My Nook Glowlight 3 (rooted) was running quite slowly, and it seemed there were some problems with the disk, as some books were damaged and can't be opened. So I entered the TWRP recovery, wiped the partitions and then a factory reset followed. However, after that, Nook restarted and stuck at the following step. Tried POWER+HOME, POWER+RIGHT UP, POWER+RIGHT DOWN, Nook just restarted to the same screen and can not enter recovery any more. No ADB device as well.
Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.
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So how did you fix it? Seriously, this is so annoying for people who come later with the same problem to just see "fixed" with no details.
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Hello,
So i've tried to root the nook. Copied the touchnooter on my card, booted the nook. And then : forever stuck on the "root forever" or the "read forever" (when i get the card off)..
The hard reboot (20 sec on power off) doesn't work and i'm stuck at this "read forever" screen.
Is there a way to recover the nook ?
Thanks.. !
When doing the hard power off (long press) the screen doesn't usually change and you might be fooled into believing nothing happened.
Have you tried to let the unit settle for 10 seconds and then press power for a few seconds to see if it tries to boot?
Hey,
thanks for replying. I have tried a 30 sec hard boot + a reboot try but nothing happened. It freezes on the "nook is starting screen".
I afraid i have broke my device... But strangely i followed the rooting steps and nothing seemed to do wrong.. I guess.
Bye
If you can in fact get the unit to start booting, just long press power (10s +) as soon as you see the unit try to boot to interrupt the boot, then power it on again and repeat this procedure for 8 times (sucks, yes I know) and you should drop into factory reset.
Ok so i have to say : WTF !
So this morning i looked at my nook and saw that it still was on the "reading forever"/"starting" thing. As i saw your advice i tried to boot 8 time..
On the first boot attempt : it worked ! So maybe is was the eighth..
The nook started and asked me if i wanted to continue with android guy or "es something"... so i pressed android guy..
SO now i don't really know if the procedure went well ? Is it supposed to be rooted now ?
Thanks anyway for the time you took replying !
I hope my english is not too hard to read.
Bye,
By "android guy" I guess you're referring to the Android Welcome screen?
That would suggest that the Touchnooter went trough successfully.
Did you get Go Launcher and ButtonSavior up and running?
IIRC, whenever you do a fresh boot and try to use ButtonSavior you'll get a notice saying ButtonSavior has been granted superuser access, which would indicate that you're successfully rooted.
I had a similar problem, using touchnooter 1.11.20 and it was too quick. Maybe 45 seconds, removed card and restarted. Stuck in a boot loop, on tne "Nook" screen with the little blocks move across the screen and just keeps restarting. Fortunately I made a backup and was able to restore. Not sure what the problem is but I tried TouchNooter 5 times, downloaded it twice, wrote it to the SD cars 3 times and same result, Stuck on the nook screen, animation gets to the 4th dot and restarts. Tried salsichaNooter .4 with the same result. Any ideas on what the problem could be? It would be really nice if I could get a decent reader on this thing.
I made my life a little easier by having 2 micro SD cards to use, nookie on one and touchnooter on the other. I also made sure I had a good backup of my original ROM by opening the image with 7zip and the nook with partition wizard and verifying they were the same. At least I can gat it back to a working stock rom.
Why dont you try my new method?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1346748
PS:
..... insomnia Sucks......
Thanks, I'll see if this works.
Not really insomnia, trying to get this fixed before I have to put my wife on a plane. It's her nook touch, I have a color, it was so much easier.
I'm having a similar problem: I used SalsichaNooter, I let Rooted Forever to be on the nook screen for an hour, there were no messages on the screen no progress indication of any sort. I did a hard reboot after an hour and it seems at least some part of the rooting script worked - but how do i know the nook was rooted all the way through since it didnt reaboot during the rooting process as it should?
I bought a new NST because I wanted to root it and use it as a summertime reader in place of my rooted Nook Color. I downloaded the required files from
[N2E][1.1] TouchNooter 2.1.31. Stupidly rushing though the install, I made two mistakes.
