I would like to go back to backup that I did earlier today, but when I try to restore the nandroid backup, I get the MD5 mismatch problem. I googled and found reference to creating a blank nandroid.md5 file, but I can't seem to find where Clockwork Mod 6.0.3.1 has stored the files.
I realize that the issue is that my new ROM (CM 10.1) s different than the old ROM (Stock 4.2.1).
kendoori said:
I would like to go back to backup that I did earlier today, but when I try to restore the nandroid backup, I get the MD5 mismatch problem. I googled and found reference to creating a blank nandroid.md5 file, but I can't seem to find where Clockwork Mod 6.0.3.1 has stored the files.
I realize that the issue is that my new ROM (CM 10.1) s different than the old ROM (Stock 4.2.1).
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Your backup is in data/media/clockworkmod
with es explorer navigate to backup>name of backup, open nandroid.md5 file, select Text, and then select ES Note Editor. Highlight everything in the file and delete it. Tap the Back key, and confirm saving with Yes. By deleting the content in the file, you force clockworkmod to skip matching md5sum.
this method requires that you have a non corrupted backup.
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samersh72 said:
Your backup is in data/media/clockworkmod
with es explorer navigate to backup>name of backup, open nandroid.md5 file, select Text, and then select ES Note Editor. Highlight everything in the file and delete it. Tap the Back key, and confirm saving with Yes. By deleting the content in the file, you force clockworkmod to skip matching md5sum.
this method requires that you have a non corrupted backup.
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Thanks for this. It turned out to be in a different location: /mnt/shell/emulated/clockworkmod
Also by default ES File Explorer is not in root mode so that this is not accessible until you change that.
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I'm running v1.7.0.1 and when I go to do a NAND restore I notice I have multiple files to choose from. I'm used to only having the lastest backup as a restore point. Is there any way to name these files? I figured out by trial and error that the last one (bottom) is the most recent backup. But it would be nice to be able to make some notes in the file name.
There are a couple ways:
1.) From within the phone: If you have Root explorer, Astro, or ES Explorer, and look for your nandroid folder, you are able to rename it that way.
2.) Mount your phone to your pc. Locate the sd card drive, scroll to your nandroid folder and rename away.
So I tried renaming my backups on pc, since rom manager would always mess up when trying that method. Both ways I get a "m5 sum incorrect " or something like that!
Any ideas, sometimes I have so many backups its hard to tell what's what
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ROM Manager will let you name your backups. Only thing I can think of.
how do you use rom manager to rename them i renamed them all with ES File Explorer and now all my backups get that m5 sum incorrect thing
Already tried rom manager to rename, if I try and restore I get the "sum "error
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I used to have this problem. What I currently do, is as follows, using Amon_RA 2.2.1 Located here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=705026
I use the recovery nandroid backup. When I do this it creates a folder under /sdcard/nandroid/...... where ...... is the folder nandroid will create upon your first backup. From there all your future backups will go into that folder, it will be something goofy, the folder for me is Ht096Hl01177 (path looks like this: /sdcard/nandroid/HT096H101177/New Backup, rename this folder, not the HT one), within that folder will be your actual backup. Create the nandroid backup, I use ROOT EXPLORER (Paid but worth it since you can do mounted deletes), to rename the newley created backup, do not change the parent folder. Then when I want to restore to that one, I make sure I do a full wipe including Dalvick Cache. Using this process I don't hardly ever get the m5sum error. Hope that helps. I currently have 4 backups under the parent directory and I can restore them fine as long as I wipe first.
The easiest and cheapest way is by opening rom manager and scroll down to where it says backup/restore and on the backup you want to rename you hold it and then it will give you options like delete etc...chose rename and rename it example MikFroyo_1-24-2011 when you space make sure you _ for spaces and you should not get an error I segest you make a backup and use that to test it you can also rename it by clicking back up restore within rom manager and press back and rename it like showed in the example hopes this helps I have tested both with no problems what so ever
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I always rename mine with no issues...so far. I just leave all the numbers then start at the end like this. 2010-11-20.07.24.51 then I add -MYN-01-HB-76. Dont know if this will work for everyone. I just didnt want to mess with the file name too much
Evo - Myn 2.2 RLS 3 - Clockwork - HBoot .76
The key thing to know about renaming nandroids is that you have to be sure to leave no spaces in the names...
