[RECOVERY][ZIP] Nook Color Restore to stock

Hi samuelhalff,

Just wanted to say thanks for guiding me along. And Ive learned alot about linux partitions along the way. All is well and back up and running again. Appreciate all your help.

-Racks

I have a final issue to resolve. After recreating my partitions and dd'ing my wife's partitions onto my nook. Not thinking thoroughly. I tried to restore to stock. What that did was registered my nook as my wife's nook. So it triggered something with b&n and it resetted hers and my nook.

It starts the process of setting up for the first time. But it keeps getting an error after i put in the login info. "unable to set up your device" and shuts down. Good thing I have the partitions dd'ed

In the factory partition. There are two zips. One is factory.zip. the other rombackup.zip. Rombackip.zip is where it stores the original device information.

Macaddress, serialnm, deviceid and so forth.

So what happened is both our devices are registering as one and I believe this is the cause. I ended up modifying my rom partition to change the values of the macaddress, deviceid, serialnumber. The only thing that doesn't keep after a reboot is the macaddress. Because of the duplicate macaddress we are unable to use wifi at the same time. I believe the mac address is soft burned and isn't hard burned to the chip or else we wouldn't have dupe Mac addresses.

Any idea how I would perform a permanent change to the Mac address?

Or a work around for this issue? I've tried just about every possible solution from the dev threads. Ended up flashing CM7 to my emmc. But my wife likes using her mags and read to me books for the kids. I've restored hers by dd'ing the .img files to her nook. Everything works as before. She just can't sync her b&n library or access the b&n store. Or else it gives the "deregistering device" error and tries to but as I said before it fails after I try and login for the first time.

Thanks for any kind of insight on this.

-Racks

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@Racks I ran into a similar situation almost where I could not get my Nook to register anymore either. To correct this is what I ended up doing and maybe it will help you out on your wifes Nook seeing as it sounds like she wants it running the actual Nook software. Once you get hers gong I'm sure you can do what you wish with yours and not have an issue

So here goes. First thing I did was go to the B&N site and changed the password for my login. That way I knew when I redid the Nook I'd have updated info on there end already to make sure nothing was happening or corrupted on the device as it would force me to reset the device. After doing that I tried a bunch of different restores and had no luck. Low and behold I ran across this thread (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=945838) and followed the instructions. FYI I had a extra sdcard so I set that up specifically to try to restore my Nook so nothing else would get messed up from my prior backups and stuff. After downloading the file in that link and burning the image to the sdcard I booted the device off the sdcard. First thing I did was formatted /system, /data, /cache, and then wiped davlik. After which time I did the install like the link says. Once it was done powered down and removed the sdcard. Fired it up and followed the Nook Quick setup and all was good to go again.

will2live said:

@Racks I ran into a similar situation almost where I could not get my Nook to register anymore either. To correct this is what I ended up doing and maybe it will help you out on your wifes Nook seeing as it sounds like she wants it running the actual Nook software. Once you get hers gong I'm sure you can do what you wish with yours and not have an issue

So here goes. First thing I did was go to the B&N site and changed the password for my login. That way I knew when I redid the Nook I'd have updated info on there end already to make sure nothing was happening or corrupted on the device as it would force me to reset the device. After doing that I tried a bunch of different restores and had no luck. Low and behold I ran across this thread (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=945838) and followed the instructions. FYI I had a extra sdcard so I set that up specifically to try to restore my Nook so nothing else would get messed up from my prior backups and stuff. After downloading the file in that link and burning the image to the sdcard I booted the device off the sdcard. First thing I did was formatted /system, /data, /cache, and then wiped davlik. After which time I did the install like the link says. Once it was done powered down and removed the sdcard. Fired it up and followed the Nook Quick setup and all was good to go again.

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Thank you very much for the suggestions!
I've actually tried restoring through that method with same results. But I did not try changing my wifes password on her B&N account. Maybe that will help. Will try it out tonight when I get home.

Thanks again,
Racks

Thank you so much for that CW-remove-rootsafe.zip file!

samuelhalff said:

Thanks for the free beers Racks.

Sam

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It's not much I know, but just wanted to say thanks for helping me thus far. Keep up the great work!

-Racks

Thanks for all the hard work. Your guides were easy to follow but unfortunately for me, thus far I've been unsuccessful. I've tried removing CWR, unrooting, repartitioning, full restore, etc.. and nothing gets me past the giant N logo.

I'm at a total loss. Any ideas? Everything was fine and was running CM7 off the SD card. I tried to make a flashable SD for CM7 nightlights which resulted in what I assume is some sort of boot corruption. I havent been able to boot into stock since, although Froyo still works. All help is greatly appreciate. Thanks again for all your patience and info.

-Human

NC 1.1

I bought a new one a few days ago, and I have seen a lot of people talking about 1.0, and 1.01, but Mine was 1.1. Does the procedure for 1.01 also work for 1.1?

Sorry, if this has been asked before. I want to be prepared for when the new 2.2 factory upgrade comes out.

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I bought a new one a few days ago, and I have seen a lot of people talking about 1.0, and 1.01, but Mine was 1.1. Does the procedure for 1.01 also work for 1.1?

Sorry, if this has been asked before. I want to be prepared for when the new 2.2 factory upgrade comes out.

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Check this thread if you want to restore to stock 1.1.0:

Stock 1.1.0 Clockwork Recovery Image Updated 3/26

question. what if when trying to install any of the zips it keeps saying aborted

1.1 Return to stock.

Thank you very much. I was thinking of doing that, and returning this, but I found the CM7 nand/eMMC thread, and am very impressed with it after installing that. I will probably keep it. I doubt that the B&N 2.2 will be better. Thanks again.

Shadowise said:

Check this thread if you want to restore to stock 1.1.0:

Stock 1.1.0 Clockwork Recovery Image Updated 3/26

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Could someone do me a favor... need someone to pull rombackup.zip and list files/folders that are in it....

I am in the process of fixing my mmcblk0p3... finally got the 8 failed boots working right again... but not sure what all from mmcblk0p2 are supposed to be in that rombackup.zip... initially I had copied the devconf directory from 0p2 to 0p3... then I saw the mention of rombackup.zip in this thread.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Tried out option 4 (remove CWR only). Worked great. Was able to get back to the stock nook (8 reboots etc).

Thanks again!

Thank you! Simplified my restoration process.

I have a autonootered 3.0.0 Nook. However I have been mainly boothing CM7 from a SD card lately using verygreen's method.

I saw the thread about flashing roms to sd card and wanted to try HC on a sd card.
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=998861

I got to the part about mount sd card partition 4 of my cm7 sd card. I tried to figure out how to get the file onto that partition us Nook UMS app in that thread. However what happened is something locked up.

Now when I boot from the Sd card I get the Android word on the side of the screen and never passes that. I removed the SD card and thought auto nooter will work. However it won't boot past the Silver N.

I then made a new CM7 SD card from another one and tried to run it. I get an error with the Linux penguin when it tries to install to the card.

I tried the reset 8 times and N and power and would alwasys get re install failed.

I don't think I can use the recovery because it seems as if it won't boot from teh SD card.

ANy suggestions?

samuelhalff said:

You may have done something to your partitions..

Boot to cwr from sdcard and use the following adb command:

fdisk /dev/block/mmcblk0 -l

And print the result here.
Search the threads on to use adb if you're not sure.

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I can't boot from SD card. I tried my Nookie froyo and a CM7 card. When I do, I get the Android letters on the side of the screen and it just stays there.