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[Q] Mac attack!

Is anyone good at rooting the nc on a mac? some help please.

I have a Mac and just rooted mine. What do you need to know?

how to setup this memory card so i can root. mind walking me thru it via aim or google chat?

All I did was follow this thread. Step by Step on how to root using Manualnooter 4.5.2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054027
You do need to burn an image of ClockWork Recovery to a SDHC card. There is a link to the file in the above instructions. Here are the commands you use in Terminal.
For Mac Users:
Open a terminal window.
Find which drive the sd card is mapped to: type in the terminal this:
diskutil list
Be very careful to identify the SD card and not your hard disk. Be VERY careful.
Now unmount that drive typing this:
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk#
(My computer was disk2 replace # with your number. Do NOT use the disk#s# )
The computer should say: Unmount of all volumes on disk<#> was successful
Type this to copy the file over to the sdhc card:
dd if=/path/to/4gb_clockwork-3.0.1.0.img of=/dev/rdisk# bs=1m
Everything needed should copy right over to the card.
TIP: drag and drop the image file from your finder into the terminal window, and the file path will fill in
TIP: you must replace "/path/to/" with the path where the auto-nooter image file is located (do not type "/path/to/")
On my 4gb class 4 sd card it took 10 minutes or so to burn the image.

can i do this with my 16 gb card?

also will this run the os off the sd or the internal mem?

Finland_2_Cupertino said:
can i do this with my 16 gb card?
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Yes, but not sure where to find the Clockwork Recovery image file for a 16g SDHC.

ok ill find an old card laying around somewhere. thanks! any other pointers or suggestions?

Finland_2_Cupertino said:
also will this run the os off the sd or the internal mem?
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This way of rooting the Nook Color is just adding to the basic B&N stock set-up. It adds the Android Market, YouTube, email, etc...
There are other ways to root your NC, that all you do is just pop in the SDHC card to run, and when you take it out you are back to normal stock.

if i do it this way can i run a different launcher to change the look?

Bobioden said:
This way of rooting the Nook Color is just adding to the basic B&N stock set-up. It adds the Android Market, YouTube, email, etc...
There are other ways to root your NC, that all you do is just pop in the SDHC card to run, and when you take it out you are back to normal stock.
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Thanks for all your help I was able to find the 16gb image and get my nookie rooted. you were a great help!!! Last question, does the root crank up the speed? seems faster and more responsive.

Where Can I Find Instruction for Dual-Boot SD Card CM7 for MAC OSX
Bobioden said:
This way of rooting the Nook Color is just adding to the basic B&N stock set-up. It adds the Android Market, YouTube, email, etc...
There are other ways to root your NC, that all you do is just pop in the SDHC card to run, and when you take it out you are back to normal stock.
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Where do I find a safe way to root my NC from my MAC where all I have to do is pop in my 8GB SD card so it can dual-boot to Original Nook Color Firmware 1.2.0 or CM7? I've watched the crashtechdummies guys on youtube but they show the PC way. I have a general idea but the forums I've been reading seem to favor installing it directly to the eMMC which I assume alters the original nook color firmware.
Currently I have:
Nook Color with 1.2.0 firmware
Nook Color USB cord
8GB SD card
SD card reader to go in to my Mac
Mac
Downloaded I have:
update-cm-7.0.2-encore-signed.zip stable
gapps-gb-20110307-signed.zip
android-sdk_r10-mac_x86.zip
8gb_clockwork-0.1-ext4.tar.gz
The bottom line is that I'd like to have the benefit of both worlds.
Thanks for reading my babble.

