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[Q] NC - Error trying to register device after factory reset?

Hi, folks,
I just [successfully] did a factory reset using the usual procedures. Upon final reboot, it takes me through the initial Nook Color B&N setup and registration process, but after successful connection to wifi, and entering my email/password, the device fails to register with B&N with the following message;
"Sorry we're having trouble setting up your NOOKcolor. Please shutdown the device and try again. If the problem persists, contact Customer Support at ...."
I've tried to shutdown and register a few times now with the same message.
What's the best path at this point to get this device back up and running, either in the B&N rom, or preferably straight to a more generic Android rom if possible?
Thanks in advance for anyone that can point me in the right direction.

KryptoNyte39 said:
Hi, folks,
I just [successfully] did a factory reset using the usual procedures. Upon final reboot, it takes me through the initial Nook Color B&N setup and registration process, but after successful connection to wifi, and entering my email/password, the device fails to register with B&N with the following message;
"Sorry we're having trouble setting up your NOOKcolor. Please shutdown the device and try again. If the problem persists, contact Customer Support at ...."
I've tried to shutdown and register a few times now with the same message.
What's the best path at this point to get this device back up and running, either in the B&N rom, or preferably straight to a more generic Android rom if possible?
Thanks in advance for anyone that can point me in the right direction.
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If you don't care about the stock rom just go ahead and use CM7. Check out the guide in my sig.
Sent from my NookColor using Tapatalk

koopakid, you nailed it, I'm all setup. Thanks for that 'getting started' guide. CM7 internal is really fantastic.

Just to follow up with the error, there was a reason for this. When doing the steps to "restore to stock" the old fashioned way, I went in to de-register the device, and I do not believe it actually completed.
Because I was switching users (one family member to another) with this reset, B&N had to be involved to manually de-register the device, so I could finally register it properly under the new user. It did require me to provide B&N with the user information for the de-registration (the user giving up the device).

Dug up from the dead but probably useful to others as it is to me as I'm now being offered a "Factory Reset" after my Nook Color failed to boot many times (if memory serves the count is 8 failed boots?). I think I was runing CM7 (it's been a while) and I'm not sure why it refused to boot all of a suddent, hopefuly it's not a hardware problem...
Looks like I'm going to lose everything anyway if I have to reflash to CM7 (I saw posts about CM9 so that might be better?) so I'll give factory reset a shot and see what happens!

webvan said:
Dug up from the dead but probably useful to others as it is to me as I'm now being offered a "Factory Reset" after my Nook Color failed to boot many times (if memory serves the count is 8 failed boots?). I think I was runing CM7 (it's been a while) and I'm not sure why it refused to boot all of a suddent, hopefuly it's not a hardware problem...
Looks like I'm going to lose everything anyway if I have to reflash to CM7 (I saw posts about CM9 so that might be better?) so I'll give factory reset a shot and see what happens!
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If you replace the stock recovery with CWM when you put CM7 on your device, the factory reset will not work. You might just try flashing a new ROM.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD

Thanks, in the end I went with stock v1.43+ ManualRooter 5.08 and so far so good!

semi-bricked NST

Hi,
A couple days ago my rooted NST got into a bootloop all of a sudden (it's been rooted for several months and I have had no problem prior to that). I searched for all the "bricked" posts and followed the relevant advice, to no avail. Let me explained the problem, and outlined steps I have taken so far. Your help is desperately needed and greatly appreciated.
(1) The bootloop -- "read forever" showed up, following by the flashing dots, and then back to reboot -- was first triggered by using "quickboot" app to shut down the device (it's worked fine for months up until that point). I long pressed the power button to shut it down, rebooted, got in to a bootloop, repeated, ... I shutted it down for the night.
(2) The next day I looked up the "bricked" posts on xda and tried to follow the steps there. I don't remember if I had tried the 8 failed boot (first); I did try the n2T recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1289233 but that didn't work (NST just ignored the scard).
(3) Big mistake:
I made a backup following http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1142983
when I first got my device so I tried to restore it. But I forgot that my backup was incomplete (252MB, not 1.82G). When I rebooted the NST, the laucher did showed up but then it hanged, complaining about missing files (not being able to find /su ?).
(4) I belatedly discovered the hard-reset method: power up, hold left-and-right button down. It brings me back to firmware 1.0.0, unrooted. I updated it to 1.1.0 and it now functions properly as an unrooted NST.
(5) Can't root
The first time I rooted the NST I used SalsichaNooter 0.3. I no longer have the img and the download site is down, so I tried touchnooter-2-1-31. After I inserted the sdcard and powered up, it quickly booted back to the regular NST. It did complain about "this memory card is unrecognized and needs to be formatted" (I clicked cancel). I tried several sdcards (all prepared on my desktop) and got the same message.
I also tried minimaltouch 1.1beta5 via CWM. When I powered up, and then pressed both lower buttons when "read forever" shows up, I got the factor reset screen and not the CWM screen -- this is the case with or without any additional zip.
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Question: Did my incorrect restore (step 3) permanently messed up the NST? And can I root it again? It does power up as a regular NST, but I really need the extra functionality coming from roots.
MANY THANKS!

