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MD5 mismatch?

Hey guys, I'm trying to restore my stock rooted ROM, but it keeps telling me md5 mismatch? I wiped everything and now have no idea what to do. Is it because there was a change in CWM recoveries when I backed it up? I had 3.0 ext when I backed those up and then I had upgraded to 4.0.0.2 afterwards.
How would I get around to doing this? Because I want to get the OTA update?

Anyone please help?

Did you rename your backup? There should be no spaces or special characters in the name of the backup.

pettigrew95 said:
Did you rename your backup? There should be no spaces or special characters in the name of the backup.
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Damnit! Your right, I did rename it and never got to restore it until now, lmaoo, poor stock, left and forgotten but now needed. Thanks, I'll change the names later!

Mikeglongo said:
Damnit! Your right, I did rename it and never got to restore it until now, lmaoo, poor stock, left and forgotten but now needed. Thanks, I'll change the names later!
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No problem. Glad I could help

It worked, now can I get the OTA update? Can I keep cwm? or do I need to go back to stock recovery? because that's going to be annoying...

Mikeglongo said:
It worked, now can I get the OTA update? Can I keep cwm? or do I need to go back to stock recovery? because that's going to be annoying...
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You can use the LG Update Utility just make sure you have the latest G2x driver which you can get from LG. After it updates to GB you will have to NVflash again and install CWM etc etc. The link for the LG Updater is here along with the driver download: http://wwwstg.lg.com/us/mobile-phones/G2X-Driver/index.jsp

So like I said, do I have to go into stock recovery first? or can I leave cwm on there without it effecting the update process?

Mikeglongo said:
So like I said, do I have to go into stock recovery first? or can I leave cwm on there without it effecting the update process?
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That I am not sure. I think you can do it with CWM still on there it might wipe it out though and restore factory recovery.

Which I wouldn't mind doing, just don't feel like instaling stock recovery

Mikeglongo said:
Which I wouldn't mind doing, just don't feel like instaling stock recovery
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I followed the unlocker vid all the way through and have had no issues. To be safe I would recommend ditching the custom recovery and reinstalling the stock recovery.
It would seems some upgraded with no issues either way, but I have seen a ton of folks that have issues. There is one foolproof way.

I think I'll just do stock recovery tonight and then figure it out from there honestly, if I want to wait for OTA or manual, I'm worried to do it manually if I'm going to get it a brick or not

What if you get a MD5 mismatch but didn't rename a backup folder? Did nothing except wipe to flash a different rom, tried to go back to previous rom via nandroid restore and then get a MD5 mismatch?
nvm found a fix

g0dsgreen said:
What if you get a MD5 mismatch but didn't rename a backup folder? Did nothing except wipe to flash a different rom, tried to go back to previous rom via nandroid restore and then get a MD5 mismatch?
nvm found a fix
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im having the same problem i was trying to restore from a stock back up and i keep getting md5 mismatch i have not changed the file name i have wiped everything multiple times i cant even flash a new rom i have tried three different ones each say cant open zip (bad) please help phone wont boot at all

Just a quick question regarding backups. I know we all have different steps when it comes to flashing roms, but how often should you make a nandroid backup?

96traxx said:
Just a quick question regarding backups. I know we all have different steps when it comes to flashing roms, but how often should you make a nandroid backup?
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Everytime you are going to flash a zip from SD card or a new ROM. Basically anything that will modify your existing ROM except clearing /cache or dalvik-cache you don't need to nandroid but anything else it is highly recommended.

