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[GT540 Optimus General] mstefanski:
I'd love to hear it as well - after trying to flash latest (FEB-15 v20c french) rom with fastboot without flashing normal one first I have messed up my bootlogos and so far am unable to get it working.

Please anyone.
[GT540 Optimus General] torq1337:
Reflash your first FASTBOOT and CLOCKWORK with KDZ, if its not working it doesent matter. After you reflashed it with KDZ, just flash the latest mur4ik swiftdroid with fastboot and it would be work.

wish u luck
[GT540 Optimus General] deamonjones:
Cyanogenmod 7,2.3.2 russian fastboot, can't access my recovery screen flashes then boots normally? Was working! not factory reset yet after upgrading to 2.3.2 . Phones working great couple of battery issues but ok. Just no BIOS recovery screen help please....
[GT540 Optimus General] aaron27:
same here.

tried to get into fastboot, phone always goes into normal reboot... logo ect'.

can not get into fastboot
[GT540 Optimus General] LeoArg:
I followed all the steps correctly, but now does not boot, is on the Android logo.
[GT540 Optimus General] bretthutton:
Have you tried installing your manufactures software onto your computer if have one they all should be up to 2.1 as standard update...

failing that if you have an Andriod Mobile..

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1042639
[GT540 Optimus General] lavero.burgos:
Now get on fastboot and wipe data then reboot
[GT540 Optimus General] revilo34:
always do a clean wipe before flashing, sometimes flashing without clean wipe takes you to bootloop or no display.:cool:
[GT540 Optimus General] eoghan2t7:
i had the same problem i just deleted the log files and flashed again then it worked
[GT540 Optimus General] shennar:
Solved

This worked for me after a full day struggle. Originally I followd this thread. apparantly they missed to ask people to first install stock 2.1 before the euro+fastBoot rom. Anyway I tried 1st to reflash the euro+fastboot and got bricked. Next I successfully follow the french>out method of this thread. I nstallation was successful twice but no logos and still bricked. after several tries installation was hanging on the last param, and never reached the "Finished". However in one instance the LG logo appeared BUT I was still bricked , actually he bricking after fixing the logo turned to be boot loop on Android animation. Now I know I need to clear the data, so I wanted to enter fast boot but no luck. I decided to try this time to flash euro_fast boot on after the out rom. Same still stuck at the last para, however, fastboot did work now. I follwed the fastboot command sequence and flashed a fastboot rom any yes now my phone works. No I need to flash a rom from recovery and try to fix the arabic language inavailability.

To summarize, if you are stuck in a boot loop go flash a rom that has fastboot and don't panic if you don't reach the finished screen. If you can successfully run fastboot after that, just follow the procedure and you'll come back with a running rom and always wipe data before flashing. Good luck to all
[GT540 Optimus General] ErnuB:
ok, i finally fixed it, does this out.kdz rom has fastboot?
[GT540 Optimus General] effortless.:
Yes it does have fastboot.

(tried to make it more than 10 characters lol)
[GT540 Optimus General] ErnuB:
The problem remains =/

After flashing a couple pf versions of CM7 I realized I still don't have boot animation or recovery, I followed the steps again but KDZ allways marks error code = 6 ("Upgrade Error Wparam:100, IParam:6) if i use cs_emergency download mode, after a few attemps I ended up flashing eruropean+fastboot and flashing other rom via fastboot
[GT540 Optimus General] pinkhearts777:
I got "Step : Upgrade Error error code = 6" after the French v20C update and after I already unplugged the USB from my phone, as per the instructions. It popped out like 10 minutes later as I was waiting for "out.kdz" to download from the website on my computer. This did not happen the first time I did this update.