When you go to boot into CWM, you're not supposed to hold anything to boot from the mSD.

Googie2149 said:
When you go to boot into CWM, you're not supposed to hold anything to boot from the mSD.
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Thanks for your reply. I did try to boot into CWM from the sdcard without holding any button, but that quickly brings me to the regular NST boot screen (with no complain about a badly formated sdcard -- see item #5 of my original post).
I put a couple of epub files into a blank sdcard and NST can read those. It also created two folders, my files & lost.dir, so that part of the read/write function is okay.
It seems that my partly bricked/recovered NST loses the ability to read CWM/touchnooter zip files, but the rest of the unrooted NST functions are okay. This is very strange and annoying...

What program are you using to write the image to the mSD?

Googie2149 said:
What program are you using to write the image to the mSD?
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I used dd on my linux box (as I did when I rooted my nook color). Upon reading your message, I dug up my old xp box and made a new noogie.img and touchnooker using win32.
WA LA! It works!
This is so weird... but I'm glad I got my NST back...
THANKS!

did you used "sudo dd" ? You can write directly to the sdcard if you have root rights.

mali100 said:
did you used "sudo dd" ? You can write directly to the sdcard if you have root rights.
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Yes, I did "sudo", otherwise I can't even run dd (mom said that it's not safe to log in as root

[Q] how to re-root?

Hello,
I get my nook simple touch rooted using the minimal touch nooter.
But it seems I have some problems. Superuser is install, but when I install an application that require root, it states that, it is not possible with my device (something like that).
I want to install it back perhaps i did soemthing wrong at the beginning when I was testing the function.
Could you please tell me how I can do, to I have to make some wipe ? go back to factory ? doing the whole process from the beginning ?
thanks in advance,

You could try rerooting with minimal touch nooter.
It sounds like you may have picked a wrong default for superuser when the dialog was first presented asking if you wanted to grant root access with the choices being allow, deny and a tickbox for remember.
I have a vague memory of accidentally hitting "deny" with "remember" ticked on a device the first time the dialog presented itself and ultimately deciding to reset to stock and re-root the device.
So, if reapplying the root doesn't work, yes, you should boot from noogie and restore your backup or failing that force a device reset using the 8 failed boots method. There is also a method for resetting that I've had mixed luck with on the NST that uses the lower left and lower right buttons held down at power on.
Eded's got tools for making the device wipe process much simpler, though, posted at
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1475613
The 'old' tool is a really good one to know about as long as your device is largely intact
http://nooter.googlecode.com/files/Alpha-FormatTouch.zip
It doesn't include a replacement OS but assumes that you have not formatted your partitins - as long as that's true (as it is in your case) the tool makes one change to your device and then uses the onboard recovery process.
That's great, because it means that tool supports both the NST and the glowworm.

roustabout said:
You could try rerooting with minimal touch nooter.
It sounds like you may have picked a wrong default for superuser when the dialog was first presented asking if you wanted to grant root access with the choices being allow, deny and a tickbox for remember.
I have a vague memory of accidentally hitting "deny" with "remember" ticked on a device the first time the dialog presented itself and ultimately deciding to reset to stock and re-root the device.
So, if reapplying the root doesn't work, yes, you should boot from noogie and restore your backup or failing that force a device reset using the 8 failed boots method. There is also a method for resetting that I've had mixed luck with on the NST that uses the lower left and lower right buttons held down at power on.
Eded's got tools for making the device wipe process much simpler, though, posted at
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1475613
The 'old' tool is a really good one to know about as long as your device is largely intact
http://nooter.googlecode.com/files/Alpha-FormatTouch.zip
It doesn't include a replacement OS but assumes that you have not formatted your partitins - as long as that's true (as it is in your case) the tool makes one change to your device and then uses the onboard recovery process.
That's great, because it means that tool supports both the NST and the glowworm.
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thanks for your reply. I don't understand everything you wrote, i forgot to explain that I am a NOOB with capital letters....
So, I need to try first with minimal touch as describe , as it is the first time I do it (i use this to root my nook first). If it doesn't work, i go back to factory and root it again ? no wipe cache, data, to do ? when I put a new rom I my defy I have to wipe either data or at least cache depending of what I install, this is why I ask

