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[Nook Color General] WJThomas:
Volume buttons borked, need to revert to stock

Leapinlar

This thread and your other threads on the Nook Color have provided me much help in the past. but I have encountered a problem that I cannot find the answer for.

I've been running CM7 and CWMR on the EMMC of this Nook Color. Something happened to my volume buttons, and since I am still under warranty I want to revert to factory so I can get it repaired/replaced.

I made a bootable TWRP v2.3.0.2 SD card and tried to just do the partition repair as a quick way to get back to the original partitioning scheme.

I got status 2 errors for all the scripts and discovered that I needed to update the update-binary. I've no done the repartition and reformat.

I want to load NookColor-emmc-stockrecovery.zip and nookcolor_1_4_3_signed.zip, but the both give status 7 errors and indicate that format expects 5 arguments but only got 2.

So now there is basically nothing on the Nook. The CWMR on the EMMC is useless without the volume buttons.

Is there something that I can change in the script in the zip, or better yet a zip updated for TWRP v2.3.0.2, or a TWRP that will work with the zip?

Is there some other way to reload this to stock without the volume buttons?

Thanks in advance.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Re: [USER][TIPS]CM7/CM9/CM10 User Tips From LeapinLar

The problem is TWRP. It demands a new binary and my script is not compatible with that new binary. The solution is to get my CWM from my tips thread and use that. Use the original binary too.

Sent from my Nook HD running CM10.1 on SD
[Nook Color General] WJThomas:
Am I missing something? Is there a new CWM that does not need the volume buttons to navigate? I had CWM on EMMC but could not use it. That is why I went to TWRP.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Re: [USER][TIPS]CM7/CM9/CM10 User Tips From LeapinLar

Oh, I guess I missed that. I will see I can find you an old TWRP or update my zip.

EDIT: I just made you an image for a bootable TWRP version 2.1.8. It will flash those zips. I just tested it on the stock recovery zip. Burn that to your SD and then you can boot to it to flash. See here.

Sent from my Nook HD running CM10.1 on SD
[Nook Color General] WJThomas:
Re: [USER][TIPS]CM7/CM9/CM10 User Tips From LeapinLar

Thanks so much. Now I can go deal with the replacement. The guy at the store did not want to talk to me when he learned I was running CM.

You might want to consider adding this to the original post for others that have the same problem. I saw several posts from people with volume button problems, but no real solutions.

I'm considering going back to an SD install for CM. But I guess as long as I have this boot image and those zips I can get back to stock as long as the Nook boots and the touchscreen works.

Thanks again.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Re: [USER][TIPS]CM7/CM9/CM10 User Tips From LeapinLar

Thank you for the suggestion. I just added links for the TWRP SD to the OP and to my partition repair thread.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on SD
[Nook Color General] WJThomas:
Re: [USER][TIPS]CM7/CM9/CM10 User Tips From LeapinLar

@Leapinlar

What will the partition sizes of the SD card be for a 16G card? I have an 8 and 32. I'm trying to decide what size to get for the kids Nooks.

Also is there a way to adjust the sizes? I'd like to bump data up enough to keep from having to move apps to the SD (this seems strange since it is all on SD), and the system is a bit big on the 32G card.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Re: [USER][TIPS]CM7/CM9/CM10 User Tips From LeapinLar

From my OP:

"The sizes of these partitions are determined by the size of the whole SD with the larger sizes being for the largest cards (SDs larger than 16GB). P1 is either 117MB (original verygreen) or 300MB (my updated version). P2 varies between 300MB and 920MB. P3 varies between 500MB and 1,950 MB. And p4 takes up the remainder of the SD."

So for a 16GB, p2 (system) is 460MB, and p3 (data) is 1950MB. And sdcard will be about 13GB.

If you want to bump up p3, get Mini-Tool Partition Wizard free on the web. Boot the SD once without installing a zip so it creates the partitions, then insert SD into PC. Open Mini-Tool and delete p4. Then expand p3 to the size you want it (if it won't expand, delete it and recreate to the size you want, primary, ext4). Recreate p4 to fill remaining space (primary, fat32). Then you can proceed to install the ROM. Again, this must be done before the SD has ever had a ROM on it.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on SD
[Nook Color General] standupdad:
Going to be using A15 from Lep's tip to recover the emmc back to stock. With that, what is the best CWM link in his tips thread to use. It is somewhat confusing
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Re: [USER][TIPS]CM7/CM9/CM10 User Tips From LeapinLar

You need to use one of the bootable versions either 5504 or 6012. I prefer 5504. And be sure to use my format 567 zip before you flash the ROM.