Can't boot from SD Card

I have a new-to-me Nook Color running the 1.4.2 firmware. I did a factory reset and set up my Barnes and Noble account. Yay me. However I can't FOR THE LIFE OF ME get it to boot off the SD card.
I've tried two 2GB cards (Samsung & SanDisk) and one 8GB SanDisk card. Also used three different card readers to burn the .IMG. What am I missing? I stick them in the Nook and the Nook just boots up as normal without hesitation. I've been rooting cell phones for years but this tablet has me stumped.
Is there another option I can use to flash CWM? Once I get it flashed I'm sure flashing the ROM is a breeze...
EDIT: After more and more digging, it might be an issue with writing to the wrong partition. How can I check to see if I'm installing to the write partition? I've formatted my cards multiple times. This is the stuff I see in a lot of answer posts:
of = /dev/disk# (good)
of = /dev/disk#p# (bad)
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have you wrote an sd card that will boot (ie. Clockwork 4 gig et al). Can you read and write to it from within stock? More data please, what were you writing to what partition?
When I use the uSD card to boot and it is plugged into the computer you should hear three da-da-das.

n8nmad said:
have you wrote an sd card that will boot (ie. Clockwork 4 gig et al). Can you read and write to it from within stock? More data please, what were you writing to what partition?
When I use the uSD card to boot and it is plugged into the computer you should hear three da-da-das.
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I have never successfully created an SD card that will boot on the Nook. Outside of the Nook, I have no way of testing to see if works or not.
You asked what partition, but I only have one partition on the card. If I open up the card in Disk Manager, there's just one allotment of space. When you burn the Image, is that supposed to create a separate partition that's visible in My Computer? If so, that's not happening because all the data is in one spot on the card (from what I can tell)

You need to flash the card. I suggest starting here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922870
or any of the other dev threads dealing with dual boots or whatever it is you are trying to accomplish.
Does your stock nook format sd cards to write books and such? If not that would be a big clue that it is a hardware issue

n8nmad said:
You need to flash the card. I suggest starting here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922870
or any of the other dev threads dealing with dual boots or whatever it is you are trying to accomplish.
Does your stock nook format sd cards to write books and such? If not that would be a big clue that it is a hardware issue
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Yes, the stock Nook picks up the cards and formats them when installed. I've used these cards for all my smartphone rooting without any issues.
I've also formatted the cards and burned the CWM images using the windiskimager tool. It's just not bootable for some reason

The very first fundamentally step is to check whether it is a NOOKcolor or Nook Tablet.

votinh said:
The very first fundamentally step is to check whether it is a NOOKcolor or Nook Tablet.
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Holy balls, I feel like an idiot. I had no idea the two were so similar. I am almost certain I have the Color (going by what it says on the case) but I'll look closely when I get home

It's the Nook Tablet. Wow....just...wow
On the bright side, at least my technical experience isn't the problem. My common sense on the other hand...

I believe you still can root the NT or run the pre-alpha ROM from it.
Unsure if it's able to run from uSD yet or not.

[Q] Unable to boot my ~unmodified~ Nook Color from SD card.

I just got a refurbished Nook Color. Seems to work fine but you have to push the power button hard to click it.
Haven't rooted, installed roms, anything yet. But I can't get it to boot from my SD card. I have a 4GB (class-4) microSD card. (I have checked the sdcard for bad blocks using the linux "badblocks" command.) I have followed instructions detailed here:
glasskeys. /2011/06/27/how-to-make-a-bootable-sd-card-running-cyanogenmod-for-the-nook-color/
and here [note - new users are forbidden from posting links here - in the above and below links, I left out the "com" after the dot in the website address]:
nookdevs. /Nookie_Honeycomb:_Burning_a_bootable_SD_card
. I use Ubuntu Linux 10.11 "dd" command to write the .img files to the SD card. However, once I write the SD card and put it into my Nook, the nook won't turn on. Just won't turn on. As soon as I take the card out and try again, I can boot up the nook to the locked-down, walled-garden stock Android on the device.
Help! Is something wrong with my SD card, or with my device? I have a 2GB microSD card somewhere I can find if I need to...

Re:
Can anyone help me find the source of the problem? Is it my SDcard, my card-burning technique (i followed the dd instructions word for word), my computer or is something wrong with my Nook?

