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Stuck at Checking MD5 Sums

I'm still some what newby, as much as I don't like to admit it..
I'm not sure what I've done wrong.. I went to restore and clicked on the last file I backed up.. Yet, I'm stuck at checking md5 sums. How long does this usually take? I'm at about 15 minutes of waiting. Is this normal?

It should normally go pretty quickly. Did you edit anything in your backup before you tried to restore it?
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Nope, I didn't change anything.
I've tried from both Clockwork and from Rom Manager. No luck either way.

Have you wipe verything at least twice prier to restoring?

evolishesh said:
Have you wipe verything at least twice prier to restoring?
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I didn't wipe anything. I'm assuming that's where I messed up?
I've been following http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/0...nandroid-backup-and-clockworkmod-rom-manager/
If that gives you an idea what's I've been doing.

Try that, than report back. use Amo-Ra.

How did you root your phone?

evolishesh said:
How did you root your phone?
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unrEVOked 3.3

okay. have you flash Amo-ra?

As n00b as it sounds, I don't know how. Do, I go to rom manager flash alternate recovery ra recovery 2.2?

amaffey said:
As n00b as it sounds, I don't know how. Do, I go to rom manager flash alternate recovery ra recovery 2.2?
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yes. try that and than do nandroid back up.

evolishesh said:
yes. try that and than do nandroid back up.
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It's telling me before I back up I have to have ClockworkMod Recovery installed before continuing.

On the very top of rom manager, flash ClockworkMod Recovery , than do the amo-ra.

Let me ask this. Do I even need to flash to my stock rom before I flash to a new rom? Currently I'm on Fresh. I want to flash to Vael. Is it required to restore?

No. just make sure to do a nandroid back with Amo-ra and make sure to back up your Wimax image with it. Before flashing do at least wipe everything twice. Data,cach,dalvic.

[Q] Anyone willing to give me a GSM Play nandroid backup? £20

I, rather stupidly, didn't make one myself. If someone has just flashed their phone and wouldn't mind making a nandroid backup (whilst at default/factory settings) that would be excellent!
My phone will boot to recovery, flashtool fails to flash roms now, I can flash a kernel to the boot partition ok via fastboot, but flashing a system.img to the system partition is timing out.
I guess attempting a nandroid restore is my last chance before giving up and buying a new handset.
As an incentive, if you provide me with a nandroid backup and it gets my phone working again there's £20 in it for you.

Try using Fastboot. I know you said Flashtool worked for you before, but just give fastboot a go. It just might work.
Sorry I cant make you a nandroid myself because I have the CDMA version. I would do it for free though.

JelloFreak said:
Try using Fastboot. I know you said Flashtool worked for you before, but just give fastboot a go. It just might work.
Sorry I cant make you a nandroid myself because I have the CDMA version. I would do it for free though.
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I can flash the boot partition with fastboot, but not the system partition!

neil_swann80 said:
I, rather stupidly, didn't make one myself. If someone has just flashed their phone and wouldn't mind making a nandroid backup (whilst at default/factory settings) that would be excellent!
My phone will boot to recovery, flashtool fails to flash roms now, I can flash a kernel to the boot partition ok via fastboot, but flashing a system.img to the system partition is timing out.
I guess attempting a nandroid restore is my last chance before giving up and buying a new handset.
As an incentive, if you provide me with a nandroid backup and it gets my phone working again there's £20 in it for you.
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hey thr , u bricked ur play?
wat did u did last time to brick ur phone
i will try if i could help =)

Alas, no one is willing to help. Time to buy a new handset methinks. Anyone interested in a handset for spare parts?

Please read what people say. What happened to the phone, what did you do to get the phone into this state?

Just try SEUS to flash a rom. Maybe it will work.

neil_swann80 said:
I, rather stupidly, didn't make one myself. If someone has just flashed their phone and wouldn't mind making a nandroid backup (whilst at default/factory settings) that would be excellent!
My phone will boot to recovery, flashtool fails to flash roms now, I can flash a kernel to the boot partition ok via fastboot, but flashing a system.img to the system partition is timing out.
I guess attempting a nandroid restore is my last chance before giving up and buying a new handset.
As an incentive, if you provide me with a nandroid backup and it gets my phone working again there's £20 in it for you.
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I'll make you one if you want. flash the stock kernel (newest one with xloud) then make a NAND backup?

