[Nook Touch General] tmaue:
I hate to have to write this asking for help but I wasn't able to use the other posts I found to help me. The directions for touchnooter seemed straight forward, but I am stuck anyway. Here is what I did and what is happening, and what I have tried to remedy situation. It is a bit long, but I wanted to be as complete as I can.

I have a new nook bought at end of March so assuming it has latest update. I followed directions and was able to get touchnooter onto microsd card. I stuck it in nook and turned on. I got an instruction screen saying to take card out when screen goes black and reboot. My screen did go dim but you could still see the writing behind. I wasn't sure if this what they meant by going black or if I was waiting for complete darkness. I think I panicked for a second (don't know why) and might have rebooted with the card still in (would this have created a problem that I will be describing).

So upon rebooting, it goes through the same reboot nook screen, gets to a screen with an n and the balls and that is the furthest I have gotten it. Messing with the power key seems to initiate a reboot, but it still never makes it past the n screen. Cannot turn off the nook. I was able to get it to give me the factory reset message by doing the failed reboot 8 times. I tried that a couple times but wasn't able to get any further past the screen with the n, so it seems it may not be doing any resetting. I tried repeating the rooting process (except for the shuting down the nook part since I can't actually get it to shut down) and it gave me the same rooting instruction page but no change the problem of not getting past n screen.

I have seen people asking similar questions about rooting with something else called CNW or something because the touchnooter didn't work for them but I didn't understand the instructions and wanted to get help first before trying something else. I had also read that there is something called a factory restore, which is supposed to be different from reset but I don't know how to do that. I downloaded barnes and nobles latest update thinking I would just reload it/ but I can't see my nook from my computer (do I need to download some drivers? Or is this because it can't get past the n screen?). I tried using a different microsd card in case the first was faulty, but didn't help.

Does it seem there is something wrong with the touchnooter content on the card, like maybe it doesn't work with the latest nook update? Also wanted to mention, I did not do a backup before trying to root. I originally planned to but after I was done researching what I needed to do and got to the touchnooter downloading directions, they didn't mention it, so I didn't do it (besides that, I don't know how to do it and don't know if it would help in this situation anyway). Could it be that the nook itself has a problem?

Anyway, I would still like to root but would be happy to at least get a basic nook back. If you have made it this far in reading my problem, what do you think I should try? I am thinking of taking it back since I don't think it actually rooted but if I can fix it, that would be better. Thanks in advance for anyone who takes the time to work on this with me. I wish I had someone right in front of me to ask questions to but this the next best thing.

Thanks!

Tara