I know there are several threads regarding the Wifi issues on the Nabi 2, and I have followed them and have tried to resolve by restoring a stock image with limited success.
I was able to Install TWRP, backup to SD, and go through the recovery process for several stock images but the only one that will boot for me is 2.3.11.
I have recovered them all 1.9.12, 1.9.37, 2.05, and 2.1.27, none of them would boot after the restore, they would just hang on the white Nabi icon with the spinning ring around it. Most of them would overwrite the recovery partition, which I had to restore via fastboot.
I copied each image to my sd card, and the process I followed was:
Boot to recovery (TWRP)
Restore
Reboot
A couple times I tried doing a factory reset via the hidden recovery menu, but that did not make a difference.
I can get 2.3.11 to restore with no problem, and it boot fine. I am wondering if this is because I am on the Jelly Bean bootloader (I ran the addonfix) and that the older images need the ICS bootloader? However, I could not find any separate downloads for an ICS bootloader.
The other thing I thought is that maybe the version of Nabi I have (listed in the title) was the problem.
Any ideas?
rnabi99 said:
I know there are several threads regarding the Wifi issues on the Nabi 2, and I have followed them and have tried to resolve by restoring a stock image with limited success.
I was able to Install TWRP, backup to SD, and go through the recovery process for several stock images but the only one that will boot for me is 2.3.11.
I have recovered them all 1.9.12, 1.9.37, 2.05, and 2.1.27, none of them would boot after the restore, they would just hang on the white Nabi icon with the spinning ring around it. Most of them would overwrite the recovery partition, which I had to restore via fastboot.
I copied each image to my sd card, and the process I followed was:
Boot to recovery (TWRP)
Restore
Reboot
A couple times I tried doing a factory reset via the hidden recovery menu, but that did not make a difference.
I can get 2.3.11 to restore with no problem, and it boot fine. I am wondering if this is because I am on the Jelly Bean bootloader (I ran the addonfix) and that the older images need the ICS bootloader? However, I could not find any separate downloads for an ICS bootloader.
The other thing I thought is that maybe the version of Nabi I have (listed in the title) was the problem.
Any ideas?
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Yes there are ones that will not boot because you have the JB bootloader. The only ones that will boot are 2.3.11, and 2.4.6 unless you reinstall the ICS bootloader. There is a way with APX/nvflash but I'm not sure that going back is going to help wifi. That is usually fixed by factory reset, or just clearing the wifi conf file.
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Yes there are ones that will not boot because you have the JB bootloader. The only ones that will boot are 2.3.11, and 2.4.6 unless you reinstall the ICS bootloader. There is a way with APX/nvflash but I'm not sure that going back is going to help wifi. That is usually fixed by factory reset, or just clearing the wifi conf file.
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I have tried factory reset several times and I just tried deleting the conf file, neither fixed it. This is for my nephew with Autism and he has been very upset that his Nabi is not working so I have been trying for days to get this working for him, but I'm about ready to give up.
Any other ideas? Does anyone think it is worth it to try the APX/nvflash route to go to an older image? I am starting to think maybe there is an actual hardware issue with wifi. :crying:
My granddaughter has autism and her Nabi will not connect to WiFi I’ve tried everything and still not working. I build computers so I know how to do most things but this is way to much
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So my Evo LTE is running 2.13.651.1, and is on what I understand to be the newest HBOOT (1.19). Naturally, I have S-ON as a result. This is my first Android device, and I've had it about a week since switching from an iOS device. I have root and the Teamwin recovery, which I used to backup the phone. I understand this is called a nandroid backup?
I plan to flash Cyanogenmod 10, in fact I already tried once. It resulted in a bootloop, and I restored from the nandroid backup. I have since learned I need to flash the boot.img from CM10 using fastboot, Flash Image GUI, or any other alternative. Once I do this, if I want to go back to Sense 4.1 like I have currently, how would I do so? Once I flash the boot.img from CM10, I won't simply be able to restore to my nandroid from teamwin, will I? I assume that if I tried to restore from the nandroid, due to S-ON I would be unable to write to the boot partition from a recovery utility and I would be left in another bootloop. How can I get a boot.img corresponding to my stock Sense 4.1 rom in the event that I want to revert to stock?
