I have an XT912 that I'm currently troubleshooting. The issue I have come to realize is that nothing can be saved or deleted on the phone.
I've tried a regular factory reset, which just boots the phone in recovery mode. I wiped it in recovery mode, but when the phone boots on, all the data is still there.
My first thought was, "Alright, maybe some RSD Lite magic will fix my issue." Nope. First, http://sbf.droid-developers.org/ has been down for a while.
Second, I did actually get the firmware file at https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_nizg6yUZ0NRXZwMUZ6U3BuS0E/edit?pli=1
The process went like any other sbf normally. Of course, when the phone booted it booted straight to recovery mode.
I wiped again through the menu, and booted only to find nothing had been deleted.
Next thing I tried was Droid Razr Utility (http://www.droidforums.net/threads/droid-razr-utility-1-8.216562/) (I have a more updated version for JB) and wiped through that.
Still ended up in recovery mode. Selected wipe again, still had all the data.
My next thought was, "If i can't wipe thought normal means, I'll install CWM or TWRP and install CM 11 or something so I have a workable phone."
After copying the root files, I opened the file explorer to install the APKs only to find none. It said i had 79 files in my downloads folder.
I mounted the phone again, copied the files to the download folder, and went to the file explorer again after unmounting.
Still said i had 79 files. I searched through the downloads folder and found nothing. I decided I'd create a folder and copy the files there. Mounted, created a folder, copied the files, nothing.
I decided to download the files on the phone and install them directly. Switching on WiFi didn't work since it immediately switched back off.
I rebooted and WiFi actually worked. After downloading the root APK, I just got a parsing error.
I only get those when an APK is corrupt/incomplete, or when the APK won't work with the phone model.
I rebooted to humor myself, and when the phone booted on, the files I downloaded were gone. I'm completely baffled.
I haven't seen anyone post a detailed report about this issue. If you've experienced this or have a fix, please post below.
astrot70 said:
I have an XT912 that I'm currently troubleshooting. The issue I have come to realize is that nothing can be saved or deleted on the phone.
I've tried a regular factory reset, which just boots the phone in recovery mode. I wiped it in recovery mode, but when the phone boots on, all the data is still there.
My first thought was, "Alright, maybe some RSD Lite magic will fix my issue." Nope. First, http://sbf.droid-developers.org/ has been down for a while.
Second, I did actually get the firmware file at https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_nizg6yUZ0NRXZwMUZ6U3BuS0E/edit?pli=1
The process went like any other sbf normally. Of course, when the phone booted it booted straight to recovery mode.
I wiped again through the menu, and booted only to find nothing had been deleted.
Next thing I tried was Droid Razr Utility (http://www.droidforums.net/threads/droid-razr-utility-1-8.216562/) (I have a more updated version for JB) and wiped through that.
Still ended up in recovery mode. Selected wipe again, still had all the data.
My next thought was, "If i can't wipe thought normal means, I'll install CWM or TWRP and install CM 11 or something so I have a workable phone."
After copying the root files, I opened the file explorer to install the APKs only to find none. It said i had 79 files in my downloads folder.
I mounted the phone again, copied the files to the download folder, and went to the file explorer again after unmounting.
Still said i had 79 files. I searched through the downloads folder and found nothing. I decided I'd create a folder and copy the files there. Mounted, created a folder, copied the files, nothing.
I decided to download the files on the phone and install them directly. Switching on WiFi didn't work since it immediately switched back off.
I rebooted and WiFi actually worked. After downloading the root APK, I just got a parsing error.
I only get those when an APK is corrupt/incomplete, or when the APK won't work with the phone model.
I rebooted to humor myself, and when the phone booted on, the files I downloaded were gone. I'm completely baffled.
I haven't seen anyone post a detailed report about this issue. If you've experienced this or have a fix, please post below.
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guessing device has a flash memory failure, unlikely that it can be fixed
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I've only seen a dozen or so posts like this over the past few years, and never seen someone post that they fixed it.
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Still somethings that can be tried.
Seems you are trying to copy files to the download folder on the internal SD card
Do you have a external SD card? if so copy files to that
how are you trying to root? try saferoot or Root Master app
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I have been having issues with my x2 not completing a restore.