You can name it CM6.Jan25 but not CM6 Jan 25
You do not need to save the given name of it, I assure you.
....this is true whether you rename with rom manager, root explorer or estrongs ..... that is all you need to be concerned with, as long as you do that you should be fine....
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I used to have this problem. What I currently do, is as follows, using Amon_RA 2.2.1 Located here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=705026
I use the recovery nandroid backup. When I do this it creates a folder under /sdcard/nandroid/...... where ...... is the folder nandroid will create upon your first backup. From there all your future backups will go into that folder, it will be something goofy, the folder for me is Ht096Hl01177 (path looks like this: /sdcard/nandroid/HT096H101177/New Backup, rename this folder, not the HT one), within that folder will be your actual backup. Create the nandroid backup, I use ROOT EXPLORER (Paid but worth it since you can do mounted deletes), to rename the newley created backup, do not change the parent folder. Then when I want to restore to that one, I make sure I do a full wipe including Dalvick Cache. Using this process I don't hardly ever get the m5sum error. Hope that helps. I currently have 4 backups under the parent directory and I can restore them fine as long as I wipe first.
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right on. this is execly what i do to rename
Vandelay007 said:
The key thing to know about renaming nandroids is that you have to be sure to leave no spaces in the names...
You can name it CM6.Jan25 but not CM6 Jan 25
You do not need to save the given name of it, I assure you.
....this is true whether you rename with rom manager, root explorer or estrongs ..... that is all you need to be concerned with, as long as you do that you should be fine....
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Yeah, I use Root Explorer, no spaces, works fine for me.
I have downloaded an app + data (so it seems), from a friend. He made a backup for me and told me I could restore it using Titanium Backup.
It's a zip file and it contains a .tar.gz of the data, a .apk.gz (app) and a .properties file.
The .properties file seems to contain Titanium Backup information.
So I assume there should be some way of importing this zip file using Titanium Backup. But I can't find that option.
What I can find is "Backup" (which creates a backup of an app and stores it *somewhere*) and "Restore", where I can't specify a path or anything.
How can I restore the data inside this zip?
Extract that .zip file to /sdcard/TitaniumBackup/ folder. If you installed app which you want to restore go to Titanium Backup app and just restore it :good:
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Extract that .zip file to /sdcard/TitaniumBackup/ folder. If you installed app which you want to restore go to Titanium Backup app and just restore it :good:
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Can someone please help me? I have all of my backed up info on Google Drive from TB. I moved that info from Google to my phone and have tried to batch restore, but it keeps showing 0 files. Please help as I have a lot of apps and data backed up and I don't care to start over. I purchased the TB Pro app for just such an occasion and now I can't use it.
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Can someone please help me? I have all of my backed up info on Google Drive from TB. I moved that info from Google to my phone and have tried to batch restore, but it keeps showing 0 files. Please help as I have a lot of apps and data backed up and I don't care to start over. I purchased the TB Pro app for just such an occasion and now I can't use it.
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Did you solve your problem?
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Did you solve your problem?
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No. I never received a response so I just gave up and started over.
D0GuKaN said:
Extract that .zip file to /sdcard/TitaniumBackup/ folder. If you installed app which you want to restore go to Titanium Backup app and just restore it :good:
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This works indeed.
I selected a batch operation for backing up apps and system data. Downloaded it via the TB Webserver and thought I was okay.
Tried restoring by uploading it to my Nexus via TB Webserver anddd it's gone. Not in the Titanium Backup app, nor to be found on the Nexus with a file browser.
