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[Nook Color General] Guy_Fawx:
When attempting the reset in order to factory reset my device, I am not given the choice after the power down to reset. Is there something I am doing wrong?
[Nook Color General] sisith:
Just reset my device and here are the things I have noticed...

1) The reset does not overwrite all the files. My volume buttons are still mapped to back and menu.

2) ADB access is gone. I tried to connect to adb and it would not allow it.

So apparently the important files are being overwritten but some of the settings files are not.
[Nook Color General] edison:
I wasn't able to reset my NC until I uninstalled SoftKeys. I'm assuming it had something to do with mapping the hardware home key. I may have been able to unmap it, but uninstalling worked fine.
[Nook Color General] donballz:
I just did this. I kept root but still had to nooter. Weird right?

I had renamed the keyboard to LatinIME.bak in favor of the Droid X keyboard. After the reset, I had NO keyboard at all and couldn't do the B&N signin. I fixed this by

adb shell

mount -o rw,remount -t ext2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system

cd /system/app

mv LatinIME.bak LatinIME.apk

The .bak was still there luckily. I didn't need to reboot or anything, the keyboard popped right up.
[Nook Color General] docfreed:
Unroot is Easy

First do the hard reset as described above - this only clears Data.

Then, you must hold the power button down while the Nook is booting. That is,

1. turn the Nook completely off

2. turn it on and immediately on seeing the first message "the future of reading" press and hold the power button until it turns off again

3. repeat this 7 more times for a total of 8

4. on the 9th time, let the Nook completely reboot without holding the power button - you will see a message saying "installing a software update..." and after this everything will be back to factory new (the system will be totally restored)

BN has implemented a counter so that after 8 unsuccessful reboots, the system is restored
[Nook Color General] Kokanee483:
This worked exactly as you said, thanks for the tip.
[Nook Color General] rogerperk:
OK, did this and I'm stuck in an initialization loop. Just keeps running that process over and over. Getting kinda worried here...
[Nook Color General] amp711:
My nook just auto updated and came up....dirty. It wouldn't finish a restart, but after the hard reset came right back up. Thanks for the help!!!
[Nook Color General] ddeecc:
what was the outcome?

I have the same problem right now as i type and worried too...any luck or have you figured out what to do?

thanks
[Nook Color General] woodyear99:
Ok I have 2 nook color models for family members. I successfully rooted one yesterday and did the other one today.

I made a mistake with the 2nd one, I forgot to update to 1.0.1 :s and used the wrong file auto nooter 2.12.18 file 18 Dec 2010 on the SD card. Funny thing it went through fine and it was rooted properly.

To avoid any future issues I decided to do a factory restore (reboot 8 times) and then did the reset by holding power and home key. I even deregistered the device just to be sure.

My problem is that no matter what I do it does not seem to update to 1.0.1 I have the Sideload_update.zip in the main directory and yet it never updates no matter how long I leave it. The other color updated just fine within a minute of unplugging the usb cable.

Any ideas on what I can do to force the update? Not seeing the update via wifi either.

UPDATE: Issue solved by using a different computer to transfer the file.
[Nook Color General] squishy79:
Tried it...and it didn't work for me. It did seem to reset some of my settings i.e. sounds.
[Nook Color General] thereddog:
After erasing and deregistering the device, and then after initial setup, my home screen is the "touch android to begin" screen, along with an icon on the bottom left to emergency dial, and an icon on the bottom right to change the language.

Neither button works, but they respond. Same with the android in the middle. I can touch it, nothing happens.

I can use the B&N launcher to get my library or shop, but in extras, Super user is still there, along with Google Talk and Gmail.

Any ideas? I'm going to try the interrupt reboot 8x method now....
[Nook Color General] thereddog:
This worked.
[Nook Color General] jbmar412:
I've tried to do the 8x reboot a few times now. after I hold the power button when the "future of reading" screen comes up about 50% of the time it will just boot up normally anyway. The farthest I've gotten is 3 reboots. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Should I just keep trying? I'm trying to do a clean restore and try rooting again. On my first attempt using autonooter when I put my autnooted uSD in and plugged into the computer it just booted up normally and immediately instead of giving me a blank screen and booting from the uSD. Anyone else have this problem? I tried again a few times with the same result. thanks!
[Nook Color General] readerman:
The 8 reboot method totally worked for me without any issue at all. Awesome...

