I hope I'm posting in the correct place.
I think I've bricked my Nook Touch (tell me it isn't so!). The problem is as stated in the subject line. Now it won't turn off or respond at all to hardware or touch. Is there at least a way to get the screen back to "Read Forever"?
Please help, and let me know if you need more information!
I'll be so grateful if this problem can be at least partially solved.
try to remove sd-card and reboot it
I tried that; the Nook Touch will not reboot. Thanks for replying.
Would the zip file Nook Simple Touch Full_Factory_Restore.zip work for me in this scenario? If so, where can I get the file?
Its almost impossible to brick this device. Try this first.
Hold power firmly for 30 seconds.
let it go
Wait 10 seconds
Hold power again for about 10 or so seconds the screen should change and you should reboot.
Try this with the SD card in and out. You can also try and repeat the step of writing the .img to your SD card. Download the file again or verify the checksum in case you got a bad download.
The screens will not necessarily change if you are stuck in a boot loop and power down. Regardless if it doesn't boot 8 times it will revert its pretty much impossible to brick the unit. You can also try to power off via ADB and or try the script that forces the 8 failed reboots.
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Edit I missed that it appears you intentionally formatted the device? What exactly did you do?
Also if you made a back up of the partition prior to formatting (not sure exactly what you did or why you did it) but that should have been your first step prior to doing anything exotic so you can replace the files necessary. I'm not at home otherwise I'd post the partition contents for your restore I'm sure you can find them on the net somewhere or here. I think the nook color root wiki may have the Nook touch back up files I'm not sure though. Either way its trivial to pull them and post them. Those of you that may do this make sure your account information is wiped first prior to making the back up for him.
Exactly which partition you formatted? The one normally exposed during USB connection? In this case power it off (by holding the power button for few seconds and selecting power off) and then do a hard reset
Hold power button and the bottom two side buttons until the screen starts to flicker. Release power button but hold the side bottom buttons until you see a hard reset screen
After reset the data partition will be as good as new.
Rooted Foreve screen - the brick
Hello everyone. I'm from Russia. And I have the same problem: Rooted Forever on the screen (I have formatted sd card by Mini Tool Partitition Wizard - Delete all partititions) when the SD card was into Nook and my Nook is the brick. And i can't send my Nook to B&N. None of your advices did not work. But I still have some hope. Maybe my experience will be usefull for you.
I have pushed 2 bottom buttons & power button for 30 seconds. Then 10 seconds pause. Then I have pushed 2buttons+pwr for 30 seconds again. And Nook has turned off. But the screen was completely dark. Then I turned it on and saw Rooted Forever. After that I repeated 3 buttons holding and turned the nook off. Right now my screen is completely white.
And one other thing. I also have tried nookrestorer program . I've mount an image on SD. Put it into nook. Turned it on. Script on the screen: wait for 10 sec, turn off yor nook. Take out SD. But it does not work.
I managed to lock my Nook up on boot right after I rooted it, but got it to unlock and revert to factory settings. Mine was frozen on the "Read Forever" screen and would only flash when I turned it off (something I've not read anywhere else) but this may help some of you... Don't try to do a factory reset and immediately root it again, because you may have to update the Nook again first!
First, remove the SD card, then power it off (hold the power button for 20 seconds until the screen flashed) then, letting go of the power button and immediately pressing and holding the power button again and the two bottom side buttons (I think for 10 seconds?)
The Nook would still sit on the "Read Forever" screen a minute or so, then started doing a factory reset, wiped everything including the data section and the updated software.
I had to re-update the Nook to 1.1 and then could re-root it.
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Edit:
I realized after I posted this that I lied. Sorry. That didn't work for me, but I discovered that I could still access ADB over USB with my Nook while it was frozen on the loading screen... so I did this from my PC:
adb shell
echo -n -e "\x08\x00\x00\x00" > /rom/devconf/BootCnt
reboot
Credit to page nookdevs dot com/Flash_back_to_clean_stock_ROM (Not enough posts to post links yet, sorry!)
Note that you do have to have the ADB installed, but I think that's key to a lot of the root methods...
Aridon said:
Its almost impossible to brick this device. Try this first.
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Bricking the NST is quite easy, just boot with Noogie and write some garbage onto the flash.
Lots of people do this by trying to write incomplete backups back to their NST.
If what you write is big enough to reach the /rom partition you're basically hosed.
Aridon said:
I'm not at home otherwise I'd post the partition contents for your restore I'm sure you can find them on the net somewhere or here. I think the nook color root wiki may have the Nook touch back up files I'm not sure though. Either way its trivial to pull them and post them. Those of you that may do this make sure your account information is wiped first prior to making the back up for him.
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This is a very bad advice, the /rom and /factory partition contains data unique to every NST such as MAC address, serial, board serial, EAN, private and public keys, etc..
