I've been looking at threads and blogs all over to try and find a fix that will work but I can't find one. I guess this is sort of my last hope.
I tried to update CM7 using ROM Manager. I selected to flash the ROM and create a backup, but when it turned back on it got stuck in a boot loop at the "Touch the Future of Reading" screen. I then tried to create a bootable clockwork recovery SD card, but it just will not work. I re-burned the image to the SD card 3 times so far. All the Nook does is display the "Touch the Future of Reading" screen indefinitely. It no longer is in a boot loop, it just won't get past this screen.
I'm completely out of ideas, if somebody could tell me what to do to make it boot into clockwork recovery I would be really grateful. Really, getting it to boot into anything would be great.
mchalbscal said:
I've been looking at threads and blogs all over to try and find a fix that will work but I can't find one. I guess this is sort of my last hope.
I tried to update CM7 using ROM Manager. I selected to flash the ROM and create a backup, but when it turned back on it got stuck in a boot loop at the "Touch the Future of Reading" screen. I then tried to create a bootable clockwork recovery SD card, but it just will not work. I re-burned the image to the SD card 3 times so far. All the Nook does is display the "Touch the Future of Reading" screen indefinitely. It no longer is in a boot loop, it just won't get past this screen.
I'm completely out of ideas, if somebody could tell me what to do to make it boot into clockwork recovery I would be really grateful. Really, getting it to boot into anything would be great.
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You are in a recovery bootloop with no recovery installed. Go to my tips thread linked in my signature and make a bootable CWM SD as described in my item A10. It has been modified to get you out of these kinds of bootloops. Then you can flash whatever new recovery or ROM (including stock) you want. But do it manually with CWM, not ROM Manager.
EDIT: From the symptoms, it sounds like you had stock on emmc and CM7 on SD (Touch the Future... is stock). If that was the case, your mistake was using ROM Manager with the SD install. It does not work. It only works with emmc installs of CM.
WinDiskImager always tell me "an error has occured when attempting to get a handle on the device. Error 8." so I always use the dd command on Ubuntu to burn the image. Still, I tried to make a bootable SD out of that and my Nook still won't get passed the "Touch the Future of Reading" screen. Also, whenever I try and open the file on the card with the burned image, it tells me the filesystem type is unknown and that I have to format the card to use it.
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WinDiskImager always tell me "an error has occured when attempting to get a handle on the device. Error 8." so I always use the dd command on Ubuntu to burn the image. Still, I tried to make a bootable SD out of that and my Nook still won't get passed the "Touch the Future of Reading" screen. Also, whenever I try and open the file on the card with the burned image, it tells me the filesystem type is unknown and that I have to format the card to use it.
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It is not burned properly if windows cannot read it. Did you use an external card reader rather than any built into your PC? You should. That error message in win32diskimager tells me your hardware is not working. You need to keep trying until it is burned right or it will never boot.
Sent from my Nook Color running CM10 with Tapatalk.
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Hey there. I could really use some help. I rooted my nook color 1.1 a while back with no issues and finally decided to take another step. I added Rom Manager from the market. Did a backup and then after adding cm 7.02 encore to my class 10 16gb card, I followed the Rom Mgr directions to attempt an upgrade. Device is now stuck.
I have tried putting the various .zip files listed in the "Dummies Guide to fixing My Nook Won't Boot."
I have tried using various sized (128 mb, 4gb, 8gb) Clockwork recovery Images (that I write to my card via winimage) along with nook-complete-restore-1.0.1.zip adn also then with repartition-boot-with-stock.zip that i copy and paste onto the card that has the recovery images.
All attempts seem to have the same result:
With the uSD card out: I get "Touch the Future of Reading" then "android_" then the android robot splash screen where it hangs.
With the card in it just sits at a black screen.
I ahve also tried connecting with adb. My nook shows up as a usb device but i can't get a serial number from "Adb devices."
Any idea on how to get this back to something usable?
I really appreciate any help.
rileychris said:
Hey there. I could really use some help. I rooted my nook color 1.1 a while back with no issues and finally decided to take another step. I added Rom Manager from the market. Did a backup and then after adding cm 7.02 encore to my class 10 16gb card, I followed the Rom Mgr directions to attempt an upgrade. Device is now stuck.
I have tried putting the various .zip files listed in the "Dummies Guide to fixing My Nook Won't Boot."
I have tried using various sized (128 mb, 4gb, 8gb) Clockwork recovery Images (that I write to my card via winimage) along with nook-complete-restore-1.0.1.zip adn also then with repartition-boot-with-stock.zip that i copy and paste onto the card that has the recovery images.
All attempts seem to have the same result:
With the uSD card out: I get "Touch the Future of Reading" then "android_" then the android robot splash screen where it hangs.
With the card in it just sits at a black screen.
I ahve also tried connecting with adb. My nook shows up as a usb device but i can't get a serial number from "Adb devices."
Any idea on how to get this back to something usable?
I really appreciate any help.
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You need to boot with your recovery card out otherwise you will just keep rebooting to recovery. Also how long did you wait at the android splash screen? First boot can take a while as the Nook is building cache/dalvik. I believe mine took nearly 10 minutes to boot the first time. Have you tried the 8 failed boot reset yet?
