I hope I'm posting in the correct place.
I think I've bricked my Nook Touch (tell me it isn't so!). The problem is as stated in the subject line. Now it won't turn off or respond at all to hardware or touch. Is there at least a way to get the screen back to "Read Forever"?
Please help, and let me know if you need more information!
I'll be so grateful if this problem can be at least partially solved.
try to remove sd-card and reboot it
I tried that; the Nook Touch will not reboot. Thanks for replying.
Would the zip file Nook Simple Touch Full_Factory_Restore.zip work for me in this scenario? If so, where can I get the file?
Its almost impossible to brick this device. Try this first.
Hold power firmly for 30 seconds.
let it go
Wait 10 seconds
Hold power again for about 10 or so seconds the screen should change and you should reboot.
Try this with the SD card in and out. You can also try and repeat the step of writing the .img to your SD card. Download the file again or verify the checksum in case you got a bad download.
The screens will not necessarily change if you are stuck in a boot loop and power down. Regardless if it doesn't boot 8 times it will revert its pretty much impossible to brick the unit. You can also try to power off via ADB and or try the script that forces the 8 failed reboots.
____________________
Edit I missed that it appears you intentionally formatted the device? What exactly did you do?
Also if you made a back up of the partition prior to formatting (not sure exactly what you did or why you did it) but that should have been your first step prior to doing anything exotic so you can replace the files necessary. I'm not at home otherwise I'd post the partition contents for your restore I'm sure you can find them on the net somewhere or here. I think the nook color root wiki may have the Nook touch back up files I'm not sure though. Either way its trivial to pull them and post them. Those of you that may do this make sure your account information is wiped first prior to making the back up for him.
Exactly which partition you formatted? The one normally exposed during USB connection? In this case power it off (by holding the power button for few seconds and selecting power off) and then do a hard reset
Hold power button and the bottom two side buttons until the screen starts to flicker. Release power button but hold the side bottom buttons until you see a hard reset screen
After reset the data partition will be as good as new.
Rooted Foreve screen - the brick
Hello everyone. I'm from Russia. And I have the same problem: Rooted Forever on the screen (I have formatted sd card by Mini Tool Partitition Wizard - Delete all partititions) when the SD card was into Nook and my Nook is the brick. And i can't send my Nook to B&N. None of your advices did not work. But I still have some hope. Maybe my experience will be usefull for you.
I have pushed 2 bottom buttons & power button for 30 seconds. Then 10 seconds pause. Then I have pushed 2buttons+pwr for 30 seconds again. And Nook has turned off. But the screen was completely dark. Then I turned it on and saw Rooted Forever. After that I repeated 3 buttons holding and turned the nook off. Right now my screen is completely white.
And one other thing. I also have tried nookrestorer program . I've mount an image on SD. Put it into nook. Turned it on. Script on the screen: wait for 10 sec, turn off yor nook. Take out SD. But it does not work.
I managed to lock my Nook up on boot right after I rooted it, but got it to unlock and revert to factory settings. Mine was frozen on the "Read Forever" screen and would only flash when I turned it off (something I've not read anywhere else) but this may help some of you... Don't try to do a factory reset and immediately root it again, because you may have to update the Nook again first!
First, remove the SD card, then power it off (hold the power button for 20 seconds until the screen flashed) then, letting go of the power button and immediately pressing and holding the power button again and the two bottom side buttons (I think for 10 seconds?)
The Nook would still sit on the "Read Forever" screen a minute or so, then started doing a factory reset, wiped everything including the data section and the updated software.
I had to re-update the Nook to 1.1 and then could re-root it.
---
Edit:
I realized after I posted this that I lied. Sorry. That didn't work for me, but I discovered that I could still access ADB over USB with my Nook while it was frozen on the loading screen... so I did this from my PC:
adb shell
echo -n -e "\x08\x00\x00\x00" > /rom/devconf/BootCnt
reboot
Credit to page nookdevs dot com/Flash_back_to_clean_stock_ROM (Not enough posts to post links yet, sorry!)
Note that you do have to have the ADB installed, but I think that's key to a lot of the root methods...
Aridon said:
Its almost impossible to brick this device. Try this first.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Bricking the NST is quite easy, just boot with Noogie and write some garbage onto the flash.
Lots of people do this by trying to write incomplete backups back to their NST.
