[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] TheBoldImperator:
Jesus, you guys are like a bunch of old ladies with your gossip and accusations. How about everyone drinks a cup of tea and calms the **** down? This isn't 4chan, acting like an asshole toward everyone isn't encouraged.

This is fine and dandy, but who's to say we'll even get sources in any sort of reliable time period, eh? Even when Samsung was pushing updates for relatively similar devices, internally, it took MONTHS to get an 2.2 update for the Vibrant and it doesn't have 2.3 officially at all. The difference is, developers could actually use the international source for it in a significant way. Not so with the T989. There's no telling when Samsung will release a source for the Snapdragon S2 variants. It could be a year from now, for all we know. And waiting a year for a phone firmware update after it's been released properly is simply inexcusable, even by Android standards. People have spend huge money (more than half a grand for the people who've bought unlocked!) for their devices. They should expect reasonable and speedy updates. If not from Samsung, then from third party developers. Telling people to deal with it when they've spent big money on their product is not an option, and it never should be.

Also, what happens when Jelly Bean rolls around? Samsung will never, not in a million years release a Jelly Bean update for any US variant of the Galaxy S II. There won't be any sources or any help at all. Developers will have to code drivers for the device, just like every ICS port for the original Galaxy S and its variants, and no amount of excuses and bull**** will postpone that. Every other device's programmers have to deal with coding their own drivers for their device, the T989 is not an exception.

That's like a chef telling his customers to just deal with it or become a chef themselves if he undercooks their food. Do I really have to repeat that people have spent six hundred ****ing dollars on this device?

Programming takes YEARS to learn on an advanced level, depending on the language (and you have to be at least somewhat knowledgeable when you're dealing with a full OS). It's a massive failure on Samsung's fault when they can't deliver speedy and timely updates, carriers or no. People have a right to be angry. And people have a right to criticize developers when they don't seem to be making any progress on their device despite being perfectly happy to release slightly modified TouchWiz builds after slightly modified TouchWiz builds. To be honest, I could do half the **** that's posted in the forums myself (and most people on this forum can with a little reading, too), TeamWhiskey and a couple others excluded, and it's even more pathetic when you consider the fact that people have ****ing donated to most of these people expecting real work on their device, Xboarder included. The fact of the matter is, as soon as you post your work on a public forum, you open yourself up to criticism. If you don't want it, then keep it to yourself. And when real money comes into play, it becomes an entirely different story. I don't want to hear excuses about the definition of a donation. People gave money expecting a service. There would be huge scandals if something like Kony 2012 turned out to be a massive fraud or didn't do anything toward its cause, and those are the raw facts.

This is just childish character assassination, and an insult toward anyone who spend the money getting Xboarder his phone. In fact, the entirety of the drama surrounding Xboarder has just been one big slap in the face toward the people who gave money expecting ICS, and the final straw on the camel's back regarding this whole situation. The mods have acted rudely and abrasively. The people have acted rudely and abrasively. Xboarder probably didn't act his best either, but that's not an excuse toward everyone else in any way, shape, or form.

Here's the raw facts.

-Xboarder was the first one to get any ICS port onto the device, booting or no.

-His ROM has significantly more progress on it than the other ROM available for the Skyrocket.

-When **** did happen, he simply admitted there was nothing more that he could do, apologized, and released the source along with all of the work that he's done, proving that he has in fact been working on the device.

-He hasn't asked for **** besides a phone to develop on.

-There hasn't been any donation begging at all.

Now, I'm not saying he's instantly free from guilt, but the fact of the matter is, he doesn't deserve to be treated like he's done terrible things and murdered a baby and killed your sainted mother for good measure (this doesn't mean he's instantly free from criticism either, though. After all, he was donated a phone).