Is it possible to have multiple ROMs on one phone at the same time? (no nandroid)
This is not (yet) been developed. There is a way to boot from sd card, but I readed that a long time ago, not sure if thats been developed for daily basis use.
For now, you have to use the nandroid way to boot another rom.
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yes android can be booted from a sd card, just like it is on wm phones
Would love to see my device multi-booting other OS'
Hi there,
I understand it is possible to boot another android version from the SD card.
Now can another OS be booted, such as WM mobile or Windows Phone 7?
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Hi guys i need more space for apps, Can root be reversed i.e reset the whole phone like it was oringinally?
I got my phone last tuesday and all i want it apps2sd, do i have change the HTC firmware or does that stay and it hacks it and allows me to added apps2sd option?
Also am i able to restore it back to original ? if i brick it while trying to do this is there way to unbrick?
thank you from an andriod newbie
I've just flashed the apps2sd update over on the original firmware after rooting and the phones constantly rebooting at the quietly brilliant screen
technocat said:
I've just flashed the apps2sd update over on the original firmware after rooting and the phones constantly rebooting at the quietly brilliant screen
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really, are you able to revert to original state?
managed to install custom rom with apps2sd on it and its working after 3rd attempt thank god! Apps2sd aint working on the rom either though (Pays-ROM Desire with Sense v1.4)...dont know whats going on.....wonder if its cause its an ext4 extension?.....
My advice to anyone is to NOT install APPS2SD, just wait for an official FroYo build to be leaked and installed on the Desire. It's full of issues at the moment.
Agreed. Wait for your sweeties
managed to install custom rom with apps2sd on it and its working after 3rd attempt thank god! Apps2sd aint working on the rom either though (Pays-ROM Desire with Sense v1.4)...dont know whats going on.....wonder if its cause its an ext4 extension?.....
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Ext4 is not supported
My advice to anyone is to NOT install APPS2SD, just wait for an official FroYo build to be leaked and installed on the Desire. It's full of issues at the moment.
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A2sd works fine, but it has a lot of downfalls. here are some examples:
not easy for beginners
Sd cards have to be in the device to boot
Cannot access apps with sd card mounted
Access to apps can be laggy due to card transfer rates
Etc....
If you guys are new to android, you're probably in the "download everything" phase. It's not realistic to keep every single thing. Be reasonable and you should be fine.
A2sd will be a thing of the past once 1gb+ roms become the norm.
eViL D: said:
A2sd works fine, but it has a lot of downfalls. here are some examples:
not easy for beginners
Sd cards have to be in the device to boot
Cannot access apps with sd card mounted
Access to apps can be laggy due to card transfer rates
Etc....
If you guys are new to android, you're probably in the "download everything" phase. It's not realistic to keep every single thing. Be reasonable and you should be fine.
A2sd will be a thing of the past once 1gb+ roms become the norm.
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Or when FroYo is released
I still don't know how they'll manage to get APPS running from a FAT partitioned SDCARD?
How will they manage to make the Sdcard usable for apps and readable by Windows and other operating systems which don't support ext2/3?
abc27 said:
How will they manage to make the Sdcard usable for apps and readable by Windows and other operating systems which don't support ext2/3?
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Correct me if Im wrong, but the only reason you have to use ext filesystems for A2SD is because that is what the 2.1 expects??
I can't see why you would need an ext filesystem for the APK files. The 'special' permissions on apps are not provided by the filesystem. Maybe cache and app data would require some level of security, but at least the APKs should happily live on FAT32.
Fingers crossed! I hope they sort something out.
Excellent advice, eViL D: I was a bit nervous about trying and Android phone in the first place but took the plunge due to the fantastic reviews on the Desire. I absolutely love this phone and I managed to root it without any problems. Fortunately I read about the A2SD issues before I installed it. Whew!!!
Being a complete newbie to Android, I am in the 'keep everything' phase but am starting to realise that there are a lot of apps that I simply don't need and probably won't use very often anyway. I reckon that if I find that I need them later, then I'll install them then. I've gotten rid of a number of apps and am really happy with the phone as it is. For now, I'm going to leave well enough alone. Will definitely keep an eye on the A2SD issue more out of curiosity than the need to use it.
I really wish I had the knowledge to help solve this problem and wish everyone who is working on it the best of luck.