I had recently upgraded my x2 from cm7 to cm10. I first performed a backup of my cm7 using the BSR.
That process went just fine, then I upgraded and cleared the data/cache and it booted to cm10 without a problem.
Then I wanted to restore my backup, I wasn't sure if I could do that from cm10, so I SBF'd by x2, rooted and reinstalled cm7.
Then I rebooted into the BSR as before to perform the restore. This is where I ran into my issue.
The restore goes fine until it reaches the data restore and after a couple minutes it completely stalls at a "webviewCache.db-shm" file, I tried leaving it overnight to see if it would work past it but it remained stuck.
If I remove the battery and then reboot, it will load into cm7 with all of my settings restored, but only a small portion of my apps have been restored.
When I tried running the 'advanced restore' under the BSR, I was able to successfully run every option except the 'data restore' where it stalled again at the same file.
Is this an issue with my backup? or have I just done something wrong?
I haven't renamed or moved my backup file, if that's necessary
This is the guide I used for reinstalling cm7, starting from step 2 (SBF'ing)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1442803
I'm not sure why you rooted then installed or flashed cm7 then went to restore. I would try sbf'ing again, rooting, installing bsr and then wipe big three and restore. If that doesn't work, then there more than likely is something wrong with the restore file.
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As a side note, I had trouble a while ago restoring. Where I ran into problems is I copied my restore file or zip to my computer. When I copied it back to my sd card, there must've been some files that didn't transfer correctly or completely and as a result the restore failed. Not saying that's what you did. Just as a future reference, I wouldn't transfer restores back and forth on your computer and SD card because you too may experience issues with it.
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I reinstalled cm7 because I wasn't sure if I could restore from a rooted stock
I did try to restore from a rooted stock like you said but it still presented the same issue..
I had tried to access the disc image on my pc from the card to see how they were formatted, so that may have caused the damage if moving it can break them as you mentioned
thanks though
Just got the phone today, and right away I rooted it and loaded the Google Play Edition ROM. Everything went smoothly. Then I decided to move the backup I made of the stock ROM to my computer because it is so huge and just keep a Google backup on the device. So I deleted the files in the folder /TWRP/BACKUPS/8e0b378a/1969-12-31--19-11-41. But when I then went to try to backup my Google it kept failing. I tried deleting folders, and then later adding everything back, but nothing helped. It looks like the problems are:
E: Storage partition "//TWRP/backups/8e0b378a' not found
Updating partition details…
E: Unable to locate storage device.
So... now what? Other than the user error, things are going great!
Assuming the backup of your stock rom is still intact and now on your computer I would try flashing a new recovery like clockwork mod, clockwork mod touch are just re flash your team win recovery and and try to backup your current google rom again through your recovery "nandroid" hope it works for ya.
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May also be a sd card issue? Try removing in re installing your sd card. I am pretty sure the default save location for backups are in the internal. Memory but it might help...
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Success! It turns out I didn't try replacing the entire TWRP folder with the one I had copied to my computer. That's a relief.
Cool!
I'm having this problem too, now. It looks like if I delete any backup by hand (not with the TWRP interface), TWRP will no longer backup or restore? Crazy! Is my recent backup garbage, just because TWRP refuses to install it?
I had this issue too. here's my current back up path /storage/extSdCard/TWRP/BACKUPS/94937798/"name of your backup". I deleted the numbered part just to have shorter file path but it didn't work. So then i Deleted everything but the main TWRP folder and my Backup of course. then used TWRP to make a nandroid backup and doing that restored the correct full file path. Maybe try it and then place your old nandroid backup in the folder.
Twrp/backup/######/your nandroid backup.
Also your old backup does it display the file path it used to belong to? If so remake that path of folders in the TWRP folder
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I just read your post again.
Try moving your backup on external SD. Not in a folder then try to restore using Twrp you have find your backup location and select it and try checking the skip md5 verification. Make a nandroid backup 1st just to be safe
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Just got the phone today, and right away I rooted it and loaded the Google Play Edition ROM. Everything went smoothly. Then I decided to move the backup I made of the stock ROM to my computer because it is so huge and just keep a Google backup on the device. So I deleted the files in the folder /TWRP/BACKUPS/8e0b378a/1969-12-31--19-11-41. But when I then went to try to backup my Google it kept failing. I tried deleting folders, and then later adding everything back, but nothing helped. It looks like the problems are:
E: Storage partition "//TWRP/backups/8e0b378a' not found
Updating partition details…
E: Unable to locate storage device.
