I read that you can use ROM Manager to dual boot so I went to the Play Store to download it but it seems to be part of CWM? Or did I get that wrong?
I'm used to Amon Ra and don't want to switch off it. Can I dual boot?
feralicious said:
I read that you can use ROM Manager to dual boot so I went to the Play Store to download it but it seems to be part of CWM? Or did I get that wrong?
I'm used to Amon Ra and don't want to switch off it. Can I dual boot?
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ROM Manager doesn't play well with our device so shouldn't be used (CWM is apart of Rom Manager). There is an app out on the play store that lets you dual boot I think it's called Boot Manager
feralicious said:
I read that you can use ROM Manager to dual boot so I went to the Play Store to download it but it seems to be part of CWM? Or did I get that wrong?
I'm used to Amon Ra and don't want to switch off it. Can I dual boot?
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Even still I heard boot manager causes lots of problems on our phone as well, such as aosp to sense. The memory partitions are switches so when you try and boot thru boot manager itll give you a bootloop(cuz it reads the wrong partition).. I just know this from someone else's problem, I havent personally experienced it.. but if your using amonRa you can just make two seperate backups of the roms your wanting to use and restore your nandroid when you wanna change to the other.. this takes alil longer obviously but much safer and easier on your phone..
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famouscollin said:
Even still I heard boot manager causes lots of problems on our phone as well, such as aosp to sense. The memory partitions are switches so when you try and boot thru boot manager itll give you a bootloop(cuz it reads the wrong partition).. I just know this from someone else's problem, I havent personally experienced it.. but if your using amonRa you can just make two seperate backups of the roms your wanting to use and restore your nandroid when you wanna change to the other.. this takes alil longer obviously but much safer and easier on your phone..
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Sounds like friend is not setup right because the boot manager app creates it's own partitions on and runs from the sd card. Have used it since it first came out and runs better than ever. Just waiting for them to complete port for S3 and will be rocking it again.
Boot manager works great on this phone. It is officially supported by the developer.
But you can't dual boot an AOSP and Sense ROM. Has to be two of the same.
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Boot manager works great on this phone. It is officially supported by the developer.
But you can't dual boot an AOSP and Sense ROM. Has to be two of the same.
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Thanks for clarifying wolf like I said I didn't know for sure just something I've read.. I only use sense myself..
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Im sorry i haven't really been able to do too much research myself (im in the middle of a move and things have been hectic), but im wondering if the recovery im using still up to code. Lol
I use the Rom Manager (the one u can get off the market), is this recovery still acceptable or is it dated? I have been flashing just fine with it, but with things moving the way of ICS i wanna make sure im up to date.
That recovery should be fine, but I think most people, myself included, prefer Romracer's recovery. I'd flash that if I were you.
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CaelanT said:
That recovery should be fine, but I think most people, myself included, prefer Romracer's recovery. I'd flash that if I were you.
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Will there be any difference/benefits in ROMracer's over ROM Manager, or are u just saying its just a slightly better option/future proof?
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Will there be any difference/benefits in ROMracer's over ROM Manager, or are u just saying its just a slightly better option/future proof?
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Romracers has a couple of extra options. I believe one of them may be the choice to nandroid backup to either internal or external SDCard, but it's been so long I forget. Romracers has pretty much become the standard with the Atrix. So, in essence a slightly better option. I may need to be corrected, but I think some people have had problems flashing particular ROM's, radios, kernels, etc. with the ROM Manager version.
If you want you could also download CWM Touch through ROM Manager, but once again, the option to backup to external is not there.
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Romracers has a couple of extra options. I believe one of them may be the choice to nandroid backup to either internal or external SDCard, but it's been so long I forget. Romracers has pretty much become the standard with the Atrix. So, in essence a slightly better option. I may need to be corrected, but I think some people have had problems flashing particular ROM's, radios, kernels, etc. with the ROM Manager version.
If you want you could also download CWM Touch through ROM Manager, but once again, the option to backup to external is not there.