In the folder containing my nandroid backup, I see a file called boot.emmc.win and a boot.emmc.win.md5. I understand what the MD5 is for, but is the boot.emmc.win what I will need to undo the effect of flashing CM10's boot.img? If so, how would I use it (I do not recognize that file extension, and Flash Image GUI does not seem to like it either)? If not, where would I get something that will work?
I've done several searches here and on other forums, but I can't seem to find what I need. If someone has already answered this question, could you simply point me in the direction of that thread?
Thanks in advance,
Kristoffer
I have yet to restore a back up but to avoid any issues I would use dumlock. Install it from twrp advanced menu and reboot, open it in cm and it will backup boot and overwrite it with a temporary recovery, you then reboot and go back to dumlock and restore the back up, then you are free to flash the nandroid backup and reboot
When you reboot, do not boot to recovery, the boot partition has been replaced with a temporary twrp and all you need to do is reboot normally
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I would use dumlock. Install it from twrp advanced menu and reboot, open it in cm and it will backup boot and overwrite it with a temporary recovery, you then reboot and go back to dumlock and restore the back up, then you are free to flash the nandroid backup and reboot
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Once I flash CM and its boot, the boot for my Sense 4.1 will have been overwritten, no? I opened Dumlock in my Sense rom (as I have not yet flashed CM successfully), and it gives me a warning to make a backup of boot PRIOR to using the app, then just under that says the app will make a backup of the boot. If I go ahead and run Dumlock, I'm not entirely sure what is going to happen. It seems that it will move my recovery (TeamWin at the moment) onto the boot partition? If this is the case, why is this something that needs to be done? Does moving the recovery onto the boot partition allow the recovery to write to the boot without S-OFF, thereby allowing a simple restore of the nandroid to replace my rom AND boot at the same time, as if I were restoring with S-OFF? Sorry if I'm not making sense, but I don't really know what I'm talking about here, and thats the only thing that makes sense to me.
I see a button in Dumlock that says "restore original boot." If I install CM and the CM boot, will pushing this "restore original boot" button give me back the boot setup for the stock Sense rom? If it does, then I could just push that button, let it do its thing, and then restore my Sense nandroid with my recovery, right?
Thanks for your help, and quick response.
Install HTC dumlock
Open the app and back up boot
Once back up is successful, press execute
Once the phone restarts it will only boot to twrp, you then go to dumlock menu again and restore boot
Now flash a Rom or restore back up and reboot
Sorry to sound ignorant, but will this method will restore the stock boot regardless of what rom/boot combination I'm currently running? Or is this creating a backup of the currently installed boot, and saving it somewhere for future use? Specifically, do I want to follow this procedure before I upgrade to CM so I have a backup of the current boot, or is this something I want to do if/when I want to go back from CM to Sense that will magically put the boot back how it was from the factory?
Yes, its a workaround that gives access to boot partition and will let you flash normally, I would only use it for stuff like nandroids rather normally flashing because it writes to boot 3 times. It's a lot of unnecessary wear and tear
Awesome, thanks alot for your help. I'm excited to go and try my CM10 rom, now I know how to get back to stock if I don't like it.
Thanks again,
Kristoffer
Hmm. Now I don't know what I've screwed up. I flashed the boot.img from the CM10 zip using Flash Image GUI, then rebooted to recovery and wiped the System partition and cleared dalvik/cache. Then I flashed the CM10 zip using twrp, cleared dalvik/cache, and rebooted. Now, I'm stuck at the CM boot animation again, just like last time. This does not seem terribly complicated, and I don't know what I've done wrong.
