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[Nook Touch General] troelsfr:
Disclaimer

Before even consider reading this, know that I cannot be held responsible if following these steps will: brick your device, make your girl friend break up with you, start third world war or do any other kind of damage.

Motivation

This tutorial is intended to help people who did not make a full backup of their device and applied the Alpha-FormatTouch-2.zip to their device and as a result lost the GlowLight feature. It took me a couple of days to figure out how to revert to factory settings, and thus, I hope that I can save others time.

Preliminary

You need

Nook Simple Touch Glowlight, semibricked

SD Card

SD card reader

Downloads

Download the following files:

factory.zip - downloads[dot]nanophysics[dot]dk/nstg/factory[dot]zip (if you have a copy of your own factory.zip -- found on the partition /factory/ -- use that instead)

[ClockworkMod - downloads[dot]nanophysics[dot]dk/nstg/sd_128mb_clockwork-rc2[dot]zip

Install Clockworkmod on SD card

On Mac OS X, plug in the SD card and find the device using

$ diskutil list

I will assume that your device is /dev/disk1. Unmount the disk

sudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1

and write the ClockworkMod to it

sudo dd if=128mb_clockwork-rc2.img of=/dev/disk1

Copy the factory.zip to the disk and eject it.

On Windows you can use Win32Imager.

Install factory image

Power off your Nook and insert the SD card. Then power it up. After a while the CWM menu will appear (if you get a white screen press right-down). Select "install zip from sdcard" using the right side navigation to go up and down and u to enter. If you enter the wrong menu you can go back on right up. Now select "choose zip from sdcard" and choose factory.zip. Finally, click the option saying "yes - install factory.zip"

After a few minutes the installation is complete and if everything went ok, you should now be back to the original factory software.

Reset user settings (optional)

If you want your Nook to be completely reset, you can optionally do a reset of your settings. Power off you Nook. Power it up again and hold left and right down simultaneously for around 30 s. Answer yes twice. After a while your Nook has been reset.

Backup

Finally, it is time to do what you should have done in the first place (and probably also the reason why you are following this tutorial): Make a full backup of your Nooks internal SD card. See blog[dot]the-ebook-reader[dot]com/2012/05/02/how-to-backup-and-restore-nook-glow-and-nook-simple-touch for more information.
[Nook Touch General] shank21101985:
Thanks for the tutorial. However i just had a few queries.

1. My NSTG is rooted and functioning normally. Only glowlight does not work. Does your tutorial apply to such a device too.

2. How can i take backups of my current /rom and /factory partitions so that i can restore them in case of any eventuality.

Thanks a bunch in advance.
[Nook Touch General] jjinkou2:
i just erase every thing . now my nook is completely messed up.

I can't find your factory.zip would you mind resend it please ?
[Nook Touch General] troelsfr:
If your NSTG is rooted, this may remove rooting - at least I think, I did not try. However, you can always reroot.

Regarding backup, I would make a full image backup before starting. If you have a Windows box, follow the instruction on blog[dot]the-ebook-reader[dot]com/2012/05/02/how-to-backup-and-restore-nook-glow-and-nook-simple-touch and make a full backup of your system.

I have only done backup of individual partitions on Linux: Boot the device with noogie.img and plug it in. On Ubuntu,t 6-8 partitions should immediately appear.
[Nook Touch General] troelsfr:
There was missing a slash in the URL. It has been fixed.
[Nook Touch General] roustabout:
Are you able to register a device reimaged using this factory.zip to your BN account?

If not, it's a bit of a pain for folks.

I have a disk image made via

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 of=/part1.img bs=1M

This contains teh whole of a US NSTG's first partition; restoring it using

dd if=part1.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 bs=1M

allows me to boot my device, and the glow still works.

This seems to be more likely to restore the glow function yet preserve the ability to register with BN - the factory.zip method is not generic, as far as I know, it will restore some other person's NST serial number, mac address and other identifiers to your device, won't it?

If someone will PM me, I'll send a zipped copy of my .img file to them and let them try using it to recover glow function and their own registration in a nook glow. If that works, it can be posted more widely.
[Nook Touch General] troelsfr:
Remark that I recommend that people use their own factory.zip image. Nevertheless, all these data you mention are stored on the rom partition. To my awareness this partition is only overwritten if one applies rombackup.zip, but not by factory.zip. Thus, your B&N shop should be fully functional afterwards. I did apply someone elses factory.zip first, and I had no problems registering my device. However, if anyone would experience such an issue, please drop a line in this thread.

