11-27-2010, 02:46 PM | #1 |
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Can Nooks be bricked?
I mean full-blown, unrecoverable, totally dead, useless, paperweight status bricked. Possible at all (as in, through maybe messing up on a softroot).
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11-27-2010, 03:36 PM | #2 |
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Yes. If you attempt to softroot a newer nook with a soldiered internal chip, using the older method, it will brick.
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11-27-2010, 04:17 PM | #3 |
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11-27-2010, 11:04 PM | #4 |
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yes it can
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11-28-2010, 08:29 AM | #5 |
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The link here and here has somewhat of a description. There is another way on their website as well, but, unfortunately, it is next to impossible to find a lot of the things they have there.
Do some searching here for softroot and you should find more. Last edited by chas0039; 11-28-2010 at 08:36 AM. |
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11-28-2010, 10:07 AM | #6 |
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It looks like there's no simple way to recover a bricked newer nook caused by flashing 1.0 firmware. One of my friend just did this...
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11-28-2010, 01:37 PM | #8 |
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So is there any way you could replace the Nook (i.e. sending it into to B&N) other than actually buying a new one?
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11-28-2010, 01:43 PM | #9 |
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You could maybe try playing dumb. Obviously don't mention anything about adding/changing anything. Just say it stopped working or froze (or whatever the problem is). I have heard B&N have replaced a lot of Nooks that had issues, no questions asked. At least I read that at a Nook group at goodreads.com.
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11-28-2010, 10:31 PM | #11 |
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I have a rooted Nook with the new update, but I was just curious as to why you were thinking of rooting your Nook (if you get one)? The 1.5 update is pretty sweet, so even I would consider using the stock 1.5 firmware.
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11-29-2010, 07:45 PM | #12 |
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The absolute number on problem with pre 1.5 nooks was the crappy library system for side loaded books. If you don't already have many, many hundreds of books, starting from scratch with the "shelf" system is a half decent option, albeit without any decent search or sort options and no cover view. Keep in mind, you cannot set the shelves up in any way other than with your nook keyboard and a very ponderous bunch of transfers. It also doesn't have any directories or any way for Calibre to see what is going on.
So, as for library, the version from nookdev is clearly superior in every way but the B&N system fixes one problem. Keep in mind, Nook had a problem with more books than 1275 (sorting gets corrupted). I've heard that nookLibrary from nookdev tolerates around 2400 titles before it runs out of memory. |
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