[Q] Stuck on boot loop - Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I used manual nooter over weekend, everything has been working well, but I did have a hard time figuring out soft keys. For reasons I'm nott sure when I tried to use Nook color tools I could only get to BN tools, not the option for all settings which was originally there. I decided to power Nook off an turn back on as that often helps on my Bionic. Well, upon turning on I had the orange menu askin if I wanted to reboot, restore etc. I tried rebooting, was stuck on loop, powered back on and off, did a back up, tried to reboot again and stuck on loop. Do I need to do a complete wipe and start over? SD card seems to be working fine. Any thoughts? Everything else seemed fine, could use play store etc. I did download Firefox last night. thanks.
Updating, through another thread on this forum I went into CWM recovery, did a factory reset, cleared cache, wiped dalvik and rebooted. I think I am getting back to stock, Nook is trying to connect to WiFi, but my office router isn't showing up. Once I get past this, hopefully I can connect somewhere and try Manual Nooter again. Crisis averted, I think.
Last update, sorry for the panicky post. Was able to connect to Wifi, re-register Nook, then reinstall ManualNooter from SD card. Bootloop is gone, CWM recovery worked. After searching deep enough with the posts, everything is working as it should. Thanks for all of the info here and tolerating my Nooby panic.

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Infinite Loop

Hey all, first off, sorry if this is the wrong forum. If it is could one of the mods please move it.
OK, here's my issue. I had CyanogenMods latest build, 3.4 I think and decided to try The Dudes cupcake 1.RC1. I forgot to do a wipe before installing TheDudesCupcake but when my phone came up it worked ALMOST fine. Had a crash here and there of something, not sure what, but the phone still worked fine. Today, I had an issue with a video (is the SD Card) not being viewable with "Video Player" so I decided to remove the card and pop it back (hoping this would somehow refresh the player). Didnt unmount it so I got the error about i may loose data without unmounting. (i'd done it before without a problem). Well this time around my card was corrupted so I ended up formatting with the phone. tried going into settings to view the size of the drive not since I didnt know if the whole card was wiped or only the FAT32 partition. Kept getting an error while trying to go into settings so I decided to reboot. After reboot I was able to get into settings and saw the whole card was wiped (back to full 8GB of empty space). Thought I would wipe right there from settings since I was getting an error or 2 after reboots and since I had gotten that error when trying to get into settings and then updating back into Dudes Cupcake. (thought the wipe would get rid of any issues of going between Cyanogen to Dudes Cupcake). Once I clicked on wipe and android reboots, it's trying to do something but just keeps rebooting. I've got Cyanogens restore image v1.2 on. So I see the G1 logo, then comes up
Build CyanogenMod v1.2 + JF
Formatting DATA ....
and at the Formatting DATA part it does the reboot and goes back to the G1 logo and comes back to formatting data and reboot.
I tried doing a HOME + POWER but it just goes back to formatting data. I tried doing a CAMERA + POWER but it goes back to formatting DATA.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks and sorry for the long post, I just wanted to give all my steps.
Huascar82 said:
Hey all, first off, sorry if this is the wrong forum. If it is could one of the mods please move it.
OK, here's my issue. I had CyanogenMods latest build, 3.4 I think and decided to try The Dudes cupcake 1.RC1. I forgot to do a wipe before installing TheDudesCupcake but when my phone came up it worked ALMOST fine. Had a crash here and there of something, not sure what, but the phone still worked fine. Today, I had an issue with a video (is the SD Card) not being viewable with "Video Player" so I decided to remove the card and pop it back (hoping this would somehow refresh the player). Didnt unmount it so I got the error about i may loose data without unmounting. (i'd done it before without a problem). Well this time around my card was corrupted so I ended up formatting with the phone. tried going into settings to view the size of the drive not since I didnt know if the whole card was wiped or only the FAT32 partition. Kept getting an error while trying to go into settings so I decided to reboot. After reboot I was able to get into settings and saw the whole card was wiped (back to full 8GB of empty space). Thought I would wipe right there from settings since I was getting an error or 2 after reboots and since I had gotten that error when trying to get into settings and then updating back into Dudes Cupcake. (thought the wipe would get rid of any issues of going between Cyanogen to Dudes Cupcake). Once I clicked on wipe and android reboots, it's trying to do something but just keeps rebooting. I've got Cyanogens restore image v1.2 on. So I see the G1 logo, then comes up
Build CyanogenMod v1.2 + JF
Formatting DATA ....
and at the Formatting DATA part it does the reboot and goes back to the G1 logo and comes back to formatting data and reboot.
I tried doing a HOME + POWER but it just goes back to formatting data. I tried doing a CAMERA + POWER but it goes back to formatting DATA.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks and sorry for the long post, I just wanted to give all my steps.
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when it says formatting data then done, are you pressing and holding home and back or just pressing and releasing. when the phone is powering on and you hold the home and back keys it will do a hard reset just like a wipe(same thing) or since there is no data to lose any more, try pulling the battery, this will not do any harm as you are not flashing anything
since you have the cyanogen recovery image you should have gone into the console at recovery and typed
fix_permissions.sh or sh fix_permissions.sh
Thanks for the response tubaking. My problem was that it didnt say done. right when the "Formatting Data...." line came up, it reboots, without saying done. And I couldnt get into the Home+Power or the Camera + power screens. Neither one would go there, just back into "Formatting Data:..." screen. After reading half way through the Brick thread I saw someone mention pulling the SIM card out, didnt think that would help but it finally dropped me back into the recovery console. Might I ask why something as simple as removing the SIM drops the loop and takes you to recovery?
thanks.

