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[Q] So I bought this Nook color off Craigslist....

Excited as all outdoors because it was already rooted. Got home, sat down and went to put in my information, hmmmmmm, I got it from a black guy but there's a asian gmail account. :sirens: Maybe he purchased it from the guy just as I've done. I enter my account info and try to remove his, the apps need his so I cant delete him. Nothing a wipe won't fix right? Wrong. So after reading here a very small amount I realize I may need the original owner's B&N account info to resolve this.
Anyone care to chime in on this before I bother this guy for my money back?

Try to do a full wipe and return to original firmware. Then register an account for BN. Flash to cm7 afterwards. Hopefully it will work.
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If you use another rom like cm7 you won't have to worry about it. They don't register anything with Barnes and noble.
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deezndc said:
Excited as all outdoors because it was already rooted. Got home, sat down and went to put in my information, hmmmmmm, I got it from a black guy but there's a asian gmail account. :sirens: Maybe he purchased it from the guy just as I've done. I enter my account info and try to remove his, the apps need his so I cant delete him. Nothing a wipe won't fix right? Wrong. So after reading here a very small amount I realize I may need the original owner's B&N account info to resolve this.
Anyone care to chime in on this before I bother this guy for my money back?
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If you are already at CM7 on the NC, then you will have to delete the old gmail and youtube accounts and sign-in to your own gmail and youtube accounts.

I just did a complete wipe of everything (SD card included) and his information disappeared. Thanks for the replies! Now to really dig into this.
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How can I determine which method was used to root the Nook?

deezndc said:
How can I determine which method was used to root the Nook?
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Try to do the 8 failed boots and you shouldn't have to worry about it...
8 failed = system recovery (will take it back to stock)
update to 1.2 if necessary
register with B&N if not going to CM7 (I do it anyway even using CM7)
Root or CM7
Now its how YOU want it... not some asian girl/guy/whatever.

DizzyDen said:
Try to do the 8 failed boots and you shouldn't have to worry about it...
8 failed = system recovery (will take it back to stock)
update to 1.2 if necessary
register with B&N if not going to CM7 (I do it anyway even using CM7)
Root or CM7
Now its how YOU want it... not some asian girl/guy/whatever.
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What if once I do the system recovery, its already B&N registered? Am I at a lost then?
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deezndc said:
What if once I do the system recovery, its already B&N registered? Am I at a lost then?
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If you are using CM7, the "CyanogenMod 7" logo appears when booted. There is no registration of the NC with CM7. CM7 is not rooting. It is firmware that replaces the B&N firmware.
A rooted NC will initially splash the "Read Forever tm" logo when booted. The older B&N firmware splashed "Touch the Future of Reading" logo, if I remember correctly. A rooted NC is the stock B&N firmware that has been altered to allow (root) access to the Android Market apps and still retain all the original B&N functions/features. A rooted NC does require registering the NC.
If the rooted NC is not registered to your B&N account, then:
1. Touch the "U" with the up-arrow icon, select Settings.
2. In Settings, select Device Info.
3. In Device Info, select Erase & Deregister Device.
4. Touch the Erase & Deregister Device button to start the process.
5. Follow any other instructions to complete the erase and deregister the NC process which may follow.
6. Reboot NC, it should return to stock setup, as when it was new.
7. Follow the instructions and register the device using your own B&N account.
8. Update NC to 1.2.
9. Root NC using ManualNooter 4.6.16. Instructions are here.
10. Enjoy!
I hope this helps.

Thanks for the info Bluepen.....I now have a new issue. Somehow, someway I've managed to be in a boot loop, the funny part is it's flashing between the CM7 splash and ClockworkMod Recovery. I've been searching since last evening to no avail, not one single instance matches this one.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I've tried the 8x boot thing, I can't tell if it's even shutting down. Also tried the three finger deal, may need to do more research on that one. I've also formatted my sdcard so basically I'm in route to stock which I don't mind if I can just get there.

