Hi guys
I'm having g some weird issues I have a gs3 from bell. I rooted it and been flashing all kinds of Roms and never having any issues going back to restoring stable Roms until I decided to try twrp recovery but I noticed that I couldn't restore anything backed up by cwm so I flashed cwm though Rom manager and since then whenever I try to backup a Rom it finishes then when I try to restore them they say md5 mismatch. So after a lot of research I managed to notice that cwm isn't making any nandroid md5 files.
So my question is have I flashed a bad version of cwm through Rom manager or may I have just screwed my phones files somehow I was thinking of uprooting my phone and rerooting it but I don't know if that will fix this. Please help
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Just so u know i've read through that 3 times already I don't have that issue ... I dOnt have a nandroid md5 like showing up in any of my backups so thanks for nothing if you would have read my post you would have understood That already
solved***** unrooted......rerooted..........backups and restors working fine..........my guess. rom manger`s update of cwm got messed up no more rom manager for me ;p
DLM2583 said:
solved***** unrooted......rerooted..........backups and restors working fine..........my guess. rom manger`s update of cwm got messed up no more rom manager for me ;p
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Hi, I am still having the same problem as you, and I bought Cwm touch from rom manager and i created a backup and when i restore it it says md5 mistmatch.. So did you get a different older version of cwm? How did you end up using the backup that you couldn't open? Thanks for your help
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Hello people.
So i unlocked my phone and rooted it and before installing a custom rom i nandroid backed up the stock rom via cwm.
Then i flashed a custom one and also backed it up.
Problem is that if i try to restore either of the two backups i get a md5 mismatch and they won't restore...
Is cwm backup broken? Or am i SO unlicky that both of my backups got corrupted??
Many thanks in advance
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the only time i've had this problem is when i try to restore a back-up created by an older version of the recovery
jazznaura said:
the only time i've had this problem is when i try to restore a back-up created by an older version of the recovery
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I solved it a long time ago
The problem was due to renaming the backup
Thanks for the input though!
Recently have been having the worst luck.
I haven't ever been able to get CM to work on my SG3.
I've tried downloading stables and nightly. They always seem to be bad no matter how many times I down load them.
Recently everything went bad **** crazy where CWM thought my back up folders were empty.
After I rerooted the phone with odin, I tried to do a restore.
At which point CWM told me all of my original backup were had mismatched MD5s.
So does anyone know what happened here? How I can prevent it from happening again?
Icon000 said:
Recently have been having the worst luck.
I haven't ever been able to get CM to work on my SG3.
I've tried downloading stables and nightly. They always seem to be bad no matter how many times I down load them.
Recently everything went bad **** crazy where CWM thought my back up folders were empty.
After I rerooted the phone with odin, I tried to do a restore.
At which point CWM told me all of my original backup were had mismatched MD5s.
So does anyone know what happened here? How I can prevent it from happening again?
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I have been having issues with CWM telling me my backup folders are empty.. like i never did a Nandroid backup.. Very strange. So i always keep a few ROMS that work well stored on my SD card.
Make sure your CWM is up to date. Download ROM manager, and flash over the most recent CWM from there. Also from ROM manager you can download and flash over some of the CM's to your phone and ROM manager will install for you.
DustinD1986 said:
I have been having issues with CWM telling me my backup folders are empty.. like i never did a Nandroid backup.. Very strange. So i always keep a few ROMS that work well stored on my SD card.
Make sure your CWM is up to date. Download ROM manager, and flash over the most recent CWM from there. Also from ROM manager you can download and flash over some of the CM's to your phone and ROM manager will install for you.
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The install would even fail when I was installing CM 10 stable from Rom Manager.
I'm at a loss of what else to do.
Icon000 said:
Recently have been having the worst luck.
I haven't ever been able to get CM to work on my SG3.
I've tried downloading stables and nightly. They always seem to be bad no matter how many times I down load them.
Recently everything went bad **** crazy where CWM thought my back up folders were empty.
After I rerooted the phone with odin, I tried to do a restore.
At which point CWM told me all of my original backup were had mismatched MD5s.
So does anyone know what happened here? How I can prevent it from happening again?
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Rename your back ups and remove any spaces in the name. The back ups can be named anything you want, just make sure there aren't any other spaces. I had the md5 checksum error and this was the fix, I removed the spaces and voila it worked
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hi everyone
i upgraded my phone to 4.2.1 and than flashed the paranoid android.. the problem is that the gapps couldnt be installed i tried few versions so i want to go back to my 4.2 which i made a backup to. thing is the clockwork also have changed probebly with the paranoid rom and i cant find my backup someone knows how can i find it?
thank you
zahico said:
hi everyone
i upgraded my phone to 4.2.1 and than flashed the paranoid android.. the problem is that the gapps couldnt be installed i tried few versions so i want to go back to my 4.2 which i made a backup to. thing is the clockwork also have changed probebly with the paranoid rom and i cant find my backup someone knows how can i find it?
thank you
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The recovery was not changed by the rom. You simply need to point your recovery to the correct backup location. This is an issue often caused by users neglecting to upgrade their recovery to a current version prior to installing anything based on 4.2.
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The recovery was not changed by the rom. You simply need to point your recovery to the correct backup location. This is an issue often caused by users neglecting to upgrade their recovery to a current version prior to installing anything based on 4.2.
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now i have the teamwin recovery btw...
ok, so how do i find the right backup location?
zahico said:
now i have the teamwin recovery btw...
ok, so how do i find the right backup location?
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To begin with, you can't restore a CWM backup with TWRP. You need to use the recovery that was used to make the backup.
