When creating a recovery on cwm, an I safely name them something other than the date that is given as default?
I ask because the last time I did this, after trying to restore the ROM it came up with an md5 mismatch error and as told the renaming may have causes this?
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razormccabe said:
When creating a recovery on cwm, an I safely name them something other than the date that is given as default?
I ask because the last time I did this, after trying to restore the ROM it came up with an md5 mismatch error and as told the renaming may have causes this?
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I have successfully renamed recoveries from the default, and it has always worked.
What might have happened is that you renamed the EXTENSION, make sure you don't rename the .md5 at the end of the file.
Lionex1 said:
I have successfully renamed recoveries from the default, and it has always worked.
What might have happened is that you renamed the EXTENSION, make sure you don't rename the .md5 at the end of the file.
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Maybe, though I don't see how I could have. Well I'll rename them anyway, I can't re,ember the ROMs simply by what date I saved them! Cheers.
razormccabe said:
Maybe, though I don't see how I could have. Well I'll rename them anyway, I can't re,ember the ROMs simply by what date I saved them! Cheers.
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Don't use any spaces when you rename the folder. Eg. RenameBackup instead of Rename Backup.
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Can i rename a nandroid backup file and then restore from? I know it names it with the date and time but i would like to name it something else.
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vacoray said:
Can i rename a nandroid backup file and then restore from? I know it names it with the date and time but i would like to name it something else.
Thanks
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I do with amons 2.2.1
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Cool! Thanks!
If you have clockwork, you can easily re-name them in rom mananger, just click manage backups, pick the selected, then rename.
teh roxxorz said:
If you have clockwork, you can easily re-name them in rom mananger, just click manage backups, pick the selected, then rename.
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I'm using Amon RA 2.2.1. I think i can do it using Root Explorer.
Every time I've tried CM it says md5 sum error. Tried to rename from astro, and computer everything does md sum error
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cbrewington75 said:
Every time I've tried CM it says md5 sum error. Tried to rename from astro, and computer everything does md sum error
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no spaces! stay away from special characters too. 2-3-12 is fine though.
Don't rename tho folder that they are in though.
I was just wondering if it was possible to rename the backups in root explorer without messing up the md5 sum? I did it a while ago with no issues, but recently did it again, and had md5 mismatch errors. Not sure if it was the rename, or something else? I would like to get some order to my backups, so I know what it's what. Thanks for any info.
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countryfolk07 said:
I was just wondering if it was possible to rename the backups in root explorer without messing up the md5 sum? I did it a while ago with no issues, but recently did it again, and had md5 mismatch errors. Not sure if it was the rename, or something else? I would like to get some order to my backups, so I know what it's what. Thanks for any info.
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I always rename all my backup with no issue. I use the date and what Rom it is to name them. I've done this with a few diff CWM versions and have never had an issue restoring them.
I just use rom manager to rename, never tried through a file program
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Thanks guys! Not sure what happened last time.
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Yep you can rename with a file manager, just make sure there are no spaces in the name of your backup.
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Thanks guys! Not sure what happened last time.
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Check for inadvertant spaces in the new name. That WILL cause an issue. Look after any punctuation you might have used.
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Check for inadvertant spaces in the new name. That WILL cause an issue. Look after any punctuation you might have used.
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I have a feeling that's what I did. Thanks.
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Why not use Rom Manager, under Manage and Restore Backups?
First off, Sorry if this is in the wrong section, but i dont think that the Q&A section would be a better place to put this.
So i flashed a bunch of different roms and set them all up exactly the way i want them and did a nandroid backup. Then i went on to the sdcard and (stupid move, i know) changed the names of the folders from the default nandroid name to the name of the rom without backing up the file. Now when i try to do a restore, it says md5 mismatch. I went back into the sdcard to try and go throguh the nandroid md5 file to find what to change the name back to, but there is nothing there (Itried it with a restore that i did not change the name of so i would be able to match some numbers, but couldnt find any that matched) I know that the name is probably the date and time, but i cant remember the time that i did the restore.
Anyone know what to do (besides flash the rom again, restore all my apps, put widgets back into place, change settings, and etc, etc)????
I change the name of the file but I leave it in the same folder. Never had a problem with the md5 at restoring.
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Sigh.....knows hes posting in the wrong section. Doesn't search. Where are the XDA memes lol.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1309703
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=714114
I can't even nandroid for some reason lol
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G1ForFun said:
Sigh.....knows hes posting in the wrong section. Doesn't search. Where are the XDA memes lol.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1309703
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=714114
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LOL sorry about that. I tried the links and i can now get to the restore thing, but it gets stuck at checking md5 sum...
Are you backing up with rom manager? You shouldn't because that apparently doesn't work for some
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Rename folder back to numbers only such as 2012.02.19
That should work
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tq745 said:
Rename folder back to numbers only such as 2012.02.19
That should work
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Ill try when I get home. Sounds like it might work.
Thanks
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kkg720 said:
First off, Sorry if this is in the wrong section, but i dont think that the Q&A section would be a better place to put this.
