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[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] lovekeiiy:
I've been using BM Pro for about a week. Fun app.

I have an Evo 4g with a 32GB class 10 SD card. Running Barebones stock sense with Chop Suey 2.6 phone rom, CM7.2 with Tiamat 4.1 on SD, and Deck's PB8 ICS.

Although lately, I can't really seem to boot into different roms unless I boot into the phone rom first; no slot 1 to slut 3. If I don't, the phone reboots into recovery.

I was more wondering if SD card should be formatted or something to improve space use or performance. The card is just in the whatever format the phone puts into. My roms seem to run pretty zippy. I find the ROMs stability has a effect. Miui ICS ran poorly

I noticed when booted on slot rom, when in the settings menu for the rom, under apps, it still gives the option to move the app to the SD card. Where does it move the app?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] zoofer:
No luck with Boot Manager Pro

Here is where I'm stuck, maybe someone else has run into this problem.

Evo 4G (Supersonic) s-off HBOOT 2.16.0001 running CyanogenMod 7.2.0 RC1

Installed Boot Manager Pro from market

Set CyanogenMod as phone rom

Installed Mik3D-RC1 as slot 1

Tried booting into Mik3D - error message no rom in slot 4 (yes slot 4 not slot 1)

Tried booting the other 3 slots, all reported empty with their correct slot number

Tried rebooting the phone, went immediately into bootloader

Selected recovery and attempted to reboot, same result - bootloader

Selected recovery and tried to flash update.zip from sdcard boot manager/phone rom, again rebooted to bootloader

Selected recovery once again, tried to flash update.zip in sdcard boot manager/rom 1. Rebooted and stuck on white HTC Evo 4G screen

Pulled battery, booted into bootloader, then recovery, then nandroid restore back to CyanogenMod.

Does any of this look familiar and does anyone have a solution. I've tried to install Boot Manager 6 or 7 times and always have the same result.

Thanks.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] lovekeiiy:
I've had it stick on the screen, but have done battery pulls and flashed phonerom update zip and got back into the phone. I think once I had to do it more than one.

Not to be insulting or anything, you did set the phonerom with BM while in the phonerom?

I'm not familliar with MikG, but if it has the A2SD, I've read it won't play nice with BM. There may be some trick to it to get it to, but you may have to remove that portion of the rom.

I personally run a barebones Sense, and have CM7.2 on a slot.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] zoofer:
No insult taken. Yes I did set the phonerom according to the instructions. But I have never had any success in flashing the phonerom update.zip to get back to my phonerom. Goes right to bootloader every single time.

I think I'll try your method and use a barebones Sense rom as the phonerom and then put CM on a slot, since I already have a good nandroid backup. Which barebones Sense rom are you using?

Thanks for the input. I'll let you know how it works out.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] GideonMouth:
I just started messing around with BM yesterday and I have had all sorts of issues with booting back to phone rom (I have reflashed my rom/kernel etc a dozen times due to hitting bootloader every time I try to get back to phone rom.)

What I found is BM isnt setting up my phone rom correctly (check the BootManager/phoneRom directory for the boot.img. If its 0bytes you have the same issue I had.

If you have a nandroid of your phone rom, copy the boot.img from that into the phoneRom directory. This fixed it for me, I am now able to get back to my phone Rom. (I havent tried the update.zip from recovery, since it is now working from the app)

As far as the ROM's not loading correctly, I wasnt able to get any ROM loaded until I reformatted my SD, had some corruption since it showed 5G in use, but only 2.5G worth of files and I was getting the 'unable to create new boot.img' for every ROM I tried. After reformat i could load and boot to ROMS (just couldnt get back to phone rom until i did the above fix)

Hope that helps, good luck,
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] lovekeiiy:
Sorry, I didn't reply sooner. I'm a bit on/off when checking the forums.

Anyway, the barebones rom I'm using is Stock Barebones. It's one update behind, I think. But I only use it for limited things such as Email, IM/Chat, DocsToGO, and so forth. The other stuff, gets installed as needed, then uninstalled after the use. I use CM7 as my daily.