And to answer your other message, if the card is burned properly, it should boot no matter what ROM is on emmc. If it does not boot, it is not burned properly. If it tries to boot but hangs, something is corrupt on the SD.

It is possible that your second Nook is not a Nook Color, but a Nook Tablet. They are not compatible. The Nook Tablet has a silver bezel and the Nook Color has a black one.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
[Nook Color General] standupdad:
Leap,

Thanks for the reply. I knew about the 567 from previous reading. Also, I pulled the trigger on downloading 6012 before I read this. Note that these are both NC's, not NT's. I'm cheap, so I went with the lower end stuff that's worked for me and my wife in the past. I chose them for my kids. Well, one is screaming away and working like a champ for my 10 year old, but the other two now won't boot up at all.

/sigh

It's been a bad week.

PS I used your TWRP image instead of CWM even though I dl'd 6012.

[EDIT] Update - 7:12PM - Read Forever! So far, EMMC is now flashed and working as hoped. I was able to get it to power up, and I wasted no time. Flashed 567, then 1.4.3, and next boot all was working. Now off to CM 7.2 after kids get a bath. Tenacity I got. Expertise, that's Lep. Not knowing if I followed his previous steps to the T, my fault. Methodically making sure I take every Lep step slowly, done. Will report on results soon.

[EDIT] Update 2 - Past couple of hours kicking my butt. Rom and Gapps seem to install, and then the unit is powered off. But when I try to power back on, no powering on happens. If I remove the card, every time, I can power on, but only into the standard NC rom, not the SD. Have tried multiple cards, and same thing each time, I can install update-cm-blah blah and gaps, but if I leave it in there and try to power on after, nada. Working on getting it working after heading back to Tips.

[EDIT] Update 3 - Seemed there was an issue with the SD 1.3 img. I redownloaded it, imaged the SD, placed the same two files on there, and it allowed me to restart the NC. Corrupt? /Shrug

So, here's the longoftheshort that started the whole thing. My wife told me that she powered off my son's NC. That was running TWRP 2.3.x I believe, and CM 7.2. It was powered on and was stuck at loading. If I removed the card, it would boot to an EMMC version of 7.2. Oddly enough, I would guess that this first happened a couple of weeks back because I noticed that all of his icons on the desktop changed. So either she or he somehow performed an install onto the NC itself. No matter what I did, I couldn't get the NC to boot to the SD.

After some time, and with Lep's help, I made a boot disk with the intent on reflashing stock and making sure that partions 5, 6, and 7 were taken care of. All of that worked until I went to my 1.3 SD with 7.2 and gapps. Everything seemed to go through okay, and after several attempts at proving that it wasn't going to work, I "Started Over". I redownloaded 1.3 image again, copied my 7.2 and gapps to that image, and Viola, it worked.

So don't ever get stuck believing it was just one thing that is causing your grief. In my case, I had EMMC flashed, when it shouldn't have been, at one time I saw that an SD was showing RAW when it was just working moments before, had an SD that had a bad image on it, and got married to my first wife when I shouldn't have. Even Einstein got a divorce. Why should I think that I'm any smarter than him.

Thanks for getting me started on the right path to resolution!

SuD
[Nook Color General] WJThomas:
Re: [USER][TIPS]CM7/CM9/CM10 User Tips From LeapinLar

@Leapinlar

I successfully reconfigured my NC and my kids NCs back to stock on emmc and PA on SD. Thanks again.

