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MD5 Mismatch

I have the 155 SBF on my Defy, then i made an Nandroid Backup.
Wipe my whole Phone reflash the 155 SBF and then i want to restore my nandroid backup, but i get a MD5 Mismatch
Is there any opinion to restore it?

I think it is not going to be restorable now
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Try remove spaces from nandroid backup folder's name.
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besides the having no spaces in the name as mentioned above, make sure the nandroid is at the backup folder and there are no more folders inside as well, like below
...backup/ (backup folder name)/nandroid
having this
...backup/ (backup folder name)/ (another folder)/nandroid will have md5 mismatch

probably something went wrong while calculating the md5 sum.
Copy the img file to your PC and calculate a new md5 sum. Place both in a folder in your backupfolder.
Remember that its possible that you end up with a not running system and you have to reflash the SBF

Hi,
dont install 2ndInit.
install directly Defy Recovery, After Rooting ur phone.

psicodelico said:
try remove spaces from nandroid backup folder's name.
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a lot of thanks, man!

clockwork-recovery MD5 mismatch FIX!

HEY GUYS I JUST FOUND THE KEY TO THE PROBLEM---clockwork-recovery MD5 mismatch IS VERY SIMPLE...
1.OPEN SD CARD IN WINDOWS.
2.DOWNLOAD 2 SOFTWARES ( MD5 CALCULATOR AND NOTEPAD++) JUS GOOGLE THEM AND INSTALL.
3.OPEN CLOCKWORK FOLDER IN SD VIA COMPUTER->BACKUP->(YOUR BACK).
4.NOW RIGHT CLICK ON NANDROID.MD5 AND EDIT WITH NOTEPAD++
5.GREEN HIGHLIGHTED PHRASE IS A KEY.
6.RIGHT CLICK ON REST EVERY FILE IN BACKUP FOLDER INDIVIDUALLY->MD5 CALCULATOR
7.MATCH THE KEY TO THAT OF NOTEDPAD++ FILE
8.IF THEY DONT MATCH COPY KEY FROM MD5 CALCULATOR AND PASTE IN NOTEPAD
9.SAVE AND EXIT.
10.NOW TRY RECOVERY IT;LL WORK.

MD5 is there for a reason...
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Aspire said:
MD5 is there for a reason...
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what reason??
can you share??
(and why did you change the name?)

Wikipedia said:
MD5 digests have been widely used in the software world to provide some assurance that a transferred file has arrived intact. For example, file servers often provide a pre-computed MD5 (known as Md5sum) checksum for the files, so that a user can compare the checksum of the downloaded file to it. Unix-based operating systems include MD5 sum utilities in their distribution packages, whereas Windows users use third-party applications.
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Successful verification of the md5 file shows that the files are the same as at the time of packing and "not corrupted".
Consider this,
You flash a ROM which did not have a correct md5 checksum.
It may mean that the ROM was corrupted due to some reason and you may end up with a bricked phone.
though the chances of this happening are pretty low with a backup.. but better safe than sorry.
and i changed my username cause i liked it

arhant said:
HEY GUYS I JUST FOUND THE KEY TO THE PROBLEM---clockwork-recovery MD5 mismatch IS VERY SIMPLE...
1.OPEN SD CARD IN WINDOWS.
2.DOWNLOAD 2 SOFTWARES ( MD5 CALCULATOR AND NOTEPAD++) JUS GOOGLE THEM AND INSTALL.
3.OPEN CLOCKWORK FOLDER IN SD VIA COMPUTER->BACKUP->(YOUR BACK).
4.NOW RIGHT CLICK ON NANDROID.MD5 AND EDIT WITH NOTEPAD++
5.GREEN HIGHLIGHTED PHRASE IS A KEY.
6.RIGHT CLICK ON REST EVERY FILE IN BACKUP FOLDER INDIVIDUALLY->MD5 CALCULATOR
7.MATCH THE KEY TO THAT OF NOTEDPAD++ FILE
8.IF THEY DONT MATCH COPY KEY FROM MD5 CALCULATOR AND PASTE IN NOTEPAD
9.SAVE AND EXIT.
10.NOW TRY RECOVERY IT;LL WORK.
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Or you can simply use the app root toolbox available in the market.
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Aspire said:
Successful verification of the md5 file shows that the files are the same as at the time of packing and "not corrupted".
Consider this,
You flash a ROM which did not have a correct md5 checksum.
It may mean that the ROM was corrupted due to some reason and you may end up with a bricked phone.
though the chances of this happening are pretty low with a backup.. but better safe than sorry.
and i changed my username cause i liked it
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what's your real name, btw?? :curious:
and buddy, why don't you join us on fb? see my sig vvvv

Congratulations arihant you made FIT to appear on XDA Portal !!

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congratulations arihant you made fit to appear on xda portal !! :d
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thnx even i didnt knew that..thnx for telling..

You are GENIUS THX!!!

