Bricked Nook Color?? - Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

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.

MISRy said:
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.

leapinlar said:
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.

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[Q] Everything seems to be going wrong with my Nook Color

A couple weeks ago I bought a Nook Color on ebay. The first thing I did was turn it on and let it fully charge overnight. I noticed that it was in normal condition, but didn't bother going past the intro screen since an off the shelf Nook Color was not what I was interested in anyway.
The next day I flashed phiremod 6.2 on it with no problems (I have done this process successfully to two other Nook Color's by the way). I am able to connect to my wifi, setup my google account, and open the market. Life is good so far. Then I notice in ROM Manager that there is a phiremod 6.3 version out. I try to download phiremod 6.3 from ROM Manager for an entire day with no luck. The download just kept stalling on me. No problem I'll just download phiremod 6.3 onto my sdcard and flash it through clockwork recovery as normal (performing a full wipe first of course).
Then boot loop for no reason I can tell. Just a boot loop at "Touch the future of reading" with no way to get into recovery without restarting it with the sdcard.
So I put the sdcard back in and wipe and reflash phiremod 6.3 with the same results. Then I wipe and reflash phiremod 6.2...boot loop again. I repeat this process until my eyes start to bleed.
At this point I'm thinking, "There's no reason this should be happening. I wish I could just go back in time and start over." That's when I find this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
Ok, I'll just restore everything back to stock. No clockwork, no phiremod, just Barnes and Noble software just like the day it was born. So I go down the road of restoring the device to stock and instead of bootlooping at "Touch the future of Reading" it bootloops at the "N" screen. I'm running out of ideas so I perform the 8x method, get the OTA install, and still bootlooping at the "N" screen. Oh yeah, and "power + n" wont take it into recovery of any kind.
Now that it seems that I've failed to restore the device to stock, I try to flash phiremod 6.3 again because this is really my end goal anyway. This time it is a success. I connect to my wifi. The device says I am connected and the wifi signal is strong, but I can't establish a reliable data connection with google, or open the market, or browse the web. I turn the wifi off and on, I tell it to forget my connection and add it again, but nothing seems to work until a day later when it suddenly establishes a connection.
So everything seemed like it might be ok at this point except strange things started happening with the device. Power + n doesn't take it into recovery, and never did at any time it has been in my possession. When I try to go into recovery from ROM Manager after flashing CWR I go into a bootloop. This is even after updating Rom Manager and doing things like rebooting after flashing CWR. Wifi always says it's strong and connected but any app with internet access is often times painfully slow to the point of being unusable or at least impractical. Downloading a single app from the market is like pulling teeth, and I regularly get the "retry or cancel" popup over and over again. Sometimes when I tell it to reboot or shut off, I get the "rebooting" or "shutting off" message and it just grinds away endlessly.
The device is currently in a bootloop after just telling it to reboot (normal reboot not reboot into recovery), and I know how to pop in my sdcard with CWR and get out of it. However, my problem is that this is a gift for my sister, and I just cant seem to get this device into a normal working state that I can give to her.
I know that there are plenty of threads answering all of the little problems I have outlined here, but none have resolved them for me nor have I found a single thread that deals with a whole host of problems like this device seems to have.
Thank you for your patience in reading this.
Try restoring to stock 1.2:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1050520
It can't hurt at this point, and it may get you fixed.
Thanks for the reply.
No dice. I tried both of those files. I made sure to format the system and data before flashing each time, and I'm still stuck at the "n" screen.
Alright so here's what I just did:
1) Format system
2) Format data
3) Flash B&N v1.1 "old" 1GB "/data", 5+GB "/media" partitioning zip from:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1094371
4) Reboot
5) Flash Stock 1.2 update.zip from:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1050520
6) Unmount sdcard
7) Reboot
8)Still stuck at the "n" screen.
The story so far:
I was forgetting to do the 8 reboots after repartitioning and flashing stock apparently.
I performed the 8 reboots, and my Nook did a factory reset and OTA update. Now it boots into stock v1.1.0. I see the pretty lady, there's a video, I get to accept a B&N agreement, I connect to either of my wireless connections, but after I enter my account name and password it always says "Error sorry we're having trouble setting up your Nookcolor. Please shutdown the device and try again...." It gives me a number to call so I do. After a long bewildering conversation with tech support, I'm told that my device was once registered to someone else (which I already suspected having purchased it on ebay). I'm told that in order to fix the problem they are going remove the old account from the device, and that when I restart it in an hour I will be one with the Nookcolor universe. It has been many hours, and I am still getting same error message.
Should I continue down this path with customer service (who are failing to inspire me), take it into the Barnes and Noble store this weekend (I don't have a receipt but it at least it boots into stock now), or just go ahead and load phiremod 6.3 (which is my end goal, but I want to make sure I don't take one step forward and then two steps back now that I've gotten this far)?
