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[Q] Accidentally bought a demo unit, any way to fix it?

I bought the NST online from a forum and the punk sent me a demo unit. It just scrolls through the various promotional screens. I've tried doing the software update and factory reset but neither of them work. Is there any way I can "unlock" everything?

couchlife said:
I bought the NST online from a forum and the punk sent me a demo unit. It just scrolls through the various promotional screens. I've tried doing the software update and factory reset but neither of them work. Is there any way I can "unlock" everything?
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Try this:
1. turn it off completely
2. press at the same time the power button (back side) and the two lower side buttons (bottom left and bottom right page)
3. it should start the recovery and restore your device to stock
Link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1137967
Let us know if it works.

hi,
now i don't have the Nook available (i'm at office), but yesterday i was playing with ADB and having a look at nook system folders; i remember seeing a property file in which there is a property like demoMode=enable/disable or something like that (i'm not sure, but if i remember well this file should be in the same folder where also other device specific properties like serial number, mac address, etc.. are stored).
Until reading your message i didn't even know such a mode existed. But now i think that maybe it could be possible to edit that file and enable the "regular" mode on your Nook.
Of course, even if that is possible, you would need to get root and ADB access to to that, and there is the risk of bricking the unit (even though if you can create a backup image to be on the safe side).
When i'll be back home, i will try to find further info about the above mentioned file.
Regards

hi,
i don't know if you already solved, in any case i had a better look at the system folders of Nook, and it seems to me that the Demo Mode is managed by a dedicated application (/system/app/DemoMode.apk). Baksmaling the source code of this app, it seems that it is activated on any Nook unit after boot, but in case the value of setting "demo_mode" is not set to "on", it just exits without doing anything; on contrary, the demo mode is activated (i.e. the continuous loop through a set of images).
So, to get rid of demo mode is activated, you could launch a script to change the relevant value of the setting "demo_mode", to set it to "off"; and then reboot the Nook:
Code:
echo *************************
echo * Setting Demo-Mode off *
echo *************************
adb shell mount -o rw,remount -t ext2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system
adb pull /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db settings.db
sqlite3 settings.db "update secure set value='off' where name='demo_mode';"
adb push settings.db /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db
del settings.db
Of course, to be able to launch it, you need to have your Nook already rooted, so that ADB is enabled.
The script is inspired from similar scripts present in the batch file "xe-autoroot.bat" from user xboxexpert of this forum. Therefore, in case you still don't have rooted your Nook, i suggest you to use its script to get it (link to the thread). In this case, you can easily launch the script to disable demo mode from the same folder where you have xe-autoroot.bat, since yu already have all the needed software (sqlite3).
Another possible solution could be just to remove DemoMode.apk from /system/app folder (but i'm not 100% sure this would have side effect).
In any case, not having a demo mode Nook unit, i cannot be sure these methods would work.
Hope this help

That doesn't work
When I have tried to root it I can't because I can not get to the menu to setup the wifi it won't let me get away from the screen saver my mom ordered one of these off ebay for like $40

Figured it out
If it is on an older version you can just drop the official firmware on your nook let it update and it worked like a charm
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/Software-Updates-NOOK-Simple-Touch/379003175/

how to disable DEMO mode on Nook simple touch
couchlife said:
I bought the NST online from a forum and the punk sent me a demo unit. It just scrolls through the various promotional screens. I've tried doing the software update and factory reset but neither of them work. Is there any way I can "unlock" everything?
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a lot of time passed since other guys had a problem of demo mode on nook. i got my nook (simple touch) as secondhand, unfortunately locked to demo mode.
below is step-by-step how to switch it back to 'normal' mode >>>>>>
--- turn your Nook ON
--- go to Settings - Screen - on Screen window press-and-hold top-right button AND same time keep tapping the "Screen" caption (on a top of display)
--- Demo Mode will pop up on your display
--- undo 'Toggle the demo mode'
--- now to activate "normal" mode switch off-and-on your Nook !
that's It :good:

[Q] Samba FileSharing not working

hi on my rooted NST I installed Samba Filesharing for Android by funkyFresh. When I ran it :
- it asks for root access so I selected allow root access
- next is a big blank screen with the title "Install verification" on top and bottom button "OK". So I touched "OK"
- then I see "Welcome to Samba.... Password not set" with nothing happening and I don't see the main program
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling but it's the same thing. Does anyone know what the problem is ?

