yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Epic 4G General] steviee7:
I got my airave for free and no monthly charge, it all depends how you talk to them and how bad your service is I had one bar at the most with usually no internet and I called shad complained they sent me to retention department and sent me it over night now I have full bars all the time
[Epic 4G General] Product F(RED):
Normally there is a monthly fee. They'll wave both the cost of the device and the monthly fee if you ask.
[Epic 4G General] rocket321:
They won't reinstate the 1 year upgrade for everyone, only if you would have been due for an upgrade now. I would have been due for an upgrade in October and I've been turned down several times to have have the upgrade reinstated. All because I waited a couple months to buy the Epic after I was due for an upgrade last summer.
[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
When sprint updated to air rave 2.0 they did away with the monthly charges
[Epic 4G General] austin420:
tjis is corrrect. i was told that with the newer airave they litterally dont have a billing charge or plan for it. it is a totally ffree add on.

now the old airrave was 5 bucks a month and could be waived.
[Epic 4G General] BrianFX:
What happens to your phone number if you want to keep it/port it when Sprint cancels your contract for over-roaming?
[HD2 General] carl1961:
For anyone who has had the Clockwork-mod Recovery MD5 mismatch! error.

Another way: for Example TWRP Cache.ext4.win

most recoverys now have a option to turn off MD5 checking

You can copy your backup folder to your computer, use attached app to check the md5 number , edit md5 file and check and verify and change

this thread is old so md5 file may not be named the same. the picture is TWRP custom recovery

example was with cache.ext4.win that has md5 file named cache.ext4.win.md5

another short cut to try ;)

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[MENTION=5609827]aeneas1[/MENTION] Thanks!!

i did another google search and found a very simple fix, at least it worked for me, on the first try, and i have tested it successfully with some of my other backups that were also getting the mismatch error.

1. using your phone, navigate to your backup folder using a root browser, i use romm tool box root browser.

2. locate and delete the nandroid.md5 file

3. create a new file and name it nandroid.md5

4. boot into recovery, select restore your backup, and watch the magic begin!

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Update: thanks [MENTION=1981552]Exca[/MENTION]

If you have androids SDK ( ADB installed) try this easer method by Exca

This is a much easier way:

adb shell

# cd /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2010-06-29.20.22.53

# rm nandroid.md5

# md5sum *img > nandroid.md5

usually does the trick

DO NOT renamed your backup with spaces Thanks ltredbeard and those who verified

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This is what I did to fix mine and get my backup working again after getting MD5 mismatch! error

I was trying to restore my backup after trying another Rom.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=11768066&postcount=2965
[HD2 General] crz6662:
Wished I'd have seen this before deleting 4 different backups. Can you tell me what exactly this zip does ?
[HD2 General] crz6662:
Never mind, opened it up & read the PDF file. Wanted to also thank you for this.
[HD2 General] Exca:
This is a much easier way:

adb shell

# cd /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2010-06-29.20.22.53

# rm nandroid.md5

# md5sum *img > nandroid.md5

usually does the trick
[HD2 General] ltredbeard:
Using these methods fixed my error! Thanks.

BTW: I name my backup and it contained a space. I ended up having to rename the backup w/o the space. Ex. From - Backup Froyo To - BackupFroyo
[HD2 General] Araf:
After follow this easy procedure on my ASUS TransformerTF101, here's the result in my clockworkmod recovery (v3.0.2.8):

1. Checking MD5 sums is OK

2. Restoring system is OK

3. Restoring data is not OK, there is message: ".android_secure.img not found. Skipping restore /sdcard/.android secure.

4. Restoring cache is OK

5. Backup complete

Then after reboot, all my data on that backup file is not restore as expected. I am afraid my data is gone :-(

Can someone help me?
[HD2 General] Whyzor:
I'm guessing by following the zip instructions, you deleted the ".android_secure.img" since it says it's safe to delete if there's a nandroid.md5 file already. But that .md5 file does not match the original. So the backup was likely messed up when trying to fix it with the .zip instructions.

I believe the easier method in post #4 should be tried first on a fresh backup dir.
[HD2 General] dgsmith90:
For future reference to all. What I do all the time is when I make a backup, I hook the tablet up to my pc and back the backup to my PC. This saved me from having to do those steps. I just rewrote the backup on my sdcard and it worked.
[HD2 General] ummati:
Thanks that worked for my mytouch 4G.

