[Android Software Development] OGroteKoning:
I have been using this app from my S2 days - so here is my view. Perhaps you will understand my frustration.

Yes, it is a great app (if/when it works)

Yes, he deserves to be paid for this app (as for some of his other apps I purchased)

Yes, it is also part of my standard toolkit

No, I am not acting like he is charging $100 - that is just your perception.

I appreciate what he has done for the community, but what he has done for the rest of the community is of no consequence to this paid app. I have other apps he developed and paid for those too.

Respect? That works both ways - dev to purchaser and vice versa.

I have posted earlier in this thread about a problem I had to install a firmware I downloaded from SamMobile. I ended up using Odin 3.07 to install the firmware and root. When I came here to request assistance and report it, there was absolutely no response even after a couple of bumps. I am running the firmware I want right now, but in the near future, I would like to use the app I paid for that is said to work with my device (LTE SM-G900F). It is damn quick and easy if it works.

Now I do understand that he is busy, so I do not demand he rushes out of bed to come and answer my post because normally there are some friendly forumites that pick up the problem and assist. More often than not it gets resolved by a fellow forumite/s without any input from the dev and that is okay, but here is little support even from the fellow forumites. This is when paid users hope that the dev who took the money for the app, would quickly pop in and assist. That is surely not too much to ask. And, might I add, this is not just a once off ***** and moan from my side - I have taken alternative steps before my post. I sent and e-mail and I mentioned the problem in the app rating I gave in the store. There is obviously no way I would have posted what I did had the dev (or anyone else for that matter) been willing/able to assist me. Now please tell me what to do next.

I am not that tech inclined as you. I can't dig into code and make the app work for my device. I am an end user with enough knowledge to make my device work/respond the way I want with the assistance of this and other apps. So what recourse do I have when the app fails? This thread is mostly left to people having requests as there is little interaction except when someone requests the app for a certain device or someone complains about feedback to resolve a problem. It is kinda one-sided and sad.

Maybe I do not understand the way "business" of paid apps work. Maybe the cost of the app is only for the code you install on your device - I don't know. But if that is the case, then say so in the app description on the store and/or in the OP.

So, in the absence of Chainfire, are you perhaps able to assist to get the app working on my device? Will you be available to help me if it fails the next time I want to install a firmware?

---------- Post added at 06:53 AM ---------- Previous post was at 06:47 AM ----------

I think I read somewhere that using Mobile Odin would trip Knox. But read the OP again - it might be stated there

EDIT: Re-reading your post indicates that you did read the whole OP. I must have seen elsewhere that it trips Knox