I received a Nook Simple Touch the other day and have been trying to root it with both NookManager and TouchNooter but to no avail
It's firmware 1.2.0 and I have tried putting both Nookmanager and touchnooter onto an SD Card but the problem I have is that the nook doesn't boot up at all when I have the written SD card in.
It's not an SD card fault as the nook reads the SD card if I put it in while it's on but it just won't boot up with it in
I've tried updating to 1.2.1 (successfully) but it doesn't seem to have made a difference
Anyone know a fix for this? Thanks
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A while back I followed the directions to create an SD card bootable cm7 (from nightly). Everything worked perfect and with the card in it booted to cm7 and without it back to stock (rooted 1.0.1). When bn released 1.2 I decided to try it and re-partitioned my sd card to a single fat32. I used the adb method to indicate 8 failed boot attempts and restored the nc to stock then did a factory reset through settings. I was then able to install 1.2 downloaded from bn website. My assumption was that my nc was now 100% stock but it doesn't seem that this is the case. I now have a new sd card (not the same as I had first used) and tried to run cm7.0.3 using the same method as before. I downloaded the 1.1 version of the cm7 installer sd image and after writing it to the card I copied over the cm7.0.3 for encore rom. I put the sd card in my nc expecting to boot up to an install but instead it booted my old nightly build, wallpaper and apps intact. How do I remove this old installation and why was it not running strictly from the SD card?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
I've tried searching the forums but haven't found any similar threads. I got my nook touch yesterday, and the memory card and all was running fine, however today ever since rebooting my memory card is unrecognized upon which my nook asks me to format the card. However he is unable to do so and that's basically it in a nutshell. SD-Card works fine with a different phone and on computer. Different SD-Card came up with the same issue. I even factory resetted my nook which didn't help at all, as the problem persists.
I reckon this must be a hardware problem on the nook site then. Or does anyone else have any idea as in what else I can try to do? Thanks.
Same happened with SanDisk class4 32GB. Smaller SD card works just fine and I suspected my card or type of sd card issue. Nook can't do reformatting the card correctly either. As a workaround I have formatted the sd card on Windows then put it back into Nook and use it that way. Unless I let Nook to format the sd card it works fine.
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Would appreciate some guidance, if anyone can help...
In December we got two new Nook Color Devices, one had 1.2 and the other 1.3. Had one 8gb micro sd card, and without understanding much about it, I followed verygreen's instuctions to create a card for dual booting. The 1.3 machine was used for installing cm7 (7.10) and the latest gapps file. But the card was then removed from that unit and inserted into the other Nook Color which had 1.2 in its firmware. I now think this was improper but am unsure what the repercussions were.
The system was used succesfully for several weeks. Occasionally the Nook side was booted from menu. Then suddenly after a cold boot, CM7 started but the virtual sd card was not recognized. Removed the card from the unit and investigated using Windows XP and Minitool Partition Wizard and found the "CM7 SDCARD" partition was corrupted. I reformatted that partition in Minitool, and then used the card for about another week in the 1.2 NC. At that time multiple partitions on the card suddenly became corrupted and fearing the sd card itself was defective I ordered some higher quality sd cards (now have 4 8gb sandisk class 4 cards to play with). Meanwhile the 1.2 NC accidentally booted into the Nook side with wifi enabled when it was charging and updated itself to 1.4.1. Before receiving the new sd cards, I reformatted the possibly defective sd card and recreated dual boot system using Verygreen's instructions (in the 1.3 unit but transferred into the 1.2 unit after creation). I was able to restore some of the apps using Titanium (but only because I had copied some of my original backups to my pc)
The unit with 1.3 on it had not been used much with wifi, and it still had/has 1.3 on it. One of the new cards is now in that NC (created as before with the Verygreen instructions).
I'm in a quandary what to do with the other unit.
Could using the 1.3-created sd dual boot card in the 1.2 Nook have caused partitions to become corrupted?
Where are applications going? Doesn't look like they're in the large sd card partition. I didn't think I had that much on there, (just some free apps from google and amazon) but I might I have run out of space? I never elected "move to sd card" or "clear cache" for any apps and don't know if that is a requirement when you use dual booting.
I haven't found instructions for what to do to create a dual boot card for 1.4.1. My original 8 gb card is in the unit, but I'd like to create a new boot card using the higher quality medium. Just want to understand what's happening. Is use of a 1.3-based card bound to lead to more corrupted partitions? Any suggestions on how to create a reliable dual boot card for this unit?
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I'm in a quandary what to do with the other unit.
Could using the 1.3-created sd dual boot card in the 1.2 Nook have caused partitions to become corrupted?
