Is it possible to triple boot WP7, WM6.5 and Android?
From what I've read from searching I would presume the answer is no, but is there anyone out there who has any more information on the topic?
WinMo 6.5 still not available as an SD build, same for WP7. One of them should be ported this way, then you´d be fine.
I guess some time and efforts of the great devs behind all those solutions will go into the soon-to-come WP7 update, maybe kind of "blocking" other stuff. But you never know, do you? At least, HSPL4 came out of nowhere...
So an SD build, thats where the OS boot directly from an SD card? So you could just have 3 SD cards, one for each OS?
Wow I've been out of the HD2 game for too long
As of now, the dual boot option runs 1 OS from NAND, then Android, the only one available as SD build, from the memory card.
Since you can make different partitions on an SD card, it could be imaginable to have 2 or even more partitions. At the end, in grey theory, 1 OS from NAND, 2 others from memory card.
Or, even if the partition stuff wouldn´t work, you still might have 1 card with Android, another one with either WP7 or WinMo 6.5 - while one of them runs from NAND again.
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Recently I've been trying out various Android builds, and it's really handy being able to back up my entire system by just copying my SD contents to my computer.
Also, I have 2 SD cards, and it's great being able to play around with one and then easily go back to my 'stable' build on the other SD card.
Though the future aim is to enable Android to load from NAND, it's also quite cool being able to run from the SD card, specially for testing new builds & having a quick and easy way to return to a previous setup.
Could it be possible to 'flash' WinMo roms to an SD card?
After booting the WinMo rom installed to NAND, a small program apparently similar to HaRet could launch the ROM that is installed on the SD card.
If possible, what would be needed to make it happen?
Cheers!
WOW ! That now is a very good idea ! Would make things MUCH easier when trying out other ROMS though batt-drain would be higher when running from SDcard, but anyway it would be just for testing ..............
Yeah, I wouldn't be too concerned about the battery drain due to the fact it's just for testing, and that current Android builds seem pretty good with the battery even though they run from the SD.
Glad you like the idea too!
sorry chaps... not possible.
jimhaddon said:
sorry chaps... not possible.
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Could you please expand upon this (i.e. why it can not be possible)?
I have HTC HD2:
-ROM CRUZER 2 (built 97)
-OS ver.5.2.23569 (23569.5.5.0)
-RADIO 2.12.50.02_2
I try to install android on my HD2, but doesn't work...always freeze on green logo HTC...(i'm waiting more than 15 minute) & still freeze...won't boot in android...
Can anyone help me...i need advice...where is the wrong step..thx
(sory my english not good)
alifasikin said:
I have HTC HD2:
-ROM CRUZER 2 (built 97)
-OS ver.5.2.23569 (23569.5.5.0)
-RADIO 2.12.50.02_2
I try to install android on my HD2, but doesn't work...always freeze on green logo HTC...(i'm waiting more than 15 minute) & still freeze...won't boot in android...
Can anyone help me...i need advice...where is the wrong step..thx
(sory my english not good)
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android build..?
back up all your data from your sd card, then reformat your sd card and try again. I should work....
Yesterday i was helping my gf to install android on her hd2, i encountered exactly the same problem as you. Then reformat sd card, install android again. It works smoothly without any problem.
Hope it helps.
thx for advice...i try it...
I have the same Problem...
no matter what I do, it does not work
It always freeze or reboot new.
I have formatted my SD i think over 100 times
What i do wrong?
I have hspl2 and the newest Radio ROm, but it doesnt work
EDIT: I tried all Android builds noone works
Did you do a task29 to format internal memory, then install back energy rom. Only install android. Have you tried that?
@ whizzkid_cool
I dont understand, what is task29
And energy rom? is that a custom Rom?
Still Doesn't work....
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back up all your data from your sd card, then reformat your sd card and try again. I should work....
Yesterday i was helping my gf to install android on her hd2, i encountered exactly the same problem as you. Then reformat sd card, install android again. It works smoothly without any problem.
Hope it helps.
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Still Doesn't work....
Any advice.....
Did you copy the complete Android directory (so not only the files) to the root of your SD card?
All you have to do is read
It could also be your SD card. I had exactly the same issue with an 8gb card I recently purchased. No matter how many times I formatted it I still couldn't get Android to run fully all the time.
