[BOOT][4.2+][UNOFFICIAL] MultiROM for TF300T [2014-02-13]

Having Difficulties

I have been trying to follow the directions on this and get the multi-rom installed but I keep getting a fail. This is what it says when I try to install from the multi-rom TWRP:

Failed to create fake boot image filePrimary/boot.blob (No such file or directory)!
Restoring mounts...
Updating partition details...
Error flashing zip 'external_sdcard/multirom-v22-20140316-UNOFFICIAL-tf300t.zip
updating partition details...

and from here it shows Failed.

Here is my current system info:
Android version: 4.2.1
Kernel version: 3.1.10-10.6.1.14.8-that4+that@ws#13 Tue Jul 2 23:21:24 CEST 2013
Build number: TF300 CROMi-Xenogenesis 5.4-10.6.1.27.5 WW ODEX

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!! Thanks

z1022 said:

Now I use CROMi-X 5.4 with TWRP2.5.0.0.

I try to use the later version MutiROM arch 16. After I flash the MutiROM, I can see the MutiROM boot screen. When I select Pri ROM, it stick on ASUS logo.

I try this MutiROM so long time. However, I still cannot use it.

I think I will forgive to install CROMi-X 5.4 ROM as PRI. ROM.

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yea, same thing here. after install multiRom i get stock on Asus logo.

Edit: can anybody confirm the latest multiRom works with cromix 5.4 _that kernel?
Thanks

I have a puzzle for you to solve...
So I stopped using multirom due to a swapping issue that corrupted all of the installs on multirom, lucky me having been there before I had a backup with a full emergency replacement rom anyway space is starting to get tight on my tablet and I want to free up some space that multirom is taking up... Go into my file manager and find out that the multirom folder takes no space whatsoever (ie has a size of 0.00 bytes). Empty folder = safe to delete (most of the time). That folder will not go away though, Failed delete attempts, false positives, opendir failures (when using terminal emulator). I have tried everything I can think of, short of wiping internal storage (which needs to be done soon given all of the gunk in there). So there is my story of the multirom folder that will not go away. glad to see progress though

ps If your thinking it is a permissions problem, Its not, trust me.

Edit: The folder didn't survive the wipe I did so no need to try and solve this problem.

Sent from the CROMI-Xifed tf300t

Does this support ubuntu? I installed xubuntu but after an update to CM11 the rabbit dualboot kernel stopped working (bootloop if I recall correctly) so someone in the thread pointed me to kexecboot. After install, again, with newest CM11, I lose wifi in Android but can dualboot (wifi isn't availeable in xubuntu either).

Ninja Potatoe said:

Does this support ubuntu? I installed xubuntu but after an update to CM11 the rabbit dualboot kernel stopped working (bootloop if I recall correctly) so someone in the thread pointed me to kexecboot. After install, again, with newest CM11, I lose wifi in Android but can dualboot (wifi isn't availeable in xubuntu either).

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If this is a xubuntu specific issue...in the future I may port an ARM build of fedora to this device....I'll see if the issue goes away after doing this....but it may be a while before I do it

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rjmxtech said:

If this is a xubuntu specific issue...in the future I may port an ARM build of fedora to this device....I'll see if the issue goes away after doing this....but it may be a while before I do it

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I installed CROMi-X 5.4 and according to http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=48947306#post48947306 also rabbit's kernel to have dualboot with Xubuntu. As far as I know, Xubuntu uses some drivers from Android. I applied the patch to restore wi-fi and everything works fine (all HW, ...).
This MultiROM is really cool and I like it. I also wonder if I could have CROMi-X as primary ROM, then Xubuntu (or another normal Linux, Fedora would also be fine) and CM as another ROM. Do I wish too much? Actually, I'd be fine with any working dualboot of Android and Linux. The Xubuntu is already too old...

i restored a backup and it had "jenkins@sirius #1 kernel" as the kernel instead of the rom's kernel.
this actually has happened quite a few times, when restoring backups to secondary slots on internal and external sd cards. like 5 times so far. odd things are happening.