If what you write is big enough to reach the /rom partition you're basically hosed.
Aridon said:
I'm not at home otherwise I'd post the partition contents for your restore I'm sure you can find them on the net somewhere or here. I think the nook color root wiki may have the Nook touch back up files I'm not sure though. Either way its trivial to pull them and post them. Those of you that may do this make sure your account information is wiped first prior to making the back up for him.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This is a very bad advice, the /rom and /factory partition contains data unique to every NST such as MAC address, serial, board serial, EAN, private and public keys, etc..
Using a backup from another NST can and will cause troubles for you and the person owning the NST the backup came from.
My NST was bricked as well, after a Salsicha-image write session failed. Permanently stuck in the "Rooted forever" screen no matter what I pressed. Prior to the write, I have deleted ALL the partitions on my NST and then it wouldn't boot, so it seemed gone forever.
Yet it turned out that my NST can still boot with the Nookie image on a microSD
( from the BACKUP/RESTORE N2E Win7 thread). Connect it via USB to the PC and managed to restore it using my backup image. Eventually I did did the Salsicha root successfully. My NST is now rooted with 1.1.
I don't have specific advices, but the NST does seemed hard to be properly bricked. Given my experiences, I actually wonder if the NST hardware could bootstrap itself entirely from the microSD, irrespective of the state of its internal flash.
Just solved this thing: formatted microSD with Noogie Image, then deleted all partitions and than flashed my backup image back and Nook is working fine now!
jack ng said:
I actually wonder if the NST hardware could bootstrap itself entirely from the microSD, irrespective of the state of its internal flash.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes it can.
Bricked Nook
I've also formatted my Nook when I was thinking that I was formatting the sdc. I've tried installing the nookRestore img and nT2-Recovery but both of these get to the screen where it says to wait but then the Nook won't reboot. My Nook can no longer be seen by my computer so isn't showing up in device manager. I've also tried the various boot tricks manually. I also lost my backup of my Nook when I had to reinstall Windows a week ago. If anyone could help that would be great!
Thanks.
Edit---
I've found my backup image but it says Install Failed: Please power off and back on. I do this but it says the same thing. It shows up for a few seconds in device manager right after I power it on but the device id is wrong, USBSTOR\DISK&VEN_B&N&PROD_EBOOK_DISK&REV_0100\11223344556677&0. And then it disconnects in a few seconds.
aknas22 said:
I've also formatted my Nook when I was thinking that I was formatting the sdc. I've tried installing the nookRestore img and nT2-Recovery but both of these get to the screen where it says to wait but then the Nook won't reboot.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If you formatted your NST, Factory Restore (and thus n2T-Recovery) will not work as you removed the partition containing the actual Restore image (partition 3)
aknas22 said:
Edit---
I've found my backup image but it says Install Failed: Please power off and back on. I do this but it says the same thing. It shows up for a few seconds in device manager right after I power it on but the device id is wrong, USBSTOR\DISK&VEN_B&N&PROD_EBOOK_DISK&REV_0100\11223344556677&0. And then it disconnects in a few seconds.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
What size is your backup image?
The unknown device you see for a split second at boot can be ignored, this is normal behavior.
It's 77.5 megabytes, I made it with Roadkill but I'm not sure if I did it right. I got it best the install fail screen. I'm not absolutely sure that I formatted the Nook but since none of the recovery methods or other images work that's the only thing I can think of. Also its no longer communicating with my computer properly.
Thank you for your reply.
I remember that there was a file(image) that works on the same principle as Noogie, but it will start the factory reset instead. Have you tried that ??? Unfortunately I don't know whether it uses/refers to the "formated" factory partition or it makes it's own. I think yo might find it in one of the threads, about rooting the Nook.
P.S. : the size of your backup file is too small ... it has to be about 1.8G
aknas22 said:
It's 77.5 megabytes, I made it with Roadkill but I'm not sure if I did it right. I got it best the install fail screen. I'm not absolutely sure that I formatted the Nook but since none of the recovery methods or other images work that's the only thing I can think of. Also its no longer communicating with my computer properly.
Thank you for your reply.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Your backup is worthless, don't bother with it.
Also Factory Restore, n2T-Recovery etc won't help you.
Check your PM in a few mins.
zholy said:
I remember that there was a file(image) that works on the same principle as Noogie, but it will start the factory reset instead. Have you tried that ??? Unfortunately I don't know whether it uses/refers to the "formated" factory partition or it makes it's own. I think yo might find it in one of the threads, about rooting the Nook.
