[How To] Fix md5 mismatch nandroid restore

[Ryanscool]

Another problem,

Hello when I was doing this command you said I had it all the way until rm nandroid.md5. It says rm failed and some other jibberish. What do I do now? Oh shoot nevermind the stuff inside was in a sub folder 11. I have no idea how that got in there lol.

 

[dirtsky]

I'd hit the thank you button but there is no thank you button but yes this did fix my md5 problems. Thank You.

 

[ThinksAmoral]

I had a problem with the whole "md5 mismatch" before.

I tried this method, and it created a nandroid.md5 file with 0 bytes of memory. My other backups contained a nandroid.md5 with 222 bytes. That can't be right, can it?

 

[zoomy942]

I always make 2 backups just in case.

 

[menghour2010]

Thank you very much.... for your post...

 

[Jpac175]

Thanks so much! this just worked perfectly

 

[SpaceRanger69]

I had a md5 mismatch and was freaking out. Turned out that the folder name for my backup couldn't have spaces in it...

THANK YOU!!! Thought I hosed my G2X Stock Backup when I renamed the folder putting spaces in, and wasn't able to restore it. *wipes brow*

 

[Holmes108]

Just want to add an extra issue I had to overcome, in case it helps someone.... Not sure if it was mentioned, but:

I had the MD5 mismatch... the steps here fixed it, I then got errors for each step of the restore, saying (for example) "error, system.img not found."

I knew I had image files in the directory. I checked and 2 or 3 files were names something along the lines of system.yaffs2.img. I deleted the "yaffs2" section of each file that had it, I then had to redo the MD5 fix, and the restore worked beautifully.

 

[Krisbo]

I would click thanks but the thanks button appears to be gone

 

[bharattp]

Big thanx......

 

[yudaniel]

Very Thankfull, after few days of googleing. This was the only halpfull information.

Thanks

 

[WarEduar]

Thx a lot bro, this one was the solution after fuc&%&# my phone whit funbox.

 

[michaelko999]

Any idea what causes this? Is it just the folder name with spaces?

thanks pal !!!! re-rename recovery without space work !!!

 

[emoandy]

It seems like I've tried everything here, plugged in the phone with usb debugging enabled, opened adb shell from the platform-tools folder, entered the given commands with my correct backup name (no space, created by nandroid) and everytime I get on the last step:

*.img no such file or directory...
(and tried just *img)

 

[ksantoshh]

It seems like I've tried everything here, plugged in the phone with usb debugging enabled, opened adb shell from the platform-tools folder, entered the given commands with my correct backup name (no space, created by nandroid) and everytime I get on the last step:

*.img no such file or directory...
(and tried just *img)

You may not have the img file in the backup folder.sometimes the extention are ext4.Best workaround is create a blank nandroid.md5 file and place it in backfolder, it works

 

[evanbowers]

whew

This thread was a lifesaver, thanks a ton.

 

[billabong272]

Dude thanks for posting this thread! It really is a lifesaver.
Before I didn't have any problems doing backups on my ROM. Then after flashing a new Kernel, ROM and updating SuperUser and ROM Manager, CWM cannot generate MD5 Checksum file. At the end of backing up my ROM. CWM states generating MD5 sum error. etc..
At recovery log, it states:
Generating md5 sum...
sh: nandroid-md5.sh: Permission denied
Error while generating md5 sum!
result was NULL, message is: assert failed: backup_rom

Then I found this thread. First I copied a nandroid.md5 from my previous back up. Then I applied the code using Terminal Emulator. Then I reboot to recovery, then I tried to recover cache, voila! It works!

 

[askpcguy]

My thanks as well. When I am not sleepy, have a beer or lunch on me.

 

[PMGRANDS]

Is there anyway to Fix the MD5 issue Without the use of ADB?

 

[askpcguy]

Only if you can run a terminal emulator on the phone.

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