Xda developers community,
Here I sit at the end of approximately 78 hours of a joyfully sleep deprived journey of pure tech excitement. It all started with my two month old G1 Dream, which I am crazy about, suddenly began to annoy me with its ridiculously small internal memory. I offered my dilemma to the overlord of infinite knowledge, Google, and all roads kept leading me here. I began to read, found answers,and developed the uncontrollable urge to join the action. I've read, rooted, rommed, wiped, re-rooted, re-rommed, nearly bricked, cried, picked myself up, read some more, fixed, and utterly tweaked my G1 into a steroid laced technological work of art. Twice I wanted to ask questions but fought my hands away from the keyboard as I read the seemingly harsh and usually condescending replies as my fellow noobs received. Quick and deadly were the Chinese stars of sarcasm as they split their heads open, ending each post with "you would have found this if you'd just taken the time to read the forum". Each one of them ending in that little blue "Link of Shame" they provide linking you right to the detailed answer that was posted like two weeks ago. Not me....no sir! I decided to read and discover the what lies within for myself. I'm so glad I did too because I've learned more about my G1 here in three days than all my accumulated phone knowledge combined. This place is a tech-rebels think tank of knowledge from some really knowledgeable people. Everything I studied and tried was 100% accurate and easy to follow. Thanks to all of you for sharing your discoveries with all of us "Noobs" out here. I'm hooked on XDA! Sleep.....we don't need sleep where we're going....STANDBY FOR REBOOT!!
Welcome to forums
Great and nice words of introduction
Read, Search, Respect and Enjoy!!
Enjoy this great forum! Read, Search, and Happy Flashing
That has to be the best first post I've ever read....
Congrats on all that you've learned.
misfit1306 said:
Xda developers community,
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Welcome to the "family" I too followed your process....
So 'cool' yet spending way to much free time will be the thing to look out for....
Really, Your post is outstanding....wish it could be on all ROM's 1st page...
PM me if you ever need to...DID you know to click on the persons name (top left of their post) to PM them and/or see all their postings....a quick way to get help I have found....
Nice post and welcome to the forums!
We were all "noobs" once mate, at least you did the right thing and read up.
Far too many "users" here just want answers, finding them for yourself is far more satisfying.
So now you've read up on the Billions of pages and dug your way through the hundreds of forums, when will you be releasing your first Rom?
LoL
Welcome to the forums mate, may you be stuck here forever like the rest us!
Cheers,
Beasty
Welcome to your Home!!!
That's similar to what I experienced sometimes. But if you read and read and then you ask about something that "is there" and you did not find, I think nobody will throw you to the lions.
Now, enjoy... and help make this site greater !
I'm a carrier for the XDA virus....
I raced to the office today to ignore the growing pile of work on my desk, darted past my idiot boss mumbling something about deadlines or some crap, and sat down to start the day off with a triple espresso and a theme flash straight from the XDA threads. As I waited for my phone to reboot I started feeling the sharp pinch of conviction. All day long people, myself included, run to the elite developers of XDA for endless advice on flashing, features, firmware,roots, roms, and recovery screens and freely download to their hearts content. Then strut around showing everyone there phones as if they were some sort of underworld hackers. But does anyone stop to think about all the endless hours or trial and error, defeat, lines of code, complaints, and everything else that goes into these works of art? Each day I learn a little something more and gain a deeper insight on the hard work that so many put in so that I can carry around my super fast , fully loaded, and ready to tether G1 each day. Allthough I really dont think these folks do what they do for fame or fortune, I still feel like I need to give credit where obvious credit is due. Thanks for the hard work, warm welcomes, and dead on advice I recieve each day here. And the flavor of the day today is an RC29 build, Cyanogen pimped out recovery and his latest update, very nice "Black Ice" theme, and a phone I cant seem to put down. Oh crap...here comes that jack a** boss of mine and my boot loader is stuck in a loop. I gotta start establishing better priorities.......like getting up and closing my office door so I can wipe and reflash this bad boy!!