In any case, you should always do a full system image before following tutorials like this one, or for that matter, before apply someone elses partition images to your own device.
[Nook Touch General] troelsfr:
Judging from your other post (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1836188&page=4), the partition you have made a copy of, is the boot partition? If glow was already working, it will still work after overwriting the boot image.

However, if it was not working already, it is very unlikely that installing a new boot image will resolve the issue described here, since it is a consequence having downgraded the OS.
[Nook Touch General] roustabout:
I had not understood that the device you're targeting with this thread is an NSTG running 100% noo simple touch software - the thread refers to a problem with the alpha touch formatter, but I had not realized that was the outcome of the tool.

I've seen a few people describe their NSTGs as "fine, but not glowing any more" and had not seen those folks explain that they were running NST software on the NSTG.

For those folks, I had thought copying in the boot environment and kernel would be helpful. My understanding was that the kernel in the NSTG at software 1.1.5 was different than the NST kernel; I was thinking that getting the kernel and other boot hooks ready was what was really missing.

Fortunately, there's now a 1.2.0 updater out, and I suspect that soon there will be a CWM installable 1.2.0 update which will be super helpful. (Though folks will still need a partition table - I think that would be another use of writing in a viable first partition followed by a restart, to get the partition table straightened out before proceeding.)
[Nook Touch General] troelsfr:
Ok. No this thread is not intended for people who have destroyed partition tables etc., but only for people who have downgraded their software by using NST recovering guides on their NSTG device. I found it relevant to explain how this is done, since many people complain that their NSTG works, except that glow light no longer works. If they look into the software version they find something below 1.1.5, like 1.1 which was my case. I could not find a guide which explained me what to do after screwing up the software, hence this guide.

Partition tables and "accidently formatting" is a completely other issue. In the end, here the main problem is that people do not make a backup as they assume that everything is going to be fine. I assumed that myself. However, at some point I will have a look at the rom partition, because I think it is quite limited amount of information you find their. It should be possible to restore your Nooks serial number -- it is written on the package of the Nook -- after applying another Nooks image. I just received my second Nook so I am going to try this at some point.
[Nook Touch General] shank21101985:
Thank you so much for sharing the solution.. finally my glowlight works now !!
[Nook Touch General] thanmeo78:
Hic, I cannot download the image file, my backup file was deleted, anyone can upload that image for me?

Thanks so much:crying:
[Nook Touch General] john2k10:
factory.zip

I know it's a long shot, but if anyone has a copy of the factory.zip from a glowlight I'd really appreciate it. I've installed a non-glowlight one for now, but would really love my backlight back!

Cheers!
[Nook Touch General] nmyshkin:
So did you actually replace the factory.zip with one for the NST or did you just run a restore from, say, NookManager? I'm not too sure about this, but I think it's kind of difficult to wipe the factory.zip. Anyway, since I'm not familiar with the NTG, and you seem to have done something that others have also done before, have a look at this old thread and see if it gets you anywhere:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1936458
[Nook Touch General] nmyshkin:
Mmm......have a look at this:

http://waveswirl.blogspot.com/2013/01/xda-developers-tutorial-how-to.html
[Nook Touch General] fennectech:
Its dead I need a glowlight factory image
[Nook Touch General] neo702:
can someone please re-upload the glowlight factory image please.... Thank you in advance
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aymentouhent:
Hello all,

I installed the last update of android on my note 10 but proximity pointer of my Span is down and not working even if i activate/desactivate it from parameters.

Is it a regression?

Does any body has this problem?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] viral316:
i really like the gallery app of v4.0.4...in jb v4.1.2 gallery look is little chang i want to port old gallery app to jb...is there any way to so....
[LG Optimus 3D] RenzoR:
Hello,

For ~ 2 weeks,my phone is lagging and sometimes is freezing when i open ,for example, Soundcloud and Facebook.It`s normal?I think it didn`t do like that before,but maybe i`m wrong,i know it have small RAM memory.

First it was doing like this with ThaiZ ROM,now i changed with Darkroom with CPU overclocking ,and i`m using Supercharger script.Same problem.

