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[Q] {Q} trouble with a stock 1.3.0 nook color

ok so after 3 days of trying, i keep getting stuck on a boot-loop I am asking for some help.
before I begin, I have successfully rooted and installed cm7 on 2 nooks that came factory 1.2,I have searched google and these forums but can't find anything with my specific needs.
I have followed the directions on this thread to a tee:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054027
i am using a bootable cwm card (2GB) (cwm version 3.0.2.8)
after installing ManualNooter-4-5-18.zip then ManualNooter-4-6-16.zip I remove the sd card and reboot and I get a boot-loop with the "n color" screen animation. It has not booted successfully yet.
I have already used the 8 failed boots method to restore to factory and re-registered the nook.
Then I redid everything again and im back at the boot-loop.
any ideas

i do not have an answer but this answers my question of whether I want to run manual nooter on my 1.3 or try cm7. the cm7 steps seems more intimidating

Well i tried several more times last night with no luck. Then i got brave and just wiped everything (data,system,cache,dalvick) then flashed cm7 and gapps straight from my cwm boot card. I somehow
Ended up with a fully functional nook. App market works. Rebooted several times to be sure. I even tried usb host with my homemade adapter. Mouse, keyboard, and sandisk cruzer all work splendidly thru a powered hub.
My only mistake was i cant find my backup of stock 1.3 rom. Is there one floating around?
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If I'm understanding correctly, you're trying to go from CM to 1.3, correct?
From what you've described, I suspect Clockworkmod 3.0.2.8 is your problem. If you look carefully as you format /data in preparation for reloading the BN 1.3 firmware, I think you'll see that the format is actually failing. That version of CWM doesn't handle the partitions correctly.
You want 3.2.0.1. See the edits at the top of this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=987735
If you're already on CM7.1, you probably have the correct version of CWM installed. You can save yourself a step by formatting the /data and /system partitions using that, then continuing on with the rest of the procedure for restoring BN 1.3. I went through all this myself a few days ago while preparing to go to BN 1.4.1.

I forgot to mention in my last post that i realized i was using the wrong cwm image and i burned another card with cwm 3.2.01.
I was still getting a boot-loop so i wiped everything and went straight to cm7.
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@bobstro
I didn't read your post correctly.
I had a stock nook that i want to install cm7 on. Not the other way around. I asked about a stock 1.3 file just in case i need to do a restore. The nook is done. Its running cm7 just fine and i have given it back to my friend.
I really need to get myself one :-(
I usually mess around with my sons but he's at his mothers for the weekend with it. After christmas im getting one. Dont know if it'll be a color or a nook tablet but im getting one for sure!
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If you intended to install CM7 from beginning, then why you wasted time messing around with ManualNooter?

Im still rather new to working on nooks. I thought that it was required to use manual nooter first. Im still not sure.
Can someone clarify for mr. If i just bought a nook and i want cm7 on it, whats the best procedure?
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pdrift said:
ok so after 3 days of trying, i keep getting stuck on a boot-loop I am asking for some help.
before I begin, I have successfully rooted and installed cm7 on 2 nooks that came factory 1.2,I have searched google and these forums but can't find anything with my specific needs.
I have followed the directions on this thread to a tee:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054027
i am using a bootable cwm card (2GB) (cwm version 3.0.2.8)
after installing ManualNooter-4-5-18.zip then ManualNooter-4-6-16.zip I remove the sd card and reboot and I get a boot-loop with the "n color" screen animation. It has not booted successfully yet.
I have already used the 8 failed boots method to restore to factory and re-registered the nook.
Then I redid everything again and im back at the boot-loop.
any ideas
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The only boot loop issue I'm aware of is related to Adobe AIR and Flash. The fix is to uninstall them and then reinstall from Market.
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pdrift said:
Im still rather new to working on nooks. I thought that it was required to use manual nooter first. Im still not sure.
Can someone clarify for mr. If i just bought a nook and i want cm7 on it, whats the best procedure?
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I hope you do use Windows at some points.
Let's put it this way.
You bought a PC with Windows XP pre-installed, get home, you don't want XP, so you install Windows 7 on the PC. You just whack the XP.
Same theory applied here, B&N shipped their NC out with the original stock ROM, which is Froyo-based OS. You want to install CM7, which is Gingerbread-OS ROM. You just whack the stock and install CM7.