Hihi.. nice writing.
Welcome on board.
Grtz Leo
I'm not looking for answers - just sharing my appreciatetion and thanks! Because of the GREAT job of XDA Developers and the people who post on this forum, I was able to go from being a total noob a few months ago, to being able to root and flash my Captivate yesterday without so much as a hiccup. Yes, I started the process many months ago, spent some time reading through the forums and didn't post anything because I didn't feel comfortable asking any questions when I saw so many others being told..."go look it up." I'm glad I did, because looking it up made me more knowledgeable and capable of doing what I did.
I don't have any $$ right now because I just got done with surgery and being out of work for a month, but as soon as I am back on my feet, I will certainly be donating to XDA and the developers of the ROM and Apps I used to help me along the process.
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!
Welcome to posting in forums,
Nice first post
Here Here!
I just want to provide a big "thank you" to everyone who contributes to XDA. I modded my gtablet to "Calkulin+Clemsyn" and in the process I soft-bricked it. However, XDA provided all the information and resources I needed to use nvflash and install C+C correctly. I thought I loved my gtablet with Vegan-tab, but I'm really digging C+C (Skype w/video!). I now feel like I have a brand new device to play with for 2012!
This community does awesome work. I'm so happy with my tablet that some donations will be coming to those who worked so hard on making these custom ROMS and those who provide all this valuable information.
I concur.
My devices are millions times better due to the work of rom developers!
Thanks XDA
Have been learning from XDA devs for almost 2 years - it's time to write to thank all of you for making everyone's experience better. Just flashed Ultimite ICS rom for my sensation and it's excellent, the documentation/comments/responses were excellent, and all-around this is an exceptional resource.
So, thanks.
Just the fact that we come back to read and contribute day after day, week after week, year after year, shows how much we love this site. The membership has doubled this year. Be certain that XDA will be a household name in the next couple of years as Android and Windows phones spread around the world.
ben0551 said:
I concur.
My devices are millions times better due to the work of rom developers!
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I would also have to concur. All the wonderful folks here at XDA have made my devices (Samsung Omnia i710 and now HTC HD7) much more interesting over the years. Many thanks to all the devs!
A BIG THANK YOU for all your hard work on these ROMs and tweaks for our phones. I have an Eris that finally works decent and a Transformer that rocks. I have learned so much in the past few weeks of reading here, and the registration video is about the funniest thing on the net. I would thank each of you if I had a "Thankyou" button anywhere here, and cannot post anything like feedback or crashes where they belong until I get that 10 post limit met. CS, your cm7 is awesome, but I had restart problems when trying to do a bluetooth tether to a xoom, and the adw kept FCing, but other than that, GREAT JOB. Tazz rocks and so do many others. I am now using GSB4.0, but going to try a few others that I downloaded soon.
My name is Aaron, handle is sarwiz. I am new to the rooting world, having been mad at my htc eris for 1-1/2 years now and finally rooted it last week. It FINALLY works as a phone now! I have tried condemned ans gsb4.0 and am ready to try a few others before going back to ccm7(loved it). I have been on AOA and Ubuntu forums for a few years, and now here and android forums. I am trying to learn more about linux etc, and maybe might be able to help now and then. Just read an article about ICS leaks and am off to find some.
***sent from an asus eee netbook easytethered (pro) to an eris (verison) GSB4.0mod***
Welcome to forums
Nice 1st post
orb3000 said:
Welcome to forums
Nice 1st post
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Nice first post....pity others can't do something like this lol...
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BIG DITTO!!!
I am not a developer, but a savoy IT engineer. I appreciate all of the work done by every developer. I have a Xoom and a HTC Sensation, both rooted and very little issues. You've taken a hobby for me that would consumer three or four times the amount of time you spend and turned it into very simple and easy process. I'm sure there are numerous people who benefit from your labor/love and never recognize you, so the least I can do is show that I appreciate it!
If I had my own business and was looking for devs......I know where to go.
