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[Q] Nook Color Bricked. HELP!!!!!!

Hi there,
I am a newie when it comes to tech and some time ago i decided to purchase a nook and root as a full tablet.
I installed Phiremod Rom V5 and everything worked fine. Yesterday i updated the Rom to Phiremod V6.2 and my power button stop working.
After reading some threads i decided to factory reset my nook and went to CWM mode via the rom manager. Then i choose the options factory reset and now the screen is stuck in CWM mood. I cannot turn off, reset or do anything with my nook.
It would be much appreciated if someone could help me out cuz u don't know what to do and i cannot take it back to Barnes and Nobel for repairing...
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!

You're going to have to. You have a hardware failure. That power button is completely faulty, I had the same thing happen to me. Restore it to stock (do your best, it took me a few hours to get it back with that faulty button) and call barnes and nobles. Otherwise you're just going to have problems.

Well the thing is that i don't know how to turn my nook on without pressing the power button. I have to wait until the battery is completely drained and it will turn off automatically but turning it back on into Clockworkmod is the complicated part. I can't send the nook to BN with no rom installed.
How did you manage to recover the stock rom???
Thanks in advance.

If the nook is off, and you plug it into a charger it will turn on. You have to get the stock image from the Development section of these forums.
As far as getting into CWM with out the power button, CWM bootable sd card would be your best bet.

Don't panic
Here's what u have to do, let the battery run out first, it will automatically turn off.
To turn it on, just connect charger,it will take some time to start.
Try CWM again or Use a bootable CWM sd card to restore your nook to stock or see if it can be done via adb.
Take your nook back to B&N (coz this seems like a hardware fault).

Thanks a lot
I already created a bootable sd card with CWM and am still waiting for the battery to drain out completely. I find it so interesting that all this happened within 12 hours of installing the new Phiremod Rom.
I will try to wait and see how it works after the recovery.
Only another short question. I am currently studying in Europe but coming back home for a couple of days and then i have to leave again. How are the people in BN and are they going to tell me to wait until they fix it or give me a new one???
Thanks for all your help guys. I can finally relax now

I had a kinda similar scare yesterday. For me I just couldn't get the power button to do anything, and apparently it wasn't a hardware fault. I ended up getting it to work by using a bootable CWM SD and having the power cable unplugged. When I tried with the power cable plugged in I got no response. I don't really know how easy battery access is on the nook, but that's something to think about for a hard reset. Good luck!

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.

[Q] The Unbreakable Bootloop - Am I bricked?

The Device:
Nookcolor Refurb - came with stock 1.2 installed. Rooted with CM7 - initially had boot partition problems and went back and did the fix for it. (was using an old CWR, so had to redo that, too). Worked mostly fine for a few weeks. Had a little trouble installing the recent cm7 stable update. But after clearing and redo, no problems. Then I updated Adobe flash to 10.3 through the market. bad, bad, bad. (I've discovered). It has gone into a bootloop, but it doesn't even get in far enough to bring up CWR either internally or on a bootable SD card. It brings up "loading" - whether in CM7 or CWR - then shuts itself off. I have tried the 3 button salute and 8 interrupted boots, but neither works in any way. Is there something else I can do?
Also, a side note, the device will not charge to green light - even if charging overnight. At first I thought it was a battery issue, but after a day of combing the boards, I'm thinking bootloop from hell.
Help!!!!

Are you running CM 7 internally or from a card? If internally, try making a bootable CM 7 card and booting from that.

I am running it internally. The device will not boot from a card or internally. It doesn't get far enough into the boot before it loops for CWR to start up - either internally or off the sd card. I can get to the boot menu (hold down n when it starts up), but it doesn't boot off any of the options there, just goes to black screen.

What happens when you do the 8 failed boots?

Nothing really happens with 8 failed boots. I think it terminates the boot process before it gets far enough along for it to "count". Loading comes up, I count one thousand one....all the way to one thousand seven. Then it shuts off, often reboots itself. Same deal with CWR. Loading comes up, count to 7, shuts off. I can get to the boot menu in CM7, but I it doesn't respond when I request any type of boot from anywhere. Either hangs or restarts.
I'm trying ADB, but it won't stay connected. Flicks on right at the end of the loading process and then shuts down. It really sucks.

Shelly, shoot me a pm... i'll give ya my phone number and we'll work on getting it going.