"Device Info" only has "back," "power off," and "reset."
I just tried holding the "power + n" for 10 seconds as demonstrated here Nook blocked after downloading latest software - Barnes & Noble Book Clubs. This guys seems very happy that this solution worked for him. I don't know why it wont work for me seeing as I have the exact same problem.
Barnes and Noble tech support came through and reset my device. It appears that I have a stock 1.1 Nook Color and all is well. I am even connected and able to browse the internet. Does this mean I am ready to start flashing new ROMs onto it, or should I do more testing while it is still stock?
So I made a nandroid backup of the stock system with no problem. Then I flashed phiremod v7 test. Everything was going well until I went to ROM manager, flashed CWR, and tried to make a backup. It went into a bootloop so I put in my sdcard with CWR. Immediately it started putting my backup on that card. I rebooted it through CWR, but it still went into a bootloop. I then did a factory reset, full wipe, and flashed phiremod 6.3... still bootlooping away. This is one of the problems I was having before I started this thread. The CWR on my sdcard is ClockworkMod Recovery v3.0.0.6.
Sorry to read that you're having so much trouble. FWIW I'm having one hell of a time using Phiremod on my NC, too. I've found solace with CM7 nightlies and the latest Dalingrin kernel.
CWR 3.0.0.6 is very outdated at this point. I use CWR 3.2.0.8 on my recovery SD. I think it was V3.0.0.6 that had problems formatting the data partition, but I could be wrong.
Hope you get it sorted out.
Thanks for the support. Do you know where I could find the latest versions of Clockwork?
There's a typo in my post above. The current version is 3.2.0.1
I read about it and got the files from androidforums.com, although I'd be surprised if they weren't on this forum, too.
I downloaded recovery-clockwork-3.2.0.1-bravo.zip, put in my sdcard, flashed the new version of CWR, and now it is endlessly scrolling through the CWR menu on its own. The log at the bottom says "ClockworkMod Recovery v3.2.0.0," then "Back menu button enabled," then "Back menu button disabled," then "Back menu button enabled," and seems to be continuing like that without end. After powering off, removing the sdcard, and holding the power + n buttons for about 8 seconds, the screen shows the cyanogenmod logo and says "booting into recovery" but does nothing. I've repeated this entire process several times while holding the power + n buttons for varying times and it still doesn't actually boot into recovery.
Wulfie6 said:
I downloaded recovery-clockwork-3.2.0.1-bravo.zip, put in my sdcard, flashed the new version of CWR
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This is the problem. The nook color is the encore not the bravo. You have the wrong recovery image. Its a good thing its unusable...you might fubar your device if you were actually able to use that recovery.
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I created a new boot disk with CWR 3.02.8 and successfully flashed Phiremod 6.3 and CM7 nightly 107. I was still essentially unable to use the internet on both of these ROMs even though my wifi connection said it was good. I did not try using my phone as a hotspot with these versions.
I'm on CM7 108 at the moment. I'm still getting sporadic internet access even though my wi-fi is pretty good (usually just shy of full bars). I connected to my phones wi-fi hotspot which produces full bars on the Nook with good internet results. This isn't practical though because I can't always have my phone creating a wi-fi hotspot. Doesn't this seem odd that my Nook is only internet reliable when it's connected to an excellent wifi connection, but functionally wont work when it's on a good wifi connection?
Also when I go into ROM Manager and try to flash the current version of CWR, it pulls up the "confirm phone model" (when it is actually connecting to the internet) but as soon I put my finger on the menu to scroll through, it selects the first one I touch. This is one of the problems I was having before on all ROMs.
So I just went into ROM Manager, flashed the latest version, then tried to make a backup through ROM Manager, and now I'm in a boot loop again except this is the kind of bootloop where I can't get it to turn off. It just sits there with the cyanogenmod logo saying "Loading..." When I hold the power down, it turns off and then comes right back on. When I hold power + n, it does the same thing but instead of saying "Loading..." it says "Booting into recovery..." I don't understand why this time it's different. If I take out the card that's in there now and put in my bootable SD card while it's in the boot loop, will it fry my cards?
Wulfie6 said:
S When I hold the power down, it turns off and then comes right back on.
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sounds like it's plugged in
TheAmazingDave said:
sounds like it's plugged in
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It's not plugged in.
Return to stock 1.2 - Stuck at n screen fix.
After you flash the 1.2 image with a clockwork recovery sd boot card, and are stuck at the n screen, you will need to restart and have the Nook software reset to default.
1. Hold Power+n for 8 seconds, release n, then power (it may take a couple of tries to get it right).
2. At the "Factory Reset" screen, confirm your intention to reset to defaults (press "home" n).
3. At the "Are you sure?" screen, confirm again (press "home" n).
It will then go to a "Clearing data..." screen and reboot to the stock nook software.
This procedure will reset your device to stock 1.2, just as it was when it shipped.
I second what JoeInternet says. You NEED to be on stock B&N 1.2 to be able to run the latest CM7 builds and ANY .32 Dalingrin kernels or it will not work.
Quick thought... The first thing that should have been done is an ATO 'deregister' to get that nook's ID dis-associated with the original BN account.