Thank you.
[Nook Color General] joel71:
I restored mine yesterday before returning to the store because of defect with the wifi, the signal was really weak.

I went into settings and erased and deregestared the device first then I did the 8 reboot method. Took me a few tries but I found even if it gets to the screen with N on it keep holding the power butten it will count as 1 or 8. On the 9th reboot it started with the factory reinstall even with my finger on the power button which I removed very quickly once I saw the status bar.
[Nook Color General] nedroid:
I have tried this four times and my NC just boots back up normally.
[Nook Color General] klippermml:
Slightly Different Procedure

I registered just to add my .02 to this thread.

Everyone had said to start the NC and push the power button right when it displayed "Touch the future of reading".

In my case, I had to wait to hold the power button until the lowercase 'n' logo came up AFTER that message. After the 8x cycle mine re-set to factory defaults.
[Nook Color General] nedroid:
This method worked for me. The method described by mad5427 did nothing.
[Nook Color General] bformed:
Just a note for anyone who runs into what I ran into... (I'm a Nook Color noob right now)

I updated to 1.01, then after rooting (autonooter), my market install failed, as for some reason I couldn't login to my google account. So I did the 8x reboot and it 'updated' back to factory settings, 1.0, but it was still booting with the rooted screen, and when I pressed the 'n' key, it would ask me which launcher, home or softkeys, but softkeys was no longer there. I had to do the software 'deregister and erase device' to get it back fully to default.
[Nook Color General] bformed:
more info..

I just wanted to disseminate a little more info on restoring and the boot loop I encountered. I was rooted and enjoying my nook, however it became apparent that my nook's screen was defective (see youtube video "Nook Color Touch Screen Issues") , so I need to return it for another. I did the 8x reboot trick (after powering on, press and hold down the power till it restarted ~8 times), after which it 'updates' back to stock. But this time after doing the 8x reboot, it was stuck in a boot loop with the custom nook color boot animation. Performing further 8x reboots still resulted in boot loops. Then I tried the hold 'n' and volume up (+) and power after booting and this took a few trys before it finally worked, but eventually did, and it asked me to press the home 'n' key a few times to confirm a factory restore. This solved my restore and boot loop problems and I'm now back at stock. Thanks for all the info in this thread.
[Nook Color General] jgirard8:
This is quite helpful, thanks! It worked great... I'm in the process of making an easy to follow video on how to root your nook color with Auto Nooter, so stay tuned!
[Nook Color General] damngood98:
tried the 8 reboot thing. it installed a software update afterwards. however, when i tried connecting to wifi to set it back up it tells me there has been an error and try again. if problem persists, please contact customer support.

there is an option to power down and when i do the screen goes black, there are some grey icons on the bottom, and a grey bar at the top that says android system.

i bought this used, is there a better way to unroot it so i can root it properly?
[Nook Color General] mon012:
how to unroot nook color

eazy video how to unroot nook color

How to unroot your nook
[Nook Color General] james robinson:
I just unrooted mine last night. It's real easy to do. Just type in "unroot NC" and follow the Youtube video!!!
[Nook Color General] gayborg1:
Unable to unroot Nook Color

Doesn't work, after the 8 times, the screen goes to ClockworkMod. I've been trying to unroot for a week now and getting very frustrated. What else can I do?
[Nook Color General] gayborg1:
Unable to unroot Nook Color

I have been trying many different variations of the unroot process of my Nook Color, but each one leads me back to the ClockworkMod Recovery display ... it never takes me to the factory reset of the device. Also, when I get the Quick Start / Setup dialog, I'm able to get past the setup of the Nook Color, but when the screen comes up with the little android, I attempt to login and it hangs for a little while and then comes up with a connection error.

WTF, I don't understand! PLEASE HELP! I want it back to factory.
[Nook Color General] bugeyed1:
Did you do the (n + power) until it starts , then choose to restore?

http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_UnRooting
[Nook Color General] mister-walter:
If you're really stuck, you can boot Nookie Froyo off of a microSD card and dd the stock partitions back. The instructions are in the "Nook Android Development" section (I can't post links yet)
[Nook Color General] silinthar:
i cant unroot my nook color

I had to deregister to put a new account name on my rooted NC, but i was having problems establishing my new account name so i tried to unroot and start all over.