Where are applications going? Doesn't look like they're in the large sd card partition. I didn't think I had that much on there, (just some free apps from google and amazon) but I might I have run out of space? I never elected "move to sd card" or "clear cache" for any apps and don't know if that is a requirement when you use dual booting.
I haven't found instructions for what to do to create a dual boot card for 1.4.1. My original 8 gb card is in the unit, but I'd like to create a new boot card using the higher quality medium. Just want to understand what's happening. Is use of a 1.3-based card bound to lead to more corrupted partitions? Any suggestions on how to create a reliable dual boot card for this unit?
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Can't tell you what issues you may be having with the sd card, but verygreen's "dual boot" (it's not really dual boot, but that's another story) method is independent of the stock rom (1.2, 1.3, 1.4, whatever). When you boot to the sd card, everything needed is on the card. When you boot to the Nook, either by using the sd card menu or removing the card, you get whatever stock ROM is currently installed in the emmc. If you properly created the sd card, you can insert it in any NC and use it.
I read through all and by the end, I'm lost
Anyway, if you are dealing with verygreen's uSD cards, you should be all set and not to worry anything on the eMMC. It's independent.
As why those partitions corrupted, I don't know as I never hit that problem. Just curious, why do you say it corrupts?
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I read through all and by the end, I'm lost
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Oh well, if no one else has had the issue of sd card corruption hopefully its not a side effect of using verygreen's image together with cm7 7.1.0, google apps and user apps.
Anyway, if you are dealing with verygreen's uSD cards, you should be all set and not to worry anything on the eMMC. It's independent.
As why those partitions corrupted, I don't know as I never hit that problem. Just curious, why do you say it corrupts?
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The behavior was a little different each time. Has happened 3 times now.
Once it totally locked up. Powered off and back on. Got my home screen with icons but in the notification area an image of the sd card persisted for maybe 5 minutes while the unit was otherwise locked up. Finally the sd card image cleared, but es file explorer empty sdcard. When tested on the PC, that partition's data was corrupted. Recovery (using pc software) retrieved a bunch of files but without their proper names. That time my apps were not destroyed. I didn't have to redo verygreen's procedure, just reformatted CM7 SDCARD partition.
Another time I had powered off. Restarted and it booted in Nook instead of CM7. Removed the card and tested on the PC and both the boot and CM7 SDCARD partitions were unreadable. Didn't attempt any recovery. Wiped out and reformatted the card, then redid the verygreen procedure on it.
The third time (last night ) was more similar to the first time. I got some forced closes and couldn't get back the status bar. Rebooted. Got the sdcard icon showing for about 5 minutes. When it cleared, my files were inaccessible. Removed the card and tested on the PC. CM7 SCDARD partition content was corrupted.
The (bad?) sd card didn't give any errors when tested prior to the break downs. Its labeled as a sandisk 8gb class 2. Was a gift.
I'm back up and running after redoing the verygreen procedure using one of the new sandisk 8gb class 4 cards. This time I actually used my unit instead of another to do the unpacking/recovery loading of cm7 and google apps. I've never applied any of the nightlies. Maybe I should look into that. Also have never deliberately done any other procedures, such as overclock it.
Praying the corruption issue doesn't hit me again. I guess my NC's internal flash drive could possibly be defective. If so, at least its still under warranty.
I was given a nook color and trying to root it. I have tried different sd cards, sd readers, sd adapters, software and it will not boot from the sd card. It`s running 1.4.2. Model number BNTV250. I have read for 3 days and tried everything and can`t get it to boot from the sd card for love or money.
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I was given a nook color and trying to root it. I have tried different sd cards, sd readers, sd adapters, software and it will not boot from the sd card. It`s running 1.4.2. Model number BNTV250. I have read for 3 days and tried everything and can`t get it to boot from the sd card for love or money.
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BNRV200 = Nook Color
BNTV250 = Nook Tablet
You have a Nook Tablet, that is why it is not working.
Thank you. Sorry as a total noob when it comes to nook
After attemptindg to make a bootable sd card with CM7 and failed probably due to my inexperience I tried to reformat the card and start over again. Now my computer will sometimes recognise the card and other times not. The real problem is that the nook will not not mount the card and formatting on the nook fails every time. I have tried numerous sd cards and none will not format on the nook. As a last resort I have done the 8x's reset and now am back to the begining but it willstill not format the sd card. Any help as where to start would be greatly apperciated
Steve
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After attemptindg to make a bootable sd card with CM7 and failed probably due to my inexperience I tried to reformat the card and start over again. Now my computer will sometimes recognise the card and other times not. The real problem is that the nook will not not mount the card and formatting on the nook fails every time. I have tried numerous sd cards and none will not format on the nook. As a last resort I have done the 8x's reset and now am back to the begining but it willstill not format the sd card. Any help as where to start would be greatly apperciated
Steve
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You need to format the card on your PC with SDFormatter (free on the web). It formats it properly so the nook can read it and erase it if you want.
