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This looks amazing
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.drx2.bootmanager&feature=search_result
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wow that looks too good to be true...

I would like to hear some personal experiences on here. Anyone?
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It is a really cool App, installing the roms takes some time, but switching between them is quick and easy.
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OMFGodddddd!!!!!!!! Yes!!!!! This is like legalizing drugs for flasher addicts!!

EDIT: bought it, and playing with it right now
edit: I like it alot, set the newer cm7 as my phone rom, and installed vicious miui in slot 1 just to play around with, its pretty fun, this makes me a flash a holic x5 or is that 4

Is this a must?

really cool app but this thread belongs in the themes & apps section

Playing around with this now, thx for the post. Never would have thought this would have been remotely possible ..therefore I never looked for anything like it via market lol.

cool app, but, how does it work?
is it automating the flashing process?
is it changing the boot.ini to make my phone look for the other os install on the sd card?
am I flashing like mad going in between roms?
I find these questions need to be answered first before I install this.
the way I understand it is
1.main rom i flashed on my phone internal memory+(kernel)
(on SD)
{
rom2+(kernel)
rom3+(kernel)
rom4+(kernel)
rom5+(kernel)
}
and the app works by flashing an update.zip that changes where the phone looks to boot.
Am I correct in my understanding?
EDIT:
Support thread
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/dr...ndroids-first-multi-booter-application-2.html
Useful answers
1. Will this also work if you have a froyo rom and gb rom that you are switching between?
Yes u can install whatever roms u want to whatever slots gb roms froyo roms whatever makes u happy they're all completely separate it's like having 5 different phones basically
**** remember your radios folks we have mr1 and mr2 some roms need separate radios so if you use the app and swap, you wont have any data untill you flash a new one through hboot.
2. Are you saying that when you flash between roms, the app will auto wipe data, cache and dalvik?
The app creates imgs into the slots when u install a fresh rom to a slot u should check all the check boxes to wipe data cache and system but it doesn't wipe the data cache and system on ur phone just the slots data cache and system the app doesn't touch any of ur data on ur phone just makes it's own in the sdcard
3. Let's say I have Chevy's Froyo rom and his SS GB rom on there. If I flash from GB to froyo, then back to GB. Will I have to restore apps?
No each slot is saved all of it's data stays there nothing is ever wiped again just like having five phones basically all of ur slots are completely separate all of ur data is separate and saved nothing is lost

it aint workin right for me. I tried doing an install from the sdcard and it is telling me i dont have enough space. but i have 1.37 gb free!

This app is kick a**! I know one of the devs that made this app back from my D1 days (he was co-creator of one of the best D1 ROM's IMO) and he is an amazing dev! I was lucky enough to test this app and it is def worth the $$ if you're a person that can't decide on 1 ROM or you just like to try all the latest and greatest ROM's that drop.
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I just downloaded this, can't wait to set it up and try it, maybe ill give some aosp roms a try.
Thank you!
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So my question is...does it run the ROM from the SD card?
If so...how is the speed/lag once the ROM is booted up?
I like the idea of having different ROMs to test, but I'm wondering how much time you'd be saving if it takes that long to install a ROM initially.
A lot of these Devs have nightlys or almost nightlys....
Very interesting...

looks pretty retarded to me... right up there with rom manager. i cant wait to see how it effs things up for some beginner noobie
not all roms work,you may get FCs during setup... yeah looks pretty amazing.
think ill stick to manually wiping and restoring my nandroids after i get them set up.

dajogejr said:
So my question is...does it run the ROM from the SD card?
If so...how is the speed/lag once the ROM is booted up?
I like the idea of having different ROMs to test, but I'm wondering how much time you'd be saving if it takes that long to install a ROM initially.
A lot of these Devs have nightlys or almost nightlys....
Very interesting...
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That's what has kept me from purchasing it. It's been in the market for a few days now but if the rom runs off the sdcard it could cause issues.