I don`t have many apps installed,i use just SwiftKey as keyboard,WhatsApp,Facebook and Souncloud.

Do you have some ideas of what`s wrong with it?

Thanks.
[LG Optimus 3D] p-vlad:
give us more information

ROM - version? GB/ICS?

baseband - version?

KERNEL - developer, version, overclock, undervolt?

etc.
[LG Optimus 3D] RenzoR:
(It`s downloaded from a link that you posted it,kernel too)

ROM is GB Darkroom v1 Korean Small

Baseband is v21e

Kernel is TitanKernel Speed_V1_(1208)

Same thing happend with ThaiZ ROM , indeed the Darkroom is very fast,but sometimes it freeze for 30s-1min, after that all seems ok,but i get force closes too often with WhatsApp and Soundclound,nothing else.
[LG Optimus 3D] p-vlad:
how did you install it: CWM or TOUCH CWM?

have you complete all steps from the installation - wipe etc,

have you try to downclock your CPU?

install "OS monitor" from market and see who is making big LOAD when this happens.

how is your daily battery live?
[LG Optimus 3D] RenzoR:
With CWM non touch.

Yes wipe data/factory reset,wipe dalvik cache.

No i haven`t.

Ok i will do that.

10-12h with heavy Whatsapp messages and 3g/wifi always on.

24h+ with less usage.
[LG Optimus 3D] p-vlad:
-------

- Make wipe data - wipe cache

- Make at Advanced - wipe dalvik cache

- Make Mount & storage

- Format data

- Format cache

- Format system

- After Install zip from sdcard

---------

post picture here what you see with OS monitor when this happens. (picture making - POWER + HOME)
[LG Optimus 3D] RenzoR:
Ok i`m now deleting all i have in internal storage and sd card,reinstall with your steps and will see after.
[LG Optimus 3D] p-vlad:
do it
[LG Optimus 3D] RenzoR:
Until now,the phone runs ok,just one force close on Whatsapp.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Oscar-Mark:
New:

• Option to delete apps from wishlist.

• New installed app page.

• Translate button in description.

WARNING: This update gives Google the permission to see exact location with GPS.

Download link (thanks tmantanner4): https://www.dropbox.com/s/kaniguc20dclfp7/com.android.vending.apk

Edit: Found new translate button. Updated with english screenshots.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] tmantanner4:
Here you go man

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kaniguc20dclfp7/com.android.vending.apk
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] CJHolderUK:
Thanks, updated. Works well. How long has GPlay had a wish list? xD
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] Oscar-Mark:
Haha, since 3.9.17 the previous one
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] metalwraith:
updated my phone & tablet this morning with the new version.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devilmen666:
hi, i am a bit confused on how to flash this rom , some posts contradict them selves, im currently on rocket rom v7 (speedmod kernel).

do i have to downgrade to a rooted gingerbread rom , then flash cm9, then flash JB:CM10:HYBRID] PARANOIDANDROID, or can i just flash

JB:CM10:HYBRID] PARANOIDANDROID rom from clock work recovery on rocket rom v7 as it is a safe kernel .. thanks:good:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nokiamodeln91:
yes you can flash it directly on this rom, speedmod is a safe kernel.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] cing01:
My phone stucked at sony logo :( and I cant enter the recovery mode. Even on flashtool. It cant detects my phone. No led light. what should I do? :crying:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Ghostfreak NB:
Can you give in more details regarding your steps?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] cing01:
solved! :)

The have solve my problem. I pressed the volume down button instead of back button. :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] diestarbucks:
Going to close this since you got it sorted. For future reference OP, please post in the correct section and be more specific in your thread title so people can better find your post.

Thanks,

DSB
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KrisPerry:
I have the 3100 which has GSM phone call capability. When I make a call in landscape mode it rotates the screen to portrait for the duration of the call. I have tried a few different roms, paranoid Android, aokp and all seem to be the same.

Does anyone know how to solve this
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidlover123:
Its not a problem.its a default setting.