also when i install a rom as the primary, i can boot into the other 3 secondary roms, but once i boot into my main rom on the external micro sd card, the primary rom ...just dissappears. it wont let me boot into it, it just shows asus screen.

so i reinstall slimkat 4.4.3 to primary. and then i did a "factory reset" on primary (just to see) and it formats the rom on my microsd card.

then i restore onto external micro sd and again its got the jenkins kernel. did multirom twrp grab that kernel when i backed it up? i know for sure it had the rom's intended kernel because i "dirty" flashed or flashed over with the same rom and cleared cache and dalvik,and it showed up in 'about phone'. and then did a back up, but its grabbing that jenkins thing and putting it in the backup? perhaps from the twrp supplied default kernel? i dont know what happeneing.

i want to mention that i am doing things correctly, hopefully. when doing things to the primary rom, i'm doing it from the main screen. for secondry roms, i go to advanced > multirom > choose rom (or change location) > then restore or back up or whatever from that menu.


sorry if this sounds out of order, but i've been messing with it a lot and its great, but is doing weird things like that i've mentioned but in different sequences and different primary/secondary slots, so i thought i'd ask.

i readthe trouble shooting part of OP and i think i may have to do that. what about the "reinstall multirom" built into there?
if that doesnt work, i have to reinstall a different version of twrp, install a rom, then re-install multirom again? also move or rename the multirom folder and move roms back when done?

also, when i set a rom to boot as default from the micro sd, it gets stuck at the multirom screen and doesnt do the count down.
can crombi-kk be installed as a secondary rom now? or does it have to be primary?

how do i restore my backup with the right kernel? do i have to replace the boot.img? how do i extract the boot.img from the rom zip?

well i did everything in the trouble shooting post in the first few posts and it worked, but still having some same issues.

using fastboot on pc installed non-multirom twrp
booted into recovery right from fastboot screen after install
saw list of empty folders and freaked out for a second
rebooted
saw multirom countdown screen.
picked boot into recovery in multirom screen.
booted intro non-multirom twrp and saw all of my old internal sdcard contents
installed new rom, which then bypassed multirom screen
renamed data/media/0/multirom folder
reinstalled multirom

now from here i rebooted, got multirom screen, looked under usb/sdcard tab and saw my old rom.
booted into it, booted fine (stil had messed up kernel of course)
then tried to boot into primary rom and got stuck on asus screen.

something happens when you boot into a rom on microsd card that nukes the primary.
(btw the external microsd is partitioned when i was doing cromi-x rom2sd into 3 parts, vfat, ext4, ext4. the rom is on the 2nd ext4 partion)

when i go to MR twrp home page and hit reboot it tells me there is no OS installed.


before i did all this i do recall this happening before. i reinstalled the primary rom. and all roms on internal sd booted fine. i could boot them all, back and forth. but once i boot into the external(formated ext4), the primary gets nuked.

i still havent adressed the issue with the weird kernel being included into my backups.

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edit:
ok its more than just booting from external sd card. i backed up a secondary rom (all on internal sd), and restored it as a new secondary (cloning it) and the primary rom isnt recognized by MR anymore. says OS not installed.

should i not be doing this? should all secodarys be clean installs and not restores in attemp to clone roms?

edit 2:
the cloned rom and the orginal rom (both secondarys) wont boot now. maybe somehting happened to the boot image. i cloned the secondary after i knew the primary was unbootable. maybe this is the issue? when no primary, it screws up everything else?

edit3:
i reflashed the same rom in primary and the other secondarys were bootable, but with extreme errors. i was getting a persistent "android.phone" is shutting down error. feels like when the primary rom goes things get shifted, and the roms corrupted.

edit4:
ok i think i know whats going on. about the jenkins@sirius kernel, its from the xtreme pack from the slimkat rom. what im trying to do it test different kernels and cloning roms so if things dont work out i can delete them.
what i did:

installed 2nd rom:
backed up and restored to new clone secondary (3rd) rom.
flashed kernel to 3rd rom.
booted into 2nd and the kernel/ binaries etc or whatever were applied to both secondary roms, even though i only flashed the kernel to one. is this normal?

