[Q] Nook Tablet keeps rebooting from recovery splash screen - Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet

Hi Guys,
I really hope someone can help me out with this issue. I searched the forum and the internet but did not find any solutions.
My friend successfully rooted the Nook Tablet yesterday using a method that did not require an SD card. Today I was trying to install CM9 with ICS so I downloaded Nook Recovery Flasher.apk and flashed cwm. When I restarted my device got stuck into autorestarting loop. It shows the gray "n", which quickly followed by the clockwork recovery loading splash screen (the picture of the cardboard box). The device then shuts down and starts the cycle over.
I've tried holding the power and n button method but that doesn't work. I've also tried creating a bootable sd card but the device won't pick that up either.
I would appreciate any suggestions!

I've ended up bricking my 8GB NT a similar way. Ended up writing over my mmcblk partition with something I wasn't supposed to. Now stuck in a reboot loop, can't do adb, my phone isn't playing nice enough to where I can make a recovery SD.
BTW OP, from what I've read CM9 is only for 16GBs and will brick 8GBs.

Same thing happened to me a while back. I was able to create a bootable CWM sd card. From there you should be able to restore. If not, use the Ubuntu recovery.
Short answer: You're going to have to create a bootable SD card.

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[Q] Restoration Issues (SD card and factory reset failure)

Hi,
Issue: After rooting my Nook Tablet I inadvertantly rebooted into factory reset. I cancelled the reset but after this point whenever I boot the device the following occurs:
The nook copyright screen appears​The reading forever screen flashes for a fraction of a second​The download/restore indicator with the green arrow appears for a fraction of a second​The nook tablet logo appears with an exclamation mark with the instruction to "Please restart your device and try again. If you encounter the same issue please contact customer service ..."​
Attempted Fixes: Naturually I have tried rebooting resulting in the same process being repeated. I have also tried the acclaim_update.zip sd fix but have had no luck running it from the sd. I have also tried the 8 x reboot method to no avail. Any attempts to use adb have thus far failed (the device is not even detected properly).
I understand that everyone is busy but if anyone has any suggestions I would be much obliged. I do not live in the US so returning the device is extremely difficult. I run Linux and have an XP virtual machine available.
Thanks for your time
Have you tried booting cwm from an sd card and then reinstalling a stock rooted rom like this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1488035
Unfortunately no luck booting cwm from sd - I have not managed to get anything to boot from sd. Thanks for the suggestion though.
nescience said:
Unfortunately no luck booting cwm from sd - I have not managed to get anything to boot from sd. Thanks for the suggestion though.
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Did you try to boot from sdcard while connected to your PC with the USB cable?
Sent from XDA premium using my Nook Tablet
Update: Issue resolved - I ended up using AdamOutler's Ubuntu Wipe, which did hang indefinitely on the 'Overwriting sys with zeros' stage but did actually result in a factory reset.
Thanks to lavero.burgos and nba1341 for their assistance. I did successfully manage to boot CWM off an sd (my mistake was not formatting it as a boot partition), however I was unable to successfully flash any roms. Anyway I'm back to normal and ready to try again. Thanks all!

Asus Transformer Recovery Stuck

Hi guys,
I installed viperMOD PrimeTime froma guide on Redmond Pie.
Anyway after doing it im stuck in the CWM-Based Recovery v 5.5.0.4 every time it reboots.
Anyway i try restarting it and holding down the volume buttons to get into the standard recovery mode it isnt even there.. I tried installed the loop fix on a SD card but the CWM does not even pick up the card have tried different ones.
Tried Nvflash but a screen flashes quickly and then goes again..
I can get the device in APX mode what can i do from here? Please i dunno what i did wrong but i followed that guide from Redmond and now its stuffed.
Any help pleaseee
Do you have the prime or the regular TF?
cwm5504 doesn't see the external sdcard, you have to use the internal sdcard- either boot into the rom and copy it over, or use adb and push it to the internal card.
I'm not sure what the loop fix is and why you need the sdcard for it, but did you see this thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1530337
nvflash will work, but you need the correct sbk. for the tf101, it's serial numbers below b70. I don't know squat about the tf201.
Ok so i followed Dimondblacks guide and managed to stop it from entering the recovery menu. Now i can get to the 3 symbols page (USB,Android,Wipe) I have tried all 3 and still dosnt boot.
If i let the device boot as normal now it just hangs ont he asus logo screen... Now someone said use recovry menu to flash a rom but no SD card i use will make the recovery pick it up. Is there anyway to access the internal memory and place the update there?
What does fast boot do?
Thankyou for the reply!
Its a transformer prime
How do i push it to the internal sd card? what are the commands. i have tried to follow.. So does that mean i can download the update file and just push it onto the internal memory?
DO i have to put the update on the sd card first then adb it to the internal memory?
Never mind it seems to be bricked with unrecoverable bootloader error
ffs
There is a transformer prime forum, did you try posting there?
Good luck
sent from my cyanogen(mod) vision

