Hello everyone,
Im new to this forum but have lurked for a few years. I consider myself reasonably familiar with android and have installed custom roms on various devices in the past.
Yesterday I installed the latest CM10 Color Nook Rom to an micro SD and on to my wife's Nook Color. Install went great, Wifi up and working and I went to install Gapps via recovery. When it came back on the keyboard kept dying and I realized I had installed too new of Gapps. My bad. I shut off the nook and removed the micro SD with the intentions of wiping it out and starting fresh.
I put the nook off to the side and about 15 mins later went to install my fresh install of JB when I found the nook completely dead and unresponsive. The battery was at about 90% when i turned it off.
This was only supposed to be a install to the sd, I dont know why it's affecting the nook when theres no sd card in it.
So far I have tried:
pulling out the sd card
hard reset
creating a nook color restore micro sd and booting from that
charging
The nook remains completely dead and 100% unresponsive and I have no idea where to go from here! I keep reading its hard to brick these but im starting to think thats what happened!
I was thinking of taking off the cover and doing a battery pull. Any ideas?
If you truly have nothing happening, it certainly sounds like a hardware problem. Pulling battery to reset is worth a try. It's worked for me on several Android devices (never tried it with a Nook, though). Somewhere recently in the forum I read how to do a safe battery pull on a Noo, but don't recollect where. Search for it. If that fails, I'd say your Nook is kaput.
scthomps said:
Hello everyone,
Im new to this forum but have lurked for a few years. I consider myself reasonably familiar with android and have installed custom roms on various devices in the past.
Yesterday I installed the latest CM10 Color Nook Rom to an micro SD and on to my wife's Nook Color. Install went great, Wifi up and working and I went to install Gapps via recovery. When it came back on the keyboard kept dying and I realized I had installed too new of Gapps. My bad. I shut off the nook and removed the micro SD with the intentions of wiping it out and starting fresh.
I put the nook off to the side and about 15 mins later went to install my fresh install of JB when I found the nook completely dead and unresponsive. The battery was at about 90% when i turned it off.
This was only supposed to be a install to the sd, I dont know why it's affecting the nook when theres no sd card in it.
So far I have tried:
pulling out the sd card
hard reset
creating a nook color restore micro sd and booting from that
charging
The nook remains completely dead and 100% unresponsive and I have no idea where to go from here! I keep reading its hard to brick these but im starting to think thats what happened!
I was thinking of taking off the cover and doing a battery pull. Any ideas?
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No, don't pull the cover. What happened is your boot files got corrupted on internal memory. It will not power on unless those files are there or a valid bootable SD is in the slot.
You need to get my bootable CWM SD from my tips thread linked in my signature. That should boot. Then you need to reinstall whatever ROM you had on internal memory. If it was stock you can get the CWM flashable version also from my tips thread.
Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium
Thanks!
leapinlar said:
No, don't pull the cover. What happened is your boot files got corrupted on internal memory. It will not power on unless those files are there or a valid bootable SD is in the slot.
You need to get my bootable CWM SD from my tips thread linked in my signature. That should boot. Then you need to reinstall whatever ROM you had on internal memory. If it was stock you can get the CWM flashable version also from my tips thread.
Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium
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Im going to try your linked CWM and create the SD from your tips first. The last I saw the battery it said roughly 80% and assuming it wasn't stuck in some loop it should be still good.
If the battery IS actually dead will the nook charge with no OS installed? My charger cord came apart months ago and I have been charging (slowyly; lol) off a generic cord plugged into the computer. Will this make a difference or should I wait to try this when I have a proper charger cord?
Thanks for everyone's help! You guys are lifesavers!
scthomps said:
Im going to try your linked CWM and create the SD from your tips first. The last I saw the battery it said roughly 80% and assuming it wasn't stuck in some loop it should be still good.
If the battery IS actually dead will the nook charge with no OS installed? My charger cord came apart months ago and I have been charging (slowyly; lol) off a generic cord plugged into the computer. Will this make a difference or should I wait to try this when I have a proper charger cord?
Thanks for everyone's help! You guys are lifesavers!
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It should charge slowly with that cable. Even if not booted to anything.
