This has probably been covered here previously, but i searched fro several hours and tried several different things before giving up and just asking...
I have an 8gb NT, and i was running CM7 on it. I installed CM7 with Clockworkmod on an SD, but i had installed TWRP locally on the device. I was going to flash CM9 on to the device today, so i turned it off and went to boot into recovery mode, but i quickly noticed that there was something wrong with cyanoboot. It just boots in to recovery, there is no menu, just a loop. In TWRP, everything i try to load comes back with a "can't mount..." error. I read in several places to try certain rom installs through clockworkmod, so i booted to the SD card, but that doesn't work either. I think it is probably an error with the partition tables, but i was unable to find anything telling me how to repair that, though i found a lot of places and articles that said that it can be done. Does anyone know what might have happened here, and more importantly, how do i fix it? At this point i would be happy to go back to stock if i could...
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Hi all,
I had rooted my nook tablet using snowball mod about a week ago and I loaded CWM on to the emmc using indirect's one-click recovery flash app. It was all working fine.
I wanted to return to stock and so put the 1.4.0 zip on my sdcard and rebooted. But it went straight to CWM. So I remembered i had to restore the stock recovery and rebooted and flashed stock recovery. only this time, I used the updated version of the one-click app (the updated version of 26th Jan) and hit reboot to recovery. This caused my NT to be in a boot loop ever since.
I have tried the 8 failed reboot method to initiate a factory reset but it didn't work. I also tried using the Nook Recovery Fix but i can't get to install the drivers since if I connect the NT to my computer, it keeps rebooting over and over again and I can't get to show for longer than 2 secs in device manager to install the drivers for Windows. (I was using it on Ubuntu till now).
My NT just turns on, the black screen n logo shows (The "With adobe reader" screen) however it doesn't go any farther than that. It just shuts down. The white nook screen does not even show. It's like it's going through multiple failed reboots without me holding down any buttons. Any help from you guys is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
You have to make a bootable SD with CWM on it so that the computer can actually catch the Nook long enough to do anything. Also, I'm pretty sure the B&N drivers restrict what you can do, but I'm not really sure what's gonna happen if you connect for the first time in CWM. I say use the Nook and Zergy method for the drivers (the first part, runmefirst.bat)
After that, try the Nook Recovery. It should work. I'm not positive on this, but from what I've read, that's what you do.
CWM SD:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1446987
Really though, no promises. Good luck. Lemme know how it turns out.
Data Injures said:
You have to make a bootable SD with CWM on it so that the computer can actually catch the Nook long enough to do anything. Also, I'm pretty sure the B&N drivers restrict what you can do, but I'm not really sure what's gonna happen if you connect for the first time in CWM. I say use the Nook and Zergy method for the drivers (the first part, runmefirst.bat)
After that, try the Nook Recovery. It should work. I'm not positive on this, but from what I've read, that's what you do.
CWM SD:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1446987
Really though, no promises. Good luck. Lemme know how it turns out.
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Thanks a lot for your suggestion! I just spent a half hour on the phone with B&N customer service and they agreed to ship out a replacement device. The rep said it was a hardware failure that was causing it to act like that. I was a bit surprised at that. I'm not sure she knew what she was talking about. Anyway I had bought mine off craigslist. And now I'm getting a new device so I guess I can't complain. But I'll try later tonight to restore this one using the bootable CWM you linked to. Thanks again.
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Just thought of posting a follow up. The bootable CWM method worked. I was able to fix the recovery. Most certainly not a HW problem like the tech claimed. It's working fine now.
I'm glad to hear that! Now if I have the same problem in the feature I can just follow my own advice. Lol
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So I have basically the same problem. My girlfreinds nook was rooted but the OTA update stopped the root from being effective. I tried the sd card revert to 1.4.0 and I hade the problem with the "n" butting not working. When i tried the 8x reset the nook went into an endless boot loop where I see the back screen and the next white screen flashes for like 2 seconds and then reboots. I tried to make the CWM SD card but it still just reboots. My question is that since i never had the CWM mod installed am I pretty much hosed or am I doing something wrong?