[Q] Help - trying to root, now I'm stuck

Sorry if this is a long post...I'm going to try to provide as much information as possible.
I got a brand new nook with version1.3 for my son for Christmas. I'm wanting to root it so I can put some games and stuff on it. I tried following the instructions for the ManualNooter (using ClockworkMod Recovery v3.0.2.8), but think I goofed up by not booting to the nook between the two MN files. When I tried to boot to the nook it just looped on the "nook color" screen.
I went back and tried installing just the first MN fine and booting the nook, but I got the same result.
I then found the two file for reverting to stock I ran both update-nc-stock-1.3-keepcwm and update-nc-stock-1.3 in that order (I'm assuming that there is no boot required in between) and am still stuck on that same nook screen.
I've also done tried to do some stuff like formating the syste, data, and cache, and clearing the Dalvik cache. I've noticed that I'm getting an error formating the data (not sure exactly when this started), and clearing the Dalvik cache causes it to lock up.
I'm not sure where to go at this point, and am concerned that I've hosed up my son's present. I know it's hard to brick a nook, but those issues with formatting data and clearing the Dalvik cache have me worried. Can anyone help me in getting this thing up and running (then hopefully rooted)?
quick question.....do you have the bootable sd card with cwm on it? can you boot to the cwm menu (i'm assuming you can since you said you formatted system, data and cache). what happens when you try to install cm7?
I'm going to show my ignorance here and say I'm not sure. I don't THINK so, since all I intended to do was root, I just followed the instructions to give me the recovery card. Unless maybe it's on there and I'm not don't realize it.
All that said, I think I'm back off the ledge now. I found this linked from another board: http://nookdevs.com/NookColor/RestoreToStock, and the 8 fialed boots method got me back to stock, so I think I'm okay (as long as I can get it rooted).

[Q] Is My Atrix Fixable?