Slowly but surely this thing will run like my Shift...!!!!! I got it, basically I'm registered with B&N and on the stock ROM, WHEWWWW!
I went to nookdevs.com ( http://mrm3.net/nook-color-recover-any-bricked-device/ ) along with the help perusing around here I was able to fix.
Cyanogen is up and running again.....

deezndc said:
Slowly but surely this thing will run like my Shift...!!!!! I got it, basically I'm registered with B&N and on the stock ROM, WHEWWWW!
I went to nookdevs.com ( http://mrm3.net/nook-color-recover-any-bricked-device/ ) along with the help perusing around here I was able to fix.
Cyanogen is up and running again.....
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It is good that your NC is back running CM7!
Are you dual booting from/on emmc or booting from the micro sdHC memory card or have you applied CM7 to emmc overwriting theB&N firmware?
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I've overwritten the B&N firmware, so I guess out of those three options it would be the latter.
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Congrats. Now overclock the **** out of it =D and install the tegra 2 games.

Sooo....I try to to reboot and I get hung up in Recovery. The only way to reboot is to remove the SD card.
Anyone else experience this?
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So amongst all my stupor I realize (after reading so much more) that I need to remove the SD card to boot back into cm7 or stock once I'm done in CWM. What a difference that makes. Smh.
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deezndc said:
So amongst all my stupor I realize (after reading so much more) that I need to remove the SD card to boot back into cm7 or stock once I'm done in CWM. What a difference that makes. Smh.
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Or format the uSD to remove CWM and make it usable to yourCM7 install.
YCGIYWG

Will that allow me to not have to remove it everytime and what are the chances of getting Nook Stock to boot once its formatted?
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The reason I ask that is because I've been stuck on the "N" screen several times to no avail.

[Q] What is the latest Cyanoboot?

Where do I get it and how to install it? I was running Mirage 7.2 and trying to upgrade to PA. It looks like I have Cyanoboot installed, but I can't get to menu. Can somebody help?
Thanks

lepa71 said:
Where do I get it and how to install it? I was running Mirage 7.2 and trying to upgrade to PA. It looks like I have Cyanoboot installed, but I can't get to menu. Can somebody help?
Thanks
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It comes with and gets installed with the ROM. And it is just like the earlier bootloader, hold the n key.
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I installed PA 2.99, I can't get to menu by hold the n key.
leapinlar said:
It comes with and gets installed with the ROM. And it is just like the earlier bootloader, hold the n key.
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lepa71 said:
I installed PA 2.99, I can't get to menu by hold the n key.
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Your n key works, right? And don't press too soon, wait for instructions to do it. It may be corrupted. Reinstall.
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n key does work I just can't get it to show menu. Is there any other way to get to recovery?
leapinlar said:
Your n key works, right? And don't press too soon, wait for instructions to do it. It may be corrupted. Reinstall.
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lepa71 said:
n key does work I just can't get it to show menu. Is there any other way to get to recovery?
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Yes, but if your n key is not working, I'm not sure this will work. Just hold power and n at the same time while booting. It should go directly to recovery.
You should also be able to boot to recovery from inside CM10 or PA by using the power off menu. After you select reboot, a second menu comes up to ask if normal reboot or reboot to recovery.
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Thank you for reply
n key works in rom itself, so I assume it should work when nook starts. When nook starts and push n key, nook displays "loading menu" and that is it.
Any other ideas?
leapinlar said:
Yes, but if your n key is not working, I'm not sure this will work. Just hold power and n at the same time while booting. It should go directly to recovery.
You should also be able to boot to recovery from inside CM10 or PA by using the power off menu. After you select reboot, a second menu comes up to ask if normal reboot or reboot to recovery.
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lepa71 said:
Thank you for reply
n key works in rom itself, so I assume it should work when nook starts. When nook starts and push n key, nook displays "loading menu" and that is it.
Any other ideas?
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Did you try the other method of power and n?
It could be that cyanoboot is corrupted. Reflash the PA rom.
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power and n works because I have to do it in order to restart NC. It gets frozen when I try to get to cyanoboot menu.
I installed SCHIZOID and moved from CWM to TWRP recovery and still have issues. Do you think I need to try wiping boot partition? I was going to try in stall CM10.1.
Thanks.
leapinlar said:
Did you try the other method of power and n?
It could be that cyanoboot is corrupted. Reflash the PA rom.
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lepa71 said:
power and n works because I have to do it in order to restart NC. It gets frozen when I try to get to cyanoboot menu.
I installed SCHIZOID and moved from CWM to TWRP recovery and still have issues. Do you think I need to try wiping boot partition? I was going to try in stall CM10.1.
Thanks.
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Be very careful about wiping /boot. If you do, be sure to flash a new ROM before you reboot. You can mess yourself up good if you don't. Another thing to try is my partition repairs in my partition thread linked in my signature. But if you do that you lose you media files, so back them up. That will fix boot. Do the 145678 zip.
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Rooted Nook HD+ Wont Boot from any SD