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Thanks a lot. I mainly wanted to stick with ROM Manager cuz its simple. Lol
I will take ur advice and switch to ROM Racers (once i read up and learn how to). I have never deleted and installed a new recovery, but its something i need to learn anyways so i will take the plunge. Thanks a lot.
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Thanks a lot. I mainly wanted to stick with ROM Manager cuz its simple. Lol
I will take ur advice and switch to ROM Racers (once i read up and learn how to). I have never deleted and installed a new recovery, but its something i need to learn anyways so i will take the plunge. Thanks a lot.
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You don't need to delete anything. Just download one of the Romracer zip files, (there are a few because you can have different colours), put the zip on your sdcard, and flash it with the current ROM Manager recovery you have just like you would flash anything else. It will replace it.
As you guys know, we can't flash boot images directly from Recovery. This makes restoring nandroid backups more difficult.
Well, not anymore. This flashable allows you to restore the boot image from a nandroid backup directly from recovery. For those of you who are experts, this duplicates the functionality of "fastboot boot recovery.img" in a self-contained zip.
To Use:
1) Flash the attached zip file
2) Press Volume UP when prompted at HBOOT
3) Reboot the Device (it will probably ask you to press power to do so)
NOTE: If the device doesn't reboot on its own, reboot "normally" not into recovery. It will take you to recovery automatically. If you go into recovery via the HBOOT menus, you still won't be allowed to restore boot images.
4) Restore your nandroid and with its boot image. It will flash this time
5) Done.
How it works:
1. Dumps your recovery image
2. Zips it into a viable PH98IMG.zip and drops it on your SD card
3. Downgrades your main version
4. Reboots to HBOOT so you can flash it
5. You then boot into unprotected recovery.
Haha I had an issues yesterday that this would have fixed. You do amazing work con, keep it up! We appreciate it!!!!!
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Why are there not 1000 thanks for this??? This is awesome!
Great stuff. Thanks
DbZ Gokuu said:
Haha I had an issues yesterday that this would have fixed. You do amazing work con, keep it up! We appreciate it!!!!!
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WasabiWa83 said:
Why are there not 1000 thanks for this??? This is awesome!
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NilsP said:
Great stuff. Thanks
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I am glad you guys like it. Not sure how much use it will get, but atleast it is out there.
con247 said:
I am glad you guys like it. Not sure how much use it will get, but atleast it is out there.
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Worked perfectly ! wow, nice job just like using my OG droid now with backups I had quit making them since I always had to remember what kernel for the rom etc.. tried the endeavor leak and afterwards flashed my backup without a hitch
mjh68 said:
Worked perfectly ! wow, nice job just like using my OG droid now with backups I had quit making them since I always had to remember what kernel for the rom etc.. tried the endeavor leak and afterwards flashed my backup without a hitch
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Good to get a confirmation that it works.
So we use this any time we restore a nand correct?
yep. It just allows Recovery to flash the boot image, but it is temporary.
Curious. Could this be used on a fresh install as well?
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Curious. Could this be used on a fresh install as well?
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Yeah but it offers no benefit or extra ease. The way we install custom roms right now is the ideal way.
con247 thank you so much for this. I fastboot flash everything from the computer. But two guys that I help out on gtalk on a regular basis had a bunch of trouble with the PH98 process, but aren't able to use fastboot on their computers while at work.
Both guys have been using this rom very heavily going back and fourth between ICS and gingerbread, and both have confirmed this is very easy for noobs compared to the fear they have of ADB, fastboot.exe, and the cmd line.
Thanks again. You are an incredible asset to the Rezound and Android community.
Nice work
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I am glad you guys like it. Not sure how much use it will get, but atleast it is out there.
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No more renamed PH98IMG files on my sd card! Good work, sir
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I used this quite a bit the other night , after I ran the RUU before I found out restoring old backups was a bad idea LOL. Still worked flawlessly though , so this tool has been invaluable to me ! I started making backups again
I can't restore any backups. I'm using the latest amonra. It just says oops check recovery log. I tried doing it regular and with this but they both failed and I had to use the ruu to recover each time. I don't understand what the problem is.