Works like a charm, Thanks Again!
[HD2 General] nilt02:
CWM 3.0 stable
[HD2 General] _Mephisto_:
he... good work, thanks very much.

it helps me
[HD2 General] invasion2:
Thanks for this, really did the trick! I was so scared I lose my DarkSide Sense backup! :( thanked!
[HD2 General] Eschmacher:
Can anyone tell me quickly why i can't execute "md5sum"?

when i execute the md5sum command, I get:

"/system/bin/sh: md5sum: not found"
[HD2 General] Kikoshi:
fkng awesome <3! this helped me out!!!
[HD2 General] XSCounter:
same problem. any1 got a solution? trying to restore MIUI rom backup.. no luck. restores stock rom backup with no probs.

I am on SGSII.
[HD2 General] warezit420:
The MD5 checksum fix *worked* for me! TY!

HTC Evo 4G 2.3.3 / 2.16.0000 / CWM 5.0.2.2
[HD2 General] toonhead85:
THANKS SO MUCH!!! I thought that I was going to lose a bunch of stuff after I formated my SD card (thankfully I had a backup on my computer) while watching Netflix. This really saved my life and I'll be bookmarking this!
[HD2 General] petertseng:
Yes I met it before.

But now there is not an issue anymore.
[HD2 General] bboy_201:
thank you

i used your code now hopefully i will have my 4g back with the back up im restoring right now

UPadte:

I restored a backup from when my 4g was working and nothing changed I still can't get 4g to connect!
[HD2 General] qhodave:
thank you so very much!!
[HD2 General] freakasis:
Thank you so much. I had already figured everything out but couldnt get it to work. I was using regular notepad and couldnt see a hidden line change that was left in there.

Notepad++ FTMFW!!!
[HD2 General] Daniel Smedegaard Buus:
Please advise, the .android_secure image file is NOT irrelevant. Don't just delete it.

Also, the md5sum command suggested will fail to create an md5 checksum for the .android_secure image file as it won't include hidden files (files that begin with a dot). It'll also fail to create checksums if your files aren't all called .img (depending on version CWMR may also create tar files).

This is the 100% safe command to issue, it'll create checksums for ALL files in the directory:

md5sum .* * > nandroid.md5

Ignore these warnings:

md5sum: .: Is a directory
md5sum: ..: Is a directory

It's just telling you that it's skipping the two "special directories" that exist in any directory, "." for "current directory", and ".." for "parent directory".

Be aware that if a nandroid.md5 already exists, it'll also be checksummed when you do it this way, so always remove it first if you're recreating the nandroid.md5, i.e. do

rm nandroid.md5

Or, everything in one line without warnings:

rm nandroid.md5 2>/dev/null; md5sum .* * > nandroid.md5 2>/dev/null

EDIT: Don't forget to check if you've renamed the folder first - in my case, that was the real problem - I'd added " (Stock)" to the end of the folder name, and CWM didn't like it :)
[HD2 General] Dinesen68:
bricked

guys my phone doesn't boot up anymore becuase of this...

please help...

i restorede the back up and now it is stuck at galaxy gt-i9000 screen..

it is a galaxy s btw...

i can get into download mode but my pc can't recognise it :(:(:(

my dad will kill me guys please just HELP!!! I beg you!!!
[HD2 General] frankieicory:
VERY VERY helpfull!

the story

Today I backuped my HTC WIDLFIRE (s-off and rooted but stock room and kernel) with REVOLUTIONARY CWM v4.0.1.4 (i think it's a modified clockword by revolutionary).

Anyway it backed up everything except cache.img and sd-ext.img and for some reason it didn't generated nandroid.md5.

I played with different stuff and i decided to stop and recover my original but guess what => MD5 mismatch! error. ...So for some reason it didnt generated any md5.

But thanx to carl1961's usefull post and guide how to generate new md5 I made a new nandroid.md5 and restored my backup with succes.

Btw i also figgured out that for some reason REVOLUTIONARY CWM v4.0.1.4 dosn't like my 8GB sd card and probbaly this was the reason why didn't generated the nandroid.md5 cause i put a 2gb sd card and tryied to backup again and it worked this time generating the nandroid.md5.

So as a result my 8gb has errors or it's broken!? (will check that)

Anyway thank you again and o posted this detailed so anyone else who has the same problem can see it

By the way i suggest this thread to be stickyed!
[HD2 General] frankieicory:
I checked and indeed my 8gb sd card had some error...moved data from the sdcard formated the card then moved back the data and I did a recover with clockwork with succes!
[HD2 General] D200P13:
so far its working perfect. bookmarked for future reference. thank you.
[HD2 General] virajt:
This is a really noob question.. But where to give all this commands? my pc doesnt have terminal emulator!
[HD2 General] inferno17x:
Thank you! This saves my phone!
[HD2 General] carl1961:
You can download free ones from the market
[HD2 General] microi:
Carl1961,

Thank you so much for this MD5 Mismatch Recovery Guide. It is invaluable and a LIFESAVER. Your instructions resolved my problem! Kudos to you!

