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[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] CallMeVentus:
Well , here's my story .

The very first smartphone I got was the Nokia N95 .

At that time , I only knew how to pirate games for use on this phone and it wasn't used much......then I in a fit of rage I once threw it against the wall (vo-1 reference) and the phone shattered into bits and pieces . It was no longer usable .

My parents then got me the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic , and that was really the start of time when I ventured into custom ROMs . Nokia phones had to be off to be flashable , so there was once I screwed up the internal firmware , rendering it unbootable . Fortunately for me , I found a stock firmware and flashed back to that version . However , all these adventures came to an end because my dad lost that phone (I was so sad) .

So I went back to the phone shop . The phones that I asked for: The 3 flagship WP7 phones......were all out of stock . Then I asked for the SII , out of stock .

I was presented with 2 Ace devices: the HTC Desire HD (HTC Ace) and the Samsung Galaxy Ace . I stupidly took the Galaxy Ace as it was free under my contract .

That's when I discovered Android phones could be rooted.....and so my quest at XDA began . I registered for an account straight away , looked at the available guides and I even made a newbie guide myself :) (I am proud of it)

I try to help people in the newbie thread and trolling along with friend in the off-topic thread :)

Till now , I have 3 Android phones (Motorola Defy [spoilt] , Motorola Backflip and Samsung Galaxy Ace) and a year of experience in XDA :) I also recently became a Recognized Contributor :D

Whatever the future holds I do not know.....but I will face whatever happens with a smile :)

This was sent from a Galaxy Ace. Problem?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] jinavs:
I dont like to write long stories... But in short Once an Ace user always an ace user...

Proud owner of an ace...

P.S : Good idea author... +1
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] FinnAndJake:
I WAS once a proud NOKIA user!

My last Nokia was E5...

I love the QWERTY keypad and hater of touchscreen phones. But one day I've read about ACE review in a newspaper. The review was so nice n I was influenced. :p

So,bought it. After about 3days, Im thinking, are they upgradeable like Nokia? So,I've Google and accidentally found xda,create an account but never write a single post that time

I follow the rooting,n flashing cm7.1 RC1 :p I didnt even know what ANDROID is. Luckily I didnt brick it. Consider myself lucky. Then when 7.2 was created, I used infinity rom by nims. After few months, I start to learn what is kernel(i have Googled it and the answer was popcorn lol), script, rom and ext,what is ODIN :p

Now,even I didnt make any modifications, but I'm still learning

the Mafia in 'making'
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] LewisGauss:
My first phone was Sony Ericsson K770i. It was a great phone. The camera used to be my favourite feature of it. In the year 2010, after finishing my PMR, I got a part time job as the P1 broadband promoter. After working for 1 month, I got the salary which was RM1000. Then I decided to buy a smartphone. I did many researches about what was a smartphone and Android. Then I found that Samsung Galaxy S was really awesome and popular. Unfortunately, it was very expensive and I decided to wait until it became cheaper. In the March of 2011, I read an article about Samsung new mid range smartphone-the Samsung Galaxy Ace. I was impressed, the design was absolutely amazing and specs was not bad. The day after that, I went to Samsung Centre in Sunway Pyramid and finally bought it with a price of RM999. :D

The performance of Galaxy Ace was very good until someday in April, it started to have problems. It rebooted itself. I was worried about that. Wondering was it infected by viruses? Then I looked for solutions from the internet and found the XDA forum. Did a cache wiping and everything became normal again. :p After that, I realised that I could actually customize it further. Then I started to learn about rooting. The first custom ROM that I installed was Ice Cream Sunday by Jusada. It was really good. Boosted the performance of my Ace.