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Thanks-- I have downloaded the sdformat program and formatted the sd card as you indicated. When I put the card in the nook it asked to format the card. At that point I ejected the card and followed your instructions in the signature of your message. At this point I put the card
into the nook and powered it up. The nook then booted into the Barnes and Noble software. It looks as if the nook is not seeing the sd card.
any suggestions?
Steve
Just tried again. (formatting.. burning image and the cm7.2 zip file to the sd card and the nook will not boot at all with the sd card inserted.
Take out the card and it boots to the stock software.. May be a new card is needed???
Steve
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Just tried again. (formatting.. burning image and the cm7.2 zip file to the sd card and the nook will not boot at all with the sd card inserted.
Take out the card and it boots to the stock software.. May be a new card is needed???
Steve
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You are sending me mixed issues. You said you tried to make bootable SD. It failed. Then you could not get the nook to recognize card or the PC to reliably recognize it. What I told you to do was for getting the card back as readable on the PC and nook.
Now you are trying to make it bootable again? That is a different issue. Look in my nook color tips thread at item A9 to see some issues with making a bootable SD.
And you are sure this is a Nook Color, not a Nook Tablet?
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Thanks for the reply, as i said earlier I did reformat the card as per you suggestion to no avail. The PC was able to recognise the card and the nook color was not. At that point I tried to make the card bootable again hoping that the Nook would see it with the image on it. Now the nook color will not boot up at all with the card inserted but will boot normallly to stock without the sd card inserted. Sorry for any confusion. I will try and reformat the card again an and let you know wha happens. This time I will go no furthur till I hear from you folks.
Again thanks for all you do!! Steve
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Thanks for the reply, as i said earlier I did reformat the card as per you suggestion to no avail. The PC was able to recognise the card and the nook color was not. At that point I tried to make the card bootable again hoping that the Nook would see it with the image on it. Now the nook color will not boot up at all with the card inserted but will boot normallly to stock without the sd card inserted. Sorry for any confusion. I will try and reformat the card again an and let you know wha happens. This time I will go no furthur till I hear from you folks.
Again thanks for all you do!! Steve
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What you did not say in your earlier post was whether after formatting the SD and inserting in the NC and it asking if you wanted to format, was did you try to let the NC format it and was it successful? You just said you immediately removed it and followed some instructions from my signature. I have a lot of instructions there so I don't know what you did.
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The sd card formatted sucessfully. at that point I inserted it into the nook and booted it up. The nook indicated that the card was inserted. Then it asked to format the sd card. When I did so the reply was formatting failed. Tried several attempts. The computer had no problem seeing the
card so i put the image on the card along with the CM encore zip file and tried it in the nook. The nook would not boot with the card inserted,
so now at this point I have formatted the card again sucsessfully using the sd formatter program. Not sure where to go from here.
thanks for all you help thus far....Steve
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The sd card formatted sucessfully. at that point I inserted it into the nook and booted it up. The nook indicated that the card was inserted. Then it asked to format the sd card. When I did so the reply was formatting failed. Tried several attempts. The computer had no problem seeing the
card so i put the image on the card along with the CM encore zip file and tried it in the nook. The nook would not boot with the card inserted,
so now at this point I have formatted the card again sucsessfully using the sd formatter program. Not sure where to go from here.
thanks for all you help thus far....Steve
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All I can suggest now is a different card.
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IAJust tried a brand new Sandisk card to no avail. The nook color notifies me of the card being inserted but that it needs to be formatted. When the format option is selected the format fails. Do you think there is something physically wrong with the sd card Reader? Is there an alternate way of getting the CM software on the. Nook color. I am openn to any suggestions. Tkank for all the assistance. Steve
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IAJust tried a brand new Sandisk card to no avail. The nook color notifies me of the card being inserted but that it needs to be formatted. When the format option is selected the format fails. Do you think there is something physically wrong with the sd card Reader? Is there an alternate way of getting the CM software on the. Nook color. I am openn to any suggestions. Tkank for all the assistance. Steve
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May be card reader and may be your slot in the nook.
Yes there is an alternate way using ADB, but it is not simple.
You have to connect with ADB, mount the boot partition and push the RecImg and RecRam files from the burned card to the boot partition. But you have to use my bootable CWM SD to get the files. Most other CWM cards don't have them. Those two files replace the stock versions and then you can boot to CWM by holding the n key while booting. Then you can choose files to flash from internal memory.
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Thanks for the idea.... but being a novice I think that that one may be over my head. I think at this point I'll just have a regular old Nook color ereader. Thanks for all your help and suggestions..I think that the Nook color has gotten the best of me. Steve