Sent with XDA Premium from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on SD
leapinlar said:
It should charge slowly with that cable. Even if not booted to anything.
Sent with XDA Premium from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on SD
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I followed your instructions and the "battery too low to power on" message came up, which is the first sign of life I have seen out of the nook in a few days. Thanks!
leapinlar said:
No, don't pull the cover. What happened is your boot files got corrupted on internal memory. It will not power on unless those files are there or a valid bootable SD is in the slot.
You need to get my bootable CWM SD from my tips thread linked in my signature. That should boot. Then you need to reinstall whatever ROM you had on internal memory. If it was stock you can get the CWM flashable version also from my tips thread.
Sent from my HD+ running CM10 on SD with XDA Premium
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My CM10 went completely dead last week. I put lepinlar's v6.0.1.2 Bootable CWM Recovery on and SD card and now have some sign of life.
I get to the cyanoboot universal bootloader screen, but it just sits with a Loading.... note. I've let it sit for about 10 minutes and nothing else happens. I also tried the N key and it does load the boot menu...but no option gets me past that initial screen...
should it just boot directly into CMW? any other suggestions would be appreciated!
ginhead said:
My CM10 went completely dead last week. I put lepinlar's v6.0.1.2 Bootable CWM Recovery on and SD card and now have some sign of life.
I get to the cyanoboot universal bootloader screen, but it just sits with a Loading.... note. I've let it sit for about 10 minutes and nothing else happens. I also tried the N key and it does load the boot menu...but no option gets me past that initial screen...
should it just boot directly into CMW? any other suggestions would be appreciated!
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Not really sure what you mean. You say you put my bootable CWM on SD. You mean you burned the image to an SD? And it boots to the cyanoboot screen but gets stuck on loading...?
Does the cyanoboot screen have a small s0 in the upper left corner? If does that means it is trying to boot from the SD. It should boot directly into CWM by itself.
Try reburning it or use my 5.5.0.4 version. Once it gets to CWM, install a new ROM with it. The original reason it went dead was corrupted files on your internal boot partition. Reflashing the ROM should fix it.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
leapinlar said:
Not really sure what you mean. You say you put my bootable CWM on SD. You mean you burned the image to an SD? And it boots to the cyanoboot screen but gets stuck on loading...?
Does the cyanoboot screen have a small s0 in the upper left corner? If does that means it is trying to boot from the SD. It should boot directly into CWM by itself.
Try reburning it or use my 5.5.0.4 version. Once it gets to CWM, install a new ROM with it. The original reason it went dead was corrupted files on your internal boot partition. Reflashing the ROM should fix it.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
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thanks for the reply.
I've used Win32diskimager to burn both v6.0.1.2 and 5.5.04 to an SD card. I do see the S0 in the upper left corner, but the screen never moves past the initial Loading...screen.
I can get it to load clockworkmod using a '1gb_clockwork-3.0.1.0' recovery image (also tried 1gb_clockwork-3.2.0.1-eyeballer w/the same result). However, I get a message that states:
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/command
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/loginterrrupt
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
I then attempted to flash your Nook Color EMMC Partition Repair zips....The NookColor-emmc-repair-partitions-1-4-5-6-7-8.zip will complete the 'repartitioning /boot /system /data /cache and media' step.
it sticks on the Repartitioning internal memory - be patient this may take a while'...i've let it sit for about 30+ minutes...how long should this take? My nook is currently sitting in this phase now...I guess I'll let it sit for a while and see if anything else happens.
thanks for the help with this...from what I've read, I'm hopeful there is a solution...
ginhead said:
thanks for the reply.
I've used Win32diskimager to burn both v6.0.1.2 and 5.5.04 to an SD card. I do see the S0 in the upper left corner, but the screen never moves past the initial Loading...screen.
I can get it to load clockworkmod using a '1gb_clockwork-3.0.1.0' recovery image (also tried 1gb_clockwork-3.2.0.1-eyeballer w/the same result). However, I get a message that states:
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/command
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/loginterrrupt
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
I then attempted to flash your Nook Color EMMC Partition Repair zips....The NookColor-emmc-repair-partitions-1-4-5-6-7-8.zip will complete the 'repartitioning /boot /system /data /cache and media' step.
it sticks on the Repartitioning internal memory - be patient this may take a while'...i've let it sit for about 30+ minutes...how long should this take? My nook is currently sitting in this phase now...I guess I'll let it sit for a while and see if anything else happens.
thanks for the help with this...from what I've read, I'm hopeful there is a solution...
