The device in question is a nook simple touch, model number bnrv300, software version 1.1.0.
I rooted my device using touchnooter. I am unsure of the version, as I did it at a friend's house on their computer, but I believe it was the latest version.
I did not make a back up of my nook before rooting. I read the wrong parts of the internet in the research I did pre-root, which said that switching back to stock fully was a trivial matter, and I had no content I needed to backup .
Anyway, here's my problem -
I can't seem to find any way to FULLY unroot my nook after running touchnooter. I can do a factory reset (turning device off, holding bottom left and right buttons immediately after it turns on), and I can erase and deregister
However, as soon as the factory reset is done, I get the android screen that you get right after running touchnooter.
And while my device largely works fine, certain things are a little off. Wifi connectivity, for one.
From what I've read, touchnooter may have overwritten certain info that is unique to every nook, and this might make it impossible to truly go back to stock. Is this so?
Is there any way to fully get rid of touchnooter and be running JUST the default B & N software?
I don't understand what isn't getting overwritten by a factory reset, and where the changes made by touchnooter reside that they aren't
being erased by one.
Thanks a lot for your help in advance.
Wordreader said:
[...] I did not make a back up of my nook before rooting. I read the wrong parts of the internet in the research I did pre-root, which said that switching back to stock fully was a trivial matter, and I had no content I needed to backup .
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There is some information that's unique to each NST, but it doesn't sounds like you've messed that up. Just go slow, and you should be fine.
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However, as soon as the factory reset is done, I get the android screen that you get right after running touchnooter.
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Do you mean the launcher (ADW) screen?
And while my device largely works fine, certain things are a little off. Wifi connectivity, for one.
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From what I've read, touchnooter may have overwritten certain info that is unique to every nook, and this might make it impossible to truly go back to stock. Is this so? [/QUOTE]Gabrial can tell you for sure, but I do not believe that this is correct.
Is there any way to fully get rid of touchnooter and be running JUST the default B & N software?
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Have you seen this page? I believe you have cleared all your user data, but that parts of the TN process modifies some of the system partition. I suspect doing the 8 failed boot process will reset things as you like. You might also update to 1.1.2 once you're done since the updates clear up some known wifi issues.
Good luck, and DON'T PANIC!
Have you seen this page? I believe you have cleared all your user data, but that parts of the TN process modifies some of the system partition. I suspect doing the 8 failed boot process will reset things as you like. You might also update to 1.1.2 once you're done since the updates clear up some known wifi issues.
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I had thought that the 8 failed boot process method did the same thing as holding the bottom left and right buttons when the unit is powering on.
I thought wrong!
I'm so glad you suggested that.
I went ahead and followed the directions on that page. When it had finished, for good measure, I also used the method where you hold the bottom left and right buttons immediately after powering on.
And voila, no more launcher (ADW) screen!
After that, I applied the 1.1.2 patch.
...And my wifi is working great again!
My nook is seeming back to good as new. So I'm gonna make a full back up of it's current state.
Thanks so much for your help, totally fixed my problem
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After several unsuccessful attempts to mount 3.1 on my Xoom, something seems to have caused the display to reverse. That is, the display is a mirror image of what it should be! This starts with the boot-up image of the Motorola Icon and carries all the way through till it's up. Several restarts have failed to resolve it, and it has me in a bit of a panic.
Have I just bricked my Xoom? Has this happened to others? Ideas? Suggestions? There's nothing on it that I have to save, so I could re-flash it, but I am not sure if/how to do this.
Many thanks in advance for any suggestions/fixes!
Phillip
Its not bricked if it boots...
That is strange though. May have to reflash stock images.
Try bringing everything back to stock?
Thanks, I would be happy to do that, but it's kind of hard to do it with everything backwards!
I had to hold my cell phone up to the screen to (barely) read the mirror image text in the System Recovery. But, when I selected (what I thought was) the 'Restore Defaults' option in the blue recovery area, I got another screen with a list of selections that I also couldn't read! Rather than choose the wrong thing, I opted to reboot, but no luck, alas.
