[Q] recovery not working and some files missing may be ????? - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

i am using cynogenmod 7 on my sgs2 i backed up my rom via cwm recovery
i need to recover because all of my contacts were wipped and my pc crashed and had to format it so i lost the backup of my all contacts
so now i have this files in my backup folder
1- ".android_secure.vfat.tar " it is 605mb
2- "boot.img" it is 8mb
3- "data.ext4.tar" 887mb
4- "system.ext4.tar" 482mb
and wen i try to restore it shows md5 file missing and i have seen the posts which are there so i also tried it in terminal emulater i used the given commands but it did not work it said not found i tried adb shell it said not found
then at first su
it worked it gave me"#" this sign then again i did adb shell it showed again not found then i did the cd given codes in that also it said not found please help me
ps: i am new to all this so please help and please be as simple as u can
thank you in advance

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CWM recovery should work if you have the exact same CWM recovery you used to backup with .
jje

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Thanks but i already did that i used the same version of cwm recovery it is showing the missing files error

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ralphrss said:
Thanks but i already did that i used the same version of cwm recovery it is showing the missing files error
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Try creating a blank nandroid.md5 file with notepad and then place the same in the backup folder and then try restoring backup.
hope this helps!

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ksantoshh said:
Try creating a blank nandroid.md5 file with notepad and then place the same in the backup folder and then try restoring backup.
hope this helps!
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how do i do that exactly please give me some pointers and my note pad does not have the option of md5 files if u have it can u make me a copy of blank nandroid or tell me how to make it please and thankyou

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Try Copy MD5 to desktop open with notepad delete contents and close and save . jje

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JJEgan said:
Try Copy MD5 to desktop open with notepad delete contents and close and save . jje
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i am missing the md5 file
i only have the four files which are given above which is in the first post
so can you please tell me how to make the new md5 file

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ralphrss said:
how do i do that exactly please give me some pointers and my note pad does not have the option of md5 files if u have it can u make me a copy of blank nandroid or tell me how to make it please and thankyou
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just save as .txt then change the extension to md5 using file explorer or similar.
if you long press on a file in file explorer it should popup with some options. Select rename and change the extension from txt to md5

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ozzy lion said:
just save as .txt then change the extension to md5 using file explorer or similar.
if you long press on a file in file explorer it should popup with some options. Select rename and change the extension from txt to md5
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i will try it will let you know if it worked or not

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worked like a charm

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For future, you realize your contacts auto sync to gmail.....
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