Root Not sure which ROM to choose?

[bluenova]

Install both

VillainROM have brought out Dualboot for the Hero enabling you to run more than one ROM on your phone. Could be very handy for those that want the stability of MoDaCo 3.2 at times but the marvelousness of Villain 5.x or any other ROM at others.

VillainROM Forums • View topic - Hero Dualboot: here it is, with Autoinstaller!

 

[Jaffa]

Do both installs share the installed apps, or do you have to have seperate for each boot?

 

[bluenova]

Do both installs share the installed apps, or do you have to have seperate for each boot?

I think they are separate.

 

[02keilj]

I was wondering the just the other day.
How would this affect system memory?
I guess not much (if any effect at all) since I used to dual boot my old mp3 player with official firmware and rockbox.

 

[Xyro]

Wow awesome

Yeah, I just skimmed through the description and it sounds like the apps will be separate to each ROM.

I think it means that both the ROMs are stored on the phone whilst all user data is on the SD card. (That's a bit more extreme than apps2sd, as it will include apps and caches for things like the browser/albums). I could be wrong but I that's how I interpreted this:

move the two roms' userdata to the sdcard's ext partitions

So system memory wouldn't be a problem (But SD space would be much more valuable )

 

[bluenova]

Wow awesome

Yeah, I just skimmed through the description and it sounds like the apps will be separate to each ROM.

I think it means that both the ROMs are stored on the phone whilst all user data is on the SD card. (That's a bit more extreme than apps2sd, as it will include apps and caches for things like the browser/albums). I could be wrong but I that's how I interpreted this:



So system memory wouldn't be a problem (But SD space would be much more valuable )

Yea, you need 2 ext partitions, one for each ROM. It's funny a lot of people are against having Dalvik-cache on the SD but I've found having on my class 6 SD the home screen loads much quicker and apps open quicker.

 

[Xyro]

Yea, you need 2 ext partitions, one for each ROM. It's funny a lot of people are against having Dalvik-cache on the SD but I've found having on my class 6 SD the home screen loads much quicker and apps open quicker.

I have a class 6 and can't say I've ever noticed a difference with the dalvik cache on there It's the way forward.