*UPDATE: So now I followed all the steps and installed "out.kdz". When I put the battery and SIM back in my phone and turn it on, the logos are all there but I get an annoying error message every 1-2 seconds "Sorry! The process com.android.phone has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again." OMG. Please help. Could this be due to that "Upgrade Error error code = 6" or something else? =(*

Does this mean the phone is broken?
[GT540 Optimus General] -Grift-:
Can you get to fastboot??? While phone is off hold power and camera till u see a black screen
[GT540 Optimus General] jhonnyx1000:
Wiping and flashing a new ROM should fix the problem. :) This happened to me when I switched between some versions of Swiftdroid.
[GT540 Optimus General] ljubishata:
thanks mate this method solves all probles due to bootscreen and recovery also.thanks again.only this method works
[GT540 Optimus General] betalaga:
i can confirm, now i have all logos and text in screen but out.kdz haven't recovery or fastboot...
[GT540 Optimus General] Aratan:
Hi,

I've got the same problem so I tried this solution, but when I try to flash in Download mode the KDZ updater freezes. When I click on Launch software update Win writes out it doesn't answer. I waited an hour if anything happens, but nothing. 3GQCT, CS_EMERGECY, no battery, no SD, no sim in phone, just usb. I've installed LGAndroidDriver_WHQL_ML_Ver_1.0_All_Win7, LGBluetoothDrivers_WHQL_Ver_1.1, LGUSBModemDrivers_WHQL_ML_Ver_4.9.7_All_Win7.

The flashing in Diag mode went well, I lost my boot logo when I updated form official 1.6 to official 2.1.

Dose anyone met with this problem?

I'm quiet new in phone flashing. Thanks for the help!
[GT540 Optimus General] just curious™:
can u make your tut on #41 with images or snapshots of how u did it?

Images are really great help for newbies like me.

Thanks by the way,.
[GT540 Optimus General] JoseRebelo:
Hello

I had 2.3.7 installed via fastboot, but it didn't have boot animation / recovery. I installed V20A_00.kdz and then out.kdz, like the instructions on some post and now it's stuck on bootloop at the android animation. I can't access fastboot, only download mode, but I am not sure on what should I flash. Can someone tell me which path to follow?

Thanks in advance :)
[GT540 Optimus General] rekcah_ogami:
Same problem here. Have you tried to hold the camera button whil booting? Mine went to a black screen.

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And I just noticed, going into download mode detects my phone on "device and printers" but as soon as I click on "Launch software update" I lose all the icons and KDZ returns a message saying "Phone was not found" I just noticed this now. What should I do?
[GT540 Optimus General] JoseRebelo:
Mine doesn't, I can't access fastboot. With fastboot can't you install recovery and flash another rom?
[GT540 Optimus General] rekcah_ogami:
Dude I think I got it.

You need to install all LG Drivers-- I re-installed mine coming from a few threads here (Will try to look them up later)

What I did was got euro+fast kdz file and used it under cs_emergency. I had to wait for the KDZ program to say Finish even though my phone already rebooted. Once it says finish, you can unplug the usb and take out the battery. After that press and hold the camera button--return the battery- connect the usb cable.

It should enter in a black screen.

You need to get fastboot which would also be available somewhere here.--I'll try to get a link

then you need to copy the folder at C:

From there, I had to pull up the command prompt. then type in the command.--Example C: cd fastboot

and then:

fastboot -w

fastboot flash boot boot.img

fastboot flash system system.img

fastboot reboot

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those were the commands I entered from there, your phone should reboot and load the rom. The fastboot folder already came with the "boot.img" and "system.img" --I understand there are also links to this and I'll try to get them.
[GT540 Optimus General] JoseRebelo:
I have the fastboot executable, I just don't know which kdz do flash in order to have access to fastboot. Can you give me the link to the euro+fast kdz? Also, won't it break the LG logo / recovery as it was before?
[GT540 Optimus General] andreas__:
you have to update you phone oficially to 2.1 first. then flash euro+fast.kdz

if you go 1.6->2.1 fastboot you have this bug
[GT540 Optimus General] JoseRebelo:
Like I said in my first post, I installed a french rom V20A_00.kdz and then out.kdz, which fixed the bug, but now the phone bootloops and has no fastboot. Can I flash euro+fast.kdz on top of this?
[GT540 Optimus General] rekcah_ogami:
I'm going to try to get the link for the euro+fast kdz. I know how you feel man. But to tell you though, I already 2.1< before doing the process. And I do think you need to do the jump from 1.6 - 2.1.. I do know there's a tutorial for that process.
[GT540 Optimus General] JoseRebelo:
I'm just trying not to brick it, and I have no idea on what to do now <.<
[GT540 Optimus General] rekcah_ogami:
Totally feel you man. This gt540 isn't even my phone. Once I get home later on, I'm gonna post the link that I used.

