[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] shingers5:
Well its time I jumped in and defended my brother and he is my brother. The one and only true friend I made on xda. He started off with Sony xperia x1 tweaking base builds and making them faster and more stable (RC2_Tweaked). This was wm6. That's when we first made contact and became instant friends. We then started working together just us 2 no one else. I was his beta tester the only one and I had the ideas which he made into reality. His website is named after our main release which I named :D. We took on touch-it, Energy and smaberg etc and we never asked for donations as we didn't believe in it. He hated sense and manilla but after a few late night arguments and swear words he got it going and being him it had to be perfect. We'd spend hours on msn working and discussing and arguing lol. Then he shared his work with gtrab on x1 who stole it and call it sex1 barebones which was a hit but he never gave WC any recognition for it. Then i saw an opportunity as no one could get the HTC YouTube app working on X1 and I got him to take it on and he did. He not only got it working but got devices that couldn't run it on HQ to do so. YES on X1 it was him that got HTC YouTube app working FIRST. All were using google app but none could get HTC YouTube app working. He did and laid to waste some major devs for lying that it couldn't be done. On WM6.5 we released unleashed and fully loaded xperia_nce. On TP2 it continued and the YouTube debate carried on. He proved that tp2 was capable of playing HQ vids flawlessly while major chefs were saying it couldn't. So I get to the real reason why XDA has snubbed WC and that is because he took on NRG yes the energy man who is xda cream and super moderator and dev extraordinaire, who is one of the main men at xda(i totally respect NRG for all his work across many devices and platforms). He showed people that he was a more accomplished dev on that devlce and that claims made were false. Videos posted proved this fact. some of us posted in tp2 energy thread and i ended up getting banned! yes after all years here i got banned for saying the truth and proving statements made to users were false. many people posting have not really heard of WC on XDA because during X1 days he decided to stop posting his roms on here. i begged him not to but he didnt like the way things worked on here. he decided to open his own site and continued to produce his very stable roms for x1 and tp2. traffic was slow but he did a stint on HTC-Pedia which drummed up some more followers. i didnt agree with his decision to pull his work from xda but respected his decision. i am under no illusion if WC had stuck it out here he would have been a recognised dev on here without fail. i knew this day would come hence why we i begged him not to pull out of here. however that does not defeat the object that he is what he has always been - one of the best unkown developers that has ever been on XDA. he pioneered some major breakthroughs on WM 6 and 6.5 on X1 and TP2 and later HD2. He took stock roms to the next level of stability. He is also repeating the same on android which can only be good for his followers. i can see that he has some loyal fans here and we have kept in touch. i was his first mod on his site LOL!

so what is a recognised dev:

- been cooking since x1

- been in the background on many major breakthroughs back in the day

- always humble and willing to help

- actually cares about stuff he releases not just throw it together and pass to people full of bugs