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[Nook Color General] fpga_guy:
Did you let NC update go to 1.1.0 or did you do it manually?

Which thread did you follow to root 1.1.0? I have 1.0.1 with Monster Root and would like to go to 1.1.0 for the Wifi fix and pinch zoom.

Thanks
[Nook Color General] huskermania:
Thanks a bunch for this. Restored my NC with auto nooter 2.12.25 back to stock 1.0.1 perfectly.
[Nook Color General] DanB85:
Help please!

After installing zip and rebooting, nothing happens. It still just as dead. I've double-checked that I am using the 1.0.1 complete restore.

I can use the card to boot back into clockwork, but i cant boot anything else.

edit: used samuelhalff's repartition boot with stock zip , then installed 1.0.1 complete restore zip...back in business!!!!
[Nook Color General] nootered:
That was my thinking in making this thread. I hope that Sam, and other contributors, do not feel as though I was trying to steal their thunder, and as far as I know Sam and I are "cool" now. I wish that this thread would get stickied here though so that 10% of the posts could be eliminated from new posters.

Mods can we sticky this, please?
[Nook Color General] nootered:
There may be some cases where you will also need to format Boot, which is likely why using the new Boot Partition from Sam's thread worked for you.

Glad you figured it out.:)
[Nook Color General] samuelhalff:
True.

The usual restore to stock flasghable zips simply extract files to partitions. But that won't repair your NC if the boot partition is corrupt, which usually happens when you play with some roms installed to eMMC.

That's when the boot repair zip comes in handy, by applying stock boot img with dd command.

I also think this should be stickee'd. Maybe you should add direct download links to both files: restore and repair boot.

Or better, make your own bootable CWR bootable SD recovery package using Monsters thread. And post download link here.

If you play around with the different zip files I made, you'll see that its not very difficult to make a restore zip that also repairs boot partition just in case...

Sam

Sam
[Nook Color General] jdebay:
Thanks, IT WORKS FINE.

Hint...

Read instruction all the way through before doing anything.

Double check what version you need to restore to.

It worked for me. Just do not miss steps.

Even if you do, you must go back and restart over again.

Works better than adb or 8 reboots...

Also while you wait read other post in this tread.

J
[Nook Color General] nootered:
Will do. That might make it easier. I will edit and update later this weekend, I am away on business right now.
[Nook Color General] MentalDragon:
Restore to stock from HC v4

I am needing to restore my Nook back to stock. I just got it yesterday and first thing I did after testing it out was rooted it and then installed HC v4 to eMMC. I loved it. It was great. everything worked pretty good for a preview version. Well after messing with it all night i went to bed and shut it down to charge. well this morning I booted it up and it started to act a little buggie. I decided to reboot it and now all I have on my screen is the small 'ANDROID' at the bottom left of screen and nothing else. I am at a lost. I am wanting to know if this will be able to help me get this back to stock. If not if someone else has any idea of what I could do. Thanks.
[Nook Color General] joseph.hui:
I followed this link http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=919353 to restore my NC to stock. I dd-ed the image, shutdown and removed the SD, then tried to reboot the NC with Power+N button. I got an error "failed to boot". I rebooted by pressing power only and the NC boot straight into my "rooted" version. The only issue is that Software Version is "unavailable" in Device Info -> About Your NOOKcolor. Does this matter? How can I fix it?
[Nook Color General] BrianDigital:
+1 i believe the flashable clockwork needs to be atleast the 1gb one the 128mb leaves the sd card with not enough space
[Nook Color General] jrm83mrj:
small issue

Trying to use winimage to put clockwork onto both a class 4 4gb sd and a class 4 8gb sd and I get the same error both times, near the end of the image writing, winimage says its unable to continue because its having trouble reading the clockwork file. Dunno if I'm doing something wrong... cuz for the life of me I can't figure it out... any pointers?

EDIT: Yeah that's right... I did that. I forgot to unzip the img. Went back through the thread, read someone elses post where they also forgot to unzip but had another problem, and I had a /facedesk moment. Ill shut up now. DISREGUARD THE NOOB!!!
[Nook Color General] jorge_osa:
Hey guys. New to rooting the nook... It didn't go so well, so I wanted to start over from scratch (wifi wasn't working).

I ran through all these steps, but when I finished step 7 and went to 8, I got the message "E:Can't mount /sdcard"

Could someone point me in the right direction? Thanks a million.

EDIT: While in recover, just removed and re-inserted the sdcard and tried step 8 again and it worked.
[Nook Color General] droptopz:
OMG! OMG! Finally! Tried to root after BN 1.1 update things went from bad to worse. Read this thread and followed instructions to letter. Was able to flash image to SD card but could not add the restore zip file to card. Kept getting not enuf space on 2gb card! Just 'drag and drop' zip file onto card were instructions. Well thanx to a poster who mentioned you need right clockwork to match SD card size. I was using 128mb clockwork on my 2gb SD so it was reducing the space on card so I couldnt add zip file. I flashed 1gb clockwork was then able to add restore zip file to card and NC back to stock 1.0.1! This minor detail was NOT obvious to this newb and I just read thru all comments on thread to see if anyone had the same issues. Turns out a few did. Thanx again for the great post and instructions. Keep up the great work!!
[Nook Color General] caffeineplz:
On a related note, I had some trouble returning my MSD card to factory after making it bootable for use with auto-nooter, booting the Gingerbread port, etc., so I figured it'd be nice for similarly naive people to know that the solution for me was to use the windows disk management tool (it came with my distribution of win7 ultimate). It has a souped-up formatting tool that allows you to edit partitions, which was precisely my problem. Just right-clicking on the drive in My Computer and choosing "format" did nothing for me, because of the partitioning. It's a 16gb card, and the only capacity option was 138mb! Now it's back the way it was when I bought it.
[Nook Color General] caseyatbt:
I followed all the steps and when it finished I shut it down and removed the card. I pressed the power button and it just sits at the "Touch The Future Of Reading" screen and goes no further. I have tried it twice. Any ideas?
[Nook Color General] fpga_guy:
Look at the bottom of this post, item "5"

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=914690&highlight=restore+stock
[Nook Color General] caseyatbt:
Thanks, worked great!
[Nook Color General] mikenicee:
Hello,

I am trying to restore my nook color back, and used your method as well as other methods out there, and after flashing the 'nook-complete-restore-1.0.1 and even 1.0.0

it just wont boot. The only way the noook boots is with a sd card in it.

At some point I may have formated the boot partition in clockwork, but even so, I would think this would work. What should I try next?
[Nook Color General] mikenicee:
never mind, i tried the other zip "repartition w/eclair" and it works.. thanks
[Nook Color General] thunderstruck!:
Thank you, after messing around all day I found your instructions and that did the trick. The problem is there is so much information scattered across so many threads, but you did a great job in aggregating the pertinent instructions I needed to complete my task. And it's a good thing I did as the first thing the girl did at BB was turn it on to be sure it booted.
[Nook Color General] cardriverx:
Thanks for the thread, great help!
[Nook Color General] anonymous13:
Sorry for the stupid question - but does applying this fix restore nook to exactly as it came from the factory? i.e. would I be able to return it to the store exactly as I bought it?

Thanks for your input!
[Nook Color General] avi!:
I am using CM7 nightly v7, can I revert back to stock using this method ?
[Nook Color General] azshorty2003:
Excellent! just the thread and easy step by step i was looking for.
[Nook Color General] lou337:
Worked for me

Make sure after you finish all the instructions that you reboot the system using CWR. There is an option in there for it that says reboot system.

I say that because after everything was complete I didn't know what to do. But the "Go Back" button is your friend.

Also when it rebooted it came back up with the 2 skull pages. I let it sit there for about 2 min then I did a hard reset (power+N) and then it rebooted into the factory B&N image.

Hope this helps!
[Nook Color General] nootered:
To all the questions about "can I use this if" ... yes, you can. Just note that you will need to use whichever version of the original software you wish to install in part 2.

Good Luck!
[Nook Color General] babyqtangel:
Sorry, follow up noob question incoming.

When I bought my device, it already came with 1.1.0. (Currently running nookie Froyo and want to go back to autonooter 2.1.) Assuming I would still follow the method listed in the OP, where can I find the zip file for NC 1.1.0 stock? I see that NC 1.0.1 Complete was listed in the instructions.
[Nook Color General] samuelhalff:
There's a clockwork recovery image from brianf21 in Dev with 1.1 stock flashable zip.
[Nook Color General] mulhearn22:
severe issue

Hi,

So I wanted to put CM7 on my NC. I ran into issues and decided to pull back to the stock and restart. I followed the instructions at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=932145. Now, when I boot up, it says that I need more power and wait 15 and then I guess once it gets enough juice it tries to boot. It gets to the N screen, with the Adobe tag line at the bottom and just hangs, doesn't move.