It is because when receiving a call user needs a speaker at ear and a microphone at mouth.that is why it automatically change orientation from portrait to landscapes
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KrisPerry:
Yes but what if I'm using a headset
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rozelle25:
I have this option on another android tablet. I have one app that i want to zoom to fill screen but i can't seem to find how to do this. Thoughts?
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rozelle25:
Looks like this is the solution for now:

Settings->Accessibility->Magnification gestures->Turn "on"

After you tap 3 times you can pinch/zoom and maneuver the screen to your liking. Unfortunately you have to do it each time you launch the app.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackhand1001:
They mean the compatibility mode that used to be present in the tablet UI. Seems it got removed in the transition to the phone ui.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] keithross39:
Hi....I have what to some may be a basic question.....I want to buy an app. If after I've done so, I change ROM (from CM9 to CM10 for example) I'll obviously have to re install it. Will I be forced to purchase the app again, or will play store recognise that I've already purchased it and allow me to re download it without charge?.......

From my Galaxy W on CM9 and CWM6 with Tapatalk 2
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] nubik:
Most of the time the Play Store will recognized your account and you don't have to repurchase the item.

But sometimes I do get this weird issues where in some roms the Play Store doesn't recognize my account. But it's all good after I reflashed the 2nd time. I don't know if anyone else got this issues.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] keithross39:
OK....so bearing that in mind, what location in phone memory does play store download my apps to? And is it possible to make a backup copy that I can manually re install after flashing a new ROM?....

From my Galaxy W on CM9 and CWM6 with Tapatalk 2
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] 7amada100:
putting in mind that you really purchased it, you don't want to lose it because of changing a rom. so perform a backup (titanium backup) and when you go to the playstore again they will automatically find your purchase ;) . after restoring the app
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] keithross39:
Lol...we're not all freebee seeking pirates here.....I commented to a dev about improving a theme, as a result of that communication, he provided me with a link to get his tapatalk app for free.....he asked me not to share the link...and I haven't.....and out of respect for him and his work, I won't either.....

The reason I asked that question is I want to legitimately upgrade from rom toolbox lite....to the full version....but when I upgrade to CM10, I want to make sure I can get it back without paying for it again....

From my Galaxy W on CM9 and CWM6 with Tapatalk 2
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] pepoluan:
When changing generations (e.g., GB to ICS or ICS to JB), I strongly suggest to not use any backup, but instead download fresh from Play Store.

Backups might save some prior-generation binaries, rendering the app unstable or worse.

As long as you login properly to Play Store, all purchase status will be restored.

Heck, I even can purchase something using my W, but via web Play Store push it to my Ainol Tablet. One purchase for all devices... even though the Ainol is running JB while the W is running ICS...

A (slight extreme) anecdote: I purchased ADW Launcher EX for my GB Galaxy Ace last year. When it's finally updated a couple of weeks ago, I pulled it on my ICS W. Earlier today, I pushed it (via web Play Store) to my JB Ainol Tablet.

One purchase, three devices, three generations :cool:

A less extreme example: When I was still using stock, I purchased Tasks+. Then, I changed to Bionic Cow 2, and somehow I managed to clobber my backups. No problem, I just download Tasks+ again (no repeat purchase necessary). Then I installed CM9b1 'Pristine'-ly, and downloaded Tasks+ again. And about one month ago, I went mad and installed CM9b3 Pristine, and of course, Tasks+ is still listed as purchased (but, this time, I restored from TiBU).

-- xda app / Pristine No-Mod CM9b3 / DXKL1 baseband / GT-I8150 --
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] sairegsx:
Am trying to test some kernels am been building from source, but all the guides i have found have an specific line when merging the zImage and the Initramfs back together, i think they are phone specific, any kernel developer might share some help with it?

what is the command to put zImage and ramdisk together for our GS3(tmo)??
[HTC One X] X10@Germany:
Hi,

my HOX fell down this night two times.

This morning i wanted to take a picture, but my Cam doesnt work??

When I want to open the Cam App the Cam Window appears but its black.

The Mirror doesnt work neither.

Is this a Hardware or a Software Issue?

My Phone is flashed
[HTC One X] teddybig:
I think if you dropped it and didn't do anything to it software wise its very probably a hardware issue
[HTC One X] Flo95:
Reflash it to make sure it isn't a hardware failure.

If it still won't work then, the hardware is dead
[HTC One X] X10@Germany:
Will they repair it? I have warranty, but my Bootloader is open..
[HTC One X] BenPope:
The warranty does not cover excessive physical abuse. Usually whenever you buy anything, accidental damage is not covered, which is why you can buy insurance.
[HTC One X] Fears:
Same thing happened to me after the 4.0.4 update ( black screen no camera or mirror ) , after few restart it's started working again .
[HTC One X] Ian_79a:
Same problem here cam stopped work for unknown reason haven't droped the phone added new software or anythink like that.