One, I didn't check to see what version of B&N software was running. Since it was newly opened, I'm suspecting that it was the earliest version.
Two, I inadvertantly left the NST plugged into the laptop when I did the install. When it booted up I get the Read Forever screen, then the scrolling dots, then it flashes a couple of times. When I slide the slider I see
[Q] "Your Nook encountered an error that need to restart
No matter how many restarts I try it shows this error everytime.
I tried both fixes in n2T-Recovery - Nook Simple Touch - Factory Restore / Recovery [v:0.2 17.11.11]. Neither helped. The .2 version indicates that it is doing a factory restore and it takes a bit of time. However, upon reboot, I am stuck in the same situation.
I am currently thinking I should try the initial TouchNooter 2 process and see if it helps.
Does anyone have any suggests? Thanks
I had similar problem. my problem was due to a disorder in "Media" drive.
I've solved this way:
I plug in device to pc and restart nook. after it booted up , nook drive and sdcard appear in My Computer. I format nook drive and restart it again and my problem solved ...
Thanks for the input. I tried the steps you outlined. When I rebooted the Nook showed up as another disk drive. I could see the contents of the drive. When I attempyed to format it, it immediately disappeared and says there is no disk in drive G:
I repeated the process and was able to created a folder in drive G:. I tried to do a chkdsk this time and got the same message as before.
Any other ideas?
did you test this tutorial :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1360994
my idea is : first use "sd_128mb_clockwork-rc2.zip" image only.
with CWM ram you can format data and cache and system drives.
after solving error message , you can restore nook and root again...
Sounds reasonable. I'll make the CWM recovery card now. Would anyone else like to comment on this idea? I would hate to make things worse.
Well, I tried this. I booted to CWM.
First, I did a factory reset and rebooted. Still got the error.
Next, I formatted cache and data and rebooted. Same error.
Next, I formatted system. When I rebooted, I was stuck at the Read Forever screen.
I did some more reading at this point and thought I would try
n2T-Recovery - Nook Simple Touch - Factory Restore / Recovery [v:0.2 17.11.11]
I installed and rebooted. The system rebuilt itself and I am successfully running again. Thanks for all the advice and thanks to the developers
I know there are many rooting problem things, but this is different. I am stuck in limbo, it is booting up with no way to turn off. I have no idea what to do.
I used TouchNooter, and it failed.
Please, someone help me fix my never used nook.
So pressing the power button for 20+ seconds does nothing?
Update!
I got it! I tried to restore it, and once it was restored it was also rooted. Amazing, huh?
Anyway, now when I change screens it has odd outlines of everything on the last page.
I ran into the same problem rooting with TouchNooter: rooting failed to complete as prescribed in the rooting instruction, then reverting to stock using n2T-Recovery left my NST in a state much like yours including noticeable ghosting image from prior screen displays.
Finally, I used TouchFormatter to revert to stock and then was able to re-root with successfully MinimalTouch. MinimalTouch's rooting process seems more complicated but in practice is straightforward and works just as prescribed in the instruction.
digixmax said:
Finally, I used TouchFormatter to revert to stock and then was able to re-root with successfully MinimalTouch. MinimalTouch's rooting process seems more complicated but in practice is straightforward and works just as prescribed in the instruction.
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I did pretty much the same, but I tried the Touchnooter twice. Ended up using MinimalTouch.
Rooting with Touchnooter 2.1.31 FAIL
I have a new NST. Upgraded firmware to 1.1.2 and am registered with B&N. Also have several books loaded on my NST.
FIRST I backed up my Nook using the winimage tool and saved that file in case I have to restore.
SECOND I followed the directions exactly to get the proper touchnooter image on my 2gig microSD card using winimage. All went well. I checked the card and all files appear to be there.