Nook Touch - completely bricked, no joke

Okay, I've seen a lot of "I bricked my Nook Touch" posts around, and floating everywhere but none of their solutions worked. I used the TouchNooter step by step, got the checksum right, did everything right.
Loaded the SD card, restart the nook, BAM! Got stuck on the dreaded "Rooted Forever" screen.
Here's what I've tried so far:
redoing the process
booting without sd card
booting again WITH sd card
8 failed boots
factory reset (bottom left and right and the power button)
30 seconds power button hold, 10 seconds without, 10 seconds holding it down
I think that's about it. i'm just about ready to throw this thing out, seriously. Any other ideas?
I think I'll keep on trying to do the 8 failed boots thing
wajanus said:
Okay, I've seen a lot of "I bricked my Nook Touch" posts around, and floating everywhere but none of their solutions worked. I used the TouchNooter step by step, got the checksum right, did everything right.
Loaded the SD card, restart the nook, BAM! Got stuck on the dreaded "Rooted Forever" screen.
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As you're able to power down and reboot your Nook I wouldn't even call it bricked. Bricked is when your hardware fails or you manage to screw up your bootloader
I always get stuck on the "Rooted Forever" screen or boot animation when using either Noogie or TouchNooter image, but the process still works, so this doesn't really indicate that something went terribly wrong.
wajanus said:
Here's what I've tried so far:
redoing the process
booting without sd card
booting again WITH sd card
8 failed boots
factory reset (bottom left and right and the power button)
30 seconds power button hold, 10 seconds without, 10 seconds holding it down
I think that's about it. i'm just about ready to throw this thing out, seriously. Any other ideas?
I think I'll keep on trying to do the 8 failed boots thing
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1,2,3: Unless a simple reboot without the SD card helped this ain't gonna do much good.
4: This usually helps if you can mange to trigger it, it will properly replace both boot and system.
5: This is completely useless. As far as I've seen all it does is clean your /data/app folder and not much more.
6: Never heard of this, can't imagine what it's supposed to do.
One thing you can try the original NookDevs rooting process , see if that kicks your boot into working order again. This is my preffered rooting method.
Your best bet is trying to trigger the 8-failed boot recovery. I've done this a few times on my N2 and it can be a little tricky.
May I ask what version you're running? 1.0.0 or 1.0.1 ?
Thanks.
As far as 6 goes, I saw it on a few forums on the 'net and it was said to break the boot cycle.
I suppose it's not "completely bricked" but I've spent so long with it, trying to get it to work that I'm really, about to ready to throw it away.
I'll try the original guide, hopefully that will trigger it.
It's a 1.0.0, I got it a week after it came out (and it's been bricked since the first TouchNooter came out).
Also, how should I try to do the 8 failed boot recovery? Half the time, it's hard to tell if it's booting, or if it's turned off o.o the only difference I saw is when the Nook is plugged in. Any ideas?
wajanus said:
Thanks.
Also, how should I try to do the 8 failed boot recovery? Half the time, it's hard to tell if it's booting, or if it's turned off o.o the only difference I saw is when the Nook is plugged in. Any ideas?
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First you need to check whether long pressing power will reboot or just power down you Nook. From my experience a unit that "hangs" on boot will power down when the power button is pressed for at least 10 seconds, while a successfully booted unit will simply reboot.
The following is based on my experience with "hung" units:
Prereqs:
- No USB cable attached (not even charger!)
- No SD Card inserted
Steps:
1: 12 second press (to be sure) for power down
- most likely you'll see no change in the screen!
2: Wait 5 seconds for Nook to settle
3: Press power for 4 seconds to turn it back on
4: Goto step 1 as soon as you see the screen flicker!
- Do not wait for boot animation, a simple flicker is enough!
Repeat 8 times
Also, see this thread for a factory restore image
I wonder, if desperate, whether JTAG could be used.
It is REALLY too bad that some people are so impatient.
When it says "rooted forever", that does NOT mean that the process has completed. It means that the process has ONLY STARTED. Give it some time.
WAIT.
Wait 20 minutes.
It will complete.
Be patient.
If you have to, pull out the battery from the thing.
Then put in the special sdcard.
Plug the battery back in, plug the charge plug in.