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I just got the same error today. I tried to make a backup with TWRP 2.6.0.0 on my Nexus 4 and it couldn't locate the storage device, even though I had other backups already that I could see! So I flashed TWRP to 2.5.0.0 and could back things up again!
Is this a bug with TWRP 2.6.0.0 ?
sordna said:
I just got the same error today. I tried to make a backup with TWRP 2.6.0.0 on my Nexus 4 and it couldn't locate the storage device, even though I had other backups already that I could see! So I flashed TWRP to 2.5.0.0 and could back things up again!
Is this a bug with TWRP 2.6.0.0 ?
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I just had the same problems after upgrading from 2.5 to 2.6. Can't make a backup "E: Unable to locate storage device.". Can't see backups (list is just empty, but "E: Storage partition "//TWRP/BACKUPS/HT25ZW308588' not found" is in the console). I downgraded to 2.5 and everything started working again.
Tsukasa Buddha said:
Just got the phone today, and right away I rooted it and loaded the Google Play Edition ROM. Everything went smoothly. Then I decided to move the backup I made of the stock ROM to my computer because it is so huge and just keep a Google backup on the device. So I deleted the files in the folder /TWRP/BACKUPS/8e0b378a/1969-12-31--19-11-41. But when I then went to try to backup my Google it kept failing. I tried deleting folders, and then later adding everything back, but nothing helped. It looks like the problems are:
E: Storage partition "//TWRP/backups/8e0b378a' not found
Updating partition details…
E: Unable to locate storage device.
So... now what? Other than the user error, things are going great!
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TWRP 2.6 is a bit buggy - there is some evidence that installing HyperDrive Rom with 2.6 will bootloop the device, whereas 2.5.0.2 will not. I'd steer clear of 2.6.
wolfgrrl said:
TWRP 2.6 is a bit buggy - there is some evidence that installing HyperDrive Rom with 2.6 will bootloop the device, whereas 2.5.0.2 will not. I'd steer clear of 2.6.
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Installed hyperdrive with 2.6 TWRP with out any problem. I will say from using a TWRP recovery on a different device that it does not like having the back up path altered
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Does anyone know what the /sdcard/TWRP/.twrps file is for? Is it general settings that I can safely delete? (without affecting my ability to restore ?)
I had this problem too, I deleted entire folder /sdcard/TWRP/ and then it works again. I think you just need to delete the .twrps file, this is the config file of twrp.
Why aren't we using CWM? ^_^
Thanks
mykeyin said:
I had this problem too, I deleted entire folder /sdcard/TWRP/ and then it works again. I think you just need to delete the .twrps file, this is the config file of twrp.
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A simple as that. This did the trick. Thanks!
mykeyin said:
I had this problem too, I deleted entire folder /sdcard/TWRP/ and then it works again. I think you just need to delete the .twrps file, this is the config file of twrp.
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fixed after deleting the twrps file, many thanks.
mykeyin said:
I had this problem too, I deleted entire folder /sdcard/TWRP/ and then it works again. I think you just need to delete the .twrps file, this is the config file of twrp.
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I had the same problem, and this solved it. It does seem your assumption is correct. I just deleted the.twrps file and it started working again.
silberj said:
I had the same problem, and this solved it. It does seem your assumption is correct. I just deleted the.twrps file and it started working again.
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Sorted.
Hello all,
I'm having a ton of trouble with my nook tablet 16GB. Yesterday I decided to to try to completely turn it into an android tablet with no trace of the nook remaining software wise. So at first I went to youtube and saw a vid how to root it, it had a link in the description on the software I would need.
Everything went fine, It gave me root and even had a separate home launcher/ menu that had gapps and all. Now If I knew the hassle I was in for i'd have left it there, but I didn't. So the next thing I did was go to the cyanogen site and and dl the latest stable build which is cm-10.1.2, dated july 11 2013. I put the zip on the root of my sd card and try to flash with CWM based recovery 5.0.2.8. It looks like it completes as it doesn't abort or give any error messages but It would just get to the cm logo screen, and spin for about two seconds and go back to cyanoboot.
