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Hi,
I've searched the forums but haven't found a solution to my problem. I rooted my Nook Color (1.1.0) using auto-nooter 3.0. Everything worked fine, then I tried to flash to CM7 using CWM. When I subsequently rebooted, the Nook goes into a boot loop where it never gets past the "Touch the Future of...." display before it reboots.
I've can't get into ADB because the unit reboots before I can get access. Also tried booting into CWM (3.0.0.5 and 3.0.1) on an SD Card. When I do this, it shows the "loading..." display for a few seconds then reverts to the boot cycle. Also tried nooter 0.2 but same result.
Tried doing 8 successive boot cycles by trying to turn it off before it reboots, but no luck.
I've noticed that others have had boot issues also, but it seems that everyone else has been able to eventually boot back into CWM via SD card.
If anyone has any suggestions, I would definitely appreciate the help.
Thanks.
I experienced this exact problem and never did get it working. I was running Nookie Froyo on SD with overclock when it suddenly started rebooting. Doesn't matter if the card is in or out, it gets to the point you describe and reboots. All of the "restore to stock' tricks failed because it keeps rebooting, even when booting into CWM from SD. I ended up replacing it with another new NC and put the the first one in storage hoping I someday figure out the problem. I've never found anyone else with quite this problem. I'll be anxiously watching this thread!
Not sure whether I should start to panic because you never got it working, or feel relieved because I am not the only one to experience this issue
You can add another person who is having this problem.
Yesterday I asked Rom manager to boot into recovery and that was all she wrote.
The nook gets through "Touch the future of reading," then the screen flashes for a fraction of a second before repeating the process again.
Holding 'n' and power while booting also has no affect; and it seems to ignore whatever is in the SD card slot.
Got it working!
Not exactly how this worked but here is what I did.
First off I used another SD Card Reader Although the idea of using another card reader doesn't seem to make sense; I had seen it on another forum.
I also Used a new uSD card
Used Win32DiskImage to burn the image to the uSD card (had been using DD on a linux box)
The images used was the Clockwork Recovery image (2GB,) look around and you should be able to find it.
I also copied the removeclockwork.zip
This should be available with a google search as well
From there it just worked like it was supposed to. The nook booted off the micro SD card and I used the removecwr.zip
Hope this helps
I'm completely new at this I just rooted my nook color today with Stable CM7. I wanted too overclock my nook so I flashed the kernel from this thread onto my device http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1064095 now whenever I go to turn on my device it's a blank blackish screen. How would I get it back to how it was before I installed this (I must've done something wrong, I'm an idiot). I just tried to install the stock kernel from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=908515 but same thing is happening for me.
This exact problem happened to me today. I found some link to a stock 1.1 Nook Color software or something like that, got the Nook Color back to essentially factory settings, and then repeated the whole process of installing CM7, with the added step of installing the kernel along with the ROM and gapps.
Could you link me to this stock software you found?
Qerz said:
I'm completely new at this I just rooted my nook color today with Stable CM7. I wanted too overclock my nook so I flashed the kernel from this thread onto my device http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1064095 now whenever I go to turn on my device it's a blank blackish screen. How would I get it back to how it was before I installed this (I must've done something wrong, I'm an idiot). I just tried to install the stock kernel from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=908515 but same thing is happening for me.
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You used the wrong kernel. That one is apparently for rooted stock, not CM7.
Since your screen is black you might have to revert back to stock OS before reflashing CM7.
Can you boot into CWM from a SD? If so you can just try and redo the install procedure for CM7. This guide is recommended. (Also containing a link to a guide for reverting to stock, if needed...)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1030227
Alright I'm going to try to re-flash CM7. Thanks bro.
Well I reinstalled CM7 and when I pressed 'reboot system now' in CWM it just takes me back to CWM so I'm still lost. Going to try to install stock now.
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Ok I installed stock now and it seems to be working, but It's just stuck at a screen saying 'contains Reader Mobile technology by Adobe Systems Incorporated.' and then the nook symbol in the center of the screen. It could just be loading but it's been 3-5 mins atleast so idk.
Yeah it's not going past that screen where it says 'contains Reader Mobile technology by Adobe Systems Incorporated.' not sure if I should try rebooting though. I tried going into recovery mode and get 'Install failed' so I tried installing again but same results.