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Which recovery are you using to flash the repair zips? It needs to be at least 3.2.0.1. Don't use that 3.0.1.0. Don't worry about those E: messages, it just means cache is not formatted.
It is sounding like the first step of the repartitioning is not taking. That is fixing partition one. I'll be right back with another zip to see if you can flash that.
Try the attached and see what happens. You can also try the bootable TWRP to flash rather than CWM. I have that linked in that partition fix thread.
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leapinlar said:
Which recovery are you using to flash the repair zips? It needs to be at least 3.2.0.1. Don't use that 3.0.1.0. Don't worry about those E: messages, it just means cache is not formatted.
It is sounding like the first step of the repartitioning is not taking. That is fixing partition one. I'll be right back with another zip to see if you can flash that.
Try the attached and see what happens. You can also try the bootable TWRP to flash rather than CWM. I have that linked in that partition fix thread.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
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thanks a lot!
I did try with the 3.2.0.1 recovery and the flash you posted above. It is still sticking at the 'repartitioning internal memory' step...I also tried your TWRP bootable, but that still sticks at the loading screen.
I can't find my external sd writer, so I've been writing/burning using in internal writer in two different laptops and a camera in mass storage mode. I ordered a SD writer from amazon...should get it on Wednesday. I wonder if my issues are just with writing/burning the SD card..
I'll report back when I get the new writer and guess I might as well try another card too.
ginhead said:
thanks a lot!
I did try with the 3.2.0.1 recovery and the flash you posted above. It is still sticking at the 'repartitioning internal memory' step...I also tried your TWRP bootable, but that still sticks at the loading screen.
I can't find my external sd writer, so I've been writing/burning using in internal writer in two different laptops and a camera in mass storage mode. I ordered a SD writer from amazon...should get it on Wednesday. I wonder if my issues are just with writing/burning the SD card..
I'll report back when I get the new writer and guess I might as well try another card too.
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It is possible it is the card. It might be good enough to start the boot, but not good enough to read and write the files that are needed. Definitely try a different card.
EDIT: Now that I think about it, I am almost positive that is what is wrong. Try a SanDisk class 4.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
scthomps, you could get a NC replacement charging cable from ebay, just do a search, it works good for me.
I'm actually running into this problem right now with two different nook color tablets.
One I've had CM10 installed to the EMMC for well over a month without any problems. The other Nook Color I followed the same procedure to install to the EMMC off a bootable SD card.
Regardless of how little or much power the Nook has, it will not even power on unless I have a bootable SD card installed.
Once I get to the menu, I can boot from the internal EMMC without any problems. Not sure what I did to correct the /boot partition on two different Nooks. Least of all one that's been working.
Going to try boot into recovery to see if I can fix whatever corruption got introduced.
phoenix1972 said:
I'm actually running into this problem right now with two different nook color tablets.
One I've had CM10 installed to the EMMC for well over a month without any problems. The other Nook Color I followed the same procedure to install to the EMMC off a bootable SD card.
Regardless of how little or much power the Nook has, it will not even power on unless I have a bootable SD card installed.
Once I get to the menu, I can boot from the internal EMMC without any problems. Not sure what I did to correct the /boot partition on two different Nooks. Least of all one that's been working.
Going to try boot into recovery to see if I can fix whatever corruption got introduced.
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You need a complete set of boot files on the internal boot partition or it won't even try to turn on by itself without a bootable SD. You don't. It needs MLO, u-boot.bin, uImage and uRamdisk there. You obviously have the MLO or u-boot.bin missing or corrupted because uImage and uRamdisk must be there to boot from the SD menu.
This is all fixable by just flashing your ROM again. Those files all get put back on fresh.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
leapinlar said:
Which recovery are you using to flash the repair zips? It needs to be at least 3.2.0.1. Don't use that 3.0.1.0. Don't worry about those E: messages, it just means cache is not formatted.