Since I didn't want to go any further based on frustration, I decided to go back to stock and just forget it. I downloaded a stock 1.4.2 rom and flashed it with the 5.0.2.8 and it was fine. It booted into the nook os and everything was good. Now since my nook was originally 1.4.3 I wanted to get it back to that before I quit for good. So I dl the 1.4.3 update from B&N, place it on the root of the actual tablet to do the manual update but it keeps booting into the 5.0.2.8 recovery and thats there I am now.
Tried flashing different versions of stock roms, stock- rooted roms, custom roms, some fail to flash, some look like they flash completely but it always takes my back to the cm recovery. In need of some help guys/gals. Also, I know most of the responses will be "use the search" However I doubt that anyone is having exactly this issue, with exactly these circumstances surrounding it, so I probably wont get an answer that actually helps me any.
You need CWM 6.x.x to flash CM10 properly. You can use your current CWM to flash a new one but I would suggest using this near fool proof way instead. You can use whatever CM10.x ROM you want but make sure you get the right version gapps to go with it.
Copied from another topic:
I would suggest you start over again and here is really easy way to do it:
1. Download, extract and burn this ready-made CM10 sd image to a 2 GB (?) (or larger - not 100% sure of the size since I use a larger card myself) sd card. Use this card as a bootable CWM card. Even if it's a complete run-able CM10 it also works as a bootable CWM! Very handy!
http://iamafanof.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/cm10-0-jellybean-sdcard-img-for-nook-tablet/ t's a big download, but it's a more or less fool proof way of doing it! If I remember correctly there is actually room enough to put CM10 and GApps on the card. At least the one I use.
2. Boot into the recocvery of that card by pressing the "n" right after the power button and then hold the "n" to get to boot menu
3. In boot menu choose "sd recovery" ot something similar. This will take you to CWM
4. When in CWM install zips, wipe cache and Dalvik and you should be fine!
Once CM10 is installed it probably comes with CWM (the one I use does), so to get into CWM next time you need it, just hold "n" like before, but no need for a CWM card.
Edit: I checked, and there IS enough room for my favourite ROM and gApps on the boot section of the card. "My favourite" is the 1231 build on Iamafanof site. I have tried more recent ones, but I always go back to this one. Just my opinion of course! http://iamafanof.wordpress.com/2012/11/03/cm10-0-jelly-bean-for-nook-tablet-uploading/
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And FWIW, you'll find pretty much exactly the same story as yours told quite a few times here and pretty much always with a happy ending as long as you haven't started wiping and formatting things randomly.
Something you might have discovered if you had actually done some searches. I actually find your assumption that you wouldn't find a solution a little bit both nonchalant and slightly offending.
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Ok i'm a little lost. I did what you said and got the image and wrote with win32diskimager. Put sd in and turned on power and to the sdc recovery and flashed it. I'm lost here. I figured there would just be another image cm mod 10 or something in the card and I would simply choose to flash it after selecting flash from sd or something to that effect.
I didnt see anything like that. Is there something i'm supposed to be flashing to install the clockwork mod? Your post says once I install cwm i'm good, but I don't know how to do that apparently because I don't see any rom to do so.
I am able to boot cyanogenmod from the card but that's not what I want to do. I want to flash it permanent to the rom and not have to worry about it again. How can I do this?
Btw I'm not sure if the flash worked totally, as If I just power one and do nothing it takes me to the clockwork mod 5.0.2.8. If I power on and hold the n the cyanboot will come up and I have to select the sdc recovery everytime just to make it show the 6.x.x.x version. I though your instructions would make the 6.x.x.x the default version from now on.
In any even, I'm still a little stuck. Lil more help please?
You need to put the files you want to flash on either that card or another card. Hence the comment about checking for space.
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tical2399 said:
I am able to boot cyanogenmod from the card but that's not what I want to do. I want to flash it permanent to the rom and not have to worry about it again. How can I do this?
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Are you actually reading what I write? I clearly tell that the card is meant to get you started as a bootable CWM card.