In the September, I registered a XDA account. Decided to learn what was a custom ROM. Nims11 and Robin taught me a lot. Jusada also taught me how to create a custom ROM. Until today, I'm a Recognized Contributor of the XDA forum. :p

Respecting others never hurt, let's build a better XDA community.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] -RDR-:
well my Ace is my first phone :p

i first saw android os on my friends htc legend and was insanely amazed :eek:

the live wallpapers, the ui , the settings(lol they looked nice too:D ) and i decided at once that i will buy an android at any cost:mad::mad:

after seeing my phones Htc Desire i got even more desperate:o

so i worked part time for 3 months and raised up the money ( i was in 11 grade then ) so i had 3 choices available back then due to my 15k budget:

se xperia x10 mini(and mini pro ) , samsung galaxy 3 , and htc wildfire

i just loved the looks of sense ui , and was about to buy wildfire when bang ! came our Ace :cool: faster processor , better display and everything more than wildfire so i bought it right away after some 15 days after its release:)

well i never liked touchwiz( and i still dont :rolleyes: ) so i did some googling and foound whhat root power is capable of ...so i decided to root my phone:D

after watching the root tutorial about 3 times i finally rooted my phone .and then went on to the android market to install all root apps possible . well then i encountered the extremely dangerous ROM MANAGER:mad: and i bricked my phone:D:D:D luckily for me the service guys replaced the board:cool:

and from that day i flash anything fearlessly coz the worst possible had already happened to me.....well i found xda when i was searching for the elusive CM7 rom for my Ace ( read a great review of cm7 at androidpolice) and then i followed it for about 6 months without registering .....why ???:confused: bcoz i thought that this was a developer site:eek::eek::D i thought that devs will not like noobies like me ...well i finally decided to join in december ( bought my phone in march)

and since then its been a great journey:) today i have my favorite cm7 rom on phone ( never flashed a non-CM custom rom..not even roms based on CM ) ........and a great android community of which i m proud to be a part of :):):)

sorry for writing so much :o i just got a bit emotional:D
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] jyuuken:
great I'll start with mine. I was an avid Nokia user since its a popular brand here in the Philippines, started with 5110, 3315, 5300, N70, 5800 (i think), and C3. got bored and got my Backpay on one of my jobs. so i saw the ace and loved the screen, i bought on a mall just to find out that I can buy it online for less PHP2500 that what i paid for so i feel bad i thought it was a rip off. so I started using it and wasnt really happy with the battery life, thats were i started googling since i heard about custom ROMS, now i am very happy i bought an ACE, i plan on buying a new phone soon but will always use it as a back up :). i have also rooted 2-3 aces of my friends and introduced them to XDA and rooting.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Aj.GaLaxY aCE:
welll i always got used phone from my family..... 4-5 in span of 4 years from class 9....

then at the end of first year of my college i had 20,000 savings ... i asked my brother for helping me out for a phone for i basically needed for internet and pics..and i was in love from the name android and its huge functionality

My bro suggested me SAMSUNG"s ANDROID

galaxy ace was launched near may 2011.... as galaxy S didn't had the flash and my family asked me not to go for costly S2 (i still sometimes feel dejected why i never listened to my innerself and purchased s2) i ordered ACE...

as i GOT my ace i was extremely happy....i took photo from it... at night day and was in love with it...

but as i came in love with android apps.. i found the problem of "low internal phone memory"...

i moved to net and found flashing.... used androidflip and it was sad that the site didn't clearly stated the right process to boot in recovery.. so gave in service centre after wrong flashing...

next i came to xda.... and OMG!!! such helping people... i came to know of root... rooted my MOBILE.. partitioned sd-card and whole bundle of appps... at one time i had my 2GB sd-ext partition almost full on cm7

with time i grew to know how to flash and use phone with some mods..

i came to know about pro and cons of CM& and stock

and i always keep flashing my MOBILE and doing some MODS from UOT

my family started to denote and have fun with me by stating that my ACE is the 2nd SUPER COMPUTER that INDIA has got :D

now i am a STOCK custom rom lover ACE USER....

i keep a minimum app..not like my 2gb sd-ext :D....

i am not much of pretty much satisfied with the total response from my ace... but yes its was a nice package for 15,000 last year....
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] julieace:
Hii,

It was nice to hear stories from all of you...would like to know more n more interesting and geeky things that have happened to you guys n gals on the journey...

Keep writing.

If possible also share some information links which can guide others on their journey as well.

TIA
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] julieace:
Good luck

Wishing that you will soon get your phone and continue with the development work...ATB...njoy.

Don't forget the update ur story after you begin your journey once again...
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] julieace:
2nd Super computer owner!!!

It says 'lets make the best of wht we have got'...and i think galaxy ace community is pretty much rocking with lots of development going around...nothing is perfect and we will always desire more (Galaxy S3)...

