New Nook HD+ will not boot from SD card.

[kdb424]

I bought a Nook HD+ for the mothers day sale, booted CM10.1 from the SD card, and it ran fine for about a week. It ended up dying, so I had to exchange for a new one. Brought my new one home today, and it would not boot any of my bootable SD cards. I had 3 that worked on my old HD+, and none of them work on this new one. No clue, but thought I should warn you all. I'm now looking for a buyer of my brond new device as it's useless to me without root.

 

[mgb22008]

confirmed

my nook HD+ for the mothers day sale also has this problem. does the bootloader not boot from the sd any more?

 

[leapinlar]

I have two devices. My old one boots to SD very reliably. My new one is very temperamental. But it will boot eventually. For me it just takes many, many tries. I finally got it to boot, did a nandroid backup, then flashed the emmc CM10.1 and the emmc CWM. So now I never have to boot to SD again with it. All flashing can be done with emmc CWM.

Edit: If you want to stay with stock and still be able to flash my mods, you can just flash the CWM that gets put on internal memory (emmc) so that you don't have to boot the SD CWM anymore. I made a custom version (6028) for internal memory. You can get it here or here. That just means it cannot be auto-updated to a new stock. After you install this internal memory CWM, you get to it by holding the n and power keys together on boot and releasing after a few seconds. It should boot to CWM. If you want a new update to stock, you would need to flash it manually with CWM. If you do update, you will need to re-flash the emmc CWM again immediately before re-booting since the update replaces CWM with stock recovery.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

 

[kdb424]

My first one would boot almost every time. I have booted this one at least 30 times, and still a no go. Do you have more luck with the power cord in, or out?

 

[leapinlar]

My first one would boot almost every time. I have booted this one at least 30 times, and still a no go. Do you have more luck with the power cord in, or out?

Did not matter. Mine would not even turn on with the SD inserted. I just had to keep hard powering off with the SD inserted. You might try reburning with the newest Win32DiskImager from my link. Someone else said that helped.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

 

[kdb424]

Been trying that. My last one would boot from SD like a champ. This one won't do it even once. Re-imaged my SD many times,many hard reboots. No luck.

 

[leapinlar]

Boon trying that. My last one would boot from SD like a champ. This one won't do it even once. Re-imaged my SD many times,many hard reboots. No luck.

I know, I have the same issue. Some devices are just finicky. One boots right away and one balks. A warranty exchange maybe? Can't tell them really why though.

I got a brand new HD also and it boots fine. I think the slot hardware on the HD+ is really unreliable. I don't think B&N changed the booting software. Maybe try cleaning the contacts? Using a different card?

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

 

[kdb424]

I know, I have the same issue. Some devices are just finicky. One boots right away and one balks. A warranty exchange maybe? Can't tell them really why though.

I got a brand new HD also and it boots fine. I think the slot hardware on the HD+ is really unreliable. I don't think B&N changed the booting software. Maybe try cleaning the contacts? Using a different card?

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

I literally just got this one on a warranty exchange yesterday. I don't think they will give me another. It's been 2 weeks since I bought my first one today. I may just return this one. It's more hassle than it's worth. I'll probably end up buying a chromebook in the end (for Linux)

 

[leapinlar]

I literally just got this one on a warranty exchange yesterday. I don't think they will give me another. It's been 2 weeks since I bought my first one today. I may just return this one. It's more hassle than it's worth. I'll probably end up buying a chromebook in the end (for Linux)

I would definitely return it today. Buy another later and try it.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

 

[kdb424]

I would definitely return it today. Buy another later and try it.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

It was worth the $190 I spend on it if it was rootable, but I'm not buying one at $270 later. It was worth the run, but not that much cash.

 

[mgb22008]

great. I test again today. Another 8G Adata class4 microSD works! The newer shows more choosey about sd? Thanks, leapinlar!

I know, I have the same issue. Some devices are just finicky. One boots right away and one balks. A warranty exchange maybe? Can't tell them really why though.

I got a brand new HD also and it boots fine. I think the slot hardware on the HD+ is really unreliable. I don't think B&N changed the booting software. Maybe try cleaning the contacts? Using a different card?