[Q] Nook Tablet box error 8gb

My 8gb nook boots but is stuck on the box screen. the screen has this kind of weird screen like it was broken or something. I just want to know how to fix it before my parents find out. i dont want to get in trouble. help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can you take a picture?
It may be just hung. Press and hold down the "power" and the "N" button for about ten seconds and release. That 'should' un-hang it and power it off.
Nook tablet
this is how it looks like i want it back to normal help! it happend when i installed the nook recovery flasher app. then i got on. then when i turned it off it started doing this forever.
I'm betting its a broken recovery. Can you provide a link to where you got the app from?
There's a few things you can do to fix it. What I would do is create an sdcard with the clockworkmod recovery img on it so you can boot into that from the sdcard. From there I would restore albert's stock rooted recovery via clockworkmod. Then you'll want to flash the internal clockworkmod recovery zip file via the sdcard version of clockworkmod.
I have the same thing but with a working recovery... I REALLY need to figure out how to fix this, any ideas?
If you can get into recovery, try flashing a rom and booting.
The new ROM gets stuck in a CWN bootloop on the white N screen.
Anyone know where I can find a flashable CWM file?
layth888 said:
My 8gb nook boots but is stuck on the box screen. the screen has this kind of weird screen like it was broken or something. I just want to know how to fix it before my parents find out. i dont want to get in trouble. help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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16gig NT recovery installed to 8gig NT. Here's a link to help you recover. Nook Tablet recovery is 16gig only.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25786947&postcount=1
Good Luck!
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[Q] Nook bricked, freezes at "n" logo

Hi all,
please need your help with my nook tablet, got bricked after trying to intall CWM, after that tried the ubuntu fix, I guess it didn't work until the end, so now got the "n" logo at the boot, and the message of battery low appears everytime, but it stayed in the plug whole day. don't know what happned, can't boot from SD.
jk13 said:
Hi all,
please need your help with my nook tablet, got bricked after trying to intall CWM, after that tried the ubuntu fix, I guess it didn't work until the end, so now got the "n" logo at the boot, and the message of battery low appears everytime, but it stayed in the plug whole day. don't know what happned, can't boot from SD.
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It should be able to boot from the SD card because the nook automatically boots from there first. Try installing the latest version of of CWM onto the SD card and do a factory reset from there.
Here's the link for CWM Recovery. h ttp://goo.im/devs/succulent/acclaim/recovery/CWM_6.0.2.7_Nook_Tablet.7z

Unbrick without SD Card Boot?

So I have one of those super special 16GB Nook Tablets that refuses to boot to an SD card no matter what you do (see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1515761). Since I couldn't use the method of flashing recovery I used on my other two NTs (booting to SD recovery and flashing) I tried using Indirect's recovery flasher (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1458630) flashed it, and hit the reboot to recovery button. Now after the initial normal Nook logo on boot a larger one appears and then the screen goes black, I've let it sit for a good 30 minutes and nothing comes up after that (in fact the tablet seems to turn off after a while). I have no access to ADB or fastboot at that point either. Does anyone have any ideas how I can fix this or am I screwed?
Erf, and I made this in the wrong forum... could a mod please move me to the Q&A\Help section?
FergyA said:
So I have one of those super special 16GB Nook Tablets that refuses to boot to an SD card no matter what you do (see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1515761). Since I couldn't use the method of flashing recovery I used on my other two NTs (booting to SD recovery and flashing) I tried using Indirect's recovery flasher (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1458630) flashed it, and hit the reboot to recovery button. Now after the initial normal Nook logo on boot a larger one appears and then the screen goes black, I've let it sit for a good 30 minutes and nothing comes up after that (in fact the tablet seems to turn off after a while). I have no access to ADB or fastboot at that point either. Does anyone have any ideas how I can fix this or am I screwed?
Erf, and I made this in the wrong forum... could a mod please move me to the Q&A\Help section?
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Apparently this tablet is just super super picky about booting to SD cards... Was able to boot and restore to 1.4.2 using repart.img (mind you it took 5 attempts on 5 different SD cards to do so).

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