I haven't had the issues with flashing the update zip. Had issues of BM not wanting to boot into slot rom from another slot. I have to boot into the phonerom then into a different slot. And for whatever reason, BM won't boot out of Deck's ICS; I have to go into recovery.

Assuming you setup the phonerom right, and no issues with the boot.img, it's basically like flashing anything else. Just go to bootmanger/phonerom. You'll see an update.zip. Flash it. You do NOT need to wipe anything--cache, davlick, system, etc. Heck, you probably not suppose to. Flashing only takes about thirty seconds. Then just reboot.

I've done this to get into the slot roms, but sometimes it doesn't take. I've read in this thread, some people find sense roms perform better on the phone versus the slot. The same people said the AOSP ran better on the slot. Some speculation about the rom size.

On a side note, I've ran this barebones on the phone and slot. I haven't noticed any difference in performance. I originally had a root stock rom on the phone, but reminded me why I didn't like stock, so I tested the barebones in the slot.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] devnulldroid:
New version released. v3.2.4 :cool:

- Added support for HTC Rezound

- Added support for rom's with multiple boot.img's

- Added support for rom's made for multiple phones

- AutoDetect sdcard for usb mounting

- Fix for installing ICS gapps

- Optimized SDRom Install process

- Added support for Motorola RAZR

- Added install queue
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] mike208:
Excuse me, but what is this "~ROM 1 - Xplod XE E4G Android 2.3.4 Sony Bravia Eng w\MikG parts"? I know about the xplod rom, but what is the w/MikG parts?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] devnulldroid:
I had to take some files out of MikG Rom to make Xplod work within Boot Manager and be abit more stable. It rocks..

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Fix Update V3.2.5

- Fix to allow install even if boot.img is not found
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] da-pharoah:
So just out of curiosity.. what files did u take out and replace to get xplod to boot?? I'm trying to learn more about this app and Im like so close to getting this working with the g2x and the other roms... in short I have rom1 working.. its a gb rom and my phone rom is the same gb.. I have only been able to get it working once.. each new rom I create doesn't work, even tho the process for creation is the same steps.. but rom1 still boots, in fact I'm sending this message from rom1, HFP 2.1. So in trying to understand the differences I have noticed some differences in the files created in the rom(insert relevant number(s) here) like a file is missing or showing as a unreadable file when the working rom has it as a text file (not like a .txt file but a readable file in text viewer in Ubuntu).. even tho I'm using the same phone rom as the nanddroid restore for rom1.. so a little confused about the app and its creation process and I want to cherry pick as well because I have a feeling its missing files in creation to get it to boot.... so if u don't mind what files did u replace?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] cristasiado:
thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] david.degraw54:
Using boot manager for the first time and a little confused. Do I have to wipe any partitions when installing a zip to slot 1?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] da-pharoah:
You should.. treat it like a normal install.. meaning wipe all the data before flashing & booting..
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] david.degraw54:
But then when I restore back to my phone ROM I wont have any apps..will I?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] david.degraw54:
Ok so I've been trying to install Twisted ICS on my Desire HD. I go to slot 1 and click install zip and I pick it and it asks if I want to wipe /data, /system, and /cache and I check all 3 and click OK. It goes through the install and completes but when I click boot to ROM, it gets stuck at splash screen. Had to restore back to my nand backup.. By the way I have "Force Large Boot.img" checked.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] GideonMouth:
Next time you get stuck on the white screen, boot into recovery and flash the update.zip in the phone ROM folder. That should get you back without having to nand.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] da-pharoah:
U wont have the apps u had on rom1.. different data storages.. but u will have all ur phone rom apps that were there before you got boot looped..