It is sounding like the first step of the repartitioning is not taking. That is fixing partition one. I'll be right back with another zip to see if you can flash that.
Try the attached and see what happens. You can also try the bootable TWRP to flash rather than CWM. I have that linked in that partition fix thread.
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Hi leapinlar I think I have the same problem as this guy except its on a Nook HD +, becuase I get that same error message when I boot into a bootable cwm. Can you help me out please?
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I installed CM7 as per the instructions, but now I can't get into the OS. I can't even get back into CWM.
I installed everything just fine, and when I booted up, I got the CM7 splash screen, and then a total black screen. No matter what I've done to the SD card, it just stays at the black screen.
I installed Dalingrins (sp?) OC kernel too, so I don't know if that could of messed it up in any way
My NC is a blue sticker, by the way.
Can you boot to CWM from your SD card?
You may need to repartition your nook to the old setup and then attempt to load CM7
Rastven said:
Can you boot to CWM from your SD card?
You may need to repartition your nook to the old setup and then attempt to load CM7
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Nope. not at all. I've tried putting the CWM image on the SD card from several different PC's in case mine was just messing with me. But no go.
Try a new CWM image and/or a new SD card.
I actually found an old sandisk class 2 4Gb SD card worked great to make my bootable CWM SD Card.
Sinful Animosity said:
I installed CM7 as per the instructions, but now I can't get into the OS. I can't even get back into CWM.
I installed everything just fine, and when I booted up, I got the CM7 splash screen, and then a total black screen. No matter what I've done to the SD card, it just stays at the black screen.
I installed Dalingrins (sp?) OC kernel too, so I don't know if that could of messed it up in any way
My NC is a blue sticker, by the way.
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1: Please don't say brick when referring to the NC. Until you have to JTAG a G1, you don't know what brick is.
2: Are you trying to boot CM off of an SD card or the internal memory? MAKE SURE you downloaded the eMMC kernel (not SD) if you are installing to the internal memory.
3: How about some more details of what kernel/rom version you downloaded, file name, how you went about it, etc. Then instead of this needless back and forth, we can solve it in one go, eh?
"I installed CM7 as per the instructions" = which instructions?
ace7196 said:
1: Please don't say brick when referring to the NC. Until you have to JTAG a G1, you don't know what brick is.
2: Are you trying to boot CM off of an SD card or the internal memory? MAKE SURE you downloaded the eMMC kernel (not SD) if you are installing to the internal memory.
3: How about some more details of what kernel/rom version you downloaded, file name, how you went about it, etc. Then instead of this needless back and forth, we can solve it in one go, eh?
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Okay, first, no need to be rude.
Second, I have JTAGed a device. My Captivate had to be JTAGed after a bad ODIN flash. So thanks so much for telling me what to not call my device that won't boot up no matter what I do. Also, thanks for telling me what I do and don't know.
I downloaded the eMMC kernel, Dalingrin's OC kernel. I followed this guide in General: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1030227 I followed every single step.
I didn't cut any corners, and I did exactly as it told me. Only thing I didn't do was re-partition it.
Looks like you tried to install CM7 into your internal memory (per instructions).
I assume that you have not flash CwM internally.
If that's the case, re-prepare the bootable CwM uSD again, boot the NC back into CwM recovery, do format /system, format /data, format /cache first then install the zip file (CM7, gapps) then go back and wipe data/factory reset. Remove uSD then reboot.
Give it some times to load.
Ok, long story short this isn't even my nook it belongs to my girlfriend who wanted CM7 on it. I installed CM7 to an sd card and now for her own reasons she wanted to upgrade to the latest official nook release..
Turns out somewhere along the way I installed CWM on the nook and not just the sd card. So for whatever reason she couldn't upgrade from 1.3 to 1.4. I found a way to upgrade to 1.4 through CWM and thought all was peachy until I found that I put the zip on the nook and booted into CWM. At that point for whatever reason when I tried to search for the zip it said "Sd card not mounted" so naturally I found out how to "mount" the sd card and that didn't work.
A forum post on another forum suggested formatting the /boot section and being the genius I am figured "sure what the heck" and now after rebooting nothing turns on.