Getting assert failure: run_program inject_boot.sh == 0

Tried on cwm and twrp

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Is it possible to remove a secondary rom without uninstalling the multirom mod? If so, what are the steps. I installed Cromi as primary and Omni as secondary based off of a TWRP backup I had.. Any help would be appreciated.

JTOLOGY said:

Is it possible to remove a secondary rom without uninstalling the multirom mod? If so, what are the steps. I installed Cromi as primary and Omni as secondary based off of a TWRP backup I had.. Any help would be appreciated.

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Yes you can delete multi rom
Boot to twrp go to advance - file manager- then to /data/media/0/multiroom and delete directory with you dont like but not primary

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P.S. I heve started Ubuntu and KatKiss ROM some second rom

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P.S.S. To see multiroom directory not empty you most open /data/media/0/multiroom istedet /sdcard/multiroom

Uninstall Secondary Rom

Keshukas said:

Yes you can delete multi rom
Start twrp go to advance - file manager- then to /data/media/0/multiroom and delete directory with you dont like but not primary

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Mille grazie signore... your instructions worked flawlessly. :good:

hey any chance of an update of multirom to recent twrp?

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question for anyone/everyone:

i recently reflashed latest twrp over multirom so i can try out f2fs. i really love how much faster it made this tablet. now that my tablet is formated to f2fs (the /data partition) if i flash multirom over it will the f2fs format stay? will this complicate things at all? i did it so i could try f2fs, and wasnt able to do it with multiroms current build. but know i miss having multirom

does anyone know i reflash multirom if i'd lose my current f2fs setting?

also does anyone here have multirom AND f2fs going on? if so, how did you do it?

I wish there was a way to install a newer modified TWRP version for multirom.

zen_phones said:

hey any chance of an update of multirom to recent twrp?

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Showme1 said:

I wish there was a way to install a newer modified TWRP version for multirom.

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I just want to mention that I would also love to see an update with a newer TWRP version and f2fs file system working. Then multirom might be a great base for my current dream combination consisting of KatKiss 5.1.1 ROM and xubuntu 14.04. Maybe I am not the only one who would be interested in this. But anyway, thanks for the great efforts to port multirom so far :good:

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I just want to mention that I would also love to see an update with a newer TWRP version and f2fs file system working. Then multirom might be a great base for my current dream combination consisting of KatKiss 5.1.1 ROM and xubuntu 14.04. Maybe I am not the only one who would be interested in this. But anyway, thanks for the great efforts to port multirom so far :good:

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In TF201 thread, they say that it works with multirom. You should visit a russian page for it :laugh:

Dasdranamin said:

This ROM works absolutely without any problem as PRIMARY ROM in MultiROM.
If You can Russian, see also here: http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=308957&view=findpost&p=37626732

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TacoNikky said:

In TF201 thread, they say that it works with multirom. You should visit a russian page for it :laugh:

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Thanks for the information. However, it does not seem to work. I have tested it by myself. At first I have installed KatKiss 5.1.1 ROM with f2fs formatted /data partition. Then I have installed multirom but I simply cannot use the multirom subdir in TRWP in order to manage multirom or install other ROMs. So, probably there is a misunderstanding about the linked web page. But I have to confess that I am not perfect Russian speaker

Hmmm ... I am not really sure how difficult it is to make an update because the used TWRP version for multirom is not really up-to-date anymore and newer versions are available which also offer the chance to use the f2fs system. furthermore, I think that there will be a gradual shift to use f2fs file system more frequently in newer custom ROMs so it would be great to have an updated version of multirom.

Is there any chance that this will become true? Anyway, I appreciate the great efforts of the developer so far. Many thanks!

Xubuntu doesnt need multirom to work with KatKiss pr any otherrom. Just use kexec kernel from xubuntusthread and u can boot any rom (not sure? but think that all kk?) + xubuntu.