Turn on.
WALK AWAY AND COME BACK TOMORROW.
Sorry, but I wouldn't call myself impatient. I pre-charged my nook to full charge before attempting rooting. I left the Nook alone without restarting it until I realized it may need charging again. It was THEN that I tried to restart it.
"WALK AWAY AND COME BACK TOMORROW" <- Yeah, I did that.
However, I do admit, I was expecting a quicker root/rom flash I'm used to my Samsung Vibrant
ros87 said:
First you need to check whether long pressing power will reboot or just power down you Nook. From my experience a unit that "hangs" on boot will power down when the power button is pressed for at least 10 seconds, while a successfully booted unit will simply reboot.
The following is based on my experience with "hung" units:
Prereqs:
- No USB cable attached (not even charger!)
- No SD Card inserted
Steps:
1: 12 second press (to be sure) for power down
- most likely you'll see no change in the screen!
2: Wait 5 seconds for Nook to settle
3: Press power for 4 seconds to turn it back on
4: Goto step 1 as soon as you see the screen flicker!
- Do not wait for boot animation, a simple flicker is enough!
Repeat 8 times
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Will try. Currently, my nook doesn't even turn on -.-
wajanus said:
Will try. Currently, my nook doesn't even turn on -.-
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If you can't get it to work, try nookRestore. It basically tricks the nook into thinking you've restarted eight times already.
wajanus said:
Will try. Currently, my nook doesn't even turn on -.-
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How do you know it's not turning on?
Thread moved. Development goes in the development section, questions in the general section. Thanks.
okay, fast forward a few months forward. I did figure out that the nook DOES turn on but it's probably stuck on an infinite loop. I was successful in booting several different "recoveries". There was a tool a few months back that removed root. The "recovery" booted but didn't help.
Since then I tried the new CWR and it booted! I was so excited. I did the whole "factory reset" and deleted all of the caches. Didn't help, the screen still showed "Rooted Forever". I tried to use the "Touch Formatter", unfortunately, that didn't help either. I used the TouchNooter again but again, nothing happened.
Any suggestions? I haven't seen a "stock" image or anything like that to boot into anywhere.
If your partitions are still intact and you haven't overwritten your rom-partition by writing a touchnooter or cwm img-file directly to the nook you could try the following:
-Create a sd-card with cwm,
-download nook_1_1_update_cwm.zip from http://code.google.com/p/nst-recovery/downloads/list and copy it to the sd
-boot into cwm
-use the install zip from sd-card function to apply the update.
The nook_1_1_update_cwm.zip contains the original update to 1.1, it is just repacked to be usable with cwm. That means, if you want root, you have to root afterwards.
The nook_1_1_update.zip that you get directly from Barnes & Noble is a standard zip file with with a signature attached to the beginning. You can strip off the first 0x1A8 (424) bytes and open it with any unzipper.
Renate NST said:
The nook_1_1_update.zip that you get directly from Barnes & Noble is a standard zip file with with a signature attached to the beginning. You can strip off the first 0x1A8 (424) bytes and open it with any unzipper.
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I actually found 7-zip can open it without having to do anything to the zip first.
you guys are AMAZING! I couldn't find the 1.1 anywhere. I'm downloading it and installing it later on today. Will update on progress
Steps work
ros87 said:
The following is based on my experience with "hung" units:
Prereqs:
- No USB cable attached (not even charger!)
- No SD Card inserted
Steps:
1: 12 second press (to be sure) for power down
- most likely you'll see no change in the screen!
2: Wait 5 seconds for Nook to settle
3: Press power for 4 seconds to turn it back on
4: Goto step 1 as soon as you see the screen flicker!
- Do not wait for boot animation, a simple flicker is enough!
Repeat 8 times
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Steps 1-4 solved an infinite loop loading problem with Nook Simple Touch (firmware 1.1).
okay, that seems to have helped some. The Nook boots into a "Read Forever" with a "starting up" thing on the bottom (basically the way stock looks) instead of "Rooted Forever" but it seems like it's in a bootloop, stays on the same screen and never progresses. I'm going to try the n2T to trigger a factory reset. Hopefully, that'll work :/
n2t did not work. Not sure what to do next.

