[Solved] MD5 mismatch! error on clockworkmod

Posted by on Oct 19, 2011 in Mobile | 3 comments

I encountered “MD5 mismatch!” error while trying to restore a nandroid backup from clockworkmod. It means the md5sum stored in the file nandroid.md5 isn’t same as generated md5sum. The fix is quite trivial. You can simply regenrate the md5 by copying the backup folder to your computer and executing the following in terminal.

cd /path/to/backup/folder
md5sum *img>nandroid.md5

This will restore the md5sum in nandroid.md5.

Cheers!

  • http://www.facebook.com/richhersey Rich Hersey

    Can you explain how to do the same for an HTC Evo?
    How do I regenerate the MD5 or alter it to match?

    • http://www.geekdevs.com Deepak Mittal

      You’ll have to execute the above commands in a linux based PC. Alternatively, you can use a terminal emulator on your android phone and execute the command on it. You phone must have Busybox, though.

      • http://www.facebook.com/Freeman2287 Steffen Albrecht

        Hi, tried it but didn’t work. Nandroid still replies “MD5 Missmatch” Also tried RapidCRC to check the files. But the tool tells me that erverything’s ok…. do you have an idea?