Also bmp corrupts backup/restore files for my g2x, Idk if it does it for y'all.. but it seems to corrupt my nandroids and .zip restore files... so I keep having to flash new.. so when I was checking out the script I got rid of the assert command it uses and used the dd command to copy the boot.img. Plus the copy command for the log to get copied wasn't right so I updated that too.. so by this process is how I realised that bmp corrupts my backups and zips... after first making and flashing the updated script to restore to rom1 after attempting to flash rom2.. the zip 'lost' all it's data.. it was listed at size 0kb... which was wrong and y it wasn't flashing.. and also why I was getting md5 errors with my phone in cwm.. by chance does that happen on this app to y'all? I don't remember reading such info....
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] david.degraw54:
I know I meant will they be there when I go back to my phone ROM. And that's odd. I don't think that happens to me. I got it to work now but when I boot into rom1 and want to boot back to my phone ROM, I open boot manager and a notification pops up and I click the phone ROM button but I get a notification that says "Boot.img failed to flash"
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] NaterTots:
It sounds like you didn't "set up" your phone rom.

Start with your phone rom ie: the rom you flashed in from recovery. Once you install BM then open the app, click set up phone rom, only takes a couple of seconds, then in settings select screen on during install. This will keep you from losing it if you underclock with screen off.

Then go to slot 1 and select install zip. select the rom you want to flash and check all three wiping options you are given. Let the rom flash in and then I generally will select set up phone rom again before I boot into a new rom slot. Then boot to your rom in slot 1. When it's fully booted make sure you can open BM and then you can go back to your phone rom if you like.

It's not that confusing. Just remember you only have 1 phone rom. If things go bad in a slot rom, then boot to recovery, go to flash zip from SD card, Boot manager, phone rom, you can reboot to your phone rom then.

I've been using it for months without problems. It's an App that is continually improving. Great support from the developers on their forum too.

Naters
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] GideonMouth:
Only thing i noticed when setting up the phone ROM was the boot.img was 0bytes (only did this with cm - sense worked fine). To get past this i nand backup and copied the boot.img from there.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] da-pharoah:
Yea that was the issue... the app in combo with cwm zero'in out the zip file... I never experienced this before using bmp... so Ill have to mention that to gflam and conap...
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] david.degraw54:
I did set up the phone ROM. it even said it saved the boot.img but when I was on rom1 it said it couldn't be flashed. Odd but its all working fine now. Thanks for the help everyone! :)
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] da-pharoah:
no worries
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] rodohmes:
Following for future use.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] da-pharoah:
to get rid of the boot.img creation error you need to disable logging in the su(or supersu) app, then you wont have that issue.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] trouinky:
Works great, I've restored a nandroid to Slot 1 and it boots and runs fast. But no Boot Manager inside and when I try to install it (or any app I get from the store) I get a soft boot (animation, then back to lock screen).

Any ideas?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] da-pharoah:
hmm try to load that same rom to like rom2 and see if that issue happens again... thats pretty odd. you should have a fully functional rom if it boots.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] etmccreary:
I'm curious to know if there have been any updates that may allow this ^^^

I have become somewhat enamored with ParanoidAndroid and want to make that my daily driver; but do not want to have to manually set everything up again just to mirror what I already have in my Boot Manager slot.

Once you back up a slot in boot manager, it is saved as a zip in that directory (/mnt/sdcard/BootManager/Backup/[backup name].zip). Would it not be possible to install that zip in CW recovery? I am asking before trying it because I want to avoid losing any data or soft-bricking my GNex (or wasting time) unnecessarily if someone else can confirm that this is (still) not possible.

[I know this isn't a GNex forum, but thought I would ask the question anyway, as if it can be done with one device, I would imagine it's possible on another. Forgive me if I am mistaken.]

Thanks in advance for any help. :good:
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] da-pharoah:
Short answer no. Reason is because the backup it does for that zip is for the correct boot.img. Its not the full rom backedup. It backs up the boot.img becuase they have different mount points and thats what lets you dual boot.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] etmccreary:
I was afraid that was the answer, haha.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] da-pharoah:
haha no worries bro.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Mordred69:
This is EXACTLY the same issue I am having... complete with 0k boot.img...

I have tried contacting devs but no luck. Sent email, no answer. Checked on IRC, no one at channels.

What gives?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Evilone69tmg:
Did you check here?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Mordred69:
Hello, your link takes me to the main page. Thanks for trying...