I have since got a 4gb SD card and Android, all builds, now runs without any issues whatsoever.
Just a suggestion that it may not be something you're doing, or not doing, but an actual hardware issue!
You might also be making the same mistake I did.
When the guides on this forum said to copy the Android folder to the root of my SD card, I thought it was referring to the "/" directory that I saw in Windows Explorer. (What is actually the internal memory of the HD2)
I was putting Android in the wrong directory. I should have been copying it over to the Storage Card one, which is the actual MiniSD Card. That's the root directory.
Just a thought.
same problem...
Hey guys
i tried everything but i have the same problem
it´s only the green screen from HTC. I hope it is not the SDCard
I have the goatrip 6.0 final version and tried it with many Android builds, most of them were from Mdeejay
Please help me without android i think the hd2 is boring for me
Hi,
I am running Cyanogen 6.1 with APP2SD running, and have an 8GB SD Card with apps installed on it. I recently bought a new 16GB SD Card and was wondering how I duplicate the contents of my 8GB SD Card to the 16GB SD Card.
Any ideas would be VERY helpful.
I never tried, but I think it should be enough if you copy contents from the old one to the new one using a computer.
Sent from my HTC Hero
Unless you are using the native Froyo Apps-to-SD and not the old solution, then you can't just copy the files on a computer. Using the old system the apps are stored on a completely separated partition to what is shown when you mount your SD Card.
You can probably access that partition if you are using Linux, but having never used the old Apps2SD I can't check it myself.
I thought that might be the case. Linux laptop here I come!!
I recently bought a 16GB card and my Hero started to lag and restart SENSE randomly
Please reply to know if you have this issue
Hi,
I haven't put the 16GB in yet, as I have Apps installed to my 8GB SD Card and didn't know what to do (good job I have a linux based laptop really).
Sadly (not for me, but you know what I mean...) my ROM doesn't have SENSE. I am running CyanogenMOD 6.1.0.
What ROM are you running, I may know what the issue is?
takuhii said:
Hi,
I haven't put the 16GB in yet, as I have Apps installed to my 8GB SD Card and didn't know what to do (good job I have a linux based laptop really).
Sadly (not for me, but you know what I mean...) my ROM doesn't have SENSE. I am running CyanogenMOD 6.1.0.
What ROM are you running, I may know what the issue is?
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I am running the villainrom12 with sense and i have overclocked it to 352/652
I'm such a dumbass... what "class" is the SD Card? And which elements of the ROM are laggy?
I noticed that this is a 2.1 ROM...
takuhii said:
I'm such a dumbass... what "class" is the SD Card? And which elements of the ROM are laggy?
I noticed that this is a 2.1 ROM...
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I have a class4 memory card, and when i am launching some apps htc sense just force closes and the app i wanted to open just quits, after it is happened several times, htc senses starts to force close again and again until phone starts to lag and then hangs up.
From what I understand, VillainROM12 is a SENSE 2.1 ROM. I can't understand why this would lag, other than the implementation of SENSE isn't the patched version with the LAG fix. Early versions of SENSE were terrible and HTC had to release a patch to fix the lag issues.
The force close issue could either be down to the app timing out or something isn't installed properly. I can't really tell without installing VillainROM on my phone (I have CyanogenMOD 6.1 which, in my opinion, is flawless). My ROM isn't sense orientated, it uses apps like Launcher Pro plus (I think it comes with ADW.Launcher by default) instead of sense. ADW does have a theme pack to make it look like HTCs SENSE app.
I would suggest a couple of things;
Check available RAM
Back up your SD Card and reformat it as follows;
EXT2 = 512MB (You can use more, but you shouldn't need to)
(DO NOT use EXT3 or EXT4, these partition types are kernel dependent, and will lower the life of your card, they are intended for large partitions of like 50GB upwards)
SWAP = 0MB
FAT = The rest
I use AmonRA Recovery 1.7.0.1 which has a very useful partition SD card feature, better than ClockworkMods anyway (Evertime I partitioned a card in ClockworkMOD the phone refused to boot). Unfortunately if you have any apps installed to the SD card you may lose them unless you move them back to the phone (If you go Settings > Applications then click on "On SD Card" this will give you a list of "moved" apps).