Sorry if this is redundant, but in very basic troubleshooting have you tried charging your Nook? It probably is more complicated/serious than a low battery, but it wouldn't hurt to rule it out.

I finally did get it to charge to green light. Didn't make a difference. I can get it to hang sometimes when it's trying to get into CWR. And it will stay on the Boot Menu.

Just a side note, I have another NC that I've had since Jan. Autonootered, Manual Nootered, CM7ed, brought back from the dead many a times.
Dizzy Den - am shooting you a message shortly. Thanks.

Has this been solved? If yes how?
Could you find a solution to your problem?
I'm having the same issue now. Bought a Nook Color in November, Autonooted, flashed recovery from ROM Manager, flashed CM 7.1.0 internally from downloaded ZIP files via ROM Manager, was working just fine for a week, stable, fast, perfect. Overclocked to 1200 MHz after a few days which made the experience even nicer.
Then installed and started Google Maps which didn't work - the Nook turned off on launch of Google Maps app.
I had set Wifi to "stay on all the time" beforehand (which might have been bad because it creates Sleep of Death syndrome as i now know).
Now when i turn it on it shows "Loading" for 7 seconds and then the screen turns off. This is when booting CM, when booting the internal recovery (shows "loading recovery" for 7 seconds) and when booting from any SD card image (i've tried at least 10 different bootable SD card images, different cards and different card readers).
It recognizes and tries to boot off SD cards - i get different "Loading" screens depending on the image, honey-colored for a honeycomb image, with two skulls for a recovery, ... So that works.
The nook seems to be in some kind of "on" state because i need to hold the power button to turn it off before i can get it to boot again.
I can get to the boot menu as you could, but booting from there doesn't do anything at all. So the hardware seems to be OK because the boot menu itself works well and for more than 7 seconds.
I can charge it and it goes to a green light so it's no battery issue.
The nook does not show up on USB - well once it did for a second but that was it.
I even tried to let the battery run completely empty so internal registers can get reset - didn't change anything.
Help! Is it bricked now?
Going to a B&N store isn't an option btw - the next one is 6500 km from here.
(This is the first time i ever ask for help on a forum. I am running a ZTE Blade with CM7 just fine, and I've been stuck often enough but always found a solution myself...)
Gunnar

Have you guys tried this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1308304
Or completely restoring it to stock:
http://mrm3.net/nook-color-recover-any-bricked-device/

Tried, can't get far enough
Kingdruid, thanks, yes i've tried both of those links - sadly they don't help at all because i can't even boot SD card recovery images...
I tried various recovery images including the newest clockworkmod, but i am still stuck They all work for 7 seconds only.
So yes, a nook can actually be bricked it seems.
G.

tralulu said:
Kingdruid, thanks, yes i've tried both of those links - sadly they don't help at all because i can't even boot SD card recovery images...
I tried various recovery images including the newest clockworkmod, but i am still stuck They all work for 7 seconds only.
So yes, a nook can actually be bricked it seems.
G.
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When you overclocked it, did you notice it getting hotter than usual? I wonder if it was due to the overclocking. All the users I see with unrecoverable nooks is after they overclocked.

No, i did not notice much heat. And it was working well in its overclocked state for a few days.
Do you think it's CPU is fried now?

tralulu said:
No, i did not notice much heat. And it was working well in its overclocked state for a few days.
Do you think it's CPU is fried now?
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I own 4 of them so I would prefer the term "Unbrickable", but at this point I'm not really sure.

Try 8 failed boots and see if you can get into recovery to reset to factory.

cant get it working
so first noob post
i used this thread to root my nook color
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957
problem is i have followed the steps and re done it about 5 times and every time i turn on the nook it goes right to read forever and runs the stock OS
nook 1.2 brand new, and 8gig SD card
when i boot i hold the power button for the 5 seconds, am i missing something?

tntviper1 said:
so first noob post
i used this thread to root my nook color
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957
problem is i have followed the steps and re done it about 5 times and every time i turn on the nook it goes right to read forever and runs the stock OS
nook 1.2 brand new, and 8gig SD card
when i boot i hold the power button for the 5 seconds, am i missing something?
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how did you write the image to the SD card? you can't just do the write button in winimage, you have to use the "convert virtual hard disk image to drive" or something... really should be mentioned in the n00b guides.
Sequence in winimage:
Disk->Use disk (whatever your sd card is)
Disk->Restore virtual hard disk image on physical drive (select the image you're trying to write)
Click ok on the warning and you should have a boot disk
"Write disk" is prominent but just copies the files to the disk, not resize or make it bootable.