pettigrew95 said:
Everytime you are going to flash a zip from SD card or a new ROM. Basically anything that will modify your existing ROM except clearing /cache or dalvik-cache you don't need to nandroid but anything else it is highly recommended.
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Thanks, I just recently went from stock to Xboarders rom & now I'm going to try Whitehawk's rom & I didn't want to have several backups of the stock rom on the card. Thanks again

thefurb said:
im having the same problem i was trying to restore from a stock back up and i keep getting md5 mismatch i have not changed the file name i have wiped everything multiple times i cant even flash a new rom i have tried three different ones each say cant open zip (bad) please help phone wont boot at all
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If you have no rom to use and you can adb into the phone:
adb shell
changedirectory to the backup
rm nandroid.md5
md5sum *.img > nandroid.md5
If you do still have a rom you can boot into, go into terminal, su, change directory to where the backup is. then:
rm nandroid.md5
md5sum *.img > nandroid.md5
I searched and was just trying anything that I might think could help me. Found the instructions I'm giving you in one of the droid help forums. While our situations are not entirely the same, I do hope this works for you. Good luck.

Flashing a new recovery

Hi,
I probably have a stupid question for you guys, but I gotta ask it.
So, I currently have the latest ClockworkMod Recovery and a custom ROM. And I want to flash a new recovery. It's 4EXT recovery, to be more specific.
So my questions are following:
1. Will I mess up my ROM by flashing a new recovery? Do I have to do a Nandroid before flashing new recovery?
2. If 1. is correct, and I do backup, will a normal restore do the trick in order to run my ROM properly, after I already flashed a new recovery?
3. If I wanna go back to ClockworkMod recovery, will a normal flash via ROM Manager be enough to perform that?
Many thanks.

No, your backup will be gone, you should not have to do a wipe or flash another rom. Yes, you can just flash it back threw rom manager.
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techno-update said:
No, your backup will be gone, you should not have to do a wipe or flash another rom. Yes, you can just flash it back threw rom manager.
Please hit the thank you button if i helped!
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how can it be gone if nandroid saves in /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/ ???

Because another recovery does not use the same folder.
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techno-update said:
No, your backup will be gone, you should not have to do a wipe or flash another rom. Yes, you can just flash it back threw rom manager.
Please hit the thank you button if i helped!
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Okay, thanks, but you didn't answer on my first question.
Will I mess up my current ROM after flashing a new recovery?
Thanks

I dont think it will. I am 99% sure it wont, but since i dont know about the other recovery, i cant say with full certainty. But most dont so i would not worry about it.
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saitek1911 said:
Hi!
I rooted my Galaxy S3.
Using this method: http://galaxys3root.com/galaxy-s3-root/how-to-root-galaxy-s3/
It all went fine, but then i wanted to try using other ROM's, but i wanted to make a backup first, however i cannot find the backup button in the ClockWorkRecovery..
it only shows whipe data, clear cache and such but no back up OR Restore.
I also tried RE rooting it but no luck.
What do i do here?
Can i install ROM Manager Premium and flash recovery from there even though i installed this cwm? ( http://galaxys3root.com/galaxy-s3-root/how-to-root-galaxy-s3/)
Please help me out!
One does not simply install custom ROMS without Backing Up First!
Thank you very much!
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better enter download mode and flash recovery by Odin
are you sure that CWM is for your phone ?
better wait wait wait..
I can help you with one thing:be careful

[Q] Nand restore results in bootloop

After flashing my first ROM on my new Asus TF300T I attempted to do a restore from CWM recovery and I just get bootloop. I have tried factory reset and wiping cache and dalvic but to no avail. The only way to get my tab working again is to flash back to AOKP. I have read the thread by d_crossfader but It doesn't seem to be the solution to get nand restore to work to get me back to stock. Please Help.

OK so I solved this. Sort of. Flashed a cyanogen rom and then was able to restore but then no wifi. I assume this is a kernel problem. Gonna try going to stock kernel. Can someone tell me how to backup the kernel? do I need TWRP recovery to do this? Is anyone working on an amon-ra style recovery?