Microi
[HD2 General] Timmy0829:
It' s works! Thanks man! It saves my life :)
[HD2 General] Masterbaker:
CAREFUL with this! might break your phone!

Heads up!

I tried this "fix".... and it was a mistake. For some unknow reason, the backup did not work correctly - some files were not complete (eg : boot.img size was ~32k when it should be ~8000k). Dunno what happened

So when I corrected the md5 checksum, clockworkmod accepted it and was happy to flash the corrupted junk.

That obviously broke the phone.

Lesson learned : WHEN you get that error, verify the files to MAKE SURE that all of them are present and have the good size before applying that fix, otherwise it might crash your phone! (I don't have a recipe for comparison - Next time i'll try comparing with another backup that I know works correctly)

To the poster above who's stuck on the boot logo : boot into DOWNLOAD mode and reflash clockworkmod (i used heimdall). Look it up on google. That's how i fixed my problem.

Look at the section about installing clockworkmod here : go to wiki . cyanogenmod . com /wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S_II:_Full_Update_Guide (this is for the Galaxy S II, dunno if it will work for you)

Hope this helps!

Masterbaker
[HD2 General] Pimpcasso:
You need to install Adb Shell on your PC. I tried it with Android terminal emulator, but I either had the wrong directory or it doesn't work the same.

Also, my Epic 4G Touch has an internal and external memory card so I had to modify the command in the post to cd /sdcard/external_sd/clockworkmod. . . . . .

I found a GUI interface for ADB shell that works pretty sweet too.
[HD2 General] kereams:
stsltho believed

I did this as suggested and it worked great on getting rid of a MD5 error on two rom backups I did with CWM 5.0.2.0 and tried to do a later restore with Touch 5.8.0.2.

Thanks!

adb shell

# cd /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2010-06-29.20.22.53

# rm nandroid.md5

# md5sum *img > nandroid.md5
[HD2 General] uploder:
omg this just saved my life. I was trying to come back from an ICS rom and all of my backups got Md5 mismatch! lol thank you so much
[HD2 General] XSCounter:
You managed to fix your MIUI backups with this method?

I was unsuccessful :( However I've got SGS2. I used this fix and worked like a charm if anyone is interested:

http://forums.miui.us/showthread.ph...g-up-MIUI-SOLVED&p=54571&viewfull=1#post54571
[HD2 General] lazloe:
The ADB option worked for me as well. I didn't even have an md5 file in my folder.

For those who do not know how to use ADB:

Use the info located Here in XDA to get and install ADB.

I moved my ADB files to a new folder in the root of the drive, c:\adb ... makes using it MUCH easier.

Make sure your phone is connected and NOT mounted as USB drive.

Open a RUN command: WindowsKey+R, Start Search, Start Run, use which ever you like.

Type in CMD and press enter/OK.

Here is where having the files moved to ADB folder in the root of the drive works great.

Type in: cd c:\adb and hit enter.

Then type: adb shell

Then: cd /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/[name of your backup file]

Then: rm nandroid.md5

Then: md5sum *img > nandroid.md5

ZING! Hopefully this helps those who have not yet used ADB.
[HD2 General] XSCounter:
But once again, MIUI backups don't have nandroid.md5 file in the backup folder so I guess this is why this method won't work for this ROM.

Also, as far as I know you can use Terminal Emulator app to do all the same actions without using ADB and connecting to your PC. Do it straight from the phone.
[HD2 General] lazloe:
I am using Calkulin Rom on a Epic Touch, the second backup I made did create this file, in the directory above the actual backup folder. CWM 5.0.2.7. I'm not sure why it does this, it prevents being able to have multiple backups ready.

I tried the terminal method and I couldnt get it to work on mine with a backup file on the external SD, so I moved it to the phone. Works great without ADB and was able to restore fine.
[HD2 General] vickywaqas:
Please guide me where I'm wrong...

opening ADB shell in command prompt & it opened but when I try to open any folder in my SD Card or want to locate my backup by giving command it says

"not found"

anything I want to locate, it simply response in "not found" . Where is the problem????
[HD2 General] baji240588:
same with me.

in folder nandroid backup i have dot tar n dot img ;(

so, thanks for share that script

now i can restore the backup with no isue md5 mismatch
[HD2 General] banny7000:
thanx for that brilliant
[HD2 General] saze:
Thank you very much! You literally saved my ass.
[HD2 General] spyder3:
With all of these happy endings, I hate to be the downer...