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Thanks, I would be happy to do that, but it's kind of hard to do it with everything backwards!
I had to hold my cell phone up to the screen to (barely) read the mirror image text in the System Recovery. But, when I selected (what I thought was) the 'Restore Defaults' option in the blue recovery area, I got another screen with a list of selections that I also couldn't read! Rather than choose the wrong thing, I opted to reboot, but no luck, alas.
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No push the images using adb
I figured it could be done. Could you please point me to a thread explaining how to push images using adb?
Not sure if you have 3g or wifi but here are the 3g instructions
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=988942
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Not sure if you have 3g or wifi but here are the 3g instructions
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=988942
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That's great, thanks for the info. I'll have to do this later today when I am at a PC (now at a Mac).
Any ideas about why this would happen in the first place? I've looked through the forums but haven't seen any other threads about this issue. It may be fixable with a reflash, but it sure was 'easy' to 'break' today without even knowing why...:^(
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Not sure if you have 3g or wifi but here are the 3g instructions
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=988942
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I have the 3G model. Looking at the instructions in that post, I have to admit I am not sure about a few (like most!) of the steps. It may become more apparent when I am doing it, but right now I am not clear as to where these steps take place.
[edit] Ok, I have just done some more reading and it appears I have quite a bit of work ahead of me, and that's just to get back to square one. Dang this was too easy to mess up!
I am confused now, I figured you would have adb installed since you already tried upgrading to 3.1 a few times.
All you need to do is flash the stock system, recovery, and boot image files.
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I am confused now, I figured you would have adb installed since you already tried upgrading to 3.1 a few times.
All you need to do is flash the stock system, recovery, and boot image files.
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Sorry for the confusion, but I haven't been using adb. I was trying to install the update manually with a usb data stick and the microsd cord that came with my Xoom. That's how I got myself into this pickle...way too easy it was!
Sent it back
Thanks to all who helped here. I ended up taking it back to Verizon and asking for a replacement. This they did, and even shipped it overnight at no charge (though I had to ask them to do that--they were going to charge me). The fellow at the counter was as perplexed as me. Apparently this is not a common problem.
Hi, folks,
I just [successfully] did a factory reset using the usual procedures. Upon final reboot, it takes me through the initial Nook Color B&N setup and registration process, but after successful connection to wifi, and entering my email/password, the device fails to register with B&N with the following message;
"Sorry we're having trouble setting up your NOOKcolor. Please shutdown the device and try again. If the problem persists, contact Customer Support at ...."
I've tried to shutdown and register a few times now with the same message.
What's the best path at this point to get this device back up and running, either in the B&N rom, or preferably straight to a more generic Android rom if possible?
Thanks in advance for anyone that can point me in the right direction.
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Hi, folks,
I just [successfully] did a factory reset using the usual procedures. Upon final reboot, it takes me through the initial Nook Color B&N setup and registration process, but after successful connection to wifi, and entering my email/password, the device fails to register with B&N with the following message;
"Sorry we're having trouble setting up your NOOKcolor. Please shutdown the device and try again. If the problem persists, contact Customer Support at ...."
I've tried to shutdown and register a few times now with the same message.
What's the best path at this point to get this device back up and running, either in the B&N rom, or preferably straight to a more generic Android rom if possible?
Thanks in advance for anyone that can point me in the right direction.
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If you don't care about the stock rom just go ahead and use CM7. Check out the guide in my sig.
Sent from my NookColor using Tapatalk
koopakid, you nailed it, I'm all setup. Thanks for that 'getting started' guide. CM7 internal is really fantastic.
Just to follow up with the error, there was a reason for this. When doing the steps to "restore to stock" the old fashioned way, I went in to de-register the device, and I do not believe it actually completed.
Because I was switching users (one family member to another) with this reset, B&N had to be involved to manually de-register the device, so I could finally register it properly under the new user. It did require me to provide B&N with the user information for the de-registration (the user giving up the device).