What are you using to make the CWM SD card? I strongly recommend using GParted either from a Linux live image or there is a GParted live image you could use. When it works correctly, the bootable SD card that should stop the boot loop.
But why did the boot loop problem occur in the first place ?
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But why did the boot loop problem occur in the first place ?
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From what I know of, if you install stock recovery and hit the reboot to recovery button, it initiates the stock recovery which then causes the error. Though I don't know the reason behind nor what's causing the problem, just relaying what I have read around the forums.
From what I understand when you flash CWM it's recovery replaces the stock recovery so when you try to install the stock recovery, which you should not do, it is trying to pull from something that's no longer there. I learned this lesson the hard way.
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From what I understand when you flash CWM it's recovery replaces the stock recovery so when you try to install the stock recovery, which you should not do, it is trying to pull from something that's no longer there. I learned this lesson the hard way.
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Hm I actually unrooted my nook a couple of times to play with it. I reinstalled the stock recovery from the app on multiple occasions, but instead of clicking reboot to recovery, I ran the one click unroot and never ran into any trouble.
Before doing my flash, I did my research, and it seemed that in order to update from CM7 to CM10, I had to flash a different version of CWM. So I booted into recovery, flashed the version 6.xxx CWM, and then rebooted (I assumed that in order to flash CM10, I had to be in a CM10-compliant recovery). After getting back to my regular desktop, I rebooted into recovery as normal... only it didn't go into recovery. Instead, it paused for a moment like it would go into recovery, then booted to my normal desktop.
I've tried about a billion ways to boot into recovery, to include SD based recoveries, but it either goes to a larger sized N screen, then hangs up on a black screen, or it boots me to my normal CM7. I "can" continue to operate on CM7, but until I can boot into recovery, I can neither update to CM10 nor address any problems I come across in my current build.
Suggestions?
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Before doing my flash, I did my research, and it seemed that in order to update from CM7 to CM10, I had to flash a different version of CWM. So I booted into recovery, flashed the version 6.xxx CWM, and then rebooted (I assumed that in order to flash CM10, I had to be in a CM10-compliant recovery). After getting back to my regular desktop, I rebooted into recovery as normal... only it didn't go into recovery. Instead, it paused for a moment like it would go into recovery, then booted to my normal desktop.
I've tried about a billion ways to boot into recovery, to include SD based recoveries, but it either goes to a larger sized N screen, then hangs up on a black screen, or it boots me to my normal CM7. I "can" continue to operate on CM7, but until I can boot into recovery, I can neither update to CM10 nor address any problems I come across in my current build.
Suggestions?
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Have you tried holding on the power button and the "n" button as you boot? I recall running into a similar issue as yours and that was the only way I could get to recovery. If you're able to get into recovery that way I would consider maybe getting a different version fo CWM. I had trouble with the 6.0.1.5 version. You might try the 6.0.1.2 version here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1640958&page=5
I ran into something similar when I tried installing CWM 6.x.x. I chickened out and decided to run CM10 from SD instead, and I'm so happy on the performance now that I do!
I did the "unbrick" thing with "repart.img" to get the Tablet back to "out of the box" state and sighed of relief when it worked!
Yeah, I was afraid of that. I really didn't wanna go through the process of unbricking, but I guess there's no help for it.
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Have you tried holding on the power button and the "n" button as you boot? I recall running into a similar issue as yours and that was the only way I could get to recovery. If you're able to get into recovery that way I would consider maybe getting a different version fo CWM. I had trouble with the 6.0.1.5 version. You might try the 6.0.1.2 version here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1640958&page=5
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Power + 'n' doesn't work on my NT either, I have to turn the device off, insert the SD with CWM, then plug in the (still turned-off) NT to a wall charger and allow it to boot up that way - then (and only then) do I boot into recovery, and without touching any buttons. Hopefully that helps
Dang, whoever thought this would be such a booger of a deal?!?
Okay, first off, let me apologize for coming off like a noob, but it seems there's so much information out there that everything's kinda bleeding together, so let me tell you where I'm at.
