless, the B&N recovery which would at least get your system back bootable is also gone...
You get the picture.
I'd make a uSD card with cwm on it as detailed here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=987735
Then use that card to get rid of cwm on your nook. Just throw the files on the card and throw it in your nook, just like you would with a phone. More information on the files you need are here or here depending on what you want to do.
Getting the standard b&n boot and recovery files back on should get you out of your boot loop.
Then you can install cm7 or root stock or do whatever in the usual ways, just use the sd card to boot your cwm recovery instead of putting cwm recovery onto the actual device, at least until you are more familiar with mucking around on the nook.
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You just made my night. I'm almost 100% that my regular boot files and cwm files are borked. Thanks for taking the time to type that out for me. This is why I love xda.... OK I'm going to try this when I get home in a few minutes.
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!
Hey guys, I'm new to XDA and I have a few questions needed to be answered if you don't mind .
So an "official" ICS leak came out not too long ago, and tonight I tried installing it on my a500. By "it" I mean the stock leak for unrooted devices. Problem is, it's not working.
Long story short, I Googled like crazy looking for answers to these questions, and I found no specific answers anywhere from Iconia users, only by people with Droid phones.
I need to know the answers for
1) Can I install the stock version ICS from my internal SD card? If so, how?
2) How do I do this without rooting my device?
3) After renaming the download to "update.zip", as some have said, do I first extract the contents then place them in a folder called update.zip, or leave it as is and rename the large file?
In the end, I renamed the file to "Update.zip" without extraction, then reboot my device in recovery mode. The green Droid came on, then a warning sign, and nothing happened. How do I boot the ICS?
Sorry if this seems like a lot, I barely know any of the technical aspects of this stuff!
must be on externel SD with stock recovery.
same thing happend to me. I found out that my pc named the zip update.zip.zip, i used file explore on my 500 and took of the extra .zip and flashed it. And it worked perfectly.
0) You shouldn't have messed with this without first understand exactly what and how you do it. There's a really BIG STOP sign in the thread. Read the thread first to avoid bricking your device. Everything is here, so you don't have to "google like crazy".
To your questions:
1) No. You need an external SD for your stock recovery to flash the update.zip
2) Copy update.zip to the ROOT of your external SD card, power off, then power on, while holding Volume DOWN key
3) You should not extract the archive.
About root - it's a nice thingy - you are able to install a custom recovery in order to BACKUP your current firmware. Then you can flash one of the 4 custom ICS ROMs that will keep your recovery safe and not overwrite it. Actually you can flash very easily any custom a500 ROM with a custom recovery.
Now, try to flash again by using an external SD, if it still doesn't boot, try to hard reset the device (tutorial on how to hard reset - in my signature - in the revert to 3.0.1 thread)
If it still doesn't boot, read this thread on how to recover your tab:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1516012
Good luck.
drkalo said:
0) You shouldn't have messed with this without first understand exactly what and how you do it. There's a really BIG STOP sign in the thread. Read the thread first to avoid bricking your device. Everything is here, so you don't have to "google like crazy".
To your questions:
1) No. You need an external SD for your stock recovery to flash the update.zip
2) Copy update.zip to the ROOT of your external SD card, power off, then power on, while holding Volume DOWN key
3) You should not extract the archive.
About root - it's a nice thingy - you are able to install a custom recovery in order to BACKUP your current firmware. Then you can flash one of the 4 custom ICS ROMs that will keep your recovery safe and not overwrite it. Actually you can flash very easily any custom a500 ROM with a custom recovery.
Now, try to flash again by using an external SD, if it still doesn't boot, try to hard reset the device (tutorial on how to hard reset - in my signature - in the revert to 3.0.1 thread)
If it still doesn't boot, read this thread on how to recover your tab:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1516012
Good luck.
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The above could not have been said any better by anyone. EXACT TRUTH.
i just want to add this is a leak for the a500 . I do not think i would call it official.Also Remember Its yet to be known of the procedure you will have to fallow to accept the RELEASE IF I C S from acer in April (when they say anyway)
Thou from the past i can nearly guarantee you there will be a way. But could require you to downgrade root and flash one of the many ics cwm roms..as in the post above mine signature
drkalo said:
0) You shouldn't have messed with this without first understand exactly what and how you do it. There's a really BIG STOP sign in the thread. Read the thread first to avoid bricking your device. Everything is here, so you don't have to "google like crazy".
To your questions:
1) No. You need an external SD for your stock recovery to flash the update.zip
2) Copy update.zip to the ROOT of your external SD card, power off, then power on, while holding Volume DOWN key
3) You should not extract the archive.