I understand twrp cannot flash the boot due to S-ON, but I thought flashing the boot from inside my Sense rom using Flash Image GUI would fix the problem. I restored the Sense nandroid like before, rebooted, and then I got the Recovery boot logo (htc logo, with red text underneath). After maybe a minute, that went away, and I got a Sprint logo and then the normal boot screen with only an HTC logo. The phone then restarted, and this process repeated several times. So, apparently whatever I did to the boot sector with Flash Image GUI wreaked whatever was there before, and failed to replace it with something that would play nice with CM.
A factory reset won't fix the boot, will it? All it will do is overwrite my system partition and internal sd with the default files, and I still won't be able to boot. Any idea what I've screwed up, and how I can fix it?
EDIT:
I reflashed the CM10 zip, and it still gets stuck at the CM boot logo (spinning blue thing). What are the chances my CM10 download is corrupt? Is it worth trying to redownload it, reflash boot with fastboot, then move the new zip to the phone and flash that?
What version of twrp are you using, some people have had issues with the older 2.1.8
Ok, progress. I'm on twrp 2.2.1. I wiped everything again (wiped cache and dalvik, Factory Reset, and then wiped System) and reflashed CM10. It booted this time, so I assume the boot partition is fine. Apparently I'm the retard that can't understand a point-and-click system and follow simple directions
Once it boots, however, I instantly see an error "Unfortunately, the process com.android.phone has stopped." Once I click Ok, the error will either pop back up immediately, or wait for an indefinite period and them come back. Possibly this is the result of the CM10 release not being entirely stable as of yet, I don't know.
But thanks again, your help and your fantastic Don't Panic post together fixed the problem. I think I can figure out what is going on with this error popup and fix it. So long as I have voice service in the interim, which I do, all is well in the world.
It's normal, it pops up when you lose signal, its a bug but its technically a feature. If the phone loses signal, normally android is supposed to prompt you so you are aware. I think its for debugging purposes, normally this is disabled. Not sure if its really a bug in cm or they just haven't gotten around to disabling it, but its normal. It's not a real priority either since it doesn't adversly affect the phone
Hmm. This just gets better and better. So CM10 ran nicely for awhile, then last night I rebooted the phone and the internal SD card failed to mount. Both twrp and the actual OS cannot get it to mount properly. Is this something I broke, or does it sometimes occur at random? I read the following, but I don't quite know where to go with it.
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You're card is beyond a simple reformat, the physical address linking the card and or entire card is corrupt. Don't panic, you have to start clean. Back up the info on you external or remove it, make sure you have a ROM available on your PC. Go into recovery and repartition your phone, this will wipe all memory. You then load up a working ROM (a bad back up may be responsible or just reintroduce the problem), after you have flashed the ROM (HBOOT 1.15+ must fastboot kernel, unless S-OFF) go ahead and boot into android and restore your apps.
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Repartitioning seems simple enough; twrp> advanced >partition SD card>swipe (leaving all settings default).
After that, I can flash the new rom and boot using fastboot from my PC, right? I'm confident that my nandroid of the stock rom is clean, because I didn't develop this problem until after I had been using CM10 for awhile. Could I use fastboot to flash the boot, data, and system from the nandroid, and be good to go? If not, is the most current file avalible to download at http://stockroms.net/file/HTCEvo4GLTE/RUU? the appropriate file I would need to restore the phone to its stock unrooted state.?
Also, none of my nandroid files have a .img file extension. Is this normal? It has the normal .md5 files, but everything else has a .win extention. I've never heard of this one. My boot, for example, seems to be backed up as boot.emmc.win, with a boot.emmc.win.md5 corresponding to it. Cache, data, and system backups are named <option>.ext4.win. Does ext4 has something to do with the filesystem of the backed up partition? If this is the case, what is a .emmc? Can I flash these files with their strange (to me, at least) extensions using fastboot as if they were all .img files?
I can't imagine any of this is really as complicated as it seems. I've used a PC and a jailbroken iDevice extensively, and never managed to break something I couldn't fix. I guess Android just doesn't like me, or something.