And yep the 2nd Super Computer thing was good....njoy...
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] julieace:
Phone shattering journey

Quite a phone shattering journey...i mean u threw your phone on walls n all...well the newbie guide made by you was useful to me as well...

ATB.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] julieace:
Thnx.

nice blog ...http://androidict.blogspot.in/
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] chekuhakim:
I can see that most of us a from Nokia "smartphone". In 2009, i was not conviced with android. So i buy a windows mobile instead. A non touchscreen phone, with slide keyboard and stuff. Then after a year, androids become more mature and i got extra cash. So i bought Galaxy Ace. a value for money phone At that time. Comparing winmo standard and android, android is better in many levels. But winmo handles memory better imho.

I dont like stock rom, and using CM since the first unoficcial build. And now lewa rom. Tried CM9. It was fast and usable but my GF wants to use the camera. She even want me to flash back to GB that instance. Haha
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] dredremon:
my timeline on android

my first android phone was GALAXY 5 cheap phone but they have great developers @madteam.co and i already learn on galaxy 5 how to root how to recovery how to flash a rom how to edit some themes and also how to create a Rom .

My Mom buy a Galaxy Ace for my xmas gift so my g5 are goes to my litle sister

so i look at google and xda my first custom rom to my ace was Ice Cream Sunday by Jusada and now so many ROM that i already flash.

for today im working to my own cm7 themes :)

-sorry in my english.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] panpjp:
My Journey:

First when I was about in Grade 5 I got a WM smartphone: HTC Touch. I used it happily until my mom bought herself an HTC Tattoo(LOL, it was awesome that time:confused:). After that she went to iPhone 4 and I got the Tattoo. And that's when I'm addicted to XDA. Later on, as a unimportant 12-years-old kid, I got Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 FOR FREE:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:. First I argued with my dad about who will use the iPad 2 at home and the new stuff. I then OWN the Tab 8.9.

I used it for educational purposes. Then one day I went to lunch with my family, including my grandparents. To my amazement, my grandad got an ACE and he gave it to ME!:)

OK, so I am still on stock rom for a month, then you know that!(I changed rom 6 times a day maximum:cool: )

Unluckily, one day I started deving rom for ACE and pulled a Sense 3.5 rom from HTC hero and HARD-BRICKED MY ACE!!!!:mad: My dad took it to the service and the "geeks" over there changed the board for FREEEEEEEEEEE:rolleyes: From that day on I dare not port a ROM to my ACE.

Discovering XDA:

When I was using my HTC Touch one day I heard a strange word: "up ROM" which means flash ROM for pros. My dad upgraded the ROM for me and I came to XDA. After coming to the ACE forum 2 years (already rooted) later I found a F****** lots of ROMS here and acted like a maniac.

ROM Flashing:

At first I acted dumb: use ROM Manager on my ace(pls notify koush about that). Luckily nothing happened. As I got an experience on flashing before it was a breeze.

Developing:

Simple: Put apps into a ROM, zip it and sign it. :p

Next: Porting and HARD-BRICKING:o

Next again: Stucking at modding framework-res.apk(If someone knows how pls pm me, I found it on Google but want to know exactly how to do it on ACE.)

Changing mobile;

Before coming to ACE and when using HTC Click, my dad's Desire became broken. He allowed me to fix it, so now I'm on a Sense 3.5 ROM on my Desire in my pant's pocket right now.:rolleyes:

And that's the end!

-I may be a n00b and new on xda, but I'm a geek in Android
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] jumbobombo:
LOL you seem to have got a lot of free phones :D :D :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Sent from my GT-S5830
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] foggydisaster:
so many nice n funny stories... may i tell my own? heres it :	P :

one happy day before my birthday my parents asked me "what you want for birthday?" as my old nokia n93i was like its about to die forever i said i want new phone... then i had hard time picking one. Android - back in those times i sightly HATED android... but i decided to take a risk and i asked for galaxy ace - my first android phone....