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

 

[swinte]

Thanks for the advice! After about 30 tries I was finally successful getting mine to boot up with a Samsung 8 GB card. For those having trouble: keep trying! The time that worked I both blew on the contacts and inserted it particularly hard. Felt like I was fiddling with an old NES :laugh:

Never was successful with a G.Skill 8 GB card.

FWIW I purchased mine yesterday and it was manufactured in November, 2012 according to the Nook internal diagnostics screen on first boot.

 

[darkpollo]

Well i have been trying with 4 different cards and no one worked.

Any trick or procedure to make this work?

Will the 1gb image work better than the 4Gb or it will be the same thing?

Thanks

 

[leapinlar]

Well i have been trying with 4 different cards and no one worked.

Any trick or procedure to make this work?

Will the 1gb image work better than the 4Gb or it will be the same thing?

Thanks

You can try my alternate procedure that requires no burning. Look in my HD/HD+ CWM thread and see the new procedure in item 1a.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

 

[darkpollo]

You can try my alternate procedure that requires no burning. Look in my HD/HD+ CWM thread and see the new procedure in item 1a.

Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

Thanks! When i was reading that i was able to boot with the 1Gb card.
Now i am trying to make the backup and i think i will be ready to go.

To the new guys like me, keep trying and change the card. :good:

 

[swinte]

As others have mentioned, the boot problem appears to be tied to some hardware difference between individual units. I tried my SD card on a buddy's unit and it worked first try. Exact same SD card took 30+ tries on mine!

 

[jpisini]

Not sure if this is helpful or not. I only have Verbatim 16gb cards, I bought them all at the same time. My HD plus boots every time from the cards they are marked HC. Worth a try if you have one in another device or can get one really cheap. I just got my Nook for Father's day so maybe they fixed the issue on the latest batch or maybe I just got lucky. I am not sure just throwing it out there for others to try.

 

[deckoff]

Hello.
I did not manage to boot a few SD cards - until I marked the partition on the SDcard with the lba flag. I used Gparted ( a linux tool /distro for manipulating any kind of storage disks). I used Ubuntu for this. The process is very easy - boot in Ubuntu (even if you dont have it installed, it can be easily booted from USB(live USB), the process is described all over the web an is fairly easy.). If you boot from live USB, Gparted is pre-installed, find it in the dash top-left button will bring you a search filed.
Once Gparted is open, select the first partition of the SDcard, right click and apply.
This fixed it for me.

Ps What is LBA(form thr gparted site):

LBA is used by some commercial operating system boot loaders. The LBA flag indicates the partition should be accessed using Logical Block Addressing (LBA), instead of Cylinder-Head-Sector (CHS) addressing.

 

[samiller]

LBA flag

Hello.
I did not manage to boot a few SD cards - until I marked the partition on the SDcard with the lba flag. I used Gparted ( a linux tool /distro for manipulating any kind of storage disks). I used Ubuntu for this. The process is very easy - boot in Ubuntu (even if you dont have it installed, it can be easily booted from USB(live USB), the process is described all over the web an is fairly easy.). If you boot from live USB, Gparted is pre-installed, find it in the dash top-left button will bring you a search filed.
Once Gparted is open, select the first partition of the SDcard, right click and apply.
This fixed it for me.

Me too! Mine would sometimes not power on at all, or sometimes power on but boot to stock, depending on what utilities I used to format and partition. After reading your suggestion, I first tried running Gparted in my Ubuntu VM under Parallels on my Mac, but that didn't work at all. Then I reformatted and repartitioned in EaseUS Partition Manager, and then used a Gparted Live USB image to set the LBA flag as you directed, and it worked a treat! Thank you!

 

[animefans]

I bought Nook HD+ 32GB during the father's day sale
I follow this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=35811322&postcount=1, and downloaded NookHDplus-bootable-CWM-6028-for-stock-4GB-rev4-(05.15.13).zip
I then burn the img to a Sandisk 4GB Class2 micro SDHC I have lying around using dd on ubuntu
Just like the recent messages shown, I can't boot up my Nook HD+ using this CWM bootable Micro SDHC card
I even used linux gparted to set the lba flag, no go

After about 10 tries, it finally boots into CWM

So yes, just be persistent