Well thank you sarwiz I just hope that all of us can take back with what should of been rightfully ours to begin with. The way I see it since I am the one with the phone in my hand I feel I should be the one in power of all of what it does.
I myself feel I should be the all out administrator to my phone as the company make is not the ones with it in there hands.
I wanted to create a thread that would reflect what drove me to XDA and made me a member.
One sentence comments will be removed. please stay on topic and be thorough.
I am aware that there are many that have been on XDA far longer then myself. I have fond memories of first entering this HTC forum, looking for help on my HTC Touch.
While this was some time back, I never really utilized the forum. It wasn't until a few years later, that I once again stumbled upon this site called XDA (wasn't I here once before) I seem to remember this forum... low and behold I was here, but forgot my password lol
I have found many friends here and have learned many how to's and how not to's of conversation/communicating with perfect strangers.
I have grown a vast admiration for those who develop and those that contribute
My second go round with XDA came a few years later when I purchased my first Android smartphone.
John R kick'n since back in the day
And then there was Josh... I couldn't wait for another YT vid from him. He was one of those hat you would come to admire
After learning how to "flash a rom" his weekly tutorials became an entity of there own. Here is the first rom he talked me into:laugh:
And your story is?
Time for you all to share:good:
I discovered xda back in 2010 when I owned my first android phone. It was the HTC Desire, beautiful and in the spur of the moment choice I had made (I was due for an upgrade and was at the mall and I was going to go for the HTC Hero but they didn't have it in stock so I opted for the Desire, didn't know what I was in for).
I remember looking for everything about Android, learning about it, learning about HTC sense and what not. I was then trying to find means of a way to get Android 2.2 at the time, hahaha. It was 2.1 and I didn't want to wait for the OTA update, god it took forever to come. Ended up searching up "How to install 2.2 onto your HTC Desire" there were so many links about installing ROMs and rooting + etc. Ended up using the one-click root program (the name escapes me) and by chance I ended up in the subforums for the Desire, learning customizations, what to do when my phone got stuck in a bootloop and becoming a part of "flashaholics anonymous." I was flashing one ROM everyday until I got bored and stopped. Here I am, 3 years later with my Desire still alive, running on Jellybean and I'm now a proud owner of the Nexus 4 too. I was on and off this forum for quite some time, decided to return since I wanted to root my Nexus 4 and which I did so successfully, just trying to find the perfect ROM for that N4 now.
Re: Thank you XDA for....
XDA has become a big part of my life over the past (almost) 2 years! I have made some great friends and learned a great deal about android over my time here! If it wasn't for XDA I would still be stuck with a keyboard that skips every other letter I type and a gps that wouldn't work no matter what! Most importantly, to me, is the friendships and bonds I have developed with the community all around XDA though. That means so much more to me than any rom/kernel/theme/mod ever could! So thanks for brining more friends into my life XDA, I truly appreciate it! And a big thanks to qbking77, without your videos, I would probably still know nothing! :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
Thank you XDA for....
Thank you XDA & it's developers for giving best possible software support, help & giving dual touch which Sony said impossible
My story:
I bought a new W8 in about June 2013
First I was happy as it was my first android phone but then I searched & found that eclair(stock rom) doesn't support voice functions & application moving I was a noob then
But I searched & heard about unofficial updates & asked queries on Facebook & that redirected me to XDA & fun part started I saw many roms for stock kernel(I can't unlock bootloader thanks to sony ) first ROM- bootloop (forgot to wipe dalvik-cache) restored to stock
2nd rom brick! (Wrong kernel)
Finally gingerdx worked!!!!!
& my phone was better than ever (gingerbread)
& I registered on xda & started learning new things now I have got more knowledge about android than any of my friends I added extra tweaks & mods & customized everything & I also made good friends here too like Sgt. Meow, dagger, Taj_rocks list is gonna be long so let's stop
ALL THANKS TO XDA
:beer::beer::beer:
My first experience on XDA was right before I got my Captivate (SGH-i896). I was looking for the best phone to get at the time and that one was the clear winnner. From there, I found out about rooting and custom development, more specificly from Team Phoenix. After reading, reading and reading some more, I found myself helping others with the little bit of knowledge I had and after some time it became a daily thing (more like an addiction). That's when a member of TP at the time (NunHugger) noticed me and asked to join their team (you can imagine how happy I was).