So i flashed a bunch of different roms and set them all up exactly the way i want them and did a nandroid backup. Then i went on to the sdcard and (stupid move, i know) changed the names of the folders from the default nandroid name to the name of the rom without backing up the file. Now when i try to do a restore, it says md5 mismatch. I went back into the sdcard to try and go throguh the nandroid md5 file to find what to change the name back to, but there is nothing there (Itried it with a restore that i did not change the name of so i would be able to match some numbers, but couldnt find any that matched) I know that the name is probably the date and time, but i cant remember the time that i did the restore.
Anyone know what to do (besides flash the rom again, restore all my apps, put widgets back into place, change settings, and etc, etc)????
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I had this issue too. The problem comes when you rename a file and include spaces in the name. Nandroid backups don't work if there are any spaces in the name, dashes or underscores only. The suggestion above should solve the issue but if you want to keep the labels so you know which backup is your juggernaut ROM and which backup is your darkside ROM, you can rename them, just no spaces and use dashes instead.
I'm hoping someone here can answer this easily and maybe provide a quick, easy fix.
When I do a nandroid backup from either cwm or twrp it saves the backup folder as the date (this is standard) but on this S3 its time stamp is always either 1970 Jan 1 or 1979 Dec 31. Why would this be? My date and time is fine after boot up and on all past phones my backups always had the proper current time within my recovery.
Where does the phone/recovery get this info? Ie, like some sort of bios clock of a pc.
Anyone know why this is happening and how I can fix, if at all?
Thanks
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There is no fix as of yet but you can rename them to the proper date if you like. Only use - and . when renaming. No spaces or other characters. eg: [email protected]#$, etc.
Renaming on the latest cwm 6+ will result in falling to pass the md5 check and won't let you flash it.
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equlizer said:
There is no fix as of yet but you can rename them to the proper date if you like. Only use - and . when renaming. No spaces or other characters. eg: [email protected]#$, etc.
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Yeah.I've been renaming for a while now but was still curious why this was happening and if there was a fix.
I'm using TWRP now so no issues with renaming and reflashing backups.
Is this a known issue with just the S3?
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equlizer said:
There is no fix as of yet but you can rename them to the proper date if you like. Only use - and . when renaming. No spaces or other characters. eg: [email protected]#$, etc.
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0u7br3ak said:
Renaming on the latest cwm 6+ will result in falling to pass the md5 check and won't let you flash it.
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So which one is correct, can it be renamed or not? Because I renamed mine already. Will I never be able to flash them? Or should I just make sure there are no spaces? I've plenty of nandroids in the past that wouldn't flash, so this may by why. But I may have renamed them with spaces in the title.
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There is no fix as of yet but you can rename them to the proper date if you like. Only use - and . when renaming. No spaces or other characters. eg: [email protected]#$, etc.
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Since the 2.3.0 update TWRP now supports spaces in file names.
hi.
will someone help me with that?? i flashed Pacman rom...and before flashing i was running darthstalker rom...ive done backup and today i wanted to go back to darth stalker rom..when i try to run restore ive got md5 mismatch..i try everything what i found on this forum but still getting error...
here is my log from cwm recovery
please help
Are you using CWM? Did you rename the backup folder? If you used spaces while renaming it will give an md5 mismatch.
meekrawb said:
Are you using CWM? Did you rename the backup folder? If you used spaces while renaming it will give an md5 mismatch.
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i didnt rename
Create a blank text and rename it to nandroid.md5, the recovery will skip it and everything will be fine
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or change anything
cysiek said:
i didnt rename
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andhikafajarms said:
Create a blank text and rename it to nandroid.md5, the recovery will skip it and everything will be fine
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nope...nnot working
cysiek said:
nope...nnot working
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Try Nandroid Manager, it has a feature to Generate MD5, It's on Google Play
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i made a new backup and i figured out that i maybe missing a file cache.ext4.tar
still getting md5 mismatch
cysiek said:
i made a new backup and i figured out that i maybe missing a file cache.ext4.tar
still getting md5 mismatch
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If nandroid manager doesn't work, the only thing I can think of is to try upgrading to CWM 6 and see if it helps. Probably won't work if the backup is hosed though.
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If nandroid manager doesn't work, the only thing I can think of is to try upgrading to CWM 6 and see if it helps. Probably won't work if the backup is hosed though.
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when i open nandroid.md5 file there is only 2 md5 sums...and i have 5 files in backup:/ i only have boot.img and recovery.img
cysiek said:
when i open nandroid.md5 file there is only 2 md5 sums...and i have 5 files in backup:/ i only have boot.img and recovery.img
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This is only a wild shot in the dark but have you tried renaming your nandroid.md5 to nandroid.md5.bak and then creating a new, blank nandroid.md5 like andhikafajarms said a few posts up? Other than that, I think your best bet is just to reinstall the ROM you are trying to restore. It sucks but it may be easier.
cysiek said:
when i open nandroid.md5 file there is only 2 md5 sums...and i have 5 files in backup:/ i only have boot.img and recovery.img
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that's the problem the rest are missing
can somebody tell me which file from backup is responsible for backed up apk's and is there any chance to convert it to TB backup??
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