Using a backup from another NST can and will cause troubles for you and the person owning the NST the backup came from.
My NST was bricked as well, after a Salsicha-image write session failed. Permanently stuck in the "Rooted forever" screen no matter what I pressed. Prior to the write, I have deleted ALL the partitions on my NST and then it wouldn't boot, so it seemed gone forever.
Yet it turned out that my NST can still boot with the Nookie image on a microSD
( from the BACKUP/RESTORE N2E Win7 thread). Connect it via USB to the PC and managed to restore it using my backup image. Eventually I did did the Salsicha root successfully. My NST is now rooted with 1.1.
I don't have specific advices, but the NST does seemed hard to be properly bricked. Given my experiences, I actually wonder if the NST hardware could bootstrap itself entirely from the microSD, irrespective of the state of its internal flash.
Just solved this thing: formatted microSD with Noogie Image, then deleted all partitions and than flashed my backup image back and Nook is working fine now!
jack ng said:
I actually wonder if the NST hardware could bootstrap itself entirely from the microSD, irrespective of the state of its internal flash.
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Yes it can.
Bricked Nook
I've also formatted my Nook when I was thinking that I was formatting the sdc. I've tried installing the nookRestore img and nT2-Recovery but both of these get to the screen where it says to wait but then the Nook won't reboot. My Nook can no longer be seen by my computer so isn't showing up in device manager. I've also tried the various boot tricks manually. I also lost my backup of my Nook when I had to reinstall Windows a week ago. If anyone could help that would be great!
Thanks.
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I've found my backup image but it says Install Failed: Please power off and back on. I do this but it says the same thing. It shows up for a few seconds in device manager right after I power it on but the device id is wrong, USBSTOR\DISK&VEN_B&N&PROD_EBOOK_DISK&REV_0100\11223344556677&0. And then it disconnects in a few seconds.
aknas22 said:
I've also formatted my Nook when I was thinking that I was formatting the sdc. I've tried installing the nookRestore img and nT2-Recovery but both of these get to the screen where it says to wait but then the Nook won't reboot.
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If you formatted your NST, Factory Restore (and thus n2T-Recovery) will not work as you removed the partition containing the actual Restore image (partition 3)
aknas22 said:
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I've found my backup image but it says Install Failed: Please power off and back on. I do this but it says the same thing. It shows up for a few seconds in device manager right after I power it on but the device id is wrong, USBSTOR\DISK&VEN_B&N&PROD_EBOOK_DISK&REV_0100\11223344556677&0. And then it disconnects in a few seconds.
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What size is your backup image?
The unknown device you see for a split second at boot can be ignored, this is normal behavior.
It's 77.5 megabytes, I made it with Roadkill but I'm not sure if I did it right. I got it best the install fail screen. I'm not absolutely sure that I formatted the Nook but since none of the recovery methods or other images work that's the only thing I can think of. Also its no longer communicating with my computer properly.
Thank you for your reply.
I remember that there was a file(image) that works on the same principle as Noogie, but it will start the factory reset instead. Have you tried that ??? Unfortunately I don't know whether it uses/refers to the "formated" factory partition or it makes it's own. I think yo might find it in one of the threads, about rooting the Nook.
P.S. : the size of your backup file is too small ... it has to be about 1.8G
aknas22 said:
It's 77.5 megabytes, I made it with Roadkill but I'm not sure if I did it right. I got it best the install fail screen. I'm not absolutely sure that I formatted the Nook but since none of the recovery methods or other images work that's the only thing I can think of. Also its no longer communicating with my computer properly.
Thank you for your reply.
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Your backup is worthless, don't bother with it.
Also Factory Restore, n2T-Recovery etc won't help you.
Check your PM in a few mins.
zholy said:
I remember that there was a file(image) that works on the same principle as Noogie, but it will start the factory reset instead. Have you tried that ??? Unfortunately I don't know whether it uses/refers to the "formated" factory partition or it makes it's own. I think yo might find it in one of the threads, about rooting the Nook.
P.S. : the size of your backup file is too small ... it has to be about 1.8G
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Thanks for your reply, yea my backup is missing something, I thought I found a my good one but it doesn't seem to be. I found those other images but as ros87 said they don't work either.
Keep getting "Install failed" screen
Well, I seem to have bricked my NST as well.
I was trying to unroot from TouchNooter by restoring what I now know was a bad backup image (only 77MB). I am also certain that the NST was reformatted as well.
When there is no SD card in the NST it is stuck in the "Install Failed" screen. It can reboot but just goes back to the "Install Failed" screen.
I have located the original backup image of the NST when it was fresh out of the box and think it's a good one (1.92GB), but I am unable to restore it while the nookie image is mounted in the SD drive. I have also tried the two manual restore images (NST-Recovery) and although they ran succesully they did not fix the problem.
