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Stensie4JC · 03-23-2012, 04:26 AM

I have a Nook Color (not the tablet) that I've had for about a year. It's rooted. I live in China and someone rooted it for me and then mailed it to me, but I was told it worked fine before rooting. He tested it thoroughly before sending it to me and said it worked fine after rooting. I've had a few hiccups, though. After sideloading a large number of books it is slow to load and navigate through the library. I've found that it works best to restart it after sideloading a large number of books. I've played Angry Birds on it a few times with no problems, but I have a young student who somehow manages to freeze it every time she plays. It's frozen or acted weird maybe two other times outside of what I've already mentioned, but I've found that restarting it seems to clear things out.

Well, today I was reading along happy as a clam and it froze on a page turn. I couldn't get the pages to turn right or any menus to come up, so I returned to the home screen. Once there, no menus would come up, so I decided to restart. It took a couple tries because the screen didn't seem to be responding to my touch. Once it restarted it said "read forever" and then went to a screen with the Nook logo and a sentence that says "contains reader mobile technology by adobe systems incorporated". It hasn't moved from that screen since (three hours). It doesn't timeout and go idle. I can turn it off and turn it back on, but it just goes back to that screen. I read on another thread about holding the button down for 20 seconds, then letting up and pressing it again, but all this does is turn it off and turn it back on.

I have no idea what to do next. I haven't plugged it into my computer because I don't have the cable with me now, but even if I did I wanted to see if anyone had any input for me first. The wifi has been off ever since I got it, so I don't have the updated software. Even if it were on I don't think I could get it because I'm in China. I've looked around on other threads but I haven't seen anything like this outside of someone rooting their Nook. but I wasn't rooting, I was just reading. All my books are backed up, so I could do a full reset back to factory settings, but I want to know if anyone else has had this problem or if there's a simpler fix.

03-23-2012, 04:26 AM	#1
Stensie4JC Book Diva Posts: 76 Karma: 44 Join Date: Jul 2009 Device: Nook Color	Nook Temper Tantrum I have a Nook Color (not the tablet) that I've had for about a year. It's rooted. I live in China and someone rooted it for me and then mailed it to me, but I was told it worked fine before rooting. He tested it thoroughly before sending it to me and said it worked fine after rooting. I've had a few hiccups, though. After sideloading a large number of books it is slow to load and navigate through the library. I've found that it works best to restart it after sideloading a large number of books. I've played Angry Birds on it a few times with no problems, but I have a young student who somehow manages to freeze it every time she plays. It's frozen or acted weird maybe two other times outside of what I've already mentioned, but I've found that restarting it seems to clear things out. Well, today I was reading along happy as a clam and it froze on a page turn. I couldn't get the pages to turn right or any menus to come up, so I returned to the home screen. Once there, no menus would come up, so I decided to restart. It took a couple tries because the screen didn't seem to be responding to my touch. Once it restarted it said "read forever" and then went to a screen with the Nook logo and a sentence that says "contains reader mobile technology by adobe systems incorporated". It hasn't moved from that screen since (three hours). It doesn't timeout and go idle. I can turn it off and turn it back on, but it just goes back to that screen. I read on another thread about holding the button down for 20 seconds, then letting up and pressing it again, but all this does is turn it off and turn it back on. I have no idea what to do next. I haven't plugged it into my computer because I don't have the cable with me now, but even if I did I wanted to see if anyone had any input for me first. The wifi has been off ever since I got it, so I don't have the updated software. Even if it were on I don't think I could get it because I'm in China. I've looked around on other threads but I haven't seen anything like this outside of someone rooting their Nook. but I wasn't rooting, I was just reading. All my books are backed up, so I could do a full reset back to factory settings, but I want to know if anyone else has had this problem or if there's a simpler fix.