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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.
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?
I know there are many rooting problem things, but this is different. I am stuck in limbo, it is booting up with no way to turn off. I have no idea what to do.
I used TouchNooter, and it failed.
Please, someone help me fix my never used nook.
So pressing the power button for 20+ seconds does nothing?
Update!
I got it! I tried to restore it, and once it was restored it was also rooted. Amazing, huh?
Anyway, now when I change screens it has odd outlines of everything on the last page.
I ran into the same problem rooting with TouchNooter: rooting failed to complete as prescribed in the rooting instruction, then reverting to stock using n2T-Recovery left my NST in a state much like yours including noticeable ghosting image from prior screen displays.
Finally, I used TouchFormatter to revert to stock and then was able to re-root with successfully MinimalTouch. MinimalTouch's rooting process seems more complicated but in practice is straightforward and works just as prescribed in the instruction.
digixmax said:
Finally, I used TouchFormatter to revert to stock and then was able to re-root with successfully MinimalTouch. MinimalTouch's rooting process seems more complicated but in practice is straightforward and works just as prescribed in the instruction.
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I did pretty much the same, but I tried the Touchnooter twice. Ended up using MinimalTouch.
Rooting with Touchnooter 2.1.31 FAIL
I have a new NST. Upgraded firmware to 1.1.2 and am registered with B&N. Also have several books loaded on my NST.
FIRST I backed up my Nook using the winimage tool and saved that file in case I have to restore.
SECOND I followed the directions exactly to get the proper touchnooter image on my 2gig microSD card using winimage. All went well. I checked the card and all files appear to be there.
NEXT I attempted to root my NST. Here's what I did, step by step:
1. I powered off the Nook
2. I inserted the SDcard with TouchNooter 2.1.31
3. I then powered on the Nook
4. Got the TouchNooter screen which says to wait for the black screen flash, remove SDcard, then reboot.
5. About 20 seconds later saw a quick black flash
6. Immediately the next screen (the Nook startup screen) with the 5 dots appeared.
7. The Nook hung at this screen, with the first dot black. I waited about 10 min. just to be safe.
8. Nothing else happened
THEN I:
9. Removed the microSD card
10. Powered off the Nook
11. Powered the Nook back on
AND....
The Nook was NOT rooted, I saw the READ FOREVER startup screen and the Nook started up as normal with no root.
I never saw the "Rooted Forever" screen.
I tried rooting my NST 2 more times.
Same outcome.
Can someone PLEASE explain how to get Touchnooter 2.1.31 to actually work?
My nook still says "Read forever" when I boot up, but I believe it is rooted. Touchnooter, same process as yours.
What happens after it boots up now?
Do you see the button saviour arrow on the right edge close to the middle?
"rooted forever" shows up if you're booting using noogie. I don't think you'll see that screen from TouchNooter. It should boot up looking normal but once you "unlock" the screen after first boot you would see the little android robot that takes you through setup.
First I see the Read Forever screen.
Then after it boots up it flashes then goes to the author screensaver and I have to slide to unlock. I do not see any android symbol or button saviour on the right edge. The screensaver takes up all the real estate.
Once I slide to unlock the screen goes to wherever I was before in my Nook. Usually the home screen.
If there's an android symbol appearing...I'm not seeing it.
cbay said:
My nook still says "Read forever" when I boot up, but I believe it is rooted. Touchnooter, same process as yours.
What happens after it boots up now?
Do you see the button saviour arrow on the right edge close to the middle?
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When I used TouchNooter it would reset my firmware version back to showing 1.1, so I ended up using MinimalTouch to root. It stayed on the black screen when it "flashed to black" for me, though. You could try restoring back to 1.1 and then using TouchNooter, or give MinimalTouch a try?
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First I see the Read Forever screen.
Then after it boots up it flashes then goes to the author screensaver and I have to slide to unlock. I do not see any android symbol or button saviour on the right edge. The screensaver takes up all the real estate.
Once I slide to unlock the screen goes to wherever I was before in my Nook. Usually the home screen.
If there's an android symbol appearing...I'm not seeing it.
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I believe your nook is not rooted then. You should try again with touchnooter.
I tried 3 more times.
Same result.
Then I tried using MinimalTouch.
Also the same result with the screen ending up at the Nook login screen with the 5 dots and stopping there, hanging.
I don't know what to do to get this NST rooted.
lottanookie said:
I tried 3 more times.
Same result.
Then I tried using MinimalTouch.
Also the same result with the screen ending up at the Nook login screen with the 5 dots and stopping there, hanging.
I don't know what to do to get this NST rooted.
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Between my 1st and 2nd attempt with TouchNooter, I did do a factory reset using the settings menu,and re register the device to B&N.