oh I get it know. so its pretty easy if you want to go straight to cm7 just wipe and flash.
After reading some posts from the nook tablet section, i guess i'm getting a nook color.
what a shame about the locked bootloader :-(
i didnt technically solve the boot loop issue, i just erased everything, but should I mark this as solved and if so how?

The current Nook Color bootloader is not locked. The Nook Tablet's is. I wouldn't necessarily rule anything out, though. The bootloader on the Motorola Droid 2 is also locked, and there's quite an active Cyanogenmod community around it. The only problem is that we're stuck with whatever kernels B&N release, so ICS may be a long way off. I suspect the NC will remain the tuner's machine of choice, but the performance on the NT is very nice. If you can live with a rooted B&N ROM, it's a nice device for now.

billingdl said:
The only boot loop issue I'm aware of is related to Adobe AIR and Flash. The fix is to uninstall them and then reinstall from Market.
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No, it seems that some 1.3 based NC units will bootloop if 4.6.16 is used to root them. I'm not sure why. Even after repartitioning to original nook partition sizes, or using CWM 3.2.01 (which supports the new partitioning), it'll still bootloop if 4.6.16 is used. Might be because of the different kernal included, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to know for sure. They root fine with 4.5.18. Haven't tried one with the new 1.4.1 compatible nooters.

To the original poster;
I'm having the same problem here, installed 4.15 successfully, installed 4.16 and am getting stuck in boot loop at the rainbow nook color screen.
I'm not understanding the 8 boot fail procedure though. Is this when you let the boot loop run through 8 times or when you get to the point of when the boot loop starts, shut the NC off and power it back on?
Also, to install cm7, all you did was put it on your sd card, and installed it through cwm?

The 8 boot method if i recall correctly is when you boot the nook and wait until the splash screen shows up immediately hold the power button and shut it down. Repeat 7 more times. If you did it correctly it should take over and do a restore on its own.
If you want to go straight to CM7 I dont think you need to go thru with this procedure because if you create a bootable cm7 card and insert it in your nook while its off then power up, it should boot you into cwm recovery. Once in the recovery you can flash cm7.
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pdrift said:
The 8 boot method if i recall correctly is when you boot the nook and wait until the splash screen shows up immediately hold the power button and shut it down. Repeat 7 more times. If you did it correctly it should take over and do a restore on its own.
If you want to go straight to CM7 I dont think you need to go thru with this procedure because if you create a bootable cm7 card and insert it in your nook while its off then power up, it should boot you into cwm recovery. Once in the recovery you can flash cm7.
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Thank you good sir! I was stuck in boot loop forever and couldn't find a clean explanation of the 8 boot fail process. I always tried to turn it off when the rainbow nook color screen came up.
I got it reset, made a flashable CWM SD card with 3.2 and then flashed CM7 on there and it works great!!
That was very frustrating, thank you!

Dont mention it, Glad to here I was able to help you out. I felt the same way when I was in that situation. Lots of googling to get a clearer idea on what that 8 boot method entailed. CM7 really makes it feel like a totally different device.
To all the devs that work on these projects, thank you
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ive recently purchased a nook color version 1.3 and did all the steps to build cm7 on sd ard inserted it into my nook it downloaded then rebot and seem to come up im cm7 but my touch screen isnt working any suggestions?

[Q] Boot driver erased.