I did have one incident with my microSD cards. A while back I had a card that I could not write/format with my PC. I stuck it back in the NC and it formatted fine. Back to the PC and it was fine. Now one of my new cards would not write/format in the PC after the initial partitioning boot in the NC. I could reformat back in the NC, but this time it still didn't work in the PC. After some googling and reading I discovered that my microSD to SD adapter has an unlabeled write protect switch. Apparently I had bumped the switch on and off while using it. After that I had no more problems. I read that you had some microSD cards that went read only. Could this be your issue too?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Re: [USER][TIPS]CM7/CM9/CM10 User Tips From LeapinLar

No, I tried everything to revive my SD that quit. I have an external card reader just for microSDs so no adapter necessary.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
[Nook Color General] pavelbessmertny:
Hi there and thanx for useful post. Just installed CM 10 by encore as of March 10 over CM 7.2. Everything works fine except for Play Market does not launch and same with Gmail :( Could u give advice or direct me to a thread where i can find answers. Thanks in advance.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Re: [USER][TIPS]CM7/CM9/CM10 User Tips From LeapinLar

Did you wipe data/factory reset before you flashed the CM10? Some can get by without doing it, but it sounds like you need to now. And what version of gapps did you install over what you had? It needs to be gapps-jb-20121011-signed.zip.

Go to CWM, factory reset and flash the right gapps.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
[Nook Color General] pavelbessmertny:
No, I didn't wipe, my wife wanted to keep her Angry Birds progress :) But what's more important, I didn't install new gapps at all... I thought it would update automatically. What a noob I am :) I'll start from this and if it continues, I might go back to CM7. I also found that the screen response to touch is much worse than it was on CM7. And thanx for your help!
[Nook Color General] brsingr:
So after successfully restoring my Nook's EMMC back to stock 1.4.3 following A15, what is the best way to root it and is there a way to put CWM on the EMMC area? the reason i went back to stock is because i was having alot of battery issues with CM7.2 on the mirage kernel...and I dont really use my nook much anymore (always on my R800x) but i still want the functionality of being rooted and using Google play and its apps.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Yes, use Manual Nooter 5.08.20. That will root and put Play Store on stock. And I have a zip that will put CWM on emmc attached to the OP.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
[Nook Color General] brsingr:
after following This thread for rooting how can i get the market to update to the Play store? none of the instructions on the first post state how...and even if they do they dont work...until I can get it updated I cant update any of the apps that are part of the 2nd option (the one that doesnt have app2sd support but blocks B&N update) I've tried getting ahold of the vendor apk but the nook isnt liking it, saying something about unarchive then rearchive it or issues in parsing the file.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You're going to have to ask that question there. As far as I know, market updates itself to play store. I know adding a vendor apk will not do it.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
[Nook Color General] PullTab:
leapinlar you rock!

Thanks for your time and your post. I have been on for the last two weeks doing this to my nook color, well several nook colors and also modding my xoom. Its amazing what you guys can do.

I have one questioning regarding TWRP, for what ever reason my volume button will not work in universal bootloader. I used the evergreen sd boot so i could keep my wifes nook still functioning. Then i wanted to but the ALT Clockwork mod so i could wipe it and go from 10.0 to 10.1 rom. But i cant get to the alt because volume doesnt work. (however when using the nook or 10.0 the volume up button works fine not down) if i use a different sd card and use the bootable TWRP will it wipe out the EEMC nook 1.4.3. or will it load on its own so i wipe everything,and load the previous sd card with 10.1 and its gapps evergreen should take it from there?? I searched high and low to know avail if i missed it my bad. I have never used TWRP wasnt sure how it loaded.

Thanks!
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Unless you use a TWRP that has been modified to work with an SD install, it will act on whatever you have on emmc. I know of no TWRP that has been modified.

There is a way to rename your SD boot files so you can get the Alt CWM to come up, but if your volume keys do not work, that will do you no good.

You can try just installing CM10.1 over the top of CM10, but that may not work very well. If it runs funny, just do a full format with SDFormatter and start over with CM10.1.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
[Nook Color General] PullTab:
that's what was finding as well. Thanks for your time. Again amazing work.
[Nook Color General] scoobaspeaz:
I have a sick Nook Color here on my hands. I cannot boot at all (black screen) normally. The ONLY thing i can do is boot to CWM using the SD boot image 1gb_clockwork-3.2.0.1-eyeballer.img anything other than that one and it will not boot. When it boots into CWM it will not mount my sdcard. It will also not mount any other partitions on the device such as /boot, /system etc.. so i cannot format anything. Since it wont mount my sdcard i cant flash the partition fix zips in the post. The CWM SD boot you have in the this thread does not even make my nook even attempt to boot. Only difference i can see is the eyeballer cwm uses the entire sdcard with no partitions and your SD image does use a partition. That and you use cyanoboot whereas the eyeballer one just boots to CWM. I have no idea where to go from here.

