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How difficult is it keeping things synchronised between different ROMs?

Or do you usually only use your extra ones to mess about with?
 
blkbeltkid17 said:
Wow 4 Roms on one phone now that sounds fun
I know what I am doing tonight
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Actually 5 - 4 on emmc, and 1 normal.

Xyro said:
How difficult is it keeping things synchronised between different ROMs?

Or do you usually only use your extra ones to mess about with?
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The ROMs are independent of each other since they each will have their own system, cache, and data partitions. Really, kind of a good idea since different ROMS can be incompatible in their data.
 
LionPride said:
Does anyone know if this is a problem all di2's are having, my co-worker also is having this issue. I click to sync only existing contacts and it doesn't work, yet a couple of random ones here and there have popped up.
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Hey, I'm gonna copy your post to its own thread in the Incredible 2 section... I'll post a link here
 
Skorpios1027 said:
The ROMs are independent of each other since they each will have their own system, cache, and data partitions. Really, kind of a good idea since different ROMS can be incompatible in their data.
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Yeah, that makes sense. It must make it awkward to use two different roms regularly, since SMS messages, app data and so on wouldn't carry across between the two - you'd either have to backup + restore your data or just deal with it.
 
So far, so good with the MultiRoms. I haven't noticed any significant problems running a Rom from the emmc. One of the side benefits of the MultiRom, is that I can make my partitions any size I want. That means I can avoid the dreaded low space notification that I'm always flirting with because I upped the datadata partition to 200MB for the extra ROMS. Now to see if I can apply the same principal to the phone rom.
 
Skorpios1027 said:
So far, so good with the MultiRoms. I haven't noticed any significant problems running a Rom from the emmc. One of the side benefits of the MultiRom, is that I can make my partitions any size I want. That means I can avoid the dreaded low space notification that I'm always flirting with because I upped the datadata partition to 200MB for the extra ROMS. Now to see if I can apply the same principal to the phone rom.
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I hope to one day understand half of what you just said
 
BabyBlues said:
I hope to one day understand half of what you just said
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MultiRom gives me the ability to have up to 5 different ROMs (or operating systems) on my phone at once, and boot to whichever one I wish without having to go through the process of making a backup of the currently running one and restoring the backup of the new one.

HTC, in desigining the Incredible limited the space available for application data storage (the datadata partition, which is not visible to the user unless they are rooted). When this partition fills up, the phone will give a low space notification. More information on this can be found in this thread:
http://androidforums.com/incredible...e-phone-application-storage-notification.html
 
Skorpios1027 said:
MultiRom gives me the ability to have up to 5 different ROMs (or operating systems) on my phone at once, and boot to whichever one I wish without having to go through the process of making a backup of the currently running one and restoring the backup of the new one.

HTC, in desigining the Incredible limited the space available for application data storage (the datadata partition, which is not visible to the user unless they are rooted). When this partition fills up, the phone will give a low space notification. More information on this can be found in this thread:
http://androidforums.com/incredible...e-phone-application-storage-notification.html
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Thank you for the explanation. I understand the concept now. The actual application of the information is a long time away but it'll happen eventually.
 
shadowninty said:
/Data not datadata :p
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Technically you are correct, though there are 2 partitions for data: /data and what I call datadata. datadata is mounted as the data directory in the /data directory (confused yet?)

Here are the relevent mount points:

Code: 
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /data ext3 rw,nosuid,noatime,nodiratime,errors=continue,data=writeback 0 0
/dev/block/mtdblock6 /data/data yaffs2 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
 
I can see where that would skew the results. I don't really put much emhasis on quadrant scores - too many ways to skew the results, though it does give a general idea of the phone's preformance.
 
As a test, I loaded SR4 as both the phone rom and as rom#1 in emmc. Linpak scores were equivelent between the two, however quadrant averaged 1264 over 4 runs when booted as the phone rom and 1867 when booted as rom#1 in emmc. The major increase was in the I/O portion of the test.
 
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