Help! Ive had my NOOK for around a year or 2 so my warrenty is WAY gone. So a couple days ago my nook froze with a bung of white line on the screen. It wont turn on, the little green/orange light appears when I plug it in. Connecting to a pc doesnt do it either. Any advice? I included a photo as well.
haharooter said:
Help! Ive had my NOOK for around a year or 2 so my warrenty is WAY gone. So a couple days ago my nook froze with a bung of white line on the screen. It wont turn on, the little green/orange light appears when I plug it in. Connecting to a pc doesnt do it either. Any advice? I included a photo as well.
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Is your Nook rooted?
Yep
thenookieforlife3 said:
Is your Nook rooted?
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Yes it is rooted.
haharooter said:
Yes it is rooted.
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Thanks, good to know.
I'd recommend pressing the power (on the back) button for 20 seconds, releasing it, waiting five seconds, and then pressing the power button for 10 seconds. That should fix you up. :good:
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Thanks, good to know.
I'd recommend pressing the power (on the back) button for 20 seconds, releasing it, waiting five seconds, and then pressing the power button for 10 seconds. That should fix you up. :good:
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Im sorry what exactly does this do? I tried your trick, and it did nothing. I also tried it while connected to a charger. Should I try it while connected to a pc? Also, on the thought of a pc my nook shows up in twice file explorer, but wont let me acsess either drive.
haharooter said:
Im sorry what exactly does this do? I tried your trick, and it did nothing. I also tried it while connected to a charger. Should I try it while connected to a pc? Also, on the thought of a pc my nook shows up in twice file explorer, but wont let me acsess either drive.
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It's supposed to soft reboot you - the 20 sec. button hold turns the Nook all the watmy off, and the 10 sec. button hold turns it back on
Your Nook is probably doing fine and dandy - your screen is what's being problematic.
However, just to make sure, please execute just the 20 second power button hold, and then plug your Nook into your computer. Tell me what happens.
EDIT - @haharooter, you might also want to try plugging your Nook into the wall to charge for ≈20 minutes, and then doing the 20 sec., 10 sec. button hold sequence.
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It's supposed to soft reboot you - the 20 sec. button hold turns the Nook all the watmy off, and the 10 sec. button hold turns it back on
Your Nook is probably doing fine and dandy - your screen is what's being problematic.
However, just to make sure, please execute just the 20 second power button hold, and then plug your Nook into your computer. Tell me what happens.
EDIT - @haharooter, you might also want to try plugging your Nook into the wall to charge for ≈20 minutes, and then doing the 20 sec., 10 sec. button hold sequence.
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After the 20 sec power off I pluged it into the computer. When i plug it in it makes the blip that says it detected the device, then it makes the sound that says the device has been removed. I just pluged my nook in like you suggested.
@haharooter,
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After the 20 sec power off I pluged it into the computer. When i plug it in it makes the blip that says it detected the device, then it makes the sound that says the device has been removed. Okay, that's normal.
I just plugged my nook in like you suggested. Good, now just let me know what happens after you finish my instructions.
Dead?
thenookieforlife3 said:
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After the 20 sec power off I pluged it into the computer. When i plug it in it makes the blip that says it detected the device, then it makes the sound that says the device has been removed. Okay, that's normal.
I just plugged my nook in like you suggested. Good, now just let me know what happens after you finish my instructions.
Please make sure to click "Thanks!" if my help has assisted you! :good:
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After following your instruction, well, nothing happend the screen is still frozen with the white lines. Is my Nook dead? Like REALLY dead?
haharooter said:
After following your instruction, well, nothing happend the screen is still frozen with the white lines. Is my Nook dead? Like REALLY dead?
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Well, if it still makes a "blip" noise when it's mounted on your computer, and if it still shows some color of LED (orange or green) when it's plugged in to charge, it's not REALLY dead - but if the screen's not functioning, changing or responding, it's pretty much as good as dead.
The only thing I can instruct you to do at this point is to slide two fingers on the screen at the same time horizontally to the left. If that doesn't do anything, I think it's safe to say that your Nook is unusable and therefore "dead".