That means that it takes you into a CWM version that is correct for flashing CM10.X.
Once you are in the correct CWM you flash the same way you did when you had the wrong CWM.
Once you've done your flashing you will have everything installed internally and you can throw away the card.
And to be extra clear: You have to add the actual ROM and gApps to the card, or if there isn't enough room to another card.
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asawi said:
You need to put the files you want to flash on either that card or another card. Hence the comment about checking for space.
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That actually came to me as I was waiting for a reply. The reason I didnt thin of it sooner was that when I did the steps with the rooting stock nook it shrunk my card down to like 4 mb in size. I though this would do the same, and thus there would be no room for cm 10. However I decided to look and it was enough space. I just added the zip and flashed it with cwm 6.x.x. We'll see if it works
No luck. I flashed the cm 10.1.2 zip, I watch the blue status bar go all the way to the end, and the messages at the bottom say complete. I wipe the cache and the dalvik as suggested. and I hit reboot system. It just boots me right back into the cwm 5.0.2.8
Wich zip do you flash?
Try the one I suggest and if that works you can then flash another one to replace it if you want to.
You can start over with a completely 'virgin" stock Tablet in case it's your previous install of CWM 5 that's messing up things. Search for repart.img and run it and then start over again fresh
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asawi said:
You need to put the files you want to flash on either that card or another card. Hence the comment about checking for space.
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Are you actually reading what I write? I clearly tell that the card is meant to get you started as a bootable CWM card.
That means that it takes you into a CWM version that is correct for flashing CM10.X.
Once you are in the correct CWM you flash the same way you did when you had the wrong CWM.
Once you've done your flashing you will have everything installed internally and you can throw away the card.
And to be extra clear: You have to add the actual ROM and gApps to the card, or if there isn't enough room to another card.
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There is no need for all that. I did what you said. I booted into the proper clockwork mod 6.0.2.7, I figured out that I need to copy the cm10.2 rom to the card and flash. I did that. the problem is that even after flashing it wont boot to cm 10 from the internal storage. It still boots to cwm 5.0.2.8
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That actually came to me as I was waiting for a reply. The reason I didnt thin of it sooner was that when I did the steps with the rooting stock nook it shrunk my card down to like 4 mb in size. I though this would do the same, and thus there would be no room for cm 10. However I decided to look and it was enough space. I just added the zip and flashed it with cwm 6.x.x. We'll see if it works
No luck. I flashed the cm 10.1.2 zip, I watch the blue status bar go all the way to the end, and the messages at the bottom say complete. I wipe the cache and the dalvik as suggested. and I hit reboot system. It just boots me right back into the cwm 5.0.2.8
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Did you mistakenly format the /boot partition? It sounds like a bootloop. That could happen because a 512 byte file in that partition got deleted, I forgot the name of the file though.
Also, for future reference, you don't even have to root your devices (most of the time) to get a recovery image and aftermarket OS installed. This is what I followed to get CM10.1 on my Nook Tablet, a video guide by Ray Waldo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6D4s3okNQk
The OS he is using in that video is a live Ubuntu CD/USB, one of many Linux distributions. You need a program called GParted to set flags on the partition. If you want, you can instead get the live CD of GParted, but it wont be as user friendly as Ubuntu. (I'm a Debian guy myself though).
asawi said:
Wich zip do you flash?
Try the one I suggest and if that works you can then flash another one to replace it if you want to.
You can start over with a completely 'virgin" stock Tablet in case it's your previous install of CWM 5 that's messing up things. Search for repart.img and run it and then start over again fresh
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I flashed cm-10.1.2-acclaim directly from the cm site under stable releases. So that's exactly what its called? repart.img? Is that one size fits all or is there a specific one for the nook tablet?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1663836 go to first page first post. You already have the tools so you just download the BN file, extract it and burn the repart.img
When you run the repart.img a green check mark should appear after a couple of minutes. When it does take out the card and the restore starts. If you get a red cross instead of the green check mark it means you messed up something when you were fiddling around in CWM 5.
If it does work I suggest you then follow my previous instructions again and use the exact ROM I link to as a starter setup that you then can change once you've seen things work.
