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I've heard about how it's pretty much impossible to brick the nook... Mine seems about as useful as a brick though. I was trying to set up a dual boot following these instructions. Basically, I had HC installed to the internal memory. backed it up, formatted system and data, then flashed update-nc-stock-1.2. CWM said that was successful. Then I rebooted with my CWM SD card out. Screen said "read forever" or whatever, then went blank. I waited for about 5 minutes, and pressed the power button. The screen went from an 'on' blank to an 'off' blank. Since then, I haven't been able to get it to turn on at all. Just an 'off' blank screen with no signs of life, even with charger cable connected. Tried it with CWM SD in and out. None of the buttons seem to do anything...
Thanks in advance!!
I'm pretty new to the Nook having just got it today, but I did some reading prior to attempting anything to see how easily I could back out if I had to.
Have you tried basically starting over (ie. Let go of the multi-boot dream for a bit and get back to basics)
You know, take a SD card, use diskimager to put the clockwork 3.0.2.8 image on it with the CM7 full ROM and boot to that, then format system, data and cache with clockwork and finally install the CM7 zip image (and gapps I guess) just to get going again.
If it all works, maybe take another run at whatever you are trying to do with the multi-boot stuff.
Thanks for the reply.
Sounds awesome; problem is I can't get the thing to do ANYTHING. boot period, into recovery or otherwise. I plug it in and it displays nothing - no 'wait 15 minutes and try again'. Just a black screen no matter what I do. I have an SD card with recovery on it, and i've tried making it do something with or without the SD card. No luck.
Good luck with your nook; I had really been enjoying mine.
So holding the power button for 10-15 seconds doesn't do anything?
Or when you plug in the power does it try to boot?
I mean in a complete worst case scenario you could grab yourself a T5 and open it up, disconnect the battery, and then reconnect it.
Then something is wrong with your Recovery SD card, as no matter what, hardware dictates that it reads the sd card first. The problem with what you did through dual boot methods is you resized partitions. So even if you do back out of all of this, you're going to be losing space unless you setup dual boot.
Recreate the CWM recovery card, either redownload the image and reburn it. Find a different one or something else, because it should load on startup.
Thanks for the help!
Reformatted SD again, then tried powering up with the power cord unplugged. Apparently it won't boot into recovery as long as the power cable is in, and whatever the boot was on EMMC was messed up. Happily running stock 1.2 now, next step, dual boot with HC!
Anyone know how I can delete this thread as it's pretty unnecessary?
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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
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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!!!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
Hey,
I just read these threads to root my nook:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2071855&highlight=nookmanager+loading+
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2040351
My NookSimpleTouch has the latest firmware from B&N.
Using dd I put NookManager on the microSD, turned off the Nook, inserted the card, and turned it on again.
The Nook is stuck at the startup screen saying 'NookManager Loading...' already for 20 minutes.
So I flipped the MicroSD card out, turned the Nook of. Made sure it still boots into NookOS and then repeated steps above with a new and freshly downloaded NookManager Image.
But also this second time I can;t get past the screen 'NookManager Loading...'.
The screen flashes every 20 seconds or so. But other then that no sign of live or progress.
Any tips?
Thnx!
(I use a Mac with OSX10.8.3)
try factory reset
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28763125&postcount=5
but did u take backup???
try take backup before do that from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1142983
good luck
Don't mess around with a factory reset. NookManager runs entirely off of the SD card and should always boot to the start screen no matter what.
I suggest trying a different SD card.
I have the same problem. Bought a second SD card, same problem.
Having the same problem on a 1.2.1
Summary:
I bricked my sister's Nook Color. She bought it refurbished at a pawn shop for cheap and everything was working until I told my sister that I could root the nook and put an android rom on it. My biggest mistake ever.
I looked at a lot of forums relating to the problem and it seems like there isn't a fix. So basically I got to the point of having CWM working.
All was going so well and I decided to flash eyeballer's cm-9-encore-20120904-0700-unofficial.zip on it. The one on Goo.im. After looking at screenshots of CM9 I was impressed.
I did the factory reset on it and wipe the cache, I flashed the CM9 and it was installing and it seem that it was taking a long time and then the nook turned off.
The biggest mistake that I made was that I formatted the boot , I'm a noob, I figured I wasn't the only one so I came across a thread here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
I thought that CM9 got installed and when I went to turn it on, nothing whatsoever... It doesn't boot no more.