I've unbricked and restored the NT to stock 1.4.2
I tried rooting, but the only root I can find that is flashable from SD is the 5.5 CWM which is older than the CWM 6.xxx that every CM10 version calls for. So I went ahead and did the root, so now I have a stock NT with root access. This is where I'm getting stuck...
I'm at this point...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1640958&highlight=cwm+1+4+2
...and it apparently requires you to reboot into CWM in order to install CWM?!?
I've found the CWM 6+ files I think I need, but when I try to follow the instructions, my NT won't kick over into recovery---it keeps booting straight to the rooted 1.4.2 stock rom. I've found guides that take you from stock 1.4.3 to CM10, some that take you from 1.4.2 to root, and I even found Indirect's CM7 (without the instructions on how to get CWM on there in the first place!). I even downloaded Rom Manager and tried to boot into recovery that way, but it said there was my device wasn't supported.
I've been staring at this dang screen for three hours, trying to find a step by step, and I'm coming up empty. Maybe I'm just too frustrated at this point and need a breather.
What I need to know is how to install CWM 6+ on a NT that's either rooted or stock 1.4.2 (I still have the unbrick SD card) so that I can boot into CWM. From there, I can make my way through installing CM10. Help. Please. Am about to chew the lining out of my cheek.
I don't know if this might be helpful? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2037368
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Not yet. I was expecting OTA to kick in, updating my current 1.4.2 to 1.4.3, but it hasn't. Honestly starting to think my NT doesn't want to be rehacked LOL
Okay, so here's what I'm doing at the moment...
I'm at rooted stock. I moved CWM 6.0.1.2, CM10, and gapps over to internal SD.
I booted into recovery with an older version CWM SD card (SD card image with Win32 > turned off NT > insert SD > plug in USB to autoboot)
While in recovery (from SD), I flashed CWM 6.0.1.2 , CM10 (meghd00t), and gapps-jb-20121011.
I reboot...
WE HAVE JOY!
Now to check to see if the thing's gonna run right (got a whole lotta "XYZ has stopped" error messages upon boot up)
Dangit, keep getting those error messages about Gapps stopping and Google Play, and other stuff. Not allowing me to do hardly anything I need to. I can't even boot into recovery from the home page---it still loads straight to the Rom. In order to get into recovery, I need to use the SD that I made to get into recovery in the first place. Going to wipe dalvik and the other caches to see if that helps...
After wiping the caches, I boot into CM10 with no error messages. I DL'd a game from my Gmail account, and it appears to be working properly. Thanks for the suggestions and for letting me vent
I just went thru this similar ordeal too. It took me over 3 weeks to finally find a recovery & cm10 combo. What I found is that I couldn't get ANY version of twrp to act right. Indirect's flashing tool was invaluable. I finally used it to flash a cwm 6.x from Laverne's thread. It seems that not all versions of cwm 6.x are compatible with certain cm10 roms too & by chance I hit a combo that finally worked! I'm staying with what I got for a while!
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Trying to install MeanBean...I updated the Firmware to the latest, have the phone unlocked and rooted (it says TAMPERED and UNLOCKED in the recovery screen) and did a factory reset. I have TWRP installed and can still get to the TEAMWIN RECOVERY project interface...
I was installing MeanBean and it just stuck on about 75% and stayed there. I waited for about ten minutes and figured something must have gone wrong so I didn't really have a choice but to shut it down. After starting back up when I tried to install again it said "FAILED" in red letters. I decided to re-download the ROM but now when I mount the SD CARD from within the recovery menu (to transfer the new file) my computer says that I must format the drive before I can use it and won't let me see the contents of the sd-card. I didn't want to do that for fear of bricking...so I don't really know what to do from here. I should add that I don't have a backup made in TWRP (I got the phone yesterday and hadn't installed or done anything to the OS)
Anyone know what should be done at this point?
thx
I'm updating this for anyone else who runs into issues like this: I went ahead and formatted the SD card from within windows, then relocked the phone, reinstalled the RUU and I'm back in a workable mode
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Trying to install MeanBean...I updated the Firmware to the latest, have the phone unlocked and rooted (it says TAMPERED and UNLOCKED in the recovery screen) and did a factory reset. I have TWRP installed and can still get to the TEAMWIN RECOVERY project interface...
