Root [Q] Multi-Boot with Boot Manager... Please Help!

ipaint666 · Oct 31, 2011

It would be awesome to be able to run CM7, MIUI, and and stock ROM and be able to just reboot right to it. With this app you can...Boot Manager APP

The Motorola Triumph is not officially supported by the developer, but on their webpage they say if you send them some info they will get back to you about trying out a beta. Some of this info I have no idea how to acquire.

So I was wondering if anyone here could please help me out.

and please post this info that is needed. Thanks

And if anyone else is interested, maybe they will officially support it if they get enough interest. here is a link: Boot Manager

They need to know:

Product Board:

Sdcard Block:

System Size:

Data Size:

Cache Size:

Chingling · Oct 31, 2011

Attempting to find the info and submit the form right now

bing7625 · Oct 31, 2011

finally! i had posted about this a couple times in the past on CM7 thread and MIUI thread and never got an answer. THANKS!!!!!

hey chingling if you figure out all the info you technically don't need to send it in, even though official support would be awesome, you can just download the app from the market and when you install it will ask you for all the info and should work if the info provided to the application is correct. if you do get everything done can you post your results for all the info needed here that way someone, maybe like me, could test it out and see if everything works good. Thanx!

Chingling · Nov 1, 2011

OK ill get it when I can. I got school today but when I get back ill see what I can do.

Chingling · Nov 1, 2011

So I got all the information as follows:
Product Board: triumph
Sdcard block: /dev/block/vold/179:33
System size: 244.1 Mb
Data size: 1126.4 Mb
Cache size: 193.7 Mb
But when I go to the page to submit the information, it ALWAYS tells me that I entered the captcha incorrectly. So I can't submit the form. So I went to the Market to see if I could get the app to test it out and found out that.....its a paid app. I'm broke so I can't buy it. Oh well. But yeah there's the info. Happy ROM'ing

bing7625 · Nov 1, 2011

correct me if i'm wrong, but wouldn't the product board be msm7x30? i mean that is what it says in the build.prop file next to ro.board.platform=msm7x30....

if i'm right let me know because i'm gonna try to submit it to the development team.

and here's a link to Boot Manager for free...

http://sinfulandroid.com/applications-26/boot-manager-v2-2-1-eam%AE-apk-links-soon-7976/

Chingling · Nov 1, 2011

Well the website says to look in the build.prop for ro.build.board. I could not find that line so I looked at supported devices for examples of the product board. All of the devices' product boards were one word, all lowercase, and had NO numbers or symbols. Also, the word "triumph" was under ro.build.product. That is the closest one to the line described and what it equals to is similar to all of the other Product Boards. I also did a search and found the HTC Desire's Product Board, which is Bravo. The word "bravo" can be found in the HTC Desire's build.prop and is located after the line ro.build.product. So I'm positive that it is triumph. Thanks. If you could submit the form that would be awesome.

bing7625 · Nov 1, 2011

not working on their site for me either... damn. well i guess i might give it a shot and see if i can get it working on my phone with the info provided, but i may wait til tomorrow night because i got two days off of work after tomorrow which will give me some sufficient time to play around with it and see.

Chingling · Nov 1, 2011

OK. I downloaded it and right when I start it, it gives me the error, "Data required for first run, must quit!" Any way to fix this?

bing7625 · Nov 1, 2011

Chingling said:
OK. I downloaded it and right when I start it, it gives me the error, "Data required for first run, must quit!" Any way to fix this?

lol i got the same error, but i found an older version v2.0 that runs fine... whichc is here

BootManager v2.0 Apk Android

now the only problem i'm thinking is going to happen is the fact of Gapps... since CM7 technically doesn't have these included then when you switch from say MIUI or stock to CM7 you wouldn't have the marketplace or any of the Gapp apks. in theory. unless someone compiles a zip with them included...

ziggy46 · Nov 1, 2011

bing7625 said:
lol i got the same error, but i found an older version v2.0 that runs fine... whichc is here

BootManager v2.0 Apk Android

now the only problem i'm thinking is going to happen is the fact of Gapps... since CM7 technically doesn't have these included then when you switch from say MIUI or stock to CM7 you wouldn't have the marketplace or any of the Gapp apks. in theory. unless someone compiles a zip with them included...

just take all of the gapps content and put it into the cm7 zip, flash it and it will work. i do that all the time!

bing7625 · Nov 1, 2011

ziggy46 said:
just take all of the gapps content and put it into the cm7 zip, flash it and it will work. i do that all the time!

so just place the files in the same specific folders? from one zip to another and it will work just fine? odd i never even thought about that lol

what about the META-INF directory? should i replace those or just leave them alone?