What I might suggest is to discard your original source of instructions and start fresh. Search the xda forum for clear information on 1) proper mSD card to use; 2) proper card burning software; 3) the most appropriate rom(s) to use for what you want your Nook to do for you, and 4) if necessary, very explicit instructions to troubleshoot any problems you may encounter with your processes. I'll not point to specific locations here, because I'm not sure what you actually want to do, But the search engine is very thorough and the threads are numerous.
Good luck. I'm sure you'll be quite content with your newly rooted/rommed NC.

yanom said:
Can anyone help me find the source of the problem? Is it my SDcard, my card-burning technique (i followed the dd instructions word for word), my computer or is something wrong with my Nook?
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I have a section in my tips thread linked in my signature that deals with bootable SDs, but I'm not sure it's going to help you. I was helping another user that had the same exact problem where the Nook would not power on with the SD in. One of the things I had him do was fully charge his Nook. I can't remember how he resolved it though, if he did. But I suspect a faulty Nook or SD. Pins bent or something.
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk

leapinlar said:
I have a section in my tips thread linked in my signature that deals with bootable SDs, but I'm not sure it's going to help you. I was helping another user that had the same exact problem where the Nook would not power on with the SD in. One of the things I had him do was fully charge his Nook. I can't remember how he resolved it though, if he did. But I suspect a faulty Nook or SD. Pins bent or something.
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
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Thanks. It's worth noting that, if I get an SD with normal data (photos, etc) on it and put it in while the nook is booted normall, the nook can read the card and see what's on there. So the nook can read cards. That doesn't mean the boot-up bits aren't screwy.... this is refurbished.

Update
Update: I got it to work. However, it's quite laggy, possibly because it's Honeycomb on a class 2 (low IO speed) card. Can anyone point me to a super-slimed android (don't care what version) .img file I can put on my card?

yanom said:
Update: I got it to work. However, it's quite laggy, possibly because it's Honeycomb on a class 2 (low IO speed) card. Can anyone point me to a super-slimed android (don't care what version) .img file I can put on my card?
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Oh, do not use Honeycomb. It is terrible. Use CM 7.2. They just this weekend came out with a stable version. Cyanogenmod.com. Look for encore stable. And your class 2 should work great.
Sent from my NookColor using Tapatalk

leapinlar said:
Oh, do not use Honeycomb. It is terrible. Use CM 7.2. They just this weekend came out with a stable version. Cyanogenmod.com. Look for encore stable. And your class 2 should work great.
Sent from my NookColor using Tapatalk
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Let me +1 the latest and greatest CM 7.2. I was using a supposedly faster card with 7.1 on an NC and I also experienced a lot of lagging.
Switching to a class 4 SanDisk card and going to 7.2 fixed the problem. Since I did both at the same time, I can't tell you what exactly made the difference but if installing 7.2 does not fix the issue, try changing your card.
I followed these instructions which installs CM7 on your SD card so you can dual boot if necessary. Also, this has the same exact info written in a slightly less techie language. (I am not sure why he is trying to use the hardware keys to reboot into the recovery mode when it can be done easily from within CM7.)
Good luck!

I know this is a super old thread, but it seems like an appropriate place to post. I've got three Nook Color tablets from my niece and nephews. I flashed them with Mirage Cyanogenmod 7.2 via CWM on an SD card. Once I got the SD setup, I went through two of them in 10 minutes total. No sweat. I installed two fresh, out-of-the-box SD cards in each tablet, which left the modded, CWM SD card untouched after flashing the first two. The third one was missing for several weeks. They just found that one. They dropped off the third tablet along with the modded SD card, which was sealed in a ziplock bag, to me. I installed the card into the third Nook Color, which was untouched after flashing the first two, and the third Nook Color booted right past the SD card and into the stock OS. I've reflashed the same .img file and others, including verygreen's onto this SD card. It simply refuses to boot from the SD. I've tried writing the .img file from WinImage, and WinImage32 through the SD slot on my laptop, an SD card adapter via USB, and through the nook itself as a mass storage drive. I'm stumped. Any thoughts?
On a side note, I don't have access to the first two to confirm the SD card is still on track, nor do I, at this point, have a spare SD card to troubleshoot with. Those are my next steps to take, but I am curious what the experts might have to suggest in the mean time. Thanks in advance, and I'll post my solution, if I solve this.

