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XDA's Revenue

How does XDA Devs generate income? Does their ROMs are simple made cz of their dedication.and hardwork? Is there a way they can get money from them..?
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ROMs are shared with other people, not sold to them which means they don't earn anything from it.

lamborg said:
ROMs are shared with other people, not sold to them which means they don't earn anything from it.
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Just like any other file sharing methods ryt....completely non-profit oriented?
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The ROM developers here (the vast majority anyway) have no desire make money from their work. They do it because they can and they do it for themselves. We are just lucky enough that they are willing to share their work with us.
Any ROM developer whose main aim is to make money is doing it wrong. (imo)
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We are all smart people coming together to share knowledge. Why pay for that?
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dUnstein said:
How does XDA Devs generate income? Does their ROMs are simple made cz of their dedication.and hardwork? Is there a way they can get money from them..?
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If that was the case then XDA would charge us all for a membership here.

shravbits said:
We are all smart people coming together to share knowledge. Why pay for that?
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Well put.

shravbits said:
We are all smart people coming together to share knowledge. Why pay for that?
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Absolutely. But doesn't it make you feel bad when somebody outside this community is unaware of the contributions you are giving to make this world much smarter?

XDA Gains money from the ads on their website.
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It should be.
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Not sure what is?

Just like Atheism - A non-prophet organization
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Its the main deference between IOS & Android. And its the main reason we all love android. I think they find a small revenue to run the site from Google itself and through ads

Sure, Selflessness is always a virtue... :-D
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Think of XDA of a website where skilled developers come together to share there knowledge. We are lucky that they allow us non developers to hang around and share in the fruits of there labour

Yup, in fact, we are needed amd are inevitable, being the end-users , ryt?
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dUnstein said:
Yup, in fact, we are needed amd are inevitable, being the end-users , ryt?
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Actually, that's a very common misconception. Quite a few mods/devs/recognised contributors/high-ranking senior members have gone on rants about this sort of thing
We are NOT in any way necessary. XDA is not a 'make my phone cool' service. The devs normally make ROMs for their own usage, and only share them with us for no profit because that's just the way they are. If you ask the majority of devs to create a ROM which they simply don't like, they will not do it. Try asking someone like Tytung (if you've ever had an HD2, you know who he is), who only does AOSP/CM based ROMs to create a Sense-based ROM, or someone like MCCM (again from the HD2 forums), who only does Sense/MIUI ROMs to make a Cyanogenmod ROM. They would refuse, because they're not doing this for us but for themselves. We're just very lucky that they choose to share their work with us.
That was essentially a very summarised and watered-down version of this post

From an enduser, i think we pay the devs with thanks to there work. Is money more worth than the feeling that people who dont know you, love your work?

True, and as Nigeldg told, we should really be lucky enough for their sharing mentality.
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APP DEVS ?

If there are any skilled app dev's in the ny/nj area please pm me. i have a killer idea and would like to get it started

Perhaps it would interest the developers a little more if you told us about your idea first
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krisI0N said:
Perhaps it would interest the developers a little more if you told us about your idea first
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lol dude thats how you get screwed over and have your ideas stolen .. never tell anybody about a business idea unless your sure theyre going to be part of it with you . thats why i said pm me and we can talk or exchange emails or phone numbers . its a GREAT idea though no bs but im not a dev so i need a partner with skills .. no newbe's

ANTHONY81L said:
lol dude thats how you get screwed over and have your ideas stolen .. never tell anybody about a business idea unless your sure theyre going to be part of it with you . thats why i said pm me and we can talk or exchange emails or phone numbers . its a GREAT idea though no bs but im not a dev so i need a partner with skills .. no newbe's
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So this developer is going to do all the hard work while you just chill and relax? Not trying to be rude.
I just think you should study some java to create your very own application. Learn a little bit then go hands on with eclipse.

I sent open a pm. I'm learning to dev apps right now. My best friend is teaching me and he has a lot of experience so he'd me helping me out. He created shady SMS for himself and works for a company that shall remain nameless whose whole business is based on making mobile applications for larger companies. He's currently working on a Bloomberg app
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_dan said:
So this developer is going to do all the hard work while you just chill and relax? Not trying to be rude.
I just think you should study some java to create your very own application. Learn a little bit then go hands on with eclipse.
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i dont know if you know how a team works my man . everybody plays a part and id say coming up with the entire idea counts as contribution. im not looking for a worker im looking for a partner .. possibly 2 . i will also be contributing as much as i possibly can. money , ideas whatever . understand ?