1) Is there a way to tell from CWR what the power level is?

2) How do I fix this? I've done it twice.

TIA,

Matt
[Nook Color General] samuelhalff:
Make sure you're using cwr 3.0.0.5 and that you've formatted system, data and cache..
[Nook Color General] mulhearn22:
I'm using CWR 3.0.0.6. You have a link to 3.0.0.5?
[Nook Color General] mulhearn22:
Never mind, i should have just checked the main thread. I'll try it with 3.0.0.5 and see what happens. I hope this works...
[Nook Color General] mulhearn22:
OK, that seems to have worked. I thought it was going to hang up, but then unplugged it from my computer and it moved on, so maybe connected to computer isn't a good idea. Now back to trying to reinstall CM7....
[Nook Color General] hittingsmoke:
You left out formatting /cache, which is important if you've previously formatted it to work with an Ext4 supported OS like CM7 or Honeycomb preview.
[Nook Color General] ODD BOY:
Really that was clean and helpfull ...

just some times need to do :

restore to factory - power off. Then hold "power + N (upside down N)" for 6-7 seconds. If it powers off you did it wrong. Try again. When you let go, it should still be on the welcome screen. Let go and then it will go to a screen that reads "installation fail." Power down and do the same again. This time, it will ask you to restore to factory. Hit "N" twice and it will start clearing and restore to factory!
[Nook Color General] Puddynose:
I did exactly what you've described- restored back to stock using this thread. After formatting system/data and installing zip, it immediately rebooted into CWR- I didn't even have a chance to remove SD card. I shut down, took out card, rebooted twice and all was OK until I tried to re-root. As soon as I plug in the USB cable, up pops the "Loading" screen with the two skulls and then goes into CWR rather than installing the autonooter. I've tried this twice with the same results. Why does it keep loading CWR rather than the nooter files?
[Nook Color General] drazil22:
I'm hoping someone can help me fix my zombie froyo. I call it zombie because it keeps on randomly coming back to life! I've been reading all the threads about restoring back to stock and tried everything but nothing seems to work :confused:

How I got to where I am now:

Stock > auto-nooter-3.0.0 > Rom Manager installed CWR 3.0.0.5 (tried both new and old, but currently on old) > Flashed nookie-froyo-flashable-v0.6.8.zip to emmc.

Everything was running fine for a couple weeks until I changed memory cards, then it would get stuck on the "ANDROID_" screen when booting, but one out of every 10 boots, it would boot just fine. Thought I would take this opportunity to flash one of the CM7 nightlies since they got BT working.

I grabbed the 1gb_clockwork-0.1-ext4.img, added the cm_encore_full-26.zip and gapps-gb-20110307-signed.zip files, formatted system, data, cache and flashed both zips and rebooted... to see the Custom Nookie Froyo splash screen and stuck on ANDROID_. As like before, 1 out of every 10 or so would boot fine. I tried re-flashing CM7 with the CWR3.0.0.6 SD a few times with no success, so I thought maybe I needed to restore to stock first.

I've tried flashing the following using CWR 3.0.0.5 that was installed using ROM Manager, as well as booting from the 1gb_clockwork-0.7.img bootable SD:

CWR-removal-rootsafe.zip

repartition-boot-with-stock.zip

nook-complete-restore-1.0.1.zip

I've also tried doing the adb dd method with boot.img and system.img.

After each set of instructions I have tried, upon reboot, the Custom Nookie Froyo splash reappears :mad:

I also tried doing the 8-reboot thing after doing each of the methods - power on, when "Touch the Future of Reading" appears, press and hold down power until it shuts down, wait 10 secs, power on again and repeat. But at the 3rd or 4th rep, the "Touch the Future of Reading" message doesn't even appear, instead it goes straight to the "Loading..." then the Custom Nookie Froyo splash again :mad::mad::mad:

The only thing I've noticed is that when I boot into CWR 3.0.0.5 whether by power+N or through an SD image, when I go to mounts and storage to format, I get the error "Error formatting /data!" or whatever partition I choose. With CWR 3.0.0.6 it says format successful.