Are you sure the third one is a Nook Color? It could be a Nook Tablet. They look the same, but the Tablet has a silver bezel instead of black. Those cards will not boot on a Tablet.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD

leapinlar said:
Are you sure the third one is a Nook Color? It could be a Nook Tablet. They look the same, but the Tablet has a silver bezel instead of black. Those cards will not boot on a Tablet.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
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My first thought was "that's a ridiculous question. Of course it's a Color!", but then I peeled the cover off, and the bezel is indeed silver. Looks like I have some more reading to do. Thanks for saving me a TON of grief and frustration.

Just to follow up, I followed the instructions for flashing Cyanogenmon on the Nook TABLET, thank you Leapinlar, and everything is good. Thanks again.

Totally Dead Nook

Yikes! Last night I was moving some files via adb wireless into the root directory of my nst (bad move for a newbie).
Now my nook will not power back on or anything. I've taken the battery out and plugged it back in. Nothing.
The screen is stuck on "Your NOOK has turned off completely" message.
No matter how long I hold the power button, nothing happens.
Have I bricked my device?:crying:

centralpark said:
Have I bricked my device?
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Well, yes, but it's not a big deal. It's fixable.
You need something on an SD card, Noogie, Clockwork Recovery, one of the Nooters.
I'd use Noogie on an SD card and copy your backup to the internal SD card.
You do have a backup?

Renate NST said:
Well, yes, but it's not a big deal. It's fixable.
You need something on an SD card, Noogie, Clockwork Recovery, one of the Nooters.
I'd use Noogie on an SD card and copy your backup to the internal SD card.
You do have a backup?
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I know that I did a backup last November, but I can't remember what it would be called.
Is it an image file?

Renate NST said:
Well, yes, but it's not a big deal. It's fixable.
You need something on an SD card, Noogie, Clockwork Recovery, one of the Nooters.
I'd use Noogie on an SD card and copy your backup to the internal SD card.
You do have a backup?
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I found a file called "SalsichaNooter.img" and wrote it to my sd card via winimage32.
Am I on the right path?
If so,what should I do with it?

That's to say, you don't have a full backup?
The important thing is to always make sure you have a copy of the stuff on the mmcblk0p2 (/rom) partition.
That has all the stuff that is unique to your Nook.
There is also a backup copy on mmcblk0p3 under rombackup.zip
There's a lot of ways to get out of this situation.
I mentioned the Nooters for completeness.
I've never used one and I don't know a lot about them.
My preference would be for putting Noogie on an SD card,
looking at the internal SD card boot partition over USB and copying what's broken from the software update for 1.1.2

Renate NST said:
That's to say, you don't have a full backup?
The important thing is to always make sure you have a copy of the stuff on the mmcblk0p2 (/rom) partition.
That has all the stuff that is unique to your Nook.
There is also a backup copy on mmcblk0p3 under rombackup.zip
There's a lot of ways to get out of this situation.
I mentioned the Nooters for completeness.
I've never used one and I don't know a lot about them.
My preference would be for putting Noogie on an SD card,
looking at the internal SD card boot partition over USB and copying what's broken from the software update for 1.1.2
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I just found my backup!!! It's called "nook_touch_backup.img" and is about 1.82 GB.
If my Nook won't power up at all, is it possible to restore this image to the internal memory?
Also, when I plug in my Nook via USB nothing shows up in my device manager.

centralpark said:
If my Nook won't power up at all, is it possible to restore this image to the internal memory?
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Yes, if it is your backup.
Put Noogie on an SD card, use Win32DiskImager to copy the image to the internal memory.