Really, really sorry about this. :crying:
If all else fails and you are not under warranty I would just pop it open and disconnect the battery for a few and see if that somehow resets the device. Good luck.
OB
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Hi,
mi n2e only with 1 week and has got frozen in the middle of a book. It doesn't respond. Soft reset doesn't work. Battery was about 50%.
I have disassembled it and try a lot of things, remove battery, connect to supply without battery... but the screen is in the same page of the book. There is no way to turn off screen.
Now with the nook connected to supply the led indicator is off and my computer doesn't detect it. This morning I got the light turned red (charging perhaps???) In this situation when I pushed button to turn off, the red changed to green for 2-3 seconds and then turned red again. And my computer detected it.
But now the light indicator is off again.
This is a gift from a friend in Usa. I live in Spain, so there is no warranty and for this reason I've tried to repair myself.
Any help, please? I'm desperate with it. I can't understand it fails in only 1 week.
Thanks.
> Soft reset doesn't work.
What do you mean by "doesn't work". It happened to me that my touch screen stucked but when I pressed "power off" button for a long time (e.g. 15 s) my nook rebooted and then if was OK.
But in you case whole system is stucked (no menu after pressing "n"), right?
Right. Whole system is out. Anything works... Now when I plug to power, there is no light on (led is off).
Hi Esfinge
Did you find a solution?
Same thing happened to me, I'm in South Africa, so can't take it back to B&N.
Got it brand new, charged it, connected to wi-fi, registered, loaded a book via Caliber (on Mac), switched off wi-fi.
The next time I picked it up it had the message that the unit is switched off and that
you have to power it up by pressing the power button on the back.
Tried removing the battery, did not help at all, also holding power button for 20 sec.
If I plug it into power the light goes green and then orange after a couple of seconds, if I connect it to a computer I can access the files on the nook.
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I have disassembled it and try a lot of things, remove battery, connect to supply without battery... but the screen is in the same page of the book. There is no way to turn off screen.
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Dude, it's a e-ink screen..
When powered down it still retains its last image, it wont go blank unless told to do so.
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Hi Esfinge
If I plug it into power the light goes green and then orange after a couple of seconds, if I connect it to a computer I can access the files on the nook.
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That doesn't make sense, a powered down N2 will not mount the sdcard on your pc when connected via usb.
So if you're able to access the Nook partition while the N2 is still showing its "powered down" screen, you're in some serious trouble, as that would indicate the N2 is powered on and running, but not communicating with the e-Ink screen
So if you're able to access the Nook partition while the N2 is still showing its "powered down" screen, you're in some serious trouble, as that would indicate the N2 is powered on and running, but not communicating with the e-Ink screen [/QUOTE]
This seems to be the case, worked perfectly and then suddenly not, I might be sitting with a 'Friday' model.... anyone know where I can get a new screen?
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So if you're able to access the Nook partition while the N2 is still showing its "powered down" screen, you're in some serious trouble, as that would indicate the N2 is powered on and running, but not communicating with the e-Ink screen
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This seems to be the case, worked perfectly and then suddenly not, I might be sitting with a 'Friday' model.... anyone know where I can get a new screen?[/QUOTE]
Screen is black blank, hasnt came back since it first shut off after the first or second reboot on the first try restoring it to 1.4.3. The Screen was working fine before I used it everyday then i wanted to switch roms from phirmod 7.1 to NookieJoyOS it worked but the wifey didnt like it. She wanted her original nook color back. So I went back to original stock rom and then i started having problems. At first i though i had formatted something wrong in cw3.0.2.8. Above I was stating scenarios in threads i was reading on what possibly happened.
dbole said:
This seems to be the case, worked perfectly and then suddenly not, I might be sitting with a 'Friday' model.... anyone know where I can get a new screen?
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I recently got an NST screen/digitizer for ~$40US on eBay, it took 5minutes to replace it.
Today I picked up may Nexus 7 and noticed it will not turn on. I let it charge for an hour or so, but then when I tried to start it up, I saw just a black screen. The screen turns on (backlight turns on), but still just a black screen. I read something on the internet about pressing the power button for a full 30 seconds, so I tried that. This time, I got it to flash (for a fraction of a second) the word "Google", and then it was back to the black screen of nothing.
