Root Stock ROM backup

[terabyte128]

This was in another thread, but a lot of people found it useful so I thought I'd give it it's own
It's a nandroid backup of a completely stock ROM. Latest update as of August 29 2012.
You must rename it to a valid timestamp or else the md5 check will fail (see joda 86's quote at the bottom of the post.)

OK so here it is:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/30427367/Stock ROM.zip

Remember, it's a nandroid backup, so you have to unpack the zip and then stick the contents into the "/clockworkmod/backup" directory on your SD card.

At first, I unzipped this into the /backup directory as /backup/Stock ROM. When I tried to restore, I kept getting MD5 mismatch on the MD5 check. After checking all the MD5 sums manually and not seeing any errors, I renamed the folder according to the nandroid datetime and the MD5 check succeeded! It doesn't seem to matter what datetime you use. I just made one up. After renaming, the folder path looked like this:

/clockworkmod/backup/2012-08-18.22.18.54.41

Send from my Android

 

[theredblazer]

The MD5 is still miss matching. i renamed the file to match the NAND datetime and still nothing. The phone is bricked so i cant access the adb. Any ideas? or an i doing something incorrectly?

 

[terabyte128]

Try re-downloading and re-transferring the file to your sdcard. Because it could really be corrupted. If that doesn't work, you could try this (just not through adb) but I don't recommend it in case there really is something that's corrupted. Have you tried installing mtmichaelson's Broken Out ROM to "un-brick" it?

 

[drewsephvladmir]

Hey, same issue here. Don't worry, your sim card is fine, there is just something weird going on with the backup we're flashing, or perhaps how we're flashing it.

I went back to broken out, and a recovery I made just before flashing this backup, and both times my sim card worked perfectly. Trying to discover why, when flashing this image, the sim card doesn't work right.

 

[gully52]

I had the same problem with the SIM card no longer being detected. Could it be that the Radio version on my Breakout was an older version, and is therefore incompatible with the software version of the image being restored?

I've never had a custom ROM on the phone, but is that the only way to get back to a functional phone at this point?

I used this file for recovery because my breakout refused to take the latest VZW update. It would constantly download and then fail... wash, rinse, repeat...

 

[mrmrmrkevin]

I think the zip file itself is corrupt. I can't open it in windows explorer (says it's invalid). Since every post above mine mentions having problems with it, I think it's pretty clear this isn't something that can be fixed by changing the checksum.


So sad! I need this to get OTA updates. I'm yet another sorry fool who didn't back up their phone before rooting. The OTA updates have some firmware bugfixes that should fix problems I'm having with the SD card. I'm going to start (yet another...) desperate thread pleading for people's original backups (if they ever made them...).