Hello everyone,
I have rooted and unlocked my bootloader, and installed CWM 6.0.2 I believe (summer 2012). I was using 4.3 Deodexed ROM and decided to upgrade to 4.4, so I mad a nandroid backup through CWM. Then I found out that 4.4 required me to update my CWM to 6.0.4.3, so I did. After upgrading CWM, I was unable to restore my old 6.0.2 backup. Is there any way to restore it, or do I have to downgrade CWM?
If I need to downgrade CWM, can I first perform a backup of my current 4.4 ROM and then downgrade, or is there a chance it will mess with old CWM?
Thanks in advance,
silentz0r
Sorry for bumping, I have noticed that after upgrading CWM, it made new directories into /sdcard and moved my old directories into /sdcard/0. I tried copying the contents of the old CWM directory into the new one (/blobs and /backup) and tried to restore, but still got the same error message notifying me that no backup is found. Is there no way to restore an old CWM backup with newer CWM?
If anyone ever has this problem, I suggest installing ROM Manager. My backups spontaneously started working through ROM Manager (even in CWM recovery). I have no idea why the backup could not be found before, but using this pretty much fixed itself. Marked as Solved.
silentz0r_ said:
If anyone ever has this problem, I suggest installing ROM Manager. My backups spontaneously started working through ROM Manager (even in CWM recovery). I have no idea why the backup could not be found before, but using this pretty much fixed itself. Marked as Solved.
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Thanks for the heads up!
But shouldn't you just have made a back-up before CWM upgrade, then upgrade CWM, make another backup (just in case) and then install 4.4?
I am still on 4.3 and I will do it this way in the near future.
Hello, I recently rooted my wifes Note 2 that was on the latest OTA 4.3. Was not easy BTW. I did a back up in recovery of boot, system, and data. I figured I was good to go and start trying out other roms.
The first one I flashed was Macks Allstar 5.0 rom. Everything was great. Then my wife informed me that she did not have all of her contacts backed up to google and some were only saved to her phone. So then I figure I could just restore the original backup and extract the contacts and be able to install them to any rom.
Thats when everything went wrong. Everytime I tried restoring the back up,it would crash and recovery would do like a reboot. After many attempts I figured id try another version of recovery. After flashing many earlier versions of twrp and trying to restore, I finally was able to complete a restore from version 2.6. I was ecstatic. But then my heart sank again when boot always hangs on samsung logo. And that is where I'm stuck. I am able to flash other roms no problem but cant restore my original backup.
Needless to say my wife is ready to kill me.
Please if anyone could help me I would really appreciate it. I have searched throughout this forum and internet for hours and can not seem to find any help with this issue.
I am thankful to have been able to get this far with the help from the XDA community posts I never needed direct help even with prior phone rootings but this one has got me stumped. Thanks in advance
You need to flash Phil's recovery version 6.0.7.9. If you cant restore your backup with Phil's then I'm thinking you might be sol. Make sure you know where you saved the backup to. It's either on the phone's internal sd or external sd card. Choose the correct location in Phil's recovery and if it isn't corrupt it should work. You may also want to copy your backup onto your pc just in case because that's your only backup and doing a full wipe or odin restore could permanently delete it. Good luck.
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You need to flash Phil's recovery version 6.0.7.9. If you cant restore your backup with Phil's then I'm thinking you might be sol. Make sure you know where you saved the backup to. It's either on the phone's internal sd or external sd card. Choose the correct location in Phil's recovery and if it isn't corrupt it should work. You may also want to copy your backup onto your pc just in case because that's your only backup and doing a full wipe or odin restore could permanently delete it. Good luck.
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Thank you for your reply. I am at work right now and left the phone with my wife with a working rom. I will try phils recovery when I get home. As far as backups, I have two copies. One on my SD card and the other on PC but if they're both fried I guess that negates my efforts in redundancy. It's hard to believe the backup got corrupt so quickly. I have another backup of the 2nd rom I flashed and that one wont install as well.
Is there something I am doing wrong? If the backup file is corrupt, is there a way to extract contacts seperately out of backup?
Method b.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2648855
My wife does that too. Sorry
ColeTrain! said:
Method b.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2648855
My wife does that too. Sorry
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Life of a married man. Haha!
Well, as my backup file was done with TWRP, I tried method B with TWRP recovery and it wont work so now I'm in the process of trying method A. Will update once I tried it.
I think my problem has to do with TWRP not playing friendly with 4.3 ROMS. If that is the case method A looks like it will work.:fingers-crossed:
alexandnen said:
Life of a married man. Haha!
Well, as my backup file was done with TWRP, I tried method B with TWRP recovery and it wont work so now I'm in the process of trying method A. Will update once I tried it.
I think my problem has to do with TWRP not playing friendly with 4.3 ROMS. If that is the case method A looks like it will work.:fingers-crossed:
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That's exactly right. Bootloader isn't playing well with TWRP recovery. Phil"s 6.0.7.9 seems to be compatible in most ROM vs bootloader situations. Don't use latest version of Phil's recovery as it doesn't work as well and most people recommend this as well.
If Phil's recovery won't flash your restore then Odin all the way back to stock unrooted LK8 ROM then root it with the Toolkit and flash TWRP from the toolkit at the same time. Then see if you can restore at that point.
Looks like this project has come to an end. My wife likes her new rom and doesn't want to let me work on her phone anymore. She was able to get most of her contacts back I will make sure she backs her contacts to google and I will try to convince her to install Titanium backup to backup all her app data.
Unfortunately all I have is a work issued iphone that I have no interest in jailbreaking. I really don't see the point.
I am still confident that I could have eventually restored her backup successfully with the help here.
Thank you tx_dbx_tx and coletrain for your help.