Again, if you HAVEN'T got any apps on the SD card this could be the problem, as you are using ALL your phones RAM to store apps in, so like a PC running low on memory, no RAM means poor performance.
Try checking available resources before re-partitioning your SD Card. If you can't see what memory is available to you, try an app ion the market place called App 2 SD Free by Sam Lu, it's free, and gives you a readout of exactly what memory is being used (it also gives you a list of apps you CAN move to the SD card). I'd use it for diagnostics for now, as I don't know if VillainROM12 comes with APP2SD installed by default.
Try these out and let me know how you get on. PLEASE make a nandroid backup first, this CAN restore your SDCARD if the partition goes wrong.
Please be advised that I take no responsibility for any issues that may occur. I have performed all these tasks on my HTC Hero with no problems though.
I have tried these things but nothing helped. I have done everything the same with same type 8GB card and there was no problem, i think that HERO just cant handle 16GB but HTC says that it can support up to 32GB.
Malismalis said:
I have tried these things but nothing helped. I have done everything the same with same type 8GB card and there was no problem, i think that HERO just cant handle 16GB but HTC says that it can support up to 32GB.
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I can't really comment until I format my 16GB car and put it in (should be arriving this morning). Have you thought about another ROM? SENSE is notorious for causing lag. The guys at VillainROM also make FroydVillain (I think the latest version is 1.7.2). This doesn't have SENSE though, and you will need to backup your setting/messages/apps/and everything else first.
Backing up settings is slightly different to a nandroid. I recommend Backup Everything, as you can select what you want to back up. The only problem is you usually need to re-download the app on your new ROM to restore stuff, even if you backup apps too.
Update: Take a look at this thread for other ROMs
Sorry I can't be of more use...
theirs been alot of hype over this but ive been wondering how much it takes
how much does an android build take? wp7? and WinMo 6.5.X? if you were to make an android build and a data image with 250MB ( like on sd builds) and then use sd card for extension on space, and have a partitioned sd card (a 16 GB- 4 or 8GB for wp7 ) then that leaves you with about 10 -12 GB of space for WinMo 6.5.X and android and if they make WinMo Roms that are minimal and the rest for WP7 an when meego is released move the android to sd card and replace it with meego OS or something in that direction (wish it had more space x/ )
im probably completely wrong but someone please clear this up for me
I'm not sure if its possible to have more than 1 os on nand.... but if it can be done, cotulla will figure it out. But I know cotulla is working on wm6.5 that can run off sd, so if that works out, we can have wp7 on nand, and then winmo, android, meego, and ubuntu on sd.
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I'm not sure if its possible to have more than 1 os on nand.... but if it can be done, cotulla will figure it out. But I know cotulla is working on wm6.5 that can run off sd, so if that works out, we can have wp7 on nand, and then winmo, android, meego, and ubuntu on sd.
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THATS AWESOME and with start-up haret coming to magldr it will be basicly nand booting all of them right?
Is there any ROM that supports MAGDLR?
So i can have WM6.5 installed, but still run Android SD from MAGDLR.
Not existing (yet) - the possible combination so far is Android and WP7, since WinMo 6.5 does not (yet) exist to be used/installed on SD.
I don't want to install it to SD, but to NAND. Just i want to keep quick SD android boot via MAGDLR.
I haven´t seen any tool to make different partitions in the internal memory.
The existing tool can differ between partitions of an SD card, that´s it - and the only additional OS for HD2 which works from SD is Android. Both Windows versions are NAND only, at least as of today.
That´s why you can combine WP7 or WinMo 6.5 with Android, but not vice versa.
So still, not doable (yet).
I think he's saying he wants winmo on nand, and android from sd, but to be able to use magldr to boot directly into android. Unfortunately, magldr deletes winmo and the only roms you can flash to nand are wp7 and android. I'm not sure if cotulla plans to make any winmo roms that can flash to nand with magldr... he is working on a sd version of winmo6.5 that can be booted from sd with magldr, though, so we will be able to have wp7, android and winmo all on our phones at once. But right now, if you want winmo and android, you have to run android with haret from within winmo.