Dug up from the dead but probably useful to others as it is to me as I'm now being offered a "Factory Reset" after my Nook Color failed to boot many times (if memory serves the count is 8 failed boots?). I think I was runing CM7 (it's been a while) and I'm not sure why it refused to boot all of a suddent, hopefuly it's not a hardware problem...
Looks like I'm going to lose everything anyway if I have to reflash to CM7 (I saw posts about CM9 so that might be better?) so I'll give factory reset a shot and see what happens!
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Dug up from the dead but probably useful to others as it is to me as I'm now being offered a "Factory Reset" after my Nook Color failed to boot many times (if memory serves the count is 8 failed boots?). I think I was runing CM7 (it's been a while) and I'm not sure why it refused to boot all of a suddent, hopefuly it's not a hardware problem...
Looks like I'm going to lose everything anyway if I have to reflash to CM7 (I saw posts about CM9 so that might be better?) so I'll give factory reset a shot and see what happens!
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If you replace the stock recovery with CWM when you put CM7 on your device, the factory reset will not work. You might just try flashing a new ROM.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
Thanks, in the end I went with stock v1.43+ ManualRooter 5.08 and so far so good!
I messed up something while rooting, unrooting and restoring. Somehow found an online zip of Nook simple touch and applied using clockwork mod. Worked fine. Now trying to find latest copy for glowlight. Please let me know if it is out there or upload.
Thanks,
Jayant
I'm not exactly sure what your question is.
If you wish to do a factory reset - power off your nook, power on, and just as it starts up, press the left bottom button and the right bottom button at the same time - do not let go - keep holding. Eventually a message will come up asking if you wish to reset,(now you can release the two buttons), click the 'n' , it then asks again if you really want to reset, click the 'n' to confirm.
Use these instructions to do a backup before you root :
http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/20...-and-restore-nook-glow-and-nook-simple-touch/
If you wish to root your Nook with Glowlight, then use the instructions found here :
http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/20...using-glownooter-includes-googles-app-market/
Hope this answers your questions,
I think what I need to do is unroot first before trying again.
Thanks,
Jay
Factory reset should work, then be sure to take a backup before you try to root.
I did factory reset already couple of times. Tried again. But glowlight does not work. I think this is because I updated software from regular touch instead of glowlight. I think I need to update software again for glowlight.
Try to manually "update" from B&N.
Can you go to B&N's support web site and manually download the latest software update to the Glowlight? (I assume there has been at least one.) Then apply it according to B&N's manual update instructions. I did this when I needed to take my Nook STR back to stock after messing up some things. It worked of me, of course if you take this action, you will have to re-root.
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Can you go to B&N's support web site and manually download the latest software update to the Glowlight? (I assume there has been at least one.) Then apply it according to B&N's manual update instructions. I did this when I needed to take my Nook STR back to stock after messing up some things. It worked of me, of course if you take this action, you will have to re-root.
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Sadly, there has not (to my knowledge) been an update for the Glowlight. I spent a while hunting for one last night.
John
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Sadly, there has not (to my knowledge) been an update for the Glowlight. I spent a while hunting for one last night.
John
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That is true. I can't find software for 1.1.5 version anywhere.
Hi,
First of all, sorry about my english. It's not my primary language.
I recently bought a used Nook Simple Touch on eBay. The previous owner had tried to root it, but failed somewhere along the way. I got it dirt cheap and figured I could fix it..
I've read "all" the unbricking guides here on the forum, but I'm yet to make it start. I can boot CWM, but for some reason noogie is not starting at all.
At first, the device said "Rooted forever" all the time, but after some messing around in CWM it's instead displaying "Your NOOK is starting up..." in five different languages, and stops there.
The thing is, I'm not even interested in the reading features (B&N apps, e-books, etc.), I just want to use the device to display a status webpage that I've made (weather updates, bus/subway/tram departures, etc. etc.), so as long as it can run Chrome or similar I would be perfectly happy! Is there a vanilla android ROM available so I don't need to care about the "device specific" data that I've been reading about (the one you're supposed to take a backup of)? Or can I just flash it with any NST firmware if I'm not interested in the reading functionality?
Thanks!