After I flashed my HD+ to the stock rooted rom I had noticed that my bluetooth keyboard was not compatable with the stock nook OS but worked fine with CM. I stuck the bootable SD in and it would not boot, I thought maybe this might be a problem with the sdcard well 5 sdcards later it still wont boot, this problem did not start until i flashed firmware 2.1.1 rooted on there. Is there anyways to get clockworkmod back on this device? If so is there a link anywhere to a flashable image and the name of the partition I would flash it to. I still see cyanaboot when i boot up but holding the N key to access the menu does nothing either. Thanks in advance

rfrayer said:
After I flashed my HD+ to the stock rooted rom I had noticed that my bluetooth keyboard was not compatable with the stock nook OS but worked fine with CM. I stuck the bootable SD in and it would not boot, I thought maybe this might be a problem with the sdcard well 5 sdcards later it still wont boot, this problem did not start until i flashed firmware 2.1.1 rooted on there. Is there anyways to get clockworkmod back on this device? If so is there a link anywhere to a flashable image and the name of the partition I would flash it to. I still see cyanaboot when i boot up but holding the N key to access the menu does nothing either. Thanks in advance
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There is no menu in the cyanoboot screen. To reset your device do the 8 failed boot procedure. Just interrupt the boot 8 times in a row by holding the power button until it turns off. On the 9th boot let it complete and it will reset itself to pure stock. Then you can start over.
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leapinlar said:
There is no menu in the cyanoboot screen. To reset your device do the 8 failed boot procedure. Just interrupt the boot 8 times in a row by holding the power button until it turns off. On the 9th boot let it complete and it will reset itself to pure stock. Then you can start over.
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still wont boot from sdcard

rfrayer said:
still wont boot from sdcard
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The only way you are going to be able to mod the device any further is to get an SD to boot. Did you try the new procedure in my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature?
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leapinlar said:
The only way you are going to be able to mod the device any further is to get an SD to boot. Did you try the new procedure in my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature?
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Yeah it ended up factory resetting about 3 times and then, by magic, booted into sd.. Thank heavens I thought i was going to be stuck with a useless keyboard

Vpn on NST glow g1

Is it possible to connect to a.vpn on a rooted NST glow gen1?
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Nova5 said:
Is it possible to connect to a.vpn on a rooted instead glow gen1?
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Are we talking about the Simple Touch or the Simple Touch Glow model here?

stupid autocorrecting keyboard.. Instead WAS supposed to be NST. And with the Glow Gen1 added on...
Nook Simple Touch Glow (First generation with the SD card)
And now of course long after it was rooted it had some hard crash when I picked a "com.android.settings" entry from Nook Tools (I think that where I saw it) that has messed it up. It did a factory reset on its own from the crash. Now it won't go past "Registering your device". Been rooted for about a year.

Try resetting it by holding both bottom page turn buttons while powering it on, much easier way to factory reset than the 8 failed boot attempts. If that doesn't work why can't you just boot into cwm and restore a nandroid? Yeah as many of us can attest, read and re-read the thread on what actually works properly with nook color tools. :banghead:
OB
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Button command to get it into CWM during boot?
I did the forced factory reset last night. same hang point.

Did you copy the cwm image to a micro SD and make a nandroid after rooting? Most people just leave it on the card, you just insert it and power up into recovery, really not much need to actually replace the stock recovery. If you don't have that did you make a backup with nook manager before rooting?
OB
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OverByter said:
Did you copy the cwm image to a micro SD and make a nandroid after rooting? Most people just leave it on the card, you just insert it and power up into recovery, really not much need to actually replace the stock recovery. If you don't have that did you make a backup with nook manager before rooting?
OB
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I had to clear the card because I use it for the book storage media.

