I've got a "brick" nook(not i killed it).which doesn't start ,just shows "don't turn off your device,installing...bla-bla.." for few seconds, than it says to "restart your device " and if i do, ot all starts again from point 1 ). the best, i could do after many hours was that screen, which appears when sd with stock system image is inserted. but it shows in right upper angle red cross,instead of a green check ( and i never got any further,on could do more... is it all hopeless?
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I've got a "brick" nook(not i killed it).which doesn't start ,just shows "don't turn off your device,installing...bla-bla.." for few seconds, than it says to "restart your device " and if i do, ot all starts again from point 1 ). the best, i could do after many hours was that screen, which appears when sd with stock system image is inserted. but it shows in right upper angle red cross,instead of a green check ( and i never got any further,on could do more... is it all hopeless?
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Hello everyone. After some researching, this seemed like the best site to answer my question, as I have not found an answer yet.
Yesterday morning, I was running my ATT 8525 (which I believe you refer to as "hermes") just fine. I was using the internet sharing feature, and went to reset the phone. I "believe" I pressed the power button while pressing the "ptt- push to talk" - button. The phone turned off, and when I turned the phone back on, rather than loading like it normally did, I got a new screen.
The screen has 4 color bars. A red bar at the top, then a green bar, then a blue bar, and last, a white bar of color on the bottom. Each bar takes up 1/4 of the screen and runs horizontally. At the top, the phone says, in white text:
HERM100
1PL-1.04
HERM100
SPL-2.03
At the bottom of the screen, in the white bar of color, in black text, it says
SERIAL
Now, when I press the power button to turn the phone off, nothing happens. I have to remove the battery to shut off the power. If I plug in a USB cable, the SERIAL text changes to USB. If I press the top two buttons, the one above window and the one above ok, while pressing the stick in to reset the phone, that screen works ok. I believe it is called a "hard reset" It asks if I want to erase all data and restore factory settings, and if so, press r. I press R on the keyboard, and the screen then says reset complete, press space. I press space and then I am back to the screen with 4 color bars. Nothing else I have tried works either. I have been stuck on this screen with 4 color bars since yesterday.
I took my cell phone in to ATT to be looked at and the sales people at the store say that I am 7 days past my warranty, and that they can't/won't repair the phone, but they would be happy to sell me a brand new one... for several hundred dollars.
So, the folks on the internet are my last hope =( If anyone reading this knows anything, even if it is a link to another site or something, that may help me resolve this problem, I would greatly appreciate it. If not, I at least thank you for your time reading my post.
- Wormling
Oh, as an additional thought, if it helps, I have not used any of these :baked: roms or any such thing. I bought my phone and used it as is. The one and only change I ever did to my phone was I followed ATT's steps on upgrading from Windows Mobile 5 to Windows Mobile 6, if I remember their names correctly. Hope this helps.
Bootloader. This is the name of the screen according to my research.
"Is your device able to boot Windows Mobile OS?
This one is easy: If can you see your today screen and use your phone as a PDA means you can boot OS. If you only see the splash screen, bootloader screen (tri-color) or windows mobile splash screen you can't boot OS."
Got this from the thread at
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_Unbrick
So, I guess I am stuck at the bootloader screen.
Try a Hard reset - hold both soft keys and reset with stylus. Hold in until it asks to reset to factory (whatever). Press "r" on the slideout keyboard and then space. You should go back throught the setup PPC steps.
YOU WILL LOOSE ALL INFORMATION ON YOUR HERMES...This is unescapable as you would any other way you tried to recover your Hermes too.
I suggest if you get it working to install Hard SPL V7 (makes recovery easier) and also pim backup so you can restore all your contacts/messages if something goes wrong again.
Cheers... & good luck.
I have tried hard resetting many times, and it does not work. It says that it succeeds and that factory settings have been restored, and then I am back to the bootloader screen. I have been to the wiki on bricked hermes phones and recovering from a brick. From that, I ascertain I have a type 2 bricked phone (goes directly to bootloader screen). I tried the MTTY tool, and it says that the NAND write was successful on both commands, but, I am still stuck at bootloader screen. I have since tried installing a few different roms, even in SSLL and HARDSPL modes, and nothing has worked.