BUT...

I tried the script and failed at the rm nandroid.md5 line. :(

Luckily, I failed with the new SD Card that I was setting up today, so I was able to restore with my old card. Now all I have to do is flash amon ra, backup on my new card...and...say F YOU CWM!!!

There, now I feel better...

:)
[HD2 General] hio0o1:
Thanks for your info...
[HD2 General] kingoldstyle:
TNK S !!!!!!! you saved my work. You are the best. I used this way. Copyed from sk folder platform-tools to my C:\ and renamed for ex 1 ... i made with cmd from inside this folder your comands ..and VOILLA!!!! works

TNK S AGAIN. you are the man
[HD2 General] ri123:
Just flash clockwork mod recovery with the rom manager app and it works!
[HD2 General] frazzeld:
Any idea's how to get passed this?

c:\adb>adb shell
shell@android:/ $ cd /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2012-05-13.16.41.58
cd /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2012-05-13.16.41.58
/system/bin/sh: cd: /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2012-05-13.16.41.58 - Permission
denied

The cmd worked on one backup...but i get permission denied on others
[HD2 General] Ansata:
Thank you so much!

Gesendet von meinem GT-I9001 mit Tapatalk 2
[HD2 General] CrazyBytesVE:
En mi caso particular, el error de md5 sucedió porque cambié el nombre de la carpeta del backup, le había colocado luego de la fecha/hora, un nombre identificador. Bastó con borrar lo que había colocado para que funcionara correctamente.

In my particular case, the md5 error happened because I changed the folder name of the backup, he had been placed after the date / time, a name identifier. It was enough to erase what had been placed to function properly.
[HD2 General] vicl89:
Awesome!! it works for me :) My cellphone was in bootloop because I was making some experiments LOL. I extracted the SD card, open my backup folder, edit md5 mistmatch value and voilá!!

My Xplay is alive again xD
[HD2 General] I_FLY_Z3R0:
Worked on my Epic 4g Touch from Sprint!! Thanks man!
[HD2 General] Whyzor:
Unmount the drive to get adb working, swipe down notification bar, and press the USB connected.
[HD2 General] DukeBoxer:
Just so people know, this happened to me today because I changed the name of the folder and it had spaces in it. So instead of "Stock_404_Root" I named it "Stock 404 Root". I have a Nexus S 4G and I tried to make a new md5 with the Terminal Emulator and also adb from my computer but there is no md5 binary on the phone so I just plugged my phone into the computer, mounted the USB drive and opened a Terminal on the computer. I use Ubuntu so I just cd'd into the folder of the backup and made a checksum with the same command "md5sum *.img > nandroid.md5" and it worked fine. It seems that the recovery just checks the md5 against the file nandroid.md5 no matter where it came from. Macs also have the "md5sum" command I imagine since it's UNIX but I'm not sure about Windows. This is MUCH easier than using adb (downloading the sdk if you don't already have it) and finding out that the phone itself can't make the md5 checksum. If anyone needs a better explanation let me know
[HD2 General] choate48:
Love the instructions.

The only thing that I did differently was to mount the sd card from within CWM, version 4.0.1.4, and then recreate the file directly on the sd card. If you use linux this would be the easiest way, as you don't need anything extra. The commands are the same, you just do it directly in a terminal instead of using adb.

Edit.

I first put the wrong version of my CWM, my phone was in the middle of rebooting and I thought that I had 4.0.1.2 but I have 4.0.1.4
[HD2 General] panks18:
md5 mismatch

I don't know what it is. last command just does not finish. it results in error md5 not found. also my back up has these files only

cache.rfs.tar

data.rfs.tar

system.rfs.tar

I am not sure. but that could be the reason. kindly help
[HD2 General] palswim:
I can also confirm that renaming my folder with spaces to a name without spaces saved me from having to re-generate the MD5 sums.

I ran md5sum -c nandroid.md5 in my directory, and everything passed. Then, I found these helpful posts and renamed my directory to a name without spaces and the Clockworkmod restore ran successfully!
[HD2 General] bhast2:
awesome

was testing out JB on my nexus and it won't boot

backup was a mismatch and this did the trick thanks
[HD2 General] Evo4sickness:
OK this is my problem I have tf201 Prime and I wanted to install CM9 yesterday. I had made a back up with CMW 5.8.2.0 and I had downloaded the wrong cm9 file and already had deleted cache delvik and data and factory reset. So since I had no problem because I had my nandroid.