Renate NST said:
Yes, if it is your backup.
Put Noogie on an SD card, use Win32DiskImager to copy the image to the internal memory.
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My Nook will not turn on even after putting Noogie on my external SD card and then placing it back in my Nook.
Also, my Nook no longer shows up in my device manager :crying:

centralpark said:
Also, my Nook no longer shows up in my device manager
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Well, the Nook is a composite USB device.
It shows up under "Android Phone" or whatever.
It also shows up under USB Mass Storage devices.
It should get a drive letter.
If it doesn't, go to Disk Management and futz and give it one.
Then use Win32DiskImager to write your backup to it.

Renate NST said:
Well, the Nook is a composite USB device.
It shows up under "Android Phone" or whatever.
It also shows up under USB Mass Storage devices.
It should get a drive letter.
If it doesn't, go to Disk Management and futz and give it one.
Then use Win32DiskImager to write your backup to it.
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For some reason, my nook will not show up in "Device Manager" or "Disk Management" on any computer that I have.
It is stuck on the "turned off completely" screen.
No matter what I try, even though the green led light comes on when I plug it in via usb cable, it simply won't power up. The screen won't flicker...nothing.

I presume that you've tried all sorts of long pushes on the power button, 30 seconds?
You may be in that state where it needs the battery disconnect and reconnected.
Some have had luck with waiting until it discharges itself dead-dead.
OTOH, some got in this situation from doing that.

Renate NST said:
I presume that you've tried all sorts of long pushes on the power button, 30 seconds?
You may be in that state where it needs the battery disconnect and reconnected.
Some have had luck with waiting until it discharges itself dead-dead.
OTOH, some got in this situation from doing that.
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I've tried multiple long pushes of power button etc.
Should the screen go totally blank when it's dead-dead?
I think somehow I deleted important files from the root directory last night using adb.
Removing the battery for 20 minutes made no difference.
Thanks so much for all your help.

Are you trying to get to "Rooted Forever" with noogie?

Renate NST said:
Are you trying to get to "Rooted Forever" with noogie?
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I'm trying to get anything to work
Neither flashing noogie or clockworkmod to my external sdcard via win32diskimager caused my nook to come back to life.
I do know that my battery is good since last night it had over 90%.
No matter what I've tried, nothing causes my nook to show up in my device manager.
I only briefly see a message about "OMAP 3630" failed to install drivers.

The OMAP 3630 popups when it tries to boot off the USB.
That means that something that you have has a good mlo and u-boot.bin in the boot partition.
Whatever is after that is broken.
I would guess that your SD card is not written correctly.
It's a VFAT, look what's on there.
Is it the first (and only presumably) partition?
Is it marked active and bootable?

Progress
Renate NST said:
The OMAP 3630 popups when it tries to boot off the USB.
That means that something that you have has a good mlo and u-boot.bin in the boot partition.
Whatever is after that is broken.
I would guess that your SD card is not written correctly.
It's a VFAT, look what's on there.
Is it the first (and only presumably) partition?
Is it marked active and bootable?
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Hip hip hurray!! Finally, I got sd_2gb_clockwork-rc2.zip to create a bootable sdcard.
I was then able to boot into cwm.
However, my card did not have enough space to put my noot_touch_backup file onto the card.
Also, the internal nook drive still is not showing up on my windows computers.
My card has about 1.74 gb left of free space.
Do you have any ideas on where to go from here?
Oh my goodness!!
I used win32diskimager to restore my nook_touch_backup file to my sdcard...then i rebooted and my old system is back up and running!!
I have no idea why, but I'm scared to turn my nook off again.

ok , i was have the same problem "kinda" , well follow my instruction hope it works with u
connect ur nook with ur computer for 15 mints .... or more .... between that there's a screen will show to u that ur nook cant power on ..... also ....tell me what led show to u "green or orange"
try and replay me
best regards
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centralpark said:
Hip hip hurray!! Finally, I got sd_2gb_clockwork-rc2.zip to create a bootable sdcard.
I was then able to boot into cwm.
However, my card did not have enough space to put my noot_touch_backup file onto the card.
Also, the internal nook drive still is not showing up on my windows computers.
My card has about 1.74 gb left of free space.
Do you have any ideas on where to go from here?
Oh my goodness!!
I used win32diskimager to restore my nook_touch_backup file to my sdcard...then i rebooted and my old system is back up and running!!
I have no idea why, but I'm scared to turn my nook off again.
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good to hear .... but i was have the same problem "kinda" .... anyway
congratulations