NEXT I attempted to root my NST. Here's what I did, step by step:
1. I powered off the Nook
2. I inserted the SDcard with TouchNooter 2.1.31
3. I then powered on the Nook
4. Got the TouchNooter screen which says to wait for the black screen flash, remove SDcard, then reboot.
5. About 20 seconds later saw a quick black flash
6. Immediately the next screen (the Nook startup screen) with the 5 dots appeared.
7. The Nook hung at this screen, with the first dot black. I waited about 10 min. just to be safe.
8. Nothing else happened
THEN I:
9. Removed the microSD card
10. Powered off the Nook
11. Powered the Nook back on
AND....
The Nook was NOT rooted, I saw the READ FOREVER startup screen and the Nook started up as normal with no root.
I never saw the "Rooted Forever" screen.
I tried rooting my NST 2 more times.
Same outcome.
Can someone PLEASE explain how to get Touchnooter 2.1.31 to actually work?
My nook still says "Read forever" when I boot up, but I believe it is rooted. Touchnooter, same process as yours.
What happens after it boots up now?
Do you see the button saviour arrow on the right edge close to the middle?
"rooted forever" shows up if you're booting using noogie. I don't think you'll see that screen from TouchNooter. It should boot up looking normal but once you "unlock" the screen after first boot you would see the little android robot that takes you through setup.
First I see the Read Forever screen.
Then after it boots up it flashes then goes to the author screensaver and I have to slide to unlock. I do not see any android symbol or button saviour on the right edge. The screensaver takes up all the real estate.
Once I slide to unlock the screen goes to wherever I was before in my Nook. Usually the home screen.
If there's an android symbol appearing...I'm not seeing it.
cbay said:
My nook still says "Read forever" when I boot up, but I believe it is rooted. Touchnooter, same process as yours.
What happens after it boots up now?
Do you see the button saviour arrow on the right edge close to the middle?
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When I used TouchNooter it would reset my firmware version back to showing 1.1, so I ended up using MinimalTouch to root. It stayed on the black screen when it "flashed to black" for me, though. You could try restoring back to 1.1 and then using TouchNooter, or give MinimalTouch a try?
lottanookie said:
First I see the Read Forever screen.
Then after it boots up it flashes then goes to the author screensaver and I have to slide to unlock. I do not see any android symbol or button saviour on the right edge. The screensaver takes up all the real estate.
Once I slide to unlock the screen goes to wherever I was before in my Nook. Usually the home screen.
If there's an android symbol appearing...I'm not seeing it.
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I believe your nook is not rooted then. You should try again with touchnooter.
I tried 3 more times.
Same result.
Then I tried using MinimalTouch.
Also the same result with the screen ending up at the Nook login screen with the 5 dots and stopping there, hanging.
I don't know what to do to get this NST rooted.
lottanookie said:
I tried 3 more times.
Same result.
Then I tried using MinimalTouch.
Also the same result with the screen ending up at the Nook login screen with the 5 dots and stopping there, hanging.
I don't know what to do to get this NST rooted.
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Between my 1st and 2nd attempt with TouchNooter, I did do a factory reset using the settings menu,and re register the device to B&N.
Hi there, I've done a fair amount of searching and have read up and down similar posts but haven't been able to get to a resolution.
I have an NST fw 1.2, I initially tried using noogie to root it, but i made a backup image of my device using dd before i started messing with it. upon having problems with adb i switched gears. at that point it was still booting up into normal nook homescreen and all functional. later i attempted touchnooter 2.1.31 but couldn't make it past the install screens (eg, step 1 wait for the black screen flash, then reboot never got me any progress). after multiple times rebooting i was able to attempt a factory reset, but it never completed. at this point it wouldn't respond to any combination of key holds/reboot sequences and was not recognized via usb by my ubuntu machine. currently with noogie on a sd card inserted in the nook, i can hold the power button and the screen will flash but never does anything other than show the 'rooted forever' screen. in this mode with the usb attached, i can see the 7 partitions (factory, cache, userdata, rom, nook, boot, and a 302 MB fs). so i feel like it's not totally dead (right?)
so i'm thinking, gosh i'd like to restore that backup image, or attempt another factory reset.. what would you do?
cgonxda said:
currently with noogie on a sd card inserted in the nook, i can hold the power button and the screen will flash but never does anything other than show the 'rooted forever' screen
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Remove the sdcard!