Ok, long story short this isn't even my nook it belongs to my girlfriend who wanted CM7 on it. I installed CM7 to an sd card and now for her own reasons she wanted to upgrade to the latest official nook release..
Turns out somewhere along the way I installed CWM on the nook and not just the sd card. So for whatever reason she couldn't upgrade from 1.3 to 1.4. I found a way to upgrade to 1.4 through CWM and thought all was peachy until I found that I put the zip on the nook and booted into CWM. At that point for whatever reason when I tried to search for the zip it said "Sd card not mounted" so naturally I found out how to "mount" the sd card and that didn't work.
A forum post on another forum suggested formatting the /boot section and being the genius I am figured "sure what the heck" and now after rebooting nothing turns on.
It doesn't boot into the nook partition, when I insert the sd card it didn't boot into CM7, I even tried this http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...msd-v3-0-1-0-higher-ext3-ext4-compatible.html and it doesn't turn on now.
Is there any thing I can do at this point? I did let it charge over night and the n on the charger went from orange to green.. so I am hoping it isn't entirely bricked, just don't know what to try now..
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No idea why but it just booted into CWM almost randomly.. disregard this I guess..

[Q] Messed up the format of Internal Memory of Nook Color!!! Plz help!!!!

Hello xda experts!!!!! I really need some help!!! The thing is like this : I have installed cm10 alpha 1 for nook on sd card!!! While i was installing it my nook color was also connected to the computer. So in WinImage i accidently chose the 1 gb of nook color instead of the 32 gb sandisk class 10 which i had inserted in pc via card reader. So it began writing on nook color's internal 1 gb memory. More to that, I interrupted this procedure and performed full format in minitool partition manager. i didnt knew the format of internal memory of nook color so i chose fat32 formatting style. But when i rebooted nook color after disconnecting it kept on showing message that system has encountered some issue and it requires the system to restart.But even after reboot the same error kept on showing up!!!!! And since yesterday the stock b&n OS has stopped working completely!!! Doesnt even show the error which it previously used to show!!! Plz resolve this error and help ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Use my partition repair zips in my emmc partition repair thread linked in my signature. Flash with my bootable CWM SD in my tips thread also linked in my signature. Then you can reflash stock back to emmc as also explained in my tips thread.

leapinlar said:
Use my partition repair zips in my emmc partition repair thread linked in my signature. Flash with my bootable CWM SD in my tips thread also linked in my signature. Then you can reflash stock back to emmc as also explained in my tips thread.
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But now it has just black screen!! Not even a flick of light!!! Just plain lback as if the device is dead!!! I kept it with ac charger for over 2 hrs with a hope of its resurrection but no yield!!!! And how shall i decide which partition has corrupted!!!
I tried eyeballers cwm sd bootable img but no yield!!!! The screnn is just plain black!!!

AamirShamma said:
But now it has just black screen!! Not even a flick of light!!! Just plain lback as if the device is dead!!! I kept it with ac charger for over 2 hrs with a hope of its resurrection but no yield!!!! And how shall i decide which partition has corrupted!!!
I tried eyeballers cwm sd bootable img but no yield!!!! The screnn is just plain black!!!
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You need to use my CWM bootable SD. It has been modified to boot in bootloop situations. You can get it on my tips thread linked in my signature.

leapinlar said:
You need to use my CWM bootable SD. It has been modified to boot in bootloop situations. You can get it on my tips thread linked in my signature.
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I dont know how but its on again !!! I think the device was hanged badly and when it was dicharged completely then it booted back up!!! However i still get system error in barnes and noble nook OS while cm10 is running like butter!!!
I still dont get it whether my partitions have been damaged in the nook OS. Beacause i had just formatted the 1gb of data which we get in nook and have nothing to do with partitions!!! However thanx leapinlar!!! You rock!!! Yur contribution in xda is noteworthy!!! Keep up the good work!!!::good:

Bricked while installing TWRP
Hi guys,
sorry to warm up this thread, but I think I have a similar Problem. I was running CMW with CM10.1 and I tried to install TWRP using the manager app, bit I think I chose the wrong model and now I am stuck with a loop of the nook logo at the beginning. I cant even boot from sd card or anything. Does somebody have an idea how to fix this?
Cheers!