P.S. : the size of your backup file is too small ... it has to be about 1.8G
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for your reply, yea my backup is missing something, I thought I found a my good one but it doesn't seem to be. I found those other images but as ros87 said they don't work either.
Keep getting "Install failed" screen
Well, I seem to have bricked my NST as well.
I was trying to unroot from TouchNooter by restoring what I now know was a bad backup image (only 77MB). I am also certain that the NST was reformatted as well.
When there is no SD card in the NST it is stuck in the "Install Failed" screen. It can reboot but just goes back to the "Install Failed" screen.
I have located the original backup image of the NST when it was fresh out of the box and think it's a good one (1.92GB), but I am unable to restore it while the nookie image is mounted in the SD drive. I have also tried the two manual restore images (NST-Recovery) and although they ran succesully they did not fix the problem.
Is there anything else I can try to get my NST working again or is it bricked forever?
UPDATE: SUCCESS!
Just in case anyone else runs into this problem:
I was using roadkil's disk image program to restore the known good backup image and kept getting an error message: "Error #5 occured while writing to disk at sector 0". A google search of that error turned up a in a blog where I learned that roadkil doesn't play well with windows 7. What you have to do is run a program called lockdismount.exe version 0300 (google it), lock that physical drive, and leave that program running. THEN run disk imager and restore the backup image to the NST. When disk imager is done, exit that program, go back to lockdismount, unlock that drive, and then exit lockdismount.
Note: When disk imager was finished restoring it gave me an error, but I went ahead and booted up the NST anyways. My Simple Touch is back to it's factory-fresh state and all is well again
*Many* thanks to everyone who posts in this forum. Going through all the posts helped me troubleshoot and eventually unbrick my Nook SimpleTouch.
Life saver!!!! Thank you!!!
ajjdowning said:
Well, I seem to have bricked my NST as well.
I was trying to unroot from TouchNooter by restoring what I now know was a bad backup image (only 77MB). I am also certain that the NST was reformatted as well.
When there is no SD card in the NST it is stuck in the "Install Failed" screen. It can reboot but just goes back to the "Install Failed" screen.
I have located the original backup image of the NST when it was fresh out of the box and think it's a good one (1.92GB), but I am unable to restore it while the nookie image is mounted in the SD drive. I have also tried the two manual restore images (NST-Recovery) and although they ran succesully they did not fix the problem.
Is there anything else I can try to get my NST working again or is it bricked forever?
UPDATE: SUCCESS!
Just in case anyone else runs into this problem:
I was using roadkil's disk image program to restore the known good backup image and kept getting an error message: "Error #5 occured while writing to disk at sector 0". A google search of that error turned up a in a blog where I learned that roadkil doesn't play well with windows 7. What you have to do is run a program called lockdismount.exe version 0300 (google it), lock that physical drive, and leave that program running. THEN run disk imager and restore the backup image to the NST. When disk imager is done, exit that program, go back to lockdismount, unlock that drive, and then exit lockdismount.
Note: When disk imager was finished restoring it gave me an error, but I went ahead and booted up the NST anyways. My Simple Touch is back to it's factory-fresh state and all is well again
*Many* thanks to everyone who posts in this forum. Going through all the posts helped me troubleshoot and eventually unbrick my Nook SimpleTouch.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
THANK YOU soooo much!!! lockdismount.exe save my NOOK. Couldn't restore my backup img using roadkil's utility but after reading your post I'm all set.
Thanks again.
overwritten rom and factory partition
ros87 said:
Bricking the NST is quite easy, just boot with Noogie and write some garbage onto the flash.
Lots of people do this by trying to write incomplete backups back to their NST.
If what you write is big enough to reach the /rom partition you're basically hosed.
This is a very bad advice, the /rom and /factory partition contains data unique to every NST such as MAC address, serial, board serial, EAN, private and public keys, etc..
Using a backup from another NST can and will cause troubles for you and the person owning the NST the backup came from.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hello, i am one of those unlucky/incompetent user who overwrite those partition. My experience is this: I can use (read, browse etc) other device's ROM (with different serial etc) on my NOOK, but if I want to deregister/or re-register my device at B&N, the process leads me to an ERROR message at the end.
