My nook refuses to power down. It just says Touch the Future of Reading. Do I need to wait until the battery dies and then try your instructions? Is there a factory reset button or does everything revolve around the power button. If i hold thepower button down the screen goes off and then it reboots to the Touch the Future of Reading.
There's nothing to be gained by running it dead.
If you don't have the usb cord plugged in, holding down the power button until the screen turns off (3 or 4 secs) should turn it off. If you hold it down much longer than that, it will restart.
If you have the usb/power cable plugged in and it's charging, you can't shut it off, it'll always reboot.
If you touch the power button and choose "shut down" from the menu, power plugged in or not, it should shutdown and stay off. I do this all the time to charge my NC
and turn it off.
If it does restart and you have a bootable sdcard installed, it'll boot off the card, which is what we want if we're going to return it to stock.
Maybe you should figure out why you can't turn it off before proceeding.... Do you have a case on it that interferes with the switch? Is the switch defective?
Also I was reading the instructions in the thread and I noticed it seems as though we are flashing something internally with the 1.2 software? I thought nooks worked off of the sd card. I,m sure I don't understand this process fully since i was autonootered on v1.1.0 or 1.0.1 will the 1.2 stock rom work?
We only boot off an sdcard if we want to leave the original nook untouched, in which case you remove the sdcard and there's nothing else to do.
Only a small percentage of people use a rom on the sdcard. (I don't, never have.) Roms run off the sdcard are often slower, more fragile, and harder to update or repair. External sdcards die all the time. I've never heard of a phone or tablet that had the internal storage die.
If you modified your Nook's stock rom by rooting or installing a custom rom and want to return it to stock, you'll have to flash to the internal (EMMC) rom.
If you update it to an older version, it'll automatically be updated to 1.2 when it's on wifi and idle, so why not .
Hi colchiro, If I had a copy of some of the files from the original boot process could I format a spare sd card and place those on the sd card? They are nlo, u-boot.bin, uImage, update & uRamdisk or is that just unimportant now?
Those files are already on the bootable sdcard. What do you hope to do with them?