I tried putting the 1gb bootable CWM on a 1gb sd card with Win32 Disk Imager and the Nook didn't boot from the SD card either and I also did the same with an 8gb.
When I go connect the Nook on the computer it searches for a driver called Omap3630 but it doesn't install and it seems to disconnect itself.
I am was looking for more threads and found out that I'm in a similar situation as a user called Jiv_au here,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1146065
3rd post. I also tried what he did with the 8 boot attempts, pressing power button for 60 seconds and pressing the power on, the N and the volumes.
Seakuza said:
Summary:
I bricked my sister's Nook Color. She bought it refurbished at a pawn shop for cheap and everything was working until I told my sister that I could root the nook and put an android rom on it. My biggest mistake ever.
I looked at a lot of forums relating to the problem and it seems like there isn't a fix. So basically I got to the point of having CWM working.
All was going so well and I decided to flash eyeballer's cm-9-encore-20120904-0700-unofficial.zip on it. The one on Goo.im. After looking at screenshots of CM9 I was impressed.
I did the factory reset on it and wipe the cache, I flashed the CM9 and it was installing and it seem that it was taking a long time and then the nook turned off.
The biggest mistake that I made was that I formatted the boot , I'm a noob, I figured I wasn't the only one so I came across a thread here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
I thought that CM9 got installed and when I went to turn it on, nothing whatsoever... It doesn't boot no more.
I tried putting the 1gb bootable CWM on a 1gb sd card with Win32 Disk Imager and the Nook didn't boot from the SD card either and I also did the same with an 8gb.
When I go connect the Nook on the computer it searches for a driver called Omap3630 but it doesn't install and it seems to disconnect itself.
I am was looking for more threads and found out that I'm in a similar situation as a user called Jiv_au here,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1146065
3rd post. I also tried what he did with the 8 boot attempts, pressing power button for 60 seconds and pressing the power on, the N and the volumes.
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The problem is that you formatted boot, and CM does not include all of the needed boot files if you formatted boot. You will need to flash the stock firmware back onto the device, and then you can proceed to flash whatever ROM you want on the device, LINK.
I am not sure what version bootable CWM you are using, but download and flash this one,LINK. Since you saw the Omap3630 driver prompt, it does mean that it still is alive and attempting to go through the booting process. As for getting it to boot from this card, you will not get any visual indication that the device is on or not, the screen will stay dark if it’s on or off. Since the device might have been on this whole time I recommend that you fully charge the device before proceeding forward. With no USB cable connected to the device, press and hold the power button for 30 seconds, then insert the SD card, then press and hold the power button for 5 seconds to turn it on. It should boot into the CWM recovery, if it does not press the power button for 30 seconds and try again. It might take a couple attempts, but you should be able to get it. Once you get the device to boot, wipe data/cache, and flash the stock image, and reboot the device. Once you have a working device, you can then boot into the CWM card, and flash the ROM that you want.
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The problem is that you formatted boot, and CM does not include all of the needed boot files if you formatted boot. You will need to flash the stock firmware back onto the device, and then you can proceed to flash whatever ROM you want on the device, LINK.
I am not sure what version bootable CWM you are using, but download and flash this one,LINK. Since you saw the Omap3630 driver prompt, it does mean that it still is alive and attempting to go through the booting process. As for getting it to boot from this card, you will not get any visual indication that the device is on or not, the screen will stay dark if it’s on or off. Since the device might have been on this whole time I recommend that you fully charge the device before proceeding forward. With no USB cable connected to the device, press and hold the power button for 30 seconds, then insert the SD card, then press and hold the power button for 5 seconds to turn it on. It should boot into the CWM recovery, if it does not press the power button for 30 seconds and try again. It might take a couple attempts, but you should be able to get it. Once you get the device to boot, wipe data/cache, and flash the stock image, and reboot the device. Once you have a working device, you can then boot into the CWM card, and flash the ROM that you want.
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You gave me a bit of hope but its not booting. The nook is dead... thanks for the help.
edit: I heard that pressing Power + N is like forcing a shut down so I hold those for 30 seconds and then put the SD card in it No boot.
I tried it again and put the Sd card in it and then press the power button still nothing. I believe this is definitely dead. I wish she had bought it at the B&N store. I think I'm getting her a Nook tablet. I owe it to her.
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!