YankInDaSouth said:
This app is kick a**! I know one of the devs that made this app back from my D1 days (he was co-creator of one of the best D1 ROM's IMO) and he is an amazing dev! I was lucky enough to test this app and it is def worth the $$ if you're a person that can't decide on 1 ROM or you just like to try all the latest and greatest ROM's that drop.
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Was it one of the devs from Sourcery rom? That was the best rom IMO so that's why I ask.
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scotty1223 said:
looks pretty retarded to me... right up there with rom manager. i cant wait to see how it effs things up for some beginner noobie
not all roms work,you may get FCs during setup... yeah looks pretty amazing.
think ill stick to manually wiping and restoring my nandroids after i get them set up.
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That leads to my question. Isn't this basically like restoring a nand backup? Maybe this app makes it easier? IDK. I guess it's worth checking out.
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On initial setup do you need to reinstall your current rom?
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Yes, it runs from the sdcard. Lag is minimal if you let the kernel settle when you boot one up. On my thunderbolt I don't really notice any lag and i don't even overclock.
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Where are the custom roms?

Wondering why the bionic has a few roms out already and we dont? Do they have a fully working cwm? Am i missing something? Just curious. Thanks.

So far I've seen a deodexed stock rom and an early pre-alpha of CyanogenMod. What else has been posted for the Bionic?
The deodexed ROM is no different than stock for users and offers zero benefits.
The CM7 ROM was created by the lead CM team member of the Motorola Droid and Motorola Droid X (lots of experience with Motorola phones) and because he was donated a Droid Bionic. It's a completely useless ROM at this point as most of the hardware sensors do not work. It boots. Not much else.
Buy cpvcs a Droid 3, ship it to him and he will have a CM7 ROM booting on it within days of receiving it. It'll be just as useless as the Bionic's version....but it'll be there.
Give it time....it is going to be a while before a good solid/stable ROM is released.

First rule of XDA, don't ask for ETA's. If you want a custom ROM, nothing stopping you from trying to cook one your own.
Edit, hit the thanks instead of quote, they really should move that button

lordgodgeneral said:
First rule of XDA, don't ask for ETA's. If you want a custom ROM, nothing stopping you from trying to cook one your own.
Edit, hit the thanks instead of quote, they really should move that button
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Where in my post does it ask for an eta???? I was asking why. Its a simple question.

heres the thing...waiting for CM7 will be worth the wait.. mmhmm.

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They can flash, they're using the same flashing method that the D2, DX are using with 2nd init and hijacking. Hashcode hasn't enabled flashing on the D3 recovery yet because he's trying to do something a little different and a little safer from what I understand. From his explanation over in the clockwork recovery thread in development he's working more on a dualboot flashing system where we would basically leave the stock system intact and run the custom rom off a different partition/folder. This would allow us to boot to the stock rom if something happens during the flash process on the custom rom. Since using the 2nd init and hijack and not having an unlocked bootloader, CWR gets loaded into the preinstall partition along with the hijack files, so there's a chance these can get overwrote while flashing if something goes wrong and potentially soft brick the phone.

Don't worry the D3 is the flag ship phone that won't go to much longer with out some kick ass roms. But it is some BS that the bionic is getting roms right off the bat, while we wait. But I would be happy to send a d3 to those guys... if it would help or will bionic development and hacks work for the d3 as well????
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Since when?
lordgodgeneral said:
First rule of XDA, don't ask for ETA's. If you want a custom ROM, nothing stopping you from trying to cook one your own.
Edit, hit the thanks instead of quote, they really should move that button
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Since when has their been rules on topics asking ETA's on this forum, or any other forum in general? I know it's taboo to ask questions that have already been answered in several posts, but there are several forums specifically about speculating the ETA of not only just devices or OTA leaks, but about the cooking of roms on freshly rooted phones as well. The question of this post is legit, especially for users without the experience that more knowledgable users like tcrew and you (lordgodgeneral) have contributed to answering a question ALOT of people in the droid 3 community are wanting to know. Glad this topic existed, helped me out..

mmsomekid said:
Because the bootloader is still locked. The Bionic will probably get unlocked slightly faster than the D3 because they have more developers working on it, but theyre so similar that i would expect the D3 to get an unlock the same day as the Bionic. Unless Motorola finally unlocks the bootloaders but who knows when that day will come...
Edit: there is an UNL3ASH3D rom now available for the bionic, i didnt think they could flash yet in CWM?
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It doesn't matter if the Bootloader is locked. It will probably never be unlocked.

