[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Oh, the good old days. I made k0nane and MysteryEmotionz mad with my constant PM's.

I remember this day like it was earlier today. What most people don't know is that DreamsForgotten sent me a PM about 2 days before maddoggin released the mod, with a preview pic of it. I knew it was coming. But I had built up this great reputation for being Q&A king, and I wasn't even rooted yet.

Hey bro, that hurts. ;) Without me, I doubt we would have ever gotten that mod. Lol

For this, I'm going to bring back my old XDA app signature:

"Posted by a man, standing on a toilet, eating a bacon sammich."

Now to add my own chapter to this Epic story:

I had a Samsung Instinct s30. I was a blossoming nerd, and was starting to hear about the iPhone, so I was trying to figure out how to make my instinct look like an iPhone. In the process, I came upon this app called Snaptu. It was a nifty little app, had FB, Twitter, and various dedicated RSS feeds. This is the start of my Android journey.

The RSS feeds I ended up using were Engaget, Gizmodo, Techcrunch, and Mashable. After reading through, I started hearing about the HTC EVO 4G, and it being the fastest phone on Sprint when it came out. I was going to get one. Then, here comes Samsung, who announced the Epic 4G. I knew, when I read about it, that I had to have it. Then, I almost wasn't able to get it. And I almost had to settle for the Samsung Intercept. But last minute funds were obtained, and I purchased my Epic 4G. I got it in September 2010. Well, at some point between then and October, I started getting curious. My first post on XDA was a question about which was better for battery life, Twitter SMS, or the Official Twitter app w/ push notifications. And I must've seen something cool, because I've been here since.

Eventually, I started learning, reading, being a good noob. And by the time EB13 was out, I could answer many questions dealing with root/roms without ever doing it myself. People kept trying and trying to get me to root, but I refused to do so. But even then, I had a weakness. I wanted the Puzzle Unlock very badly. Well, EC05 came out, and I still wasn't rooted.

But, then one day, I learned that my wish was coming true, and that it was going to be coming out soon. I was very excited, but I kept it to myself. Then, it was released and I got dozens of PM's pointing me to that thread. Well, I went to Church that night, and while I was there I dropped my phone, and the screen broke. So, when I got home, I decided to use it as rooting practice. I had to try to get the process down of getting the theme installed like 5 times, before I realized that I was wiping data in CWM2, instead of caches.

But I eventually got it down, and when I got my refurb, I rooted it immediately, flashed a stock deodexed EC05 rom, and installed Simply Blue + 6lock mod.

And the rest is history, I joined ERA, and me and ac16313 did our first theme, Orange Eternity.

Now I'm a flashaholic, with a GS3 running CM10.

There are so many people that helped me through my journey:

ecooce, AproSamurai, ugothakd, qbking77, k0nane, MysteryEmotionz, DreamsForgotten, shane6374, iSaint, 063_xobx, styles420, and countless others. Not to mention the more(relatively)recent additions, like flastnoles11, darkierawr, kennyglass123. This place holds many memories.

Some not so good.

daddy_droid, LooneyRat, KrazyKamel, and all of his other names.

We need an "official" motto.

United we stand, as raging nerds.

Our battles tough, trolls aplenty.

Yet no puzzle, doest withstand.

The ability of a community. Epic.

I'm sure that doesn't follow the rules of any poem or anything lol