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[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] overhauling:
[ MyTouch 4G Slide - Boot Manager Pro Compatibility ]​

I'm not affiliated with Init 2 Winit Apps in any way. I'm just an average user aiming to help the community.

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Boot Manager Pro is an application that allows you to boot different ROMs easily (the App claims in can handle unlimited slots, as long as your SD Card supports it ). Kinda like Dual Booting Linux and Windows, two different operating systems on one computer. Boot Manager Pro is like that, you set up your default ROM through recovery and then you "Install" ROMs on separate slots, and then you boot them with a simple tap. This is perfect for Flashaholics and anyone who simply desires to test a ROM, no need to be constantly backing up and restoring different ROMs from nandroids.

This App is NOT free, you can get it from the Android Market for $2.99 [as of Feb 25, 2012]​

Over the past few days I've been playing with this app, trying to get ROMs running on it. Some MyTouch 4G Slide ROMs are compatible with Boot Manager Pro, others aren't. This thread aims to list what ROMs work, and what ROMs don't work with this app. If you've tried any additional ROMs, please add a comment and let us know! Also! I recommend plenty of storage space. Each ROM would take about 1.9 GB off your SD Card. I recommend a 16GB Class 6 or 10 card. Whatever suits you best!

This App was developed by Init 2 Winit Apps. Credits and a Screen shot are attached.​

If anyone has tried any other ROMs, please let us know! Also, messing with the Boot Manager Pro settings may enable some ROMs under "Non-Working" to work, I have yet to try it.​
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] overhauling:
Link to the Market App: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.drx2.bootmanager&hl=en
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] dung8604:
Good thread. Perhaps we can e mail the developers and bring it to their attention
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] dung8604:
Not sure how, but I got rubix 5.3 working with boot manager. Stock kernel, I believe.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] overhauling:
I think I have a copy of that ROM sitting on my SD Card, I loved how smooth that ROM was but I started disliking it when it began to be stripped out of it's core functions... Like, when the DS camera was removed. Thanks for the heads up!

What's your Phone ROM currently ?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] dung8604:
Currently on pyr o ice 1.1.1, gonna update soon to 1.1.2. I believe I was able to flash the gallery and camera zip fixes. I plan on using it mainly for tv out, and if I want really good pictures. Day to day, camera ics and/or the sensation camera that came with pyr o ice is good enough.

If you want to keep all that stuff, just use 5.2. There isn't a whole lot of difference between the two.

On another note, I've been trying for like four hours to get miui.us to load in slot 2. Still no go. I have no clue how tbalden got it to load.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] overhauling:
I used to have 5.2, well... Whatever, I'll give it a shot later! Pyroice does have a good Camera, but it's missing 1080p recording. I use Pyroice as my daily driver, and if I need to take an HD video I just switch quickly.

I loaded MIUI as my Phone ROM, But I've had no luck getting it on any slot. It gets stuck on the Splash screen. I asked tbalden for advice and he suggested the battery pull technique, I gave

up after 6 boots... Lol!
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] dung8604:
Same here, I don't know how he got it working. I'm not even all that interested in miui, but not being able to load is is annoying. Boot manager is really flaky sometimes.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] overhauling:
It's worth $3.00 though, It really isn't much.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] _atlien_:
I love the idea which I'd why I paid for it but it clearly isn't ready for prime time. It never works for me.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] overhauling:
What ROMs have you tried so far?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] overhauling:
TBalden's CM9 Port works!
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Emmanuel U:
my port also works (I will release later today)
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] overhauling:
Thanks for the contribution!

I will definitely give it a shot once it's released
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] _atlien_:
I am currently running Pyro ICE 1.1.3/Rubix ICS/Pyro ICE Futureal/CM9
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] CoNsPiRiSiZe:
Niiice

Typed by ---- oh wait! I'm schizophrenic!
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] _atlien_:
How does any self-respecting flash-a-holic get through the day without this app?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] dung8604:
I don't know if I'm doing it wrong or what, but this app is flaky for me. Can't get wildchild's ROM booting, and I really want to try it
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] the_mentor:
I was able to boot CM7 selfkang via BootManager.

one thing i notices is when you first create a slot you have to make sure the screen dosnt go to sleep because if it dose it seems to stop creating the .img files and then they are not in the proper size they should be and that seems to cause issues at least for me i dont know if anyone else experienced this issues.