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asawi said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1663836 go to first page first post. You already have the tools so you just download the BN file, extract it and burn the repart.img
When you run the repart.img a green check mark should appear after a couple of minutes. When it does take out the card and the restore starts. If you get a red cross instead of the green check mark it means you messed up something when you were fiddling around in CWM 5.
If it does work I suggest you then follow my previous instructions again and use the exact ROM I link to as a starter setup that you then can change once you've seen things work.
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I followed that guild to the letter, but there is no green check, it just says that it will shut down in 5 secs and remember to take the card out before powering up . The guide says that it should restart, but it doesnt. So thats where I am now.
What's on the screen before it says it will shut down? I have not heard of anyone not getting either the green or red mark.
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How far into this description from that topic does things work as described? I don't connect to computer when I do this. I just turn on power, but maybe some devices need to be kick started by inserting the powered USB cable. If so I would do that instead of pushing power button.
* Put that SD card in your Nook Tablet
* Connect your Nook to your PC/Laptop
* Hold the power button of your Nook until you see "n" logo pops up
* release the powe button, in 1-2 minutes you will see a messsge "Please DO NOT turn off your device.....installing new software"
* Now DONT do anythign to your Nook - Just sit back and relax
* Once Nook finishes installing IMG, a "Green Checkmark" will appear on top right hand corner
* Remove your SD card from your Nook Tablet
* You will see Nook will restart itself
* Then you will be see a message displaying "Clearing Data"
* Afterwords you will see a message displaying "Installing factory Software...Do not Turn off your device"
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its a black screen with a picture of a nook with a green arrow pointing down and a red X at the top right of the screen.
I figure the red X will turn into a green check once its done because it says in red letters installing software do not turn off the machine.
the green check never comes it just says shutting down in 5 seconds remember to remove SD card before powering on.
I have to remove the SD card I have tried leaving to SD card in I have waited for it to reboot on its own I have tried to reboot it myself it just never gets to the clearing data portion that is described in the guide
Well like I said before, the red x means you messed up something when in CWM 5. Probably what Sagirfahmid suggested. If you've ruined the boot section I can't help you. It is fixable and there are instructions here since you're certainly not the first one to have done it. I haven't dealt with that myself though so I can't help.
Until you find out what to do, run CM10 from that image you downloaded. It's very good and performs very well even from sd-card
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Could this be something? I haven't checked it out myself so I don't know.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25355594&postcount=8
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Since I suspect there's only a minor fault, here's something you can try. I have no idea if it can work, but it's worth a try! I have made a backup from a Tablet running CM10 and put a zip file of it in my Public DropBox folder. You can unzip it and try to use the restore fucntion in the CWM 6.x.x that you can get into with the sd-card you made. I don't think there is enough room for the backup file, but once CWM 6.x.x. is running you can switch sd cards. The reason I thought this would be worth a try is that the boot section is backed up, and in case there's a tiny problem with yours maybe this is all it needs to get going.
I will leave the link and the file for about 24 hours or until you say you've downloaded it (or say you're going to try something else instead).
Edit: Link removed. New link in later post!
asawi said:
Since I suspect there's only a minor fault, here's something you can try. I have no idea if it can work, but it's worth a try! I have made a backup from a Tablet running CM10 and put a zip file of it in my Public DropBox folder. You can unzip it and try to use the restore fucntion in the CWM 6.x.x that you can get into with the sd-card you made. I don't think there is enough room for the backup file, but once CWM 6.x.x. is running you can switch sd cards. The reason I thought this would be worth a try is that the boot section is backed up, and in case there's a tiny problem with yours maybe this is all it needs to get going.
I will leave the link and the file for about 24 hours or until you say you've downloaded it (or say you're going to try something else instead).
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21757912/2013-09-16.17.11.14.zip
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Thanks for the hint, but it didnt work either. It just aborted. I actually had enough space to put your image on the bootable card. I book into cyanoboot, and go to sdc recovery. It brings up cwm 6.0.2.7 and i try to flash your image from the sd card but it fails.
Anyone know where I can get instructions on how to repair/restore/reflash boot section. I've running the tab off the card with the cm 10 rom as mention in earlier posts, but I'd really like to get this fixed so it boots internally. Any help in pointing me to some instructions would help. Thanks
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Thanks for the hint, but it didnt work either. It just aborted. I actually had enough space to put your image on the bootable card. I book into cyanoboot, and go to sdc recovery. It brings up cwm 6.0.2.7 and i try to flash your image from the sd card but it fails.