I have zero ADB connectivity to it.

I have hope that since i can at least get it booting to CWM using the eyeballer CWM (even though i cant mount the SDCard for some reason even though it booted from SDCARD) that there is something that can hopefully be done to fix this.

Here is what I did to get to this point:

1. Used 1gb_clockwork=3.2.0.1-eyeballer.img to try to flash CM 10.1, gapps, and CWM.

2. That caused some odd hybrid mix of nook os and cwm.

3. was stuck at the cyanogenmod boot screen with it being sideways and a really small box

4. started over with the below

1. Flashed ManualNooter following the instructions here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1494901 The nook OS version i had was 1.4.2

2. Flashed CWM via Rom Manager

3. Powered down Nook

4. pulled out SD card and formatted it

5. Put CM 10.1 and Gapps on SD card

6. Booted into CWM 6 and began to flash CM 10.1

7. was almost done with CM 10.1 flash and it shut off for some reason

8. I am now at the point i described above.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Not sure I can help much with the problems you are having. Some make sense, some don't.

The not turning on without a bootable SD inserted is due to having a borked boot partition on emmc. The Nook will not even attempt to turn on unless there is a valid set of boot files either on emmc or SD. Obviously you do not have a set on emmc now. That last attempt to flash CM10.1 messed it up. The last thing a CM zip does is replace the boot files on emmc and that is where it failed.

Now why the eyeballer CWM boots and mine does not does not make sense to me. Did you try all three versions? 5.5.0.4, 6.0.1.2 and TWRP 2.1.8?

You can doctor eyeballer's SD to put my CWM files on it to see if it will boot my CWM on his SD. Copy uImage and uRamdisk from my CWM SD and replace them on eyeballer's CWM SD. Then it should boot with my CWM.

And when you say 3.2.0.1 won't mount sdcard, you mean you cannot get it to select a zip from SD that you have copied there from the PC?

And you can't get ADB to work when the eyeballer CWM is booted? Did you have ADB set up previously?

Sent from my Nook HD+ running rooted stock
[Nook Color General] scoobaspeaz:
ty for the reply. I have tried moving over the files you said it and used eyeballers image but same result. Right now im looking at a CM 6.0.1.2 recovery but it cant mount my /sdcard. I am not able to see the zip files because it wont mount my zip card. The image used to be able to before all this happened so this makes zero sense to me as well. The sdcard slot has to work or else it wouldnt boot off off it so i am not sure why CWM cant mount it. With yours it wont boot at all..i too am not sure about that unless the nook is looking for the entire disk to be used and not a partition. I have no idea and im grasping at straws.

If i look in the status messages it says the following

E: Cant ' mount /cache/recovery/command

E: Cant ' mount /cache/recovery/log

E: Cant ' open /cache/recovery/log

E: Cant ' mount /cache/recovery/last_log

E: Cant ' open /cache/recovery/last_log

E: Cant't mount /sdcard/

Its a very odd thing.

No ADB at all but honestly I have never tried before this happened to my nook. I do have ADB set up as i use it all the time on my galaxy nexus and xoom.

---------- Post added at 02:19 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:35 PM ----------

I also want to add that even with the eyeballer image burned it doesnt boot on first push of the button. Its normally booting after several attempts at pushing the power button. I dont know exactly how many times but it might be random or it might be a trigger of the 8 failed for all I know. But it does not boot on first push of the button. It used to back when things were working properly.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Did you try a different SD? That might be the problem.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
[Nook Color General] scoobaspeaz:
Yea I tried one that was in my Xoom as well. :/
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
What was the brand and class of each of those cards?