I've never rooted, never tried to do anything fancy with it. I've factory resetted it once after an update to the OS happened.
Is there anything I can do?
You sure it gets juice? Does your charger feel hot after charging some time?
I had this to once, but got it fixed by holding the power button...
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Sounds like a charging /battery issue if the 30 sec power didnt work.Did you try a different charger?
Some people have reported weird issues like this that have been rectified by a prolonged charging.
Thanks
It acted strange, but it came back from the dead:
It said "google" for 10 seconds, then a few seconds of black screen, then another 10 seconds of "google", then it booted just enough to tell me that it was going to shut down because of low battery. I let it charge another hour and then it was fine!
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It acted strange, but it came back from the dead:
It said "google" for 10 seconds, then a few seconds of black screen, then another 10 seconds of "google", then it booted just enough to tell me that it was going to shut down because of low battery. I let it charge another hour and then it was fine!
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Quirky little buggers aren't they? Mine did it once and not since.
I just goy my N7 today, plugged in the wall charger, and I'm stuck at black screen, I did the 30 secs hold power button but it's still and black screen. Also I tried this:
1. Plug-in your dead N7 to a wall charger. (Jump immediately to step 2.)
2. Immediately after plugging it in, press Volume Down and Power at the same time.
3. Once in the bootloader menu, use Volume Down until you see “Power Off Device.”
4. Choose that option with the Power button.
5. Once your device is off, unplug the charger and then plug it back into the device.
Still at black screen, any advice???
I'm sorry for posting in this old thread.
Jamiehefe said:
I just goy my N7 today, plugged in the wall charger, and I'm stuck at black screen, I did the 30 secs hold power button but it's still and black screen. Also I tried this:
1. Plug-in your dead N7 to a wall charger. (Jump immediately to step 2.)
2. Immediately after plugging it in, press Volume Down and Power at the same time.
3. Once in the bootloader menu, use Volume Down until you see “Power Off Device.”
4. Choose that option with the Power button.
5. Once your device is off, unplug the charger and then plug it back into the device.
Still at black screen, any advice???
I'm sorry for posting in this old thread.
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I just solved this, I opened my N7 to check the battery and it turns out it wasn't correctly connected... Just unplugged it and plug in again correctly to make it work!
Jamiehefe said:
I just solved this, I opened my N7 to check the battery and it turns out it wasn't correctly connected... Just unplugged it and plug in again correctly to make it work!
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Boom!
I was having the same problem. Plugged it into a power source, backlight would come on with a black screen. Got it to show the Google splash screen a few times, but it just wouldn't boot. Tried ADB, but it wouldn't even acknowledge the thing was connected to the PC. I tried a pile of stuffs. Then I read this post. I never thought to check if the thing was actually connected, it wasn't!
Fully functional device now. Thanks for the idea! :good:
Ok so yesterday I had my nexus 4 in the charger at 46 percent and i was about to send a tweet when the screen froze. thinking it was a simple crash i pressed the home button and no visual response then it powered off. now whenever i try to power it on nothing happens. i tried pressing the power and volume buttons. whenever i try to turn it on and i plug it in the red light flashes. sometimes it flashes continiously sometimes it is a solid color. so what can i do it wont communicate with the computer. im not sure what the issue is. is it a battery issue or is it impossibly bricked. i already charged it overnight to no avail.
oh and im running stock cm11 with the stock cm kernel. i just installed it the night before.
im planning on just openning it and unplugging and plugging the battery back in. will this work?
Try power button + volume down for 10 seconds and than plug in the power cable. You somehow must try to boot into bootloader.
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Try power button + volume down for 10 seconds and than plug in the power cable. You somehow must try to boot into bootloader.
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it wont work. the red light either flashes red or stays red.
dominiqueovalle said:
it wont work. the red light either flashes red or stays red.
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How many times did you try that? It may don't work in the first time.
But if you can screw off you phone, that I would suggest to look after the batterie :good:
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How many times did you try that? It may don't work in the first time.