What I ended up doing was,

1. Install Bootmanager (Pro, in my case).

2. Update SU (program and binary)

3. Disable logging on SU

4. Launch BootManager, do the PhoneROM setup

5. Reboot to Recovery, clean caches and temp (always do whenever I go into Recovery)

6. Grab boot.img from a 2 day old nandroid. Copy it to /sdcard/Bootmanager/PhoneRom/

6. Fix Permissions

7. Reboot

8. Setup BootManager to not turn off display while installing ROM.

Installed the first ROM on Slot 3, then was successful. Installed second rom on first slot, successful as well.

Thanks for the help, guys!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Evilone69tmg:
Glad you got it going. Was just pointing you there to see if you could find a answer to your problem.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] lovekeiiy:
not sure about your issue. Boot Manger is really good stuff. It's quirky as can be on my phone.

I usually have three ROMs installed. Phone is a barebones sense with just bare minimum things I use such as Maps, Email, IM client, Doc2Go, etc. The only multimedia is some music.

My daily driver is slot 1, running CM7.03. Flash Player seems most stable on it for things such as WatchESPN, Sirus Player in the webbrowswer. I also do a lot of mirroring with HDMwIn. Slot 2 is whatever ICS rom I'm using; current CM9

For whatever reason, if I'm been using a rom for a little while, I have to boot into the Phone rom first before I can boot into another slot. It's not uncommon to have to go recovery to get into the phone rom. The ICS, I didn't think much about it. I just figured it was a quirk to ICS.

Every once in while, I find that a ROM will not connect to the mobile network at all. Sometimes, if I leave the phone for a while, and not just a few minutes, it will connect. I've tried reboots, clearing cache and so forth. I end up having to reinstall the rom. Seems to occur after two or three weeks if using one rom.

I've had a few other quirks, but they're usually specific to apps. I assume it's because how boot manager immulates the phone memory. I can't get a GPS to work on CM7, even with GPS fix. No biggie, since I just load the sense rom.

I'm not complaining by any means. Just pointing out that things can just be wonky.

On a side note, I find it best when installing a new rom, delete the slot, and wipe data/factory reset. I get more consistent results when flashing roms to slots.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] WeekendsR2Short:
Why don't you just get a 32gb sdhd card and keep about 6 of your favorite ROMs backed up as nandroids? You won't have to fool with Titanium backup and all your apps will be located right where you remember them. Seems fairly simple to me.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] sortus:
Does dual booting mess with the kernels settling with the roms?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] lovekeiiy:
not as far as I know. Each rom will have it's own kernel, including the phone.

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I'm not sure who this was aimed at. Boot Manager does have a rom backup option. It's under the slot manager. It's similar to a nandroid.

The only flaw is for those who like using nightly ROMs. Some require full wipes here and there.

Personally, I have a 32GB class 10 card. Works very nice in deed.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] da-pharoah:
Yes it changes the mount points so the kernel knows where to tell the system where everything is stored/used so it can boot to the right rom.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Journeyman83:
Fix Permissions doesn't end...

Was trying to run fix permissions on a slot while booted into that rom. It never ended...ran almost 4 hours. Do you think it still completed its task and got stuck in a loop?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] da-pharoah:
Where did the boot loop come from in that question I don't get it...did u boot loop after u fixed permissions? as far as permissions are concerned.. did u fix them via bm?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Journeyman83:
Crazy Boot Manager...

I accessed the fix permissions from within Boot Manager when booted in slot ROM. Also, when booting back to phoneROM, I lose all widgets. I wonder of my dtA2SD is to blame.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] da-pharoah:
Um maybe. Your confusing them with the different homescreens of the roms ur rocking so being android is picky, yea that makes sense. The apps 2 SD is very interesting with bm... but interesting.. try maybe fixing permissions via the terminal instead of bm... just open up terminal and type su then fix_permissions and see if that works for u...
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Captain_Throwback:
This always happens to me.

I think Fix Permissions in Boot Manager has finished twice for me. Every other time, it just hangs. I'm not sure why. I assume it's a bug?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] da-pharoah:
that would be my guess... those guys havent updated it in a while... but yea its a bit odd sometimes that bm app....
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] stanleyopar2000:
Dual boot ROMS?..seems pretty easy enough right?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1960424
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] lreyes:
In other news staleyopar bumbs a 4 months and 15 day old thread.