Nova5 said:
I had to clear the card because I use it for the book storage media.
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That's unfortunate, I kept the 2GB card with Nook manager and the gapps package along with the virgin system backup so I can go back to completely stock by just booting from the card and restoring the original image, use an 8 GB card with cwm and numerous nandroids to roll back to for when I run into problems with apps or settings without having to unroot, and then the 32 GB for storage. After you rooted did you make a backup and transfer it to your pc before wiping the card?
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By this time it probably got dumped on a clean up of the drives as its been running stable.

thenookieforlife3 said:
So...?
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dumped/deleted/history/dead'n'gone.

thenookieforlife3 said:
So now what?
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why are you asking me? I am trying to reroot and see if that patches whatever wigged out but that didn't seem to help. I can call up button savior but its ineffective right now. the B'n'N setup wizard stays on screen.

Nova5 said:
why are you asking me? I am trying to reroot and see if that patches whatever wigged out but that didn't seem to help. I can call up button savior but its ineffective right now. the B'n'N setup wizard stays on screen.
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Have you tried booting with NookManager and doing a factory reset from there?
If not, I'd try that.

thenookieforlife3 said:
Have you tried booting with NookManager and doing a factory reset from there?
If not, I'd try that.
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Thanks! NookManager's factory image restore vs the Nooks own Factory Reset did it. I was missing a few graphical elements I had not noticed. No decline on the T'n'C, no numbers in the upper right corner.
Now to reroot and see to the original post reason...
VPN.. Is it possible?
I have to experiment with my phone being the intermediary. It'll be a hotspot and it can tie to my VPN. Maybe the phone connecting to the VPN and hosting a hotspot will let it slip through that way. Dunno. If I can get the nook to do VPN directly that would be better.

Nova5 said:
Thanks! NookManager's factory image restore vs the Nooks own Factory Reset did it. I was missing a few graphical elements I had not noticed. No decline on the T'n'C, no numbers in the upper right corner.
Now to reroot and see to the original post reason...
VPN.. Is it possible?
I have to experiment with my phone being the intermediary. It'll be a hotspot and it can tie to my VPN. Maybe the phone connecting to the VPN and hosting a hotspot will let it slip through that way. Dunno. If I can get the nook to do VPN directly that would be better.
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Glad it worked! Could I get a post thank for that?
BTW, don't forget to re-update your software to 1.2.1 before rooting again (because the reset brought it back to 1.1.5).
I'll do some research/testing on the actual VPN issue. I don't know much about it.

I don't recall if android 2.1 had VPN natively or not. Most the VPN apps I see connect to a specific services. I need to connect to my own. I need to poke around later to see what I find.
Ginger protected soul - Tapatalk

I have a habit of rating apps that beg for reviews with one star, regardless of how good the app is..
Ginger protected soul - Tapatalk

Plus.. currently on my phone.
Ginger protected soul - Tapatalk

Okay, we'll running VPN on the phone and running a hotspot on the phone did not work. Phones software isn't built to work that way. Digging through the digital ether I go for a VPN software package that'll work on the nook.
Ginger protected soul - Tapatalk

"Vpn menu" did not work. It is supposed to bring up the built in menu, since it doesn't I have to guess that was removed from the nook and the root package glownooter did not reinstall it. Had hoped it was just hidden away and vpn menu would access it.
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FEATVPN reports that L2TP is not properly implemented on the device and it won't work at all. Rooted Anyconnect from Cisco just drops back to the desktop as it were when run. VPN seems crippled on the nook. Oh well.. looks like a no go via the nook.
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Accidentally took emmc off my NC

I have a nook color, and I've rooted and reinstalled stock so many times , that
I thought I knew all the tricks. Apparently I didn't! I tried to revert from manual booted back to stock and it would not take.! Long story short I noticed when I went to mounts and storage there was no emmc showing . Have I destroyed my nook color? Is there any way to get it back?
Thanks!!!
Rhonda

Rhonda61 said:
I have a nook color, and I've rooted and reinstalled stock so many times , that
I thought I knew all the tricks. Apparently I didn't! I tried to revert from manual booted back to stock and it would not take.! Long story short I noticed when I went to mounts and storage there was no emmc showing . Have I destroyed my nook color? Is there any way to get it back?
Thanks!!!
Rhonda
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Go to my NC partition repair thread linked in my signature and try that.
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Thank you !!!! I'll give it a try!