Have you tried Nook Manager? I've had really good luck with it and it includes a factory image reset. It may be a way to get back to something you can work with.
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Have you tried Nook Manager? I've had really good luck with it and it includes a factory image reset. It may be a way to get back to something you can work with.
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I agree. I just received my nook from ebay a couple of days ago. I've tried a number of different root methods and google apps installers. Nook Manager + NTGApps was by far the simplest for me.
Also, have you tried the stock factory reset?? I'm new to this, so I'm not sure if it will work -- but I thought I bricked mine 3-4 times and the factory reset saved me every time.
0) Take out any SD cards (just making sure you don't have anything bootable on the card)
1) Press and hold the power button until it resets
2) As soon as it begins to reboot press and hold the bottom left and bottom right physical buttons until you see a prompt.
3) Wait for the prompt and press the "n" button once to confirm the factory reset
4) Press the "n" button again to begin the factory reset again.
After you factory reset, upgrade to 1.2.1 and then root using Nook Manager. Then, you'll have the browser available to you.
* Use Nook Manager to make a backup *
Thanks for the suggestions you guys! I finally got it to work!
Noogie finally booted up. I just left the nook, with the noogie sd card in, connected to my computer when I went to work. When I got home, it had started. Since then it started every reboot. No idea why it didn't work in the beginning?
Alright, this is how I did. This information is scattered around the forum already, but hopefully it can help someone in my position.
1) I realized that the partitions table was probably messed up, so after "aligning" it using fdisk and the table found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=29585690&postcount=6
I could restore my /rom partition. After I've made a backup of the /rom files...
2) ... I flashed this file using noogie:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=49389880&postcount=2
3) I mounted partition2 on my computer (still using noogie) and copied my /rom files back to it.
4) It started! So I applied the official 1.2.1 update from B&N. After update I realized that I actually have a glowlight! It was listed as a regular Simple Touch, so that was a pleasant surprise.
5) Rooted using NookManager. Worked flawlessy. Installed Opera Mobile 12.1 (which have websocket support that I needed). I now have an awesome status "frame".
Thank you for all you help, including the guys & girls posting in the threads linked in this post.
Hey all,
I rooted my NST waaaay back and haven't touched it again until now. I want to use it for another project now but want to update it first.
I'd like a rom with adb, button savior, usb host mode, su, busybox, and that's it (unless i'm missing something that i should really have).
I'll sideload anything else I need, and I don't want gapps or amazon appstore or anything.
Though I wouldn't mind an 'e-ink friendly' theme or whatever.
Is the best process to erase and deregister, or can I just use CWM and whatever rom I want on an SDCard and update it directly?
Thanks
There only seems to be three ROMs still being developed. Two of them are somewhat full of bloats. But the CM11 port being worked on right now is operable off a micro SD card and it is barebone. Doubt that it have the requested features (button savior?) but out of the three, that one seems to be the best match. And it will only gets better once the porting stabilize some more.
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There only seems to be three ROMs still being developed. Two of them are somewhat full of bloats. But the CM11 port being worked on right now is operable off a micro SD card and it is barebone. Doubt that it have the requested features (button savior?) but out of the three, that one seems to be the best match. And it will only gets better once the porting stabilize some more.
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That is partly true, but the current CM11 build is nowhere near stable enough to run as a daily driver.
Our friend here should probably go the NookManager route to start off; what do you think?
I'm far from using it as a daily driver, and I might even be able to drop the host mode requirement. It just needs to run an android app I'll develop, but wifi will need to work too. I'll check out CM11.
If I can start with a rooted version of the latest firmware, that'd be fine, but NookManager says: "For best results, however, you should be on 1.2.1 before using this tool." So, what's the best path to update to 1.2.1 or the latest firmware, given that I'm already on a rooted (and registered ) 1.1.0?
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I'm far from using it as a daily driver, and I might even be able to drop the host mode requirement. It just needs to run an android app I'll develop, but wifi will need to work too. I'll check out CM11.