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Did you unzip it like I said you should? You are NOT supposed to flash it! You go to "backup and restore" in CWM 6.x.x and choose restore. Doesn't sound to me like that's what you did.
When unzipped it's a folder that probably is too big for the boot card but you can switch to another card once CWM 6.X.X is running.
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asawi said:
Did you unzip it like I said you should? You are NOT supposed to flash it! You go to "backup and restore" in CWM 6.x.x and choose restore. Doesn't sound to me like that's what you did.
When unzipped it's a folder that probably is too big for the boot card but you can switch to another card once CWM 6.X.X is running.
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My fault I didn't unzip it before. However, I just tried it now with the unzipped folder on the root of the sd card, and i selected backup and restore and it just keeps saying cant mound sd card. I'm going to try to from the internal storage since i was able to get the tablet to boot with the help of cyanoboot.
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I booted into cyanoboot and got to the os, I attached tab to pc and copied your unzipped file to the internal storage. It says no files found when I selected backup and restore in cwm 6.x
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My fault I didn't unzip it before. However, I just tried it now with the unzipped folder on the root of the sd card, and i selected backup and restore and it just keeps saying cant mound sd card. I'm going to try to from the internal storage since i was able to get the tablet to boot with the help of cyanoboot.
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I booted into cyanoboot and got to the os, I attached tab to pc and copied your unzipped file to the internal storage. It says no files found when I selected backup and restore in cwm 6.x
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I think this time it's my mistake! It suddenly dawned on me that in CWM 6.x.x you can't just load the backup file like I was thinking. It need more. Hang on to the file and I'll see if I can figure out what else id needed!
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I think this time it's my mistake! It suddenly dawned on me that in CWM 6.x.x you can't just load the backup file like I was thinking. It need more. Hang on to the file and I'll see if I can figure out what else id needed!
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OK cool I'm at work now so I can't work on it either way, but post your suggestion/ links when you can and I'll try it out when I get home and report back. Thanks.
I really need help. Major problem.
My storage is not working at all (external-SD card one). I'll try to give all the info about the problem and how it appeared:
My One X+ was on CM 10.1.3 with BLADE kernel 3.1.10 #201305062233 (I didn't use the included kernel in the ROM.zip, used an older version instead). Yesterday I tried to update to CM 10.2 Nightly (I think it was 20131105) but through the CM Updater. It downloaded the ROM and I updated it without flashing the boot.img previously and the phone rebooted and got stuck at bootscreen but, ok, than I tried to flash the kernel through the One X+ Toolkit and it failed. From this point, I may have made some stupid things but here's what I did:
I forgot to clean cache and dalvik cache and since I couldn't flash new kernel I decided to go back to the previous ROM 10.1.3 and after I did it (without wiping data) it rebooted and acted weirdly so I went back to recovery and cleaned cache, dalvik and did a SD card format(!) Reason I did it was cause it didn't recognize anything on SD card when connected to PC via USB, but DID recognize everything in CWM recovery under the Flash new zip - menu. After that, I got lost. One more thing I also forgot - Google apps. I did not flash the zip and now it was deleted from SD along with ROM.zip and other stuff. I thought of bringing it back to SD, but... all I'm getting is this( image one) its emty and when I open properties it shows this (image two). When I try to copy anything on it it doesn't allow me. In phone's file manager I can access internal memory (system, sys, acct, data, rfs, root...) but inside storage-folder is only folder-emulated. No sdcard0, sdcard, legacy and that kind of stuff and if I try to crate them they disappear after reboot. Long story-short, now I can't do ANYTHING! Cant copy stuff to SD, can't flash kernels and ROMs, can't install RUU (i tried that one too-no results, and yes, I did re lock the bootloader), cant't swap recovery, can't use my phone for anything except for calling, texting and searching in the browser (but cant download anything). Another bummer is that I can't access Gapps.
So, to sum up: no way of using SD with phone or PC. I hope there is a way for using my storage again but I can't think of any.
