[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ckisgen:
i find it cute and mildly amusing when people post fact-less allegations and throw names around act as if they are informed enough to even say this kind of stuff and yet obviously have no clue what they're talking about.

why don't you try doing a little research and/or posting something to actually back up what you're saying next time? that way you'll possibly look less like a troll/tool.

if you prefer to use CM7 or some other ROM - sweet! use that. that's what Android and XDA is all about.

but next time you wanna create a dummy little side account and call yourself 'kang exposer' and then shoot your mouth off calling my ROM a 'straight kang' - you might wanna put the kool-aid down for 5 minutes and actually look at the hard facts and data that's quite clearly openly available to you and anyone else who is interested.

here's md5sums on every file in CM7 nightly build #99 (the version that would most likely be the most similar to my first beta build of RG 2.2 .. I initially compiled this beta around the same date NB99 was released):

http://pastebin.com/aFJTJfpc

and here's the text file where i ran md5sum checks for all files from RG 2.2 beta 1 that had the same md5sum (basically meaning nothing changed)

http://pastebin.com/q41MREvC

as you'll see - there are 424 files out of the 737 total files inside CM7 NB#99 that match. or in other words, 313 files that either aren't there or are different.

however, when over 42% of the files in the ROM in question are different in some manner - i believe calling it a 'straight kang' is more than silly.

i've made it no secret that Ginger is based on CM7 source code and given proper credit from day one. i never claimed to have reinvented any wheels. however, there is a pretty significant and verifiable difference between RoyalGinger and CM7. did i rewrite 42% of the code in CM7 to create RG? of course not. did i do anything that most of you can't do if you sat down and put in the time and effort? nope. what i have done is, at this point, is spent many multiple hundreds of hours this year taking the things i didn't personally like out of CM7, adding in the parts i wanted that weren't there already, and tweaking or changing anything else that i could find that made it work better for me, offered this end result to anyone else who wanted to try it, listened to what worked/didn't work for people, stayed up til all hours of the night troubleshooting or helping users understand their phones better, and continued to revise, release, and support updates for the thousands of people who download and enjoy this ROM. all the while, never once soliciting or even asking for a donation from anyone.

so, yeah .. when a piss ant like you comes along once every couple of months and goes around claiming that RG is identical to CM7 or that i've done nothing for the community, etc. - it's a little irritating. 9 out of 10 times i choose to ignore it. this time i decided to call your bull*&#t out for what it was.

from here, if you'd personally like to spend several hours decompiling every file (that you're able to figure out how to) in both ROM zips and then comparing all of the lines of code on the files that don't match - feel free. please post your results. i don't have time myself.

in the meantime - please wipe the egg off of your face and enjoy whichever (FREE) ROM you've found on this forum that works best for you. and i'd appreciate it if next time you wanna try and discredit someones work on here - check the facts first so that you have some vague idea what you're talking about.

thanks