[Solved] Can't restore my nandroid backup - EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I had a backup of my main ROM and did a nandroid backup. I booted into my main ROM and went into Root Explorer and renamed the backup to include UD (as in the ROM it was). I didn't take note of what it was before and now when I try to restore it gives me an error for MD5 Sums. I want to restore the ROM but don't know how to bypass it. Any ideas?
I renamed it because it's annoying trying to figure out which ROM you had when you did that backup.
**** I renamed the file but took out any spaces or special characters and it did the trick**** restoring to ud as we speak.

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Help with Nandroid files.

I'm just looking for a clarification here.
I understand that by doing an Nandroid backup, it backs up EVERYthing, from Rom, to apps, to data, all they way down to texts and every intimate detail about settings. I was wondering, when I do a Nandroid backup, and it saves the "nandroid" folder on my SD card, is this EVERYTHING I need?
Reason being is this.
I WAS running CyanogenMod6. I have a nandroid backup on my SD Card of it.
I switched to Ava's froyo rom.
I want to go back to Cyanogen using my nandroid.
Could I:
Transfer the Nandroid from my SD to my computer then create a NEW nandroid on my SD of AVA and have these be two complete backups of everything minus the special folders on my SD that isn't a Nandroid folder?
I guess in easier terms im asking, is the ENTIRE nandroid backup stored in the nandroid folder and contain just the
boot/data/system images along w/ the md5 file?
What recovery are you running? If you're on AmonRa you can just make another nandroid backup of your current ROM, then go into restore and pick the prior backup (they're catalogued by date/time of backup).
I'm not sure how ClockworkMod recovery works, if it's the same or not.
I have something like 7 backups on my SD card. I need to pare that down though so I just have my original stock 2.1 ROM setup and then my current ROM as those are the only two I really need.
phobos512 said:
What recovery are you running? If you're on AmonRa you can just make another nandroid backup of your current ROM, then go into restore and pick the prior backup (they're catalogued by date/time of backup).
I'm not sure how ClockworkMod recovery works, if it's the same or not.
I have something like 7 backups on my SD card. I need to pare that down though so I just have my original stock 2.1 ROM setup and then my current ROM as those are the only two I really need.
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I'm Running CWM right now for recovery. Kind of wanted to switch to the AmonRa, searching on how to do that.

Nandroid - Clockworkmod/amonRA

Is there a difference between nandroid in Clockworkmod or amonRA recovery? If no can I move my nandroid backups from Clockworkmod directory to nandroid and do restores with amonRA nandroid?
Can I rename my nandroid backups to something more meaningful without causing a problem?
also wondering the same thing. Can you change the name to atleast the date?
You can rename the backup before it starts if you're using ROM Manager. Otherwise, make a copy of the backup you want on your PC, rename it, and try it. If it doesn't work, it will just not go and you can reboot and try something else. Worst case, you load the original nandroid, install your preferred recovery with ROM Manager, and re-nandroid it with a useful name.

nandroid img files restore question

So heres the situation. I made a backup of my phone using rom manager because I wanted to try out the new cyanogen. I got done playing with it and I went to revert back to my restore I had just created. During the restore I got an md5 mismatch error.
I used the instructions here to repair the restore
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-hacks/40428-checking-md5-sum.html#post430944
su
cd /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/*rom name (date and time usually)/
md5sum *img > nandroid.md5
reboot recovery
The procedure worked in the sense that I was able to restore the image. The problem is after the restore I am stuck at the white "HTC Incredible" screen. I tried wiping caches and running the restore again but I am unable to get the phone to reboot.
I was able to restore to a much older restore that I had previously created but it lacks alot of updates and changes that I have made since then. Not to mention my Angry Birds saved game.
Looking at the restore files it looks like the folder for the restore contains a hand full IMG files. What i'm wondering is since it appears that the boot process is damaged I'm wondering if I could make a backup of the phone as it is now then take lets say the data.img file (or whatever file i need to recover installed apps and saved games) and overwrite the img files for the restore i just created. I could then use the same procedure I just performed to recreate the md5 hash and run the restore. My home is that will allow me to get my data back and still allow the phone to boot.
What do you guys think? Is it doable or am I going to be in a world of hurt if I start messing with this?
Something else you might try is to restore the latest backup, then do an advanced restore of just the boot partition from your older backup. It's worth a shot I'd think.
Did you put spaces or special characters when you named your backup? This can cause MD5 mismatch errors.
s197 said:
Did you put spaces or special characters when you named your backup? This can cause MD5 mismatch errors.
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NO, I didn't. I used the default setting. I think it was 2010-12-29.01.34.10 or something like that.
setexascustoms said:
Something else you might try is to restore the latest backup, then do an advanced restore of just the boot partition from your older backup. It's worth a shot I'd think.
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Thanks man, This worked perfectly. Restoring the boot.img didn't fix the problem but restoring the system.img did. I have all my data back and my phone is fully functional again. Thanks again.