I still remember the first day I got to help users carrying the TP crest in my sig, it was one beautiful day!
Kept going with them and helping around as much as I could for over a year. We had went through team merges and split ups but all in good measures. After the early ICS days, real life hit'd me in the face and couldn't be on XDA as much, which ended being less than once a week. But after a few months, when things settled down, I got back in touch with my good old friends and teammates and slowly got back into XDA.
XDA didn't only teach me about developping/modding and such, it also bought me some really good friends, which are like my 2nd family now (''Team Family'' *Pun Intended*). Those people made me a better person, opened my eyes to so many important things and we got through a lot of things together. I definately didn't imagine my XDA experience to turn out like that but I am really grateful it did!
BWolf56 said:
My first experience on XDA was right before I got my Captivate (SGH-i896). I was looking for the best phone to get at the time and that one was the clear winnner. From there, I found out about rooting and custom development, more specificly from Team Phoenix. After reading, reading and reading some more, I found myself helping others with the little bit of knowledge I had and after some time it became a daily thing (more like an addiction). That's when a member of TP at the time (NunHugger) noticed me and asked to join their team (you can imagine how happy I was).
I still remember the first day I got to help users carrying the TP crest in my sig, it was one beautiful day!
Kept going with them and helping around as much as I could for over a year. We had went through team merges and split ups but all in good measures. After the early ICS days, real life hit'd me in the face and couldn't be on XDA as much, which ended being less than once a week. But after a few months, when things settled down, I got back in touch with my good old friends and teammates and slowly got back into XDA.
XDA didn't only teach me about developping/modding and such, it also bought me some really good friends, which are like my 2nd family now (''Team Family'' *Pun Intended*). Those people made me a better person, opened my eyes to so many important things and we got through a lot of things together. I definately didn't imagine my XDA experience to turn out like that but I am really grateful it did!
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AdamHolden for president :good:
TonyStark said:
AdamHolden for president :good:
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Haha! Don't forget Xtremekilla07 :good: Whatever how much we upgrade OS and add features to our older phones, I don't remember a ROM running better than FireFly 3.0 did back in the days. That was just pure awesomeness!
Re: Describe your journey to XDA. Make sure to thank XDA
Wow. Well my time at XDA started with something simple...trying to get Flash working on the Samsung Epic 4G that came with Eclair. Google search led me to XDA and leaked Froyo builds that allowed Flash to finally work. I was intrigued at the possibilities of rooting and all the helpful people I met here. I absorbed all the knowledge I could of that phone and before I knew it I was the one answering questions as quick as I could read them. The feeling from helping others was awesome. Soon after losing the Bonsai team I had joined as a tester, I yearned for that same look and feel of the Bonsai ROMs. Rather than pester themers and ROM devs to make my phone look and do what I want, I learned how to start doing it myself starting with Dreamsforgotten's awesome themeing guide. It was not long before I figured out the next step of building a ROM....one for The People. But still I wanted to help my new XDA family even more. I began helping the moderators of the Epic 4G forum, 2 great guys in PG101 and Jayharper08! I wanted to do for The People what they did and help keep this a great welcome place for all comers. They let me know about open moderator applications. I was fortunate enough to make the cut. I am still making ROMs for my family here and now help out even more as your Friendly Neighborhood Moderator. Thanks to all my family here!
Turing of Signature . .
My Journey isn't as big as others. I started with my first cellphone which was the Samsung Star. A year later I bought the Samsung Galaxy 3 (aka Apollo not the Galaxy S 3). It was the first phone in Samsung Galaxy series and I had no knowledge about android. Sooner I started to find out stuff about android and found a function called "App2Sd" which was only on Froyo. I wanted it and searched the whole internet untill I stumbled on XDA. I hardly understood what a ROM meant and I thought it was something like the Gameboy ROM games. A choose one ROM which had a good theme and was based on froyo and that was it.
