[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] hillbeast:
Guys, if you're going to discuss me, at least call me up and let me know there is a discussion about me going on so I can at least share my point of view.

And @vishal, I hold no negative feelings towards you. I don't do any reading through general sections for ANY device. It's not a matter of ignorance towards a specific device, it's a matter of I don't have the time to do that, so I haven't directly seen anything that I could take in a bad way so it's all good here.

Anyway back to me defending myself.

The expectation was that I would be able to assist in getting kernel 3.0 to work. I may be wrong but I don't recall PROMISING I could get it to work, but I did say I would try my best. Again, I'm probably wrong on that, sometimes I type stuff on here at 2am and I'm really tired so therefore won't remember it.

I have been trying my absolute best to keep you guys updated on what I'm doing, why I'm doing it and trying to break it down into laymans terms so people can understand it, but I guess that wasn't enough. If you define that as 'ignorance', then I apologise.

Once again, I promised to help getting kernel 3.0 to work. If you would take a look at the thread, you can see I'm making great strides in it. I'm not trying to steal credit or anything but at this current stage, Dhiru and crackerizer are unable to help me as neither of them have UART. I think I am STILL the only person who holds this device who has UART and therefore I am the only person who can make ANY progress with the device, so what you see now is all my work. Again, if you define that as me not keeping my word, then I apologise.

Firstly, the fact you are making a thread about this to complain about my actions kind of speaks differently to 'having no ill intentions', but I won't take it that way as I'm not like that. Secondly, I am doing my damned best to develop on this phone. Let me explain how much I have to do in my life before I can do any development:

* Work a full-time job (5 days a week, 8 hours a day, sometimes more because of my capitalist boss who works me to the bone)

* Maintain my phone/tablet/servers if I find bugs or issues on them (not a big deal but it can be)

* Relax (important)

* Deal with people on the XDA claiming I'm not doing my job right.

I have to get through all four of those things before I can do any development, and here I am having to type an essay when I could be doing development. I actually was right in the middle of working on it when I got an email and I felt I needed to explain myself, but aparently I'm not doing what we agreed upon.

Third, I stated at the start I THOUGHT I had everything I needed. I was running with the omapzoom kernel sources for a while as that is what people told me would be the best bet in getting it to work (it was the only one with dsscomp). I came into this device with ZERO experience with OMAP processors. I knew Samsung processors (S5P and Exynos), but not OMAP, but I knew I could learn it, and I did. What I didn't expect was omapzoom dropping support for the OMAP3630 and the source code being broken beyond belief. That is why I have taken so long: what I was working with was broken. I'd like to see someone else in this community do better with what I had. Considering codeworkx himself, one of the best developers out there (he's an Elite Recognised Developer) couldn't even get UART to work at all, and I managed to figure it out in less than two weeks... yes. I haven't contributed to the community have I. I'm not saying I'm better than codeworkx, I'm just saying that I have done stuff here, that not many others could have done.

Fourth, when have I gone silent? I have always maintained that if I'm not posting, I'm either at work, tired from being at work, or I have nothing to update on. What's the point of spamming a thread for no reason?

See above.

Let me also tell you guys that I have had to drop my development on the Galaxy 3 with its kernel 3.4 to support you guys. I actually bought that phone and it means a lot to me, and here I am working on a different phone because I want to help you guys out. I want to make this phone good for you. Making this phone good brings me no benefit whatsoever. It's not my main phone, it hasn't even got firmware or a SIM card in it and even when kernel 3.0 is done, it's still not going to be my main phone, so there is no personal gain in making this phone better other than the satisfaction of completing something, and here I have you guys down my throat telling me I'm not doing my job right. Thanks.

Now stop distracting me from my development. I'm tired of having to have these discussions in both the Galaxy 3 forums and NOW the SL forums.