you'll need to wipe /system and /data. The tools Eded provides do that for you.
On your NST is a hidden file that restores your system. Eded's tool leverages that file.
- boot from clockwork
- install his zip
- remove the clockwork disk
- hit reboot.
Once your device restores, stop trying to root it.
Read up on making a backup. There are a couple of threads about backing up your NST. One of the great things about the NST is that you can easily make a complete backup of it.
I prefer to use a disk called noogie to make my backups.
Verify that your noogie backup is 1.8 gig. Folks sometimes try to restore from partial backups and that's a big headache.
Now that you've got a backup, try rooting again -- if it fails, you can either use the reset tool or restore from your backup.

Acer 500a Rooted and unable to update

I have an Acer 500a I just bought off carigslist. Initially I thought it would be fine but then I realized I was inheriting someone elses problems. I hope someone may be able to help.
Within the first few hours I was noticing google Play crashed a number of times and struggled to update from Market. Somehow the update went through but now there is a system update that won't go through. I'm able to down load it and when i restart the computer to complete installation the screen goes black and says: booting recovery kernel in the corner. I then see a picture of an android and a load bar which after 2-4 seconds the android is on his back and an exclaimation mark is coming out of his belly.
My android version is 3.2
Kernel version
2.6.36.3+
Build number
Acer_a500_7.006.01_COM_GEN2
I'm pretty sure its rooted and i think that might be why its not playing nice with google market and system updates. I called the old owner and explained the problem and he just said he had it rooted and he thought he unrooted it. There is an ap called superuser in aps. (although if it were rooted would'nt I be able to uninstal some of thecrap software it comes with like GOLF HD? -- it won't let me).
The system update is for Acer_a500_7.014.01_COM_GEN2 8.88mb
My problem is all of the force closes I'm getting and the inability to update the system. Any thoughts? I don't have a usb cord to connect it to a desktop either =(

I am a bit out of practice, but...
Should be pretty simple to fix. From what I am seeing, you are running a stock rom. Just because the superuser.apk is installed on the system does not mean it is rooted, but it probably is.
Hit the market, grab "Root Checker" - simple tiny program to let you know for sure if your tab is rooted or not.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=burrows.apps.rootchecker&hl=en
From what I understand - automatic system updates will fail when trying to apply them to a rooted or modded system. Probably why you cannot auto-update.
My advice at this point would be to:
1) Since you just bought it, just do a factory wipe on it. That will remove all the stuff the prior owner had running on it and will result in a unrooted tab that should be able to get auto updates without a problem.
2) Un-Root it. Once the tablet is unrooted, the system should update without any issue.
As for your Play Store issues - I have never heard of or personally seen any issues caused with installing apps from the store on a rooted device. I have seen a few apps that will refuse to run on a rooted device - but that does not sound like your problem.
I would go with option 1 - just factory wipe the thing. Prior owner may have made tons of changes to the OS that we will never know about, and may have handed you a unstable system. Start fresh. Wipe it out.
Hope this helps you out! Let me know if I can answer any questions.

k thank you so much for the quick reply! I downloaded the root checker and it Is rooted. I did a factory wipe as found in the settings privacy tab when I bought it. That factory reset did not unroot and only cleaned out some of the aps on the device. Is there a better or more surefire way to unroot it? If I reset with the volume down key will it hard reset it?
Thank you for you help!
Draight