Thank You
Renate NST said:
The OMAP 3630 popups when it tries to boot off the USB.
That means that something that you have has a good mlo and u-boot.bin in the boot partition.
Whatever is after that is broken.
I would guess that your SD card is not written correctly.
It's a VFAT, look what's on there.
Is it the first (and only presumably) partition?
Is it marked active and bootable?
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Thank you for taking the time to point me in the right direction today! I truly appreciate it!! :victory:

[Q] Nook not powering on

Hopefully won't get in trouble for making the same topic, but I was told I posted in the wrong section, so...
Anyway, without fully reading or knowing my girlfriends Nook was a color, I tried to downgrade it with the information from the topic '
[Stock Firmware]Restore Barnes & Nobel Nook Tablet 16G 1.4.0 from SDCard'
Like I said, didn't realize she had a color, and it's a 8GB, rather than 16GB.
Now the problem is that it charges but it won't turn on, at all.
I've been searching off and on today looking for ways to fix it but even when I find something links to things I need are dead. Can someone tell me exactly how to fix the Nook so that it can power on, link to me working links of what will fix it? I've hacked my Wii, PSP, so I'm not completely new to rooting.
I was also told I should make a bootable CWM card flash a CM7 ROM, but I'm not quite sure what that means... so if someone could explain?
Much appreciated, thanks.

Leapinjar knows a lot of about the Color and has made a very extensive post about it here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1621301
I would start with item A10 on that list

xkazaf said:
Hopefully won't get in trouble for making the same topic, but I was told I posted in the wrong section, so...
Anyway, without fully reading or knowing my girlfriends Nook was a color, I tried to downgrade it with the information from the topic '
[Stock Firmware]Restore Barnes & Nobel Nook Tablet 16G 1.4.0 from SDCard'
Like I said, didn't realize she had a color, and it's a 8GB, rather than 16GB.
Now the problem is that it charges but it won't turn on, at all.
I've been searching off and on today looking for ways to fix it but even when I find something links to things I need are dead. Can someone tell me exactly how to fix the Nook so that it can power on, link to me working links of what will fix it? I've hacked my Wii, PSP, so I'm not completely new to rooting.
I was also told I should make a bootable CWM card flash a CM7 ROM, but I'm not quite sure what that means... so if someone could explain?
Much appreciated, thanks.
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It won't turn on because the boot files are corrupted. As the prior user said go to my tips thread and make a bootable CWM SD per item A10 and then flash the stock ROM from A15.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on SD

leapinlar said:
It won't turn on because the boot files are corrupted. As the prior user said go to my tips thread and make a bootable CWM SD per item A10 and then flash the stock ROM from A15.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on SD
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I still can't get anything to work. I'm using a 8GB micro sd card.
I burned the CWM Recovery SD v5.5.0.4 to the sd card using win32 disk imager. I had to expand it, which I used the mini tool like you said too.
I downloaded the stock version 1.4.3 zip and moved it to the sd card. Tried to turn the nook on but nothing.

xkazaf said:
I still can't get anything to work. I'm using a 8GB micro sd card.
I burned the CWM Recovery SD v5.5.0.4 to the sd card using win32 disk imager. I had to expand it, which I used the mini tool like you said too.
I downloaded the stock version 1.4.3 zip and moved it to the sd card. Tried to turn the nook on but nothing.
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And you are sure it is charged? Put my card in and plug the device into the PC via the charge cable. Let it sit there for quite a while and see if you get any life.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on SD

leapinlar said:
And you are sure it is charged? Put my card in and plug the device into the PC via the charge cable. Let it sit there for quite a while and see if you get any life.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on SD
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As far as I know it is. The light is green on the cable, and it was fully charged before I messed it up.