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Nook Simple Touch After Rooting

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My Nook Simple Touch is now a device which can read eBooks with Aldiko and write text with Jota Text Editor. But it was not an easy way because I could not make work Google Market. To root the Nook version 1.1 I followed the xda forum post  and it worked after some reboots, and no android screen, then I realized that the there were no android screen at all and the reader was rooted. Then Youtube did not work either, just Gmail. Well, what do you expect to do with such an old device? And with an E-Ink screen you would not watch videos anyway. I managed to install olds apk applications through the ES File Explorer that was included in the rooting apps, here is what it works up to now: jota-text-editor0.2.31.apk aldiko-standard-2.00.081.apk AlReader3Activity.apk Well, these may not mean much but it is all that I need just to read and write on a E-Ink reader. If you read and write a lot you know that the backlit of computers, tablets and smartphones wear your eyes, so now I can

How To Unroot Nexus 5X and Fix Bootloop Soft Brick

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I wanted to unroot my Nexus 5X with the Nexus Root Toolkit and ended up with a soft bricked phone with a: your device has loaded a different operating system message and after trying to reboot again the other message: your device is corrupted and cannot be trusted. At some moment when the tool tried to flash the bootloader got locked and would not let finish the process, then the infinite loop started again. It took me a few hours and a lot of patience to figure out how to solve this. I had downloaded a factory image from here: https://developers.google.com/android/images once I had extracted all files from the factory image I analyzed the flash-all.bat file and this is what I could see: fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-bullhead-bhz11h.img fastboot reboot-bootloader ping -n 5 127.0.0.1 >nul fastboot flash radio radio-bullhead-m8994f-2.6.36.2.20.img fastboot reboot-bootloader ping -n 5 127.0.0.1 >nul fastboot -w update image-bullhead-n4f26i.zip echo Press any