Okay.
I am about a year out of practice with my a500 - but from what I am think, if a factory reset still results in a rooted device - the prior user installed a stock ROM that comes pre-rooted.
I highly doubt being rooted is causing the issues you are running into.
At this point if you just want to get back to stock you can probably just install the Acer Recovery Manager from the market and use it to reflash a stock unrooted ROM. Or I see a few guides about how to manually restore back to stock over in the dev section for the a500.
Others will correct me if I am wrong, but I think Acer Recovery Manager should take care of your problem.
Hope this helps!
(Edit: Or you can just download the official stock 4.x rom (ICS) from the dev section and flash that. 3.2 is pretty slow and wonky in my experience, you should be able to just download a 4.x ROM and flash, since you are rooted. Again, I am way out of practice. Don't do anything before reading up!)
(Edit again: I think I was making this harder then needs be. Just flash any stock 3.2 unrooted ROM, done. After you do that the automatic on the air update should kick in for you and update you to ICS)

Thanks for taking the time to work with me on this. I downloaded the program you suggested and tried to use a stock rom. When i went to reboot I had a picture of an android looking up at an exclaimation mark. It was froze like that until I restarted it. Now its back to the way it was, rooted and unupdatable.
I'm probably going to try to just wipe it all over but do i need to plug it into my computer somehow? I dont have a usb connector for the tablet, just the wall charger plugin. can i just download a rom and use the utility to try install it? when I reboot it am I supposed to be pressing the volume button?
I've read a few other forums but usually they sound pretty intense...

draight said:
Thanks for taking the time to work with me on this. I downloaded the program you suggested and tried to use a stock rom. When i went to reboot I had a picture of an android looking up at an exclaimation mark. It was froze like that until I restarted it. Now its back to the way it was, rooted and unupdatable.
I'm probably going to try to just wipe it all over but do i need to plug it into my computer somehow? I dont have a usb connector for the tablet, just the wall charger plugin. can i just download a rom and use the utility to try install it? when I reboot it am I supposed to be pressing the volume button?
I've read a few other forums but usually they sound pretty intense...
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Hmmm..
Try the thread I linked two in my second edit of my last post. You just need to grab the stock and unrooted 3.2 - put it on a MicroSD card as update.zip - then reboot with vol rocker and power switch to get the system to flash the update.
That *should* work just fine.
(Edit: Forgot the link! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1839313 - there you go)

Thankw, I am going to try it after readingna bit more. Do I need to have clockworkmod installed for all of this?

draight said:
Thankw, I am going to try it after readingna bit more. Do I need to have clockworkmod installed for all of this?
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Nope. Just snag the stock unrooted 3.2 ROM - place it in the root of the MicroSD card as update.zip
Power down.
Power up with VOL + and POWER key held at the same time (you can let the vol rocker go when you see text appear in the upper left corner)
Should be all you need to do. Worst case; it does not work and returns you back to where you are now. Worth a shot.
If that does not work, let me know so I can do a few mins of homework and help you further. Been a long time since I have changed ROMS or had any issues with my a500.
I have bricked it twice by not following directions all the way or just making simple mistakes, but from what I have found there is always a way to recover.

Just tried it. I copied the boot zip to sd card and renamed update.zip and reset..It looked like it was going to download after showing some text in the corner and then an exclamation mark appeared above the androids head... I left it and after a few.min it rebooted back

draight said:
Just tried it. I copied the boot zip to sd card and renamed update.zip and reset..It looked like it was going to download after showing some text in the corner and then an exclamation mark appeared above the androids head... I left it and after a few.min it rebooted back
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Hmmm. Odd.
Like I said, I am rather out of practice.
Someone more experienced them me: please help me point Draight in the right direction here?

Thanks for trying to help. =(
I wish that my tablet wasn't having such issues. I;m going to try to scramble around the forums and see if I can find some advice...If anyone has a suggestion please let me know.
Thanks again entropy,
Draight

Update:
So I've been tinkering around with it a bit more and I found a usb cord that plugs it into my computer. I keep finding boken links on this site so Im struggling to find an update I can use to flash to. I downloaded a different super user program which allowed me to temporarily unroot my device. I then restarted it and no root checker says its no rooted and I cannot find the superuser program. I think I have somewhat unrooted it -- but I think the real issue now is the recovery tool. I keep reseting it - hard reset, or factory reset and it wipes everything away but when i try to update it gets about 1/3 of the way up the bar then it stops with an '!' Mark above the droid. Im kind of annoyed at this point and hoping for some new links or some ideas on how to repair the recovery piece.
Draight