Is there anything else I can try to get my NST working again or is it bricked forever?
UPDATE: SUCCESS!
Just in case anyone else runs into this problem:
I was using roadkil's disk image program to restore the known good backup image and kept getting an error message: "Error #5 occured while writing to disk at sector 0". A google search of that error turned up a in a blog where I learned that roadkil doesn't play well with windows 7. What you have to do is run a program called lockdismount.exe version 0300 (google it), lock that physical drive, and leave that program running. THEN run disk imager and restore the backup image to the NST. When disk imager is done, exit that program, go back to lockdismount, unlock that drive, and then exit lockdismount.
Note: When disk imager was finished restoring it gave me an error, but I went ahead and booted up the NST anyways. My Simple Touch is back to it's factory-fresh state and all is well again
*Many* thanks to everyone who posts in this forum. Going through all the posts helped me troubleshoot and eventually unbrick my Nook SimpleTouch.
Life saver!!!! Thank you!!!
ajjdowning said:
Well, I seem to have bricked my NST as well.
I was trying to unroot from TouchNooter by restoring what I now know was a bad backup image (only 77MB). I am also certain that the NST was reformatted as well.
When there is no SD card in the NST it is stuck in the "Install Failed" screen. It can reboot but just goes back to the "Install Failed" screen.
I have located the original backup image of the NST when it was fresh out of the box and think it's a good one (1.92GB), but I am unable to restore it while the nookie image is mounted in the SD drive. I have also tried the two manual restore images (NST-Recovery) and although they ran succesully they did not fix the problem.
Is there anything else I can try to get my NST working again or is it bricked forever?
UPDATE: SUCCESS!
Just in case anyone else runs into this problem:
I was using roadkil's disk image program to restore the known good backup image and kept getting an error message: "Error #5 occured while writing to disk at sector 0". A google search of that error turned up a in a blog where I learned that roadkil doesn't play well with windows 7. What you have to do is run a program called lockdismount.exe version 0300 (google it), lock that physical drive, and leave that program running. THEN run disk imager and restore the backup image to the NST. When disk imager is done, exit that program, go back to lockdismount, unlock that drive, and then exit lockdismount.
Note: When disk imager was finished restoring it gave me an error, but I went ahead and booted up the NST anyways. My Simple Touch is back to it's factory-fresh state and all is well again
*Many* thanks to everyone who posts in this forum. Going through all the posts helped me troubleshoot and eventually unbrick my Nook SimpleTouch.
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THANK YOU soooo much!!! lockdismount.exe save my NOOK. Couldn't restore my backup img using roadkil's utility but after reading your post I'm all set.
Thanks again.
overwritten rom and factory partition
ros87 said:
Bricking the NST is quite easy, just boot with Noogie and write some garbage onto the flash.
Lots of people do this by trying to write incomplete backups back to their NST.
If what you write is big enough to reach the /rom partition you're basically hosed.
This is a very bad advice, the /rom and /factory partition contains data unique to every NST such as MAC address, serial, board serial, EAN, private and public keys, etc..
Using a backup from another NST can and will cause troubles for you and the person owning the NST the backup came from.
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Hello, i am one of those unlucky/incompetent user who overwrite those partition. My experience is this: I can use (read, browse etc) other device's ROM (with different serial etc) on my NOOK, but if I want to deregister/or re-register my device at B&N, the process leads me to an ERROR message at the end.
I have no idea how to solve this problem. Maybe editing several files on Boot partition and Factory partition. Or maybe there is a way to erease these data from these file (resetting) I d not know. Or maybe there is an ORIGINAL rom without any device specific data, I don't know... and I am a bit hopeless.
Do You have any idea?
People at B&N do not understand the problem at all...
Thanks in advance for any help!
Tamas
So yeah, the Nook and my SD card were plugged in and I ran unooter on the drive for the nook instead of the SD card. Needless to say, it borked my Nook. It boots up fine but as soon as the OS loads it tells me the nook needs to be reset and if the problem persists to contact customer service. I think it's pretty obvious that I resized the partion on my nook so that it's too small to even operate correctly. Any ideas? Plugging the nook into my computer no longer activates it as a drive. Thanks guys.
If you can still boot, couldn't you burn the clockwork image to an SD card and do a factory reset from CWM?
If that doesn't work, you could get the zips that repartition the internal memory that are found on ths site. I don't think I can post a link yet, but just search the forum for internal memory partition and follow the directions.
At worst, you could also try the three finger reset (hold down power, both volumes, and n button for ten seconds or so until the nook turns off and restarts, and then repress as it begins to reload a total of eight times in a row.) the nook will reset to factory stock upon the eighth consecutive restart.