Roshi69 said:
I'll make you one if you want. flash the stock kernel (newest one with xloud) then make a NAND backup?
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If you could make me a nand backup that would be awesome. If you could upload it to any file upload (hotfile etc) site and send me the link that would be awesome.

Aerox912 said:
Just try SEUS to flash a rom. Maybe it will work.
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SEUS brings up an error saying it cannot update modified software.

You know you can restore individual partitions from recovery, right? I mean, if you have a system.img, you can push it through CWM (Advanced Restore). Same with data.img, and so on.

Logseman said:
You know you can restore individual partitions from recovery, right? I mean, if you have a system.img, you can push it through CWM (Advanced Restore). Same with data.img, and so on.
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I've tried recovering individual partitions via fastboot, boot partition will flash, system partition times out.
I could format the system partition via CWM, no bad blocks detected. I'll try to restore the system partition tonight via CWM. I have the feeling it'll go the same way as fastboot, but worth a shot I suppose.

Logseman said:
You know you can restore individual partitions from recovery, right? I mean, if you have a system.img, you can push it through CWM (Advanced Restore). Same with data.img, and so on.
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Tried to restore a system.img via CWM, I get 'MD5 mismatch error'.
Attempted MD5 fix via: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=714114&page=2
system.img now will flash, but still doesn't boot.
Update: Now system.img has flashed, I tried installing the CM7 update.zip via CWM, which worked! So phone now boots to CM7... but I get no phone signal or 3G. Is there a way to flash just the radio?

neil_swann80 said:
Tried to restore a system.img via CWM, I get 'MD5 mismatch error'.
Attempted MD5 fix via: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=714114&page=2
system.img now will flash, but still doesn't boot.
Update: Now system.img has flashed, I tried installing the CM7 update.zip via CWM, which worked! So phone now boots to CM7... but I get no phone signal or 3G. Is there a way to flash just the radio?
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How did you get it to flash?

i'll buy ur phone
LOL jokes. come on man read the replies. they have gave you many solutions. just read it and try it be patient and it will work

I flashed via ClockWorkMod recovery.
Could not get phone to fully work, had to return handset for a new one. I guess this thread can be closed.

[Q] Easiest way to get out of this boot loop?

Specs: I had Galaxy Nexus LTE 4.0.4 w/ unlocked bootloader and root access. I have the GN toolkit if that helps.
Cause: I used the Font Installer app to change system font. I now know that not all of the fonts are working properly and emailed the developer about it. However, I am currently stuck in a boot loop after changing to one of the fonts.
I would prefer to not lose everything and if I didn't care about that, then I would just go for it and I think that I could get it working again. But since it was just a font change, I thought it might be possible to fix it without going through all of that. I am hoping I can just change some system files or something and get it to boot then select a different .tff font that I know works. THANKS!
If I reload the 4.04 update.zip that I still can access, will that wipe everything/will I have to re-setup a bunch of things? Is it OK to clear cache partition and Dalvik Cache? Thank you.

Did you take a nandroid backup of this ROM at any point? If so, you could do an advanced restore of system only.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

cmstlist said:
Did you take a nandroid backup of this ROM at any point? If so, you could do an advanced restore of system only.
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No, unfortunately I did not, but I will look into that once I am back up and running.
**EDIT: I have CWM Recovery v5.5.0.4 running now. Is it possible to do a backup at THIS point in time and then restore everything but system?

Druas said:
No, unfortunately I did not, but I will look into that once I am back up and running.
**EDIT: I have CWM Recovery v5.5.0.4 running now. Is it possible to do a backup at THIS point in time and then only restore system?
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Okay. In that case, flashing the ROM's update.zip should work and shouldn't wipe your data. Best to take a nandroid backup first, just in case of trouble.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

cmstlist said:
Okay. In that case, flashing the ROM's update.zip should work and shouldn't wipe your data. Best to take a nandroid backup first, just in case of trouble.
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Ok I made the backup first. When I try to load the update.zip though, it says, "assert failed: appy_patch_check("/system/fonts/Roboto-Regular.ttf" <then a whole BUNCH of numbers and letters which I can type out if they will actually be helpful> "E:Error in /sdcard/Download/update.zip (Status 7) Installation aborted."