one day i was shuffling through youtube and found video of CM7 i loved it soo much so i decided to flash it:P i found VERY BAD guide to install it... it was bad because it involved ROM manager...as i was noob i didnt know its poison for ace... thats how i lost my ace and gave it to our family's friend who said will repair it... Christmass was geting closer i got LG optimus black. and thats when i found xda:) was like maniac because of friendly ppl and many tweaks, roms etc... so i made acc to show help and learn something about android too... i started my project but it was crap so it ended up in trash bin... and one day my ace got back and i gave lg to my dad:	P the end of my story is here because now im happy with my ace on stock rom (only for now:P) with lots of mods... i hope i wont do anything else wich will kill my ace thanks for reading such long story:) hope one day ill make something usefull to ace users c:

Sent from my GT-S5830 using whatever you want
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] mawnstermew:
xD

My Journey:

My parents have lost all hope for me when it comes to keeping expensive stuffs, cuz i easily loose those things like in a year i lose around 2-3 phones. Thats why my father said that he'll be buying my VERY last phone. The popular phones at that time were the LG cookies, my mother has it and i find it slow -.-. Thats why i suspended on buying it and waiting for cooler ones. I temporarily used my Nokia 6120 and N70 and i get to surf the internet using 3G thats why i love using symbian phones. Then suddenly my younger brother gave me a brochure of a Nokia C7 instantly i fell in love with it, the camera which can record 720p HD (if im not mistaken) the UI and the USB on the GO. Then i told my father to go buy me and my younger brother c7. But on the day of buying the phone i had an important business at school thats why only my father and brother went to the mall. My father instantly disliked the c7 stating that "Its not sexy and has an ugly look" the staff then suggested Galaxy Ace which my father liked and bought it instantly. As for me i went home hurriedly thinking of how awesome could i get once i own c7 >.< but to my dismay my father gave me Ace. I was disappointed for around 5 mins but when i started exploring Ace, losing c7 was like a past for me and it feels like im venturing to a new land i started bragging off Ace to my classmates even to the proud Iphone and BlackBerry users, since using android werent common at my school

Discovering XDA:

they say man can never be satisfied with what they have. At first I surfed the net on how to play awesome games, but my original rom was harsh on games, it was laggy (Froyo) I then sought help on google and they gave me upgrading as the answer. thats where the huge pool of rom came in "XDA" :D i then registered immediately and basked in the glory of tasting new roms and finding better ways on improving Ace. Though most of the time im just a shadow in XDA silently stalking it, i sometimes appear in post and comments when the need arise :P just like a ninja lol. I cant upgrade myself to developing since im busy with school and stuffs, but once this JULY is over, ill dive in the world on Codes and stuffs :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] InverseSandwich:
I'll cut a long story short.

My first phone was a Nokia 6680.

It was a symbian phone, and was very slow, however it was one of the first phones that had 3G. When I bought it, it cost £400. Now its worth £3.

2 years later I got an LG KS360. I don't know why the hell I got it. It was £40 and only had 2G. It was crap!

One day, while using my old Nokia, I was going through the system files. Take in mind that you do not need hack or root it to access the System partition, you can write to it out of the box. I was cleaning up this partition, and accidentally deleted a file. 5 seconds later the screen went white, rebooted and I got the dreaded "Take to service center" message. Its now rotting away in one of my drawers.

Last May my brother got an X8, and it looked like a hackers dream.

In June last year my dad got an SII, and my lust for Android grew.

I was going to get an HTC Wildfire S, but at the last minuite I decided on the Ace.

In August I got my Ace. It cost £25 a month on a 24 month contract. I've known about xda for years, and got an account when I flashed CyanogenMod by grif.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] system.img:
I was searching for a good nokia smartphone and found the Nokia N900 which suited my needs very much. I asked my uncle who was in Dubai to buy it for me from there as it would be cheaper over there. He was coming to India after some time and he told he would give me the phone at that time! So, I went around the internet looking for tweaks for the N900 and finally became a fan of it. But, I got a call from my uncle the day before he was coming back to India that Nokia had stopped the production of N900 and he couldnt get it at the store. He went to a samsung store and told me about the Ace at the same price range which had come out newly. So, I saw the specs and decided to buy it without considering any other choices, as it was too late.