About root - it's a nice thingy - you are able to install a custom recovery in order to BACKUP your current firmware. Then you can flash one of the 4 custom ICS ROMs that will keep your recovery safe and not overwrite it. Actually you can flash very easily any custom a500 ROM with a custom recovery.
Now, try to flash again by using an external SD, if it still doesn't boot, try to hard reset the device (tutorial on how to hard reset - in my signature - in the revert to 3.0.1 thread)
If it still doesn't boot, read this thread on how to recover your tab:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1516012
Good luck.
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Thanks! This all makes sense. However, there remains something unclear to me. If I have to use an external SD to boot a leaked ROM, how/where does the OTA update install from on my internal sd card? Can't I just place this ROM where the OTA usually loads from and run recovery after that? Thanks in advance
austin148 said:
Thanks! This all makes sense. However, there remains something unclear to me. If I have to use an external SD to boot a leaked ROM, how/where does the OTA update install from on my internal sd card? Can't I just place this ROM where the OTA usually loads from and run recovery after that? Thanks in advance
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The way you can flash it yourself (stock recovery: Vol down + power) requires an external SD. You don't have access to your internal storage by using stock recovery and there's no "key combo" you can use to do that. Once you install custom recovery, you'll be able to flash from Internal memory as well (thor's does, still haven't used RA recovery and don't know about it).
...But in order to install custom recovery, you need root. Custom recovery allows you to make full backups of your currently running FW + app data. If you're still on Honeycomb I recommend you get an external SD and go for the method 2 downgrade procedure and root it or go for timmyDean's procedure that installs rooted stock 3.2.1 ROM on your device (says it does need an external SD so it might be your choice), then install CWM and voila - you're in control and you can wipe your tab and install whatever cusom ROM you like....and you backup first of course
If you don't feel like messing with your tab's system, then wait a little more for ACER to release ICS OTA update.
i THINK i know what i did wrong:
i flashed firmware that i found from another site (not filefactory) with mobile odin. i had done a few backups, but did a fresh one anyway from cwm, and moved it to the "external" sd card. i unchecked everroot--i dunno why, i was going to root with the zip file... this may have been my mistake. but i also checked, "factory reset/wipe data/wipe cache etc" from within odin. THIS may have been my mistake... well, when it rebooted, mobile odin went to it, said everything went fine, then rebooted. now i'm stuck on the gTab start-up screen. it doesn't load the boot animation even. i can get into download mode, and i can get into recovery. tried flashing a rom and a kernel on top of whatever is on the device. that didn't work. mobile odin DID take away root. so i rerooted it thinking that cwm may require root to work.
the problem from within cwm is that it isn't seeing the "internal" sd card, or it thinks the external is the internal... that's how i was able to root again, by applying zip from sd card. it worked. so it IS still seeing internal storage.
this may have already been fixed had i not LOST the USB cable.... another one is on order and en route. i can see no solutions with it as is, i'm going to need mobile odin to reflash...
i'm getting an error saying "can't mount emmc"
thanks for any help!!!
moderator, you can delete this post, sorry for the trouble, didn't mean to resubmit "new" thread.
thanks
-C
I just downloaded and flashed my Point of View Mobii using VegaBean-Beta6-120dpi-Apex.zip. (before I had an older version and used recovery apk)
When it finished flashing, I reboot my device, but it's stuck in the booting screen. I waited for almost an hour, it's still in that condition. I tried 5 times, and no change.
I did everything as described:
16GB SD card with primary partition 14GB formatted in FAT32 and another EXT4 partition with 2GB
I copied the ZIP file to your SD-Card
I boot into Recovery using "Recovery app"
I did a FULL WIPE / FACTORY RESET
I installed the ZIP file from SD card
But after installing the reboot got stuck.....
Is there anyone who has same problem like me? And what is the solution for this?
Currently I don't know how to get into any recovery mode as the easy apk is no longer available :crying:
Thank you.
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Hello together,
in the meantime I got my PoV updated by recovering first manually to original firmware
(google helps )
After restoring with original firmware I have reformatted my SD to 15GB primary FAT32 and 1GB primary EXT4 (just in case that the 2GB were too big)
And finally I have used "VegaBean-Beta6-NVFlash.exe"
Now my PoV is running VegaBean :laugh: YEAH!
Same issue
Hi taschenwolf,
I tried to update my Viewpad 10s to VegaBean Beta 6 but I got stuck at the boot screen after the reboot, just want to ask how you recovered to original firmware?
Thanks!
JM128
SD
Have you tried booting without an SD Card?