But when I went through the whole process it went straight through to the home page without the registration steps. and device info said that it the firmware information was unavailable.

I tried to install the stock update for the nook color but it wouldn't run it.

Then i tried to reroot and then factoryreset but now all it is loading is the dev rooting.

How do i get it back to a factory clean setting?
[Nook Color General] Gorilla72:
Trying to factory reset..

OK, how come when I do the trick 8 times, on the 9th CLOCKWORK MOD 3.0.0.5 comes up????!!!
[Nook Color General] silinthar:
I found the other way to do a factory reset, and that fixed my issues.

Have you tried the holding the power and "N" buttons with the NC fully powered down?
[Nook Color General] migrax:
I had this issue as well, you need to remove clockwork mod, but you can't just remove it from market, you have to go through a process to remove it. Unfortunately I don't have a link to the instructions, but I can tell you that they are out there and that this is a solveable problem, just keep looking.

migrax
[Nook Color General] KacieB:
Can someone pleas help me? I'm getting desperate here.... I think I have a hardware issue with my rooted NookColor, it's only 2 days old. I want to exchange it but I'm trying to unroot first and I can't. Here is a list of things I have tried:

1) I have tried a factory reset using several different methods, the device will just not reset. I have tried PWR, +Vol, N with the device on > no reset. I have tried it with the device off > no reset. I have tried PWR, N with the device on > no reset I. I have tried PWR, N with the device off > no reset.

2) I have tried the 8 reboot thing about 10 times. The only thing I get occasionally is the recovery menu.

3) I have tried to deregister the device and in the Settings menu and I get an error that says "Deregister device failed with error: GPB(-204) Unknown infrastructure error (-204) Reset device was not attempted."

Someone had suggested uninstalling softkeys but I'm not sure how to do that.

Someone else had suggested removing clockworkmod but I'm unable to find any instructions for how to do that on this device.

Does anyone have any other suggestions for me? I don't want to be stuck with a defective device. :(
[Nook Color General] eyecrispy:
There is a flashable zip file from IOMonster's root pack that will remove CWR. Go search in the development threads and find it. It's easy! I don't have time to search for it for you at this moment but PM me if you need help.
[Nook Color General] KacieB:
Trying that now with his directions. I'll report back in a bit.
[Nook Color General] KacieB:
Finally unrooted/removed CWM following the instruction in post #36 here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=931720&page=4

Worked beautifully.
[Nook Color General] MisterEdF:
Me too! I have been going NUTS with the resets at "Touch the future ......" for 2 hrs. Just found this thread and let it boot to the "n" and it reset perfectly!

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
[Nook Color General] IndivisibleP:
Good News ... finally

I tried unrooting and was getting hopeless. The "8 failed boots" worked as it was supposed to i.e it would start a reinstall. But my problem was that every time i would try to go through the set up, it couldnt complete because the Nook "cant scan for networks".

Finally I went here http://nookdevs.com/Flash_back_to_clean_stock_ROM and did the two steps in the order mentioned and the next time i went to set up the wi-fi connected and worked without a problem.

That second step (hold the "n" + power to start the device up) didnt seem to work the first time. I was confused how long to hold them and etc, I thought it failed and then i looked down a min later and it had the "Do you want to Factory Reset?"

Second step wasnt that straight forward to me but the links advice worked. :)
[Nook Color General] Kinetic_Blue:
Ok, I followed you video exactly but on my 9th reboot i got this screen on my Nook Colour:

***it wont let me post my picture**

What option should i do?

I already tried wipe data/factory reset but i'm still rooted...

just in case you cant read them, these are the choices:

- Reboot System now

- apply update from SDCard

- wipe data / factory reset

- wipe cache partition

- install zip from SDCard

- backup and restore

- mounts and storage

- advanced
[Nook Color General] Kinetic_Blue:
in mounts and storage i followed the steps to format data and format system, now my Nook Colour will NOT turn on at all.....
[Nook Color General] mathfeel:
There is a stock ROM that one can flash using CWR here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=945838

If CWR is installed in your recovery (if that's the case when you boot, "future of reading" thing doesn't come up), there is also an Nook Recovery restore somewhere in the dev forum. I used it yesterday after doing something stupid and restarted from stock. The file is called "repartition-boot-with-stock.zip"

The cleaning/most-guaranteed way I can think of, not the easiest is: if you also have a friend who's got an unrooted NC, you can boot to a CWR SD Card, plug into a computer with Android SDK set up then dd in adb shell to get the the image off the unrooted NC's /boot and /system partition, and dd it back to the one you wish to restore.
[Nook Color General] Kinetic_Blue:
Androind SDK wouldnt install on my computer for some reason...