chrizzl111 said:
Hi guys,
sorry to warm up this thread, but I think I have a similar Problem. I was running CMW with CM10.1 and I tried to install TWRP using the manager app, bit I think I chose the wrong model and now I am stuck with a loop of the nook logo at the beginning. I cant even boot from sd card or anything. Does somebody have an idea how to fix this?
Cheers!
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You probably messed up you partitions. Go to my NC partition repair thread linked in my signature. But you will somehow have to get the NC to boot to SD. Also make sure you really have a Color instead of a Nook Tablet. Colors have a black bezel and Tablets have a grey one.
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leapinlar said:
You probably messed up you partitions. Go to my NC partition repair thread linked in my signature. But you will somehow have to get the NC to boot to SD. Also make sure you really have a Color instead of a Nook Tablet. Colors have a black bezel and Tablets have a grey one.
Sent from my SM-T707V using XDA Premium HD app
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Thx leapinlar,
infact I do have an Nook HD+. Problem is I cant get it to boot from SD. I already tried the HD+ bootable CMW-Images u posted in ur other thread, however it never gets out of the nook-logo loop. It seems like the partitions are so messed up that it cant boot from sd... could one somehow solve this by connection the thing to a pc?
Cheers!

chrizzl111 said:
Thx leapinlar,
infact I do have an Nook HD+. Problem is I cant get it to boot from SD. I already tried the HD+ bootable CMW-Images u posted in ur other thread, however it never gets out of the nook-logo loop. It seems like the partitions are so messed up that it cant boot from sd... could one somehow solve this by connection the thing to a pc?
Cheers!
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I don't have a partition repair for the hd+. Why are you posting this in the Nook Color forum? The hd+ do brick easily.
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Hard Bricked...... in a wierd way.

So guys i have bricked my nook. Doesn't turn on or anything no screen flashing or anything. if anyone could help me on this i would appreciate it.
Well i was on cm 10 and 10.1 for a while and i finally decided to try other roms. i installed every rom on my internal so not my sd card. (my sd is 32 gig sandisk class 10 ultra). so i updated my recovery to flash more roms and when i did cwm didnt read all my backups. cwm only read my cm7 backup and cm10 backup. (using clockwork recovery). So first i installed SCHIZOID p.a.c. rom. But on that rom everytime i wanted to boot up i would have to full wipe + reflash rom without it getting into a bootloop. Then i tried Mirage's cm7.2 rom. When i flashed that rom, the loading bar in cwm would get too about 3 quarters and BAM! My nook would turn off and only load the bootloader. so from the bootloader i opened up cwm recovery and went straight to my backup, and apparently, dumbass cwm says theres no boot.img or system.img and data.img....etc in my cm7 backup. so i went to my cm10 backup and that said md5 mismatch. WTF??? So i tried to reflash Mirage's cm7.2 rom and BAM! same thing happen, but about 7/8ths of the bar was filled before it force shut down by itself. But this time i cant access the bootloader and i have it ultimateley hard bricked.
so please if anyone has any un-hard brick or jtag repair threads or anything i would appreciate it. And would a bootable sd fix this? the screen wont turn on/flash or anything so im not sure if it will load the sd card
Edit: I've found out that plugging the nook to my computer and holding the power button for 20+ seconds makes my computer make a sound that my windows machine recognizes the nook but then it quickly makes another sound and my computer doesn't recognize/thinks the nooks disconnected

Leapinlar has an excellent guide.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1621301

gravitysandwich said:
So guys i have bricked my nook. Doesn't turn on or anything no screen flashing or anything. if anyone could help me on this i would appreciate it.
Edit: I've found out that plugging the nook to my computer and holding the power button for 20+ seconds makes my computer make a sound that my windows machine recognizes the nook but then it quickly makes another sound and my computer doesn't recognize/thinks the nooks disconnected
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The reason it appears to not turn on is your boot files in the boot partition are corrupt.
The way the NC boots is it turns on without the screen on and looks for valid boot files first in the SD and then in the internal boot partition. If it finds some, it turns the screen on and continues the boot. If it finds none, it immediately turn off without ever turning the screen on. That Windows beep is the short turn on/turn off sequence.
So the solution is to make a bootable CWM SD per the thread the last user referenced and boot to that. Then you can flash a valid ROM and it should repair itself. If it does not successfully flash a ROM then go to my partition repair thread linked in my signature and follow instructions there.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