I think i had done well more than 8 without seeing anything happen, but maybe not. This time i tried holding the power, the n, and the volume+, buttons and doing that twice in a row all of a sudden brought me into the recovery menu.
All is well now.
I setup my memory card through WinImage to install size agnostic 1.3. I put CM7 Nightly #177 on my Boot partition of memory card and then put memory card in Nook and it installed and shutdown when completed. I turn on my Nook and it begins with the Read Forever Logo and boots off emmc... It doesn't even try to boot of the Memory card.... I noticed this after I updated my stock Nook on the emmc to B&N 1.3??? Any Ideas why my nook wont boot up Cyanogenmod boot able card? Before B&N 1.3 I would see the Cyanogenmod Logo and I could hold the home key to boot up the boot menu and select either memory card or Stock... But I can't get it too from the memory card? Any Ideas?
Thanks In Advance,
Jer
Any Ideas or Suggestions... What if I copied the u-boot.bin from the boot of the sdcard to the emmc... maybe then I could get it to boot into the cyanogenmod boot and choose the sd to boot.... I don't understand it booted up on the sd card to install the nightly(for the first time that is) and then it just doesn't boot again... it just goes directly to the stock... I know the memory slot works because I used a different memory card and it installed the nightly.... I even tried a different nightly and it install just fine but it wont boot from the memory card again.???
Power the NC off, remove the uSD, insert it back in the NC again, power on.
Try a couple times.
If still having problem, do a fresh clean install again.
Tried what you said... it still shows "Read Forever" instantly after turning it on... no cyanogenmod logo... so it is obviously not even trying to load the SD card. When you say fresh clean install, on what do I do it on... A new memory card and install the latest nightly or Factory reset on stock nook?
votinh said:
Power the NC off, remove the uSD, insert it back in the NC again, power on.
Try a couple times.
If still having problem, do a fresh clean install again.
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Press and hold the N button, then press the power button. Hold them until the green Cyangenmod logo shows AND "booting into recovery" shows up. Then release both.
It will explode CM7 the display will dim (around a 1 minute).
Watch the backlight and when it goes off, reboot the same way. It will flash the green Cyangenmod and the display will go back off (normal.)
Reboot again the same way and then instant you see the green Cyanogenmod logo release both buttons and let it boot up. It will take about 30 seconds for the CMy guy to show up and about a minute total to get to the main screen.
The problem still remains... I don't get to see the Cyanogenmod Logo... It shows the Read Forever logo and boots into Nook stock??? Its like I don't have a memory card in there.... When In stock nook it show the memory card logo in the bottom left and I can click on it it displays the files on it ... u-boot.bin file and all the others.... I just don't understand why it wont boot when turned on.
I wonder if it has anything to do with that I had Clockwork Mod on my emmc and I used the Clockwork Mod remover to get it back to stock recovery??? Maybe this messed up the boot sequence??? It s weird though when I put Cynogenmod on the memorycard the first time... it boots up the card correctly and begins the Linux Penguin install... So obvious it boots from the memory card.... I don't know what to do.
Help!!!
Just curious, but did you try to read the card in the card reader?
If you wrote it in Windows, you might have to check via disk management that a boot partition was made.
winimage sucks. Many, including myself, have had the same issue. Use win32diskimager instead. That's what worked for me.
Thank you Thank you
Win32Diskimager was the key... and too easy to use.... Thank you so much.... It took so long to find out the answer... Thanks to all that tried to help!!!
After several agonizing hours of writing image, formatting, reading, and panicking, I have finally installed CM7 via verygreen's method.
Thanks for the tip about win32diskimager. this made all the difference!
amp3d said:
After several agonizing hours of writing image, formatting, reading, and panicking, I have finally installed CM7 via verygreen's method.
Thanks for the tip about win32diskimager. this made all the difference!
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Check your stock Nook. Did you end up with Clockwork Recovery on it?
how do i check?
as far as i know, there wasnt a CWM on verygreen's method, was there?
When I wrote the image using WinImage, the NC always booted up stock. nothing out of the ordinary.
When I wrote it with Win32, it immediately loaded the installer.
but now after turning the device off, taking out the sd, booting stock, and powering off to put the sd card in, cm7 can't seem to get a wifi connection... hope to find the answer soon
I flashed an ICS nightly from over in the development forum and I'm left with a Nook that won't boot. Basically I flashed the nightly, booted ICS and then rebooted as I forgot to flash gapps. Upon rebooting I got the new cyanoboot bootloader however I can not boot into anything. I just get loading... If I try to boot into recovery I get loading recovery... and nothing. I tried flashing recovery onto my SD card and selecting each one of the 3 SD card boot options from the bootloader menu however none of them work. Everything hangs at loading. Any ideas one what my next step should be?
Sigh!!!
eMMC or uSD?
votinh said:
Sigh!!!
eMMC or uSD?
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Here's the original thread. My best guess is that it's eMMC.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1526115
Obviously the recovery image I tried was flashed to the external SD card.
Got it! Turned out to be a shotty card reader. Swapped it out with another I had lying around and it worked just fine. Thanks anyway!