Thanks again for all your help.
EDIT:
Apparently physically removing the external SD from the phone allowed me to mount the internal SD as a USB device. The phone still refused to allow me to read/write data to the memory, but somehow managed to allow my PC to see it. I formatted the internal SD to fat32 (one of the limited options) using Windows, and rebooted the phone to recovery. Now, it suddenly can detect its internal SD. I was able to wipe everything, and restore my Cyanogen backup and the SD card now works again. Weird...
Since I didn't have to repartition anything, was the "physical address linking the card and or entire card" corrupt, or did I have some other issue? Also, I'm still curious about my above question pertaining to file extensions and restoring a nandroid via fastboot.
Hi Guys
I am new to playing around with android but not to electronics. I have a Verizon Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 16gb (SCH-i905) with current 4g service.
Here is the problem I am having:
It started yesterday, I was browsing the web and the tablet froze and then rebooted. After the reboot programs randomly freeze and crash, if I reboot anything I have downloaded is gone and anything I deleted is back and I can't install or remove apps. I figured I had something corrupted and a factory wipe would fix it. Unfortunately when I perform a factory wipe from the menus or through Android recovery nothing happens. The tablet boots up like nothing was erased. Still has all my accounts, security pin, apps, and so on.
So after that I figured I would flash the tablet, I found the thread here in the development forum with the stock 3.2 image to load through ODIN. I downloaded everything, followed the instructions. ODIN says the flash was successful but when the tablet reboots it still has all my info and is running 4.0.4. I have tried this multiple times. I have tried loading CWM with ODIN but it will not stick.
Any thoughts? If you need more information I will get it, I am just stuck and can't find anything that helps me with this problem!
Thanks for your help!!!
If you want cwm to load after you install it using odin, then you must immediately boot the tablet into recovery without letting it run normally. During the normal boot process, CWM is deleted and the stock recovery is restored. Therefore once Odin finishes installing CWM, hold the volume up button and once you get to the recovery mode you will be running CWM instead of the stock recovery module.
Regards,
Michael
Yes, I did read that in the multiple thread about installing CWM and have gone into recovery directly after ODIN reboots the tablet, however it is still only the stock recovery app.
Any ideas why the factory reset / data wipe won't work?
So after several more hours working on this problem I think I have come across the root cause. I believe that my internal storage has corrupted and is now only mounting in Read-Only mode. From everything I can find online, without having root access previously, this is a no go for fix it yourself.
In case anybody happens on this post down the road, I have been unable to find a resolution and it would appear I must sent the unit back to Samsung for repair.
Mixinitup4Christ said:
So after several more hours working on this problem I think I have come across the root cause. I believe that my internal storage has corrupted and is now only mounting in Read-Only mode. From everything I can find online, without having root access previously, this is a no go for fix it yourself.
In case anybody happens on this post down the road, I have been unable to find a resolution and it would appear I must sent the unit back to Samsung for repair.
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factory reset through the stock recovery should be able to get you out of it (RO filesystem).
pershoot said:
factory reset through the stock recovery should be able to get you out of it (RO filesystem).
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I guess that blows my theory out of the water. I can't make heads or tails with this. No matter what I do, Menu Factory Reset, Recovery Wipe/Reset, ODIN Flash Stock EG01 firmware, ODIN flash CWM Recovery as soon as this device reboots I am right back where I started....... GAH!!!
Thanks for letting me know I'm probably wrong.
Mixinitup4Christ said:
I guess that blows my theory out of the water. I can't make heads or tails with this. No matter what I do, Menu Factory Reset, Recovery Wipe/Reset, ODIN Flash Stock EG01 firmware, ODIN flash CWM Recovery as soon as this device reboots I am right back where I started....... GAH!!!
Thanks for letting me know I'm probably wrong.
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it has to be factory reset through the stock recovery (it will format /data), not through CWM.