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Andro X said:
I can't restore any backups. I'm using the latest amonra. It just says oops check recovery log. I tried doing it regular and with this but they both failed and I had to use the ruu to recover each time. I don't understand what the problem is.
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well give me the recovery log please. Do you have an external SD card?
con247 said:
well give me the recovery log please. Do you have an external SD card?
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It might be related to using the Amon Ra 3.14 and trying to backup android secure. Dres, just released a fix because the Devblock location changed so it borked making or restoring backups that contained android secure. Sorry , if this wasn't helpful , but I realized my backups worked because I never backup android secure. Just figure it might save you a lot of debugging when its probably on the recovery this time not the app.
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It might be related to using the Amon Ra 3.14 and trying to backup android secure. Dres, just released a fix because the Devblock location changed so it borked making or restoring backups that contained android secure. Sorry , if this wasn't helpful , but I realized my backups worked because I never backup android secure. Just figure it might save you a lot of debugging when its probably on the recovery this time not the app.
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You could have also gotten a bad download. This script shouldn't be affected by the new firmware.
Thanks guys but I figured it out. I left a space when renaming the folder containing my backup. So once took out the space I was able to restore.
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K I'm using boot manager to install a cm9 Rom and it keeps failing at creating boot.img. I don't know what I'm doing wrong since I've herd of others installing cm9 roms sucessfully using boot manager. Maybe it's something in my settings? Tried making a thread at init2winit forums but have not gotten any response over there. Anyone here willing to help me out? I would greatly appreciate it.
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that usually means you dont have enough space
Thanks for the advice. I did check my SD storage and it said that I only had 1.16GBs left. So I thought that this could be true I suppose. So I switched to int. Storage as the install location(which I have 9.67GBs available on) and its causing my phone to lock up and freeze. Happened right at the part "extracting Rom please wait..." Weird...
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boot manager doesnt surport rexound officially，maybe thats the final answer. i encounterred the same issue too，but when i reinstall the app，it works just fine.
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Thanks for the advice. I did check my SD storage and it said that I only had 1.16GBs left. So I thought that this could be true I suppose. So I switched to int. Storage as the install location(which I have 9.67GBs available on) and its causing my phone to lock up and freeze. Happened right at the part "extracting Rom please wait..." Weird...
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Remember to disable logging in Superuser. That also causes some major issues. Just open superuser hit settings icon, and where it says logging set it to off. You should have much better luck that way
Cool, I will try that. I've uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times, with no luck. I'm interested though. What do you guys have setup in settings?
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boot manager doesnt surport rexound officially，maybe thats the final answer. i encounterred the same issue too，but when i reinstall the app，it works just fine.
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The Rezound is supported by bootmanager.
I've never been able to get boot manager to work correctly since I've started using it back on my dinc2. Had issues installing some roms on that phone too. Which is why I think my problem may be the settings I am using. Is there specific settings I need to use for the rezound?
EDIT: After I changed the settings SU I tried again at work and it froze still and even rebooted during the install.
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Ok, so I finally got cm9 roms to install correctly and now when I try to boot to them it just shows the splash screen for a couple seconds and my display turns off and it never boots. I've tried with kang and paranoid with the same results. I've tried going into recovery and manually flashing the update zip for rom 1, didnt work. Can't think of what could be the problem....
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anubis2k3 said:
Ok, so I finally got cm9 roms to install correctly and now when I try to boot to them it just shows the splash screen for a couple seconds and my display turns off and it never boots. I've tried with kang and paranoid with the same results. I've tried going into recovery and manually flashing the update zip for rom 1, didnt work. Can't think of what could be the problem....
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Doesnt look like anyone has asked you this, but are you S-Off?? You need to be S-off for this to work. Also make sure when installing you wipe system/data/cache. You should be able to use the ext.4/2 either one will work. I use the ext.4 since it installs faster....alot faster.