Worked one day and next day it doesn't
[HTC One X] bradmax57:
HTC will tell you to try and clear the cache
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] strip419:
When I recieve calls and speak they don't here me . I tried using voice recorder to check and the sound is super minute . I don't know what to blame this on cos nothing extraordinary has happened so far .....am currently holding on to my earpiece.....any help....
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vauvenal7:
Had this problem some months ago, i just unrooted it and sent it in, cos my warranty runs out next year

I had the problem on different roms (i tried about 10, from CM, MIUI and sense ROMs) so it had to be a hardware problem

Maybe if you tried another rom it works again amd you dont have to send it in

Sent from my GT-N8010
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xperiakias:
Hi guys. I installed successfully Xperia t rom on arc s. The problem that 'xperia home prefences' force close when I go to select them. Any sollution?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] kushalsv:
Guys, I tried rooting my XU thru flashtool, but so far I havent had success.

OK, here's what I do, correct me if I'm wrong.

- First of all turn on debugging mode in phone and also tick non-market apps.

- flashtool recognises my phone after connecting. Select the Padlock icon and choose superuser.

- flashtool begins process of rooting, but I dont get the ROOTME in backup and restore.

P.S I'm on stock ICS.

Here's log file from flashtool.

This is the log file, I dont know whats wrong.

17/010/2012 17:10:53 - INFO - <- This level is successfully initialized

17/010/2012 17:10:53 - INFO - Flashtool Version 0.9.9.0 built on 2012-11-13 22:53:30

17/010/2012 17:10:53 - INFO - You can drag and drop ftf files here to start flashing them

17/010/2012 17:10:58 - INFO - Device disconnected

17/011/2012 17:11:02 - INFO - Device connected with USB debugging off

17/011/2012 17:11:02 - INFO - For 2011 devices line, be sure you are not in MTP mode

17/011/2012 17:11:04 - INFO - Device connected with USB debugging on

17/011/2012 17:11:04 - INFO - Connected device : ST25

17/011/2012 17:11:04 - INFO - Installed version of busybox : N/A

17/011/2012 17:11:04 - INFO - Android version : 4.0.4 / kernel version : 3.0.8+ / Build number : 6.1.1.B.1.10

17/011/2012 17:11:11 - INFO - Pushing C:\Flashtool\.\devices\ST25\busybox\1.20.0\busybox to /data/local/tmp/busybox

17/011/2012 17:11:11 - INFO - Pushing C:\Flashtool\custom\root\subin\Superuser\su to /data/local/tmp/su

17/011/2012 17:11:11 - INFO - Pushing C:\Flashtool\custom\root\subin\Superuser\Superuser.apk to /data/local/tmp/Superuser.apk

17/011/2012 17:11:13 - INFO - Pushing C:\Flashtool\custom\root\AdbRestore\RootMe.tar to /data/local/tmp/RootMe.tar

17/011/2012 17:11:13 - INFO - Now open your device and restore "RootMe" backup. Waiting ...

17/011/2012 17:11:13 - INFO - You have 60 seconds to follow the restore advice

17/011/2012 17:11:13 - INFO - Running adbrestoreexploit

17/011/2012 17:11:14 - INFO - Root hack did not work. Cleaning hack files
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] sunil.s125:
If you want to root your phone by another method follow the instructions here :

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1886460

If the info helped you click the thanks button

Sent from my LT26i
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EViS:
I have a Galaxy Note which has never been rooted and has the factory Gingerbread ROM running.

This morning it worked fine, then a couple of hours later the screen was black and I couldn't turn it on. So I removed and replaced the battery and turned the phone on. Ever since then, and no matter how many times I turn it off/on, it just freezes on the Samsung logo screen with the logo fading in/out.

What's the solution and what has gone wrong with it?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shimp208:
I would suggest booting into recovery and doing a factory reset. If that doesn't work use Odin to reflash the stock firmware, and see if that fixes things.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EViS:
My phone is still in warranty. Am I right in thinking that using ODIN will void the warranty?

How do you boot into recovery on a factory ROM?