I had the NT boot looping after I did something stupid to possibly get stock settings menu.
I booted with a 8Gb microSD with acclaim_update.zip (I did not bother to format it so it had other stuff in it).
Once it finished flashing it had replaced the /system partition but not the data partition so had all the apps like superuser installed but would not work as /system/xbin/su was gone.
I powered it down and rebooted using Vol + & -, n and power button simultaneously and let go of the power after the n & copyright screen appeared and the n button a few seconds later (not if you hold the n too long it will automatically assume you have pressed yes for factory reset and proceed with that). Now there was a screen asking it I wish to factory reset the device. Press n if you wish to do so.
After this the device was reset completely and it asked me to configure the device (the lady face)
Hopefully this helps and and makes it easy to factory reset the device without having to do the 8 times (n+power) solution
A user posted a easier factory reset method in
here can someone else try it and confirm that works, i don't have my nook yet so i can't try.
This is an alternate method for accessing the Nook Tablet's Factory Reset screen. This may be used to access this area instead of using the "8 Failed Reboots" method.
I can confirm that this does work and I have tested it several times to verify that it would work every time. I take no credit for figuring out this factory reset method as it was dcnarad that seems to have stumbled upon it. I do take credit for figuring out exactly how it is to be performed and have reposted it below correctly.
dcnarad's post here is a bit haphazard and it slightly missed the mark as to how this actually needs to be performed so as to get to the factory reset screen properly.
Perform Factory Reset of the Nook Tablet:
- PWR off the Nook Tablet.
- Hold "PWR" & "∩"
& "VOL+" & "VOL-" buttons simultaneously to reboot.
- After reboot, release
only the "PWR" & "∩" buttons after 2-3 seconds upon receiving the "∩ - Contains Reader® Mobile technology by Adobe Systems Incorporated." screen while still maintaining to hold the "VOL+" & "VOL-" buttons.
- The screen may blink a couple seconds later and then you will be presented with the Factory Reset screen with the following options:
- Do you want to reset your device to the factory default?
- Press POWER key to exit
- Press HOME key to continue
- Are you sure?
- This will delete all your content and restore the device to the factory default settings.
- Press POWER key to exit
- Press HOME key to continue
I even accidentally let go of the "VOL+" & "VOL-" buttons once while testing this a few times but quickly pushed them back down again and was still given the factory reset screen so this method works even with a little goof like that. This worked since holding down the
"VOL+" &
"VOL-" buttons has been found to actually be unnecessary.
ENJOY!
NOTE: "
HOME key" =
"∩" button
NOTE 2: After some discussion with others, I decided to "take one for the team" and experiment with software version 1.4.1 update. I manually updated my Nook Tablet to software version 1.4.1 via the software download from bn.com. I applied the update and then did a factory reset of the device after booting into v1.4.1.
I have confirmed that once your NT has been updated to v1.4.1 then a factory reset afterwards will reset your NT to factory default settings of software version 1.4.1 and your NT will not revert to v1.4.0. It seems that B&N has pulled another fast one by over-writing the device's original factory software with this update. I was able to revert my NT to v1.4.0 via
AdamOutler's Restore Barnes & Noble Nook 1.4.0 from SDCard afterwards with only the one issue. The
"∩" button was not working after the device initially booted up into v1.4.0 but applying a second factory reset to the device solved this issue.
This
alternate method's thread is here... please post questions specific to that method there only so as to not flood this thread with irrelevant questions. All changes/updates will be post there so please check there if you have any problems. Thanks!