Xda has more then just specific phone subgroups. Its called android apps and games subforum. Visit it.
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Shoulon said:
Xda has more then just specific phone subgroups. Its called android apps and games subforum. Visit it.
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Lol never fails . There's always an xda cop lurking around somewhere

ANTHONY81L said:
Lol never fails . There's always an xda cop lurking around somewhere
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I didn't say wrong thread or wrong section. But you would have better luck over there.
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ANTHONY81L said:
i dont know if you know how a team works my man . everybody plays a part and id say coming up with the entire idea counts as contribution. im not looking for a worker im looking for a partner .. possibly 2 . i will also be contributing as much as i possibly can. money , ideas whatever . understand ?
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Well good luck with that my man.

Shoulon said:
Xda has more then just specific phone subgroups. Its called android apps and games subforum. Visit it.
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Correct. I think it would be better over there. Reach a lot more users.
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Can you sell a rom?

Can you sell an android fully customized operating system?

NightCalyster said:
Can you sell an android fully customized operating system?
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Not sure being that it's android based so it's like selling the Os so I guess no but u can sell themes for certain roms
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A rom yea just not here
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No. You can't sell open source software. You can, I suppose, charge people for your time working on it, or ask for donations. Or charge people to use your bandwidth, or the media storage to transfer the files. Maybe even some rigged shipping and handling.
But you can't put a price on the software itself. You don't own it no matter how much you tweak it.
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That was a seriously douche question. Come on man what do you think this community is about? An open source driven environment with the intent of users helping each other to better the Android platform.
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If some one customize. Rom to every detail u give then and sell it to u then its legal. U can some as paying someone to repair a computer or jailbreaking a ophone
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NightCalyster said:
Can you sell an android fully customized operating system?
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No you cannot sell Open Source but it appears you can ask for money in turn for an early release of a ROM you make before you give it to the public here on XDA Which is a bunch of Hokum

Icanthelplt90 said:
That was a seriously douche question. Come on man what do you think this community is about? An open source driven environment with the intent of users helping each other to better the Android platform.
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Dude chill he didn't say he wanted to sell here and he didn't say he wanted to sell at all he could just be curious no need to bash him... That's honestly a good question, I would ask it myself but I already know the answer... This doesn't mean he is gonna be like "Ics Builds $. 99 per update" lol take it easy!
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don728871 said:
If some one customize. Rom to every detail u give then and sell it to u then its legal. U can some as paying someone to repair a computer or jailbreaking a ophone
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Lol, not really.
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Guys lets be honest here, he did not say he was going to sell one and he did not say he was not so we truly don't know his intentions but what we do know is that question is a little off to the left. Now with that being said and all the responses I see here what happen to the OP. He asked a question gets everyone all bent out of shape and never shows up again.
Either someone wants to sell him a rom or he wants to sell one - cant see any other reason for asking that particular question... jus my thoughts

VoiD_Dweller said:
No you cannot sell Open Source but it appears you can ask for money in turn for an early release of a ROM you make before you give it to the public here on XDA Which is a bunch of Hokum
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Yea seriously.
As far as selling roms goes, you can. BUT it's seriously frowned upon. Though it helps if you built the ROM from the ground up. When I had my Epic 4g, team Bonsai left the xda forums and stopped uploading their work for whoever wanted it. They instead made their own website/forum and sold it there. A lot of people didn't like this move but it made sense to me. Building a ROM from the ground up along with your own kernel is not easy at all. That takes a lot of work. They chose to lose all the xda baggage (noobs, douchebag mods, ect) and charge for their work. But this also meant that their supporters would always have timely updates and the best support. And they had a lot of supporters. The bonsai ROMs were badass.
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Broadcom drivers porting

I know someone talked about this before but I will talk more deep
We know that broadcom won't release the drivers soon so what about modifing our existing drivers or port drivers from other broadcom devices (e.g. raspberry pi)
This will be a good step for the cyanogen project
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well,
if you really did read it before,
you should have noticed that SGY (according to broadcom by their representative david) has the only unique chip running in the market, different from nokia 808 and raspi,
so even with binaries for pi released we are still baffled on how to use them since it has a different chipset
also use the search function.,
we already have a thread for matters such as this
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well,
if you really did read it before,
you should have noticed that SGY (according to broadcom by their representative david) has the only unique chip running in the market, different from nokia 808 and raspi,
so even with binaries for pi released we are still baffled on how to use them since it has a different chipset
also use the search function.,
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What about modifing the existing drivers ?
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mohamedrashad said:
What about modifing the existing drivers ?
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We lack devs that has sufficient skills to try that
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mohamedrashad said:
What about modifing the existing drivers ?
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If you can read binary then go ahead
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I will try after exams but no promises
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mohamedrashad said:
I will try after exams but no promises
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Lol
SeNd FrOm GoD'z OwN CoUnTrY.......

jaison thomas said:
Lol
SeNd FrOm GoD'z OwN CoUnTrY.......
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Kerala
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sanny5 said:
Kerala
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Ofcourse yes
SeNd FrOm GoD'z OwN CoUnTrY.......

