Hi,
like I said I think I broke my nook. I have been trying to get gapps working for some time and I was told to go to clockworkmod recovery. I did and the recovery menu would only show up when I take my cm7 SD card out and power it on. so then I pressed factory reset and now I can't get back to my regular nook color. It just stays at the N screen. please help me
You can only break your nook if you throw it on the floor.
There's no a lot of information to go with.. It does sounds like you somehow wrote CWM onto the internal memory.. The SD card you have either isn't bootable or it's corrupt. You can either try to return it back to stock Nook or write CM7 to the internal memory again and see.
how do I return it to stock
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
i hope this helps, good luck
yes it should but I can't turn rootpack or clockwork recovery into an image file and thus can't use win32diskimager
if you can provide more info then we might able to help.
Did you boot from uSD or root your NC?
Did you install CwM Recovery in the internal?
I booted with the sd card and I don't think I ever cwm recovery. besides, I just want to know how to write clockwork recovery to the internal memory
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I rooted my Nook had super user, market, rom manager etc. I backed my rom (I always do a nandroid back up). I haven't been able to get out of cwm recovery since the nandroid reboot. Can someone give me retard directions on what to flash to get out of recovery, also flashing roms looks very diiferent on the Nook compared to phones. Ion phones you put the zip on the root of your sd and flash.... is that the same here and how do I get the Nook to flash that zip if its not done through recovery via "choose zip from sd card". Sorry for spitting all this dopey **** but Im really frustrated because I know this **** and can't figure it out on my own. Also I really want cm7 on my Nook. I've been in some sticky situations with my evo and ALWAYS got out of it via restore, ruu, etc. Well anyways if anyone takes on this charity case (me) Im in debt to you for ever. I know android language so walking me through this should be farely simple. Everyone at XDA kicks ass! Peace and love.
Dave.
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It's more or less the same on the nook. The one difference is that the nook can boot from the sd card itself, so it's better put cwm on the sd card, not on the device. That way you can avoid problems like...getting stuck in a recovery bootloop ;-)
I'm guessing your bootcount is higher than 8 or something so it's trying to boot into recovery to recover, but your recovery is cwm not b&n recovery so...either that or your regular boot files are hosed and it's falling back to recovery but can't recover because your recovery files have been replaced...or...
To make matters even worse, last I saw making a nandroid doesn't even backup /boot files, so when these things come up, the nandroid is completely worthless, the B&N recovery which would at least get your system back bootable is also gone...
You get the picture.
I'd make a uSD card with cwm on it as detailed here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=987735
Then use that card to get rid of cwm on your nook. Just throw the files on the card and throw it in your nook, just like you would with a phone. More information on the files you need are here or here depending on what you want to do.
Getting the standard b&n boot and recovery files back on should get you out of your boot loop.
Then you can install cm7 or root stock or do whatever in the usual ways, just use the sd card to boot your cwm recovery instead of putting cwm recovery onto the actual device, at least until you are more familiar with mucking around on the nook.
ylixir said:
It's more or less the same on the nook. The one difference is that the nook can boot from the sd card itself, so it's better put cwm on the sd card, not on the device. That way you can avoid problems like...getting stuck in a recovery bootloop ;-)
I'm guessing your bootcount is higher than 8 or something so it's trying to boot into recovery to recover, but your recovery is cwm not b&n recovery so...either that or your regular boot files are hosed and it's falling back to recovery but can't recover because your recovery files have been replaced...or...
To make matters even worse, last I saw making a nandroid doesn't even backup /boot files, so when these things come up, the nandroid is completely worthless, the B&N recovery which would at least get your system back bootable is also gone...
You get the picture.
I'd make a uSD card with cwm on it as detailed here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=987735
Then use that card to get rid of cwm on your nook. Just throw the files on the card and throw it in your nook, just like you would with a phone. More information on the files you need are here or here depending on what you want to do.
Getting the standard b&n boot and recovery files back on should get you out of your boot loop.
Then you can install cm7 or root stock or do whatever in the usual ways, just use the sd card to boot your cwm recovery instead of putting cwm recovery onto the actual device, at least until you are more familiar with mucking around on the nook.
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You just made my night. I'm almost 100% that my regular boot files and cwm files are borked. Thanks for taking the time to type that out for me. This is why I love xda.... OK I'm going to try this when I get home in a few minutes.
I did a search for 'boot recovery' and read a few thread going back to May, but none of them seem to quite fit what happened to me. If I have missed the instructions, please link to them and I'll check it out.