Android boot loop...and can't revert!

...my effort to install Android on my new NOOK Color went smoothly until it started to boot and the boot screen just keeps spinning.
Read many posts appearing to address this issue but reverting to a stock reader seems to require various apps only for a PC. Being a Mac weenie this leaves me out in the cold.
...is there a Mac-centric reader here who can help me return my NOOK into the reader it originally was?
I'm a bit gun shy now of making the device both an Android tablet and a reader! Thanks much in advance.
...addendum!
...playing around with the NOOK I was able to raise a reboot option which, to my surprise, cured whatever fault was behind the boot loop. A couple of spins and CM7 in all its glory appeared.
...but now I can only reboot into CM7...seems to be no option to boot into the original B&N book/magazine reader.
What am I missing? What's the "open sesame" to choose the reader? Tnx again.
MacFreddie said:
...playing around with the NOOK I was able to raise a reboot option which, to my surprise, cured whatever fault was behind the boot loop. A couple of spins and CM7 in all its glory appeared.
...but now I can only reboot into CM7...seems to be no option to boot into the original B&N book/magazine reader.
What am I missing? What's the "open sesame" to choose the reader? Tnx again.
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One thing your missing is giving us information regarding your setup and what you want and/or are expecting.
Is this a SD install of CM7? If so... when you power it up... press and hold "n" button to get the boot menu... selecting eMMC / Normal boot will boot into stock.
DizzyDen said:
One thing your missing is giving us information regarding your setup and what you want and/or are expecting.
Is this a SD install of CM7? If so... when you power it up... press and hold "n" button to get the boot menu... selecting eMMC / Normal boot will boot into stock.
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...thanks much for the quick response.
...yes, I did an SD install of CM7 with all the Google apps, etc.
My objective is to be able to toggle back and forth between the B&N reader and the Android tablet. If this isn't possible I'd like to go back to the reader.
Unfortunately I can't get the boot menu with the "n" button when I power up. Andoid mounts and a white screen offers only "power off" or "re-boot"...no other options.
...following the instructions I used from the web for installing CM7 I removed the SD card before I formatted, etc. Is this an issue?
Looping Problem
Okay so I think I may have the same problem hopefully someone can help. So first I install CM7 and then it gave me when I tried opening the market so I was like okay... so then I downloaded and install manuelnooker and now im boot looping .. So I insert the SD and turn it on but it doesnt boot up to recovery. I only see CM7 and then it boot loops into Nook Color With the big N on top and the small android bottom right corner. Can anyone help me out on what is the best way to get back into recovery. I know if I turn it on while holding the N its says CM7 and in the bottom it shows recovery but never goes to it. Much help please..
Okay so I finally got into CWR but now it gives me an error formatting data when I select mounts and storage and select format data? Im trying to revert back the nook color using nook complete restore 1.0.1. and I try doing it format data in the opening screen but I flash the zip and boot loops. any help is much appreciated.. Thanks
...some progress!
...less sleep but some progress.
...after several unsuccessful attempts I finally got the NOOK to restore to factory specs with the "8 interrupted boot" sequence [can't post the URL because I don't have eight posts yet :-( ].
Wasn't necessary to do the second step described in the post...NOOK automatically did the restore after zeroing the data and my B&N account can be accessed without more.
...but now I no longer have Android capability. Is there any way to install a simple toggle mechanism for both on the same tablet?
MacFreddie said:
...less sleep but some progress.
...after several unsuccessful attempts I finally got the NOOK to restore to factory specs with the "8 interrupted boot" sequence [can't post the URL because I don't have eight posts yet :-( ].
Wasn't necessary to do the second step described in the post...NOOK automatically did the restore after zeroing the data and my B&N account can be accessed without more.
...but now I no longer have Android capability. Is there any way to install a simple toggle mechanism for both on the same tablet?
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You never fully described what you did to begin with. Did you follow specific steps on a site? If so, let's have the URL.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmmmm8cBpe0
URL for CM7 install shown in msg title...server wouldn't let me enter it in msg body!