Is that an incremental update.zip for upgrading? What you need is a zip containing the entire ROM.
Alternately use fastboot to flash system.img from the stock ROM if you were already using stock.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

cmstlist said:
Is that an incremental update.zip for upgrading? What you need is a zip containing the entire ROM.
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Yeah I used: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1481044 So I need to install 4.0.2 first? Unfortunately that is the only upgrade.zip I have on my phone and I don't know how to load new ones on there without booting into Android.
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Alternately use fastboot to flash system.i mg from the stock ROM if you were already using stock.
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What? Can you explain further? I was using stock 4.0.4

Druas said:
Yeah I used: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1481044 So I need to install 4.0.2 first? Unfortunately that is the only upgrade.zip I have on my phone and I don't know how to load new ones on there without booting into Android.
What? Can you explain further? I was using stock 4.0.4
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You can download another zip to your computer and use adb push to get it onto the GN's internal storage.
I don't have the CDMA version but here's what I am able to find. Check this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1481613
A completely stock 4.0.4 (aside from root, busybox, de-odex) from that thread is here:
http://dev-host.org/uMJ
So you download that to your computer and put it in the same folder as adb. Boot the phone into Clockwork Recovery and then plug it into your computer. (There are other guides to getting adb to work on your phone so I won't cover that here.) Run adb devices to make sure it sees your phone. In Clockwork you also have to go to mounts and storage and make sure /data is mounted.
Then:
adb push GalaxyNexusCDMA-4.0.4-StockRootedNoRadio.zip /sdcard/stock.zip
Subsequently in Clockwork, you will be able to find that stock.zip in the list of zips you can apply. After applying that zip, any damage caused by messing with the fonts should be reverted.
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The alternative would be to download the factory 4.0.2 image from here:
https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/mysid-icl53f-factory-65895fa8.tgz
Inside that archive is a system.img file which you can flash to the phone by fastboot over USB. Immediately afterwards, you would then boot into CWM and apply the incremental update.zip you already have on there. This will take you to stock 4.0.4 unrooted and hopefully bootable!

cmstlist said:
The alternative would be to download the factory 4.0.2 image from here:
Inside that archive is a system.img file which you can flash to the phone by fastboot over USB. Immediately afterwards, you would then boot into CWM and apply the incremental update.zip you already have on there. This will take you to stock 4.0.4 unrooted and hopefully bootable!
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While your instructions were good, I tried some things on my own about 20 min before you made that post and screwed up and erased userdata. So, I cannot say for sure if it would have worked, but I bet it would have and I wish I had been more patient.

Sorry to hear. Is it bootable now at least?
The userdata erase problem is why I now have to remember in every phone recovery situation - adb pull the entire contents of internal storage from within CWM before doing anything risky.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

Yeah the phone has booted, I just have to spend some time recovering what I can. I will hopefully make better backups for the future. At least I learned some stuff. I still can't believe this was all caused by changing a FONT in a program designed to change fonts.

Druas said:
Yeah the phone has booted, I just have to spend some time recovering what I can. I will hopefully make better backups for the future. At least I learned some stuff. I still can't believe this was all caused by changing a FONT in a program designed to change fonts.
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Right, well this font changer program edits the system partition of your phone, which makes it risky. In the future, the best course of action with any "risky" change is:
- Take a nandroid backup first.
- Copy the nandroid backup out of the phone (it's in a subfolder of clockworkmod on internal storage).
- If you are doing anything that leads you to fear that the whole internal storage could get blanked, copy all of that out of the phone too.
- Now if you can't boot, you can selectively restore the system partition or the whole thing to try and fix it.
- And now if your internal storage gets blanked, your backup is safe.