First the setup:
My NC is stock 1.2 on the EMMC. I then followed the instructions in the Size-agnostic SD Card image and CM7 installer for SD Cards. The only step I cheated on was copying both update-cm-7.0.3-encore-signed.zip and gapps-gb-20110613-signed.zip to the SD card after the card was imaged. The rom and gapps installed and work as intended.
Next it was my intent to install update-CM7-dalingrin-OC-sd-063011.zip for a little speed boost. But I couldn't get it to boot into recovery with the various hold this button timings and choosing reboot from the power button options. I then went into ROM Manager and Flash ClockworkMod recovery, which flashed 3.2.01 to the EMMC. I have confirmed that by removing my CM7 SD card and successfully booting to recovery.
So now what? I would have thought the Rom Manager should have flashed the CWM recovery to the SD card, as that is what I had booted from. How can I uninstall the CWM from EMMC and force it to installed to the SD card?
Thanks,
Zhin
Did you just say up there "which flashed 3.2.01 to the EMMC"? why did you expect it "should have flashed the CWM recovery to the SD card"?
Anyway, if you want to run from uSD, then anything related to eMMC or files that have "emmc" on file name, then ignore, discard it.
In your case, after you booted into recovery (using power button, and its options), you should be all set.
I don't now what makes you went into ROM Manager and flashed it
votinh said:
Did you just say up there "which flashed 3.2.01 to the EMMC"? why did you expect it "should have flashed the CWM recovery to the SD card"?
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Because I thought that when you flashed a rom to the SD card and booted off the SD card it was treated the SD card as the 'local disk'. With the EMMC just being seen as additional storage when you where running off the SD. So when I booted from the SD card and opened Rom Manager while running from the SD card, I should think it would have flashed the CWM to the SD card.
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Anyway, if you want to run from uSD, then anything related to eMMC or files that have "emmc" on file name, then ignore, discard it.
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I didn't say anything about using files that said emmc in the OP.
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In your case, after you booted into recovery (using power button, and its options), you should be all set.
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The only way I can get to recovery is to remove the SD. How can I make sure to install update-CM7-dalingrin-OC-sd-063011.zip to the SD card? Can the SD card be put back in after booting to recovery?
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I don't now what makes you went into ROM Manager and flashed it
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When it wouldn't boot into recovery after the clean install from my OP, I started to look for other options. When I launched Rom Manager it said there was no recovery option installed.
-Zhin
Zhindel said:
I then went into ROM Manager and Flash ClockworkMod recovery, which flashed 3.2.01 to the EMMC. I have confirmed that by removing my CM7 SD card and successfully booting to recovery.
So now what? I would have thought the Rom Manager should have flashed the CWM recovery to the SD card, as that is what I had booted from. How can I uninstall the CWM from EMMC and force it to installed to the SD card?
Thanks,
Zhin
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Rom Manager is useless for SD installs; just don't run it. It's not like most Android apps that only look at filesystem names (/sdcard, /emmc, etc), it uses the hardware device names (/dev/block/...) for its manipulations and pretty much assumes an emmc install.
Having CWM on emmc isn't a problem, it won't interfere with running the stock NC software from an emmc boot. I haven't run stock in forever, I don't know what they had for a recovery boot, but there are "restore to stock" threads that will show you how to find the parts if you want to put it back.
What were you intending to do by installing CWM? The recovery that comes with the SD install is what flashes new builds for you, so you don't want to mess with it. You can install CWM on the SD as an alternate boot instead of a recovery (uAltImg and uAltRam instead of uRecImg and uRecRam) and use the u-boot that comes with recent CM7 builds to boot it if you want to play with it.
stolenmoment said:
Rom Manager is useless for SD installs; just don't run it. It's not like most Android apps that only look at filesystem names (/sdcard, /emmc, etc), it uses the hardware device names (/dev/block/...) for its manipulations and pretty much assumes an emmc install.
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Ahhh ha! That makes sense. I never knew that.
stolenmoment said:
Having CWM on emmc isn't a problem, it won't interfere with running the stock NC software from an emmc boot. I haven't run stock in forever, I don't know what they had for a recovery boot, but there are "restore to stock" threads that will show you how to find the parts if you want to put it back.