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Lol
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I will work on nokia 808 driver after I extract them
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Guys better buy a new phone...

simplyanin said:
Guys better buy a new phone...
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We will try and we will never give up besides, most of us don't have money for high end phone and if u are saying that this device sucks and it is a tin can i wan to tell you that the htc Dream ( first android phone ever) has working JB 4.2
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this is not about the phone...its the challenge....

mohamedrashad said:
We will try and we will never give up besides, most of us don't have money for high end phone and if u are saying that this device sucks and it is a tin can i wan to tell you that the htc Dream ( first android phone ever) has working JB 4.2
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That's really sad to know
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hell_lock said:
That's really sad to know
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I know dude but this gives us a kind of hope
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@op, having such spirit is good. but knowing reality is also importance. porting driver from binary, from different os, almost impossible.
instead of doing something that 99.9% will be fail, why don't you spend your time to do something that more productive, like learning to modifying rom or kernel source. or better, learn to write android application.

mohamedrashad said:
We will try and we will never give up besides, most of us don't have money for high end phone and if u are saying that this device sucks and it is a tin can i wan to tell you that the htc Dream ( first android phone ever) has working JB 4.2
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I never said that galaxy y sucks ...
Its one of the best budget device from samsung ... i used it for past 1.5years
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irfanbagus said:
@op, having such spirit is good. but knowing reality is also importance. porting driver from binary, from different os, almost impossible.
instead of doing something that 99.9% will be fail, why don't you spend your time to do something that more productive, like learning to modifying rom or kernel source. or better, learn to write android application.
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I will give it a try hope me luck
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I never said that galaxy u sucks ...
Its one of the best budget device from samsung ... i used it for past 1.5years
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I just have hope because I know that the HTC G1 (dream) had The JB 4.2
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simplyanin said:
Guys better buy a new phone...
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Such a +VE feedback there ...My device is a W....you may wondering if I am lost here....I bought my son a Y but honestly reading the Dev. here really2 AMAZES me.
This is XDA we are to encourage any Developer to provide as much help as possible.
Driver porting is POSSIBLE
Thumbs Up Dude...Let's help the OP :highfive:

andynroid said:
Such a +VE feedback there ...My device is a W....you may wondering if I am lost here....I bought my son a Y but honestly reading the Dev. here really2 AMAZES me.
This is XDA we are to encourage any Developer to provide as much help as possible.
Driver porting is POSSIBLE
Thumbs Up Dude...Let's help the OP :highfive:
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Thank you man for this encouragement but till the internet is fixed no promises
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Bountry devs?

I remember all these bountys where people say theyll do this or that once they get the device. One was where we could do a double boot meaning we turn off the phone and can choose which rom we want to run just like the hd2. The other was wifi calling for aosp roms. Now i dont want to sound like an ignorant butthole but shouldnt those devs atleast deliver what they said they would or atleast an update? If they did deliver please send me the link to them. I really was waiting for the double root for a long time.
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Um the dual boot kernel has been out for a while now. As for wifi calling on AOSP, no one has taken the bounty.
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I don't want to sound like an arrogant butthole, but maybe you should know what you're talking about.
The dual boot kernel was and is delivered
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40410021
And the wifi calling has not been claimed because it was a complete the work then claim
Ps you do sound like an ungrateful one and did you even donate?
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kintwofan said:
I don't want to sound like an arrogant butthole, but maybe you should know what you're talking about.
The dual boot kernel was and is delivered
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40410021
And the wifi calling has not been claimed because it was a complete the work then claim
Ps you do sound like an ungrateful one and did you even donate?
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Butthole lol
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Thread closed before it gets worse
Moral of the story: Bounties are risky, if you don't want to risk it, don't!
If you donated and did not follow up...your bad!
If you didn't donate, why you posting this?
XDA neither endorses or enforces bounties
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