My apologies, as I wasn't sure where to post this.
For a long time now I've been running CM7 both the nightlies and the weeklys with no issues. Yesterday I decided I would try Neutrino ROM and installed GT 2.5. After that I noticed I had no data connection so I attempted to patch the ROM using Notorious's recommendations to no avail so I installed 2.2 and the Google addons, Sync, etc..
All was working great, however everyone said 2.5 was better in the forums so I installed it again today and attempted to patch as explained and this time was successful. I had data connection again and all was well. About an hour later I went to use my phone and it was completely black.
I attempted to power it up and nothing happened. I finally had to pull the battery and was able to get it to boot up properly, however my data connection was gone again. I ran the sysctl -p command in terminal again and rebooted it to no avail. I finally decided to go back to 2.2 which worked properly last night, however after installing from the zip and the addon zips it went to the 'Dual Core' screen and then rebooted back to the 'Dual Core' screen and keeps doing that.
I attempted to go into Recovery Mode, however when it says 'Entering Recovery Mode' it just goes black and I can't power it back on. I then have to reseat the battery before I can get it to work.
I guess at this point, is there anything I can do to get my phone back? I've seen the hard brick messages and I don't have that (yet), but I am not sure, because I apparently can't get that far. Thanks for any help you can provide.
-Dave
Sounds like a hardware problem to me. I recommend taking it to a service center ( for me ATT has one I use.) and sometimes they can boot it up. Or they can maybe give you ideas.
Just to confirm you can't boot anything right??
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Thanks for the response. I was unable to boot into Android Recovery, however I hadn't tried the others. After numerous searches I found information on how to use moto-fastboot to install RomRacer's Recovery image and after doing that I was able to get into Recovery (phew!). I did a complete wipe on the phone (Dalvik, system, etc) and installed Neutrino 2.2 with Lite gapps, United States (GPS), Sync, and Gtalk (for video) and shockingly it finally booted into the rom. I think at this point I'll leave it alone after restoring my apps via Titanium Backup.
My phone is now working again. Hopefully I can keep it that way.
JeRrYFaR said:
Thanks for the response. I was unable to boot into Android Recovery, however I hadn't tried the others. After numerous searches I found information on how to use moto-fastboot to install RomRacer's Recovery image and after doing that I was able to get into Recovery (phew!). I did a complete wipe on the phone (Dalvik, system, etc) and installed Neutrino 2.2 with Lite gapps, United States (GPS), Sync, and Gtalk (for video) and shockingly it finally booted into the rom. I think at this point I'll leave it alone after restoring my apps via Titanium Backup.
My phone is now working again. Hopefully I can keep it that way.
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Awesome good to hear. I would change the title or at least add, solved problem
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[Q] My Nook refuses to boot or power on. Help!

I have been running the kanged builds of CM9 for a while, but it began to get bogged down recently and would freeze up almost daily forcing a hard shutdown and reboot.
Sometime yesterday, it began to boot only into recovery no matter what option I tried in the Cyanoboot menu. From there I tried a factory reset and wipe dalvik to hopefully get back into CM9 and here's where the strangeness really kicked off.
Clockwork (which was running off emmc) would freeze in the middle of the factory reset just like it would when CM9 was running (the graphics would degrade slightly upon inspection of the screen).
So, I grabbed my old sdcard with clockwork recovery on it to boot from sd, and I run into the same problem again. Freezing before a wipe, factory reset, or install from sd can complete.
Now, after each failed attempt in clockwork (sd and emmc) it sticks at a backlit black screen and after a hard shutdown refuses to boot (sd or emmc) for about an hour, only to repeat the madness again.
Does anyone have any ideas what I can try from here or familiar with a similar situation?
My sd clockwork version is 3.2.something and I've also tried 3.0.1.something.
UPDATE: For reasons unknown, my Nook seems to be booting regularly as of this morning. However, I am still unable to get a successful flash out of any rom. The closest I've gotten to success is stuck in a boot loop. I think from here I'll likely be able to figure it out, but just as before...
Any help is welcome and appreciated!
I had the same problem with the black screen when trying to install different roms on mine. I just kept clicking the power button and after a few minutes it would kick back on every time.
There is an entire thread specifically on this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
As far as CM9 I can't help you much there. I would just try to install a different rom, and hope that works.
Thanks!
I had seen that thread, but I thought my experience was a different; either way, I've managed past that problem using a method similar to yours.
If this helps any, I have been trying to to 7.2 RC1 for a while as well, but it will not get me any further than the stuck boot screen same as the CM9.
Have you tried to follow the tread on returning it to stock ?? I would reformat and repartition it and return it to stock ... then make sure it runs. After that I would try to reinstall the new roms ...
Just my 2 cents
Tinpau

Black screen?

Hey guys, I have been having some issues with this. I'm on Mirage Kang 7.2. Usually, Mirage is wonderful but something went wrong today. I was in the Play Store on my Nook updating four apps (like EzPDF, Go Launcher, not sure it matters though...). Anyways, it froze so I force shut off the device but when I went to turn it back on nothing happened, it just went to the infamous black screen. I did some searching and people said the boot partition is corrupted.
I tried updating the ROM to the latest release to see if anything would happen to no avail. I tried plugging the Nook into my computer and turning it on but that didn't work either. The only ways I could find to fix it was to revert back to stock. Does anyone know a way out of it while keeping my apps, data, etc?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
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