Nope - no change
DizzyDen, nope, 8 failed boots does nothing. Just fails 8 times, no restore.

Is my nook color forever bricked? Flashed nook tablet firmware like a goon..

I flashed the nook tablet firmware on my nook color, after a stressful day at work and not realizing what forum I was downloading roms from. All i get is a black screen, I have tried flashing recovery images with no success. Has anyone else done this and recovered?

Have you tried this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25405429&postcount=13

Yea. I don't get any power at all to the screen. I have tried to flash cm7 recovery roms also with no success.

enjoyed said:
Yea. I don't get any power at all to the screen. I have tried to flash cm7 recovery roms also with no success.
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Tried using a CWM Bootable SD? Link
And also repartitioning the Nook by following this.

You might want to try holding the power button for a full 15 seconds... release it... and hold it again for a few seconds and see if it turns on then.

enjoyed said:
I flashed the nook tablet firmware on my nook color, after a stressful day at work and not realizing what forum I was downloading roms from. All i get is a black screen, I have tried flashing recovery images with no success. Has anyone else done this and recovered?
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That is not supposed to be possible. There are assert checking codes in the zips to prevent that. How did you do it? Are you sure you have a nook color? The nook color has a black bezel and the nook tablet has a silver one.
Edit: I just looked at the CM9 alpha for the Tablet. It does not have an assert check in it. So I guess it is possible.
I recommend going to my tips thread linked in my signature and making the 5.5.0.4 CWM card. I would boot to that and wipe /system. That is where most of the files get put by the Tablet CM9 zip. The problem is going to be /boot. Some of the Tablet boot files are named the same as nook color, but are entirely different. (mlo, u-boot.bin). You need to get rid of those. Ordinarily flashing a new rom will replace those, but not sure they will now. You have two choices. Use adb to access /boot and remove the files. That takes a little expertise. Or you could use an older CWM (3.2.0.1 or older) card to wipe /boot (that option was removed in the new version, with good reason.) Ordinarily I tell people to never wipe boot because it wipes the CWM stored there too. But in your case you need to get rid of those tablet files.
EDIT 2: I just did some more research and all of the Tablet ROMs I could find did have assert checks in them. That one I referenced above was one I manually modified to install on a bootable SD. So I am having difficulty figuring out how you flashed a tablet ROM to your color. Since you have not responded to this post, I assume you figured it out, gave up, or were wrong.
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk

I just flashed the newest build to my Nook Color and now the device will not turn on at all. I tried holding down 'power', 'n', as well as 'power', 'n', and 'volume +' and nothing happens. There is no flash on the screen - it is just blank. The device is fully charged, it just won't turn on. I have tried several times (and over several days) to try and turn it on, but to no avail. Any advice?

boomerjr622 said:
I just flashed the newest build to my Nook Color and now the device will not turn on at all. I tried holding down 'power', 'n', as well as 'power', 'n', and 'volume +' and nothing happens. There is no flash on the screen - it is just blank. The device is fully charged, it just won't turn on. I have tried several times (and over several days) to try and turn it on, but to no avail. Any advice?
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The NC will not try to turn on unless there are valid boot files in either the boot partition or an SD. Obviously your boot files are corrupted. Try booting with a bootable SD to see if you can get it to turn on. The battery must also be charged.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

Urgent help needed I bricked the unbrickable nook color

Summary:
I bricked my sister's Nook Color. She bought it refurbished at a pawn shop for cheap and everything was working until I told my sister that I could root the nook and put an android rom on it. My biggest mistake ever.
I looked at a lot of forums relating to the problem and it seems like there isn't a fix. So basically I got to the point of having CWM working.
All was going so well and I decided to flash eyeballer's cm-9-encore-20120904-0700-unofficial.zip on it. The one on Goo.im. After looking at screenshots of CM9 I was impressed.
I did the factory reset on it and wipe the cache, I flashed the CM9 and it was installing and it seem that it was taking a long time and then the nook turned off.
The biggest mistake that I made was that I formatted the boot , I'm a noob, I figured I wasn't the only one so I came across a thread here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
I thought that CM9 got installed and when I went to turn it on, nothing whatsoever... It doesn't boot no more.
I tried putting the 1gb bootable CWM on a 1gb sd card with Win32 Disk Imager and the Nook didn't boot from the SD card either and I also did the same with an 8gb.
When I go connect the Nook on the computer it searches for a driver called Omap3630 but it doesn't install and it seems to disconnect itself.
I am was looking for more threads and found out that I'm in a similar situation as a user called Jiv_au here,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1146065
3rd post. I also tried what he did with the 8 boot attempts, pressing power button for 60 seconds and pressing the power on, the N and the volumes.