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I can restore to stock easily enough. I have an image of the stock install for easy recover for just these circumstances.
stolenmoment said:
What were you intending to do by installing CWM? The recovery that comes with the SD install is what flashes new builds for you, so you don't want to mess with it. You can install CWM on the SD as an alternate boot instead of a recovery (uAltImg and uAltRam instead of uRecImg and uRecRam) and use the u-boot that comes with recent CM7 builds to boot it if you want to play with it.
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The install instructions for the dalingrin kernels said they were CWM flashable. I wasn't going to get too fancy, but maybe I should look at some of the alternate boot options.
Thanks!
Zhin
I accidentally did the same exact thing before I realized VG included his own recovery on the SD. From what I've read, to uninstall CMW from the emmc, you need to create a separate CMW SD and do a full restore to stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=931720
As for putting CMW on the SD, IDK. VeryGreen's method of just appending "update-" to rom file names and placing them on the root of the SD has worked for me.
I didn't say anything about using files that said emmc in the OP.
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Because you were confusing as indicated in your thread, I was just suggesting eliminating anything about "emmc" if you intended to run off uSD. I did not say you did it, I just recommend it. For instance, Dalingrin OC kernel, there are several versions out there and anything with "emmc", then you should ignore them. That's all
I can restore to stock easily enough. I have an image of the stock install for easy recover for just these circumstances.
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I assume you are all set.
Am I right? or still need help
I did the same thing and am too wondering how to remove it for warranty purposes. My Nook came w/ 1.2...does that mean 'd have to restore to stock 1.0.1 and then upgrade to 1.2?
dna59 said:
I did the same thing and am too wondering how to remove it for warranty purposes. My Nook came w/ 1.2...does that mean 'd have to restore to stock 1.0.1 and then upgrade to 1.2?
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Get one of those 2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1050520
Have been running cm7 7.03 for quite some time originally installed using verygreens method with sd card cm7 installer 1.2. Decided I wanted to update to cm7 7.2 so thought I would update verygreens installer to 1.3 before updating to new version of cm7. Put update-genimage-1.3.zip on boot of sd card booted to recovery installed file and it appeared to install correctly rebooted and now I am stuck on Loading ... Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Have been running cm7 7.03 for quite some time originally installed using verygreens method with sd card cm7 installer 1.2. Decided I wanted to update to cm7 7.2 so thought I would update verygreens installer to 1.3 before updating to new version of cm7. Put update-genimage-1.3.zip on boot of sd card booted to recovery installed file and it appeared to install correctly rebooted and now I am stuck on Loading ... Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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You do not install that zip that way. You have to unzip it to the .img file and burn to the SD with win32diskimager like you did the first time.
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Thanks for the info. I was following instructions that indicated that I could put the update-genimage-1.3.zip on the boot portion of the sd and apply the update through cwm. I did not want to reimage my sd card as I have allot of information on it.
rmckeen said:
Thanks for the info. I was following instructions that indicated that I could put the update-genimage-1.3.zip on the boot portion of the sd and apply the update through cwm. I did not want to reimage my sd card as I have allot of information on it.
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ok, don't know why it got stuck then. You used CWM recovery on emmc to flash it? The recovery script on SD would not install it properly.
Yes, that's correct. Now when I put the sd card in I just get stuck on screen that says loading and I have to take the card out to boot back into the nook software. I did make a backup of my emmc with cwm before I started this but I am unable to get into recovery at this time. I am not sure what my next steps should be. Start the process over with another sd card and then try and salvage the info on my original sd.
rmckeen said:
Yes, that's correct. Now when I put the sd card in I just get stuck on screen that says loading and I have to take the card out to boot back into the nook software. I did make a backup of my emmc with cwm before I started this but I am unable to get into recovery at this time. I am not sure what my next steps should be. Start the process over with another sd card and then try and salvage the info on my original sd.
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I just read the instructions in thread and you do not use CWM recovery on emmc to flash that file. You are supposed to use the verygreen recovery script that is on the SD. By using CWM on emmc, you flashed the new recovery files to emmc and replaced CWM. That's why you can't get back in it. I think you can recover by putting the update- zip back in the root partition of the SD and trying to boot to the SD recovery. Then when you have got your SD repaired and flashed 7.2, you can reinstall CWM to emmc with ROM Manager.
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I can certainly try that but I am now confused on which update.zip file to put on the boot portion of the sd to hopefully fix my sd card. Thanks for your help.
rmckeen said:
I can certainly try that but I am now confused on which update.zip file to put on the boot portion of the sd to hopefully fix my sd card. Thanks for your help.