Go to the Dev section, and grad a couple of the ICS Update roms. You will see them listed for the a500. Make sure they are the FULL update roms. Should be about 3-400mb. These contain a FULL ICS Update Rom, and not a patch file.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1816560
Then, go to the Themes and apps forum. You'll see a sticky that has the Acer Update Decrypter.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1869505
Now, unpack the decrypter, and select one of the ICS Updates. Then hit Start. Take a couple minutes, but you will have a duplicate file with the word "decrypted" added to it.
Wait, you are not done yet.
Using a program like 7zip, or even Winzip, open the decrypted file. DO NOT EXTRACT, just open it and pull the update.zip to your PC's desktop.
Copy that update.zip file to your Ext SD Card of the tablet. Don't be putting it in any folder, just copy it to the root of the card.
Now, you still ain't done.
With the tablet off. Press and hold Vol+ and then PWR. Hold them both untill you start to see text about installing blah blah blah, then release the buttons.
If it completes, and you can reboot into ICS, then you are good to go.
If something fails during installation, then decrypt the other update Rom file you downloaded, and do the same procedure. Usually one of the 2 or three should work for you.
Note these are for the a500, and not the a501.
One more thing. It's advisable you get your UID number before doing these things. You probably won't need it, but it's nice to have written down in case you need it in the future. Inf to get it is at;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1624645
MD

Thanks! I am downloading a few of the FULL ICS roms:
*Acer_A500_1.031.00_WW_GEN1 : http://d-h.st/uAy
Acer_A500_1.031.00_PA_CUS1: http://d-h.st/idO
Acer_A500_1.041.00_WW_CUS1: http://d-h.st/Yt5
*Acer_AV041_1.054.00_WW_GEN1: http://www.theandroidcollective.org/...00_WW_GEN1.zip
*Acer_A500_7.014.16_041.206.01_COM_GEN1: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_bk...hVc1RVcHc/edit
The I downloaded the ones ending with Gen1. Once they are downloaded I will continue with the instructions. Thank you so much for your help! I will post how it goes later tonight.
Draight

I just decrypted both:
*Acer_AV041_1.054.00_WW_GEN1:
*Acer_A500_1.031.00_WW_GEN1
Both get get to the third bullet quickly and the bottom says DONE! It takes like 4 seconds. I don't think the Decryption key of $12 is working
[*] Opening file: Acer_A500_1.031.00_WW_GEN1.zip
[*] Decrypting using key $12
[*] Writing decrypted file: Acer_A500_1.031.00_WW_GEN1_decrypted.zip
I try to extract something from the decrypted file and it says the file was not downloaded properly and I should try redownload it...it says its not a proper archive

wahoo!
So that worked! I down loaded the file Acer_AV041_A500_1.033.00_PA_CUS1 and extracted the update. I palced the update on the sd card and booted with the power and sound volume pressed down. it went through the installation procedure and restarted twice before saying it was upgrading my aps and BOOM its got ICS and everything looks great. Thank you so much for your help and I hope that this paper trail is able to help someone in the future

My problem is that I'm on ICS and I'm rooted, but I just can't download a custom recovery. I've tried, and I haven't gotten anywhere
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[Q] need help, nook glowlight factoty image

hello there, i'm a new member in xda-developers
i have a problem, where i failed to root my nook glowlight and i didn't create any backup before that
so, i restore my nook with alpha-format touch where results i lost the glowlight function
i need a factory reset image files so badly, could anyone provide me a link to download the image file?
thanks in advance
have a pleasant day!

The good news is, you can probably restore your device.
The device ships with a partition that touch formatter seems to leave alone, and the partition includes some files that you need.
To trigger that recovery, try using the 0.1 release of the recovery tool, the 2 meg download, from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1289233
All that tool does is tell your NSTG that it did not boot 8 times and needs to reset.
There is no single "recovery image," every NST or NSTG has some unique data which, should you restore someone else's device, will prevent you from registering your device correctly with BN.
If you still are unable to get the glow working, you will need to manually install a working kernel after you have restored your correct OS.
Hopefully you don't need to do that, but PM me if you need assistance - post publically as well, but PM me so I have a better chance at seeing it. I'm not reading every day.

