So I've rooted my Nook a long time ago but now had some problems with it so did a hard reset (using this method:
Code:
Turn off your N2E completely.
Turn it on again by holding down power, and then,
as soon as the screen flashes, begin holding down the bottom page turn keys on the left and right of the device until the screen flashes with a message asking if you want to do a factory reset.
Click the home key twice, and you should be on your way.
Then, since I couldn't enter the Android home screen (launcher) I tried to root it using the Lifehacker guide, but it turned out unsuccesful (when I entered the SD card, I didn't have the ROOTED FOREVER screen, just the ordinary Root Forever). I also had a B&N registration process on startup, which I gladly did. I skipped the android registration process, but didn't get the option to select the launcher. So now I'm on the usual Nook Home screen and can't change it, but when I hold the NOOK button pressed I got a message "no recent applications", which I think indicates a presence of Android? So how can I get the android launcher again? Searching for launcher does not work
The question is whether you have a launcher installed and whether it is the preferred activity.
You can try ADB and look for the launcher.
Then you can look at /data/system/packages.xml and see if you selected the stock Home.apk as your preferred-activities instead of the launcher.
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How do I reset ButtonSaver's Home setting or reset the default launcher when I accidentally set ButtonSaver's Home icon to the Nook Home screen.
I rooted last night using the minimal touch method which worked great. I wanted my rooted Nook Simple Touch to boot to the Nook Home screen and still have the ADWLauncher available. Somehow, I screwed up the settings and now I can't get to the Launcher screen anymore. I installed the beta5-2 XWFullTouch version.
Install a new launcher from market. This will allow you to choose/set the default again.
Try Launcher Pro.
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cbay said:
Install a new launcher from market. This will allow you to choose/set the default again.
Try Launcher Pro.
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But how do I get to the market when my Nook boots to the Nook Home screen and Button Saver's home button also takes me to the Nook Home screen.
Thanks for the help. I searched for "adb wireless" and found the following page:
www DOT androidcentral DOT com/android-quick-app-adb-wireless
I then searched for and downloaded the apk for the latest version of Launcher Pro as you suggested.
Then:
Code:
$ ./adb.osx connect 192.168.1.139
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
connected to 192.168.1.139:5555
$ ./adb.osx devices
List of devices attached
192.168.1.139:5555 device
$ ./adb.osx install ../LauncherPro-0.8.6.apk
355 KB/s (2170663 bytes in 5.964s)
pkg: /data/local/tmp/LauncherPro-0.8.6.apk
Success
$ ./adb.osx reboot
It asked me again about which launcher to use right away. Thanks again.
I just realized (now that I can access my device again) that the program's name is Button Savior. I'm trying to figure out of I can have my nook boot by default to the regular nook home screen, but then still be able to use button savior (or something like it) to get to another launcher when I need it.
Primarily, after rooting, I want my Nook to just be a Nook reader, and then when needed, I want to be able to access the other apps.
The other way is more convenient,and that is what
most people do. Boot into ADW or Launcher Pro, and hit the
N button to go to the nook reader. Button Savior -> home
to get back to ADW or Launcher Pro.
If u leave the nook in the nook reader mode, it will not switch back
to ADW unless you hit Button Savior home. So just leave it
in the reader mode always if that is what you want.
I tried Button Savior at first. It's not bad for what it does and it tries to be low-key.
Still, it wasn't low-key enough and some of the buttons don't even do anything.
I finally got rid of Button Savior and the B&N QuickNav and just have the "n" button go right to my ADW Launcher desktop.
I ended up just deciding to leave it booting to Launcher Pro and then I switch it over to the Nook home screen with the N button upon first boot. I also figured out how to create a shortcut to an activity so I could get to the unreachable android settings. Mainly, I wanted to lock the device with a pin code since it now links to my google account. Also, the latest version of Button Savior requires turning on USB debugging which is what led me to try and figure out how to get to that settings menu.
sr105 said:
But how do I get to the market when my Nook boots to the Nook Home screen and Button Saver's home button also takes me to the Nook Home screen.