After the files were created successfully install CM7 in it worked perfectly for me.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] dung8604:
Honestly, I've done everything right. This app is beta at best. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] cybot_x1024:
Any other large drawbacks other than 1 slot limit on the lite version over the paid one?

sent from a Nokia 3210
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] overhauling:
What steps did you follow? I've had no luck :(

Also, did you change any settings?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] overhauling:
True - restoring from a Nandroid somewhat increases the chances of it working.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] overhauling:
I'm not quite sure, but the lite seems to be getting poor reviews.

Seems like they took out the best features ! (you would expect that, obviously)
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] overhauling:
Has anybody been able to get TBalden's Virtuous ROMs to work?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] dung8604:
Negative
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] overhauling:
Thanks for the quick reply! Have you tried installing from nandroid?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] cybot_x1024:
I will definitely invest in it. But first I must get a 16GB Class 6 Memory card. The 8GB is a little bit limmiting when you consider how. Much space each rom needs

sent from a Nokia 3210
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] dung8604:
No, I haven't. I've pretty much stopped use of boot manager. As much time as I've spent on this thing getting it to fail, I'm over it. Might as well make nandroids IMO. At least you know you won't have wasted your time.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] overhauling:
TBalden's Virtuous ICS ROMs should work with the newest version of BootManager since you're able to choose the corresponding boot.img
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] NovaxxBite:
virtuous infinity does not work
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] R3NC0N:
My entire phone hangs when installing a rom or installing a nandroid backup...

I tried installing CM9, CM10, and nothing works. My phone just responds very very very slowly, and all the background apps start crashing (Whatsapp, Play Store, Lockscreen, etc)

Any solutions? I already disabled logging...
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] overhauling:
What SD Card do you have?

Boot Manager Pro relies a lot on the quality, speed, and size of the SD Card, I recommend a class 10 with four GB or more.

A slow SD Card can cause slow installing times (since it's copying) and can cause freezing, crashing, and slow responses (since the phone is constantly reading from the SD Card while using Boot Manager Pro)
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] R3NC0N:
I have a Samsung Class 10 32GB microSD card, so that isn't the problem.

I only managed to install 1 rom, and 1 rom only. Now it won't work anymore...
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Coug76:
I have the same SD card and it works well with the device. I don't mess with boot manager though.

Hastily spouted for your befuddlement
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] WeekendsR2Short:
I never was able to get it to cooperate with me. Quite a few people had great luck with it tho. Go figure.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] cuiltheory:
My short affair with boot manager lite. I was able - after about an hour -install cm10. Reboot to cm10 and found out that most of the apps will not work. Attempt to reboot into phone unsuccessful - keep asking for e-mail. Pull the battery out and reboot. After splash screen - darkness for next 10min. Pull bat out and went into recovery. Wipe everything and restore my rom. That it is for boot manager. Go to the next option. I downloaded the boot menu v2 and attempt to understand the guide - no luck. It is very chaotic and jump from one forum to another. Will try again. There is tool that will let you create image file in windows and works great. I did not give up, just temporary set back. Will try again and let you know(someday).
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] overhauling:
Unfortunately, support for Boot Manager was dropped so the newest ROMs *may* have some issues with the app. I haven't used Boot Manager in a while, partly because I got a new Jellybean phone (Boot Manager doesn't support JB at all), but if you figure anything out that can help anybody reading this thread let me know and I will update the OP.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] cuiltheory:
Does any one know of boot manager that work with slide ( other that boot manager from play store). Thanks
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] overhauling:
Bump. Does anyone know of one?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] wcaicedo:
I have an Android I897 Captivate. I just updated to Gingerbread 2.3.5. The phone is rooted. I used OCLF before, but it doesn't work with 2.3.5. Is there another lag fix that I can download for this? Thanks
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] zelendel:
Please search before opening a new thread. May even help if you looked in your devices section.