PLEASE help if anyone knows the answer. I'll appreciate it. Thanks in advance. Any other info, just ask.
hey man i know this is a very old post but i have the exact same problem, did you find solution to this problem ?
Little bit of history. Stumbled into CM13 and android 6 via a "Nightly" download. So hadn't read up on it beforehand!
So chickened out and went back to CM12.1 and android 5.1.1.
I got so fed up running out of memory when reinstalling all my Apps so looked into increasing the partion size .
The thread I followed , by gsstudios, indicated I needed to have the pit file and the recovery file in at the same time.
That bit worked for me.
I could not get Iso Rec or TWRP to load up on my phone via Odin so I am stuck with CWM 6.0.5.1.
I am able to get into Recovery with CWM, clear all the caches, select a 12.1 zip file and confirm install. Next the android comes up briefly with some text, a couple of lines that disappear too quickly for me to see and it drops back into the CWM menu.
I have installed the files "emmc" , on my SD card, to check for "bricks" in the memory, again they take me straight back into the CWM menu so I have no idea if they have run correctly?
I have an identical phone, Samsung GTi9100 intl, running CM12.1 and android 5.1.1, just trhe sd card a different size,
so if anyone has an idea how to clone this onto my sick phone and get it working, "I'm yer friend for life"!!
Just referring back to when I briefly had Cyanogen Recovery on my phone when it failed to do something in recovery I could not read the writing that came with it so no use to me!
Volume Two
During one of my tries to flash a zip file from my SD01 card whilst using CWM, the error I was able to read said "something" like unable to load this file " you need TWRP Recovery".
So first lesson learnt, do as you are told!
So after a lot of searching and reading through the threads I found this one worked for me Via Odin.
AOSP.LP-Kernel+_25-08-2015.TWRP-2.8.7.0 tar. Sorry to the "Author" can't remember where I got it from but you know who you are and thanks. It may have not been an exact "Fit" but it got me TWRP on my phone!
An observation whilst using "Odin", a few of the posts seem to indicate it can be a bit "Flakey". I was using version 3.10.7 in the end and adopted the method of removing the battery and the USB lead after any error, bringing up "Odin Mode" on the phone again, starting the program in supervisor mode on the PC and reloading the files again.
I suspect if I had followed this method in the first place a few more "ideal" kernels would have worked for me!
So that's a second lesson.
Now I have a working TWRP. So I go into TWRP, (don't see many People using it on Youtube?), and the"Wipe" button gives me the basic wipe of the caches but I see some errors occuring, so I run it again and it shows just one error. So I go for broke a try and install a Zip file, it fails. So I look at the "in depth" wipe that shows up a heap of registers you can select so I select the lot and eventually I get a clean result but i've managed to wipe my SD card 01 with all my Zips on it.
I enabled USB storage in TWRP and was able to view my SD card 01 on my PC .So I tried to reload a Zip file to it "not enough storage"! Only 36 MB of a 15 GB SD card available?? Tried a Format of the SD card 01 from the PC that didn't help, although through the PC "Disk Manager" I could see the full 15GB.
So I formatted it in TWRP and that solved it I was able to reload my Zip files. After a "Careful" "Wipe" I was able to load a CM13.0-20160209-NIGHTLY-i9100 and BaNkS-Dynamic-GApps-6.x.x-10-20-15.
pa-gapps mod pico 5.0.1-20150221 came up with an error when I tried to load it.
I have read in one of the threads that later "Nightly's" have some problems?? I am having problems with MD5 failures indicated after the download finishes so perhaps I've been lucky?
If I look I'm sure there's and better GApps recommended out there.
When the Cyanogenmod loads it gives an option to use "Google Settings" to download your apps and settings, so as I had an identical phone I thought this was a quick way to get my apps loaded up. According to the write up on Android 6 that feature has been "Dropped/Discontinued",Shame!!
I should point out that I used a i91001GB_6GB.pit when I loaded my Kernel that all indicated a "Pass".
I reinstalled all my Apps from my PC and did not get a "not enough memory" error but will wait until I get a few updates OTA before I call that a success.
Hope this helps some one out there that there is another "Div" out here trying to make sense of it all.
Reminds me of IBM "Maps". Who does that ring a bell with??