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pershoot said:
it has to be factory reset through the stock recovery (it will format /data), not through CWM.
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Yup, done that multiple times. I'll take video of it if you want, Factory Reset in stock recovery has no effect.
Mixinitup4Christ said:
Yup, done that multiple times. I'll take video of it if you want, Factory Reset in stock recovery has no effect.
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odin flash CWM (you can use 6.0.2.8 in JB CM10 folder on droidbasement), boot it and try to format the /system partition first then /data.
pershoot said:
odin flash CWM (you can use 6.0.2.8 in JB CM10 folder on droidbasement), boot it and try to format the /system partition first then /data.
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Will Do, ODIN3 1.85?
pershoot said:
odin flash CWM (you can use 6.0.2.8 in JB CM10 folder on droidbasement), boot it and try to format the /system partition first then /data.
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HI Pershoot!
I forgot to say thanks for your help!! I appreciate someone smarter than me lending a hand.
That said, I just tried to flash CWM from DB Galaxy Roms/CM10 folder. Upon reboot the tablet still entered stock recovery, I have tried this several times, but this time I took a video. If you feel so inclined to watch it maybe you can catch me doing something wrong....
Again thanks for your help!!
Video of me doing the Stock Recovery Factory Reset
Video of me attempting to flash CWM from droid basement
Mixinitup4Christ said:
HI Pershoot!
I forgot to say thanks for your help!! I appreciate someone smarter than me lending a hand.
That said, I just tried to flash CWM from DB Galaxy Roms/CM10 folder. Upon reboot the tablet still entered stock recovery, I have tried this several times, but this time I took a video. If you feel so inclined to watch it maybe you can catch me doing something wrong....
Again thanks for your help!!
Video of me doing the Stock Recovery Factory Reset
Video of me attempting to flash CWM from droid basement
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I had to do this on mine. http://techne.alaya.net/?p=8829. I rooted and modified the file described in the steps. Weirdly enough it still booted into stock recovery the first time I installed CWM. I installed CWM one more time and the tablet now boots into CWM.
I accidentally formatted my internal SD card with TWRP instead of factory reseting. I can get into recovery, but loading any ROM hangs at the loading screen. For awhile, TWRP was asking for a password, and then somehow I hit the magic combination of things to make that stop happening. I adb pushed an updated TWRP and reinstalling various ROMs.
All this started from trying to install Hyperdrive RLS8. I was running RLS7 fine, went for a clean install, spaced out and formatted the phone, flashed the ROM, and had a whole slew of stability problems. Things would randomly crash instantly, booted only 50% of the time, when it did, installing things would break it, tried various things to fix it, fixing permissions and wiping cache's and such, and results were unpredictable. Kept re-formatting and reflashing with different options until I finally realized that I was formatting it and that's probably what the whole problem was.
Currently I can't boot into a ROM, it hangs on the boot animation. I tried another clean install with RLS7, and the same thing happens. I'm assuming that I need to get back to stock somehow, but I'm not sure how. Odin has always confused me. I used the all in one tool to root awhile back, and I only used odin to send a kernel tar file. If I download a stock build, it's a zip file... so how can I odin it? Is that what I need to do? I'm imagining at this point that the file structure is messed up and I need to rebuild it somehow. I don't have my nandroid backup on this computer, so I haven't tried that yet.
You can either odin stock. It's about a 1.8gb file.
Or you can get a known working ROM on your sd card, factory reset wipe, wipe preload, wipe system, install known working rom+gapps+whatever, wipe cache and wipe dalvik. Reboot. If it sticks at the samsung logo pull the battery and then try to reboot again. Sometimes first boot can take a while. I'd give it 10 minutes before throwing in the towel lol
I bricked my phone by updating Hyperdrive (which I will never (curse words... lots of them) use again. Can someone tell me where to find this stock file? I've been searching long enough to get frustrated and delete several less diplomatic posts, settling with this one.
hey guys, I am a little confused. I just came to the S4 from a galaxy nexus, and I previously used CWM as my recovery option when doing clean install of new ROMS.