CWM Restoring a Nandroid Backup

I have tried to restore some Nandroid Backups that I made via Clock Work mod. I get an error
Checking MD5 Sums...
MD5 Mismatch!
Why does it not work? I had copied it to my PC then back to my phones internal SDCARD. I did rename the Directory. Are these things not allowed?
I decided to see if I can bring back 1 I never touched. I made a backup then restored it and it worked so Clock work mod seems to be fine but perhaps its because I changed to folder path?
No clue perhaps someone can educate me on Nandroid backups do's and don'ts. Please note I have the 5X version of CWM.
dudejb said:
I have tried to restore some Nandroid Backups that I made via Clock Work mod. I get an error
Checking MD5 Sums...
MD5 Mismatch!
Why does it not work? I had copied it to my PC then back to my phones internal SDCARD. I did rename the Directory. Are these things not allowed?
I decided to see if I can bring back 1 I never touched. I made a backup then restored it and it worked so Clock work mod seems to be fine but perhaps its because I changed to folder path?
No clue perhaps someone can educate me on Nandroid backups do's and don'ts. Please note I have the 5X version of CWM.
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Placed the files exactly as they were backed up and it worked. No renaming of directories and no placing in another folder. Apparently this is all taken into account with Nandroid backup.

GT-N7105 TWRP Restore can't see backup

My phone is GT-N7105 (Samsung Note 2)
I had a nandroid backup before, then I copied the backup to PC, still have it. Then I flashed lineage 14 (nougat), then flashed lineage 13 (marshmallow). I deleted the nandroid backup on the phone storage sometime during that period. Now I want to restore the backup (stock rom) so I copied the backup files from the PC to phone storage.
Now when I go to TWRP Restore mode, no backups are found.
I already searched through the internet and found the renaming method but there's a problem:
this is my original backup:
TWRP/backups/42f7491d7b409fc7/2017-03-01--05-28-34_JZO54K.N7105XXDMB
I tried to make a new backup of my current lineage (just to see if the folder name changed based on the new folder the backup process will create), here is what the resulting folder was:
TWRP/backups/42f7491d7b409fc7/2017-07-05--09-27-29_lineage_tOlte-userdebug_6.0.1_MOB31K_ab972c
As you can see, only the innermost folder name changed. So from what I found through searching, it said to rename the old backup folder to the new backup folder's name, meaning :
I changed
2017-03-01--05-28-34_JZO54K.N7105XXDMB2
to
2017-07-05--09-27-29_lineage_tOlte-userdebug_6.0.1_MOB31K_ab972c
TWRP still can't see the original backup.
I already tried renaming only part of the orignal backup folder name, specifically the 6 character code (found 2, JZO54K and XXDMB2) to the 6 char code from new backup (MOB31K and ab972c) but TWRP still can't recognize the original backup.
So what should I rename the original backup folder for TWRP to recognize it and make it appear? I really need to restore it back to stock rom. help please. Thanks
EDIT:
TWRP I used before was 2.8.0 but I just updated the TWRP to 3.1.0 and still can't recognize original backup
Also, If I made the thread in wrong section, please move it and I apologize in advance. Thanks.

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