Its been a rule since the devs on this particular forum specifically asked us not to ask for eta's. We have people cooking roms, were just waiting for our awesome version of CWM to be stable and safe to use. I'm as anxious as any of you, but don't hassle the devs that are working so hard to make our phones the best out there. Give them time.
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ROM Manager Premium Clockwork Recovery
Until now I have been more or less bemused by the complaints that the Droid 3 was being somewhat neglected in the development community in favor of the Bionic, assuming that there was more than a little exaggeration of the progress on the Bionic vs D3. Now, however, I am beginning to wonder if the complaints may not have been somewhat justified. I know no one owes the D3 owners anything on the dev side, but to see the Bionic now able to use ROM Manager while I sit with a previously paid app that does nothing on my phone is admittedly frustrating. I keep reading posts saying that any Bionic developments will be followed rapidly by similar progress on D3, so I hope I can use ROM Manager on my phone in a few days.

pgzerwer said:
Until now I have been more or less bemused by the complaints that the Droid 3 was being somewhat neglected in the development community in favor of the Bionic, assuming that there was more than a little exaggeration of the progress on the Bionic vs D3. Now, however, I am beginning to wonder if the complaints may not have been somewhat justified. I know no one owes the D3 owners anything on the dev side, but to see the Bionic now able to use ROM Manager while I sit with a previously paid app that does nothing on my phone is admittedly frustrating. I keep reading posts saying that any Bionic developments will be followed rapidly by similar progress on D3, so I hope I can use ROM Manager on my phone in a few days.
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Droid 3 Bootstrap on Market: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.koushikdutta.droid3.bootstrap and direct download: http://download.clockworkmod.com//test/Droid3Bootstrap.apk (ROM Manager support as well)
bam

If you have already purchased Rom Manager, just install it and have it install the custom recovery for you...
Edit: Maybe not.. it shows it installed CWR but I can't boot into it..

A large PayPal donation to the first flashable Rom!
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Rocinante said:
If you have already purchased Rom Manager, just install it and have it install the custom recovery for you...
Edit: Maybe not.. it shows it installed CWR but I can't boot into it..
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You have to use koush's bootstrap...
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Just curious, outside of no custom kernels nothing else has to be used from the stock system, correct? So custom roms with our 512 of ram will be more than enough.
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ROM Manager Premium Clockwork Recovery
OK, I am a believer now. No more pathetic whining by me, at least for the next 5 minutes or so.

Androidsims said:
You have to use koush's bootstrap...
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Yeah, I'm guessing there is a special way it boots into recovery with the custom app because I can't get Rom Manager to boot into recovery..

New to droid3

I want to hook up my cousins d3
I'm a frequent on the Epic 4g boards and I've been with android since htc hero so its not new to me and I read up on the d3, however coming from a galaxy s to droid is a lot different than I thougt lol
So my question is how can I root the droid 3 and then flash a rom? What rom do you recommend? Isn't the droid 3 bootloader locked? What's a softloader? What's this CWM bootloader business?
Its so different than a galaxy s! Lol! All help will be appreciated. And sorry for this thread....as a fellow xda'er I know how annoying thesethreads are...but samsung babied me with the gs everything was simpler lol
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All you gotta do is hook the Droid 3 up to the computer, install the drivers, download the root program and let it do it's thing. Then you gotta install a version of Clockwork, either Safestrap or Bootstrap depending on the ROM. As far as picking a ROM right now except for Liberty most of them are just basically Verizon ROM based without the junk and are excellent ROMs. Liberty I am not sure but I think combines a few things from the Verizon ROM and a few AOSP features. That is the procedure in a nutshell anyway.
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in addition to what he said, yes the bootloader is locked. the clockwork mod is a hijack to allow you to boot into recovery. the safestrap is a 2nd system that runs from the preinstall partition, leaving your default partition intact. CM7 still has some bugs in it. im running MonsterRom but Steel Droid, Dark Droid, are also good BLUR roms (as in motorola blur parts). Liberty has AOSP and blur but i havent tested that out.

[Q] Newbie questions

I am new to LG Revolution (trying to install custom ROM on sister's phone). I am coming from 2 different Samsung devices.
I have VZ6, 2.2.2, rooted. Windows 7 64
Here are my questions:
1) Thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1121952
CWM download link gave me a "recovery-cwm-pr1.tar.gz", so I extracted it with 7-zip and get a "recovery-cwm-pr1.tar". How do I get the .img file??
2) What exactly is ADB shell? Where do I find instruction on that?
I assumed installation of Revolt 1.5 is straight forward after I get CWM on the phone. I am just having a hard time to follow those instructions on CWM tho.