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Oh yeah, here's the link that I followed xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=927379&highlight=swiftdroid+v2+rc5
[GT540 Optimus General] Karthikchowdary:
Hi try holding home+power button I know its for recovery but try I worked for me. If I'm wrong sorry :rolleyes:
[GT540 Optimus General] Caputsoft:
thanks flyboyovyick

It worked for me.....it's been over six since you posted the solution. WOW!:D
[GT540 Optimus General] Ebony Dubois:
For those that still experience this issue [2015!]

Just wanted to leave my 2 cents here, I've been trying to do my best since around august 2014, no success. 2 days ago I retried this, and I DID IT! I will tell everyone what I did very shortly:

My problem that I solved: I can boot, device works like a charm. But: no boot logos, no recovery.

My solution for TL;DR: UNINSTALL ALL DRIVERS FROM DEVICE MANAGER 1ST, then reinstall. After that, flash a fastboot ROM and use it to WIPE ALL THE DATA IN YOUR PHONE! THIS was what I needed and was never explained: you had to WIPE the old data in order to get the boot screens back.

IN THIS ORDER (THANK YOU to those people from previous replies, gathering all your info was of great value):

Uninstall all of your phone drivers from your PC!!! This is what made most of my headaches go away, just use Device Manager and uninstall anything from LGE. After that, plug in your device in your USB ports (always BACK ports, not front ports, important). It should detect all drivers and download them.

IF it fails (it generally does with LGE USB Modem), you can go to Device Manager > Unknown Device (the one that wasn't recognized) > Right Click and Update > Choose 2nd option, then choose "choose from a list of local controllers" (or whatever the button says). After that, scroll down to LG Electronics, Inc. and install what didn't install.

I also found these drivers, but I did not test them: http://www.mediafire.com/download/p693hcz6kkouh19/USB_Driver_LG_GT540.zip

Huzzah!

Now you're set to begin:

FIRST thing you wanna do is a factory reset, this is something I'd forgotten with time, don't make the same mistake as I did. You can do it by turning your phone on and pressing Volume +/- & Home & Quick Search buttons all together for 5 seconds (it works, be patient and wait for it, even if you open the camera or any other stuff).

Download this Google SDK Tools (unzip and put the folder in C:\ drive) and this Fastboot drivers for GT540 (unzip and put the files inside the folder in C:\android-sdk).

Skip this next line if you know your ROM has fastboot.

Since you have Fastboot enabled, now all you need to do is turn off your device (all this with its battery on it, no weird things) and hold the Camera button before turning it back on. This should take you either to a black screen, or simply to no display, like me. Either one will work anyways.

Now press the Windows key > Type cmd and open it with Right Click > Run as Administrator.

In it, type all this, command by command (you can paste by right clicking):

And now it's go time! Do what everyone else says in here: Take out your phone's battery, SD and SIM cards, fire KDZ Updater up as Administrator (If your KDZ freezes, then it's either faulty or you did not install msxml, look for a good KDZ that comes with that file and delete your current one), choose CS_Emergency PhoneMode and:

THANK YOU XDA!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zed Snardbody:
Ok this might be a stupid question but I was wondering if those more knowledgeable think the new Nook Color tablet/eReader might be rootable?

I'm only asking since it does seem to be running a heavily skinned version of android, and I doubt that they'll release a Kindle app for it :D

I wouldn't even bother asking really but the price point is tempting.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] epakrat75:
Anything running android is more than likely rootable unless it has special hardware like the HTC G2 or Moto Droid2 to prevent such things. However...without any way of turning USB debugging on from the interface, even issuing commands through the ADB / SDK might not be of much use. The device may present its' own unique set of challenges.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cabbieBot:
im very much hoping to see whether XDA can root it. The original nook was extremely simple to root.