Thread closed
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
My laptop is definitely faster. My Nexus plays games like crap compared to it, is laggier ,and its external speaker sucks in comparison. Anyone know of any good holsters for laptops?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] El Daddy:
YES!!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mudferret:
No kidding, and the keyboard isn't external, and it's so small. Not sure about you, but my phone doesn't have a DVD drive either. It's only got one bloody USB port too, and it's small, like micro small.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
What were Samsung and Google thinking?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Timmyfoxeh:
Now that you mention it..

What a rip off! I've also noticed I can't even install software like Adobe After Effects or Photoshop CS5 or even the drivers for my printer! When I try to run any .exe it just says it's some invalid format, but it is not! It's outrageous!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] El Daddy:
I found a good holster for you.

Link to purchase: http://www.amazon.com/Connect-A-Desk-Laptop-Holder/dp/B00114W9X0

I'm going to email Otterbox and see if they have any plans to make a Defender version of this.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
Perfect! Anyone have a coupon code I could use?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mudferret:
That's the Google Talk package.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lrs421:
You guys should just wait for the iMac 5000, it uses GSM.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cablemike01:
Realistically I would say these phones are about as powerful as my nintendo gamecube was. Which isn't that bad for something that goes in my pocket.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Frosty666:
The Galaxy Nexus can't run Crisis.

/thread of the day
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Acid_Ocelot:
Can it run to the store for some more Nintendo cartridges for food?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lrs421:
Yes it does, you have to enable gpu rendering in developer options, duh!

;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] s2d4:
But I can touch my nexus screeeeen, it vibrates when I touch it!!

/my favourite thread this month!!

Cheers for the laugh, the daily noob whine, spoon feed me, or demanding help thread was seriously killing the fun out of xda for me :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Dante_l1:
YAY Addy.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jiwengang:
I can stick at least 10 credit cards at my laptop back using tapes and my nexus cant stick even one !!! Where is a case ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bajansurfer:
The screen can't even fold down like my laptop's can! That would make it so much easier to carry around. Wtf Google?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Acid_Ocelot:
Well, I just sat on and cracked my roomiest nexus.... is there a flash to pit the screen to stock? O:-)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] beekay201:
...I'm going to get rid of all my desktops @home. I need space.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hello00:
my nokia 3310 is faster than this crap, seriously.
[Nexus S General] .OmEgA:
Look at all these OMGZ BATTERY LASTED FIVE DAYZ AWESOME BAHHHH! I've noticed one common thing between them all, well 90% of them at least, the owners don't use their phones. You see these long battery life's but very short on screen time and very long intervals in between on screen times. Its common sense that you'll get great battery life if you let your phone sit hours on end just idling.

For the people who actually use their phone like texting, phone calls, surf various sites, and play games, having great battery life like all these people say is a dream. I want to get an idea on what real world use on your phone gets you.

Here's some screenshots of today's battery cycle, which is about average everyday for me. I've sent and received in the neighborhood of 250+ texts, surfed various sites, trolled xda, played a game for a while, and read my news.

So let's see what my life compares to all the other power users like myself vs the people who let their phone idle in the corner for three days and say they got amazing life.

Edit:

AOKP b23

Matrix 17.0

100/800 lazy
[Nexus S General] niteh@wk:
That's badass!! Though I don't use my phone much during the day at work. I check Tweetdeck for facebook and twitter timelines, XDA app, gmail, listen to music at times, read news through Pulse and Browser. Here's my battery stats for that one day that I wanted to see how my battery would hold out with deep idle on. Did not plug it in to charge entire day (I normally charge it while working).

