[DISCONTINUED][PATCHER][APP] Dual boot any ROM on all Galaxy S4 variants!

[Waltee]

1- Don't think it will ever be possible.
2- There's a way, seen it somewhere (Google is your friend) just remember messing with partitions is a very very risky business

Ah, that's a shame. Saw on one of the other multi-boot threads (unfortunately not for my phone) that they were going to look into it as they had managed to install them to USB via OTG, but it is done differently to this way so wasn't sure if it could be implemented.

I have been looking into it but unfortunately it seems phone specific from what I can tell. It's been done on the Galaxy SII so I'm hoping someone over there will be able to help me figure it out.

Cheers for getting back to me anyway.

 

[Technical]

1- Don't think it will ever be possible.

Maybe you should take a look on http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4/i9505-orig-develop/mod-multirom-v28-t2864469

 

[franzyroy]

Maybe you should take a look on http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4/i9505-orig-develop/mod-multirom-v28-t2864469

I was also thinking, but it would be pretty stupid to discard any a system that really works to go on another one that can be as good but shall oblige total reset and redo the complete parameterization of all Roms . Of course, if DualBoot Patcher were to stop, we would not really have a choice. Not still the case for the moment, no? Yet that he, his problem is quite different, as it is limited by its phone model. Maybe this solution is possible for him, if really no alternative. However, I don't know if a system would be stable over a SD even if it's really good.

 

[lukas77]

chenxiaolong

Hi mate,
One guy on S5 forum claim that this Dual Boot working on International SGS5 device, he started a thread about it. Some people want to try it and my concern is they can brick devices. Another thing is that you may don't want to anyone start a thread about you work. Just letting you know.
Do you think your Dual Boot may work on S5?
Anyway, link to the thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/general/dual-boot-t2841957

 

[chenxiaolong]

Dan ge on dual, patched using alpha 5
No vibrations for now, but patcher force closes when choosing rom settings (tried different versions)
So app sharing is not working

Thanks for the info regarding the vibrations! The rom settings crash is to be expected and most likely won't be fixed until the Android patcher code is finished.

 

[chenxiaolong]

hey guys. just stopped bye to say goodbye. switched to LG G2 D802.

best of luck chenxialong

Enjoy your new device!

(Btw, the patcher supports D802 too, though I've only added support for Slimroms so far)

 

[chenxiaolong]

Hi mate,
One guy on S5 forum claim that this Dual Boot working on International SGS5 device, he started a thread about it. Some people want to try it and my concern is they can brick devices. Another thing is that you may don't want to anyone start a thread about you work. Just letting you know.
Do you think your Dual Boot may work on S5?
Anyway, link to the thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/general/dual-boot-t2841957

Thanks for letting me know! I replied in that thread.

 

[remorema]

Enjoy your new device!

(Btw, the patcher supports D802 too, though I've only added support for Slimroms so far)

glad t know it supports d802 but not having sdcard means having all thoose large games files in internal memory wich is short for one even rom. sould have bought the 32gb instead.

maybe Ill give it a go when it supports official CM and app data share

 

[MohamedN]

Thanks for the info regarding the vibrations! The rom settings crash is to be expected and most likely won't be fixed until the Android patcher code is finished.

No THANK YOU for all the amazing and hard work

 

[Jared20098]

How do I change the secondary ROM? I want it to go to Imperium from CyanogenMod.
EDIT: Oh, BTW, the error I get when I try flashing it says "Can't install this package on top of incompatible data. Please try another package or run a factory reset."

 

[MohamedN]

How do I change the secondary ROM? I want it to go to Imperium from CyanogenMod.
EDIT: Oh, BTW, the error I get when I try flashing it says "Can't install this package on top of incompatible data. Please try another package or run a factory reset."

Through recovery (dual boot utilities)
Secondary rom->Wipe all
Then you are good to go

 

[franzyroy]

How do I change the secondary ROM? I want it to go to Imperium from CyanogenMod.
EDIT: Oh, BTW, the error I get when I try flashing it says "Can't install this package on top of incompatible data. Please try another package or run a factory reset."

Through recovery (dual boot utilities)
Secondary rom->Wipe all
Then you are good to go

IF you've not DualBoot Utilities, it's there!

 

[Jared20098]

Thanks guys, I have it now.

 

[chenxiaolong]

Here is the sixth alpha for 9.0.0

Changes from Alpha5

• Initial support for the Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy S 5 (I don't have either device, so I have no idea whether it works or not)
• Consolidated modem and apnhlos partition mounting methods across various ROMs and Samsung devices. Please let me know if any ROM is getting the "unknown baseband" issue in the About Phone settings screen.

Known bugs:

• Still doesn't work on XP
• The window still resizes randomly
• File extensions still aren't checked

EDIT: Whoops forgot to attach the file. Wait a sec...
EDIT2: Attached!