This event I flashed my husbands HD2 to android. it works perfectly. I want my pt2 fully working on android as well. Not together with wm on an sd card. But a complete rom.
I just cannot find the right rom. Who can help me ?
wennes13 said:
This event I flashed my husbands HD2 to android. it works perfectly. I want my pt2 fully working on android as well. Not together with wm on an sd card. But a complete rom.
I just cannot find the right rom. Who can help me ?
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There isn't an android rom for tp2.
NAND BOOT is the closest you can get at this moment.
Indeed, HD2 is significantly different piece of hardware than the TP2.
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There isn't an android rom for tp2.
NAND BOOT is the closest you can get at this moment.
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May sound like a dummie, but what I don't quite understand what Nand Boot is.
Correct me if i'm wrong.
NAND boot uses a very lite version of winmo, only for booting into android. So i believe you allmost can't do anything in winmo, but only booting android.
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Correct me if i'm wrong.
NAND boot uses a very lite version of winmo, only for booting into android. So i believe you allmost can't do anything in winmo, but only booting android.
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Not really. NAND boot basically means replacing WinMo. So no WinMo whatsoever - there's a bootloader called TinBoot that's open source - it's what the Vogue used for its bootloader. HD2 uses a proprietary one called magldr.
NAND just means we're taking over the internal memory on the phone, instead of booting anything off of the SD card. Our NAND currently is technically only partial - most of the stuff still resides on the SD card, very little is placed on internal memory. initrd and rootfs I think are it... Not positive on what is being placed on the NAND at present - I know the data.img and system.ext2 file are still on the SD tho
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There isn't an android rom for tp2.
NAND BOOT is the closest you can get at this moment.
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I do not understand, after the successful NAND BOOT what to do when you start running android phone, I tried downloading the android on the copy to memory card without success
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I do not understand, after the successful NAND BOOT what to do when you start running android phone, I tried downloading the android on the copy to memory card without success
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I wouldn't use NAND at this stage, it's very experimental and not quite as polished as haret - but it's making great progress.
I'm wondering if it's possible on a native Android device like the Evo to install and boot Android from the SD card?
It might brick the phone because its from a totally different device, and I doubt youll be able to use data or some of your hardware because of the radios. But you can probably root the device you want the android from, make a nandroid, and if it had an sd card switch it to the phone you want it on and have it rooted so you can flash the nandroid
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I'm wondering if it's possible on a native Android device like the Evo to install and boot Android from the SD card?
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I don't think the post above mine is what you had in mind. I'm assuming you're thinking of running Android from the SD card like was done with some of the old WinMo devices. The answer is that it could be done in principle, but I don't think anyone's done the work to enable it on the Evo. There are a couple use cases where it could be useful (AOSP user booting into Sense to update PRL). But I don't think it's been something that's gathered much interest from the devs.
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I'm wondering if it's possible on a native Android device like the Evo to install and boot Android from the SD card?
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This is being done on the Nook Color currently. However, I don't believe the Evo has the capability to boot from sd card, whereas the Nook actually gives boot priority to the sd card. It's pretty slick actually. My wife's Nook is bone stock internally for reading, but running CM7 & Honeycomb from an 8gb sd card.
is it possible to install roms to a sd card, and when switch phone on select which one to load to?
I have used sense stock and ARHD since owning phone, and happy with it, just installed a cm nightly, and likling its lightweightness, want to check miui and also will want to try ICS whe navailable, and also wouldnt mind trialling a few of the other roms out there. but hate having to reconfigue it to my settings and re download all my apps again (doesnt seem to do it automatically).
so has anyone developed a way to install roms to a sd card and boot into whichever one, then they can be pre configured, apps stored all in one place that each rom access' al ldata is shared (to save space and eliminate duplicates of same data for each rom)
im not a great techy, but heard you can have multiple os on a pc in partitions?, and thought read something similar was developed for HD2, but cant find anything for the desire HD.
thanks for reading..
I do remember some efforts to dual boot this phone but I dont know where they went. Most likely stopped. There was a beta though.
There's an app in the market called Boot Manager which allows you to do that (for up to four ROMs if I remember correctly). There was a thread in the dev section about while it was still in beta, should still be floating about.
Disclaimer: I've never used it, just pointing out that it does exist.
//sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk; all errors entirely intentional.