When I rooted my S4, I installed TWRP (via goomananger, version 2.5.0.2) because of people saying its much better (on the galaxy nexus forums). However, I keep reading issues of people being stuck in bootloops for TWRP when wiping data.
My question is -- what is this issue? Are you not supposed to clean flash with TWRP?? Or do you only do "factory reset" option in TWRP and not wipe the data?
As I am a little confused on this issue, is it more safe to just install most recent CWM and use that as recovery instead?
Thanks alot
No worries
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I accidentally formatted my internal SD card with TWRP instead of factory reseting. I can get into recovery, but loading any ROM hangs at the loading screen. For awhile, TWRP was asking for a password, and then somehow I hit the magic combination of things to make that stop happening. I adb pushed an updated TWRP and reinstalling various ROMs.
All this started from trying to install Hyperdrive RLS8. I was running RLS7 fine, went for a clean install, spaced out and formatted the phone, flashed the ROM, and had a whole slew of stability problems. Things would randomly crash instantly, booted only 50% of the time, when it did, installing things would break it, tried various things to fix it, fixing permissions and wiping cache's and such, and results were unpredictable. Kept re-formatting and reflashing with different options until I finally realized that I was formatting it and that's probably what the whole problem was.
Currently I can't boot into a ROM, it hangs on the boot animation. I tried another clean install with RLS7, and the same thing happens. I'm assuming that I need to get back to stock somehow, but I'm not sure how. Odin has always confused me. I used the all in one tool to root awhile back, and I only used odin to send a kernel tar file. If I download a stock build, it's a zip file... so how can I odin it? Is that what I need to do? I'm imagining at this point that the file structure is messed up and I need to rebuild it somehow. I don't have my nandroid backup on this computer, so I haven't tried that yet.
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Try using odin to flash to stock. Then re-root and install custom recovery and whichever rom. I had a similar problem posted here with no help from the big brains. Had to trial and error with caution on my own. Kinda disappointing since the answer is quite simple once you connect all the dots. Flashing in odin will fix yer internal storage problem because it redefines everything.
cidorov said:
Try using odin to flash to stock. Then re-root and install custom recovery and whichever rom. I had a similar problem posted here with no help from the big brains. Had to trial and error with caution on my own. Kinda disappointing since the answer is quite simple once you connect all the dots. Flashing in odin will fix yer internal storage problem because it redefines everything.
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uberpippi said:
I accidentally formatted my internal SD card with TWRP instead of factory reseting. I can get into recovery, but loading any ROM hangs at the loading screen. For awhile, TWRP was asking for a password, and then somehow I hit the magic combination of things to make that stop happening. I adb pushed an updated TWRP and reinstalling various ROMs.
All this started from trying to install Hyperdrive RLS8. I was running RLS7 fine, went for a clean install, spaced out and formatted the phone, flashed the ROM, and had a whole slew of stability problems. Things would randomly crash instantly, booted only 50% of the time, when it did, installing things would break it, tried various things to fix it, fixing permissions and wiping cache's and such, and results were unpredictable. Kept re-formatting and reflashing with different options until I finally realized that I was formatting it and that's probably what the whole problem was.
Currently I can't boot into a ROM, it hangs on the boot animation. I tried another clean install with RLS7, and the same thing happens. I'm assuming that I need to get back to stock somehow, but I'm not sure how. Odin has always confused me. I used the all in one tool to root awhile back, and I only used odin to send a kernel tar file. If I download a stock build, it's a zip file... so how can I odin it? Is that what I need to do? I'm imagining at this point that the file structure is messed up and I need to rebuild it somehow. I don't have my nandroid backup on this computer, so I haven't tried that yet.
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Yes this would probably be your best bet. I wouldn't say the answer "is quite simple when you connect the dots" though, because with that logic there would be no PC problems, you would just connect the dots and format the harddrive and Windows will redefine everything else for you!