But if you can screw off you phone, that I would suggest to look after the batterie :good:
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do you think it could be bricked tho? the battery wasnt even low
dominiqueovalle said:
do you think it could be bricked tho? the battery wasnt even low
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It is hard to say, because there are so many reason why your device doesn't boot only left the red LED flashing. One reason could be your batterie which is bricked. Another reason could be a thermal shutdown cause by overheat. And of course there are those little, little software issues that only appear once in five years...
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It is hard to say, because there are so many reason why your device doesn't boot only left the red LED flashing. One reason could be your batterie which is bricked. Another reason could be a thermal shutdown cause by overheat. And of course there are those little, little software issues that only appear once in five years...
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just my luck. but the battery was 46 percent and it wasnt that hot. i hope its not bricked because the computer refuses to detect it
I haven't got any idea what you are taking but i Had the Problem while my phone was loading it just went To Black screen and the red LED was blinking i just let it load and suddenly it worked but also my phone is quit stupid (never buy the huawei ascend g510 its s**t) it somethimes showes 40% and suddenly 1% and it shuts down.:thumbdown: .but i hope this helped you
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Hey guys, so my friend gave me her Nexus 4 and asked me to try and figure out what the problem was...
As the title says, the device refuses to turn on no matter what, I've tried using different chargers, different cables, even opened up the back cover, disconnected the battery from the device and left it like that for about half an hour, then plugged it back in, nothing. If i try to press any of the buttons while the device is plugged in, the Red light comes on and stays on until after i let go of the buttons...any thoughts? Its been awhile since she got this phone, so i don't believe she'll be able to send it back to Google to get a replacement.
TIA!
I read somewhere that you need to externally charge the battery to fix this.
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I read somewhere that you need to externally charge the battery to fix this.
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How would you go about doing that? Thanks!
The battery could simply be toast. A new one off eBay will run you about $20.
I had the same problem. Try this steps pls:
Press Volume down+power buttons at the same time for 15 seconds.
After 15 seconds, plug the charger as the buttons pressed
After doing this u will see the led than the phone is going to start charging
That's it.
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I had the same problem. Try this steps pls:
Press Volume down+power buttons at the same time for 15 seconds.
After 15 seconds, plug the charger as the buttons pressed
After doing this u will see the led than the phone is going to start charging
That's it.
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Thanks for the input! I tried this, but when i plugged it in, the LED blinked Red once and then still no response from the device?
Few weeks ago I found wife's old NST (non-glowlight model) in working order and decided to root it. Rooted it, played around with it. Wasnt too impressed, so just threw some ebooks for my kid to read while on vacation. Left it on my desk for a few weeks as I got busy with work. Today I picked it up as my son's vacation is next week and it's frozen on the "Installing... A new software update is being installed This will take a few minutes" screen.
I mean I googled for several hours, the hold the power button for 20 sec method....the hold the power and the "n" button method, I charged it, indicator light is green. I even opened it up and pulled the battery cable..... NOTHING WORKS...]
Please help. So weird...it was working fine and now frozen.
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Few weeks ago I found wife's old NST (non-glowlight model) in working order and decided to root it. Rooted it, played around with it. Wasnt too impressed, so just threw some ebooks for my kid to read while on vacation. Left it on my desk for a few weeks as I got busy with work. Today I picked it up as my son's vacation is next week and it's frozen on the "Installing... A new software update is being installed This will take a few minutes" screen.
I mean I googled for several hours, the hold the power button for 20 sec method....the hold the power and the "n" button method, I charged it, indicator light is green. I even opened it up and pulled the battery cable..... NOTHING WORKS...]
Please help. So weird...it was working fine and now frozen.
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The real question is whether it is actually still on or off. What happens when you connect it to a PC via USB?
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The real question is whether it is actually still on or off. What happens when you connect it to a PC via USB?
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Only the green charging light goes on. I do not hear the little sound it should make when making a successful USB connection.
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Only the green charging light goes on. I do not hear the little sound it should make when making a successful USB connection.
