Trying to recover phone, will this work? (almighty screw up)

[Guest toge64]

I'll just copy and paste my post from here: http://android.modaco.com/content-page/327...-tft/page/300/#

Erm OK, I decided to have a play around with Honeycomb.

I did a nandroid backup with 3.0.0.5 and had my 10mins of fun.

I just tried to do a recovery and it gave me a MD5 mismatch, even though I just did the backup 20 mins ago. Is there a way of using fastboot to force a 2.2 ROM flash through using my PC? I am stuck on a pretty useless Honeycomb ROM now. ohmy.gif

The backup is in a folder called "2011-03-03.23.28.28"

edit: I am also triply screwed because I can't access my SD card within Honeycomb because it doesn't support it.

Argh.

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Basically my idea is to to re-flash one of Paul's old eclair ROMs using fastboot, to get back my SD Card access. Then I can flash back into 2.2.

Clockwork 3.0.0.5 works fine. Just it won't restore my backup as it gives a MD5 mismatch and I'm stuck with Honeycomb :( And I don't have any other ROMs on my SD card.

edit: looking for "boot.blade.superboot.mcri.r3.img" (source: http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...oot-root-mcri/)

edit 2: found http://loadbalancing.modaco.com/download.p...oot.mcri.r2.img - will this work? Am currently wielding a copy of fastboot.

Right now I have:

Blade with a working Clockwork 3.0.0.5 and alpha Honeycomb ROM installed with no USB function.

fastboot and boot.blade.superboot.mcri.r2.img

Edited March 4, 2011 by toge64

[Guest Sandeep S]

You can mount the USB using clockworkmod. The option is somewhere in the mounts and storage menu, if I recall correctly. Can you give this a try?

[Guest Swimmerboy]

You can mount the USB using clockworkmod. The option is somewhere in the mounts and storage menu, if I recall correctly. Can you give this a try?

Yup, what he said ^

You might also want to try this:

1) Download JJ9, unzip it so you're left with an 'image' folder

2) Delete system.img and userdata.img from here

3) Mount your phone via clockwork, and go into clockwork->Backup->Whatever the backup folder is named

4) Copy system.img and data.img from phone to the image folder

5) Rename data.img to userdata.img

6) Copy image folder back to the sdcard (so the files are in /sdcard/image/)

7) Reboot the phone holding Vol [+] and menu

This may or may not work depenging on where the MD5 error was, but you may be able to recover your old setup. If it fails you'll be no worse off (you may not be able to boot the phone, but you'll still have clockwork)

If you're happy setting up everything from scratch again, or going to the latest CM7 nightly then I'd probably just do a full wipe and start afresh anyway.

[Guest toge64]

well I was using flibble's ROM - instead of JJ should I use flibble's? thanks

ive also seen this fix circulating around

su

cd /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/*rom name (date and time usually)/

md5sum *img > nandroid.md5

reboot recovery[/codebox]

what does that do? and how do i do it? do I need adb? (whatever that is)

new update: just used the mount on clockwork and put flibble's 10b back on it.

update 2: so i just opened up the nandroid.md5 file and compared the md5 hashes against the back up files... for some reason the system data.img hash tag was wrong. i'm now going to replace the hash in the md5 file with the hashtag i got some the file itself and try a recovery.

.... and it didnt work

update 3: just got hold on adb and used the commands listed above and it is now restoring :(

update 4: seem to have lost everything. backup won't boot up and i am stuck in the nexus boot screen on flibble's rom

Edited March 4, 2011 by toge64

[Guest Swimmerboy]

well I was using flibble's ROM - instead of JJ should I use flibble's? thanks

ive also seen this fix circulating around

su

cd /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/*rom name (date and time usually)/

md5sum *img > nandroid.md5

reboot recovery[/codebox]

what does that do? and how do i do it? do I need adb? (whatever that is)

new update: just used the mount on clockwork and put flibble's 10b back on it.

update 2: so i just opened up the nandroid.md5 file and compared the md5 hashes against the back up files... for some reason the system data.img hash tag was wrong. i'm now going to replace the hash in the md5 file with the hashtag i got some the file itself and try a recovery.

.... and it didnt work

update 3: just got hold on adb and used the commands listed above and it is now restoring :(

update 4: seem to have lost everything. backup won't boot up and i am stuck in the nexus boot screen on flibble's rom

Sounds like there was an issue backing up your data partition (apps, settings, etc) or the data was corrupted somehow after the backup completed. Best bet would be to boot into clockwork, do a full wipe and flash a new rom from scratch.

[Guest IronDoc]

Use advanced restore to restore data after flashing system with flb (or whatever it was) ROM zip?

[Guest toge64]

OK after the failed restore I flash flibble version 10 stock ROM over it without a wipe and it seems to have worked :(