Seakuza said:
Summary:
I bricked my sister's Nook Color. She bought it refurbished at a pawn shop for cheap and everything was working until I told my sister that I could root the nook and put an android rom on it. My biggest mistake ever.
I looked at a lot of forums relating to the problem and it seems like there isn't a fix. So basically I got to the point of having CWM working.
All was going so well and I decided to flash eyeballer's cm-9-encore-20120904-0700-unofficial.zip on it. The one on Goo.im. After looking at screenshots of CM9 I was impressed.
I did the factory reset on it and wipe the cache, I flashed the CM9 and it was installing and it seem that it was taking a long time and then the nook turned off.
The biggest mistake that I made was that I formatted the boot , I'm a noob, I figured I wasn't the only one so I came across a thread here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
I thought that CM9 got installed and when I went to turn it on, nothing whatsoever... It doesn't boot no more.
I tried putting the 1gb bootable CWM on a 1gb sd card with Win32 Disk Imager and the Nook didn't boot from the SD card either and I also did the same with an 8gb.
When I go connect the Nook on the computer it searches for a driver called Omap3630 but it doesn't install and it seems to disconnect itself.
I am was looking for more threads and found out that I'm in a similar situation as a user called Jiv_au here,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1146065
3rd post. I also tried what he did with the 8 boot attempts, pressing power button for 60 seconds and pressing the power on, the N and the volumes.
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The problem is that you formatted boot, and CM does not include all of the needed boot files if you formatted boot. You will need to flash the stock firmware back onto the device, and then you can proceed to flash whatever ROM you want on the device, LINK.
I am not sure what version bootable CWM you are using, but download and flash this one,LINK. Since you saw the Omap3630 driver prompt, it does mean that it still is alive and attempting to go through the booting process. As for getting it to boot from this card, you will not get any visual indication that the device is on or not, the screen will stay dark if it’s on or off. Since the device might have been on this whole time I recommend that you fully charge the device before proceeding forward. With no USB cable connected to the device, press and hold the power button for 30 seconds, then insert the SD card, then press and hold the power button for 5 seconds to turn it on. It should boot into the CWM recovery, if it does not press the power button for 30 seconds and try again. It might take a couple attempts, but you should be able to get it. Once you get the device to boot, wipe data/cache, and flash the stock image, and reboot the device. Once you have a working device, you can then boot into the CWM card, and flash the ROM that you want.

GMPOWER said:
The problem is that you formatted boot, and CM does not include all of the needed boot files if you formatted boot. You will need to flash the stock firmware back onto the device, and then you can proceed to flash whatever ROM you want on the device, LINK.
I am not sure what version bootable CWM you are using, but download and flash this one,LINK. Since you saw the Omap3630 driver prompt, it does mean that it still is alive and attempting to go through the booting process. As for getting it to boot from this card, you will not get any visual indication that the device is on or not, the screen will stay dark if it’s on or off. Since the device might have been on this whole time I recommend that you fully charge the device before proceeding forward. With no USB cable connected to the device, press and hold the power button for 30 seconds, then insert the SD card, then press and hold the power button for 5 seconds to turn it on. It should boot into the CWM recovery, if it does not press the power button for 30 seconds and try again. It might take a couple attempts, but you should be able to get it. Once you get the device to boot, wipe data/cache, and flash the stock image, and reboot the device. Once you have a working device, you can then boot into the CWM card, and flash the ROM that you want.
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You gave me a bit of hope but its not booting. The nook is dead... thanks for the help.
edit: I heard that pressing Power + N is like forcing a shut down so I hold those for 30 seconds and then put the SD card in it No boot.
I tried it again and put the Sd card in it and then press the power button still nothing. I believe this is definitely dead. I wish she had bought it at the B&N store. I think I'm getting her a Nook tablet. I owe it to her.