Cool idea. I've often kept a nandroid backup of diff ROMs, and even diff setups of the same ROM. Something like this would def be cool. But from what I've read, I think I'd need a better SD card than what came with the OG.
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Boot Manager does not touch anything on your phone and never will all of the real magic happens on your sdcard. When installing a ROM you must select the checkboxes within the application to wipe data, cache, and system, however, these wipes are not on your phone your phones data will not be touched it will only wipe the imgs that are made on your sdcard leaving all of your data on your sdcard and phone untouched. The application allows you to boot from your sdcard this means the slots when you run them are actually being run from your Sdcard. This can cause lag for some which is easily fixed by overclocking and letting things settle in which a reboot usually greatly improves speeds. A higher class sdcard may also help and we recommend a class 6 or above.
OK, I'm running CM 7 Nightly right now, and I have about 10 MB free. There is no way that my phone can have 5 different ROMs installed to system memory- what it *can* do is install all the different ROMs to the SDCard. Of course, there are caveats, as noted above. An underpowered device, or one with little RAM, will have a hard time with this, and add to that fact, as Yankee mentions, that our devices are hardware limited to give use no faster speeds than Class 2 regardless of type of SDCard used, and you're looking at an inexorable waiting time everytime you boot up.
Still, though, it would make for great eye candy - making your DROID look like Windows Mobile 7, iPhone, CM Nightly, MIUI, and another ROM just for Grins and Giggles, would be interesting - but the lag would just kill me. Even with an OC on our phones, it would be tremendously slow.
It's tempting but man, yea the lag would be ridiculous! I mean my phone chokes on MIUI alone! To add four others would be the end of it and me from impatience. I'm even running the Supercharger script and the phone lags at times,enough to almost make me toss the thing out the car window and just go buy a Charge.
FroYo alone is hard on this phone - hence the 'overclocking' to 800 MHz by default from the stock 550 / 600 under Donut and Eclair. Gingerbread is almost impossible without some very fine tuned tweaking - hence Motorola not releasing it for the DROID.
I'll bet that loading the ROMs from Class 2 (really, anything <6) SDCards will be abominably slow....
All that and the fact that we only get a 15 minute trial period on apps now nixes this for me as well. Hell, it would take more than fifteen minutes for the durn phone to boot into a different rom and/or at least get one set up, lol
At least one developer is (manually) offering longer trial periods of 24 hours, simply by contacting the developer through Checkout. Hopefully, more responsible devs will follow suit and make it an hour - 4 hours....
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im not sure wat ur saying but how can you have multiple roms at the same time. i men i have like 3 roms on my sd card so i cN install them wen ever i want but i can have cm7 droid concepts and liquid at the same time as project elite. it juat wouldnt work out
Well you would have one ROM at a time running; but up to 5 on the SD card, ready to flash back at a moment's notice. Surely there's a mechanism in place to store your system/data/cache for each ROM so nothing is lost when you jump from one to the other and back again... whatever state you save it in is the state it would be when you flash back. I can't imagine this being a successful app if you had to wipe data every time you swapped back & forth.
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Up to 5 ROMs at once? WOW!
