[XPERIA X10 General] championswimmer:
The situation is not as grim as the title suggests. I am not really saying goodbye to my X10. Only going to step away from active developmental activity on the X10. Most of my close friends here saw it coming as I did not make any big release on this forum any time recently.

I joined the X10 train pretty late in fact, the time when all the fervour regarding bootloader unlocking, getting first custom kernel, and getting official CM support was just dying down. And still in this short time I learnt a lot, and it's my great fortune that I was able to help out a few people and teach a few things to people too.

There have always been awesome friends here who helped me right from my first baby steps. It was some time around July or August of 2011 that I held the X10 (my first android) in my hand for the first time. I had heard about rooting from before, and I already had hacked some WinMo phones earlier so I ended up rooting the phone the very second day. But back then I was as n00b as one can get. And it was during those days that I made friends with the most helpful guy on xda, GregBradley. (old timers on this forum will surely know him). And then soon enough I started getting into the groove of things, and released my first mod/tweak/theme pack for WolfBreak's ROM.

Over time I made friends with some great people like Rahul (DoomLord), Wolfbreak, Colossus, Aaron (pvyparts), Iris and many many more. And I remember releasing my first ever custom ROM the X10S 3 days before my 12th Grade finals were about to begin. :D (those are like the GCSE of UK). I was elated when lots of people like Tof37, Wo88les, Toledojab, Feravolt, Yeeyon, barath000 came out to help me with that project. and we made the xda front page !!

Next I learnt compiling kernels. And once again that was not possible without DoomLord. Whenever I used to get stuck he would give me a very very faint idea and then add the line 'search more and find out yourself'. (And as I write this, Rahul bhaiyya just said 'congrats' on the pic of my Xperia S on facebook :D )

Out of my zeal to help the devs on X10, and in general the xperia family, I started to work on the Kernel Kitchen, and I was totally over the moon when that made to the front page too. But obviously my greatest achivement I would consider would be being able to succesfully compile and deploy AOKP to all the Xperia devices. And it was during this process I actually learnt how tiny and insignificant my knowledge on the Android platform is. When i used to go through the code patches by the great guys like jerpelea, bin4ry and zdzihu, I would realise how much more they know, and how much more I still have to learn.

Now the shiny new Xperia S in my hand looks really beautiful but the X10 sitting just beside it will always remain closer to my heart. It's here that I made awesome friends like Sahib, TGM, @rbiter and TheLogic, and it's right here that I learnt whatever little I know about Android phones.

I would always be popping up on the General Chat forum, and also stay active on the X10S thread, because that is the ROM that my X10 is currently running :P

But I won't really have time to develop anything much (even had to drop the idea of a goodbye ROM due to hectic schedule at college :( )

So guys, all i want to say is CHEERS!! and ALL THE BEST with life. Always drop me in a PM when you need help or just want to chat up. And over this little period of time, along with the great moments have come those unavoidable situations where I might have got into war of words or hurt a few sentiments here and there. Please do forgive me for them.

Once again a wholehearted thanks to each and every person who helped me, taught me, donated some bucks, worked with me, pressed the thanks button on my posts ;) , used my ROM, or even visited my threads.

will miss the best dev forum on whole xda !!!

- Arnav