But back to seriousness, you have to download a stock factory image and its actually a tar.md5 file and not a .zip because you cant flash zips through odin. The stock factory images can be found in the development section, and they are usually quite large files (2gb+ when extracted!) and you will have to download odin and make sure you have the latest usb drivers from samsung. Then its pretty straight forward, The threads in the development section have guides for how to use odin. The stock image contains all the partitions within in it and will effectively repartition your device when you flash it so no need to use a pit file.
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Yes this would probably be your best bet. I wouldn't say the answer "is quite simple when you connect the dots" though, because with that logic there would be no PC problems, you would just connect the dots and format the harddrive and Windows will redefine everything else for you!
But back to seriousness, you have to download a stock factory image and its actually a tar.md5 file and not a .zip because you cant flash zips through odin. The stock factory images can be found in the development section, and they are usually quite large files (2gb+ when extracted!) and you will have to download odin and make sure you have the latest usb drivers from samsung. Then its pretty straight forward, The threads in the development section have guides for how to use odin. The stock image contains all the partitions within in it and will effectively repartition your device when you flash it so no need to use a pit file.
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Just to follow up, that's what I ended up doing. I used the "No-wipe" factory image, odin'd it, re-rooted (I don't know if I had to do that step, but I did), and then loaded my ROM of choice and it works perfectly now. Thanks!
Yes, I know.. Many posts like this one, but there seem to be many variations also, so I'm concerned if I'm following the right advise or will make things worked. Also, while I copied the external SD Contents, I made the fatal flaw of not doing the propper backup (Stimpy.. you idiot!)
I tried following this approach:
The initial image with CWM 5.x worked fine, and the Nook rooted fine. I installed ES File Explorer, launched the Nook recovery Flash.apk, fine
Installed CWM 6.2.7 fine.
Final Step - Went to install the last stable release of CyanogenMod (cm-10.2.1-acclaim) and the screen flashed several times, then went off).
I powered it on and it stuck int the "Read Forever" white screen.
I can get it to go into Recovery mode by booting off the micro SD Card image I first created, and can even get it to CWM 6.2.7. But that's it. I can't get it beyond recovery mode, or rebooting into the "Read Forever" screen.
As a last resort (and maybe not a bright one?) I tried restoring back to factory defaults..... To no avail. No change in behavior.
After downloading some earlier mod versions (i.e. 10.1.3, 10.2.0, etc) I did manage to get the Cyanogemod bootloader to install. However, I could not get past the initial boot screen (where the Arrow circles the face).
I tried installing different versions of the Mod (even successfully installing 10.2.3 which I initially had problems with). I tried wiping the cache, and the Dalvik cache and rebooted, as well as trying wiping them, installing another cyanogenmod and restarting, and to no avail.
So, I can get to recovery screen, and I can get to the bootloader screen, but no further.
And all this, because Netflix stopped working on the original 1.4.3 B&N firmware (sigh).
Really appreciate some help here.
Thanks
See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=43326042&postcount=123 and http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=48612997&postcount=1 for info and pointers on potential steps for recovery and re-flashing.
After I successfully flashed (MOD)(BL1.2ROM-CM-10)SmOoTher_BeAn_4.1.2(G-tablet)(Updated 02/01/13) I attempted to install the Google Now launcher plus some other apps from the Play Store which resulted in the tablet becoming non-responsive and lagged. I tried rebooting into recovery and clearing Data, Cache & Dalvik then rebooted but the tablet will only boot back into recovery. I've tried flashing the ROM again but no change. I'm starting to think that I might need to restore to factory using Bekit and NVflash but those files are no longer available.
BL 1.2
ClockworkMod Recovery v3.0.2.8
I've got a MediaFire folder of GTab recovery stuff here. Hopefully you find what you need there.
...Oh, I thought this post was from September of 2017. Well, maybe this will help anyone else with similar problems in the future. Good luck.