If I can start with a rooted version of the latest firmware, that'd be fine, but NookManager says: "For best results, however, you should be on 1.2.1 before using this tool." So, what's the best path to update to 1.2.1 or the latest firmware, given that I'm already on a rooted (and registered ) 1.1.0?
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A factory wipe will be the first thing to do. Restore your Nook to the state in which it came out of the box.
Then, either register or bypass Oobe to get into your "new" Nook. Once that's done, you can follow the instructions here to update to 1.2.1.
After that, you can use NookManager.
I found some instructions that you had previously given to someone in another thread here
It took me forever to get the 8-interrupt restore to work, and afterwards, it still had ADW launcher and some other stuff that I had installed.
I did not do the 'Erase and deregister this device' at any point.
After the 8-interrupt restore, I transferred the 1.2.1 update to the root of the Nook, rebooted and let that install.
Then after it booted, it pleasantly informed me it was at 1.2.1 but it still had the ADW launcher, so I rebooted onto NookManager and rooted it.
Now it's rooted, but still has ADW launcher and also has ReLaunch obviously.
Should I have done the 'Erase and deregister' to fully wipe it back to how it was when it came out of the box?
If I use the NookManager option to factory restore it, will that get me a clean slate?
Thanks for the help man, I know this thing is ancient
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I found some instructions that you had previously given to someone in another thread here
It took me forever to get the 8-interrupt restore to work, and afterwards, it still had ADW launcher and some other stuff that I had installed.
I did not do the 'Erase and deregister this device' at any point.
After the 8-interrupt restore, I transferred the 1.2.1 update to the root of the Nook, rebooted and let that install.
Then after it booted, it pleasantly informed me it was at 1.2.1 but it still had the ADW launcher, so I rebooted onto NookManager and rooted it.
Now it's rooted, but still has ADW launcher and also has ReLaunch obviously.
Should I have done the 'Erase and deregister' to fully wipe it back to how it was when it came out of the box?
If I use the NookManager option to factory restore it, will that get me a clean slate?
Thanks for the help man, I know this thing is ancient
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To avoid potential issues in the future, you definitely should use the Restore factory.zip function of NookManager. That will assuredly get you back to the factory state.
Then, update to 1.2.1, root with NookManager, and you're on your way.
And you'd be surprised at how much development is still underway for the Nook Touch - it may be old, but it sure isn't obsolete. In fact, the Nook Touch is my personal specialty, as you might have guessed from my username.
Anyways, if you ever need help with your Nook in any way, shape or form, don't hesitate to PM me or post on the forums. Either way, I'll see it and reply.
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To avoid potential issues in the future, you definitely should use the Restore factory.zip function of NookManager. That will assuredly get you back to the factory state.
Then, update to 1.2.1, root with NookManager, and you're on your way.
And you'd be surprised at how much development is still underway for the Nook Touch - it may be old, but it sure isn't obsolete. In fact, the Nook Touch is my personal specialty, as you might have guessed from my username.
Anyways, if you ever need help with your Nook in any way, shaoe or form, don't hesitate to PM me or post on the forums. Either way, I'll see it and reply.
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Just posting to say that this is sound advice. I was in a similar situation, wanted to give my Nook ST the latest and greatest developments,. What worked for me was to use NookManager to restore factory.zip, this actually upgraded the Nook to 1.2.0, so I assume that comes with NookManager somehow. Then I used the Nook 'Settings' to go to unregister/reset the device, then finally, bypass the OOBE setup using crazy_jake's method ...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1162693
... and now I'm off to re-root it and add all the apps again!
Big thanks all!
Grab what you need from here: https://drive.google.com/folderview...EwRndzUklrN1dRVTRuZVJXRlp1N0hWRTQ&usp=sharing
All zips install via CWM.
But for What you want grab & Flash these in this order:
nook_1_2_update.zip - This is just an optimized version of the default UK ROM with init.d+Busybox.
ReLaunch-ONLY.zip - This will replace the Home with ReLaunch.
USB-Audio+FastMode+Host.zip - Also enables ROOT/SU - Install this after logging into your B&N account. If you install it before you won't be able to register with B&N.