It doesn't boot into the nook partition, when I insert the sd card it didn't boot into CM7, I even tried this http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...msd-v3-0-1-0-higher-ext3-ext4-compatible.html and it doesn't turn on now.
Is there any thing I can do at this point? I did let it charge over night and the n on the charger went from orange to green.. so I am hoping it isn't entirely bricked, just don't know what to try now..
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No idea why but it just booted into CWM almost randomly.. disregard this I guess..
Hello xda experts!!!!! I really need some help!!! The thing is like this : I have installed cm10 alpha 1 for nook on sd card!!! While i was installing it my nook color was also connected to the computer. So in WinImage i accidently chose the 1 gb of nook color instead of the 32 gb sandisk class 10 which i had inserted in pc via card reader. So it began writing on nook color's internal 1 gb memory. More to that, I interrupted this procedure and performed full format in minitool partition manager. i didnt knew the format of internal memory of nook color so i chose fat32 formatting style. But when i rebooted nook color after disconnecting it kept on showing message that system has encountered some issue and it requires the system to restart.But even after reboot the same error kept on showing up!!!!! And since yesterday the stock b&n OS has stopped working completely!!! Doesnt even show the error which it previously used to show!!! Plz resolve this error and help ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Use my partition repair zips in my emmc partition repair thread linked in my signature. Flash with my bootable CWM SD in my tips thread also linked in my signature. Then you can reflash stock back to emmc as also explained in my tips thread.
leapinlar said:
Use my partition repair zips in my emmc partition repair thread linked in my signature. Flash with my bootable CWM SD in my tips thread also linked in my signature. Then you can reflash stock back to emmc as also explained in my tips thread.
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But now it has just black screen!! Not even a flick of light!!! Just plain lback as if the device is dead!!! I kept it with ac charger for over 2 hrs with a hope of its resurrection but no yield!!!! And how shall i decide which partition has corrupted!!!
I tried eyeballers cwm sd bootable img but no yield!!!! The screnn is just plain black!!!
AamirShamma said:
But now it has just black screen!! Not even a flick of light!!! Just plain lback as if the device is dead!!! I kept it with ac charger for over 2 hrs with a hope of its resurrection but no yield!!!! And how shall i decide which partition has corrupted!!!
I tried eyeballers cwm sd bootable img but no yield!!!! The screnn is just plain black!!!
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You need to use my CWM bootable SD. It has been modified to boot in bootloop situations. You can get it on my tips thread linked in my signature.
leapinlar said:
You need to use my CWM bootable SD. It has been modified to boot in bootloop situations. You can get it on my tips thread linked in my signature.
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I dont know how but its on again !!! I think the device was hanged badly and when it was dicharged completely then it booted back up!!! However i still get system error in barnes and noble nook OS while cm10 is running like butter!!!
I still dont get it whether my partitions have been damaged in the nook OS. Beacause i had just formatted the 1gb of data which we get in nook and have nothing to do with partitions!!! However thanx leapinlar!!! You rock!!! Yur contribution in xda is noteworthy!!! Keep up the good work!!!::good:
Bricked while installing TWRP
Hi guys,
sorry to warm up this thread, but I think I have a similar Problem. I was running CMW with CM10.1 and I tried to install TWRP using the manager app, bit I think I chose the wrong model and now I am stuck with a loop of the nook logo at the beginning. I cant even boot from sd card or anything. Does somebody have an idea how to fix this?
Cheers!
chrizzl111 said:
Hi guys,
sorry to warm up this thread, but I think I have a similar Problem. I was running CMW with CM10.1 and I tried to install TWRP using the manager app, bit I think I chose the wrong model and now I am stuck with a loop of the nook logo at the beginning. I cant even boot from sd card or anything. Does somebody have an idea how to fix this?
Cheers!
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You probably messed up you partitions. Go to my NC partition repair thread linked in my signature. But you will somehow have to get the NC to boot to SD. Also make sure you really have a Color instead of a Nook Tablet. Colors have a black bezel and Tablets have a grey one.
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leapinlar said:
You probably messed up you partitions. Go to my NC partition repair thread linked in my signature. But you will somehow have to get the NC to boot to SD. Also make sure you really have a Color instead of a Nook Tablet. Colors have a black bezel and Tablets have a grey one.