I was installing MeanBean and it just stuck on about 75% and stayed there. I waited for about ten minutes and figured something must have gone wrong so I didn't really have a choice but to shut it down. After starting back up when I tried to install again it said "FAILED" in red letters. I decided to re-download the ROM but now when I mount the SD CARD from within the recovery menu (to transfer the new file) my computer says that I must format the drive before I can use it and won't let me see the contents of the sd-card. I didn't want to do that for fear of bricking...so I don't really know what to do from here. I should add that I don't have a backup made in TWRP (I got the phone yesterday and hadn't installed or done anything to the OS)
Anyone know what should be done at this point?
thx
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I had the exact same problem. I just reformatted the internal storage and that fixed a lot of my issues. I can't however get the RUU to work. Can't seem to find my phone, neither can HTC Sync. Is this just a problem caused by MeanBean? I use to run MeanBean but then switched to CM10 for a few months and was going to switch back. Never had an issue like this before.
I just restored my Nook tablet (16GB) to stock from CM10 and decided I wanted to run CM7. I installed it, all worked fine but then I turned my tablet off and it just kept booting into CWM which kept giving me errors about not being able to mount cache. It was Bricked. I went through multiple attempts to fix the tablet. I first tried AdamOutler's tutorial because it looked easiest (I didn't understand ADB 3 days ago and now I do). It stopped on the the part where it changes MLO to zeros. I'm not a hundrad precest sure what happened but along the way I also lost my serial number (I'm guessing this is the mmcblk0p5 partition) and I'm guessing it may have been this because it was all zeros. I then tried lavero.burgos tutoiral and I did all this manually though ADB. This guide didn't work at all for my problem sadly. I then tried so****e's Tutorial which kind of worked. It did fix the error I got when I boot into cwm. The problem now was that it did not boot out of clockwork mod. I then realized that this process fixed the partitions and that AdamOutler's Ubuntu total wipe would work, which it did! I was so happy, then I discovered after I turned off, and it tried a restore process, my tablet I got the "Contact customer service" error. I then thought that maybe if I did this again and then booted into cwm and replaced the partitions from lavero.burgos mmcblk files (just recovery and factory files). That didn't work. I then tried to boot from a MicroSD card with the CM7 on it and that worked surprisingly, but its way to slow. Any help would be very appreciated.
P.S. I did try the one with the repart.img and I never got the Check mark, it just said it was going to turn off in 5 seconds.
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I just restored my Nook tablet (16GB) to stock from CM10 and decided I wanted to run CM7. I installed it, all worked fine but then I turned my tablet off and it just kept booting into CWM which kept giving me errors about not being able to mount cache. It was Bricked. I went through multiple attempts to fix the tablet. I first tried AdamOutler's tutorial because it looked easiest (I didn't understand ADB 3 days ago and now I do). It stopped on the the part where it changes MLO to zeros. I'm not a hundrad precest sure what happened but along the way I also lost my serial number (I'm guessing this is the mmcblk0p5 partition) and I'm guessing it may have been this because it was all zeros. I then tried lavero.burgos tutoiral and I did all this manually though ADB. This guide didn't work at all for my problem sadly. I then tried so****e's Tutorial which kind of worked. It did fix the error I got when I boot into cwm. The problem now was that it did not boot out of clockwork mod. I then realized that this process fixed the partitions and that AdamOutler's Ubuntu total wipe would work, which it did! I was so happy, then I discovered after I turned off, and it tried a restore process, my tablet I got the "Contact customer service" error. I then thought that maybe if I did this again and then booted into cwm and replaced the partitions from lavero.burgos mmcblk files (just recovery and factory files). That didn't work. I then tried to boot from a MicroSD card with the CM7 on it and that worked surprisingly, but its way to slow. Any help would be very appreciated.
P.S. I did try the one with the repart.img and I never got the Check mark, it just said it was going to turn off in 5 seconds.