Okay, I finally had time to update my A500 to ICS I was at 3.1 and was rooted. I went through several updates to get to ICS. 3.2, 3.2.1, a small patch, then 4.0.3. After the update finished, saying it was successful, my tab will reboot itself no longer than 30 seconds after it gets to the lock screen I don't have time to uninstall any apps that might be interfering with startup, not that i could tell whats doing it, and i don't have time to do the factory reset through the system menus Not sure why but the recovery (power&vol boot) only displays a red triangle over a dead droid so, guess my actual question is, how could i go about correcting this issue? I have ADB if needed, but I don't know were to start. any help would be appreciated. THANKS.
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Okay, so I managed to turn off the wifi on my tab and it seems to stop restarting. When I do turn on the wifi, several apps give an error that they have stopped. after the second one pops up the tab then restarts unless the wifi is shut off. Any ideas as to what this may be would be appreciated.
Hi, sorry to say that i have the exact same problem.
Updated today from 3.2 to 4.0.3 and after first boot started the reboot sequence that only stopped after I managed to switch off the wifi...
I investigated a little but it seems this is quite an isolated issue... and all ways are leading to the factory reset...
StarCruiser said:
Hi, sorry to say that i have the exact same problem.
Updated today from 3.2 to 4.0.3 and after first boot started the reboot sequence that only stopped after I managed to switch off the wifi...
I investigated a little but it seems this is quite an isolated issue... and all ways are leading to the factory reset...
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guess i'll give that a shot, i dont have much installed anyway...
Hi,
Got that problem too. Did a factory reset and it works fine now.
Sent from my HTC Desire HD using XDA
Here's on direct from Acer Support:
(of course us old dogs already know this trick)
Note: Clean boot will erase all the data/information which is saved on your tablet. Recommend you to back up the data before performing a clean boot. (yeah, like you can get in there to save it
1. Shutdown the power (press the power button for long time to shutdown).
2. Press and hold volume up key (the key next to rotation lock) until you finish step 4.
3. Press power button for 3 seconds until you feel device vibrates then release power button.
4. Once you feel device vibrates, very quick to switch on/off "rotation key" many times (this activity has to be done very fast, otherwise it will not success). To ensure you success, switch on/off rotation key when Acer logo appears on screen.
5. Wait for a while (you will see Erase Userdata and Erase Cache on top-left corner on screen), device will reboot and start from OOBE screen.
Managed to get it to work. Appreciate the help. Runs like a champ now.
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I rooted my nook color and then decided to unroot it. However, I was not smart enough to look up how to unroot the nook properly. I selected the wipe and restore option. Now when I turn on my nook, It won't let me sign into my account and proceed. It states, "sorry we're having trouble setting up your NOOK. Please shutdown the device and try again". I've done so several times for the past couple of days and had no luck. The nook color was running 1.4.3 and it is the 8gb model. I used the manual nooter 5.02.19 and clockwork 3.2.0.1 eyeballer for the original root. Is there any way to fix this? Thanks
Have you tried 8+1 reboots?
That's were you start to reboot the unit but as soon as you see something on the screen you hold down the power button and start the process over, (you are interrupting the boot process). You'll need to do that 8 times. If you miss and it reboots you'll have to start over. On the ninth time it will be pretty clear that things have changed but in the end you should see Kate as though you had turned the system on for the very first time.
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Have you tried 8+1 reboots?
That's were you start to reboot the unit but as soon as you see something on the screen you hold down the power button and start the process over, (you are interrupting the boot process). You'll need to do that 8 times. If you miss and it reboots you'll have to start over. On the ninth time it will be pretty clear that things have changed but in the end you should see Kate as though you had turned the system on for the very first time.
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I just did exactly that and it reinstalled the software and cleared the data. It looks different from before but it's still giving me the same error message. And then when I power off the nook, i can see the rooted android interface with the bottom taskbar. The card is out of the nook as well. Is the 8+1 reboot method the only way?
Are you able to connect to wifi? You have to be able to do that before it will let you log in to your account and set up.
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Are you able to connect to wifi? You have to be able to do that before it will let you log in to your account and set up.
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Yeah, I connected to my wifi. Its the last step in the setup process that is giving me trouble which is signing into my bn.com account.
Qubertoz said:
... The nook color was running 1.4.3 and it is the 8gb model...
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What is the exact model number as seen on the box?
ah ha...I can help you.
You have a nook that was probably not originally registered to you or has the original registration messed up somehow.
You need to skip the out-of-box experience. Misry, you know this...
When your girl Kate shows up, hold volume up, tap the bottom right corner of the screen and then the bottom left
A green box for the Factory Screen pops up. Select it.
hold volume up again and tap bottom right. Skip OOBE button comes up. Select it.
This will allow the Nook to run stock normally, w/o registration (even after reoot!)
You should be able to completely erase the original registration since you have wifi through the settings menu. Just go to factory reset from there.
Sweet, right? It was my saving grace when my wifi chip borked and no matter what wipes I did, the nook would crash when it tried to remember my saved network config. Only a true, complete factory reset loses that stuff (including the original registration stuff.)
mateorod said:
.... Misry, you know this...
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I need to quit replying from work.