 

[AntaresOne]

I was also thinking, but it would be pretty stupid to discard any a system that really works to go on another one that can be as good but shall oblige total reset and redo the complete parameterization of all Roms . Of course, if DualBoot Patcher were to stop, we would not really have a choice. Not still the case for the moment, no? Yet that he, his problem is quite different, as it is limited by its phone model. Maybe this solution is possible for him, if really no alternative. However, I don't know if a system would be stable over a SD even if it's really good.

Always remember that your primary ROM boots from the eMMC, the same used by MultiROM just with no dedicated partitions. The internal ROM (primary) isn't touched by MultiROM. eMMC and SD card (this last with slower installation and slower boot hightly depending on card's class) can be used for secondary ROMs that are completely stable as if they are primary, just choose the ROM to install and flash its ZIP file through the modified TWRP recovery available in the thread, no messing with patching ZIP of kernels, ROMs, Google apps.You can have an unlimited number of ROMs (until you finish memory). ROMs are showed in a boot menu rightly after the power on, and you can even choose to show the boot menu only by pressing a volume button rightly when you see the GT-I9505 bootlogo. Also XDA wrote a news on the portal: http://www.xda-developers.com/android/multirom-galaxy-s4/

Inviato dal mio GT-I9505

 

[franzyroy]

Always remember that your primary ROM boots from the eMMC, the same used by MultiROM just with no dedicated partitions. The internal ROM (primary) isn't touched by MultiROM. eMMC and SD card (this last with slower installation and slower boot hightly depending on card's class) can be used for secondary ROMs that are completely stable as if they are primary, just choose the ROM to install and flash its ZIP file through the modified TWRP recovery available in the thread, no messing with patching ZIP of kernels, ROMs, Google apps.You can have an unlimited number of ROMs (until you finish memory). ROMs are showed in a boot menu rightly after the power on, and you can even choose to show the boot menu only by pressing a volume button rightly when you see the GT-I9505 bootlogo. Also XDA wrote a news on the portal: http://www.xda-developers.com/android/multirom-galaxy-s4/

Inviato dal mio GT-I9505

I don't doubt to MultiROM, I was talking about in the sense that we already have a super stable multiboot, it would be a shame to remove it to go to another that seems to work just as well. Except if we haven't the choice (like the GS4 mini user) or we are a inveterate flasholic, not my case. I've 4 roms and it's enough for me. I don't want to put the possible max just to say that I've a multitude of roms. My phone is primarily a phone that I need every day.

I therefore agree that your concept is really great.

 

[jigsawcrank]

Here is the sixth alpha for 9.0.0

Changes from Alpha5

• Initial support for the Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy S 5 (I don't have either device, so I have no idea whether it works or not)
• Consolidated modem and apnhlos partition mounting methods across various ROMs and Samsung devices. Please let me know if any ROM is getting the "unknown baseband" issue in the About Phone settings screen.

Known bugs:

• Still doesn't work on XP
• The window still resizes randomly
• File extensions still aren't checked

EDIT: Whoops forgot to attach the file. Wait a sec...
EDIT2: Attached!

Huge thanks for the Note 3 support, I will try it out.

EDIT: It works(X-Note(touchwiz) primary and Slimkat as secondary) on my N9005.
How you install Xposed Framework on secondary rom? Do I have to patch it or can I just simply install the installer apk?

 

[MohamedN]

Huge thanks for the Note 3 support, I will try it out.

EDIT: It works(X-Note(touchwiz) primary and Slimkat as secondary) on my N9005.
How you install Xposed Framework on secondary rom? Do I have to patch it or can I just simply install the installer apk?

Install apk as normal, if it failed try to patch it and flash

 

[AntaresOne]

I don't doubt to MultiROM, I was talking about in the sense that we already have a super stable multiboot, it would be a shame to remove it to go to another that seems to work just as well. Except if we haven't the choice (like the GS4 mini user) or we are a inveterate flasholic, not my case. I've 4 roms and it's enough for me. I don't want to put the possible max just to say that I've a multitude of roms. My phone is primarily a phone that I need every day.

I therefore agree that your concept is really great.

I was talking about the faster method, no messing with patching zips and the possibility to choose the ROM you want to boot (ubuntu touch, sailfish and firefox are supported once ported to this device) at device power on like computers without loading Android>open a app>choose to reboot to another ROM. You wanna test the XYZ ROM? Flash the zip and load ROM, nothing else, no doubt that it's way faster, and you can even choose how many ROMs you want. It's not a case that everywhere bloggers, Android sites etc. say that MultiROM it's the ultimate multiboot solution

Inviato dal mio GT-I9505

 

[davy4475]

How can I add more storage to my second rom. I dont even have enough to flash gapps

Sent from my GT-I9505 using Tapatalk