Aspire said:
MD5 is there for a reason...
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Well yeah, MD5 is a great thing when it comes to checking consistency of a file, but for example, it bothers me because i have about 5-6 rom backups and they are all difrent roms, so i need to change the name of folder from date-time stamp to name of the rom, but when i do that i cant restore it any more because MD5 checksum apperantly checks the folders name also so i have to rename it again to date stamp... but sometimes it can be useful... just sayin'

I don't think cwm checks the backup names. I've got a couple of backups renamed to the ROM names and they work well.

well i dont know then, when i change their name back to the time stamp like 2012-03-15 11.12.32 then the restore will work, but when i leave a name like CM 7.2 rc5.5, when i chose restore, it prints out md5 checksum mismatched...

Same thing happens with me too..renaming the cwm backup file leads to the same mds mismatch error but sometimes it works..strange eh??

That never happens for me...
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Well I am an experienced hacker so ill explain. I do not have a brief knowleage about md5 but the md5 is calculated by the alphablet that it has lets say the name is ABHY then the md5 will be 1670 (This is an expamle) the other name is ZXDR the md5 will be 7304 now if you change the name the md5 does not change hence the error arises
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yeah i know that, but i thought that he makes MD5 checksum of backup files, one by one, and not the whole folder...

slobo14 said:
yeah i know that, but i thought that he makes MD5 checksum of backup files, one by one, and not the whole folder...
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Its assigned to the whole file
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It looks like this is the case, I havejust spent the last hour trying to "repair" the Md5 checksums as described above only to find there was no problem with them, the problem was i had renamed the backup file. on checking in details when the file was created i renamed the file accordingly and voila the backup worked. I have renamed many backup files before and never had this problem but i did this time strange.

Informative post...
but MD5 checksum verification is useful...

I got md5 checksum error and it was caused by space in renamed folder name. After i remove space, restore worked.

[Q] help! can't install atrixsonyav4

I can't get atrixsonya v4 to install right. I keep getting md5 mismatch error. could really use the help.

Are they any spaces in the name of the backup?
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No spaces in the back up
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Are you downloading from your phone or computer? I was getting the same problem when I tried several times to download/extract on my phone. I downloaded and extracted on my computer and it worked first time.
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da_rager said:
No spaces in the back up
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Is there a file called "nandroid.md5" in the backup?
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I'm downloaded it to my pc and extract multiple times n still get the same md5 mismatch error. i've never had is much of a issue on a rom. if anyone can send me a better link to download the rom that be great.

da_rager said:
I'm downloaded it to my pc and extract multiple times n still get the same md5 mismatch error. i've never had is much of a issue on a rom. if anyone can send me a better link to download the rom that be great.
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Try redownloading it. The file may have corrupted as it was downloaded.

Use MD5_SHA-1 Utility to compare your MD5 with the MD5 code was provided
MD5 CHECKSUMS:
SonyaV4AtriXperia zip
a55f85d1ff1a17544402520cd96b814e
system.ext3.tar
8caaf900f90766a1e58b4819125af94d
AtriXperiaSonyaV4Update_1.zip
993b562adc2987340b35061599629a8c

Md5 miss match

I am unable to restore my cm10 backup it says md5 check sum wrong or miss match
After my research this happened when I change my recovery

Hpsgill said:
I am unable to restore my cm10 backup it says md5 check sum wrong or miss match
After my research this happened when I change my recovery
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Have you tried to change your recovery to previous?

zgintasz said:
Have you tried to change your recovery to previous?
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Not working already tried
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Does changing backup folder name cause md5 check to fail? I renamed all those numbers into proper description of what’s inside and now it won’t restore. Not sure if that could be the problem.

gimche said:
Does changing backup folder name cause md5 check to fail? I renamed all those numbers into proper description of what’s inside and now it won’t restore. Not sure if that could be the problem.
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No, folder name is not cause of md5 checksum
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I had the same problem.
Nothing could be done. Had to delete the back up.
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hmmmm did you change the name of the backup??

ngoralph said:
hmmmm did you change the name of the backup??
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Hpsgill said:
No, folder name is not cause of md5 checksum
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so, which one is it?

I changed it to cm9 pimped v6
But I think folder name is not cause of md5 error I always change it but this time I got md5 error
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Don't add space to the name of backup.remove space and try again.

vikasb32 said:
Don't add space to the name of backup.remove space and try again.
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Not working
I found ndroid.md5 in backup it contains md5 of each file of backup
But how

Tip: if you have md5 mismatch error when trying to restore

Hope this helps someone.
I was having md5 mismatch errors when I tried to restore from my backed up images. I realize it was because I had slightly renamed the folder! Do not rename the folder on the sdcard.
I wish the top level folder name was not taken into the md5 digest since names like 2013-07-24-13-43 (date and time) are not extremely useful when you have a few of them. Whereas 2013-07-24-13-43-myslim1 is.

I rename all of mine. They all work fine.
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Don't use spaces, that's all.
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I set the backup name before backing up in TWRP. Never had an issue.
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