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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tical2399:
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.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] asawi:
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/

Sent

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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.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tical2399:
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?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] asawi:
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.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tical2399:
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
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] asawi:
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
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tical2399:
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
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] sagirfahmid3:
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).
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tical2399:
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?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] asawi:
http://xdaforums.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.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tical2399:
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.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] asawi:
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"
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tical2399:
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
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] asawi:
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://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=25355594&postcount=8
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] asawi:
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!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tical2399:
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
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] asawi:
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.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tical2399:
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.

Edit:

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
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] asawi:
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!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tical2399:
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.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] asawi:
OK, here's how I managed to install my backup on a completely non-rooted-stock Tablet:

This post has been edited multiple times, so don't be confused if you've readit between edits!!

The whole Clockworkmodfolder needs to be copied. Will do so and zip it and put it in my public Dropbox. Unzip this and put the "Clockworkmod" folder on the sd card.

I then booted into CWM 6, exchanged to the sd card with the clockwordmod folder before navigating to backup and restore - restore and it loaded.

Link: Link removed. (I left it there for several days and OP got it)

Enclosing a picture on how my sd card "looks" before putting it in the Tablet (there is a small file "recovery version" that you can't see in my picture, and it's probably essential. It does come with the zip.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] digixmax:
boot.img for the /boot partition is included in typical CM ROM zip files, and automatically gets flashed whenever you flash the ROM zip file.

If you're looking to repair the /bootdata partition (assuming its corruption was the cause of your original "boot looping to recovery" problem http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1444630), flash Succulent's flashable_fix_bootloop.zip posted at his recovery repository http://goo.im/devs/succulent/acclaim/recovery/.

In contrast with boot.img, recovery.img is typically not included in ROM zip files (Succulent's ROM zip files are the exception); if you to update CWM recovery in emmc from 5.0.2.8 to 6.x.y.z, you can use one of the flashable CWM zip files in Succulent's recovery repository.

See http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37515697&postcount=31 for more background info, and http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=43326042#post43326042 for pointers/tips on flashing CM10 internally.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tical2399:
Ok it flashed and it says successful so what do I do now. I don't want to go on my own and mess something up. I rebooted after it started and it went back to cwm 6.x as usual
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] asawi:
Well I was hoping it would have booted into Android. Did it actually boot into CWM 6.X.X or the old CWM 5 you had before?

Can you boot into Cyanoboot and choose 'int boot'?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tical2399:
I somehow got rid of the old cwm 5.x, sometime after my original post. 6.x is what i used for the restore of the folder you sent. It went through and said complete everything seemed good. When I rebooted it went right to cwm 6.x

I cant get into cyanoboot by simply turning on the power but I still have the bootable card which allows me to do so. Why do you ask? If I use the card and choose internal boot, will the restore that you sent me take effect?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] asawi:
If you hold 'n' during boot to get to boot menu, is it possible to choose 'int boot'?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tical2399:
yes and it take me to cyanogenmod nightly which is the last thing I flashed. Was something else supposed to boot when i selected internal boot?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] asawi:
We posted at the same time. Are you saying you have CM nightly running now? In that case I guess all is well isn't it?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tical2399:
Its not as I cant get to the nightly without going through cyanoboot, which I cant do without the bootable card being inserted to the nook prior to power up. Its like this. If no card is inserted and i power on it just goes to cwm 6.x. If I but the bootable card in i can hold n and get to cyanoboot and then select internal boot and then all is good.

I can remove the card at that point and do everything you'd expect as its running of the internal storage. I just cant get it to do it without the card being inserted upon powering on. Thats the issue now.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] asawi:
I'm a bit lost here. Did you flash the nightly after running my backup? So you've got CM10 running properly once you manage to get it started?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tical2399:
Yea. I used your backup using the restore function in cwm 6.x. It went through and said completed. So I rebooted the system, thinking the restore would make it boot into something (didnt know what) once it powered back on. It didn't it just went back to cwm 6.x.

So then I figure, maybe the thing he had me restore just helps whatever rom you flash to boot on its own without it auto loading cwm or needing the bootable card to go into cyanoboot and have to use the internal boot function.

With this in mind I go to cm page, get the latest nightly and flash. All seems to go well. I reboot and it goes right back to cwm. So far the ONLY way I can get into the actually rom that flashed to the system is to put bootable card in first, then hold n, then go internal boot. Its all good after that, but I can't go from power on to internal rom without that work around.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] asawi:
Well this is what causes your problems, just heading off doing things... Did you at least make a clean install, wiping the things you should have wiped and left the rest alone?

I'm sorry but I can't help you any more now. The backup was of a fully functional CM10 and all you would have had to do was boot into it. Booting from powered off with no card should have got you into CM10 or, if holding 'n' into boot menu where you can choose 'int boot'

There is probably some scrap file lying around that tells the system to boot into CWM but I don't know what it's called so I can't help there.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tical2399:
Yes I did a clean install. Also you're saying it should have went into cm 10 and i'm telling you it didnt. when you provided the folder. I went into cwm 6 wiped dalvik, wiped cache partition, did factory reset/wipe data, so unless im missing something, thats as clean as a clean install cn get.

Then I go into backup and restore and restore the folder you gave me. It takes a while amd it does what its supposed to and I reboot. and it still goes to cwm. Based on what you're saying it supposed to boot but its not. Again I did that process before trying anything else.

So if its some messed up file as you suspect, its something that happened before I even made this post more than likely as I did a clean install and used your back and did nothing else except reboot at first.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] digixmax:
If your NT keeps booting to CWM recovery then it's likely that the BCB and/or BootCnt in /bootdata partition are invalid and need to be reset -- see http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=21381141&postcount=1, then http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=45684660&postcount=22.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tical2399:
How do I run that command that is mentioned? I'm not really a linux guy so command line to me is like trying to learn french from textbooks written in japanese. Will I need to install adb on my computer for this?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] digixmax:
To fix BCB and BootCnt, you can use Succulent's process: just use SD-based CWM recovery and flash Succulent's flashable_fix_bootloop.zip posted at his recovery repository http://goo.im/devs/succulent/acclaim/recovery/.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tical2399:
Just downloaded the file, about to flash it now. So once I flash it are there any special instructions or do I simply flash it and reboot and it should be set after that?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] digixmax:
Just flash then reboot.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tical2399:
Yea, I did that, it still goes to cwm. I used the bootable card mentioned throughout this thread to load up the cwm that comes with it as you said use an sd based version (i assume you mean opposed to one stuck in bootloop). I got into clock work mod (older than one stick in bootloop but still 6.x version).

I then switched sd cards, as the bootloop fix zip is on another card. The file showed up and I rebooted. I went right back to the bootloop cwm.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] digixmax:
Did you use CWM to flash, i.e., install, the flashable_fix_boot_loop.zip onto emmc, before rebooting your NT?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tical2399:
Yep, still no dice though
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] digixmax:
Have your tried re-flashing afresh CM10.x into emmc?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] asawi:
My suggestion as well! Use this super stable tried and tested CM10 instead of a nightly. Once you get things working properly you can flash something else. http://iamafanof.wordpress.com/2012/11/03/cm10-0-jelly-bean-for-nook-tablet-uploading/

Make sure you're choosing "reboot device" (or similar) and not "reboot to recovery" when exiting CWM. (Or turn device completely off and reboot from powered down state.) If it still boots to recovery, try again and hold "n" to try to get into Cyanoboot boot menu where you can choose internal boot.