I just returned from B & N, they cave me a brand new one...

until there is a much easier way (sideload didn't work either, nor did ADB) i'm not going to attempt a hack on the system again...

Thank you though.
[Nook Color General] BBielefeld:
Alright so I am pretty new to Android and rooting but recently rooted my Nook Color. Now do I understand correctly that once the new update comes out for the Nook Color this April it will break root? Will this set the Nook back to factory defaults? Or would I need to unroot it so that the warranty is not voided in case anything goes wrong later?
[Nook Color General] d00med:
I tried this, and tried and tried, for about an hour, but I couldn't reboot it eight times. The first few times are easy, and then it seems to get progressively harder to make it power off before the boot animation shows - like the power button stops working intermittently. It was incredibly aggravating and I hope I don't have to try it again. Maybe there's a trick to it.

edit:

Ah, okay.
[Nook Color General] irishdrummer1:
Nook stuck in "Installing software" loop. HELP!!

I am trying to set my Nook color back to factory reset. I did the 8x boot deal and got it to work. It then brought me to green arrow saying "Installing..." new sofware. Well its bad now. Its been continuiously starting and loopng back to installing software screen. I did the holding power button + N and got it to the factory reset screen where you hit N twice to erase everything. After that, it goes right back to looping to Installing software screen..has been doing this for about 2 hours now. Cant even get it to boot off a SD card. ANY help would be great. Thank you
[Captivate Themes and Apps] D-FUSE:
I'm making a wallpaper chooser, and posting as go if you want it when i'm done I will post it,or if you done like all of them and just want a few. I'll post zip file of the ones you like,and you can add them your self.I have add a zip folder with 1-4 at the bottom.Post 10.

How to install into twwallpaperchooser.apk

Use root explorer.Go to system\app\

copy TwWallpaperChooser.Apk, and paste to your to sdcard ,and mount to your computer

Open TWwallpaperChooser.Apk with winrar\7zip (do not unzip).Rename the pic as the same name as the pic you want to replace.Delete the pic you want gone and drag and drop new pic in you need both pics big and small.

Put TwWallpaperchooser.Apk back on sdcard .

Use root explorer TO put back into system/app/ and press the menu button then more and refesh.

that should about do it.

EVERYONE SHOULD BACK UP THE ORIGINAL TWWALLPAPERCHOOSER.APK :D

Pic #6 big,and small in zip file now
[Captivate Themes and Apps] tiger4j:
Wow, I like the android busting up on the scene. :)
[Captivate Themes and Apps] RockRatt:
I like it. Os there a way to download it? That is if you are posting it for that reason. I am using the xda app and it will not let me copy it. Do you have a link for it? If not no big deal. Thanks

Cog'd Perception or Cog'd 2.3b6 depending on my need for flash addiction
[Captivate Themes and Apps] mcord11758:
Open a browser window and navigate to this thad on the web page.

Our copy and paste this into your browser regen click picture and save

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=859856
[Captivate Themes and Apps] D-FUSE:
I add two just in case anyone wants to put it into there Tw Wallpaper Chooser. That is what i did.I think it looks pretty good on the phone.I removed link and zip file.

All four pics in post 10. zip file. How to install into tw wallpaperchooser.apk on post 13
[Captivate Themes and Apps] lilmanx01:
Great stuff, thanks!
[Captivate Themes and Apps] D-FUSE:
I will be working on some more.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] wade7919:
Can you do one with the Eyes the Android Green colour instead of the blue
[Captivate Themes and Apps] D-FUSE:
Like change the one of the one's that i posted, or make a new one.I'm making myself a twwallpaperchooser, and post them as I go.That is a good idea green eyes i'll give it a shot I just started using Photoshop.The thing you can learn from youtube! :cool:
[Captivate Themes and Apps] D-FUSE:
Post #13 is How to install into TwWallpaperChooser.apk
[Captivate Themes and Apps] LamboDroid19:
Where do i need to put these so they show up in the wallpaper chooser?
[Captivate Themes and Apps] D-FUSE:
Do you have the app root exploer,and winrar,or 7zip on your computer?
[Captivate Themes and Apps] D-FUSE:
How to install into wallpaper chooser

Ok so after you get those ,or already have

Use root explorer.Go to system\app\

copy TwWallpaperChooser.Apk, and paste to your to sdcard ,and mount to your computer

Open TWwallpaperChooser.Apk with winrar\7zip (do not unzip).Rename the pic as the same name as the pic you want to replace.Delete the pic you want gone and drag and drop new pic in you need both pics big and small.