I got my nook working with cm7 again, thank you for the help!
weird, my mom called me last night with the same issue. will see it today to see what it was.
Just to add on to the part where you said it took you back to CWM after reboot (for anyone who might come here for answers), you have to take the SD card out before you reboot.
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?
A friend of mine recently picked up a Nook Color (silver bezel, if thy matters). As I already have a NC (dark grey bezel), I was asked to install CM on his as well. Easy enough...
I installed made a twrp boot card and put a ROM on it, inserted it into his nook and booted. The problem is, it booted normally into the stock ROM.
First thing I thought to try was to verify the recovery was correctly done, so I inserted the card into my nook and booted it... no issues at all.
I put the card back into his nook to make sure the sd port works, and it does.
Second attempt was with cwm, again, no luck... and again, my NC booted from the card without issue.
I've tried with two different cards now... a class 4 2gb ad a class 4 16gb. Both work in my nook and both read fine if you are booted into the stock nook rom, but his nook simply will not boot from them.
What am I missing here?
I've read through quite a few threads on the subject and the standard response is to tey a new card reader... but why would one nook boot fine and the other one not if it was a card reader?
Nook Color or Nook Tablet?
Fadelight said:
A friend of mine recently picked up a Nook Color (silver bezel, if thy matters). As I already have a NC (dark grey bezel), I was asked to install CM on his as well. Easy enough...
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Wait, isn't the silver bezel the Nook Tablet, not a Nook Color? The Tablet uses a different bootloader, so the NC card won't work in it.
Oh holy crap, I missed the most obvious thing in the world! There really are no telltale signs when booting it up, and I didn't have the documents with me last night. Says nook tablet right on the quick tart guide that came with it.
Thank you.
Hi everyone.
My father recently bought himself a Nook simple touch running 1.20 firmware on the promise that I would root it for him so he could borrow books from the local library using overdrive and also use Kindle. I have done similar with many devices in the past - installing custom firmware on Android tablets, jailbreaking iPHones (sorry to swear on here ) etc etc.
I read how easy it was to do and thought I would have no problems. Boy was I wrong!
I downloaded touchnooter 2.1.31 and wrote it to a micro sd card using a built in card reader on the PC and Win32 disc imager.
I put the card in the Nook and powered up. Everything happened as it should, the screen flashed to black etc etc. I took the card out and powered up. I got the "Your NOOK is starting up" message and then it just froze on that screen.
Holding the power and N button down reset it but it just went back to that screen. Eventually, though, for some reason on one of these cycles it reset itself.
So I set the machine up, and started again.
This time I restarted the whole process from scratch, put the card in the machine and powered up. This time, the screen never flashed to black at all, and I am not stuck at the "Your NOOK is starting up" screen. Trouble is, this time holding the power and n button down do nothing (they did a few times, but now nothing) and the machine seems completely dead.
My Dad aint going to be too happy if I've killed his Nook - so can anyone help me?
Or am I beyond help (don't answer that, )
Thanks in advance.
You neglect to mention taking a backup before your attempts at rooting; are we to imply that you don't have one you can restore from?
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You neglect to mention taking a backup before your attempts at rooting; are we to imply that you don't have one you can restore from?
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Thanks for the reply. Oh dear. I read three different guides and not one of them mentioned that you could back up (I presume the Nook firmware itself) first?
You could preform a factory reset using the 6 failed boots method, I cant post links yet but if you do a search for "nook simple touch factory reset" you should instructions at nookdevs.
The NST has a nice feature of keeping a factory recovery partition that stores a factory.zip and will restore the NST using the above method.
Sometimes it takes quite a few tries for this to work, the timing has to be right. It will wipe everything (except the factory partition of course) and restore the nook to the how it was out of the box.
@norwichred: you might want to consider using the Touch-Formatter recovery tool http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1475613. I had used it successfully to recover from a failed attempt at routing my NST.
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Try holding the left and right buttons down Bottom ones at the sides of the screen when booting.
This should put it into restore to defaults mode.
This helped when I tried flashing with touchnooter. Ended up going back to defaults and then rooted with Nook Manager which went faultless.
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Hi everyone.