It triggered the flashoaholic in me. I tried every rom available.
I used the Apollo for 3 years and now I learned a lot about Android, apps and much more. Now I use the Nexus 4 which is a massive upgrade in all directions. I had neither used ICS nor a big touch screen. The screen really makes me vomit rainbows and waffles.
Thanks XDA.
ak700 said:
My Journey isn't as big as others. I started with my first cellphone which was the Samsung Star. A year later I bought the Samsung Galaxy 3 (aka Apollo not the Galaxy S 3). It was the first phone in Samsung Galaxy series and I had no knowledge about android. Sooner I started to find out stuff about android and found a function called "App2Sd" which was only on Froyo. I wanted it and searched the whole internet untill I stumbled on XDA. I hardly understood what a ROM meant and I thought it was something like the Gameboy ROM games. A choose one ROM which had a good theme and was based on froyo and that was it.
It triggered the flashoaholic in me. I tried every rom available.
I used the Apollo for 3 years and now I learned a lot about Android, apps and much more. Now I use the Nexus 4 which is a massive upgrade in all directions. I had neither used ICS nor a big touch screen. The screen really makes me vomit rainbows and waffles.
Thanks XDA.
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Do you have a YT for this? If so, add it to your post. Thanks
Re: Describe your journey to XDA. Make sure to thank XDA
Well, my XDA residence started from HTC Desire with which I have a love and hate relationship. Why love? Well, it introduced me to the world of android where computing power is finally truly mobile and fits in your pocket. Why hate? It introduced me to XDA.
I stumbled across XDA when I was trying to find out when froyo was coming to it. At the same time I was hating on it for lacking internal memory. I found out about a2sd+. That was it. I was hooked. Since then I've spent countless hours in xda looking for answers and answering questions. For some reason I finally turned into a noob friendly guy which likes to educate new users where and how to look for answers. Because of that I've "met" a lot of people. We formed teams, we just had good time and we learned together. It is fun.
I'm glad found it. And not at the same time. XDA is so good, it's bloody addictive and often takes over more important things in real life. I guess because I feel comfortable here, and that's thanks to you guys, which are nice and friendly and no matter how different we are, we are a lot more often more similar than people from irl around us, as we have one massive addiction/hobby in common.
Mods are great, they look after us, they are peacekeepers. Big thanks to them for that.
But i truly believe it's you guys, users, that are making xda what it is. And don't let an ignorant noob to change that. Don't flame them, "convert" them into another useful member of the community.
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Honestly I dont remember exactly how I ran into xda, but i remember it was in april-may 2011 when I got my first android device, the almighty Xperia X8, for sure I would've go insane without xda(small ram, only eclair), I really can't imagine how I ran into xda, I didn't knew about root at all, it just happened, so after readin stuff in xda, in june I rooted for the first time the x8(now I can't imagine a phone without root) and so does my journey begins with flashing froyo, gingerbread, froyo again, some eclair and so on.
After couple of months I thought now it's time to start giving help aswell so I joined xda in oct 2011. Since then lot happened, my x8 went through fire and ice, had all sorts of ROMs(even honeycomb lol), mids, kernels and I could talk all day about it. Unfortunately now I don't own an x8 anymore, I own an s2 and a tab2 7.0 but if it wasn't xda(and indirectpy the x8) i think they would've ended smashed to a wall because touchwiz is my ultimate nemesis, so thx xda for all the good stuff i learnt.period
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I got an Android phone back in late 2009 or so and I ran across a site known as XDA because I was finding some tips on modding the OS. I never made an account though, I don't know why, but I made that decision for some reason, though.
Re: Describe your journey to XDA. Make sure to thank XDA
Well first of all, BIG THANKS to xdadevelopers for having an open site for us non developers to be a part of !! It has been an absolute pleasure to be a member here. To learn so much. And to be able to participate in all aspects of development. And to be able to, in return, contribute and help others. And for these things...Thank u XDA !!!!