Sorry for the long post, I tried to be as detailed as I could. I've been trying everything I could get my hands on for a week now. I'm really hoping someone can help me fix this.
[Nook Color General] iggygdi:
never mind :-)
[Nook Color General] Valarya:
I just wanted to say Thank You!!!

I was at wits end, 10+ hours in this process. I have tried other un-rooting guides, ADB - USB guides, Factory Reset guides and my NC was so messed up nothing at all was working until I found this post.

God send. Seriously. Thank you.
[Nook Color General] holy_maccaroni:
I tried to restore my Nook yesterday and failed miserably.

I can write the image on my SD (4GB) however I cant put the zip file on it afterwards because there is not enough space. Any ideas?
[Nook Color General] htowngator:
Quick question: If I already have working CWM recovery on the device, do I still need to do the SD card image or can I just load the stock rom?
[Nook Color General] jasonwskidmore:
Restore/Purchased content

I have never attempted a restore to stock after using auto-nooter (everything has worked perfectly). With that said, will restoring the nook to stock in order to upgrade to 1.2 effect the purchased content on the device? I don't want to lose any of the magazines, books, etc... that I have purchased through barnes and noble. Thanks in advance!
[Nook Color General] BikeAR:
You will lose all content. Your B&N library content will be available again after you register and sync. Re-download the B&N content you would like to have back on the device.
[Nook Color General] japzone:
Just in case you misunderstand the above guy. Your Nook will be completely wiped but any B&N content can be redownloaded. Market Apps can be reinstalled although I reccomend you use Titanium Backup and you might want to wait until they Root 1.2, unless you plan to go the CM7 off of SD route like I did :D

____________________________________________________

Sent from NookColor CM7 using Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] tailleur:
question about restoring to stock

I hope someone can help even with these "easy" instructions.

I downloaded the updated 128mb 0.7 clockwork recovery, unzipped it and wrote it to my 4 gb sd card. When I'm done imaging it to the sd card, there is only 114 mb left available to copy the nook 1.01 image which is 118 mb. It wont fit.

Do I need to download one of the other clockwork sd images? it comes in 128mb, 1gb, 2gb, 4gb and 8gb sizes. Guess i should download the 4 gb one if it has to match the sd card.

thanks in advance,

M
[Nook Color General] skorph:
Help

I just tried the steps and after installing the zip, I didn't take the sdcard out of the NC. I rebooted and I was booted into CWM and I tried it again. and then I went to wipe data/factory reset and CWM got stuck. I shutdown the NC and tried again. But when I try to install the zip it says, "installation aborted. Status(0)". Before I didn't know I had to take out the sdcard after installation.

Can some one please help me fix this issue?

thanks a lot
[Nook Color General] WzeroMN:
Why not use my backup I was ordered to make?

I assume the reason for the backup step was to get back to stock with all of my data. I did the backup and have it. Can I not use this with ROM manager to restore to what I had before the rooting process. If so, how? If not, why is the step even emphasized.

I like the rooted device a lot but the NOOK application is not as good as the stock application. It is slower and search book for a word is ABYSMAL. I still probably will stay with it because I can get Kindle books now and often they are cheaper.
[Nook Color General] El Queson:
Thanx

This worked. Thank you VERY much.

Flashed OC Kernel 042411 which is a test_build. Messed up my Nook. It would go trough the whole boot process only to end up with a line on the far right of the screen. Tried everything to restore back to normal, till I ran into this guide.

THANX AGAIN!
[Nook Color General] GchNYadM:
The reason you had the white line is because you didn't read. The newer releases run off of ext4 which the script is not written for in the stock kernel. If you go to the android development section, this is answered a million times.
[Nook Color General] El Queson:
Sorry noobie here.
[Nook Color General] ahfo:
when i got my NC, i installed cm7 immediately. because i didn't have wifi access to register my NC, i was mad to stay at the register page but nothing can be done, cm7 has done a great job!

But now i feel a little pity for haven't ever try the stock, so i think of restore my NC back to stock, haha~~, it's fun.
[Nook Color General] bfarah:
Help please. I got was far as booting to the Clockwork recovery Mod. When I try to format /system, I got an Error formatting /system!. I get an Error formatting /data! message when trying to format the data.

Any suggestions?