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I had the same problem but the solution is very simple - you can access market/Google play from any computer and choose programs to download to your nook (assuming it's registered) ...
sramotylf said:
I had the same problem but the solution is very simple - you can access market/Google play from any computer and choose programs to download to your nook (assuming it's registered) ...
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Good suggestion. Definitely easier for most people than downloading and using adb.
Ok, 1st time posting. I rooted my nook without a problem. But somehow I can't get to my bn home screen now. I probably did something stupid with settings. I used the method on this website for rooting, followed all directions. I can get to my current book by using the bookmark symbol, but can't get to the bn homescreen with my library etc, Please help!
Probably the Nook's memory is full, try to reboot it
Hi there. After rooting my second Nook (with TouchNooter, if i'm not mistaken) I also started having that kind of issues: the BN Home, Library and sometimes even the Book icons cease to respond, or do it very slowly.
I think it happens when the memory is full, and the problem disappears when I reboot it.
If you never rebooted it before: long press (for about 5 seconds) the Power button until the "Turn off Nook" dialog appears, then press "Power Off". Wait a sec, and long press the power button again until the screen goes blank and the Nook reboots.
If the dialog doesn't pop up and the device ceases to respond, don't panic; it's turned off all the same. Long press the Power button one or more times until it comes back to life.
Hope this helps, and good luck!
thispdxgirl said:
Ok, 1st time posting. I rooted my nook without a problem. But somehow I can't get to my bn home screen now. I probably did something stupid with settings. I used the method on this website for rooting, followed all directions. I can get to my current book by using the bookmark symbol, but can't get to the bn homescreen with my library etc, Please help!
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Which method for rooting did you use?
What have you tried so far to get to your home screen?
* Have you tried the home button on Button Savior?
* Have you tried the library app in your app drawer?
What happens if you try these?
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Renate NST suggested I post this in this forum
To all the developers - Thanks in advance for all the GREAT work!
The Saga
Installed touchnooter-2-1-31 and NST hung on install.
Waited an hour and rebooted
NST booted to "walking dots"
Used n2T-Recovery_0.2
Went thru "start-up" dialog (register, etc) and got the machine running again.
Noticed that NST SW was at 1.0
Updated NST to 1.1.2
Installed touchnooter-2-1-31.
Boot screen was "Read Forever"
Android fired up.
Missed the select ADW - should have done that
Button Savior wanted Superuser - should have done that
Buttons on side grayed out
Used n2T-Recovery_0.2 again
did not get me to the "register" start-up dialog
Updated NST to 1.1
Installed touchnooter-2-1-31 again
Boot screen is still "Read Forever"
Same action on buttons - grayed out
So .... my take on this is given the multiple installs I have scrambled something but good.
Is there a way to get to square zero?
Will the erase and de-register do that?
Is there a way to correct the ADW / Button Savior issues?
Is there a way to get to Android despite to side buttons?
Thanks in advance for any help.
The NST works as a reader - so I'm not dead - just wounded
I think you're jumping the gun on doing recovery. When you reboot, aren't you at the ADW Launcher screen? It's been a while since I rooted my NST using TouchNooter (TN), but I believe you can launch the Superuser app after a basic TN root and change the settings for any apps you goofed on (e.g. Button Savior). Just launch Superuser, click the icon of the desired app at left, then click the little android icon at right to toggle the Status between Allowed and Denied.
Erase & Deregister Device in Settings->Device info should suffice to get you back to an unrooted state for a repeat attempt, assuming you can get to it. I've used it many times. If not, power off, then press & hold the lower left & right buttons as you power back on for a few seconds to get a factory reset option. I believe this would have helped you after that first TN hang. You could just retry after a factory reset and reboot. (Haven't had to do this myself, so not 100% sure.)
Download and install Default App Manager from the Google Market to change your default launcher so you can set it to ADW, or whatever you prefer. This works for changing defaults for any app, so is a good thing to keep around.
For the side buttons, do you mean the hard side buttons? You can change those settings with the Side buttons option in NookTouch Tools.
