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Default Can coexist two or more ROM in the same storage Card?

Currently I have the desire V5 in my Storage Card and at the moment, is the only ROM I have to run Android.

As long as I have used Android, and I have downloaded app from the Market it has started to create new folders in my Storage Card.

So, now I have a lot of folders, some appl creates its own, like .aptoide or .dataviz. Also I have other folders in the root such as shared_prefs or sqlite_smts_journals or sys.

When I have seen that some ROMS could be installed in an specif folder instead of the root - like the Desire V5- of my Storage Card, I wondered if is there any possibility of installing another ROM, and have the opportunity of launch one or the other depending of my preferences.
Have any of you tried to install two or more roms in the Storage Card? Can they live together w/o problems?
 
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Ηi there friend, i have in my storage card 2 roms.. One is the froyo 2.2 from darkstone and the other is the desire v5..
I dont see any problems till now, but when i want to change from one built to another i always soft reset 2 times and then i do it ... Dont think it really matters though

The thing is if u have a froyo rom u just copy the whole folder thats called ;android; in the scard, so i have the froyo rom in the android folder and the desire rom just free in the card...
 
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yes, you can
as malias said, you can have eclair and froyo together, this is because Froyo uses the dir Android.
Having this in mind, i renamed Android to Android1, and it seems to work.

so, in theory, you can make as many folders as you want, with different distros, and launch Haret inside these folders to have the distro downloaded there booted.

I am not sure if the different loadings leave settings "readed" by the others, we have to try ( i will do and let you know)
 
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Thank you for your answers. WOW not only WM and Android 2.1 but WM, Android 2,1 and Android 2.2 all in the same phone... I will try and in case any problem I will go back to the forum to post the issues found...

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yes, you can
as malias said, you can have eclair and froyo together, this is because Froyo uses the dir Android.
Having this in mind, i renamed Android to Android1, and it seems to work.

so, in theory, you can make as many folders as you want, with different distros, and launch Haret inside these folders to have the distro downloaded there booted.

I am not sure if the different loadings leave settings "readed" by the others, we have to try ( i will do and let you know)
 
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yes, you can
as malias said, you can have eclair and froyo together, this is because Froyo uses the dir Android.
Having this in mind, i renamed Android to Android1, and it seems to work.

so, in theory, you can make as many folders as you want, with different distros, and launch Haret inside these folders to have the distro downloaded there booted.

I am not sure if the different loadings leave settings "readed" by the others, we have to try ( i will do and let you know)
+1 on that I've ³ different Dan builds on phone all dif names ie Andrea, Andrew & Android. Just as long as you rename the ¹ you want b⁴ you boot it to android.

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So this means I can have, Winmo, Ubuntu and Android right
 
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So this means I can have, Winmo, Ubuntu and Android right
Don't know a thing @ ubunto but you need winmo to start phone up and you can have various builds on android folders but only ¹ build on root of SD card

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