A rooted $250 tablet with a vividview screen with anti-glare laminant running cyanogen and android market access would be tremendous.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mastiff:
It would be my son's Christmas present for sure! If I like it I'll get another one for myself... But it has to be rooted so I can install at least a real office suite (the one that comes with it only views M$ Office documents, you can't edit them. And of course I need a comic book reader for that nice monitor. It's almost the size of a good old Marvel or DC comic!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sprntrl:
From the look of the device, it appears to only have 1 'hard' button ('n') rather than the 4 standard android buttons (home, menu, search, back). How would this be addressed if the device is indeed rootable?

I guess there could be a UI overlay/modification for stock android (via launcher) that uses the 'n' button to activate an on-screen "drawer" that contains all 4 buttons.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mastiff:
Anything's possible with the wiz kids (and older wiz dudes) on this board!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] svet-am:
I saw a "dead" demo unit today and they appear to have four hard buttons (not all of which useful): power, vol+, vol-, nook.

I don't know if it will be possible on the NookColor, but other "single button" android tablets have been hacked to use the hard volume buttons as menu and back and simply ignore search.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cjthebest:
I agree! The Nook Color apparently has processor that is comparable to the Motorola X and Droid 2. I think that it would be amazing if it is rooted and could run Stock Android and the Market! Then it would be kind of like the Galaxy Tab, except for some hardware but they both have the same IPS screen resolution, and the Nook costs a lot less money. I already ordered mine. Can't wait to see what happens!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Uglyboyed:
This would be awesome if they can add in a nice comic book reader and subscription service like the newsstand they are pushing so hard. 75% of Ipad/Galaxy Tab Power for half the price. Preordered one for me and one for the wife :) :cool:
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phattchumpy:
This would be awesome :D
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mastiff:
Preordered for my son for Christmas. Hope they root it so he can read his comic books on it!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spiderboyy:
Archos

Assuming the Nook Color can be rooted, there may be a simple solution to the hardware buttons. If anyone has seen the Archos 7o or Archos 101, both of those have no hardware buttons for menu, home, back etc. Instead, they have an overlay of those buttons on the screen of the device. They're always there so it's like they're hardware buttons. It seems like a small sacrifice to make for a $250 7 inch Android tablet. Depending on the amount of RAM it has, its a winner for me
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rutter9:
Haha I bought this solely with the hopes of this being rooted. The only issue I see is being able to enable USB debugging to root.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] InGeNeTiCs:
You should be able to get adb access in recovery mode right? Just modify the adb driver with the hardware id and that should get things moving. Then you just need to enable it in the os somehow...There must be some sort of toolkit somewhere. Hmmmm....I might pick up one of these tonight to do some digging. I just need to figure out how to justify it to the wife!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mastiff:
Tonight? I thought they weren't out until Friday next week... As for the wife you need to do what I do: Let her buy a new dress or something. That always helps! ;)
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rutter9:
Preorders shipped early. Mine actually comes in tomorrow! They claim November 19th but that's for preorders. Not sure what the store's deals are probably have to call.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Paul22000:
But the question is, does this have the horsepower to get stock Android 2.2/2.3 working smoothly?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spiderboyy:
Engadget said that it has a TI Omap 800 mhz processor, and half a gig of RAM. I think thats workable for Froyo or Gingerbread
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krypticos:
i cant wait to see what gets done with the nook. if it gets rooted and froyo on it ill go out and buy one just for that. i want a tablet but everything that has been coming out is not what im looking for. like the samsung tab really nice tablet but way to expensive.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] micro2112:
Im no developer, but would it be possible to inject a debugging flag via a website? kinda like jailbreakme used the pdf exploit to inject its bootrom but way less complicated id think..
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cabbieBot:
It's BS. The guy was evasive and shady. This won't work. Everyone has tried it with no luck.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pinesal:
I am hung up on what he means by "accurate name". He says to click a link to find out more but there is not link.

