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[Q] Best way to downgrade from GB V2.0.2 to Infused V1.5.3?

I am on GTG's GB ROM V2.0.2 but want to go back to Froyo v1.5.3 as i am seeing some issues like phone freezing way too often. I had backed up V1.5.3 using ROM MANAGER. Can i just go to CWM and install v1.5.3 backup? OR do I need to go to stock ROM 1st? Any help is appreciated! Dont want to brick my infuse

For whatever reason my back ups did not work (i think it is a number of variables like pit this vs pit that and green vs red clockwork but didnt spend much time on it)
sooo.....i did the 1click back to stock.. Super 1click root basically staryed over...reinstalled recovery and then flashed my backup.
I am still playing with the whole "why cant i just restore a back up" but dont have much time this week to mess with that this week
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sasa111 said:
I am on GTG's GB ROM V2.0.2 but want to go back to Froyo v1.5.3 as i am seeing some issues like phone freezing way too often. I had backed up V1.5.3 using ROM MANAGER. Can i just go to CWM and install v1.5.3 backup? OR do I need to go to stock ROM 1st? Any help is appreciated! Dont want to brick my infuse
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The easiest way to backup using titanium backup, and then flash 1.5.3 using CWM and then factory reset using CWM. I have done this many times, and am willing to help you if you need.
THIS WILL DELETE YOUR DATA.

Loglud said:
The easiest way to backup using titanium backup, and then flash 1.5.3 using CWM and then factory reset using CWM. I have done this many times, and am willing to help you if you need.
THIS WILL DELETE YOUR DATA.
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Just went back to Odin - Stock ( Root+3e), then installed V1.5.3, nothing was deleted from SD card... just the apps
Will now only upgrade to GB once ATT releases GB, had too many issues with Roger GB!

Loglud said:
The easiest way to backup using titanium backup, and then flash 1.5.3 using CWM and then factory reset using CWM. I have done this many times, and am willing to help you if you need.
THIS WILL DELETE YOUR DATA.
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For some reason every time i try this it results in boot loops...
You have gone from gtgs gb build back to froyo many times?
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You cannot restore a froyo backup from a gingerbread cwm recovery. You need to go to stock first using gtg's unbrick. Then I suggest after the first boot to do a factory reset from the settings within the phone not cwm. Then root and flash a froyo kernel using sgs kernel flasher from the market.
After that you can restore a backup with no problems.
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kkernaghan7 said:
You cannot restore a froyo backup from a gingerbread cwm recovery. You need to go to stock first using gtg's unbrick. Then I suggest after the first boot to do a factory reset from the settings within the phone not cwm. Then root and flash a froyo kernel using sgs kernel flasher from the market.
After that you can restore a backup with no problems.
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That's exactly what I said above...but loglud is either misreading what the op is trying to do... or claims to be doing so from cwm...

Just realized tonight that if you use this file in this thread...you go back to ROOTED stock, with modded 3e recovery...takes a few steps out if you are just trying to get back to rooted stock
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1092021
and use this file name he attached at the end of the post
UCKD5 Stock + Root + 3e Modded Recovery

00mred00 said:
That's exactly what I said above...but loglud is either misreading what the op is trying to do... or claims to be doing so from cwm...
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That's right.. need to go stock.. this is what i did
-> From GTG's GB V2.0.2, went to stock ( root+3e recovery) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1092021
-> Then install V1.5.3 froyo in CWM. Wipe data/factory reset for safe side. Just the Apps get deleted.. Data on Internal SD is not wiped.

Loglud said:
The easiest way to backup using titanium backup, and then flash 1.5.3 using CWM and then factory reset using CWM. I have done this many times, and am willing to help you if you need.
THIS WILL DELETE YOUR DATA.
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I can confirm that this method works, I just did it......just follow gtg's instructions for performing a full installation if already running a custom rom.....be sure to do your backup first!

gotsand? said:
I can confirm that this method works, I just did it......just follow gtg's instructions for performing a full installation if already running a custom rom.....be sure to do your backup first!
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trying it now...I think the factory reset is the step I was missing
edit: indeed..that is the step I was missing
Thanks guys!
1. Back up current GB rom
2. Flash Froyo ROM
3. Factory Reset via CWM
4. Boot
5. Let system settle
6. Reboot into recovery
7. restore back up of said froyo rom
worked like a charm

What did I do wrong

I'm running NexusMod GB 4.3, did a few Nandroids to be carefull. In a stroke of genious decided I wanted to try the ISC radio w/ GB, flashed UCLD2, rebooted, no signal. I said no problem I'll just restore the nandroid I just did. Well the restore did not work because cwm said the md5 did not match. I have since reinstalled the GB 4.3 zip and all is good.
I am using the old sd card from my HTC Incredible 2 which is formatted ext3. I'm thinking this might be the issue.
Why did my nadroids not work?
Sorry if this has been covered before.