What I have not tried is the JPIN fix, as I am not an engineer and don't have the tools or knowledge on how to do that. I also don't know how to do the microsoft operating system download fix (using an emulator?)
** UPDATE **
I think it might have been the mtty commands, but I took the battery out overnight, and when I put the battery back in to try the KITL attempt, the phone booted up and started to do the config. I was happy and thought that the phone was fixed, but when it was done with the configurating the phone, it reset back into boot loader screen -_-
You may need to check for bad blocks. This sometimes causes the problems you descibe as well as spontaneous Hard Resets and occasional soft resets.
Do a search for "how to fix bad blocks hermes" and you should get the info you need...
Hope this helps...
Hi,
I have a rooted NST, everything was fine. For the last few weeks I did not use it, as I was moving.
A few days ago, I have reactivated it. After charging it for a while, it worked flawlessly again. With one exception: In the upper right corner instead of the battery indicator it showed a battery with a question mark in it. I look at the battery status in Nook Color Tools, it said "unknown battery error" (or similar).
Today I wanted to use it again, but it does not do anything anymore. It still shows the screensaver image, but won't boot despite being fully charged (at least it was hanging on the wire for a few days, so it should be charged). Long pressing the power button does nothing, the "n" button does not do anything either.
If I attach it to my PC it shows very strange behavior: It won't mount any drives, but if I go to device manager, it will show an device called "OMAP 3630". The device is marked with a yellow exclamation mark in device manager.
After about 1 second, the device disappears from device manager, accompanied by the windows sound for "device disconnected". After another 1 second, it reappers, together with the "device connected" sound, then it disappears again, reappears etc. This goes on indefinitely.
Do you have any tips on how to revive the device? I don't even know where to start, as I don't even seem to be able to initiate a reboot. I would not mind losing any data, nothing irreplaceable on the device.
Thanks a lot in advance!
rhhd
Press and hold power botton for 10 seconds then release it and hold again to reboot nook .
Likely restoring with 8 missed boot solve your problem .
boot with noogie Image and apply ur backup .....and if u cant boot with noogie Image ... it's Hardware Issue ... repair it if warranty cover
also maybe ur charger damage ur nook battery .... try steps above
good luck
When it says OMAP3630 that's the ROM bootloader in the TI processor trying to boot over USB.
If it's bouncing up and down that quickly, it's clearly hitting an error at an early stage.
Do you have any bootable SD cards like noogie or ClockworkMod?
Try them, see if it boots up.
Yes I still have a bootable image (the one I used to root, I think it was clockwork), but I do not know how to even initiate a reboot. As I said long pressing the power button does not help.
Did you try just putting the SD card in?
If it's cycling in the boot loader it may not need to be reset.
Yes I tried that, it makes no difference.
Also if I put the card in and then plug the device into my computer it makes no difference.
Well, get out the T-5 Torx driver, open it up and disconnect the battery.
if u still under warranty go and replace it better to do somethiing void ur warranty ........anyway ....last question .....when u connect ur nook to pc ,indicator led become green or orange?????
try follow renate instruction......she the only one expert here and the one can give u support (all credits goes to her)
good luck
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the light becomes green when connected to the PC or the charger.
Okay, I will open the device and disconnect the battery. I can only do this when I get back from a business trip in a week though.
Are there detailed disassembly instructions anywhere?
Thanks again!
if u still under warranty ....... dont assembly ur device may it void warranty ....just check if it boot or not ....if not then send it back for replacement .....if ur warrantt not cover so , follow steps tha renate told u
good luck
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I dont live in the US so a warranty exchange would be complicated. Probably not worth it for a device of this price class.
Also, B&N are famous for their aweful warranty policies, where you have to give them a credit card number before they take the device, and then they decide at their discretion whether they think it is a warranty case. If not they will charge your credit card and send you a new one.
I found a nice disassembly video on Youtube, just waiting for the Torx screwdriver I bought on Ebay to arrive (and for me to get back from my trip).
I've taken my Nook apart so many times that I no longer forget to pull the SD card out before I try to slide apart the case.
Try to connect your device with USB cable in a computer.
Then you will able to hear the connect/disconnect sounds (and when your nook is on or off).
Now, try to press the power button for a while (and you'll hear when it shutdown).