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the update-genimg1.3...zip. Be sure to boot to SD recovery and it should be ok.
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Great thanks. Can you review for me how I make sure I boot to sd recovery. Really appreciate your help.
rmckeen said:
Great thanks. Can you review for me how I make sure I boot to sd recovery. Really appreciate your help.
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If you have one of the newer u-boot.bin files... you hit "n" when booting up and select SD card... Recovery... that will be verygreen's recovery mode.
If you still have the original u-boot.bin from genimage 1.2 (not very likely at all... since CM7 has had new u-boot.bin's for a while now) you would have to use the old timing method of power + n for about 5 seconds.
When I try holding the n key the screen comes back with Loading ... but never moves past that screen. Actually the nook will not boot at all when the sd card is in even if I do not hold down the n key it goes right to the Loading ... screen and just hangs there. If I shut it down and remove the card it boots into the nook operating system fine. Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
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When I try holding the n key the screen comes back with Loading ... but never moves past that screen. Actually the nook will not boot at all when the sd card is in even if I do not hold down the n key it goes right to the Loading ... screen and just hangs there. If I shut it down and remove the card it boots into the nook operating system fine. Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
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I have attached a file to the board. Download and unrar this file. There should be 4 files there. Take your SD card out and put in your PC. Copy these files to the boot partition, overwriting the files that are there. Take the update-geniimg1.3...zip out and put the update- ...7.2 ...zip in. Then put the card back in the nook. Boot and while booting hold the n key. A boot menu should come up. Choose SD and recovery and continue booting. It should install cm7.2 and you are done. When in CM7, use ROM Manager to reinstall CWM to emmc.
EDit: I added a second file. Unrar and add these two files to the boot partition too.
Edit 2: Files removed after user successfully repaired SD
Transferred the files and did the update everything is running great. Thank you so much for your help it is greatly appreciated.
I installed Kang's CM9 using this tutorial:
http://www.informationweek.com/byte/howto/231002060
Everything was working fine. I could boot into recovery after removing the SD card and even used recovery to format a SD card for storage. Even after that I could reboot into recovery with no problems.
Today when I see there's an update on CM9 I downloaded it and when I go to reboot into recovery it doesn't. It sends me into the boot screen that you would hold the "n" button down for a menu rather than sending me straight to CWR. When I choose recovery from that menu it asks me if I want to return to factory.
Confused, I reboot and try to go to CWR through CWM and it does the same thing. I try to flash recovery through CWM and it doesn't.
I'm confused. What happened to recovery? How can I get it back?
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I installed Kang's CM9 using this tutorial:
http://www.informationweek.com/byte/howto/231002060
Everything was working fine. I could boot into recovery after removing the SD card and even used recovery to format a SD card for storage. Even after that I could reboot into recovery with no problems.
Today when I see there's an update on CM9 I downloaded it and when I go to reboot into recovery it doesn't. It sends me into the boot screen that you would hold the "n" button down for a menu rather than sending me straight to CWR. When I choose recovery from that menu it asks me if I want to return to factory.
Confused, I reboot and try to go to CWR through CWM and it does the same thing. I try to flash recovery through CWM and it doesn't.
I'm confused. What happened to recovery? How can I get it back?
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If you have followed exactly what describing in the link you provided there, no more no less, then I would strongly say that what you said in your thread makes absolutely no sense.
Here is the point.
You downloaded and created a flashable CwMR uSD and place those zip files in there. NOTE: the ClockworkMod Recovery is ON your uSD. With the card inserted, yes, it would boot into CwMR. That means with the card removed, there is NO CHANCE that it could boot into CwMR just simply because it isn't there. Again, with the card removed, and you were able to boot into CwMR, then you must have flashed it, CwMR, into eMMC somehow, which not what the instructions shown.
Conclusion:
If CwMR has NOT been flashed into eMMC and only resides on the external uSD card, without it inserted, your NC could never boot into CwMR.
To the letter. But I found and image of recovery, put it on the SD card. Went to Rom Manager and flashed it. All is well.
Specs:
Nook Color Tablet bought off of ebay with CM10 on the internal memory (that "didn't work") and ClockworkMod Recovery v3.2.0.1
2gb bootable CM10 card
What i've done:
wiped the 2gb CM10 sd card.