cmstlist said:
Right, well this font changer program edits the system partition of your phone, which makes it risky. In the future, the best course of action with any "risky" change is:
- Take a nandroid backup first.
- Copy the nandroid backup out of the phone (it's in a subfolder of clockworkmod on internal storage).
- If you are doing anything that leads you to fear that the whole internal storage could get blanked, copy all of that out of the phone too.
- Now if you can't boot, you can selectively restore the system partition or the whole thing to try and fix it.
- And now if your internal storage gets blanked, your backup is safe.
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Yeah I had no idea that there was a significant risk involved, otherwise I would have been more cautious. Some questions I have:
-With Titanium Backup, the only thing I need to be running batch backups of is all user apps + system data correct? And only restore apps not system data unless I am on the exact same ROM as before?
-Again with TB, is there stuff it consistently misses that I should backup manually?
-I always launched CWM Recovery through the GN toolkit using "6. Flash CWM Recovery, Standard." And sometimes I would select Recovery from the Fastboot menu and it would be back at the regular recovery. Is there a different way I should have been going about getting to the nandroid backup?
-I have now installed ROM Manager and hit "Flash CWM Recovery" and I have a nandroid backup when I reboot into recovery. Does this mean any time I choose Recovery from the Fastboot menu that it will boot into CWM Recovery?
Thanks again for all your help and advice!

Switching Recoveries

Hi,
I'm currently using ViperX JB rom with Clockwork recovery. I'm reading that TWRP is a better option for flashing OTA's.
Quick question - is there any problems with flashing TWRP over the top of Clockwork? In other words, do I just boot into fastboot and type "fastboot flash recovery nameofrecovery.img", followed by "fastboot erase cache"?
Also, will that affect the rom, ie will it need to be reflashed?
Thanks in advance.

Yeah, just flash the new recovery, it'll be fine.

And no you do not have to reflash the rom......

Keep in mind that you can't restore CWM backups in TWRP. Otherwise it's all good.
Sent from my One X

TToivanen said:
Keep in mind that you can't restore CWM backups in TWRP. Otherwise it's all good.
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Right, but you can make a TWRP backup, or flash back CWM to restore a CWM backup.

Ah, of course, I forgot about my nandroid backup!
Thankyou all for the replies.

[Q] How to add 3.20.401.1 to a rooted phone

Hi
I have a HTC one X rooted phone with stack 4.1.1
I get a message that there is a new update 3.20.401.1
After download it tells me to reboot. My phone then goes to ClockWorkmode (CWM)
It stoops there. I do not find any zip file to install.
Any tips for this, or should I just ignore this?
Thanks

Jotne said:
Hi
I have a HTC one X rooted phone with stack 4.1.1
I get a message that there is a new update 3.20.401.1
After download it tells me to reboot. My phone then goes to ClockWorkmode (CWM)
It stoops there. I do not find any zip file to install.
Any tips for this, or should I just ignore this?
Thanks
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To install official updates u need to have stock recovery which comes with phone, but u have CWM

Jotne said:
Hi
I have a HTC one X rooted phone with stack 4.1.1
I get a message that there is a new update 3.20.401.1
After download it tells me to reboot. My phone then goes to ClockWorkmode (CWM)
It stoops there. I do not find any zip file to install.
Any tips for this, or should I just ignore this?
Thanks
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You just need to flash stock recovery through fastboot again mate then on booting up you should be able to install the update. Or you could install a custom rom with that base without having to flash recovery :good:

Thanks for quick reply.
If I go for a custom room, what is the best out there?
Do I loose anything by not upgrading the stock room?

Jotne said:
Thanks for quick reply.
If I go for a custom room, what is the best out there?
Do I loose anything by not upgrading the stock room?
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they are all pretty damn good roms mate! too hard to choose really, just best to flash em, and see remember to make a nandroid backup also
u shouldn't loose anything apart from bloatware

If you want a custom based on stock, i suggest Android revolution, Viper Rom, or SD ROM.
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UFFFFF
I did try out Cyanogen lastest image, that do work fine.
But I have to look long for how to find out that I needed to extract boot.img from the cyanogen zip file and install this with flashboot.
But now I like to go back to my original rom. I did take a nandroid backup, and also have an older nandroidbackup.
Its not possible to make the phone go back. When I start restor, all looks ok MD5 etc, but then gets this message
Error while restoring /system!
Do I have to do more flashboot stuf to go back?
I am still able reinstall Cyanogen from zip file. But my Cyanogen backup also fail.
Why
Edit. The Cyanogen Image is 4.2.2 and Orginal image is 4.1.1. Could that be any problem?