Then I got the Ace and was very pleased with it. It was fast and had a good camera. But I decided to look for tweaks to make it better. Then I went to different forums who were saying things about taking a nandroid backup before flashing roms. So when I searched about it, I came across ROM Manager. So, I rooted it first with SuperOneClick and then installed ROM Manager without hesitation. Then, after flashing a wrong recovery, I managed to hard brick my Ace!

Then I had to ship it back to Dubai so that I could claim my warranty and then get it back when my uncle comes again to India. After a long wait, I got back my Ace after repair and upgraded to Gingerbread.

The Ace is my first phone and I still have it with me!

I found XDA when I was searching on how to take Nandroid backups without ROM manager after the brick and how to root gingerbread. At first I didn't follow it very often but after the development of CM9, I became addicted to it! :D
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] alldine345:
my journey to be an ace user:

siemens c35 - nokia 3310 (still work :eek: ) - some fap devices- some fap device- some fap device-.........- galaxy Ace ( fap devices? totally yes!!! :rolleyes: )
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] ts_firehawk:
Well, what can I say?

I used to own a Nokia 5230, that I started to hate a few weeks after I bought. Slow, ugly, resistive screen. After about a year, I've bought my first Android-powered phone, a Optimus One (P500). It lasted about two months before I bricked it up, testing new ROMs. :D

Then I had to use my mother's Nokia C3-00. What a crap. Few weeks after this, I went to a local-store and bought an Ace. Now I seriously regret this. I started to modify ROMs not a long time ago. When I bought my phone I was "omg, best phone ever!" but now I really see what this phone is. Anyway, it was my choice.

I mainly download the latest CM7.2 by vo-1, remove the apps I don't want, add the things I need/want and use it. I'm trying to learn how to create apps and maybe I'll build my own ROMs from source one day.

About my XDA discovery, it happened back to the time I had the P500. I was a bit scared of installing a custom ROM, specially the CyanogenMod (I was so naive back then... :rolleyes:), and I got even more scared when I got the Ace, because I didn't wanted to screw it up. After I got root, well, I didn't stoped. Now I'm using CyanogenMod, and I don't look back.

:D
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] julieace:
Good luck

looking forward to use the apps and ROMs u would be developing :)..All the best

Update ur journey to ROM development as well..
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] julieace:
tht was fap story..;)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] julieace:
luck warranty

lucky you to get it all the way back from Dubai...njoy.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] julieace:
As i was reading , most of the people have either switched from Nokia or got to Ace in place of Nokia...Nokia ke tho lag gaye hai boss..
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] julieace:
Destined to Ace

It was like you were destined to Galaxy ace...njoy...looking forward for your android development and would like to hear its journey someday..
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] julieace:
Hope tht you would root your Ace soon and njoy all the ROM development here on XDA community...njoy.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] jimbob320:
Well like almost everyone else on here, I had the Nokia 5800XM, although I was not in to hacking and modding at the time. :eek:

I got my ace and used it on stock for a month (boring) before discovering xda. :cool: I flashed cm7, and my noobish self didn't like the visuals (contacts, messaging, etc) so I went back to stock. :confused:

But then! I decided that ****ty touchwiz was too slow for me. I craved speed, power and awesomeness. I found the best ROM I could for my needs (Miracle v4) and flashed that ****.

Awesome. :cool:
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] ts_firehawk:
I don't think I'll do something very soon :p I'm completly broke, I have money for almost nothing and I need a job before I can take a class or something to learn how to program for Android, but thank you anyway :D :D
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] can6rxw:
http://www.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-hit-canada-june-20-2-gb-ram-confirmed

So as the title suggest, what is better? Is the Quad Core 1 Gig better than the Dual Core 2 Gig versions of the S III? What about the video quality on the 2 Gig version? Is that going to suffer? And even more, is it worth jumping to the S III if you are on the Galaxy Nexus?

My initial thought is with Apex Pro installed as the UI the S III will feel close to the GNex but with more RAM so it may be an upgrade although a minor one.

What are your thoughts on this? Everybody weigh in.

Thanks!!!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s1mpd1ddy:
2 gb I will take hands down. LTE and the s4 combo works well, as proven by the HOX
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arsaw:
If only I have a choice. Dual core 2gb Ram is of course better. With LTE support, is definitely way better than Quad core.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeviathanPT:
Q hmm ....resembles Q&A..