My understanding is that ICS uses EXT4 formatting. Possibly by flashing an ICS modem it may have hosed up the GB formatting (EXT3). This is just a guess on my part.

jawmail said:
I'm running NexusMod GB 4.3, did a few Nandroids to be carefull. In a stroke of genious decided I wanted to try the ISC radio w/ GB, flashed UCLD2, rebooted, no signal. I said no problem I'll just restore the nandroid I just did. Well the restore did not work because cwm said the md5 did not match. I have since reinstalled the GB 4.3 zip and all is good.
I am using the old sd card from my HTC Incredible 2 which is formatted ext3. I'm thinking this might be the issue.
Why did my nadroids not work?
Sorry if this has been covered before.
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First of all what version of cwm are you running in your phone? Seems ya got a corrupted nandroid backup or was made with different version of cwm at the first time. BTW try to flash the modem back to ucalc4 to see if ya can get signal working again. Hope this can help.

LuneBear said:
First of all what version of cwm are you running in your phone? Seems ya got a corrupted nandroid backup or was made with different version of cwm at the first time. BTW try to flash the modem back to ucalc4 to see if ya can get signal working again. Hope this can help.
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The cwm version I used on the last backup is 5.8.1.3 touch. I got signal back just by reflashing the original Nexusmod zip

jawmail said:
The cwm version I used on the last backup is 5.8.1.3 touch. I got signal back just by reflashing the original Nexusmod zip
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You have no idea what your doing. Read more flash less.
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xcrazydx said:
You have no idea what your doing. Read more flash less.
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Thanks for the help JA

I think I know where you went wrong. When you tried to restore your backup, That would have restored only your rom. When you flash the radio, it stays regardless until you replace it. That is of course unless you flash in a rom which has a radio included.
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jawmail said:
Well the restore did not work because cwm said the md5 did not match.
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I had that problem too, and searched around, and found that if your backup in your CWM folder is missing the nandroid.md5 file (for whatever reason) then CWM wont restore.
What I did, and it's up to you if you want to risk flashing a possibly corrupt backup, create a blank nandroid.md5 file, place it in the backup folder, and go to CWM and re-flash.

OK, I got it to work. I actually read sk8erwitskils thread and followed the directions. The .hiddenandroidprocess file was missing. I put it in the correct sdcard/clockworkmod location, mounted sdcard like he said to do and everything works now.

jawmail said:
OK, I got it to work. I actually read sk8erwitskils thread and followed the directions. The .hiddenandroidprocess file was missing. I put it in the correct sdcard/clockworkmod location, mounted sdcard like he said to do and everything works now.
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Reading works, it really works! Yay!
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[Q]-MD5 sum bad on a restore point

I recently backed up my rooted but stock Tab2, 7.0 and loaded an ICS rom. I wanted to go back to my stock but when I try to restore, I am getting an error that the MD5 sum is not matching. Anybody have any idea how I might be able to use this backup?

Have you tried to flash another version of cwm ?
Or try to flash stock rom via odin from for example www.samfirmware.com
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Mohamedselim said:
Have you tried to flash another version of cwm ?
Or try to flash stock rom via odin from for example www.samfirmware.com
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Haven't done another CWM. I did flash another rom but I'm going to be sticking with it so I don't need the back up anymore. It was just odd as it was the first time I'd seen that happen.

NapalmDawn said:
Haven't done another CWM. I did flash another rom but I'm going to be sticking with it so I don't need the back up anymore. It was just odd as it was the first time I'd seen that happen.
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I once experienced the same thing - it turned out that nandroid backups initiated using ROM Manager couldn't be restored using recovery and vice versa. If you decide to try again try both.

[Q] Stock Recovery 4.1.1 US TF300T

Looking for a way to revert back to stock recovery i'm currently on 4.1.1 stock rom with twrp recovery installed is this possible i have searched the internet for it could find it also i don't not want to re flash the firmware again and lose everything

ryuken11221 said:
Looking for a way to revert back to stock recovery i'm currently on 4.1.1 stock rom with twrp recovery installed is this possible i have searched the internet for it could find it also i don't not want to re flash the firmware again and lose everything
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I have not been successful flashing stock recovery as a blob or img file; and yes I have tried.
I have always had to flash the complete firmware which means total loss of apps and data.
You could consider backing up your apps and data with many of the options available. Many swear by titanium backup. I don't use it. Maybe search for backup apps that also handle data.
I use app2zip pro or rom toolbox pro and just bite the bullet for any data lost.
Good Luck!

tobdaryl said:
I have not been successful flashing stock recovery as a blob or img file; and yes I have tried.
I have always had to flash the complete firmware which means total loss of apps and data.
You could consider backing up your apps and data with many of the options available. Many swear by titanium backup. I don't use it. Maybe search for backup apps that also handle data.
I use app2zip pro or rom toolbox pro and just bite the bullet for any data lost.
Good Luck!
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There still has to be a way to extract the recovery from it tho. I mean wouldn't it possible to do so we can flash things through fast boot can't we dump it through it
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ryuken11221 said:
There still has to be a way to extract the recovery from it tho. I mean wouldn't it possible to do so we can flash things through fast boot can't we dump it through it
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We can extract recovery and everything else using blobtools.
See post #14 in this thread.