Did you managed to get this working?

nstnb said:
hi on my rooted NST I installed Samba Filesharing for Android by funkyFresh. When I ran it :
- it asks for root access so I selected allow root access
- next is a big blank screen with the title "Install verification" on top and bottom button "OK". So I touched "OK"
- then I see "Welcome to Samba.... Password not set" with nothing happening and I don't see the main program
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling but it's the same thing. Does anyone know what the problem is ?
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Just open the menu with your phone's menu button and click settings and set your password. Go back to the main screen, open the menu again and click enable.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2574655

Script/App for Shutdown

Hey,
I'm having a rooted Nook Simple Touch (FW 1.2.1) and want to add a shortcut (to launcher 8) for powering off the device. Unfortunately every tried command (adb reboot -p, several java shutdown methods) results in an immediate shutdown of the device and it looks like the device is frozen. After pressing the power button, you can see the usual "device is powering on" screen.
Does anybody know how I can power off my device, with showing the "Your NOOK has turned off completely" screen? Already tried some sendevent commands for simulating touch events, but with no success.
Thanks in advanced.

I always just hold the power button.
Do you want it to shutdown without even the confirm menu?
It's trivial, it's just an Intent, android.intent.action.ACTION_REQUEST_SHUTDOWN
Oh, but you just can't just:
Code:
# am start -a android.intent.action.ACTION_REQUEST_SHUTDOWN
Starting: Intent { act=android.intent.action.ACTION_REQUEST_SHUTDOWN }
[i]blah, blah, blah[/i] requires android.permission.SHUTDOWN
Unfortunately (or fortunately for security) android.permission.SHUTDOWN can only be obtained by a system app.
The solution? Write an app, put the permission in AndroidManifest.xml and sign it with the system signature.
This is only possible if you have re-signed your entire system.
It works fine on my Nook.

Yes, I want it without the confirm menu.
I tried your suggestion with the intent, transferred the app to with su to system app, but with no results. Do I have to generate a key by myself and sign the app to get the shutdown permission from android?
After a deeper system scan, I found the images which are shown if the device is shutdown or restarting under /system/assets. So I wrote an App set the image cold_boot_screen.png as background and shutting down the device with reboot -p. So this is working for me.

black-lord said:
I tried your suggestion with the intent, transferred the app to with su to system app, but with no results.
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You should have seen "Not granting permission android.permission.SHUTDOWN" in logcat when installing.
You should have seen java.lang.SecurityException in logcat when attempting to run.
black-lord said:
So this is working for me.
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True.
Still, that's really a Linux shutdown and not the kinder, gentler Android shutdown.
Or maybe not?
Maybe zygote gets a signal to shutdown and shuts down everything gracefully?
I don't know.
Re-signing your system does not have to be a big deal.
Moreover, if you want to go modifying some of the Nook's framework or Reader you'll have to do that anyway.

Cant do full disk encryption

Hi,
I want to do android full disk encryption, there is option in menu, it just dont work. After clicking it and entering my lock screen password, all I get - is fullscreen green android logo. After that I can press the home button and use device, however there is no notification bar.
I am using PA 4.4.4 (20140723) on Samsung galaxy Note 2
Screenshots step by step:

POMATu said:
Hi,
I want to do android full disk encryption, there is option in menu, it just dont work. After clicking it and entering my lock screen password, all I get - is fullscreen green android logo. After that I can press the home button and use device, however there is no notification bar.
I am using PA 4.4.4 (20140723) on Samsung galaxy Note 2
Screenshots step by step:
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I was unable to get full disk encryption to work through the gui, either. I was able to get it to encrypt by starting the process manually in a root adb shell:
Code:
vdc cryptfs enablecrypto inplace PASSWORD

Back & menu keys problem [TEMPORARY FIX]

Hello K3 Note users!
So, about 5 months ago I discovered that my back and menu keys were not working. I tried rebooting the device, pulling the battery out, changing the ROM and I even opened the phone up, to see, if every wire was connected properly....but the problem wasn't to be found. I also tried to get some support from the Lenovo's website, but I ended up getting none.
Eventually I found a workaround, that does not fix the problem itself, but it makes the phone usable again.
The solution is easy and it has already been written before:
1) Flash a custom ROM.
2) Make sure that you have ROOT.
3) Download a file manager, that can make use of the root rights.
4) Go to /system/build.prop
5) Add the line: "qemu.hw.mainkeys=0" to the very end of the file.
6) Reboot and voila!
However, I found that some apps refused to work with the nav bar and some vital content of those apps got hidden by the buttons.
I managed to found a fix for this problem. It can be solved with a wonderful Xposed module titled "Hideable Nav Bar".
The plugin will create a little down arrow on the left of the nav bar. This will let you to hide the bar whenever you want/need to. When the bar is hidden, then bringing it back is as easy as swiping up a bit from the bottom of the screen.
(I won't give you the steps on how to install Xposed, because it has already been described in the general thread.)
Anyway if you have installed Xposed, then you want to go to "Download" and search for this module. After that you should install the module, activate it and then reboot your phone. :good:
I hope this post was helpful to some K3 Note users and if it did help you, then don't forget to press the "Thanks" button too!