Also in NTT, you can change the 'n' button behavior to take you straight to your home app (ADW) if you don't like the QuickLaunch menu (I do). Be sure to check the Show extra action buttons in recent option, and you'll get Back, Home, Menu, Search and Orientation buttons (just like Button Savior) when you long-press the 'n' button, as well as your most recent apps.
As I mentioned in a separate post, I prefer to use NookTouch Tools to override the B&N QuickLaunch options to eliminate the need for Button Savior or similar apps altogether. Between a QuickLaunch option or two, and the extra options in the recent apps dialog, I've got those options covered. I did remap two of the hardware side buttons to Back and Menu just because they're handy.
I've had very good luck using TouchNooter, but you do have to read the step-by-step directions carefully. There are ways around most problems if you can get to ADW.
Good luck with it!
bobstro said:
I think you're jumping the gun on doing recovery. When you reboot, aren't you at the ADW Launcher screen? It's been a while since I rooted my NST using TouchNooter (TN), but I believe you can launch the Superuser app after a basic TN root and change the settings for any apps you goofed on (e.g. Button Savior). Just launch Superuser, click the icon of the desired app at left, then click the little android icon at right to toggle the Status between Allowed and Denied.
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It boots to the reader ... buttons are there on the right side, but grayed out and non-functional (no superuser on button.savior)
So .. is there something I can boot from off the SD card that would allow me to
1.) Set ADW as the default, and / or
2.) Give Button.Savior the Superuser permissions?
Erase and Dereg is available as I only have access to the reader and not ADW.
Thanks for the help folks!
Were I the original poster, I would recover from my nonrooted backup image and re-root, or if I could not find it or found it but found that it was not 1.8 gig in size, would force factory reset (first, erase and deregister, then 8 failed, IIRC, to get both /system and /data wiped.)
Once I'd done a full reset, if I'd needed to do it that way, I'd boot from noogie and make my backup.
Then i'd reroot, probably using one of the Clockwork-based tools rather than the Touchnooter system, as it seems that
folks are sometimes seeing TN not quite finish (it happened to me on occasion) and the Clockwork tools seem to be
very robust, enough so that the Glownooter uses clockwork.
I actually like to really baseline something like this and be sure there's no odd cruft hanging out in /system or /data that may confuse me later.
WorkenOnIt said:
It boots to the reader ... buttons are there on the right side, but grayed out and non-functional (no superuser on button.savior)
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You're definitely seeing some odd behavior. I always wound up at ADW on any reboot.
Erase and Dereg is available as I only have access to the reader and not ADW.
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You should still be able to get to it via Settings->Device Info. In my experience, erase and dereg was sufficient to make another rooting attempt, but you might want to get back to ground zero. The restore option you've been using, a restore from backup as roust suggests, or doing the 8 failed boot attempts are all options. Be sure to update to whatever version of firmware you want before attempting.
Roust: After you do a CWM noot, what version does Device info show? Mine always shows 1.1.0 after TN, even though I updated to 1.1.2 previously. This has to do with some of the framework tweaking, IIRC. My TN may be old by now.
To all,
Thanks for all your help.
I did an Erase and Deregister.
That appeared to work
Checked firmware - was 1.1.0
Tried to reload TouchNooter (2-1-31)
Screen hung again - like the first time.
Waited 30 minutes and pulled the SD and rebooted.
Boot screen still says "Read Forever"
Went thru the startup dialog and selected the ADW launcher and allowed superuser on the button.savior.
I can now "complete the action" with the ADW launcher and the side keys function.
Everything appears to be working ...
Gmail gets to the account ..
Now why does it still say "Read Forever"?
Anyway - again - thanks for the help
This can be closed ... but I dont think it is "solved"
WorkenOnIt said:
[...] Screen hung again - like the first time.
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When TN completes, you just get the black screen. This is not spelled out in step 8 of Gabrial's procedure, but it is mentioned in the on-screen instructions. Is that what you were seeing?
Boot screen still says "Read Forever"
[...] Now why does it still say "Read Forever"?
