Database Users

Need Help with SD Card booting...

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.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse

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!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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

[Q] The Unbreakable Bootloop - Am I bricked?

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

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

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

What happens when you do the 8 failed boots?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Q] Need help recovering Nook

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?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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?

[Q] Nook Color Bricked?

have a nook with CM7 installed on it. was going return my nook to stock to give it to my little sister, but when i went to install the stock stuff back on it got stuck in a loop. It won't boot from an uSD card with clockwork on it and when I tried the 7 hard boot in a row trick, it didn't do anything. Did i really brick the thing? or can it be recovered?
I attached to shots of the screen i get when i power it on normally and the other when i try to go into recovery mode.

I answered that in the other thread that you posted the same question on.

[Q]a500 Bricked? Dead? Fixable?

First off ive read almost every thread on the a500 in the past few days, ive downloaded the tools,came across alot of dead links, tried to follow them and i just cant get it to come back to life...my head is spinning trying to understand all this... ill explain what i know and all i have done so far...any help would be greatly appreciated
this is my dads a500 i did update it ota to the latest version of android stock for it a few months ago. he uses it every day
he was using it playing a game, it froze up, he tried a reboot...now it wont go past acer screen
in recovery i get the dead android guy with red exclamation point over him, if i dont switch the screen lock it will try fast boot 00.03.12 ics bootloader from usb...with no result
tried to boot to recovery with the update.zip on a newly formatted fat32 1gig micro sd card....and nothing was i using the right zip?
"Acer_A500_7.014.01_041.203.01_COM_GEN1_1333444043393_2fe1ad59_decrypted"
in apx mode...apx flash tool will recognize it...but i never get anything on the tab screen confirming it is in apx mode...no boot loader or messages at all
Ive tried to install a bundle with apx flash from blackthunder...it went through the whole install process...but no result, i dont know if it was connected properly and everything the same.
my though is my bootloader is messed up... so i guess my question is how can i fix it if i cant connect correctly through apx mode or recovery mode... did i do something wrong? not install something i should have?
i downloaded a500 manager and apx flash, ics root, sbcalc, babsector,
any help with be greatly appreciated
thanks Jim