This was on AOKP M3, Matr1x 16.0 cfs 200/1000. WiFi on in the morning when I woke up and checked some stuffs before heading to work. No WiFi at work entire day, then WiFi on again when I got home as shown in the screenshots.
[Nexus S General] b1337:
Oh geez.....yawn
[Nexus S General] stellar:
Not everyone uses their phones the same way you do, while I do agree that people who just let their phone idle just for the purpose of getting amazing screenshots doesn't accurately portray real world battery usage, it still doesn't mean that we all use our phones the same way you do, for example I have school during the day, I can't be using it constantly so of course I'll be getting better battery life than "power users" but then again this is MY REAL LIFE USAGE so I'm not just letting it idle on purpose, so please don't put everyone that gets good battery life on the "OH MYY GAWDZZ" boat. Also I do actually use my phone, I get everything I need to be done on my phone while consistently getting 20+ hours with 4-1/2 hours screen on time.
[Nexus S General] .OmEgA:
Well thank you for expressing your feelings about categorizing people. I said that because well that's what most people do on here, truth. The whole point of this is to see what people are getting that use their phones, power users or not. I just want to get a good look and filter out the people who sit on their phones, turn data off and all that. You're completely right that no one else might use their phone as much as I do but I'd rather get a good look at actual use rather than like you said, looking to get that amazing screenshot.
[Nexus S General] stellar:
I understand what you were trying to get at. Its just not everyone is using their phone like you do so REAL LIFE usage will vary greatly depending on the user.
[Nexus S General] b1337:
to many variables these threads are getting redundant...
[Nexus S General] jark99:
This thread makes sense! On with the reak world battery pics!
[Nexus S General] deetailed:
But this is my real life usage, I'm just not into heavy gaming :p Would've had around 5% more if I didn't get a random reboot at around 75% mark.

Activities include: email & whatsapp sync, around 10 mins phonecalls & 20 texts, reading ebook, browsing web & market, playing light game.

What makes a difference is good signal reception (all green/not using 3G unless there's no wifi and I need to download a file) and constant access to wifi (working from home, didn't need to go anywhere the last two days). Setting screen brightness on lowest unless I really need to turn it up helps too.

On heavier days when I'm out and about, using GPS navigation and mobile data, making more phonecalls & texts, taking pics, I typically get about half of that (20-24 hours).
[Nexus S General] sonicfreak360:
What phone, and what battery capacity? :O
[Nexus S General] ziociccio:
Rom : ics 4.0.4 porting

kernel: steve garon, 1100mhz,default voltage

governor : smartassv2

scheduler : noop
[Nexus S General] lolokman:
i9023, kangy13 + matrix 16.0

smartassv2, 200-1000mhz

freq arm int

1000 1175 1000

800 1100 975

400 1000 975

200 850 950
[Nexus S General] aLNG:
From cm9 v3.4 + Matr1x v17

Bugless beast + Matr1x v16.5

Bugless beast + speedy7

Now still testing irtehun + matr1x, hope to see 8h screen on time. Adios
[Nexus S General] lolokman:
I am now testing another uv/uc setting.

24 hours on battery and screen on time is 2hr30min. Still 50% battery left.

liveoc 105%, 210-840mhz, smartassv2

freq arm int

840 1075 950

420 950 950

210 850 925
[Nexus S General] jerusry:
VhGomez LotaR1 Matr1x kernel v17. 200/1000 this was heavy use. Playing games, doing studying, reading,texts calls, xda all kinda of stuff. Downloaded like 350mb today....

Enjoy
[Nexus S General] simms22:
TRinity T144-honeybadgerb kernel and a cm9 kang, 3+ hours screen on time, extremely heavy use, 1 hour of benching at 1440mhz/1440mhz, the rest browser time at 1440/100. probably could have gotten another hour of screen on time but it was my time for bed ;)
[Nexus S General] Ok_Kaleidoscope5109:
well there's the thing about letting your phone sit forever, but also wifi. a lot of us sync a lot of stuff, so even when we sleep the phone will lose a clear 10% overnight. That's fine and all, but when you're on wifi, the stress on the phone is a lot less simply because 3G data takes a LOT more power....
[Nexus S General] jerusry:
That's not fine. :) My phone loses 2% tops overnight.
[Nexus S General] rocket999:
What ROM/Kernel, CPU settings, and sync settings are you using?
[Nexus S General] jerusry:
Gomez Lota R1/ matr1x v17

200/1000 goin up to 400/1200

On demand gov

Deep idle on

I have every sync shutoff and manually sync when I want to check stuff. Always sync right when I wake up and several times during day.

Many disabled apps.
[Nexus S General] AeroEchelon:
Good thread. It's nice to see on-screen times since that's more useful in determining battery life.

However, I think also that BRIGHTNESS has a create deal of influence dealing with battery drain. I mean just take a look at the battery percentages. Surely everyone getting >5 hour on-screen time have their brightness at dim.