Sent from my SM-T707V using XDA Premium HD app
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Thx leapinlar,
infact I do have an Nook HD+. Problem is I cant get it to boot from SD. I already tried the HD+ bootable CMW-Images u posted in ur other thread, however it never gets out of the nook-logo loop. It seems like the partitions are so messed up that it cant boot from sd... could one somehow solve this by connection the thing to a pc?
Cheers!
chrizzl111 said:
Thx leapinlar,
infact I do have an Nook HD+. Problem is I cant get it to boot from SD. I already tried the HD+ bootable CMW-Images u posted in ur other thread, however it never gets out of the nook-logo loop. It seems like the partitions are so messed up that it cant boot from sd... could one somehow solve this by connection the thing to a pc?
Cheers!
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I don't have a partition repair for the hd+. Why are you posting this in the Nook Color forum? The hd+ do brick easily.
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Hey so I was trying to flash a dev build of Ubuntu Touch to my NC, and in the midst of excitement, I accidently formatted /boot.
Now my NC will come on, but hangs at Cyanoboot "Loading..." I've even tried flashing the 1gb CWM image to an sd and trying that. However, my nook will boot, I'll hold "n" to enter the boot menu, and I'll click "SD Card Normal". After that, it hangs at "Loading (SD)..."
Any ideas on how to fix my nook? I'd hate to have a $75 paperweight.
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Hey so I was trying to flash a dev build of Ubuntu Touch to my NC, and in the midst of excitement, I accidently formatted /boot.
Now my NC will come on, but hangs at Cyanoboot "Loading..." I've even tried flashing the 1gb CWM image to an sd and trying that. However, my nook will boot, I'll hold "n" to enter the boot menu, and I'll click "SD Card Normal". After that, it hangs at "Loading (SD)..."
Any ideas on how to fix my nook? I'd hate to have a $75 paperweight.
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Go to my NC tips thread and make my 5.5.0.4 CWM bootable SD. It will boot. Then just flash a new CM rom and you will get your boot files back.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
leapinlar said:
Go to my NC tips thread and make my 5.5.0.4 CWM bootable SD. It will boot. Then just flash a new CM rom and you will get your boot files back.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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I dd'd the img file to the SD and it booted into Cyanoboot from the SD ONCE. After that, I had to format because choosing either option didnt work(?, I don't quite remember.) I figured I got a malformed download, so I redownloaded the file, extracted it, formatted my SD, dd'd the img file over to the SD, and now my Nook doesn't recognize it anymore. Turning it on boots me back into Cyanoboot on the EMMC.
Am I missing something? I've been flashing ROMs for over a year on 5+ devices and this is the first 'major' problem I've had.
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I dd'd the img file to the SD and it booted into Cyanoboot from the SD ONCE. After that, I had to format because choosing either option didnt work(?, I don't quite remember.) I figured I got a malformed download, so I redownloaded the file, extracted it, formatted my SD, dd'd the img file over to the SD, and now my Nook doesn't recognize it anymore. Turning it on boots me back into Cyanoboot on the EMMC.
Am I missing something? I've been flashing ROMs for over a year on 5+ devices and this is the first 'major' problem I've had.
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I don't understand, choosing what options? It should have booted directly to CWM with no intervention from you.
The Nook family of devices are hard to get a bootable SD to boot. They have to be burned just right, especially if using DD on a Mac or Linux. Be sure to choose the whole device, not just a single partition.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
leapinlar said:
I don't understand, choosing what options? It should have booted directly to CWM with no intervention from you.
The Nook family of devices are hard to get a bootable SD to boot. They have to be burned just right, especially if using DD on a Mac or Linux. Be sure to choose the whole device, not just a single partition.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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The time it did work, I turned my NC on and it booted into Cyanoboot showing that it was ran off of the SD (by the SD0 label in the top left, currently, without the SD, it shows EMMC 01). I held down "n" to access the boot menu and two options were available, "SD Card Normal" and "SD Card Recovery". Neither option worked, so I ejected it and redid the whole process.