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And I guess the drives don't mount successfully. Well, disconnecting the battery should certainly turn it off. If reconnecting makes it start spontaneously (should not), you could prepare a Nook Manager sdcard and insert it before reconnecting the battery. But this sort of sounds like the ability to boot is lost. Hmmm. I'll have to think about it.
unfortunately disconnecting the battery does not appear to do anything... screen continues to show that 'Installing... " screen. Hoping to get this thing figured out with someone's help
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unfortunately disconnecting the battery does not appear to do anything... screen continues to show that 'Installing... " screen. Hoping to get this thing figured out with someone's help
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E-ink screens stay the same unless there is a new powered input so it could simply be off, having run the battery down completely during an update (maybe Wi-Fi was left on? That would run down the battery for sure). So if all of this happened during an OTA update, it could be really messed up
When my NST is off, plugging in the power pack turns it on. Initially the LED is green and then changes to orange as charging begins. I'm assuming nothing happens when you do the same. If the OS is scrambled from losing power during an update it may not be able to boot. You didn't say how you rooted. If you used Nook Manager you could try putting in that card and then connecting to the power pack, hoping for a boot from the SD card. If you got that far you could try a factory reset.
My power button is sometimes really cranky and a few times I've run through my entire stock of words that do not come from children's books trying to get the device to turn on. So you might try, but if it's really off the power pack should turn it on.
Edit: Take a look at this: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1813384
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E-ink screens stay the same unless there is a new powered input so it could simply be off, having run the battery down completely during an update (maybe Wi-Fi was left on? That would run down the battery for sure). So if all of this happened during an OTA update, it could be really messed up
When my NST is off, plugging in the power pack turns it on. Initially the LED is green and then changes to orange as charging begins. I'm assuming nothing happens when you do the same. If the OS is scrambled from losing power during an update it may not be able to boot. You didn't say how you rooted. If you used Nook Manager you could try putting in that card and then connecting to the power pack, hoping for a boot from the SD card. If you got that far you could try a factory reset.
My power button is sometimes really cranky and a few times I've run through my entire stock of words that do not come from children's books trying to get the device to turn on. So you might try, but if it's really off the power pack should turn it on.
Edit: Take a look at this: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1813384
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When I plug in the power cable the light just becomes green it never (not even for a split second) turns orange. Yes, I'm rooted using nook manager. I just suck my Nook Manager SD card in the nook but nothing happens. I'm not sure what you mean by using the power button, in my original post I mentioned I tried the power button with no luck. What do you mean by power pack?
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When I plug in the power cable the light just becomes green it never (not even for a split second) turns orange. Yes, I'm rooted using nook manager. I just suck my Nook Manager SD card in the nook but nothing happens. I'm not sure what you mean by using the power button, in my original post I mentioned I tried the power button with no luck. What do you mean by power pack?
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Power pack = charger.
So if the Nook is actually off, attaching the charger with the NM card inserted should make it boot. Did you try the procedure in the link above?
Just tried the procedure of unplugging the battery, holding the white power button for 30 secs, then connecting battery and connecting to charger. There is a split second orange light and then green the first time i plug it in....subsequent plugging results in always green....the issue with the frozen screen on "Installing" remains. Tried the holding x 20 secs method to promt a restart....nothing.... what else can I do?
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Just tried the procedure of unplugging the battery, holding the white power button for 30 secs, then connecting battery and connecting to charger. There is a split second orange light and then green the first time i plug it in....subsequent plugging results in always green....the issue with the frozen screen on "Installing" remains. Tried the holding x 20 secs method to promt a restart....nothing.... what else can I do?
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If the battery is actually "dead" (not impossible on these old devices), the NST will not start, even if plugged in. Do you have a voltmeter of some sort to check the battery? If it's actually charged, it should show a solid voltage. If not, that may be the issue. If the battery is actually charged then there's a pretty serious issue that can't be fixed without access to the OS by ADB, or the ability to boot from the SD card. Beyond my "pay grade", at any rate, I'm sorry to say. There are batteries available online but the price may not make sense.
I don't think it's a battery issue. I had another NST with a good battery but a bad screen (lines all across screen) . I fully charged it using the bad screen reader and used the battery from it for the frozen nook... no luck.. oh well... I guess this is a paperweight now... thanks for your help everyone.