If you reboot the nook with the noogie sdcard, then it will return to the Rooted Forever screen.
Remove the sdcard, then press and hold the power button for a few seconds, repeat a few times. It takes a fair bit of effort but will restart.
The power button is the button at the rear of the nook, not the 'n' button on the front of the nook.
cgonxda said:
i'd like to restore that backup image, or attempt another factory reset.. what would you do?
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I would ...leave in the noogie sdcard
restore your backup
http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/20...-and-restore-nook-glow-and-nook-simple-touch/
then remove the noogie sdcard, reboot, and check that the nook still works.
Since you have NST fw 1.2 you will need to root with Tinynoot.
Tinynoot for US Nook 1.2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1650593
I didn't find any other rooting method that works for the US Nook 1.2
Tinynoot only has a few basic apps, ADB wireless, Button Savior, NookColorTools.
It has no google apps, and no access to google / android market.
You will need to use ADB to install apps.
If you have a UK Nook 1.2, then Tinynoot works, and there is Alpha TFU
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34216660#post34216660
thanks for the info, restoring from my backup image worked..
i used dd and got back to original and everything worked fine
Code:
dd if=my_backup.img of=/dev/sdb bs=1M
i checked out the TinyNoot info in the link you provided and was able to perform that root with no problems on my 1.2 firmware
Glad to hear it!
I had a nook simple touch and decided to root it etc.
I originally used the touchnooter from the following lifehacker post:
lifehacker -/5889158/turn-a-99-nook-into-a-fully-fledged-android-tablet-in-four-easy-steps
It all went fine but then if froze on the 'your nook is starting up' screen.
but I realised that my nook was on FW 1.2.1 so I factory reset it.
it still hangs on the same screen.
then i tried rooting it using the nook manager method on this site:
babblingengineer /how-to/how-i-turned-my-nook-into-an-e-reader-monster/
this all seemed to go fine but alas still stuck on the same screen!
So I factory reset it again!
and lo and behold still stuck on the same screen!
I am sorta at my wits ends so any help would be much appreciated!
sorry about the URLs but forum rules wont let me post them!
stubblepoo said:
I had a nook simple touch and decided to root it etc.
I originally used the touchnooter from the following lifehacker post:
lifehacker -/5889158/turn-a-99-nook-into-a-fully-fledged-android-tablet-in-four-easy-steps
It all went fine but then if froze on the 'your nook is starting up' screen.
but I realised that my nook was on FW 1.2.1 so I factory reset it.
it still hangs on the same screen.
then i tried rooting it using the nook manager method on this site:
babblingengineer /how-to/how-i-turned-my-nook-into-an-e-reader-monster/
this all seemed to go fine but alas still stuck on the same screen!
So I factory reset it again!
and lo and behold still stuck on the same screen!
I am sorta at my wits ends so any help would be much appreciated!
sorry about the URLs but forum rules wont let me post them!
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I'm still new at this (I had the same problem as you last night, actually).
I forgot that the SD card was still in the NST. The NST boots off the SD card first (compared to the interal file system) if the SD card contains a bootable image. If you take the SD out, it will boot on the internal file system and not the SD card. My problem was I had a faulty boot image on my SD card and so it was hanging on the boot because of that.
So I would take out the SD card and then hold the power button down until it reboots. Then immediately press the bottom two buttons on the front at the same time until it asks you to factory wipe, which is sounds like you have done before. I did this and it started up again, just like new.
Although you said that you used NookManager, which asks you to take out your SD card before it reboots, right? So maybe my help is of no use.
Right, the SD card was out and I tried the factory reset again anyway.
Still no luck.
cheers for your help though.
Anyone else have any ideas?