Brovo sir, brovo.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Nick N:
App has been updated to 2.0.

What's in this version:

1. V2.0

2. Install now runs from the foreground (status bar)

3. Restore Nandroids to slots also in the foreground

4. User can cancel installs as they run

5. 4 new themes added including one by steaven1995

6. Some phones such as tb moved to new install code (Fix for some sense rom's)

I have not had a chance to install a ROM using v2.0, but at this time I would recommend AOSP based ROMs only off the SD card - Sense ROMs seem to lag really bad for me. I will be installing a Sense 3.0 ROM today to the SD card to see if it is laggy with the new version. My current favorite off the SD card is MIUI 1.8.26 with Tiamat 3.3.7 sbc installed as Ext4. It flies!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] alaman68:
This is the best app ever. everything in my sig works perfectly, and happy about the nandroid slots. awesome
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] life:
hmmmm, i wish their was a free trial for this app before i paid for it....
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] zeron89:
First Time Poster...Long time viewer of these forums :)

Anyways I'm a big fan of Boot Manager. I just installed the Synergy Rom which is pretty dope. Current setup is:

phone rom: miui (current)

rom 1: none

rom 2: cyangenmod 7

rom 3: Stock Sprint (rooted, deodexed, busybox, etc)

rom 4: Synergy

I'm using a 32GB sd card, not sure the class, I wanna say 6-8. I bought it off of amazon for around 50$ and it didn't have the class on it. I think it was a kingston.

Anyways all the roms work pretty good in my case...had some trouble at first but now it's all good. Except for 4G, I can't seem to be able to get 4G back in the Stock or Synergy rom. I tried flashing the zip containing radios, 4g etc...no go. So I'm not sure what to try. Anyone else have 4G?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] treezy26:
Help...

Ive been trying to set up phone rom like it says. Im using MIUI for evo as of now becuz it seems to be faster. Anyways its taking forever to set up, almost an hour now. I had to force close it becuz it was lagging my phone. I have the sd card that came with the phone. Idk mayb i need a diff one.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Nick N:
It should only take 5-10 seconds to set up the PhoneRom in Bootmanager. I think all it does is build a script in the form of an update.zip and places it in a folder so that you can get back to it from recovery if something goes wrong while using a ROM on one of the slots.

1. What recovery are you using? I recommend Amon Ra because of #3 below.

2. What ROMs do you plan to run in the slots?

3. Have you partitioned your SD card using the guide located here?

4. Please do not take this the wrong way but did you buy the app from the market? It will not let you do much if you have not purchased it from the market or if you do not have a 3G/wifi signal when you try to install ROMs because it does some kind of piracy check to make sure it was purchased.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] treezy26:
I am using clockwork. Was the easiest at the time i rooted. No i dnt believe i have partioned. How can i tell? & yes i always purchase apps i find worthy.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] ajk511:
Once all your roms are installed how long does it take to boot up into a new rom? Just as quick and simple as doing a reboot?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] droiddawg:
First boot takes a bit but after that its like rebooting. Atleast it is for cm7

sent from my 7/23 iNfEcTeD EVO 4G
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] zeron89:
Going through something weird at the moment, Everytime I reboot it goes right to the bootloader screen. So then I have to restore or restore just the boot then it'll boot up. It's pretty annoying...know any fix? I guess if i have to I'll factory wipe/reset but I really don't want to...
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] :
I tried to install Synergy RC1 with Godmode from Myn, but no luck. :-(
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] zeron89:
Try Synergy (not god mode) no probs. it's actually the quickest of the roms w/BM i've installed.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] SantinoInc:
Anyone try SalvageMod1.4 on this?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] locoboi187:
Works prefect but I've been having bad luck with sense roms on my class 10 card. Kind of laggy even after reboots and letting it settle in.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Cuppeerr:
Works GREAT! one question if im on a sd card rom and i do a battery pull will it load into my emmc rom?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Nick N:
Nope, it will load into the one you were in. If you want to go back to the phone rom you have to use the update.zip located in /Bootmanager/PhoneRom/ folder, assuming you set the PhoneRom up from the main menu on Bootmanager.