Jotne said:
UFFFFF
I did try out Cyanogen lastest image, that do work fine.
But I have to look long for how to find out that I needed to extract boot.img from the cyanogen zip file and install this with flashboot.
But now I like to go back to my original rom. I did take a nandroid backup, and also have an older nandroidbackup.
Its not possible to make the phone go back. When I start restor, all looks ok MD5 etc, but then gets this message
Error while restoring /system!
Do I have to do more flashboot stuf to go back?
I am still able reinstall Cyanogen from zip file. But my Cyanogen backup also fail.
Why
Edit. The Cyanogen Image is 4.2.2 and Orginal image is 4.1.1. Could that be any problem?
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Are you sure you've made the backup with the same recovery as you are attempting to restore it with?
The Android version shouldn't really matter, but there may be exceptions for some things.
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium

Jotne said:
UFFFFF
I did try out Cyanogen lastest image, that do work fine.
But I have to look long for how to find out that I needed to extract boot.img from the cyanogen zip file and install this with flashboot.
But now I like to go back to my original rom. I did take a nandroid backup, and also have an older nandroidbackup.
Its not possible to make the phone go back. When I start restor, all looks ok MD5 etc, but then gets this message
Error while restoring /system!
Do I have to do more flashboot stuf to go back?
I am still able reinstall Cyanogen from zip file. But my Cyanogen backup also fail.
Why
Edit. The Cyanogen Image is 4.2.2 and Orginal image is 4.1.1. Could that be any problem?
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If you are using CWM recovery u should be able to go into the backup file (under clockwork mod/backup on sd) and take the boot.img u need to flash via fastboot there. Put it in your fastboot file and then flash using "fastboot flash boot boot.img"

So I should take the boot.img from the backup, run fastimage and restore it?
Then try to restore the backup using clockworkmod?
I am not user if the backup was made with
recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.2.7-endeavoru.img or
recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.3.1-endeavoru.img
Is it important to restore with correct version? If so how to see what version that was used?

I am not able to go back to my old image
Not sure why, but the Cyanogenmod does not give me any Mobil data (3G etc)??
I tried to restore the boot.img from correct backup using flashboot flash boot boot.img and then try to restore.
But still I get Error while restoring /system!
Some note:
I made a backup of my working Cyanogenmod, this I am able to restore without getting the restoring error.
No I also have tried recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.4.0-endeavoru.img
But there are some different thing going on.
When I first tested to restore my original image, I get menu like this when trying to restore:
Code:
Yes-Restore
No
Go-Back
Now I do get:
Code:
No
No
No
No
No
Yes-Restore
No
No
No
*** Go back
Have I used another clockworkmode to make the backup?

If you want to be sure you use the same recovery as where the nandroid is made with ? Flash the recovery.img from the nandroid folder.
Then flash the boot.img from the nandroid folder, go into recovery :
Factory reset
Wipe cache partition
Advanced - wipe dalvik cache
Mounts & storage - format cache, data, system
Then restore the nandroid.

Thanks
You saved my day.
It seems that the backup was done with CWM based v6.0.2.7
Not sure where I have got this version.
Latest version listed here: http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager is 5.8.4.0 and not 6.0.2.7 that I have used
Here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1941630 is 6.0.3.2 listed
What is the latest version of CWM for HTC ONE x and where to get it?
And last, what is the best to use

Yeah well after all the replies i thought i chip in give my 2 cents
This is one of the latest i use now.
http://db.tt/SPXdFfPw

Everything is working fine and I start to understand how its connected together.
But there are one thing that still puzzle me, the boot.img
When and why do I need to change that when I go to and from CM 10.1.2 (4.2.2) and Original image 4.1.1
What trigger the need of the change?
Should not this be restored correctly when I restore a backup. (In Clockwork mode)?
Does this work automatically whit Philz recovery 5.6.1.img?
I do like to change image in my phone without need a PC to run fastboot !!

When you change rom you need to flash the corresponding boot.img from that particular rom or nandroid backup.
We can't flash boot.img files via recovery because we have s-on devices so fastboot is a must.

Wilts panttsic
Ok, thats some sad, but thanks a lot for you help here

No problem.
CASE CLOSED !

Mr Hofs said:
No problem.
CASE CLOSED !
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Another one for the Hof!!! :good:

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1 for Hofs = 1 for everybody mate.....we all are helping here !