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Doesnt look like anyone has asked you this, but are you S-Off?? You need to be S-off for this to work. Also make sure when installing you wipe system/data/cache. You should be able to use the ext.4/2 either one will work. I use the ext.4 since it installs faster....alot faster.
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He can be HTC unlocked and s-on it will still work bootmanager still hasn't updated since the rezound got s-off... His problem sound like the boot.img does not have the right kernel installed or something
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yojoe600 said:
He can be HTC unlocked and s-on it will still work bootmanager still hasn't updated since the rezound got s-off... His problem sound like the boot.img does not have the right kernel installed or something
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only mentioning that because in the instructions for the app. If he doesnt have to be S-Off then thats strange. Only thing i could suggest after that would be redownload ROM and check MD5
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only mentioning that because in the instructions for the app. If he doesnt have to be S-Off then thats strange. Only thing i could suggest after that would be redownload ROM and check MD5
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i understand... he could probably do a dirty install of the same rom over top and make sure it has a boot.img in the zip that is not in any of the folders
Whenever my phone dies, it boots to recovery or better known, cwm when I plug it in. Not sure why, I don't mind it. But I'm wondering why, I have the latest touch recovery from cwm. And I do want to switch to 4ext but I have a question.
1. Can it flash any rom that cwm can flash?
Thanks guys.
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Gad74 said:
Whenever my phone dies, it boots to recovery or better known, cwm when I plug it in. Not sure why, I don't mind it. But I'm wondering why, I have the latest touch recovery from cwm. And I do want to switch to 4ext but I have a question.
1. Can it flash any rom that cwm can flash?
Thanks guys.
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4ext can flash every rom that CWM can and then some.
The reason your phone turns on like that is because you are using CWM Recovery.
But I've used it before. It didn't used to do this until I flashed touch or because ics. I updated and rooted so not sure.
Is 4ext really worth it?
Is it really worth putting the effort into it?
I need to flash a radio and it says 4ext recommended.
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Gad74 said:
But I've used it before. It didn't used to do this until I flashed touch or because ics. I updated and rooted so not sure.
Is 4ext really worth it?
Is it really worth putting the effort into it?
I need to flash a radio and it says 4ext recommended.
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It doesn't require much effort and is well worth it yes.
CWM is garbage and it is a bug in the Touch version that does it.
Has nothing to do with rooting the phone.
You never had CWM before you rooted and non touch versions didn't have the bug.
It's actually about as painless as can be to switch to 4ext and is miles better in every way.
Yes you need to flash new radios for the ICS roms.
Read the Op in my thread like I said in the PM and you will find it is all very simple to do and well worth the short time it takes to do. Or not.
Your call, but you have been told many times to ditch CWM and I pretty much require it or TWRP for my roms which are currently the only recent ones you will even find for the Bolt.
Install the free app I linked you before and flash the recovery, takes maybe 3 minutes.
Thank you. Your the only one who told me if it was better. I'm switching now. And true, don't think any Better roms are going to come out.
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Currently have TWR recovery I flashed using goomanager but have been hearing bad thing about it. Can I just download Rom Manager from the play store and use it to flash clockwork or do I need to us another way to flash it ? Thanks !
If TWRP works fine for you then who cares what other people say or think about. I only run TWRP and have no issues with it.
Don't just go by what other people say, check out some videos on YouTube of ClockworkMod and see if it's for you. Very recently, an official CWM build appears to have become available so if you want to use that, it should be as simple as downloading ROM Manager and doing recovery setup.
I havent used TWR to flash anything yet just used it to to a backup of my stock rooted rom. Thanks for the replys.
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If TWRP works fine for you then who cares what other people say or think about. I only run TWRP and have no issues with it.
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I've ran both on multiple devices and i also prefer twrp. It's laid out nicer. Being able to wipe cache and dalvik in one shot or at least in one menu screen is way more convenient than them being separate options on separate screens.
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