Flashed internal memory (via the youtube tutorial) and put cm10 nightly from 03132013 and gapps
Installed netflix and hulu plus
Installed a blank 8gb sd card for apps and storage
So here's the problem. Last weekend I was watching a tv series on netflix. Drained the battery completely. Plugged it up for about two hours to recharge. Apparently When I plugged it up it decided to boot. >at this point it should be noted that the properly formated 8gb sdcard was in it, and not the bootable recovery sd card that was at the house<. When it booted it went straight into the ClockworkMod Recovery v3.2.0.1 menu. When I got back from the run we were on I tried rebooting it. It came up with the cyanoboot universal bootloader main screen, screen flashed and it went straight into the ClockworkMod Recovery v3.2.0.1 menu again. I tried rebooting several times. Same thing.
So tonight I got online, did a search, didn't find the answers i was looking for and settled on installing [ROM][JB 4.1.2][04MAR13 v1.20] SCHIZOID all-in-one (CM10+AOKP M1+PA 2.55). I flashed the /system, /data and /cache. Installed the new rom. Used the nook button + power to power it down, removed the boot card, and rebooted. Can you guess what it did? (see above).
So now i'm stuck. I DO NOT want to use a sd card to boot my nook. I want the OS in the main memory. Suggestions?
it should be noted, as i left this out of my OP, that I had tried to reflash CM10 back onto it. after that didn't work I tried the other rom. I've now tried reflashing CM10 and NOTHING is working.
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Specs:
Nook Color Tablet bought off of ebay with CM10 on the internal memory (that "didn't work") and ClockworkMod Recovery v3.2.0.1
2gb bootable CM10 card
What i've done:
wiped the 2gb CM10 sd card.
Flashed internal memory (via the youtube tutorial) and put cm10 nightly from 03132013 and gapps
Installed netflix and hulu plus
Installed a blank 8gb sd card for apps and storage
So here's the problem. Last weekend I was watching a tv series on netflix. Drained the battery completely. Plugged it up for about two hours to recharge. Apparently When I plugged it up it decided to boot. >at this point it should be noted that the properly formated 8gb sdcard was in it, and not the bootable recovery sd card that was at the house<. When it booted it went straight into the ClockworkMod Recovery v3.2.0.1 menu. When I got back from the run we were on I tried rebooting it. It came up with the cyanoboot universal bootloader main screen, screen flashed and it went straight into the ClockworkMod Recovery v3.2.0.1 menu again. I tried rebooting several times. Same thing.
So tonight I got online, did a search, didn't find the answers i was looking for and settled on installing [ROM][JB 4.1.2][04MAR13 v1.20] SCHIZOID all-in-one (CM10+AOKP M1+PA 2.55). I flashed the /system, /data and /cache. Installed the new rom. Used the nook button + power to power it down, removed the boot card, and rebooted. Can you guess what it did? (see above).
So now i'm stuck. I DO NOT want to use a sd card to boot my nook. I want the OS in the main memory. Suggestions?
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You are in a recovery bootloop. Look at my NC Tips thread linked in my signature. See item A8 and A12. I suspect given your symptoms, you need to flash the romsrestore.zip file. It is trying to boot to stock recovery and repair itself.
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leapinlar said:
You are in a recovery bootloop. Look at my NC Tips thread linked in my signature. See item A8 and A12. I suspect given your symptoms, you need to flash the romsrestore.zip file. It is trying to boot to stock recovery and repair itself.
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flashed [romrestore-CWMflashable.zip - ] rebooted. same thing. straight back to the clockworkmod recovery menu.
created the CWM-5.5.0.4 bootable sd card and tried it that way. all that did was change the CWM menu blue instead of orange.
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flashed [romrestore-CWMflashable.zip - ] rebooted. same thing. straight back to the clockworkmod recovery menu.
created the CWM-5.5.0.4 bootable sd card and tried it that way. all that did was change the CWM menu blue instead of orange.
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so here's a new one for you. I was going through the three finger salute method and screwed it up. low and behold I actually got to the cyanogenmod circle screen. Think we might be good to go.
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flashed [romrestore-CWMflashable.zip - ] rebooted. same thing. straight back to the clockworkmod recovery menu.
created the CWM-5.5.0.4 bootable sd card and tried it that way. all that did was change the CWM menu blue instead of orange.
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I suggest you flash my zip for putting stock recovery back on the system. Then boot and let it do what it had been trying to do, whatever that is. It could be trying to do the 8 failed boot reset.Then when it has finished, put a new rom on it.
Either that or put stock on it (A15) and it will put everything back to virgin. Then you can put your own rom on it.
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