I have no idea how to solve this problem. Maybe editing several files on Boot partition and Factory partition. Or maybe there is a way to erease these data from these file (resetting) I d not know. Or maybe there is an ORIGINAL rom without any device specific data, I don't know... and I am a bit hopeless.
Do You have any idea?
People at B&N do not understand the problem at all...
Thanks in advance for any help!
Tamas
So yeah, the Nook and my SD card were plugged in and I ran unooter on the drive for the nook instead of the SD card. Needless to say, it borked my Nook. It boots up fine but as soon as the OS loads it tells me the nook needs to be reset and if the problem persists to contact customer service. I think it's pretty obvious that I resized the partion on my nook so that it's too small to even operate correctly. Any ideas? Plugging the nook into my computer no longer activates it as a drive. Thanks guys.
If you can still boot, couldn't you burn the clockwork image to an SD card and do a factory reset from CWM?
If that doesn't work, you could get the zips that repartition the internal memory that are found on ths site. I don't think I can post a link yet, but just search the forum for internal memory partition and follow the directions.
At worst, you could also try the three finger reset (hold down power, both volumes, and n button for ten seconds or so until the nook turns off and restarts, and then repress as it begins to reload a total of eight times in a row.) the nook will reset to factory stock upon the eighth consecutive restart.
Of course the easiest would probably be to restore a CWM backup, but I would think you would have tried that if you could.
I don't know much about autonooter, but I am willing to bet one of those would definitely work. as long as the boot process is starting you can preempt it and then have tons of options.
I just upgraded my unrooted nst to 1.1.2, it succeeded and I can enter into the system.
Then I backup my nst and restore to an old image in win7, using DiskImage 1.6, but it failed and report "failed to write section 0" or sth like that.
Seeing that error, I unplugged the usb and removed SD, then the nst stuck on "Rooted Forever", and cannot access the disk from win7 anymore.
I have tried:
1. hold on pwb 30s, release, wait 5s, hold on again -- no response, even no a flash
2. hold pwb, left, rigth -- nothing
What else can i do to recover my nst?
Thanks very much for any help.
You arent stuck on the Root Forever screen, probably you killed your nooks boot partition, so it just wont refresh the screen, nor boot.
Try the normal procedure to restore a backup, it should work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1142983
Thanks for reply.
It solved, I just put SD back to nook and it is able to restart and enter into the unroot system.
Thanks anyway
Hi guys. I tried to make a backup of my Nook Simple Touch Glowlight (NSTG) before rooting it using Noogie image file, but I now have a bricked NSTG. This is what I did:
1. Using WinImage on my Windows 7 computer I wrote the Noogie image to a Sandisk 8GB micro sd card.
2. I turned the Nook off completely.
3. I inserted the micro sd card into the NSTG card slot.
4. I connected the NSTG via USB cable to my computer and the Nook rebooted and displayed the ROOTED FOREVER screen.
5. Before I did anything else, I ejected the NSTG by right clicking the NSTG icon on my desktop and detached the USB cable from the NSTG. I just wanted to make sure I could reboot into my NSTG before making the backup.
6. The NSTG never rebooted.
7. I removed the battery and the ROOTED FOREVER screen is still displayed.
8. I reconnected the battery and it will still not reboot.
Any suggestions as to how I can reboot the NSTG.
Bill
When you have the rooted Forever screen it takes quite a bit of effort to get the nook to restart.
Press and hold the power button numerous times. Hold the power button for at least three full seconds, even longer.
I actually pressed the back switch several times and did so for more than a few seconds, but to no avail. I going to leave it alone for a while with the battery unplugged and then plug the battery back in and see what happens. Any other suggestions are welcome.
Bill
I have tried to reboot the NSTG holding the back button several times, it does not reboot. I have tried to root with an sd card and the NSTG does reboot to run the software on the micro sd, but it hangs at the rebooting without the micro sd in the NSTG. The NSTG does boot from the micro sd, but it will not complete the process of rebooting when I reboot after installation of the software. I have tried the Alpha format touch 2 with the clock work mod rc2 and the NSTG will not complete the rebooting after I remove the micro sd card. I have tried the tinynoot with the clock work mod rc2 and it is the same result. Does anyone know how I can get the NSTG to reboot without the micro sd card to get it working again?