Put TwWallpaperchooser.Apk back on sdcard .

Use root explorer TO put back into system/app/ and press the menu button then more and refesh.

that should about do it.

EVERYONE SHOULD BACK UP THE ORIGINAL TWWALLPAPERCHOOSER.APK :D
[Captivate Themes and Apps] wade7919:
Should Also make these as a Static Boot Animation man..
[Captivate Themes and Apps] D-FUSE:
new one is up with a hot chick !
[Captivate Themes and Apps] MikeyMike01:
Two Words:

Aspect Ratio

That is all.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] D-FUSE:
i saw that dude im going to fix it. Thanks tho!
[Captivate Themes and Apps] MikeyMike01:
As a wanna-be graphic designer, it kills me inside when I see people that squash and stretch and ruin their work.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] D-FUSE:
will i just stated messing with photoshop so if you help me out that would be cool i've only learned from youtube
[Captivate Themes and Apps] MikeyMike01:
This is what I mean:
[Streak 5 General] ledcom:
used fastboot then it was stuck at clearing cache. No I can not power on - nothing happens.

What to do ?
[Streak 5 General] lufc:
Not Android Development please post in the correct forums

Moved to General
[Nook Color General] pezhore:
Anyone know if there is a working replacement for the stock keyboard? I miss text prediction and spell check. Right off the bat I would imagine if we could somehow install a keyboard, there would have to be some trickery to enable the new input (as the settings menu is pretty sparse).

I'm just curious if anyone else is working on this yet...
[Nook Color General] aenima4six2:
Here is the guide to do it.. However, I was unable to get HTC_IME or Smart Keyboard Pro to work.
[Nook Color General] czarlives:
NC Keyboard

I tried Shapewriter, Ultra, Swype with and without the keyboard manager. None worked for me.

The only one that worked for me was BetterKeyboard (v7.3.0).

I'm sure that we'll have a better solution here or at NookDevs soon.
[Nook Color General] neozen21:
I'm using SwiftKe. It works pretty well. But you can't access the setup unless it's the first time or if you delete the SwiftKey directory in the sdcard. Also, in the setup you can't see some text, so it's better if you have a phone with. SwiftKey too to se
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mic.mayorga:
hey guys im sure you get these a lot.

anyway, Ive been running CM6 for awhile now but found out my hometown has 4G coverage now and where i go to school will get 4G in about a month, so I have to make the switch to sense for obvious reasons. Im not huge on performance because frankly i'm not looking to blow minds with benchmarks on quadrant, the phone is fast as **** no matter what so im looking for the best battery life. a must for me is that they keep the theme relatively stock as well, some people arent graphically inclined no offense...

also looking for a good stable kernel with good battery life.

currently running burnt droid with baked kernel #6. heard fresh was good on battery but i think his site, geekfor.me, is down, can someone confirm this?

thanks a lot for your opinions
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PsychoFox13:
I don't have 4G here, so I can't say for sure how much 4G affects the battery on this rom, however I've been using Ava-FroyoV10. I do know that the 4G works. I have used it once while I was traveling through a few towns that did have it.

Besides 4G, I do use my phone pretty averagely. In my opinion anyway. I'm usually constantly texting, checking up on eBay using their app, having it plugged into the radio in my car for music, or reading up on engadget. Using Wifi or 3G were applicable. My phone lasts from, about... 8:30AM to around 9 or 10PM. I get a good day's use out of it with Ava-FroyoV10.

I don't use any kernel. I did used to have Netarchy's, however the Ava's stock kernel feels better with the phone. You do not get to adjust your CPU Voltage with the stock kernel.

Your best bet is to surf the Roms and Kernels. Find which one you like best, and stick with it.