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Can you tell me how you got it back to stock? I've tried a few things but nothing worked.
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Can you tell me how you got it back to stock? I've tried a few things but nothing worked.
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I think It was the Total Wipe that did it but I wouldn't recommend it unless you have no other choice. It could wreck it (like erasing the serial number, freezing on MLO, etc...)
Hi, wanna make this quick and short as possible.
Im new here, and I need help on my new phone.
yesterday, I got a Lenovo A369i phone that happens to be a secondary phone for me. So as advntureous as I can be, I tried doing what some of my friends do... Custom Roms. Im not a pro in regards with these stuff, but I aint no noob too, Im a bit literate bout these, but not knowledgable enough to fix this.
so heres what. Phone is Lenovo A369i.
Build no : A369I_ROW_Lite_S005_140823
Android 4.2.2
Rooted and Stock ROM atm.
I came across a site, lenovoa369iblogspot.com, and saw lots of Custom Roms and whatnot and saw a easy way to root and flash my device w/o pc. Using Framaroot to root and MobileUncle Tool for TWRP recovery then installation of my desired ROM. I followed the steps correctly, was able to ROOT(i had SuperSU and was able to use Root-Required apps) and had access to TWRP.
Now, it was instructe to wipe cache and factory reset, which failed at first(but I didnt noticed it caused I acidentally pressed back, and thought it was successful) then I continued installing my ROM(it was a Samsung S5 ROM) it started OK, until it was extracting, then it stopped. At first I thought it hanged, but it just got screen timeout. I left it there for 30mins and I thought it was done. Upon reboot, I noticed nothing changed and speculated something went wrong. So i browsed the web for other ways to install and flash my phone cause I thought it just didnt work. I tried getting a stock rom with build no. S110 and tried some ROMs too but cant get it to work. I also tried switching to CW and TWRP v.v. but cant seem to update/install it, until I noticed that I cant wipe my cache, data or anything on my phone through recovery at all. I can still access my External SD car, cause that where all the ROMs are placed, but as i try each ROM, there would be a bunch of errors like E: cant mount emmc, cant mount sdcard, cant mount cache etc etc. So even I cant do factory reset cause itll say it Failed. Maybe its the reason why I cant install those ROMs. I tried unrooting, no good. I tried to update the software through settings, but after download, it still goes through TWRP/CW and still cant install together with the cant mount errors. I tried the MOUNT on TWRP but i xant mount anything except for the External SD card. It says on the emmc "Emmc=0bytes" like there wasnt an internal storage to begin with. And its really frustrating cause I cant even do a factory reset even through settings, it still redirects me to Recoery Mode. Tried using TWRP/CW and even android stock recovery and to no avail. Funny thing is, I can sill access the memory, I can format the Phone Storage(1gb) and still have the internal storage(1.2gb) for a total of 2.2gb(even tho it says 4gb in the box, I think 2.2gb is the only usable memory) I can still access its file, save and do stuff. Heck, theres nothing actually wrong in my phone, all features are still there BUT I cant make a Factory Wipe cause of that Mounting Error. I want to fix this so I could finish installing the ROM i wanted and I also want to be able to factory wipe my phone incase I do something else stupid.
I really dont know what to do, its been hours since I started looking this up. I also fried flashing it on PC but it wont succeed cause when i start flashing, even tough it "kinda" detects my phone, the Flash Tool still shows my emmc=0.00 bytes. I dont know if this happened when ai was starting to root my phone or during the initial installation of the ROM, so I rally dont know what to do or think of. So I resorted to ask the real pros for help, cause I get OCD on these kind of stuff and I cant sleep or do anything until i figure this out or find a way.
Hope someone an help me. Thnks!
P.S., i dont have access to my PC right now, so I only have my other phone and tab. Im also not much well versed in advanced programming whatnot, I only know a few basics so please spare my brain on codes XD I need something in english if thats ok Thanks!
P.P.S. Sorry if this is not the appropriate place to post, feel free to move it if needed. And I also tried posting on the site where I got the ROMs and stuff, but Im afraid the last post was like months ago so I cant really hope for them to help me.