Same here but solved it
I had the same problem.
i was on US.29 and wanted to upgrade to US.30 so i said before i upgrade lets try a custom rom so i tried 1) SKANKWICH CM9 KANG build and then 2) [AOKP][Build 40][4.0.4] Unofficial AOKP. I found that both builds was similar but didn't like (for my reasons) and wanted to stay as close to stock. So i tried to restore my 2 hours ago, nandoid backup. Bootloops was the result. Wiped data,factory reset,dalvik cache, and restored 5 times but no hope.
Solved this by installing the SKANKWICH CM9 KANG build from the recovery and when the device started, i downloaded the US.30 and unzipped it to internals storage root. Then restarted the tf300t in recovery,wiped data,factory reset and installed US.30 zip and everything now is fine.
I dont know if the reason is that before the first rom install i forgot to restore (copy paste) the original build.prop file.
Also finaly the machine was unlocked,unrooted without any custom recovery.

I think this is just a bug with nandroid restores, saw a few people having problems.
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i downloaded the US.30 and unzipped it to internals storage root. Then restarted the tf300t in recovery,wiped data,factory reset and installed US.30 zip and everything now is fine.
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Good to hear! This is what worked for me too.
I then had to flash recovery again and re-root.
I used Thing O Doom's method because his tool claims to solve boot-loops and bricks as well so I figured it would be handy to keep around. Also, it is simple to use.
BE CAREFUL to insert the correct recovery blob if you use his tool though!!!
Here's the link to his thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1681155

Will Try
I will try peri-04 one click root to see if i still get bootloops after nandroid restore. But where do u find the recovery blob u said u used for your Tf300?

pankobios said:
I will try peri-04 one click root to see if i still get bootloops after nandroid restore. But where do u find the recovery blob u said u used for your Tf300?
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Under "CUSTOM RECOVERY" section in the index thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1697227
After you get the blob file rename it to "recoveryblob" and replace the one that comes in the PERI folder.

My Android is looping during the boot

Hi,
I tried to modify the build.prop file of my LG Optimus 2X to simply disable the animation during the boot. It didn't really worked well because my cellphone is now looping during the boot. I think I saved the build.prop on my sdcard but now I don't know what to do...! I tried to hard reset and wipe date, but it's still no booting. I have clockwork mod instal.
Thank you!

EjasRus said:
Hi,
I tried to modify the build.prop file of my LG Optimus 2X to simply disable the animation during the boot. It didn't really worked well because my cellphone is now looping during the boot. I think I saved the build.prop on my sdcard but now I don't know what to do...! I tried to hard reset and wipe date, but it's still no booting. I have clockwork mod instal.
Thank you!
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Well, first, I'd like to ask if you have a CWM backup of your system before you edited your build.prop? I assume that since you can wipe the data, you can reach CWM. If you can and have a backup, try recovering that backup and see if that works. If you do not, then you can always try to find an RUU (ROM update utility) that should return your phone to an unrooted, stock ROM. I don't know of any other options, all I can say now is become best friends with that search bar up there.
Hope you manage to get your phone back. :fingers-crossed:

revert to stock, oh just reflash whatever custom ROM you have been using (if you have any), you should be able to mount SD card from CWM and copy your ROM in there and flash away. I am under the assumption that since you were doing your DIY mods there, you should have knowledge of flashing back to stock or Custom Roms of choice. Good luck.

TekGadgt said:
Well, first, I'd like to ask if you have a CWM backup of your system before you edited your build.prop? I assume that since you can wipe the data, you can reach CWM. If you can and have a backup, try recovering that backup and see if that works. If you do not, then you can always try to find an RUU (ROM update utility) that should return your phone to an unrooted, stock ROM. I don't know of any other options, all I can say now is become best friends with that search bar up there.
Hope you manage to get your phone back. :fingers-crossed:
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No I don't have a CWM backup :S Do you know where I could get a RUU for my phone?

EjasRus said:
No I don't have a CWM backup :S Do you know where I could get a RUU for my phone?
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Here's a start. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1035041
The search bar on top is very useful if that doesn't help...

Foreverme89 said:
The search bar on top is very useful if that doesn't help...
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That it is. Half of the time when helping people out, that is my starting point I'm really new to this, but know my way around a search engine and how to read

Boot into recovery, wipe cache and dalvik cache, and flash the same ROM you were already using
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do a full wipe or flash with the original rom