Can't get to a computer now. But when I do I'll try. If anything I'll pm you.
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gravitysandwich said:
Can't get to a computer now. But when I do I'll try. If anything I'll pm you.
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Do it on the forum. I don't respond to PMs.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD

leapinlar said:
Do it on the forum. I don't respond to PMs.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
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Ok
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leapinlar said:
The reason it appears to not turn on is your boot files in the boot partition are corrupt.
The way the NC boots is it turns on without the screen on and looks for valid boot files first in the SD and then in the internal boot partition. If it finds some, it turns the screen on and continues the boot. If it finds none, it immediately turn off without ever turning the screen on. That Windows beep is the short turn on/turn off sequence.
So the solution is to make a bootable CWM SD per the thread the last user referenced and boot to that. Then you can flash a valid ROM and it should repair itself. If it does not successfully flash a ROM then go to my partition repair thread linked in my signature and follow instructions there.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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how do i boot into cwm? I get a explanation mark in a triangle in a nook saying that it needs to connect to power, I did let it charge and tried holding the power button + nook key + volume up to boot into and when it does i get the sign that says i need to connect to power. Once charged, would it boot me into cyanoboot, and then from there go to cm? (I'm using slow charge since I lost the nook charging kit so I use the nexus 4 or samsung galaxy s2 t989 charger). and I put my cm10.1 may 31st rom on the sd card + gapps, so when I do boot in cwm, can I access it and flash it?
edit:nvm got cwm working. But u cant flash a rom.
I wipe everything (data, cache, system,dalvik) and then when i hit chose zip from sdcard it says:
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Installing update...
set_perm: some changes failed
E:Error in /sdcard/cm-10.1-20130531-nightly-encore.zip
(status 7)
Installation aborted.

Nevermind i got it working. i have to unmount every partion + turn on 'toggle signature verification' Thank You leapinlar.

cant even boot to bootable sd
leapinlar said:
The reason it appears to not turn on is your boot files in the boot partition are corrupt.
The way the NC boots is it turns on without the screen on and looks for valid boot files first in the SD and then in the internal boot partition. If it finds some, it turns the screen on and continues the boot. If it finds none, it immediately turn off without ever turning the screen on. That Windows beep is the short turn on/turn off sequence.
So the solution is to make a bootable CWM SD per the thread the last user referenced and boot to that. Then you can flash a valid ROM and it should repair itself. If it does not successfully flash a ROM then go to my partition repair thread linked in my signature and follow instructions there.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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Im hoping that you might be able to help me out here. I can not even get the NC to start up with the bootable sd. Am I completely bricked? Ive also tried the partition repair youve referenced to no avail.
edit: Tried eyeballer image and was able to get into recovery but not able to mount any /cache or the sd card to try and install new rom. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

tomudei said:
Im hoping that you might be able to help me out here. I can not even get the NC to start up with the bootable sd. Am I completely bricked? Ive also tried the partition repair youve referenced to no avail.
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How did you try the partition repair if you can't get the bootable SD to boot?
It is very difficult to make a bootable CWM SD that will actually boot in the Nook Color. Look at my NC Tips thread linked in my signature at item A9.
It is likely not bricked, just in need of repair. Make sure you have it charged and follow the steps in A9.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on New SD

thanks
leapinlar said:
How did you try the partition repair if you can't get the bootable SD to boot?
It is very difficult to make a bootable CWM SD that will actually boot in the Nook Color. Look at my NC Tips thread linked in my signature at item A9.
It is likely not bricked, just in need of repair. Make sure you have it charged and follow the steps in A9.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on New SD
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Thanks, going to try now! Now that you've said it, I obviously hadn't tried the partition repair but thought that I had. Do you have a suggestion for which partition to fix? Fingers Crossed!