[Q] Nook stuck in reset loop

I have a rooted, but otherwise stock nook that I was having trouble installing apps from the amazon appstore on. I was trying to find some settings to fix this when all of a sudden it said something about an "authorization error" and reset. When it came back up, it was resetting data and I had to go through all the setup again. When I get to the point where I set up my account, I get the message "Sorry, we're having touble setting up your NOOK. Please shutdown sthe device and try again". Every time I reset it goes back to the same thing. Can I do something to fix this, or do I need to go throught the "restore to stock" and start over?
This happened to me and is the reason that i was driven to install CM7 to emmc.
It was a while ago, but i think i was able to fix this using the debug bridge. I would have to say that restoring to stock is probably your best option, especially if you don't have a recovery rom.
Ok, it's been a while since I've had a chance to look at this (and since the pad works with my CM7 boot card it's not been a priority). I have this to restore to stock: http://nookcolorrooting.com/RestoretoStock.aspx, but when I get to the 2nd step booting with the n key held in doesn't seem to do anything....it just boots up as normal. Is there some trick in how long to hold the button down?
Are you continuing to hold power + n while it's booting?
I've tried it several different ways, including holding the n button down until it has completely booted up.
I did find some instructions for using the clockwork mod recovery to flash the original files and am in the process of working through that.

[Help needed] Phone will not boot after getting pop-up message

Update: *SOLVED*
I got a strange message that popped up on my phone this morning. It stated "It's gonna rain. Take a umbrella with you". It stayed on top everything else and wouldn't go away. I thought that it could possibly be one of my weather apps and got stuck, so I rebooted. After that point, it gets to the Google loading screen animation and never passes. After subsequent reboots, it does the same thing. I am able to get into TWRP recovery though.
Does anyone know what be causing this and/or how to remedy it? Might it be some type of malware? I have attached a screenshot of it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidQue...onna_raintake_a_umbrella_with_you_can_anyone/
mr.dj26 said:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidQue...onna_raintake_a_umbrella_with_you_can_anyone/
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Thanks for the link! I do have GO Weather installed, and I have no issue with getting rid of it. Although, I'm unsure how to do that since I can't boot. Any recommendations?
Gamer_Josh said:
Thanks for the link! I do have GO Weather installed, and I have no issue with getting rid of it. Although, I'm unsure how to do that since I can't boot. Any recommendations?
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well, since you can boot in twrp you can do a factory reset.
safe mode is a better idea but i dont think you can boot into safe mode without starting the phone.
here are the steps but i dont think it will work so try to delete dalvik and cache from recovery, if that didnt work I think factory reset is the only option unless someone has a better idea
Make sure your device's screen is on, then press & hold the Power button.
In the box that opens, touch & hold Power off.
You’ll see a “Reboot to safe mode” box. Touch OK.
Your device will start up in safe mode. Try using your device normally. Remember, you won’t be able to use any installed apps
mr.dj26 said:
well, since you can boot in twrp you can do a factory reset.
safe mode is a better idea but i dont think you can boot into safe mode without starting the phone.
here are the steps but i dont think it will work so try to delete dalvik and cache from recovery, if that didnt work I think factory reset is the only option unless someone has a better idea
Make sure your device's screen is on, then press & hold the Power button.
In the box that opens, touch & hold Power off.
You’ll see a “Reboot to safe mode” box. Touch OK.
Your device will start up in safe mode. Try using your device normally. Remember, you won’t be able to use any installed apps
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I tried clearing the cache and dalvik earlier, along with deleting the GO Weather app files, but that didn't help. I thought about safe mode, but I don't see a way to do it without already being booted to Android.
What if I dirty flash the same stock 6.0 ROM I'm using? I'd like to keep files and apps intact, so I'd prefer to not perform a factory reset, but will if I exhaust other options.
I just realized that I never came back here to update on what happened. I wound up booting into TWRP recovery, connecting to my PC via USB, backing up any data that I needed, then factory reset. That took care of it. Luckily, that also cleared up some other minor, but annoying, issues I was having. Needless to say, I haven't been and won't be using GO Weather EX any longer.

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