I got here via the way of the SGH-i897 Samsung Captivate , my first smart phone. Got it after i discovered I had washed my Samsung Impression. So glad now that I got that faithful Captivate. After having it for about a month I started lookin online about this phone and for ways to get rid of the at&t apps, a.k.a. :banghead: bloatware. That quest led me to XDA :thumbup: It didn't take me long to decide to become a member. But it did take me a while before I started posting it seemed. Read a lot. Then read a lot more. Got Root. Got rid of the bloat. Started flashin Roms, using Odin, etc. and really enjoyed my new found hobby. Then came my first brick , thankfully a soft brick. But that led to me makin my own jig. And from then on, hooked for sure. -- Hence my avatar F5N . All the learning and participating in the xda community has been and continues to be a part of my everyday life, just as other hobbies that I enjoy are. -- Gotta keep things in perspective. :thumbup:
So here's to u XDA and all it's members...and especially to several members, from the forums that I have been a part of, that have become like really good buds that I enjoy hangin out with. :beer::thumbup::beer:
Sent from my SGH-I777 using xda premium (and soon to be SGH-I747)
ah the memories.
my trek to xda was due to my newly acquired p500 many yrs ago. I tweaked the heck out of that one. good times.:good:
muchos gracious XDA!!!
So,
I came to XDA in Aug 2008, looking for a way to remove Manila (now sense) from my HTC Diamond.. that day gone.. and today.. no looking back.. learnt.. gave back to the community ... learnt more.. gave back more you know how it is
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Thanks TonyStark for starting this thread! I think this is a really cool idea and an awesome way to come together and give thanks for the awesomeness that is the XDA community!
I too, have made many friends on this site and really appreciate this site's purpose and the comaraderie it spawns.
I came to XDA in 2010 after I purchased my first Android device (which like many others was) a Samsung Captivate. I finally joined XDA in mid 2011.
It was via my Captivate and good old mobiletechvideos.com that I learned how to root and flash ROM's. I think my first custom ROM was Serendipity. I've been hooked ever since. I never imagined that I would meet such an incredible bunch of people and learn an immense amount along the way. I've always been a typical geek and XDA provided a medium thru which to express that geekiness and pimp my handsets out in the process.
I truly love this site and not a day goes by that I don't visit it and learn something new!
Many thanks XDA for an immense repository of knowledge and a truly genuine experience! Without you I would be stuck with Touchjiz or some other inadequate stock ROM!!
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I came here as a total noob to Android and mostly to forums as well. I do go to some technical forums for work related troubleshooting, but I never stayed anywhere for more than a few minutes. Something about XDA hooked me pretty quickly and I read and read and read trying to figure out the rules and unwritten customs here for many many hours at a time, learning, getting answers, then giving answers, and now participating at a higher level still as a mod. My wife started calling it my "jobby". :-/ I still haven't told her I was accepted as a mod.
I still have my first and only Android phone, the HTC Sensation. I ran CM JB on it for a bit but I am back on ICS now but with Sense 4.1. I also have a Windows phone that was a tester at work, no SIM so I just use it over WiFi but it is interesting to see the differences between the OSes. My contract runs out in August so I will be getting the best advice in the world from this site as to what to go to next. Thank you XDA!!
Describe your journey to XDA. Make sure to thank XDA
A couple of years ago I was thinking about rooting my HTC Desire, Started searching on Google and of course XDA came up alot in the results so I started reading the forum posts. I didn't get very far in my rooting and sort of forgot about it. Then about a year later my wife started having trouble with her Galaxy S2 so back to Google, which of course lead me back to XDA.
Maybe the timing was better, the stars aligned, whatever, but thanks to very helpful people at XDA I sorted the S2 problems then in a burst of enthusiasm went back, rooted the Desire and went on to root my current HTC One X,
Point is I'm having lots more fun with my phones very much thanks to some very generous people here at XDA.