Bill
I am not clear on something - at first it seems you are saying the nook does not reboot
briv said:
I have tried to reboot the NSTG holding the back button several times, it does not reboot.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
but then you describe how you have rooted via alpha format touch and tinynoot.
When you root via these two, I presume you using the clockworkmod sdcard - so do you get the nook to power up to the clockworkmod screen?
When you have the rooted forever screen - leave the battery in, remove the sdcard - and then press and hold the power button numerous times.
Do you have UK or US nook?
ladykayaker said:
I am not clear on something - at first it seems you are saying the nook does not reboot
but then you describe how you have rooted via alpha format touch and tinynoot.
When you root via these two, I presume you using the clockworkmod sdcard - so do you get the nook to power up to the clockworkmod screen?
When you have the rooted forever screen - leave the battery in, remove the sdcard - and then press and hold the power button numerous times.
Do you have UK or US nook?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have the US NSTG. At first I had the ROOTED FOREVER screen and tried rebooting exactly as you suggested, but it did not work. I tried to reboot this way several times as you suggested, but it would not reboot. Finally I decided to try and reboot using the Alpha format and the Tinynoot. I have used the clockworkmod sdcard with these two and yes, it does get to the clockworkmod screen and actually installs the zip files, but when I remove the battery and click the bottom front button to reboot, the screen flashes once and does not reboot. The screen now displays the description of the last step by step installation process I tried with Tinynoot. Any suggestions on how to get the NSTG to reboot?
ladykayaker said:
When you have the rooted Forever screen it takes quite a bit of effort to get the nook to restart.
Press and hold the power button numerous times. Hold the power button for at least three full seconds, even longer.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I hope it's okay to send you the message I sent to another person that responded to me. I am just learning how to use the threads.
I have the US NSTG. At first I had the ROOTED FOREVER screen and tried rebooting exactly as you suggested, but it did not work. I tried to reboot this way several times as you suggested, but it would not reboot. Finally I decided to try and reboot using the Alpha format and the Tinynoot. I have used the clockworkmod sdcard with these two and yes, it does get to the clockworkmod screen and actually installs the zip files, but when I remove the battery and click the bottom front button to reboot, the screen flashes once and does not reboot. The screen now displays the description of the last step by step installation process I tried with Tinynoot. Any suggestions on how to get the NSTG to reboot?
briv said:
but when I remove the battery and click the bottom front button to reboot
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Please do not remove the battery.
Do remove the sdcard.
The bottom front button is not the power button. Do not use this to reboot.
The power button is at the rear of the nook, at the very top. Press and hold numerous times.
I would recommend using Glownooter for rooting your US Nook glow. http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/20...using-glownooter-includes-googles-app-market/
If you are using the Alpha Format Touch that I am thinking of, then this is for the UK, not US, Nook.
Tinynoot is not great for a first timer, it has minimal apps which you will find hard to use initially.
Glownooter is much better for rooting the first time.
I would suggest you use these instructions to first restore your nook
http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/20...-and-restore-nook-glow-and-nook-simple-touch/
with all the rooting and re-rooting you have done I can't be sure what state your nook is in now.
Start up your nook, be sure you are back to the original.
Then try again using Glownooter.
---------- Post added at 05:18 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:22 PM ----------
briv said:
I have the US NSTG.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I just want to check one other thing - what software version is installed on your nook.
Glownooter is only for firmware 1.1.5
Use Tinynoot for firmware 1.2
Alpha Format Touch works for UK Nook firmware 1.2, but does not have satisfactory results for US Nook on 1.2
My son's rooted Nook with glowlight froze up, just unresponsive.
I had made backups of his nook using roadkills disk image a while ago.
I first made sure his nook is fully charged, then decided I needed to restore.
So I put the noogie sd card in his nook, plugged the nook into my laptop, used minitool partition wizard to delete all partitions, and then used roadkills disk image to write the backup image onto his nook.
Now the nook won't move off the Rooted Forever screen.
We have held down the power button, release, press again repeatedly - all to no avail.
I have also tried to hold down the bottom page turn L & R buttons to get back to factory reset - again no response.
the nook is remaining at the Rooted Forever screen.
Any suggestions?
and yes, I did remove the noogie disk before trying to restart the nook.
ok, I think I have found the issue. I re-inserted the noogie disk, and was able to restore a different backup and that worked.
Must have been something wrong with the first backup. Thankfully I had more than one backup.
Whew!