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When I first power mine on, I get the "Read Forever" screen which is shortly followed by the rolling dots as the device boots. After a few moments, I get the slider unlock screen. Is that what you're seeing?
If so, I think that's normal.
Once you unlock, you're at the ADW screen now, right? Or at least you can get back to it in some way?
bobstro said:
When TN completes, you just get the black screen. This is not spelled out in step 8 of Gabrial's procedure, but it is mentioned in the on-screen instructions. Is that what you were seeing?
When I first power mine on, I get the "Read Forever" screen which is shortly followed by the rolling dots as the device boots. After a few moments, I get the slider unlock screen. Is that what you're seeing?
If so, I think that's normal.
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Screen never blanked .. it did in tries #2 and #3 .. but not #1 and this last one
I thought it would say "Root Forever" ... but hey, as long as it works!
bobstro said:
Once you unlock, you're at the ADW screen now, right? Or at least you can get back to it in some way?
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It boots to the "Home" reader .. but buttons on side (House) get me to the ADW / Reader selection
WorkenOnIt said:
[...] It boots to the "Home" reader .. but buttons on side (House) get me to the ADW / Reader selection
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Good to hear it's working. If you don't like the side buttons that Button Savior uses, you can use Nook Touch Tools to provide a couple of alternatives.
You should also be able to change your default Home app using the technique I described above.
IIRC, the "rooted forever" screen only shows during the rooting process. I think Noogie uses that.
Hi all,
Having followed the instructions I now have a non-bricked NST with NookManager and ReLaunch. I now have two fairly irritating problems, probably due to me poking around in the settings menu a bit too hard.
PROBLEM THE FIRST
In ReLaunch, my Settings gear does nothing. I press it and the screen flicks and then goes back to ReLaunch (exactly where I was in the first place). This makes my inner tinkerer sad and also makes it more than a little difficult to try and fix the issue with:
PROBLEM THE SECOND
If I go to the Nook e-book reading mode and then take myself back to ReLaunch (I'd bound it to long-press of the hardware n key before my Settings button stopped working), the entire bottom bar has vanished. Which means no Applications button, which means I can't really get to launching any of my apps, which means I have... an ebook reader. The only way I can restore it is by rebooting the NST and selecting ReLaunch from the launcher menu at startup.
Any clues?
Floomi said:
Hi all,
Having followed the instructions I now have a non-bricked NST with NookManager and ReLaunch. I now have two fairly irritating problems, probably due to me poking around in the settings menu a bit too hard.
PROBLEM THE FIRST
In ReLaunch, my Settings gear does nothing. I press it and the screen flicks and then goes back to ReLaunch (exactly where I was in the first place). This makes my inner tinkerer sad and also makes it more than a little difficult to try and fix the issue with:
PROBLEM THE SECOND
If I go to the Nook e-book reading mode and then take myself back to ReLaunch (I'd bound it to long-press of the hardware n key before my Settings button stopped working), the entire bottom bar has vanished. Which means no Applications button, which means I can't really get to launching any of my apps, which means I have... an ebook reader. The only way I can restore it is by rebooting the NST and selecting ReLaunch from the launcher menu at startup.
Any clues?
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You say you cannot access apps, so figure you have Android Market installed? You could try this - Install launcher 7, once installed, you can 'open' it from the notification. You should then be able to access your apps. Make your first port of call the Nook Touch Mod Manager.
Or you could reset the settings in ReLaunch
I have the same problem.
Floomi said:
In ReLaunch, my Settings gear does nothing. I press it and the screen flicks and then goes back to ReLaunch (exactly where I was in the first place).
Any clues?
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I even unrooted my Nook and rooted it back to fix his. Unfortunately after one use of settings, this problem occured again. Would anyone help?
Undoubtedly it hit an error and died.
What error? Look at the logcat and see.
You need ADB to see logcat.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/BN_Nook_Simple_Touch/Installing_ADB
Floomi said:
PROBLEM THE FIRST
In ReLaunch, my Settings gear does nothing. I press it and the screen flicks and then goes back to ReLaunch (exactly where I was in the first place). This makes my inner tinkerer sad and also makes it more than a little difficult to try and fix the issue with:
Any clues?