Of course the easiest would probably be to restore a CWM backup, but I would think you would have tried that if you could.
I don't know much about autonooter, but I am willing to bet one of those would definitely work. as long as the boot process is starting you can preempt it and then have tons of options.
Hi there, I've done a fair amount of searching and have read up and down similar posts but haven't been able to get to a resolution.
I have an NST fw 1.2, I initially tried using noogie to root it, but i made a backup image of my device using dd before i started messing with it. upon having problems with adb i switched gears. at that point it was still booting up into normal nook homescreen and all functional. later i attempted touchnooter 2.1.31 but couldn't make it past the install screens (eg, step 1 wait for the black screen flash, then reboot never got me any progress). after multiple times rebooting i was able to attempt a factory reset, but it never completed. at this point it wouldn't respond to any combination of key holds/reboot sequences and was not recognized via usb by my ubuntu machine. currently with noogie on a sd card inserted in the nook, i can hold the power button and the screen will flash but never does anything other than show the 'rooted forever' screen. in this mode with the usb attached, i can see the 7 partitions (factory, cache, userdata, rom, nook, boot, and a 302 MB fs). so i feel like it's not totally dead (right?)
so i'm thinking, gosh i'd like to restore that backup image, or attempt another factory reset.. what would you do?
cgonxda said:
currently with noogie on a sd card inserted in the nook, i can hold the power button and the screen will flash but never does anything other than show the 'rooted forever' screen
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Remove the sdcard!
If you reboot the nook with the noogie sdcard, then it will return to the Rooted Forever screen.
Remove the sdcard, then press and hold the power button for a few seconds, repeat a few times. It takes a fair bit of effort but will restart.
The power button is the button at the rear of the nook, not the 'n' button on the front of the nook.
cgonxda said:
i'd like to restore that backup image, or attempt another factory reset.. what would you do?
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I would ...leave in the noogie sdcard
restore your backup
http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/20...-and-restore-nook-glow-and-nook-simple-touch/
then remove the noogie sdcard, reboot, and check that the nook still works.
Since you have NST fw 1.2 you will need to root with Tinynoot.
Tinynoot for US Nook 1.2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1650593
I didn't find any other rooting method that works for the US Nook 1.2
Tinynoot only has a few basic apps, ADB wireless, Button Savior, NookColorTools.
It has no google apps, and no access to google / android market.
You will need to use ADB to install apps.
If you have a UK Nook 1.2, then Tinynoot works, and there is Alpha TFU
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34216660#post34216660
thanks for the info, restoring from my backup image worked..
i used dd and got back to original and everything worked fine
Code:
dd if=my_backup.img of=/dev/sdb bs=1M
i checked out the TinyNoot info in the link you provided and was able to perform that root with no problems on my 1.2 firmware
Glad to hear it!
Hey,
I just read these threads to root my nook:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2071855&highlight=nookmanager+loading+
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2040351
My NookSimpleTouch has the latest firmware from B&N.
Using dd I put NookManager on the microSD, turned off the Nook, inserted the card, and turned it on again.
The Nook is stuck at the startup screen saying 'NookManager Loading...' already for 20 minutes.
So I flipped the MicroSD card out, turned the Nook of. Made sure it still boots into NookOS and then repeated steps above with a new and freshly downloaded NookManager Image.
But also this second time I can;t get past the screen 'NookManager Loading...'.
The screen flashes every 20 seconds or so. But other then that no sign of live or progress.
Any tips?
Thnx!
(I use a Mac with OSX10.8.3)
try factory reset
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28763125&postcount=5
but did u take backup???
try take backup before do that from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1142983
good luck
Don't mess around with a factory reset. NookManager runs entirely off of the SD card and should always boot to the start screen no matter what.
I suggest trying a different SD card.
I have the same problem. Bought a second SD card, same problem.
Having the same problem on a 1.2.1
HI, i try changing partition size with out lack and now my nook wont reboot.
I inserted de SD with noogie and got to "rooted forever" screen saw my partitions and all.... but removing the SD and now the nook can't get restarted...
any idea how to solve this¿¿
thanks
Hold down the power button for 20 seconds.
If that doesn't work you probably killed something in the boot partition.
Go back to noogie again and fix it.
Renate NST said:
Hold down the power button for 20 seconds.
If that doesn't work you probably killed something in the boot partition.
Go back to noogie again and fix it.
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thanks..
what do you mean go back to noogie to fix...? noogie only gets me to the reooted forever screen.
BTW i haven't toched anything on the nook.
EDIT: with the noogie SD in, the nooks reboots just fine... the problem comes with out the sd
Well, why did you start with the noogie in the first place?
To root, presumably.
Did you replace any files or run any super-nooter-thingie?
Look at the mounted drive under noogie and see what is there.