My father recently bought himself a Nook simple touch running 1.20 firmware on the promise that I would root it for him so he could borrow books from the local library using overdrive and also use Kindle. I have done similar with many devices in the past - installing custom firmware on Android tablets, jailbreaking iPHones (sorry to swear on here ) etc etc.
I read how easy it was to do and thought I would have no problems. Boy was I wrong!
I downloaded touchnooter 2.1.31 and wrote it to a micro sd card using a built in card reader on the PC and Win32 disc imager.
I put the card in the Nook and powered up. Everything happened as it should, the screen flashed to black etc etc. I took the card out and powered up. I got the "Your NOOK is starting up" message and then it just froze on that screen.
Holding the power and N button down reset it but it just went back to that screen. Eventually, though, for some reason on one of these cycles it reset itself.
So I set the machine up, and started again.
This time I restarted the whole process from scratch, put the card in the machine and powered up. This time, the screen never flashed to black at all, and I am not stuck at the "Your NOOK is starting up" screen. Trouble is, this time holding the power and n button down do nothing (they did a few times, but now nothing) and the machine seems completely dead.
My Dad aint going to be too happy if I've killed his Nook - so can anyone help me?
Or am I beyond help (don't answer that, )
Thanks in advance.
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Ok, firstly TouchNooter doesn't work with v1.20, you need to use GlowNooter. Don't worry, I found this out the hard way too. I actually found NookManager + GAPPSAttack gave the cleanest results.
Try holding down the power button for varying amounts of time, between 0 and 15 seconds, eventually you'll get it to reboot. You don't need to press the n button.
To get back to v1.21 do this - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=41296148&postcount=2
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Ok, firstly TouchNooter doesn't work with v1.20, you need to use GlowNooter. Don't worry, I found this out the hard way too. I actually found NookManager + GAPPSAttack gave the cleanest results.
Try holding down the power button for varying amounts of time, between 0 and 15 seconds, eventually you'll get it to reboot. You don't need to press the n button.
To get back to v1.21 do this - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=41296148&postcount=2
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Guys - thank you SO much for your replies so far.
I have managed to reset the nook using your methods above, and am about to try again. I'll look into nook manager and glownooter. Is there a general opinion on which is better?
now , download the package from BN website (1.2.1) and apply manual update then ur nook will be 1.2.1 version then take Back up and make sure about 1.9GB and save it in safe place , and then play with ur nook as much as u want
PS: if u want root 1.2.1 nook software then use Nook Manager also if upgrade steps u cant get , tell me and i will replay u shortly
TC about ur father's Nook
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now , download the package from BN website (1.2.1) and apply manual update then ur nook will be 1.2.1 version then take Back up and make sure about 1.9GB and save it in safe place , and then play with ur nook as much as u want
PS: if u want root 1.2.1 nook software then use Nook Manager also if upgrade steps u cant get , tell me and i will replay u shortly
TC about ur father's Nook
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Ok so I have taken a backup and rooted using nook manager. I am waiting for his google password (he's changed it without telling me) so I can install GAPPSattack. Will this give me a nice desktop? At the moment I have a file explorer view and he won't understand that.
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Ok so I have taken a backup and rooted using nook manager. I am waiting for his google password (he's changed it without telling me) so I can install GAPPSattack. Will this give me a nice desktop? At the moment I have a file explorer view and he won't understand that.
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Try ADW Launcher with this theme
or this theme depending on the background colour.
If you don't like the icons you can turn them off under Themes/Customize.
The other launcher worth a try is 7 Launcher.
I've attached black and white image you might find useful.
well, it's all rooted and working now I am very grateful to ALL who have contributed to help me out here. Few things I'm not overly happy with so want to try and sort this out for him before I give it to him - want an easy way for him to get to a list of apps or to the nook homescreen using buttons but apart from that it's great.
Thanks again!
norwichred said:
well, it's all rooted and working now I am very grateful to ALL who have contributed to help me out here. Few things I'm not overly happy with so want to try and sort this out for him before I give it to him - want an easy way for him to get to a list of apps or to the nook homescreen using buttons but apart from that it's great.
Thanks again!
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for me
i had ADW launcher and Button savior that let me navigate to home screen in any time when i be on any app .... so try both and for ADW launcher home screen , easy to use and u can view all apps like u have android phone