Well when I restored which it was able to restore the one I had done 2 days ago and booted it was complete bull**** because it was no perfect image nandroid. It was the stock system with everything back to factory reset. Non of my downloaded apps were there no of my settings nothing just the factory reset. So I really dont understand what type of messed up nandriod CMW made.

I than figured let me try another nandriod that I had first made with the latest version of CMW which I had some type of error that said image error and figured I should make a new nandriod which was the one I made with CWM 5.8.2.0.

When I tried to restore the other from the latest CWM is when I ran into the DM5 error.

I want to try and fix this using adb but I have never used it so just needed some clarification

My question is why the hell did this nandriod only was able to be restored everything stock and non of my apps or settings. And is there any way I can get my book marks back because I had very important book marks for business that I very much need.

This is really has been the most frustrating thing I have ever have to deal with Prime and CWM.
[HD2 General] felixchris:
Like a charm

Worked totally fine for me :) thanks for the quick fix !!
[HD2 General] gothraven666:
i'm trying to fix the mismatch with following the attached zip file but mine contain only with this

:

.android_secure.vfat.tar

boot.img

cache.ext4.tar

data.ext4.tar

nandroid.md5

system.ext4.tar

i'm using cmw-based recovery v5.5.0.4

xperiasspeed kernel v5

kaxperiasspeed 11.2 ROM

please help :crying:
[HD2 General] skribbles505:
I've got the same structure on my card, I really hope I can restore still.
[HD2 General] ironwolf42km:
How to know if backup works?

So I have a question.

How do you actually know if a backup does actually works?

Because I sometimes read that when a back-up is bad itself it could brick your phone.

Or a file is missing and you still get nowhere.

And since there is a md5 mismatch error, I guess something went wrong.

It's my first back up ever and I can't seem to find a answer to this question.

I back it up with CWM (5.0.2). And have a Samsung s5830i.

When in the folder backup (sd/clockworkmod/backup) I see a folder with a date and time.

I assume that's where my back up is.

In this folder there are 4 files.

Cache.rfs 5.3kb

data.rfs 25.5kb

nandroid.md5 1kb

system.rfs 221.9kb

Are those files as big as it should be?

Some web sites says that it should be around 1 Gb.

And is there a file missing?

Thanks in advance.
[HD2 General] DLM2583:
Crazy but when I backup a Rom clockworkmod doesn't even make a nandroid md5 file it all started when I flashed twrp recovery as a test I tried it and I found out the twrp recovery doesn't restore cmw backups so I went back to cmw using version 6.0.1.1 but since then I can't make a backup I can only restore old backups that have a nandroid md5 I'm thinkin that it's cmw that doesn't create any nandroid md5 files what can I do I tried older versions of cwm butility hasn't fixed anything yet
[HD2 General] :
Doesn't work

I run all the commands and everything appears to work great...until I boot into recovery and try to restore. Then it still gives me the md5 mismatch error.
[HD2 General] white-energy:
Or just open the *.md5 file and remove everything what's in it.. save it empty, worked for me.
[HD2 General] MCVoodoo:
another important info: dont rename backup folder into another name with spaces, that generates md5 mismatch too
[HD2 General] Tsadila:
Bloody ^%(#$*&%!# wont work

I tried both

adb shell

su

# cd /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2010-06-29.20.22.53 (different folder name but same format)

# rm nandroid.md5

# md5sum *img > nandroid.md5

AND

adb shell

su

# cd /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2010-06-29.20.22.53 (different folder name but same format)

# rm nandroid.md5 2>/dev/null; md5sum .* * > nandroid.md5 2>/dev/null (excactly as is)

Somewhen while restoring my data, device reboots and I either end up with a factory reset (!?) OR with half the stuff in and half missing. I am having probs with all 4 of backups so I am pretty sure its a bug issue rather than nandroids gone bust

I am on a desire C and also have the .undroid_secure.vfat.tar image

Any ideas greatly appreciated
[HD2 General] apex_predator619:
Huge Thanks

Donno what I`d have done if not for you. Thanks a lot man.
[HD2 General] avi3230:
What if the backup is made on external sd card?

cd /sdcard/.... doesnt work?

tried cd/sdcard/external_sd/ also
[HD2 General] fengsam:
amazing
[HD2 General] idulkoan:
Thanks!

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[HD2 General] prezess100:
hi, i have the same poroblem

and i tried to do this on my phone so i downloaded "Terminal Emulator" from google play store

and when i typed first line "adb shell" another error prompted:

"error: device not found"

whats wrong?

thanks in advence for helping me :)