[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Misledz:
OT:

Sigh the ever so depressing economy, I feel this is the best time to enjoy gadget's like these as people fawn over the baubly new iCrap 5 and it's ever so broken features, inflating the market on cellphones via fanboyism and boycotting to win competition more than other important aspects which have a drastic outcome on jobs, drives me insane to see that the digital industry/smartphone has escalated more than other stock points. Definitely get's harder every year, aye :cowboy: but what to do, era of smartphones.

I love XDA, I really do, the amount of leaks are incredibly high and the source reliability is very trustable here than any other site. Reminds me of not long ago when GNexus first got Jellybean, Someone had managed to grab an early leak, compiled it all together rooted, deodexed and everything done hours before the Google I/O had announced it's release (Which was 2 weeks later), and thus the dev war started there aswell on who would release the better ROM in under 48 hours, a better kernel that in the end, **** just hit the fan on insane demands being asked of him about source package, where he had obtained it and why he had not released the source pack but kept it to himself if he had it earlier than Google's official launch date. :rolleyes:

HB:

The community felt that they were being backstabbed slowly as developers (Aside from dhiru) slowly left the scene without prior notice hence holding back on future donations, codeworkx had done that and most followed his fashion, present the goods, then go out of reach slowly and eventually disappear into the crevice with the phone, never to be heard from again. Vishaal however had followed up on it to find out most of them had taken off the phone from their supported list of devices on their sig and yeah, it's happened atleast thrice now. So Fuss was asked to donate the device he was not using (He was the only reachable source) and hence that was given to HB which was quite some time now.

Development for the V2 kernel was asked to be halted as everyone had gotten past the whole horribad ICS/GB era and resorted to something that was Google's pride and joy--the fruit of their loins---Jellybean, But as we all know JB can't be run without a stable 3.0 kernel to support it. Sammy had done the wonderful job of releasing a half assed firmware and a bulk release of some useless ICS source files which had no use as dhiru had gone months past ICS and weeks into Jellybean (Consider it about 3 months+ late from their side). Vishaal and the rest had gone around searching in the meanwhile and found another device strongly similar to ours on terms of hardware and everything, and if by any means their 3.0 kernel could be ported over to SL since the source pack for that device was out already (Which was supposed to be HB's only task), Dhiru had agreed on this and decided while he worked on the ROM and port over, that HB would be responsible for the kernel that would support dhiru's port. Dhiru had done his task, constant releases went out, infact it's been about 4+ months since dhiru has been releasing constant revisions. HB---Logs at most, which I say make wonderful toilet paper when printed. :cool:, I hate to be bitter towards him but a developer is only as strong as the community that roots for him. If he makes a bad name over here for false promises, the same applies for any other section he would be called for, which is why most of us are still keeping our trust that he would do his task and not pull a fast one on us.