(Using CM's autobacklight levels can set your dim setting even lower than default.)
[Nexus S General] ballroom dru:
My bedroom in my apartment has weak signal for both 3G and Wifi. I always loose about 15-20% battery overnight.
[Nexus S General] ballroom dru:
One of these days I will let my phone rub with data sync turned off and sync manually for a few days just to see if that will really help my battery life.
[Nexus S General] jerusry:
:) You have no idea how much that **** eats ur battery. You will find out just what ya been hoping for. Auto sync phones burn battery AT LEAST 5x faster when not in use. And I would say even increases use when your using your phone. Try it out. You won't go back. And disable those apps that run in the back and foreground without touching them. Your battery life will triple... mine last 10x longer when not using and at least doubled my actual usable time.
[Nexus S General] vetvito:
Something I noticed, the phone doesn't report every time you connect it to your charger. So I can charge my phone for 30-40 minutes and unplug it, and the phone will still report many hours on battery, without including the charge.
[Nexus S General] fabiano_ra:
I've noticed this too...
[Nexus S General] .OmEgA:
Is it only in that time frame because I just plugged mine in and the stats already reporting that I'm charging. Be a fun way to mess with the people who praise uber long battery life lol.
[Nexus S General] jerusry:
Mine shows charging whenever it plugs in. Weird your phone doesn't.

My brightness is usually at 25%. Don't need it any brighter.
[Nexus S General] vetvito:
I'll give a example, with pics.
[Nexus S General] vetvito:
Before charge :

During charge

Time goes by on charger :

removed charger, look at the time:
[Nexus S General] Joshhayes801:
Real life battery stats below

View attachment 924528

View attachment 924529
[Nexus S General] .OmEgA:
^^^^^

Nice on screen times!

But to the one who brought up the charging issue. You can charge all you want and it will still track the time on the battery. If you look, you'll notice it says xxhrs xxmins xxs ON BATTERY. When its plugged in to the charger, it stops counting the time on the battery. You can see it in the screenshots you provided. And to start a new on battery cycle, it will start all over again once you hit 100%. Hope that clears that up lol.
[Nexus S General] jerusry:
What do you mean. Mine keeps counting... did you reshfresh the screen? It doesn't auto refresh..
[Nexus S General] .OmEgA:
If you look at the During charge screenshot, the time was 7:58 and 10h 32m 43s on battery. Then look at the After charge screenshot and the time on that one was 8:44 and 10h 37m 9s on battery. So if it continued to add on to the battery time, it would have been 46 more minutes on the battery vs the 5 minutes that was used by the battery between those two times.
[Nexus S General] vetvito:
Oh, I didn't realize that. Thanks.

However, I could still charge up and post a 20 hour on battery pic, and lie.
[Nexus S General] Joshhayes801:
You can tell by looking at the picture if it has been charged or not.
[Nexus S General] deetailed:
Yup. In a well-lit room, dim is all you need, and even in the tropical outdoors I rarely need more than 50%. I also use Screen Filter for use at night outdoors or in dimly-lit spaces, but the latter is more for viewing convenience rather than battery life.

---------- Post added at 12:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:47 PM ----------

It still shows your graph increasing, and when you tap the graph it'll show the charging bar.
[Nexus S General] ballroom dru:
I tried this last night. To have my battery drain only 6% in six hours while in my bedroom is super SWEET!!!! I have quick setting installed to manage this now. I love it.

Question: Any advice on how to shut down those background apps AND KEEP them off?
[Nexus S General] reapsor:
My best results for a Normal usage :)

ROM: Stock ICS 4.0.3

Kernel: GlaDOS 2.10

Governor: Ondemand (200min/800max + up_threshold "97")

Scheduler: noop

(Airplane mode @night)
[Nexus S General] .OmEgA:
You have a few options. you can either freeze specific apps and services you dont use, do not open apps that cause heavy battery drain, make sure you exit the app or back out (not just hit home which doesnt exit an app), or goto manage apps and see whats running and stop those processes. Hopefully thats the answer youre looking for.
[Nexus S General] ballroom dru:
What exactly do you mean when you say "freeze" the app? Is thee some sort off app freezing program I don't know about?
[Nexus S General] rocket999:
Titanium backup. One of the best root apps out there.
[Nexus S General] heinst:
Matr1x 17 FTW