As for dd'ing, I'll look up how to write to the whole SD, as of now, whenever I dd the img file, it creates a seperate fat32 partition the house the files and leaves 15gb unallocated.
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The time it did work, I turned my NC on and it booted into Cyanoboot showing that it was ran off of the SD (by the SD0 label in the top left, currently, without the SD, it shows EMMC 01). I held down "n" to access the boot menu and two options were available, "SD Card Normal" and "SD Card Recovery". Neither option worked, so I ejected it and redid the whole process.
As for dd'ing, I'll look up how to write to the whole SD, as of now, whenever I dd the img file, it creates a seperate fat32 partition the house the files and leaves 15gb unallocated.
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Don't hold n, just let it go.
And I did not say it should fill the SD, just be sure to pick the right device.
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This morning I switched over to a Windows box and used Win32DiskImager to write the CWM 5.5.04 img to the SD. Still a no go. Nook STILL isn't recognizing the SD. I don't get why it would work once, and not again.
Am I missing something? I feel like I've tried everything, but that I'm missing a very simple solution.
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This morning I switched over to a Windows box and used Win32DiskImager to write the CWM 5.5.04 img to the SD. Still a no go. Nook STILL isn't recognizing the SD. I don't get why it would work once, and not again.
Am I missing something? I feel like I've tried everything, but that I'm missing a very simple solution.
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I don't know why, but sometimes it makes a difference if the card is full wipe formatted with SDFormatter before reburning. Get it free on the web.
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I don't know why, but sometimes it makes a difference if the card is full wipe formatted with SDFormatter before reburning. Get it free on the web.
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Did a full wipe with SDformatter, flashed the .img, Cyanoboot still isn't showing a SD is inserted.
I can flash an 8gb CWM image to the SD, and Cyanoboot will recognize it, but won't let me boot into it. It stills sticks on "Loading (SD)..."
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Did a full wipe with SDformatter, flashed the .img, Cyanoboot still isn't showing a SD is inserted.
I can flash an 8gb CWM image to the SD, and Cyanoboot will recognize it, but won't let me boot into it. It stills sticks on "Loading (SD)..."
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Where did you get an 8GB image? Or did you mean my image to an 8 GB card?
Edit: I was just rereading your first post, and you said you formatted /boot. If that is true there is no way you are booting to emmc cyanoboot (showing EMMC01). You must either not have formatted it or flashed something else there after you formatted it. In any case, emmc boot partition may have bad files so you should never be trying to use the emmc cyanoboot. That may be why it gets stuck on loading. You must get an SD to boot on its own so you don't have to use emmc cyanoboot.
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leapinlar said:
Where did you get an 8GB image? Or did you mean my image to an 8 GB card?
Edit: I was just rereading your first post, and you said you formatted /boot. If that is true there is no way you are booting to emmc cyanoboot (showing EMMC01). You must either not have formatted it or flashed something else there after you formatted it. In any case, emmc boot partition may have bad files so you should never be trying to use the emmc cyanoboot. That may be why it gets stuck on loading. You must get an SD to boot on its own so you don't have to use emmc cyanoboot.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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I figured it out. I had flashed a modified Cyanoboot, and it had no ROM to boot into. I think it was my adapter that wasn't allowing me to boot into the CWM image. I got a new adapter, deleted all partitions off my sd and then dd'd your CWM image. Popped it onto my NC and it worked!
Hi, I'm a moron. I accidentally dragged some files that I meant to put in a different window onto my Nook's internal storage, and now I can't boot past "Read Forever"—it doesn't even continue to the N, shuts back down to black. It does this whether or not the SD card is in. Since I put CWM on it, now I can't restore from the 8 boot attempts, but I also can't seem to restore from anything else on the SD card.
I just erased everything on the card and put stock NC 1.2 on it, but I still have no luck booting up the NC to it.
How do I fix this? I can't even mount the NC on a computer to delete the files. (They were .just 2 zip files of CM10 and Google Apps.)
Hey, just to clarify, by "internal storage" I mean the same space where you can sideload files.
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Hey, just to clarify, by "internal storage" I mean the same space where you can sideload files.
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That still does not help me. You mean the drives that show up in windows explorer? That should not have caused any problem. Give use a bit more info. There must have been something else that happened.