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc
[Nook Color General] scoobaspeaz:
PNY one is a class 10 and the other a 4
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Both PNY? I suggest you find a cheap SanDisk class 4. They are solid. I have had a lot of trouble getting PNY to boot and run.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc
[Nook Color General] scoobaspeaz:
I will give that a shot then. I can get one at best buy and give it a try. The PNY card though did boot up just fine when i had an SD install of CM 10 on it. In hindsight i wish i would have just left it running that way. I honestly have no idea what went wrong though. I followed directions and got it to the point of flashing the actual rom..was going great till the very end.

I dont think its "bricked" though since im at least able to boot to CWM in at least one way. What are your thoughts?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
It is not bricked, just may need some major work to get it back. May have to manually reconstruct the partitions. But get your CWM card working first.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running rooted stock
[Nook Color General] scoobaspeaz:
That is good to hear honestly :) I will see if i can get a sandisk brand card ASAP..maybe tonight if i can get free. Do you know if there is a type of image out there that would have a repair type of function. Meaning something that is ran automatically on boot that can go out and repair it. Maybe something that B&N would use to repair this type of problem?

Im open to try anything to get this thing working again :)
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
I don't know of anything.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running rooted stock
[Nook Color General] scoobaspeaz:
what about a Class 10 SanDisk card? Not recommended for what I need to do to fix this? Best Buy seems to only have that class in stock from SanDisk.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Not if it is an ultra. Too many problems with those. Try staples or office depot.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc
[Nook Color General] scoobaspeaz:
I went out and got a Sandisk class 4 non-ultra card and tried your image again. Did not boot. I flashed the eyeball image and it went right to CWM (no cyanoboot) and still says E: Cant mount /sdcard

I'm at a loss as to what to do next. I have been googling the crap out of this with not much luck...every post i find eventually leads me back to you :)
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
I just now went back and read your first post carefully. It almost sounds like you mixed up some files from different devices. That is not supposed to be possible since almost all zips have safety checks built in to prevent that. But older CWMs like eyeballer's have the ability to toggle off those safety checks. It is called "asserts" that makes sure you do not flash a Nook Tablet ROM on a Nook Color. Do you still have that CM10.1 zip. Does it say encore in the title? Also that 6.x CWM you had ROM manager put on emmc is suspicious to me. My experience has been that ROM Manager stopped with version 3.2.0.1.

There are a couple of other things to try to get my CWM SD to boot. First, plug your USB cable in to your PC while trying to boot. Or try holding the power and n key together.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc
[Nook Color General] scoobaspeaz:
The CM 10.1 update came from cyanogenmod's site and it did say encore. As for the CWM update it came from rom manager. It detected i had a Nook Color then flashed it to that version.

When i plug my nook in my laptop the device does get detected but nothing ever boots. I see the following information in /var/log/messages (I am a RH user):

May 4 22:44:50 unimatrix kernel: [669242.816047] usb 2-1.1: USB disconnect, device number 19

May 4 22:45:27 unimatrix kernel: [669279.348680] usb 2-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 20 using ehci-pci

May 4 22:45:27 unimatrix kernel: [669279.434288] usb 2-1.1: unable to get BOS descriptor

May 4 22:45:27 unimatrix kernel: [669279.436063] usb 2-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=0451, idProduct=d00e

May 4 22:45:27 unimatrix kernel: [669279.436069] usb 2-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=33, Product=37, SerialNumber=0

May 4 22:45:27 unimatrix kernel: [669279.436073] usb 2-1.1: Product: OMAP3630

May 4 22:45:27 unimatrix kernel: [669279.436077] usb 2-1.1: Manufacturer: Texas Instruments

May 4 22:45:27 unimatrix mtp-probe: checking bus 2, device 20: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.1"

May 4 22:45:27 unimatrix mtp-probe: bus: 2, device: 20 was not an MTP device

May 4 22:45:30 unimatrix kernel: [669282.592199] usb 2-1.1: USB disconnect, device number 20
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You are a Linux user? How are you burning these cards? With dd? You need to make sure you have the device set right in Linux. dding to just a partial device will mess it up. That is why my card is not booting.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc
[Nook Color General] scoobaspeaz:
I am doing this:

dd if=CWM-6.0.1.2-bootable_SD.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
It is supposed to be of=/dev/sda or something like that. Look at your devices with gparted.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc