So i have a Nook Simple Touch I was using about 9 months ago, which fell to disuse for a bit for a variety of reasons. It's running 1.1.0, and is rooted.
I dusted it off to recently give it some more use again, and wanted to update some of the apps, but discovered that the Market doesn't seem to work anymore - I know it used to, but now, whenever I try to download anything, I get a dialog: "Download Errror: Download was unsuccessful, please try again." I've waited an extra day, as I remember that was originally necessary to complete the registration process, but still nothing. Searching (with Market Search) works, even for things I haven't looked up before, and it still recognizes my account, as I see my email, though I noticed that the Nook Touch doesn't get listed in the Google Play Store under devices.
Any ideas what might be going wrong here, or things to try? I'm also willing to upgrade to a newer firmware (1.2.1), but am not sure of the best method to update a rooted device. I can pull it into a separate post, but I'll include it here for now:
I'm sure I'l have to root again, but Is it possible to upgrade the rooted device and then simply re-root, or will I lose everything I've installed? Is it just better to wipe, update and re-root? If so, is there any convenient way to keep all of my settings?
Thanks!
mrgygar said:
So i have a Nook Simple Touch I was using about 9 months ago, which fell to disuse for a bit for a variety of reasons. It's running 1.1.0, and is rooted.
I dusted it off to recently give it some more use again, and wanted to update some of the apps, but discovered that the Market doesn't seem to work anymore - I know it used to, but now, whenever I try to download anything, I get a dialog: "Download Errror: Download was unsuccessful, please try again." I've waited an extra day, as I remember that was originally necessary to complete the registration process, but still nothing. Searching (with Market Search) works, even for things I haven't looked up before, and it still recognizes my account, as I see my email, though I noticed that the Nook Touch doesn't get listed in the Google Play Store under devices.
Any ideas what might be going wrong here, or things to try? I'm also willing to upgrade to a newer firmware (1.2.1), but am not sure of the best method to update a rooted device. I can pull it into a separate post, but I'll include it here for now:
I'm sure I'l have to root again, but Is it possible to upgrade the rooted device and then simply re-root, or will I lose everything I've installed? Is it just better to wipe, update and re-root? If so, is there any convenient way to keep all of my settings?
Thanks!
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Sad, no one wants to reply. Or perhaps no one knows.
Did a backup, and experimented. I couldn't update directly, so I wiped back to a stock ROM, and upgraded to 1.2.1. Rooted with ManualNooter, and the market worked. So I have no idea what was going on, but it works now. Sadly, a computer accident made me lose my backups (including unrooted images). But at least I've got something functional.
I am currently in the same boat with my NST (BNRV300) running rooted 1.1.2. I last installed and/or updated some Market apps successfully perhaps about a year ago, and have not made any other change to the Nook, so I am at a lost as to what might be the cause. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
For now, my workaround this problem is to download the desired app's apk file from an alternate source (e.g., APKPure) then side-load it onto the NST.
My guess would be that somehow your authtication with Google has been lost on the device.
If you go to the PlayStore on a computer do you see your NST listed as a device, and if so, when you select an app that way does it eventually appear on your NST?
Sent from my NST
nmyshkin said:
My guess would be that somehow your authtication with Google has been lost on the device.
If you go to the PlayStore on a computer do you see your NST listed as a device, and if so, when you select an app that way does it eventually appear on your NST?
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I think you are right -- my NST credential with the Playstore must have expired or more likely become invalid when I changed my password on my Gmail account.
If so I can't figure out how to re-validate the credential: I recall entering my Google login/password via the YouTube app during the course of rooting my NST using the MinimalTouch tool's 2-phase process, but now I can't even get the YouTube app to start (error message: ... problem starting up, please check your network connection and system time).
Look here
I responded to a related issue awhile back. Not sure if the info at the link might kick-start the signing in process.
Thanks for the pointer.
I decided to go the route of "factory reset, upgrade to 1.2.1 and re-root using Nook Manager", as simply re-rooting 1.1.2 using the old tool (Minimal Touch) is tedious & somewhat error-prone -- plus I'd like to try out 1.2.1.
That was what I would usually suggest but the farther I have gotten from that "day 1", the less likely I am to take/offer the same advice. I've made so many modifications at this point I don't think I'd ever get it back to its present state! Back up early and often...and, apparently, access the Market every so often, even if you don't want anything.
Good luck!
So I had installed SwitchMe and it worked like a charm. Unfortunately when ATT rolled out its update, i accidentally updated the firmware rendering my previous Root - unaccessible.
Also unforutnate to me, I just happened to be in the OTHER account i created with SwitchMe (not the administrator Account).
Since the root came out again for ATT - I re-rooted my ATT S4, and everything worked great. However, even though Switchme comes up and am able to open it without errors i was getting after the software update rendering my root inoperable, I cannot switch BACK to my main account. In short, I'm stuck in Switch me on the secondary account and it just sits in spin mode.
Any help or anybody with any ideas on what I have to do would be great. I'm going to attempt to re-install the superuser account, but if anybody has anything more specific to try, I'm happy to give it a go.
Want to try to retain everything instead of starting all over.
I just installed safestrap and I want to understand how this works.
I backed up the stock system. I checked the first three including cache at the top. Not sure if that was correct. It opened and the cache was not checked so I checked. Now if I get an update to my phone will it save the root in safestrap? Do I need to select anything else in the options menu before backing up?
Or do I need to unroot my phone then download the new update then restore from safestrap?
I like to understand the apps when I install them on my phone. Right now because the phone is new I am going to use the OS stock. Down the road I might put in another OS like I did on my Galaxy Nexus that I loved.
Hi,
I debloated my stock Rom on my 910U phone.
Now I can't use my openvpn server. Vpn API dialog cancelled is the message when I use openvpn for Android.
I had the same problem on my 910F phone. So, I flashed the rom again. I did the setup and titanium backup restore at first. Then the script without any problems.
I could do the same way again but I would like to know which apps I have to restore to get this sorted?
I restored the "vpndialogs 6.0.1". Got a pop up, pop upped =) the security message and I hit the okay button but nothing happened then. So maybe there is another software missing?
Need a little bit help.
Thanks,
Dan
Hi,
I'm unrooted running the 2nd Nougat beta build. I'm having a few issues and want to go back to Marshmallow, so I deregistered from the beta program and am not sure now to revert the phone's ROM (keeping in mind that I haven't rooted a phone in a couple years and have no interest in going back to rooting). Does anyone know what the process would be? The Samsung Members app told me to use Smart Switch to do it, but Google Play says my phone isn't compatible. I tried sideloading the app, but it doesn't even show up in my app drawer. Any advice?
Thanks!
maxpower7 said:
Hi,
I'm unrooted running the 2nd Nougat beta build. I'm having a few issues and want to go back to Marshmallow, so I deregistered from the beta program and am not sure now to revert the phone's ROM (keeping in mind that I haven't rooted a phone in a couple years and have no interest in going back to rooting). Does anyone know what the process would be? The Samsung Members app told me to use Smart Switch to do it, but Google Play says my phone isn't compatible. I tried sideloading the app, but it doesn't even show up in my app drawer. Any advice?
Thanks!
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It's possible with kies or Oden. Just download your stock rom and use Oden. Or just use kies, all you need for kies is your serial number. I prefer Oden though.
maxpower7 said:
Hi,
I'm unrooted running the 2nd Nougat beta build. I'm having a few issues and want to go back to Marshmallow, so I deregistered from the beta program and am not sure now to revert the phone's ROM (keeping in mind that I haven't rooted a phone in a couple years and have no interest in going back to rooting). Does anyone know what the process would be? The Samsung Members app told me to use Smart Switch to do it, but Google Play says my phone isn't compatible. I tried sideloading the app, but it doesn't even show up in my app drawer. Any advice?
Thanks!
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