Lost nandroid

I went into recovery, wiped data/factory reset and cleaned my caches then went to restore my nandroid for mb1, but it said the md5 failed and couldn't restore it, so I rebooted the phone and now it's back to complete stock/unrooted. Is there a way to fix it and be able to restore my nandroid, or do I have to start fresh? I lost all my pics and apps, it's there a way to restore those?
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yepyep14u2know said:
I went into recovery, wiped data/factory reset and cleaned my caches then went to restore my nandroid for mb1, but it said the md5 failed and couldn't restore it, so I rebooted the phone and now it's back to complete stock/unrooted. Is there a way to fix it and be able to restore my nandroid, or do I have to start fresh? I lost all my pics and apps, it's there a way to restore those?
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What rom were you on originally before your nandroid restore failed? Can you find any of your pics using a File Explorer? Lastly, how did you verify that you have lost root: did you look in /system/xbin/su or download an app such as Root Checker to verify you have lost root?

I was only stock rooted. Was on the newest md3, and like I said I did all the wipes in CMW then went into restore backup and selected my nandroid of mb1 and pressed ok, but it said the md5 was mismatched. Couldn't figure anything out so I did a reboot and it was like a new phone.....no superuser, titanium backup wouldn't get SU permissions and it would only boot into stock recovery. Plugged the phone into laptop and saw the nandroid on the sd card but not sure how to reroot and fix the nandroid
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yepyep14u2know said:
I was only stock rooted. Was on the newest md3, and like I said I did all the wipes in CMW then went into restore backup and selected my nandroid of mb1 and pressed ok, but it said the md5 was mismatched. Couldn't figure anything out so I did a reboot and it was like a new phone.....no superuser, titanium backup wouldn't get SU permissions and it would only boot into stock recovery. Plugged the phone into laptop and saw the nandroid on the sd card but not sure how to reroot and fix the nandroid
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The best I could suggest if you are truly unrooted is to re-root and unlock using Open1your1eyes0 thread in the dev section. I'm not well versed in the md5 mismatching for a nandroid failing unless you changed the name of the nandroid after it was completed?

SlimSnoopOS said:
The best I could suggest if you are truly unrooted is to re-root and unlock using Open1your1eyes0 thread in the dev section. I'm not well versed in the md5 mismatching for a nandroid failing unless you changed the name of the nandroid after it was completed?
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Yes I just checked with rootchecker and it says I lost root. I did rename the CWM nandroid, but I've done that before on my wife's phone and it restored fine.. I'm downloading the files from the thread you listed above as I write. I had Tibu installed before, so that should be enough to restore my lost apps/pics/etc once I Odin back and gain root again?

yepyep14u2know said:
Yes I just checked with rootchecker and it says I lost root. I did rename the CWM nandroid, but I've done that before on my wife's phone and it restored fine.. I'm downloading the files from the thread you listed above as I write. I had Tibu installed before, so that should be enough to restore my lost apps/pics/etc once I Odin back and gain root again?
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Yea, try not to do that with CWM. I suggest using TWRP if you want to name backups since it allows you to do so natively. TWRP and CWM nandroids are not compatible so if you do switch, I suggest (if you can) restore your VRBMB1 nandroid using CWM, make a new backup using TWRP, then delete the entire CWM folder from your phone/sdcard.
I haven't done this before but you could see if this process works for you. If not, then start fresh via Odin and use TWRP so this doesn't happen again.
If you can still see the files using a file explorer, then TB should be able to locate and restore them if you know how to make it scan the entire device.

SlimSnoopOS said:
Yea, try not to do that with CWM. I suggest using TWRP if you want to name backups since it allows you to do so natively. TWRP and CWM nandroids are not compatible so if you do switch, I suggest (if you can) restore your VRBMB1 nandroid using CWM, make a new backup using TWRP, then delete the entire CWM folder from your phone/sdcard.
I haven't done this before but you could see if this process works for you. If not, then start fresh via Odin and use TWRP so this doesn't happen again.
If you can still see the files using a file explorer, then TB should be able to locate and restore them if you know how to make it scan the entire device.
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I realize that now! Going through the Odin process now, then custom recovery and unlocking the bootloader. By glancing at that link, it says that using different versions of CMW causes this issue. Go figure. Ugh

yepyep14u2know said:
I realize that now! Going through the Odin process now, then custom recovery and unlocking the bootloader. By glancing at that link, it says that using different versions of CMW causes this issue. Go figure. Ugh
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haha stick to TWRP, its great. Let me know how this goes.

SlimSnoopOS said:
haha stick to TWRP, its great. Let me know how this goes.
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Will do! Just got used to CMW back in the day of our HTC evo 4g and stuck with it due to all the problems TWRP had back then