Restoring Factory Image
This is a good thread for tips and tricks with your nook nookdevs.com/Tips_and_tricks (can't insert links, because I'm noob here)
To restore your Nook ST to a factory image, not the stock image. But the same as when it came from the factory. You will lose all you shelves and books. But the books are downloadable again from B&N.
1. Hold down power button for 3 to 5 seconds, when asked tell it to shut off.
2. Wait a couple of seconds.
3. Hold down power button for 3 to 5 seconds. As soon as Nook ST begins to start, flashing a white page, immediately followed by black page, grab hold of the power button again for 12 to 15 seconds.
4. Repeat 5 times.
Your Nook will not start up all the way.
After the 6th time you should see a pop up that asks if you want to put yout Nook back to factory default settings.
Say yes, say yes.
Let it do it's thing then restart the Nook.
You should be good to go.
Hope this helps,
dandielionous

To boot into recovery (either factory or Clockwork Mod if you installed that):
Power down your Nook.
Power it up.
As soon as the screen changes at all, hold down the lower left and lower right hard keys.
Wait with sore thumbs for 30 seconds or so until the recovery screen show ups.

Renate NST said:
To boot into recovery (either factory or Clockwork Mod if you installed that):
Power down your Nook.
Power it up.
As soon as the screen changes at all, hold down the lower left and lower right hard keys.
Wait with sore thumbs for 30 seconds or so until the recovery screen show ups.
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Thanks a lot! I've been asking this for a few days now over in the nook dev section under the specific tools used for rooting. Worked perfectly.

Nook Glowlight help.
roustabout said:
The good news is, you can probably restore your device.
The device ships with a partition that touch formatter seems to leave alone, and the partition includes some files that you need.
To trigger that recovery, try using the 0.1 release of the recovery tool, the 2 meg download, from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1289233
All that tool does is tell your NSTG that it did not boot 8 times and needs to reset.
There is no single "recovery image," every NST or NSTG has some unique data which, should you restore someone else's device, will prevent you from registering your device correctly with BN.
If you still are unable to get the glow working, you will need to manually install a working kernel after you have restored your correct OS.
Hopefully you don't need to do that, but PM me if you need assistance - post publically as well, but PM me so I have a better chance at seeing it. I'm not reading every day.
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So... i've tried to root my nook touch but I used the icorrect tool meant for the nook touch without a glowlight. Doing this, I seem to have lost the ability to use the glowlight feature, in fact it is now non-existent after many attempts at restoring everything to factory defaults. At least the device works again, but I really need the light back and I don't know what else to do. You're my last hope! I saw you mentioned something about installing a kernel after getting the correct OS back on there, and I would love to know how to do this. Thank you so much for your help in advance!

When you go to Settings, Device Info, About Your Nook, what software version is displayed?
Is it 1.1.5? I think that's the correct version for the US nook glow at this time. (and, are you in the US, and/or using a US model? the overseas models are different.)
One very quick thing you can try - after you back up your current, working but unhappy, device - is to download the OC kernel at this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34292271#post34292271
The 166 version of that kernel works on both the US and UK glow devices from what I've read, but this process is best known for US devices.
You can either use Clockwork to install it or - if you're comfortable with linux commandline tools and your device, while unhappy, is rooted and you have ADB installed - you can use this very fast technique based on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24168019&postcount=21
Be sure to name the file uImage.
from a command prompt on your computer:
c:\adb connect <nook-ip-address>
c:\adb push uImage /media
c:\adb shell
$
$su
#mkdir /media/boot
#mount -t vfat /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /media/boot
#cp /media/uImage /media/boot
#umount /media/boot
#rmdir /media/boot
#rm /media/uImage
If all you need is a kernel, that kernel supports the Glow functionality.
You may need to replace more of your boot environment, though. If you do, it becomes important to know if you're using a US or UK glow.
I have made and tested an image of just the first partition of my NSTG (us version, running the overclock kernel) and am able to reboot properly after putting it on my device.
I made it by :
# dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 of=/media/part1.img bs=1M
and as a test, then did a
# dd if=/media/part1.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 bs=1M
both via ADB on my rooted device.
If you are rooted, this may be something you could try IF you're using the US release. If not, you could ask one of the folks with the UK release if they'd be willing to image their boot partition for you.
As far as I can see, that first partition image might reenable the glowlight part of your NSTG, but I'm not 100%. Before you go there, it's important to know what release of the software your recovery image was able to set up for you.

Thanks
Renate NST said:
To boot into recovery (either factory or Clockwork Mod if you installed that):
Power down your Nook.
Power it up.
As soon as the screen changes at all, hold down the lower left and lower right hard keys.
Wait with sore thumbs for 30 seconds or so until the recovery screen show ups.
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:highfive: Thank You So Much Renate NST it really works :good: