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[Q] please help.

I guess this problem was already posted but I can't find it.
after updating my iconia a500 my tablet stopped working. The main screen freezes after booting and when restarting I reach the same problem.
I tried hardware reset but no solution.
I tried doing the power and vol+ button - it shows that it erases userdata and cache but after that restarts and reaches to the same point of frozen screen.
I tried to download an update.zip, put it on a SD card, do the Power and VOL- button and it shows me the andriod green figure and then a yellow exclamation mark and freezes.
what else can I do?
what am I doing wrong.
my tablet is not rooted, and no cwm is installed.
thanks.

answered many times
When you reboot holding the volume and power ....hold them until you pass 4 line of txt.and hounded the recovery start.
Keep reading forum post.not just scroll thru the thread titles.common mistake
Good luck

thanks for the response.
No matter how long I press the power and the vol- button the green android shows up and then a yellow exclamation mark on it and it freezes.

same problem here. Im beginning to HATE this tablet

Reformat your SD card, preferably in an Android device. If it still doesn't work, try a different card. Recovery mode is notoriously finicky with some cards.

FloatingFatMan said:
Reformat your SD card, preferably in an Android device. If it still doesn't work, try a different card. Recovery mode is notoriously finicky with some cards.
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So true. Everytime that I have had a problem with the triangle I just grab my spare micro sd, do a nice fresh format. Drop the update on it. And that's that. This has worked 100% for me.

Just recover using a usb stick using cwm, works fine and don't have to remove your micro sd.

shaun298 said:
Just recover using a usb stick using cwm, works fine and don't have to remove your micro sd.
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CWM is not installed, as clearly stated in the OP.

Oops, I can see clearly now.

[Q] What am I doing wrong?

Using the verygreen instructions I have been running CM-7.0.3 encore signed off of SD for about 2 months now and want to try to update to the current nightly.
I put cm_encore_full-176.zip in the /boot directory of the SD and tried all of these without success:
1) Used the boot select u-boot.bin to boot from sd and recovery. It just hangs.
2) Used the boot select u-boot.bin to boot from sd and alternate. It just hangs.
I reverted to the standard u-boot.bin and did these without success:
1) Booted into CM7 then using the shut down menu rebooted into recovery. The update was not applied and boot was normal.
2) From power off, held down the power on and N buttons. After loading... appeared counted to 4 and released both buttons. No update applied and booted normall.
3) From power off, held down power on and N buttons. After loading... appeared, released power button, then pressed and held it for 5 seconds, waited for the screen to blank and let go of both buttons. No update applied and NC shut off.
Anyone know what I am doing wrong? I have been scouring all of the NC root sites and it seems everyone has a different hold buttons and release sequence. Is there a special /boot folder or something that can only be accessed while the sd card is in the NC where I have to copy the update zip file?

Imbroglio said:
1) Used the boot select u-boot.bin to boot from sd and recovery. It just hangs.
2) Used the boot select u-boot.bin to boot from sd and alternate. It just hangs.
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Why you doing that?

Because there were recommendations to do to those steps on this site and others.
Do you have a solution to my problem?

You are going from a .29 kernel to a .32 kernel... From VG's SASD thread... first post... you need to update the version of the SASD.
How to update if you already installed using older version of the installer and don't want to reinstall (understandably):
•Get update zip from http://crimea.edu/~green/nook/update-genimage-1.3.zip
•Put the zip file as is onto the first partition of your sdcard..
•reboot into recovery (triggered by the keys, the reboot into recovery does not work yet).
•The new version would be installed and you are done.
•You can combine this installation together with updating to .32 kernel in one step. Just put the update-cm file and the update-genimage-1.3.zip to the first partition. Make sure there is still at least 1M of space left!
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Imbroglio said:
Because there were recommendations to do to those steps on this site and others.
Do you have a solution to my problem?
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Just put the new nightly build into the root folder and boot into recovery.
The only thing you need to do is your skill to boot into recovery, that's all.
The rest should be taken off.

DizzyDen said:
You are going from a .29 kernel to a .32 kernel... From VG's SASD thread... first post... you need to update the version of the SASD.
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Ok copied the file onto /boot.
Tried a different button sequence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kps9cWvyzqo
It still will not go into recovery mode. The thing is that I used the instructions on the video to help me install CM7 and gapps in the first place and it worked fine.
What exactly is the correct button sequence to get the NC to power on to recovery mode?
As you can see I found 3 different people saying to do it 3 different ways and none of them seem to work.
I am waiting for someone to say you have to wait until the 4th tuesday of the odd numbered month and hold down the buttons to the count of pi * the number of times Lindsay Lohan violates her probation in the past 4.5 months.
Do I need another program installed for this to work? Something like clockwork recovery mod (whatever that is)? Is there a difference that my NC doesn't say "Touch the Future of Reading" but just says "Loading..."?
It is making me pull my hair out and I didn't have that much hair left to begin with!
Just wanted to add an observation that after doing the button sequence in the video, "Loading.." the screen blanks for about .5 second and then is displayed again off center. The it goes into normal boot up.

Imbroglio said:
What exactly is the correct button sequence to get the NC to power on to recovery mode?
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I've had to use the "rhythm method" for the first time in a while this week, setting up my dual boot on eMMC, and verygreen's instructions were the only thing that worked for me:
verygreen said:
hold nook N key and then press and hold power until the "Loading..." message appears and then disappears with screen going blank. Release power button, then press it again and hold for ~5 seconds, the bootloader "Loading..." message should be on the screen for three seconds or so before you release power button, keep holding N button until screen blanks again. If the screen went off while you were holding the power key, that means you were holding it for too long
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This:
Imbroglio said:
Just wanted to add an observation that after doing the button sequence in the video, "Loading.." the screen blanks for about .5 second and then is displayed again off center.
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is what should be happening--when the message comes back, press the power button again for five seconds, then release. Anamardoll's videos were made prior to the B&N 1.2 update, prior to CM7.1's existence, and prior to any of verygreen's SASD updates, so the behavior was a little different then.
Also, you may have successfully booted into recovery and installed the SASD 1.3 update file without realizing it--small packages can flash very quickly in verygreen's installer, and iirc, the "Loading" message you describe is expected behavior for SASD 1.3. If you look at the SD's boot partition in your PC and the .zip file is gone, it very likely installed. If that's the case, Power > Reboot > Recovery ought to be working now; copy over the CM7 update .zip, attempt the rhythm method again (may as well), and if you go straight through to CM7, try Power > Reboot > Recovery.
If none of the above works, you have very likely hosed your boot sector with some of the shenanigans in your OP, and may as well format the card and start from scratch with an up-to-date SASD image.
Imbroglio said:
Do I need another program installed for this to work? Something like clockwork recovery mod (whatever that is)?
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CWM cannot help you with an SD install. If, however, you have chosen at any point to "Flash ClockworkMod Recovery" from ROM Manager, then you've already written CWM to your internal recovery partition, and might want to consider installing CM7 internally, as it would now be much easier than fixing your card (assuming none of the above got it done).

Thanks for the help all.
I am just going to redo the sd with the 177 nightly.

[Q] dual boot without removing sd?

Hello. I've searched and googled and still can not find an answer. So I ask. Can you boot both CM7 and stock BN software without taking out the sd card? We bought our two oldest (11 and 10 yrs old) NCs for christmas and we don't really want them removing the cards just to use the stock NC. We don't want them to lose the cards. They both read a lot. But we want them to have the full android experience. I already have the latest build of CM7 on two 8gig class 2 Sandisks.

I am not an expert and haven't played with dual-boot option but AFAIK, by default, it will boot into the uSD FIRST. If you want it to boot in eMMC, you can (or must) press and hold the "N" button during the power up, then select boot Normal.
So, i.e. if you have CM7 on usD and Stock in eMMC, by default, w/o interacting, CM7 will be booted.
If you want to boot the Stock, you have to press the N button then select it.

votinh said:
I am not an expert and haven't played with dual-boot option but AFAIK, by default, it will boot into the uSD FIRST. If you want it to boot in eMMC, you can (or must) press and hold the "N" button during the power up, then select boot Normal.
So, i.e. if you have CM7 on usD and Stock in eMMC, by default, w/o interacting, CM7 will be booted.
If you want to boot the Stock, you have to press the N button then select it.
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To clarify this correct answer, when you see the screen flash when booting, hold down the "n" key. You'll see the CM banner and under it there will be something like "boot menu" display. You can quit pressing "n" at this point. It will then continue to a boot menu display (all the directions are on that page). Press the "n" key to select "emmc", then press the down volume key to select the next item ( it should be "normal" so just leave it there). Push the down volume key again, press "n" and it will boot into the stock ROM. The next time you boot, it will still boot to the SD card unless you repeat the process.

Thank you both for the quick reply. It was very helpful.

how to boot into CWR

hi, i have trouble booting into recovery. what i do is press "n" and power and it always goes to "Boot Menu" ... can someone tell me what that is and what it does ? ( i know i can boot into it by pressing power and selecting reboot and recovery just trying to find out how to from power-off) thanks.

I'm not the most knowledgeable one to answer this. I was waiting to see if someone else would post here.
But here goes. When I want boot into recovery when my nook is off, I power on holding down the n key. When the boot screen appears, I use the n key to toggle different options on the first line. I opt to boot from emmc. Then use the volume keys to move down to the next line and use the n key again to choose boot into recovery.
I don't remember the exact order of the lines, so I may be a little off, but I hope this helps get you booted into recovery from the boot screen
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Thanks for trying to help. i was experiencing boot-loop i think.. ( i wasn't even able to turn my NC off at all. it just kept booting up and being stuck on the Cyanogenmod loading screen every time when i turn it off by holding down power), thats why i needed to boot into recovery from power-off. how it happened was i upgraded to cm9. i wiped cache and dalvik and formatted boot, system and data before flashing. ( i know some instruction here tells to do a wipe data/factory reset. i didnt do that ) I fix it and went back to cm7 by putting in a bootable sd with CWR in the two seconds that it stays off... but the strange thing was that once again i did it my way (wipe cache/dalvik and format boot, system, data) and this time it worked~ no boot-loop. now i wonder what really caused boot-loop the first time even when i had the bootable sd card in it didn't even boot into recovery itself i had to push "n" like crazy ... to get in ...
k8108 said:
I'm not the most knowledgeable one to answer this. I was waiting to see if someone else would post here.
But here goes. When I want boot into recovery when my nook is off, I power on holding down the n key. When the boot screen appears, I use the n key to toggle different options on the first line. I opt to boot from emmc. Then use the volume keys to move down to the next line and use the n key again to choose boot into recovery.
I don't remember the exact order of the lines, so I may be a little off, but I hope this helps get you booted into recovery from the boot screen
Sent from my NookColor using xda premium
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Glad you got it fixed.
Sent from my NookColor using xda premium

also if you have cwr on a bootable sd card you can use rom manager to flash cwr internally, so you wont need a bootable sd card, if you want to get into cwr just use rom manager and select reboot into recovery, i use to have cwr on my sd and didnt like it because you would have to take out the sd card everytime you boot, but this way is much easier, you can back up in rom manger instead of doing it the manual way...holding n and power button, hope this helps

[Q] Lockscreen slider is gone. Please help!

I have CM7 running on an SDcard in my Nook Color. I turned off the lockscreen slider and selected Menu button for unlock. Well, it doesn't work and now I cannot unlock my Nook. I have tried booting into recovery but it just runs a regular boot up, then it shuts down. When I boot up again, still no slider.
When I power on and hold the N button, I get a boot menu that give me the option of booting from the SD card into Recovery (uRecImg/uRecRam). That does the same thing as above. I never get any options to restore from a backup or anything. Am i supposed to get such an option?
Please tell me there's a way to get the screen unlocked without having to wipe my SD card and start over!
Thanks,
Tzuriel

tzuriel said:
I have CM7 running on an SDcard in my Nook Color. I turned off the lockscreen slider and selected Menu button for unlock. Well, it doesn't work and now I cannot unlock my Nook. I have tried booting into recovery but it just runs a regular boot up, then it shuts down. When I boot up again, still no slider.
When I power on and hold the N button, I get a boot menu that give me the option of booting from the SD card into Recovery (uRecImg/uRecRam). That does the same thing as above. I never get any options to restore from a backup or anything. Am i supposed to get such an option?
Please tell me there's a way to get the screen unlocked without having to wipe my SD card and start over!
Thanks,
Tzuriel
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The SD card install does not have an ordinary recovery. It just has the script installer which is what you see scrolling by when you select recovery. But you can install a special alternate CWM recovery so you can wipe data and get rid of the lock problem. Go to my tips thread linked in my signature and look at item B5.
Sent from my NookColor running CM10 on SD using Tapatalk.

leapinlar said:
The SD card install does not have an ordinary recovery. It just has the script installer which is what you see scrolling by when you select recovery. But you can install a special alternate CWM recovery so you can wipe data and get rid of the lock problem. Go to my tips thread linked in my signature and look at item B5.
Sent from my NookColor running CM10 on SD using Tapatalk.
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Thanks. When I got home, I just had to connect via USB and the screen unlocked. Now I've disabled that pesky bugger!