Thank you.
[Nook Color General] drazil22:
Welcome to the club. It probably means you're stuck like the few of us that have somehow locked our internal memory. You're now stuck with SDBoot only until someone figures out how to unlock the memory.
[Nook Color General] firerayne:
saving my nook!

I tried to root my nook and in an epic fail ruined it! (my fault)

THANK YOU! your guide has helped me restore it and I joined the forum specifivally to thank you for the guide and links and to the software developers. My nook and I love you x :)
[Nook Color General] elbodude:
/system formats fine, but I get a format error while formatting /data.

Anybody? Thanks!
[Nook Color General] ExploreMN:
Since it bricked first, then exploded and killed my family, and then the remaining parts turned into a transformer that went on a killing spree in my city and your disclaimer didn't cover that, I plan to sue.

Just thought I would warn you.
[Nook Color General] sandman_nyc_316:
Did this today. Worked like a charm! Thanks
[Nook Color General] Shempster:
Restore Nook Color back to stock

Newbie here first off. Just got my NC, registered it online with B&N with ver. 1.2 & serial # 20114300. I installed a CM7 nightly build & ROM manager 4.3.3.0 Premium & Clockwork Recovery 3.2.0.1 internally following the online guide on the CM site. Works fine for the most part but now I wish I'd used it stock for awhile & want to put it back to stock.

All these How-To guides seem confusing to me & possibly dated.

For example, I have 8gb & 32gb MicroSD cards. Which download do I try to use & when I've tried to write the image to the card using Winimage it stalls & won't complete the process in Win7.

As far as the dated part, I only see guides for 1.1 software. Does the fact that my NC came with 1.2 matter? I wouldn't think so since I believe all that stock software is gone – right? Also, if I do succeed in getting back to stock, will registering again with B&N raise any issues?

Thanks in advance

Shempster
[Nook Color General] Shempster:
Hello, anyone please help.

Thanks
[Nook Color General] Taosaur:
Since you already have up-to-date CWM, you can just drop one of these zips:

update-nc-stock-1.2-keepcwm-signed.zip

update-nc-stock-1.2-signed.zip

in the root directory of a non-bootable (normal) SD card, boot into CWM, and install zip from sdcard > choose zip from sdcard.

It wouldn't hurt to go into mounts and storage and format system and data first, then wipe cache after the install.

Obviously, the first file will leave CWM intact, whereas the second will make your NC 100% stock.
[Nook Color General] Shempster:
Many thanks! This worked like a charm. Exactly what I needed.

Shemp
[Nook Color General] suquet.paul:
LOL! How about running linux?

I bet there are a ton of Mac equivalents tho. In Ubuntu i usually do this in terminal, yup, dd would work.
[Nook Color General] cmdauria:
Can anyone help with this? I am getting the same problem!!!
[Nook Color General] cmdauria:
Never mind. Got it!
[Nook Color General] rgreger:
can you share

I had the same issue when I reverted to stock, can you tell me why I got the error and how you fixed it?

Thanks:)
[Nook Color General] cmdauria:
The clockwork image that I originally downloaded was causing the problem. I downloaded a different version and everything worked beautifully! If you need a copy of the version that I used, just let me know and I will send you a dropbox link!
[Nook Color General] rgreger:
Version of Clockwork

That would be great if you don't mind. I thought I had the right version of Clockwork.

Gina
[Nook Color General] Usual21:
I'm also having trouble erasing the data. I'm using the 2GB clockwork 3.0.2.8

Please help!
[Nook Color General] cmdauria:
Here you go!

http://www.multiupload.com/MHU1W4OPYQ
[Nook Color General] GorillaPimp:
Thanks. Restored to 1.0.1 and it just would not update no matter what I tried. Jumped to 1.2 and all works well again. Is there any difference between your 1.2 update and the actual 1.2 update from B&N? Seems to be the exact same size. Could I have just flashed the B&N file myself using cwm?

Thanks again.
[Nook Color General] Taosaur:
Well, they aren't my files--I was just spreading the news to save people some trouble if they wandered into this thread before finding nemith's stock images. No, you couldn't flash B&N's updates via CWM, but yes, the differences are minor. Scroll up a couple posts and you'll find the CWM-flashable 1.3 files, updated from nemith's 1.2 files by rajendra82. You'll also find those files and a lot of other resources in my dual boot thread, linked in my sig.