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I know, but Ive been reading and trying soo many things that its starting to addle my brains!
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leapinlar said:
How did you try the partition repair if you can't get the bootable SD to boot?
It is very difficult to make a bootable CWM SD that will actually boot in the Nook Color. Look at my NC Tips thread linked in my signature at item A9.
It is likely not bricked, just in need of repair. Make sure you have it charged and follow the steps in A9.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on New SD
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Tried both of your cwm bootable sd's and I am unable to get either booted. Also, when plugging into pc, get the malfunction error you talked about in one of your tips. I really appreciate your help, any other advice that I might be able to try?

tomudei said:
I know, but Ive been reading and trying soo many things that its starting to addle my brains!
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Tried both of your cwm bootable sd's and I am unable to get either booted. Also, when plugging into pc, get the malfunction error you talked about in one of your tips. I really appreciate your help, any other advice that I might be able to try?
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Only what I have in that A9 item about different things to try to make it bootable, like using an external USB card order, etc.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on New SD

leapinlar said:
Only what I have in that A9 item about different things to try to make it bootable, like using an external USB card order, etc.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on New SD
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Thanks! Ive been using win32diskimager, perhaps i'll try winimage. I'm not really understanding why eyeballer cwm would work but not yours. Weird. Thanks again!

tomudei said:
Thanks! Ive been using win32diskimager, perhaps i'll try winimage. I'm not really understanding why eyeballer cwm would work but not yours. Weird. Thanks again!
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Eyeballer CWM is working? Use that.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on New SD

leapinlar said:
Eyeballer CWM is working? Use that.
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Well I can get into cwm with eyeballer but it gives me an error stating that it can not mount /cache and it will not mount the sd so that I can't flash any .zip files

tomudei said:
Well I can get into cwm with eyeballer but it gives me an error stating that it can not mount /cache and it will not mount the sd so that I can't flash any .zip files
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Aren't you the one I was helping in another thread sometime back? Did you try the trick of using your PC to copy the uImage and uRamdisk files from my SD to eyeballer's and try booting that?
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on New SD

leapinlar said:
Aren't you the one I was helping in another thread sometime back? Did you try the trick of using your PC to copy the uImage and uRamdisk files from my SD to eyeballer's and try booting that?
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Nope, not me. New to the NC (have rooted my htc and samsung phones though so not a total noob..lol). I will try what you've suggested. Perhaps some background is needed. I had my NC running smoothly with cyanogenmod 10.1 nightly. Tried updating to RC3 and during flash the screen went black and Im here now trying anything I can.
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tomudei said:
Nope, not me. New to the NC (have rooted my htc and samsung phones though so not a total noob..lol). I will try what you've suggested. Perhaps some background is needed. I had my NC running smoothly with cyanogenmod 10.1 nightly. Tried updating to RC3 and during flash the screen went black and Im here now trying anything I can.
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I have tried your suggestion of replacing the uimage and uram into eyeballers. its stuck on the startup screen saying "loading" with his two skulls.

tomudei said:
Nope, not me. New to the NC (have rooted my htc and samsung phones though so not a total noob..lol). I will try what you've suggested. Perhaps some background is needed. I had my NC running smoothly with cyanogenmod 10.1 nightly. Tried updating to RC3 and during flash the screen went black and Im here now trying anything I can.
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I have tried your suggestion of replacing the uimage and uram into eyeballers. its stuck on the startup screen saying "loading" with his two skulls.
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Try copying all my files to his SD, replacing his.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD

[Q] Nook Color won't boot after cm7 install and update

I see that there are other posts on this same subject and I have looked through them to try and fix my problem but I haven't found a proper solution yet. I rooted my NC (1.4.3) cm7 and it worked alright after that but apps weren't available for the version so I attempted an update then reboot. I powered down and pulled the micro sd then powered up and it gets to "Read Forever" then goes black. I have tried cm10 with manual nooter in order to try and re-do the partition on the device but it won't do anything once I put the card in and try to boot. I have had to dis-assemble it so that I can pull the battery and get it to power down completely. I have tried a factory reset boot, sd card boot with auto nooter, manual nooter, cm7, cm10, and other options on the sd card, I have also tried to boot directly from internal memory. I have tried the process of plugging it into the computer through the usb cable. I have charged the battery completely so that isn't a problem.
I have read that it is virtually impossible to brick this thing but I think I might have succeeded....any input on what I can try next would be helpful...

