clockwork md5 mismatch and bootloops

[hanfeitzu02]

SO I was trying to clean up the memory on my gnex, deleting and renaming stuff. Anyhow, renamed my clockwork backups so I could more easily recognize them (didnt realize this would give me MD5 errors).

Updated an app and broke a theme, giving me a bootloop... so I went to wipe and restore, and... all my backups give me md5 mismatches.

So Ive got clockwork recovery, but no workable backups. Can I use ADB or WUG's to push a zip to my "sd card" and then flash? I see that WUG's can probably restore to stock from the bootloader, but I'd hate to go ALL the way back.

Any ideas?

[sbenson]

Do you have any backups stored on your computer?

If not, I would just flash a new rom. If you can get your phone to connect via ADB you can push a rom file onto your sd card. Do you know how to use ADB? Basically, you'll download the rom and gapps to your "platform-tools" folder on your computer then run the command: "adb push "your file here" /sdcard". After success, you'll need to boot into clockwork and wipe/factory reset like normal, then flash the rom and gapps and you should be up and running again.

Edit: The other thing to consider, do you have any existing rom zips on your sd card? You could also flash one of those...

[Droid-Xer]

You cannot have any spaces or unknown characters in your backup names. That's why you're getting md5 mismatches. Just flash a new rom or wipe and then rename the backups correctly and restore.

[hanfeitzu02]

Do you have any backups stored on your computer?

If not, I would just flash a new rom. If you can get your phone to connect via ADB you can push a rom file onto your sd card. Do you know how to use ADB? Basically, you'll download the rom and gapps to your "platform-tools" folder on your computer then run the command: "adb push "your file here" /sdcard". After success, you'll need to boot into clockwork and wipe/factory reset like normal, then flash the rom and gapps and you should be up and running again.

Edit: The other thing to consider, do you have any existing rom zips on your sd card? You could also flash one of those...

The issue is, it's either bootloop, or recovery. I cannot boot into android, so I don't think I can enable usb debugging for ADB. Right?

I know what I did wrong NOW... it was just a series of unfortunate events.

[Droid-Xer]

As long as you didn't wipe system, you should be able to.do a factory reset in recovery and then reboot.

[sbenson]

as long as you didn't wipe system, you should be able to.do a factory reset in recovery and then reboot.

^^^
this

[hanfeitzu02]

I wish. I didnt wipe system, but my current rom does nothing but bootloop. I just tried a wipe again to be double sure, and I'm still looping.


I've got nothing on my phone that's flashable. So the million dollar question is, can I get a zip onto my phone without being able to boot to android?

[cupfulloflol]

1. Reboot into recovery
2. Make sure /data partition is mounted via recovery (under mounts and storage)
3.

adb push *nameofROM*.zip /data/media/*nameofROM*.zip

If you have titanium backup you should be able to even salvage some data/apps from your backup (this may be a pro feature).

Alternatively there is a way to generate an md5sum via adb as well (in recovery with /data partition mounted) so you can potentially salvage the backup.

adb shell
su
cd /data/media/clockworkmod/backup/*nameofbackup*
md5sum *img > nandroid.md5

^that may take some time, it took quite a while on the OG Droid, I haven't done it yet on the GN.

If you don't know the name of the folder you can do:

cd /data/media/clockworkmod/backup/
ls

[???]

can you not just mount the sd card from the recover and copy and paste a rom to it from your computer like you could with the D1? then flash it as a update.zip?


i know nothing about adb either lol.

[hanfeitzu02]

1. Reboot into recovery
2. Make sure /data partition is mounted via recovery (under mounts and storage)
3.

adb push *nameofROM*.zip /data/media/*nameofROM*.zip

If you have titanium backup you should be able to even salvage some data/apps from your backup (this may be a pro feature).

Alternatively there is a way to generate an md5sum via adb as well (in recovery with /data partition mounted) so you can potentially salvage the backup.

adb shell
su
cd /data/media/clockworkmod/backup/*nameofbackup*
md5sum *img > nandroid.md5

^that may take some time, it took quite a while on the OG Droid, I haven't done it yet on the GN.

If you don't know the name of the folder you can do:

cd /data/media/clockworkmod/backup/
ls

adb recognizes the device, and knows it's in recovery, but attempting to push the file simply returns a long list of adb commands.

Also @ ???, the nexus doesnt support usb mass storage, so I can't access the card through recovery that way.