I am guessing he means the name given to the file on the phone's memory. Like com.ebuddy.android-1 for example.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pezhore:
That's my assumption. I'm not sure if its valid or not.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cabbieBot:
thats what he said but once again he led us on a 3 hour shell game on this issue.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rutter9:
Yes it was all bogus. He said it was his "theory" then his computer froze while doing it. I would rather wait for a real prove solution.

Sent from my Evo.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pezhore:
Agreed. Seems the consensus on #nookdevs is that it never worked.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pinesal:
That was a huge waste of time. I tried 6 apps trying to get it to work.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BoxBot:
Yeah, I tried getting andoku (which he claimed to have gotten working) running through many variations on his described method and got nowhere. And even if he did manage to sideload an app (doubtful) his grasp of the english language is so poor that you would never be able to figure it out from his written instructions.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobdude5:
wow that was rude. I got really excited
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aludal:
Oh well: expecting the miracle can do wonderful things. My take on this: believe only the reproducible results, untampered videos, and confirmed authorities. Confirmed authorities in this case are, obviously, pokey9000 and occip. Cleaned out and commented thoughts of these two genuine researchers are published in my blog fineoils.blogspot.com that I don't get a single penny from anywhere (was banned from Google AdSense for stuff about Google localizations).

Sure, all the real nookdevs will join sooner or later, but in any case the reality of reverse engineering is a tedious work, and the miraculous, unbelievable discoveries most often happen to serious researchers. That's the reality, as opposed to a "reality show" on re-twitter counts.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mytos-xda:
pokey and i have reached a consensus and im sure occip agrees although i havent spoken with him about it yet. that weve reached an impass at the moment and will have to wait on b&n to release their source code. from what weve found at the moment to do what we plan without source would require us to stumble down a blind maze and hope to find our way through. hopefully with a little patience b&n will release for the nc the way they did for the original nooks where they give full source including bootloaders, and then itll be easy street for us to either create our own roms or port an existing rom i.e. cyanogenmod.

in the meantime, if everybody could continue just testing whatever they can think of, and continue posting any ideas or what you find here or on #nookdevs we can keep this going as quickly and smoothly as it has went so far!

remember every little bit helps even if you think it may be useless we can still try to use it!!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] occip:
builing an MLO file ?

I don't agree completly with you. We can experiment few things and develop some POCs like ... The MLO must fit in the 64k sram of the omap3621. We can do a lot a things within 64k like initialise the musb and send the emmc content through it. I'm working to customize my MLO file (from igep 020 card which is a very good one !) after success I will able to compile the same file for NC. Now my NC is somewhere between Los Angeles and Europe :) I hope to receive it soon ...

Cheers

Occip
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tom in AZ:
Zagg was decent, but we kinda prefer the Ghost Armor stuff on the touch screen phones some more. Not sure if the Zagg stuff we tried was an early version, but it didn't work too well on our touch screen T-Mobile Wing. However the Sidekick the wife had was saved by the Zagg stuff when it got dropped. Her outer screen cracked, but it didn't allow the clear plastic to flex enough to crack the LCD. So it was a simple $3 eBay fix for that phone, and a trip to the Zagg dealer to get a new shield installed.

I presently have Ghost Armor installed on my Nook color, but I am dealing with some glare. The dealer charged $15 for it installed (custom cut piece) and touch screen works well through it. Maybe if I see the antiglare screens you guys are talking about I'll give them a whirl. Are those the screens that are being sold at Barnes and Noble?

Tom
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] forcedfab:
I never was a fan of Zagg before , just thought it was overpriced hype . My HTC Evo came with a Zagg Invisishield , my girlfriends evo didn't so I bought a cheap no name screen protector for hers . I can tell a big difference between the 2 , the zagg seems much more durable . I also like the feeling of the zagg , not slick but it has a slight texture to it .
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mytos-xda:
like i said i hadnt talked with you yet lol.

if youve got something youd like to try while you wait let me know and i can give it a crack on my nc to see if its a viable option

on a side note, does anyone know how to mold plastic and/or carbon fiber. ive got a general idea in what i want for a case for my nc but i havent seen anything like it being made for either the original nook or the nc