Edit: Double post, because I'm on my phone and still half asleep
There are a few of us out there that use Boot Manager
I've not had any major issues and the Dev's are quick at getting things resolved for user's that may have issues.
Depending on the ROM you are trying to install, due to custom install scripts and the like - you can run into install issues.
#However SmokeyBong has very kindly produced backups that can be restored via boot manager and then they work fine - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1257450
The Dev's thread is here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1184173
They also have a forum and some other usefull apps.
Please note I'm not trying to sell you their products and/or services - just a happy user of Boot Manager.
If you go ahead and buy/try etc and have issues someone here will help you out.
Thanks,
Del
Brilliant that sounds like what I need. Ill try. And will buy if does as I would like. Thanks for replies
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Does anyone know of an app that can be used to transfer games/apps to an external hard drive? Or any way in general to do this? I heard of SD partitioning but im pretty sure it needs a flashed rom which im currently stuck in trying to get since Razr M doesnt have a recovery mode i can use. (I already tried Safestrap and it has no luck for me) I have already tried Link2sd and App 2 SD. Any other ways to get my games/apps to my sd card? Im running Jelly Bean 4.1.2
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Does anyone know of an app that can be used to transfer games/apps to an external hard drive? Or any way in general to do this? I heard of SD partitioning but im pretty sure it needs a flashed rom which im currently stuck in trying to get since Razr M doesnt have a recovery mode i can use. (I already tried Safestrap and it has no luck for me) I have already tried Link2sd and App 2 SD. Any other ways to get my games/apps to my sd card? Im running Jelly Bean 4.1.2
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Razr M does have a recovery, you get to it by holding Power and Volume Up when it's turned off. It's useful if you need to reset your system, since you can use the Razr M utility here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2249773 to flash the official 4.1.2 system.
But you shouldn't need to mess with the recovery to transfer games or apps to an SD card. I know that the native app2sd command in Link2SD doesn't work, but the symbolic link does. All you need to do is have your phone rooted (which the utility can also do) and put a second partition on your SD card, which is fairly straightforward. The Link2SD FAQ page has a couple of partition managers for each OS listed.
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Razr M does have a recovery, you get to it by holding Power and Volume Up when it's turned off. It's useful if you need to reset your system, since you can use the Razr M utility here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2249773 to flash the official 4.1.2 system.
But you shouldn't need to mess with the recovery to transfer games or apps to an SD card. I know that the native app2sd command in Link2SD doesn't work, but the symbolic link does. All you need to do is have your phone rooted (which the utility can also do) and put a second partition on your SD card, which is fairly straightforward. The Link2SD FAQ page has a couple of partition managers for each OS listed.
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Im kinda nooby to the Whole android thing since i just recieved my phone like 2 weeks ago and ive been really adapted to the IOS software. But i was thinking of making a partition on a new SD card, Like 8 GB or something. But i was wondering if the stock 4.1.2 Firmware i currently use, will it be able to use the effect of the partitioned SD card?
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Im kinda nooby to the Whole android thing since i just recieved my phone like 2 weeks ago and ive been really adapted to the IOS software. But i was thinking of making a partition on a new SD card, Like 8 GB or something. But i was wondering if the stock 4.1.2 Firmware i currently use, will it be able to use the effect of the partitioned SD card?
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Yes, you'll be able to use the partitioned SD card. I don't remember if Link2SD requires the partition you make ext2/ext4 or what, but you'll be more than capable of using it, as long as your phone is rooted. The utility I linked in my first post can do rooting if you need to root your phone.
Yeah my phone is rooted already. Will i be able to partition my SD card through ROM Manger? I've seen a couple videos about it. And also to Flash CWM or TWRP ino my device, my bootloader has to be unlocked correct?
BioSpectre said:
Yeah my phone is rooted already. Will i be able to partition my SD card through ROM Manger? I've seen a couple videos about it. And also to Flash CWM or TWRP ino my device, my bootloader has to be unlocked correct?
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I don't know what the features of ROM Manager are. It might be easier to do it on a computer, but there might also be partition utilities for Android. I really couldn't help with that. And yes, to change your recovery you need to unlock your bootloader. All of that can be done with the utility.
Alright thanks man! You've been a great help! i just got a 16 Gb SD Card and im going to partition it sometime in the future. Thanks a lot mate!
tutorial
can someone please post a YouTube tutorial on how to use this utility