Chingling · Nov 2, 2011

You should probably keep the META INF of cm7 but I am not positive

isaacj87 · Nov 2, 2011

bing7625 said:
correct me if i'm wrong, but wouldn't the product board be msm7x30? i mean that is what it says in the build.prop file next to ro.board.platform=msm7x30....

if i'm right let me know because i'm gonna try to submit it to the development team.

and here's a link to Boot Manager for free...

Boot Manager v2.2.1 EAM

marc12868 · Nov 2, 2011

So I got boot manager installed and got the info manually imputed but when I try to prepare the phone like it says which says that it backs up the boot image I always get an error saying that the boot image couldn't be backed up. I'm pretty sure I have more than enough space on my sdcard so I don't know what the problem is... if someone could help that would be great.

Chingling · Nov 2, 2011

isaacj87 said:
Yeah, the board platform is msm7x30.

Oh...dang. Thanks Isaac! Then why is the HTC Desire's board platform listed under ro.build.product?

ipaint666 · Nov 2, 2011

Chingling said:
So I got all the information as follows:
Product Board: triumph
Sdcard block: /dev/block/vold/179:33
System size: 244.1 Mb
Data size: 1126.4 Mb
Cache size: 193.7 Mb
But when I go to the page to submit the information, it ALWAYS tells me that I entered the captcha incorrectly. So I can't submit the form. So I went to the Market to see if I could get the app to test it out and found out that.....its a paid app. I'm broke so I can't buy it. Oh well. But yeah there's the info. Happy ROM'ing

the dev for the app replied to my email and said that's not the sd card block..
thays what i see in ADB though.

he said it should be something like this: /dev/block/mmcblk1

anyway once i get beta access to the app i'll let you know.

btw i wouldn't install any of those app's you linked to. for one it's not right. and you never know what people have done to those files.

TheGeekRedneck · Nov 2, 2011

Chingling said:
Oh...dang. Thanks Isaac! Then why is the HTC Desire's board platform listed under ro.build.product?

Sounds like you installed thunderprop at some point... I think it mods that line to make the market think we have the HTC desire ...

b_randon14 · Nov 3, 2011

um the sdcard block is /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 i believe. Or just /dev/block/mmcblk1 and then the p1 is the first(and only partition unless you have partitioned your sd card and it gets mount as a vold partition at /dev/block/vold/179:33

ipaint666 · Nov 3, 2011

You're most likely right. He said to find out, get in recovery mode, then start adb shell,and enter "mount" ... but when I'm in recovery adb can't see my device. Do you know why?

isaacj87 · Nov 3, 2011

ipaint666 said:
You're most likely right. He said to find out, get in recovery mode, then start adb shell,and enter "mount" ... but when I'm in recovery adb can't see my device. Do you know why?

What OS are you using ADB on?

ipaint666 · Nov 3, 2011

win7

could i start up linux on vmware and do it?

isaacj87 · Nov 4, 2011

ipaint666 said:
win7

could i start up linux on vmware and do it?

Yeah, it would probably be easier that way. Within Linux, just download the adb binary. Start the adb server like so (with superuser perms):

Code:

sudo adb start-server

Then, you can run whatever adb options you want after that (no sudo necessary). For example:

Code:

adb shell df -h

FWIW, the sdcard is situated at:

Code:

/dev/block/mmcblk1

ipaint666 · Nov 4, 2011

Thank you.

Fedora was much easier to setup on.

This is what I got from the "mount" command in recovery mode.

~ # mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,relatime,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,mode=600)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/block/mmcblk1p1 on /sdcard type vfat (rw,nodev,noatime,nodiratime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)

If anyone else is interested in this app, email support from this link.
They have already sent me an .apk and are trouble shooting this with me.
More people showing interest the better!

Support Email

bing7625 · Nov 4, 2011

ipaint666 said:
Thank you.

Fedora was much easier to setup on.

This is what I got from the "mount" command in recovery mode.

~ # mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,relatime,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,mode=600)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/block/mmcblk1p1 on /sdcard type vfat (rw,nodev,noatime,nodiratime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)

If anyone else is interested in this app, email support from this link.
They have already sent me an .apk and are trouble shooting this with me.
More people showing interest the better!

anyway you could post a link to the beta they sent you by putting it on mediafire? and where it says "email support from this link" there is no link. i just tried emailing them directly with unsupported device info and they sent me an email back saying that the support email adress will no longer reply to unsupported device info, and the webpage to submit this info still wont work for me. thanks!

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