Heya,
I'm no professional at all of this, but I'd recommend downloading the revotoolkit. i;ve not used it on vz6, but that is how most of us went about getting cwm. believe there is a thread about it in development (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1144951).
hope that helps you

I would get the GB update. Then root with using the post in development by mtmichealson. Then flash Gingervolt.

is the Gingervolt mature?? this is my sister's phone, so I am not going to flash it every week when there is a patch or update... I highly doubt my sister (technologically challenged) will appreciate Gingerbread anyways.

Gingervolt was just released so there will be more releases soon.
If she wouldn't appreciate it just get stock gingerbread on and leave it at that
Edit: not to take anything away from any the developers here don't take it that way please.
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pendragon11 said:
Heya,
I'm no professional at all of this, but I'd recommend downloading the revotoolkit. i;ve not used it on vz6, but that is how most of us went about getting cwm. believe there is a thread about it in development (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1144951).
hope that helps you
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Thanks for the tip. Installed without sweat.

Nice to see people are still working on new ROM on this phone. All devs on Droid Charge have moved to Bionic and left us in the cold.

droidfever said:
Nice to see people are still working on new ROM on this phone. All devs on Droid Charge have moved to Bionic and left us in the cold.
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That's gay

Haro912 said:
That's gay
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Thankfully we have dedicated people here, who get excited about the little breakthroughs on this phone. The phone is great, the hardware is fast and responsive, the programming (from what I hear) is a disaster. All the Roms I have tested have been stableish on this phone, a couple force closes here and there, but nothing too intrusive. Gingerbread is perfect, and the Gingervolt from Mtmichaelson is stellar, no hangups, no force closes yet. I would expect themes to roll out soon, and some more stable Roms. I would assume the dream of CM7 is on the horizon now.
In agreement with Haro's comment, you will find that we will not simply give up on this phone, we have been through too much.

No worries, glad I could help. Props to thecubed for that one of course
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[Q] New Bionic Owner/ Best Rom/build to use??

Hey All,
Soooo this is my first Motorola Android device and I have to say I'm quite excited, but nervous. Just recently I was using Verizon's thunderbolt, and I've always used HTC. Well, after my 2nd thunderbolt, it crapped out on me again. So, I complained to Verizon and in return they sent me a Bionic. After reading reviews I hear nothing but great things.
Now my issue, I don't know what to do. Usually with my HTC devices, I root and flash roms, enough said. But with this Bionic I dont know where to begin. Some folks say install the ICS .232 build (which not sure how to do) and some folks say root and flash a ROM on. (Also, not sure what all this safestrap/bootstrap stuff is)
In all honesty, I really want a newer android OS. I think I was using gingerbread with my Tbolt, and I know ICS is out now, and Jellybean.
My main concern in what I want, and I hope someone can direct me to the correct place. I really want a fast, stable, build/ROM. I would like for everything to work as far as apps, gps, bluetooth, camera, etc.
I really appreciate all who respond, and I apologize greatly in advance if this is a repost. I tried researching before posting.
Again, huge thanks to all who respond.

Follow this guide to get on the an ICS leak. Personally I would strongly recommend not going beyond the .232 ICS leak for now.
Follow this thread to get rooted.

Here's a link to everything you need to know about the bionic. http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/t...tstrapall-download-links-in-op-updated-daily/.
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Hey...
Thanks the responses. I'm just confused. Everyone is saying to put on the.232 build, but can I put a Rom over top of that? If so, what Rom do you recommend and why?
Is .232 stable? Any known issues?

shockaholick said:
Hey...
Thanks the responses. I'm just confused. Everyone is saying to put on the.232 build, but can I put a Rom over top of that? If so, what Rom do you recommend and why?
Is .232 stable? Any known issues?
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Yes you need to install the .232 leak in stock recovery. Then you need to root it and install safestrap, which is a recovery in which you can flash things. Once you have that installed, you need to boot into safestrap and make a backup of the nonsafe side. Safestrap works by partioning your system into a safe and nonsafe side. You are able to flash stuff on your safe side. So you need to toggle to your safe side and then you can flash a rom. I recommend http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=32349741#post32349741 but thats just me haha, theres a ton of other info in the different sections here http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/forum/68-droid-bionic/