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I have the same exact problem. Could anyone please help fixing this?
Hi again..
I seem to have set the Nook ST glowlight to go to relaunch instead of the B&N homepage . Now when I click on 'n' and 'Home', it goes to the Relauncher instead.
Is there a way to reset this so it goes to the B&N page again?
I *think* that if you just install another launcher (anything from the market) you will be presented with the possible choices again when you try to access "Home". Then you can select the default B&N Home screen and later uninstall the added launcher.
Yeah, I installed Launcher 8 recently and this didn't trigger that option again. It is there when I do some things, but I think I asked it to remember my choice for the Home button. I am used to Windows OS and when you do something like that, you can always rectify it, by using either default programs or file associations etc. Android must have something similar, no?
When you make a default choice there is a message that tells you where you can reset the option but it seems to refer to a utility that is not accessible the way the Nook is configured. Can't remember exactly what it says but I've run into the problem before and what I offered seemed to work for me. Did you reboot after installing the additional launcher? I guess the other alternative is to UNinstall all of the Android launchers you've added and reboot. Then there would be no alternative to the Nook "Home". Assuming that works you could then reinstall your launcher of choice. It's a pain, I know. I've "rebuilt" my Nook many times while trying to get over the learning curve. Finally bought an additional SD card so I could save a backup every so often when I'm trying out something new. That's come in handy.
No, it's not like Windows at all (which some people would probably say is a good thing).
No need to uninstall anything. With reLaunch go to the app "nook touch mod". Using this app you can map the nook button to anything you want including the B&N Home page.
Unfortunately this doesn't work either. You can set the 'n button' to do anything but bring up the small taskbar at the bottom, which then takes you to the Home page you have set up.
What I wanted back was the ability to hit the n button, and then be offered the choice of relaunch or B&N home. I can still get to the B&N homepage when the unit starts from being powered down. It's not the end of the world, but a little frustrating.
I haven't even tried to sideload apps or anything yet. And my one attempt to download a book ended when it seems my download location is set as an SD card.. I used to think I was tech savvy. It's only going to get worse. :silly:
gozo81 said:
Unfortunately this doesn't work either. You can set the 'n button' to do anything but bring up the small taskbar at the bottom, which then takes you to the Home page you have set up.
What I wanted back was the ability to hit the n button, and then be offered the choice of relaunch or B&N home. I can still get to the B&N homepage when the unit starts from being powered down. It's not the end of the world, but a little frustrating.
I haven't even tried to sideload apps or anything yet. And my one attempt to download a book ended when it seems my download location is set as an SD card.. I used to think I was tech savvy. It's only going to get worse. :silly:
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There is a Android App "Default App Manager" on Google play that may work.
gozo81 said:
Unfortunately this doesn't work either. You can set the 'n button' to do anything but bring up the small taskbar at the bottom, which then takes you to the Home page you have set up.
What I wanted back was the ability to hit the n button, and then be offered the choice of relaunch or B&N home. I can still get to the B&N homepage when the unit starts from being powered down. It's not the end of the world, but a little frustrating.
I haven't even tried to sideload apps or anything yet. And my one attempt to download a book ended when it seems my download location is set as an SD card.. I used to think I was tech savvy. It's only going to get worse. :silly:
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I had a vague notion that NookTouchModManager didn't work with Glowlight, but I might be wrong. If it does work, then you don't want to set the "N" button to bring up Home. Rather you want to set the QuickNav Home button to "default". That's going to get you the B&N page you seek. But that means you will need a way to access your app drawer/launcher as well. For that purpose either one of the other QuickNav buttons could be reassigned OR you could assign a long press of the "N" button to initiate the launcher.
If NTMM doesn't work with Glowlight then I stand by the original idea: uninstall any launchers and reboot. With no alternative, you should get the B&N Home screen unless you have in some other way reassigned the QuickNav Home button.
Don't get discouraged. As a noob (still...) I had to start over quite a few times and there were times I was sure I had bricked my Nook. But I didn't.