I´m my case, my NSTG was stucked in "Rooted Forever" screen (noogie.img boot) and was necessary to press power button some times and hold. Before, I´ve tried to disconnect the battery, but the screen don´t changed (stayed in "rooted forerver" even without battery).
good luck
Before you open it, hopefully the battery is drained by now. Insert bootable SD card and connect to charger one last time. Maybe will boot after about 15-30 minutes of charging. Good Luck.
Hi,
I just came back from my trip. I opened the device, disconnected the battery.
Upon reconnecting, the device would not boot, but it was clear right away that something had changed: When connecting to the PC the on/off behavior was gone. Also, now the charging light would be orange.
After charging over night the device now works perfectly again, even the strange "? battery" symbol is gone.
Thanks for the help everyone!
Well, sometimes he can normally enter the system, but can not play how long will restart.
If I will be the official dload file into the TF Card in the boot, sometimes he will automatically enter the official brush machine interface, but not any word, only one red bar, I went straight off. If I didn't put the TF card, it will appear blue.
There is a situation that boot directly, three color screen, the screen is green, a blue rectangular upper part, lower part has a red rectangle.
Information on these, personal feeling is that partition is bad, I do not know whether it is a hardware problem.
Please help me!!!!
This is the only forum I can find to post this to.
Got out my old nook classic and wanted to remove a soft root I did a few years ago and I flashed the wrong firmware. I flashed 1.0 and it's a newer 1005 model. Now it's stuck on the "installing software update screen" and the LCD keeps looping.
Being that it's so old I'm having trouble finding out any info. Is there anything I can do? I can't get it to mount.
I assume you tried something like this? (from here)
This will actually restore it to the same exact way you got it from the store, brand new, including with the un-updated software assuming that there have been updates since you got it. It's the Nook equivalent of restoring your computer with a fresh format and new Windows/Mac/Linux installation.
Pop out your SDCard if you have one installed, again just to be safe.
Turn off your Nook by pressing the Power Button on the top of it.
With it off, showing you the blank white screen, press and hold the power button until the screen flickers black for a second, then continue to hold it for another 12 seconds. You won't see anything happen at this point, the screen will stay white.
Repeat the above step 6 more times in a row. Yep, you read that right, 6 more times in a row. My assumption is they do this so people don't accidentally restore their Nooks during normal use.
Now press the Power Button once to turn the Nook back on.
You'll see the touch screen go black, with a sky blue progress bar, and a description of what it's doing, such as mounting the drive, formatting, etc. This takes a few minutes so be patient.
Once it does that, it'll boot up to your main screen, (it can take a while) with any previous version of the software showing, and you'll need to treat it just as you did when it was brand spanking new. i.e. re-register it, set the display name again, reload your screensavers, books and so on.
To update to the latest software version, press the "My Library" button, and make sure you're in the "My B&N Library" area; tap the "Check for new B&N content" button, it'll re-discover that it needs to be updated to the latest software, and automatically go through that process again for you. It can and often does take some time, and do some reboots, partition mounting, etc., so just be patient and let it do it's thing.
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I have followed that and have had no luck. It just keeps looping.
I'm thinking it's dead...
"Dead" is it will not turn on. Yours is "confused"
Seems like what is needed is a method like NookManager or CWM in which the Nook 1 boots from the external SD card and then some repairs are pushed in.
There *is* seemingly such a method, detailed on the-ebook.org, but unless your Russian is up-to-date, you'll have to see if the Google translation is clear enough to give it a try. You don't have anything to lose and everything to gain at this point.
Search on this URL in Google and choose "Translate this page": http://www.the-ebook.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19536&sid=8c61d40bfbb40f6f5e3dfcfaa99e5545
I have been using my nook color for over a year now. I tried to boot it in android using an sd card method.
Now when i switched it on after a few days it will power up, show the read forever logo and then the screen goes black.
I thought maybe the bootloader is gone or something. So I prepared an sd card with cyanogenmod in an attempt to flash it internally.
Even then when I press the power button it turn on, shows the loading screen and the screen goes black.
When I do this for seven times then the factory reset screen appears but when i select the factory reset it just gets stuck there and nothing happens. I left it there once for over an hour to see if something happens but without any luck.
Is there any solution for this or my nook is bricked completely??