CWM Recovery and CM9 overwrote my back up

[mwils52]

hey everyone,

Last Tuesday I unlocked and rooted my Galaxy Nexus, which I had no business doing but Verizons lack of releasing JB made me try. I succeeded in unlocking and rooting the phone and installed CWM after about 3 hours (again, should not have been trying this). I flashed Vicious Driod JB through the rom manager on my phone which was great and used that until yesterday when I wanted to try CM9. I flashed CM9 and it got stuck at the boot animation screen for a long time, 20ish minutes) I pulled the battery and went back into CWM recovery. Tried to boot VIcious Driod JB and it wouldnt go past the Google screen. I made a back up through CWM right after I initially rooted the phone. I tried to restore that back up but the CM9 boot animation just comes up again. Ive tried everything, data/factory reset, wiped cache, wiped dalvik cache, formatted system. I also turned USB debugging off in the developers options because Im a nervous nelly and now my computer wont recognize the device. Am I totally screwed? Someone said if I could get to CWM i should be okay but Im starting to doubt that since my backups somehow were overwritten by CM9.

I've looked everywhere, xda, rootwikiz, and here. Any help is very much appreciated.

Thanks

 

[EJT]

Turning off USB debugging was a bad idea.

That being said, did you try booting into recovery and reflashing the Rom? One more question. Did you check your md5 sums before trying to flash?

 

[2defmouze]

You need to follow through here: http://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=141360
If you are unable you might be able to have wug's toolkit perform the factory restore for you.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2

 

[mwils52]

Turning off USB debugging was a bad idea.

That being said, did you try booting into recovery and reflashing the Rom? One more question. Did you check your md5 sums before trying to flash?

Yeah, stupid move I figured there nothing I can do with USB debugging off and I will have to bite the bullet and go get a new phone. I have the insurance or whatever for lost phones so I'm gonna say that I lost it. But I did boot into recovery and flashed the Rom and No i didnt check the md5 sums, i get the message md5 mismatch! when i try restoring one of the backups, again I had no idea what I was actually doing rooting this and just made a ton of stupid mistakes.

 

[2defmouze]

You don't need a new phone. Do a factory image restore and you're phone will be good as new.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2

 

[mwils52]

You need to follow through here: http://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=141360
If you are unable you might be able to have wug's toolkit perform the factory restore for you.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2

Attempting to go through that link. Thank you.

 

[EJT]

You don't need a new phone. Do a factory image restore and you're phone will be good as new.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2

That was going to be my next suggestion.

 

[mwils52]

You don't need a new phone. Do a factory image restore and you're phone will be good as new.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2

Thank you so much man, the toolkit worked perfect, you have no idea how pumped I am. You are awesome.

Thanks again.

 

[mwils52]

I will be reading for another week before I attempt any more roms. Thanks again guys