[Q] Nook Color Perma-Bricked???

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Ok. The other day I was trying to run cm7.2 off the sdcard with cm10 nightlies on the emmc. I burned the image through winimage and then powered down my nook color, as standard instructions go. Put in the sdcard, the penguin came on with the text, and then it did the shutdown it normally does. The nook was fully charged, and when I held down the power button, nothing happened. I took out the sdcard after it did not turn and tried to turn it on booting from the emmc. Nothing. It has been like this for days. I have tried everything from plugging it into the computer and a/c power source, letting the nook die and then fully charge, and use a bootable CWR sdcard. No response at all from my Nook Color. I'm scared that it is bricked and wondering if there is anything I can do before I try to get a replacement from B&N.

Re: [Q] Nook Color Perma-Bricked???

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It is very difficult to brick a Nook Color. Usually when the Nook acts like that it means you corrupted the boot files on emmc. It will not power on unless there are good boot files there. But it should have booted with the CWM card in it. Try making my CWM card from my NC tips thread linked in my signature and booting with that. See item A10. And of course make sure it is charged when you do. If it does, flash a new ROM on emmc and it will replace those corrupt files. If flashing a new ROM does not revive it, look at my partition repair thread also linked in my signature.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on Hybrid SD

In the end, the NOOK would not boot off of any bootable SD card, leading me to think this was a hardware failure. I just ordered an out-of-warranty NOOK Color from B&N for $65. Thanks for helping me anyway.

[Q] Nook Color Perma-Bricked???

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nvm my nook just started working today before i was about to pay for a replacement. weird!