Fatguy86 said:
I see that there are other posts on this same subject and I have looked through them to try and fix my problem but I haven't found a proper solution yet. I rooted my NC (1.4.3) cm7 and it worked alright after that but apps weren't available for the version so I attempted an update then reboot. I powered down and pulled the micro sd then powered up and it gets to "Read Forever" then goes black. I have tried cm10 with manual nooter in order to try and re-do the partition on the device but it won't do anything once I put the card in and try to boot. I have had to dis-assemble it so that I can pull the battery and get it to power down completely. I have tried a factory reset boot, sd card boot with auto nooter, manual nooter, cm7, cm10, and other options on the sd card, I have also tried to boot directly from internal memory. I have tried the process of plugging it into the computer through the usb cable. I have charged the battery completely so that isn't a problem.
I have read that it is virtually impossible to brick this thing but I think I might have succeeded....any input on what I can try next would be helpful...
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A good place to start with boot problems is here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
You should also probably read at least the first two post in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1621301
You need to do a better job of describing your situation if you want help: how your NC was set up; exactly what you did that created the problem; what you want to end up with. At a guess, I will assume the you were running rooted stock on EMMC and CM7 on SD, decided to update CM7 to CM10, but used directions for updating CM that was installed to EMMC. I am not an expert on this, but sort of remember Leapinlar posting advice for someone (or maybe a few (?dozen?) someones) with this problem, you might want to search for those threads. If not, you have probably corrupted your boot records, recovery and/or possibly some partitions. Check out this thread by Leapinlar for help http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1759558
If you decide to install CM on EMMC, see this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1030227
To install stock BN firmware to EMMC, see this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=931720
To install CM on SD, see this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1941858
Good luck and don't forget to hit the thanks button in the posts you use

webyrd said:
A good place to start with boot problems is here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
You should also probably read at least the first two post in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1621301
You need to do a better job of describing your situation if you want help: how your NC was set up; exactly what you did that created the problem; what you want to end up with
Good luck and don't forget to hit the thanks button in the posts you use
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Here are the exact steps that I took to get to where I am:
I rooted the stock EMMC with the manual nooter to be able to get the Google Play Market, that worked well and I had access but the Android version was so old that I couldn't install the apps that I was after.
I then attempted to flash the EMMC to CM7, all status came up as pass and I rebooted. when it came up after the reboot all I got was the "Read Forever" screen.
since then I have read many different posts and tried to boot from the SD...that doesn't work, the screen just stays black
I have tried to boot to CWM to repair or rebuild the EMMC...same outcome
once I remove the SD all I get to is the "Read Forever" screen...
I have read and tried all the steps listed in every post you listed but they all have the same outcome
I have attached a pic of what the screen looks like when it tries to boot.

Fatguy86 said:
Here are the exact steps that I took to get to where I am:
I rooted the stock EMMC with the manual nooter to be able to get the Google Play Market, that worked well and I had access but the Android version was so old that I couldn't install the apps that I was after.
I then attempted to flash the EMMC to CM7, all status came up as pass and I rebooted. when it came up after the reboot all I got was the "Read Forever" screen.
since then I have read many different posts and tried to boot from the SD...that doesn't work, the screen just stays black
I have tried to boot to CWM to repair or rebuild the EMMC...same outcome
once I remove the SD all I get to is the "Read Forever" screen...
I have read and tried all the steps listed in every post you listed but they all have the same outcome
I have attached a pic of what the screen looks like when it tries to boot.
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Hopefully someone more knowlegeable will look in, this is above my level. The fact that the Read Forever still displays shows that CM did not install correctly, if it's a newer version. You might want to try posting your problem in the same thread that you got the install instructions from.