If you go to my NC Tips thread linked in my signature, I have both bootable CWM SDs and a zip you can flash to put stock recovery back on internal memory so you can do the 8 failed boot. There are even instructions on how to do the 8 failed boot. See item A12.
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That still does not help me. You mean the drives that show up in windows explorer? That should not have caused any problem. Give use a bit more info. There must have been something else that happened.
If you go to my NC Tips thread linked in my signature, I have both bootable CWM SDs and a zip you can flash to put stock recovery back on internal memory so you can do the 8 failed boot. There are even instructions on how to do the 8 failed boot. See item A12.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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Yeah, it was put into that space called "MyNook" (or such) where you can add other files. I also don't know what is going wrong, and I'm confused. I had just used uNooter and then CWM, and was going to load CM10 and GApps but I have not been able to boot beyond "Read Forever" since they were dragged to that internal drive.
I just put on the bootable CWM and a stock zip to the SD card but apparently now my Nook needs to charge before I can see if it works.
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Yeah, it was put into that space called "MyNook" (or such) where you can add other files. I also don't know what is going wrong, and I'm confused. I had just used uNooter and then CWM, and was going to load CM10 and GApps but I have not been able to boot beyond "Read Forever" since they were dragged to that internal drive.
I just put on the bootable CWM and a stock zip to the SD card but apparently now my Nook needs to charge before I can see if it works.
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What is uNooter and where did you get it? I think that is your problem.
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What is uNooter and where did you get it? I think that is your problem.
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I found uNooter through the CyanogenMod wiki page for the NC. (I am not allowed to post URLs, apparently.) I followed that page and got as far as replacing the stock recovery, with everything working fine. Then I ran into issues with getting ADB to work with Terminal, so I never got CM10 or GApps onto the SD card. I dragged them to the internal storage and when I tried to reboot into the stock Nook, it didn't work. (I was able to reboot after rooting and replacing stock recovery before this, both with and without the SD card, there was only a problem after the files went onto the internal storage.)
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I found uNooter through the CyanogenMod wiki page for the NC. (I am not allowed to post URLs, apparently.) I followed that page and got as far as replacing the stock recovery, with everything working fine. Then I ran into issues with getting ADB to work with Terminal, so I never got CM10 or GApps onto the SD card. I dragged them to the internal storage and when I tried to reboot into the stock Nook, it didn't work. (I was able to reboot after rooting and replacing stock recovery before this, both with and without the SD card, there was only a problem after the files went onto the internal storage.)
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It was not putting those files on internal memory that caused the issue. Something else happened with the uNooter after you installed it.
If my stock recovery zip and 8 failed boot does not fix it, I recommend you go to my NC partition repair thread linked in my signature and follow the steps there.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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It was not putting those files on internal memory that caused the issue. Something else happened with the uNooter after you installed it.
If my stock recovery zip and 8 failed boot does not fix it, I recommend you go to my NC partition repair thread linked in my signature and follow the steps there.
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Thanks, I will be trying the NC partition repair next. It seems to be ignoring the bootable CWM & stock zip entirely (or at least it will not boot at all) despite being fully charged.
EDIT: It looks like I spoke too soon! I'm now able to boot into CWM after leaving the NC sitting around for a few hours! I restored the ROM, put on stock 1.4.1, then did 8 failed boots and went back down to 1.2.0.
So, now I am now to 100% stock and debating my next steps.
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Thanks, I will be trying the NC partition repair next. It seems to be ignoring the bootable CWM & stock zip entirely (or at least it will not boot at all) despite being fully charged.
EDIT: It looks like I spoke too soon! I'm now able to boot into CWM after leaving the NC sitting around for a few hours! I restored the ROM, put on stock 1.4.1, then did 8 failed boots and went back down to 1.2.0.
So, now I am now to 100% stock and debating my next steps.
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If you want rooted stock, go to my NC Tips thread, follow A15 and put 1.4.3 on it, then go to Manual Nooter 5.08.20 in the dev forum.
If you want CM10.1 on SD follow my updated NC SD guide.
If you want CM10.1 on internal memory, follow eyeballer's emmc guide.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.