EDIT: I got recovery working on the external SD card so I tried flashing a stock image. (nookcolor_1_4_1_signed-cwm-OC) I made sure to format everything first. After flashing I held in the power button, removed the sd card, placed it in my reader and formatted it. I reinserted it into the nook and booted. Everything seemed to boot fine until it got to the "nook color by barnes & noble" screen. The gradient bar goes back and forth across the lettering a bit and then I get a flash of a black screen and then back to the lettering. It keeps doing this over and over again like its in a boot loop. Any ideas?
tlenker09 said:
Got it! Turned out to be a shotty card reader. Swapped it out with another I had lying around and it worked just fine. Thanks anyway!
EDIT: I got recovery working on the external SD card so I tried flashing a stock image. (nookcolor_1_4_1_signed-cwm-OC) I made sure to format everything first. After flashing I held in the power button, removed the sd card, placed it in my reader and formatted it. I reinserted it into the nook and booted. Everything seemed to boot fine until it got to the "nook color by barnes & noble" screen. The gradient bar goes back and forth across the lettering a bit and then I get a flash of a black screen and then back to the lettering. It keeps doing this over and over again like its in a boot loop. Any ideas?
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Since you just flashed the stock firmware with OC and CWM (as alternate) you should also have the ability to boot eMMC Recovery Mode... do that... it will clear data... and restore the data from the original rombackup.zip file... should solve your problem.
DizzyDen said:
Since you just flashed the stock firmware with OC and CWM (as alternate) you should also have the ability to boot eMMC Recovery Mode... do that... it will clear data... and restore the data from the original rombackup.zip file... should solve your problem.
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I actually did something along these lines last night but since I flashed the stock firmware that was pre-rooted and with CWM... I booted into CWM, wiped everything, mounted usb, copied over the stock pre-rooted zip file, flashed it and then fixed permissions. Everything booted fine.
i have the same problem but im on emmc. im just stuck with loading... any solution for me?
Hi,
I am afraid the answer will be no, but just in case I just wanted to check
My SD slot doesn't work (springs work, but hardware must be wrong becase different cards formatted different ways are not recognized either on recovery mode or with the nook running, when it did run...) After a bad C10 flash, it got stuck in recovery mode. I flashed several mods and same problem. So in the end I decided to install TWRP with ADB and that was the end of my Nook Something didn't go well and now it is stuck at the cyanoboot screen, where it lets you choose which way to boot (normal or recovery) but both hang forever. No ADB working with cyanoboot.
I guess with no SD card working there is nothing I can do, right?
Still in warranty by any chance?
davidr415 said:
Still in warranty by any chance?
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I moved to Europe so no way they are going to send me a new one over here
gilcasan said:
Hi,
I am afraid the answer will be no, but just in case I just wanted to check
My SD slot doesn't work (springs work, but hardware must be wrong becase different cards formatted different ways are not recognized either on recovery mode or with the nook running, when it did run...) After a bad C10 flash, it got stuck in recovery mode. I flashed several mods and same problem. So in the end I decided to install TWRP with ADB and that was the end of my Nook Something didn't go well and now it is stuck at the cyanoboot screen, where it lets you choose which way to boot (normal or recovery) but both hang forever. No ADB working with cyanoboot.
I guess with no SD card working there is nothing I can do, right?
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Sounds pretty hopeless. Did you try cleaning the contacts in the slot?
I have an A500 that was originally purchased in Thailand. I contacted Acer Thailand and they provided me a recovery package to install. I put this on a FAT32 formatted Micro SD card and it installs, but when the tablet reboots itself it gets suck on the screen with the silver "android" logo.
I've gone also some of the advice in this thread as well: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1874345.
So far I've tried 3/4 recovery zips provided (41-124-01, 41-125-03, 41-203-01) with the same results. Rather than simply trying to load recovery ROMs at random hoping one magically fixes the problem, what I'd like to do what I would like to do is completely erase the flash on the device, and then try reloading the recovery ROM.
Is there a NON-acer recovery tool I can use to blow away everything that is on there now (and presumably, the corrupted bits?)
bassmosphere said:
I have an A500 that was originally purchased in Thailand. I contacted Acer Thailand and they provided me a recovery package to install. I put this on a FAT32 formatted Micro SD card and it installs, but when the tablet reboots itself it gets suck on the screen with the silver "android" logo.
I've gone also some of the advice in this thread as well: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1874345.
So far I've tried 3/4 recovery zips provided (41-124-01, 41-125-03, 41-203-01) with the same results. Rather than simply trying to load recovery ROMs at random hoping one magically fixes the problem, what I'd like to do what I would like to do is completely erase the flash on the device, and then try reloading the recovery ROM.
Is there a NON-acer recovery tool I can use to blow away everything that is on there now (and presumably, the corrupted bits?)
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I ended up getting it booting up into Jellybean. First I tried restoring as mentioned above with the SD card.
This next part, I believe is the key as the device revived after this step. I put it into a bootloader restore mode by powering on with volume down and flicking the screen lock switch once the device vibrated. After this, it continued with the tablet setup mode and booted into Jellybean.