I tried repairing it using your 3 codes. It still boots up to " Read Forever"
And won't go any further. It acts like it's installing the update or installing
Back to the stock, but then it sticks.

I went back and re-read your answer. Am I wrong ? Is this just for if you are
Using an SD card to run your ROM with? You see I accidentally , some how removed
The emmc off of my internal drive... I think? When I put my SD card in to Change ROMs, it has a system , data, cache, sd card, sd-ext, but no emmc?
It acts like its installing the ROMs but you take the so card out and power on, and it
Sticks at Read Forever? I think I've really goofed this time!

Rhonda61 said:
I went back and re-read your answer. Am I wrong ? Is this just for if you are
Using an SD card to run your ROM with? You see I accidentally , some how removed
The emmc off of my internal drive... I think? When I put my SD card in to Change ROMs, it has a system , data, cache, sd card, sd-ext, but no emmc?
It acts like its installing the ROMs but you take the so card out and power on, and it
Sticks at Read Forever? I think I've really goofed this time!
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"emmc" section on a NC is just where you store media files. It has nothing to do with storing a rom. Did you try to reinstall your stock rom? Look at my NC Tips thread linked in my signature for how to do that. Look at item A15.
And I'm not sure what you mean by installing my 3 codes.
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leapinlar said:
"emtomc" section on a NC is just where you store mediafiles. It has nothing to do with storing a rom. Did you try to reinstall your stock rom? Look at my NC Tips thread linked in my signature for how to do that. Look at item A15.
And I'm not sure what you mean by installing my 3 codes.
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Yes, I did try to reinstall the stock and it does nothing. It brings up the words " Read Forever" and and stays there. It won't do anything . As for the 3 codes/files. You told me to t o go to your singnature and download the 3 files in your signature which I did .
I'm still stuck.

Rhonda61 said:
Yes, I did try to reinstall the stock and it does nothing. It brings up the words " Read Forever" and and stays there. It won't do anything . As for the 3 codes/files. You told me to t o go to your singnature and download the 3 files in your signature which I did .
I'm still stuck.
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I tried once ,ore doing what you told me and now my Nook won't even turn on... C

It is possible that your NC internal memory has become read only. I have seen this happen rarely before. It acts like you are writing to it but nothing sticks. Successfully flashing the repair 14567 zip should have caused it to boot to cwm when you remove the SD. I am afraid your unit is toast.
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leapinlar said:
It is possible that your NC internal memory has become read only. I have seen this happen rarely before. It acts like you are writing to it but nothing sticks. Successfully flashing the repair 14567 zip should have caused it to boot to cwm when you remove the SD. I am afraid your unit is toast.
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I finally got my NC to come back on by plugging into a computer. SO I can at least get it back on.
Is it still toast?
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Rhonda61 said:
leapinlar said:
It is possible that your NC internal memory has become read only. I have seen this happen rarely before. It acts like you are writing to it but nothing sticks. Successfully flashing the repair 14567 zip should have caused it to boot to cwm when you remove the SD. I am afraid your unit is toast.
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I finally got my NC to come back on by plugging into a computer. SO I can at least get it back on.
Is it still toast?
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Just because it fires up does not mean it will stop being read only, if it is. Unless you can get it to accept my repair zips or a rom, it is toast.
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Rhonda61, I just reread your posts again and I am not sure that you flashed my repair zips correctly. Did you go to my repair thread linked in my signature and install (flash) the zips there? If you did, what were the results? When you took the SD out after flashing them, how did the device act?
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leapinlar said:
Rhonda61, I just reread your posts again and I am not sure that you flashed my repair zips correctly. Did you go to my repair thread linked in my signature and install (flash) the zips there? If you did, what were the results? When you took the SD out after flashing them, how did the device act?
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I finally got everything to work. I was going to throw the NC away, and decided I would try one more time, and it worked. The results were after I flashed the partition 1,etc... and it would not do anything, until I flashed the partition 2, and still nothing, until I flashed the NC stock update.
BUT.... I just posted a new question, about it will only go to Stock 1.2. It will not let me
put 1.4 NC update on it, nor any of the custom Rom's ? Is there anything more I can do?