[Q] Unroot Nook Color?

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Looking into getting one of these - has anyone tried to unroot just in case they need to return it?

I just did a little bit ago and it's clean as can be. I needed to just go through the simple opening registration and it's good to go. I'm reloading a bunch of books now and will re-root it a little later.

I did this because I'm having issues with my shelves. I can't edit them. I wanted to do a hard reset to see if that fixes the issue. This was a problem since before I rooted it in the first place. The only thing I can think of to fix the problem was hard reset. I'm happy to say that my nook is as clean as it was the day I bought it.

Can you post the steps you went through to factory reset the Nook?

I'm happy to say that I not only unrooted it, but I just rooted it again and it works perfectly. My shelves problem was fixed due to the hard reset and now I can load programs again.

To do a hard reset, hold down the power button, +Volume button and the Home Nook button at the same time until your machine powers down. Turn your machine back on and it should give you a choice to reset your nook. Power button will cancel it and the nook home button at the bottom will continue with the reset. Confirm it and it will take a couple minutes and your machine will be back to square one.

Originally Posted by mad5427

I'm happy to say that I not only unrooted it, but I just rooted it again and it works perfectly. My shelves problem was fixed due to the hard reset and now I can load programs again.

To do a hard reset, hold down the power button, +Volume button and the Home Nook button at the same time until your machine powers down. Turn your machine back on and it should give you a choice to reset your nook. Power button will cancel it and the nook home button at the bottom will continue with the reset. Confirm it and it will take a couple minutes and your machine will be back to square one.

I thought that doing this doesn't fully remove root? It's a little more complicated to un-root it entirely.

Originally Posted by Sirchuk

I thought that doing this doesn't fully remove root? It's a little more complicated to un-root it entirely.

A full system restore removes the root. There were no permanent S-OFF or H-OFF mentioned in rooting the device.

I was under the under the assumption that the root effected none of the base files and a hard reset wiped everything not originally there out.

Mine was completely back to square one with no traces of the root. I had no ability to install anything through the normal terminal commands.

Originally Posted by mad5427

I'm happy to say that I not only unrooted it, but I just rooted it again and it works perfectly. My shelves problem was fixed due to the hard reset and now I can load programs again.

To do a hard reset, hold down the power button, +Volume button and the Home Nook button at the same time until your machine powers down. Turn your machine back on and it should give you a choice to reset your nook. Power button will cancel it and the nook home button at the bottom will continue with the reset. Confirm it and it will take a couple minutes and your machine will be back to square one.

Thanks for this, posted elsewhere for reference, gave you full credit

This post says that a factory reset won't undo everything:

Originally Posted by clockworx

The procedure he is talking about, the factory reset, unfortunately does not overwrite everything. pokey was going into some details about it in the Recovery Thread under Development. There is a way to trigger a "real" restore, but it's not easily accesible.


Also, I've never had a customer service rep check for root when I've returned electronics.

But you're saying that it in fact will undo everything and restore completely to factory settings? Not that it really matters, since I doubt they'll check as clockworx said.

It would be interesting to have someone do a factory reset, and then see if adb works w/out the SD card rooting ... any volunteers.

If someone decides to do the reset described above, perhaps they could do the favor of attempting adb access to see if the root files have really been overwritten. I thought that Pokey was mentioning something else when he did a factory reset as described above.