Uploaded the zip manually using an usb cable to the emualted sd andddd no,option in Titanium Backup to say "its here!".
Downloaded an unzip thingie in the Play Store, unzipped the shizzle and let the files in the zip -one level down- being unpacked in the TitaniumBackup folder.
Restarted TB and yay, it can see again. Batch restored everything and... it works. Kinda. Stuck on Swiftkey as we speak. But this is the best I could come up with.
Sigh.
1. Is there any method to update the apk files stored in the zip file with newer version ?
2. How can we delete /update the backup apks with newer version?
rohitshakti said:
1. Is there any method to update the apk files stored in the zip file with newer version ?
2. How can we delete /update the backup apks with newer version?
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There may be a better way to do this, but somewhere in Preference you can tell it how many backups to keep. I think the default is "All". Set it to 1 and that should do the trick.
I made a backup with ClockworkMod recovery and was able to restore from it later. Then I renamed the folder to something more meaningful. Next time I tried to restore I got a message about bad MD5 file. Is there anyway to fix this? I do not remember the original folder name of the backup.
anichin said:
I made a backup with ClockworkMod recovery and was able to restore from it later. Then I renamed the folder to something more meaningful. Next time I tried to restore I got a message about bad MD5 file. Is there anyway to fix this? I do not remember the original folder name of the backup.
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Found the answer here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7004747&postcount=2
anichin said:
I made a backup with ClockworkMod recovery and was able to restore from it later. Then I renamed the folder to something more meaningful. Next time I tried to restore I got a message about bad MD5 file. Is there anyway to fix this? I do not remember the original folder name of the backup.
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it needs to be named as it was set by cwm
Hello,
I wanted to change my kernel today, back to stock, so I tried to recover a previous backup I had from clockworkmod. But when I tried to recover it said "Md5 mismatch". So I went to Youtube to figure out why this was, I followed the instructions but there is no file path for my backups. I tried all of the different file paths "/data" that was empty, "/mnt/shell/" and that was empty as well, as well as a few other file paths. I eventually gave up looking for the backup and decided to erase the backup I made. But when I tried to delete it it said "There was an error renaming your backup. Please choose a unique and valid file name for your backup." I tried renaming it something else but it still says the same thing. Anyone know what I can do here, I just want this file off of my phone. Any help would be much appreciated!
Extra info. When I made the backup I decided to rename it as "5-14(Before custom kernel) but when I got the prompt to change name, I tried changing it to a valid name. Now the name is stuck?
I've also included some pictures to help understand my situation.
Rename the folder download to backup or backups and check
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rahulsnair said:
Rename the folder download to backup or backups and check
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I renamed the folder on my PC and it worked fine. But nothing changed. I looked in ES file explorer and folder name is still "download" and wont change
May be some problem with rom manager.Try renaming using "root explorer". If you want to get your stock kernal you can flash it using kernal flasher.
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rename the folder that contains all backuped files (without space). put that folder in another folder named "backup". put backup folder in another folder named "clockworkmod". put clockworkmod folder in data/media using any root explorer (enable mount option in setting). try to restore
I used the root browser included in rom toolbox and that seemed to work. Thank you for your replies! I truly appreciate it
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Thank you for your reply. Luckily I didn't have to go through that process, it seemed to go away after using root browser. Thanks again!
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No solution found yet for this error.
Hi,
Yesterday i made a backup using ROM manager v5.5.3.7 (free)
For some reason i made a second backup by accident, and something went wrong.(probably lack of disk space)
I now have 2 backups, i would like to delete one. (since i'm running short on disk space)
Tried too delete it but i got the "There was an error renaming your backup. Please choose a unique and valid file name for your backup." error.
I tried everything provided in this thread without any succes. (sorry for replying on this kinda old thread)
Anyone has an idea how to help me out?
Running CM11 (nightly) with stock kernel CM.
Thx for any help!
Update:
Nevermind, went into recovery and deleted the corrupted one!