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[General Topics] bradleymor:
Prime-saver

I want to say thanks to craigacgomez

Craig singlehandedly saved my Asus Transformer Prime (TF201) from being thrown against a brick wall.

After updating to Asus official stock Jellybean firmware, my system was plagued with random reboots, ANR's, app crashes, other random issues and my personal biggest issue, the infamous Sleep-of-Death (SOD) the Prime is known for. All of that essentially made my tablet useless. I tried debloating, completely wiped the system, reinstalling and nothing seemed to fix it. Finally I decided to install a custom rom based on the official stock firmware. This helped with some of the issues, but I still got the SOD at least a couple times a day. It got to the point where I had to dig out my old Compaq netbook for travelling for work, just to be sure I wouldn't lose a bunch of progress because my tablet wouldn't turn on. I wanted nothing more than to go back to CyanogenMod, but the Asus update flashed a new bootloader which made the TF201 CM10 kernel incompatible, so I was stuck!

Then along came craigacgomez to save the day. He started making unofficial nightly's of CM10 based on his modified kernel to work with the new jellybean bootloader on the TF201, and I've been running CM10 happily since his first release! Craig's rom fixed all my issues, was incredibly stable, and gave me my tablet back!

Craig has been awesome for supporting his rom too. I have the WW version of the tablet (Canadian model) and a US english keyboard, and on the first couple releases none of my function keys worked properly. After posting my issue, within 2 days Craig had a fully working build posted and everything has been smooth sailing since then.

Sadly however, Craig has recently moved on from the TF Prime, so he has stopped developing for it. Being the truly awesome dev he is though, Craig posted full step-by-step build instructions for not just his CM10 build, but also AOKP and TeamBaked, including his git sources to work with the new bootloader. I've used his instructions to build my own CM10 roms (my first builds ever!) and been able to keep up to date with the latest CM10 merges.

In closing, craigacgomez, THANK YOU! You have truly saved my Prime and I appreciate all your hard work. You're definitely one dev I'll continue to watch and be inspired by.

Link to craigacgomez's build guide incase anyone else has a Prime that needs some saving ;)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1988701
[General Topics] SferaDev:
Thanks Pawitp!

What can I say? Thanks to all this community at first, and thanks to pawitp. First of all I want to clarify that I’ll not enter to the contest as I’m from Spain (It’s not in US) and I think pawitp it’s not located in US (probably in Thailand), but I want to participate in this moment and give my experience to the community. (I don't really know what is proxy us shipping!)

Why I have selected pawitp as my favorite developer? Well to those who didn’t know him (Strange cases) he is a Recognized Developer here in XDA and he is the supporter of CM to some devices like my Samsung Galaxy S (aka I9000). He is not only the provider of a ROM to my mobile, no he is the “superhero” that provides support to our loved devices that some OEMs think that are “old” with all the features of a great companies as CyanogenMod. He also gives us hope about the porting Android 4.2 to our loved devices while CM10.1 is coming. During his development threads Pawitp is an example of humility answering some “n00b” questions. Outside XDA he is a supporter of the Free Website and a Free World in Twitter (as Google’s campaign). All those goodies make him a great person. This community XDA is powered by developers for developers mixed from other states, regions… We appreciate to much his help and even he seems so young (I must admit I’m not too older), he is an example to all of us!

Thanks Pawitp, thanks XDA, and thanks to all other developers inside XDA! #freeandopen
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I am thankful for Mevordel and all the work he has done for the Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0. Because of him I am rockin' CM10 instead of TouchWiz gingerbread.
[General Topics] hummer010:
I'm thankful for krarvind and the slimrom. Best. ROM. Ever. Makes my Nexus S be the phone it was meant to be.
[General Topics] WILLI120:
I want to thank nikhil007mmus! He was and still is the best developer on my first Android-Phone - the HTC Incredible S. He's a hell of a hero in our section. He was the man who built my road into the world of Android and his Trinity ROM was the first custom ROM I ever flashed:) I was looking up to him like he's a God:D And now - we are working together! I love making graphics stuff for him and I'm very proud to be the first guy to call of a so great man! So I wanna thank Nik for all his effords and wish him all the best in Milan and with his new One X! 'Cause all the work he did is still so important to me that I still keep my IncS like a freakin treasure and still hang out in the forums there - even more than in the Galaxy Nexus section for my new phone:)

So again, a great THANK YOU to Nik and greetings to the entire Incredible S community - you guys rock!

Greez

Will
[General Topics] Drebin 894:
I am most thankful for chrmhoffmann. Though the Nook Tablet is not always on the front pages of best tablet devices, the updates to both CM9 and CM10 that he brings make my "older" tablet run like never before. He is also a very responsive developer, not only with scheduled updates on a fairly regular basis but he also listens to the comments and helps with any problem that arises. In general, he is just a great developer and helpful person for a device I hope never goes out of style.
[General Topics] Axis_Drummer:
I'm going to make this short and sweet, I'd like to give recognition to Jimbridgman and Apex_Strider. These two gentlemen have helped me in so many different ways. Apex puts together some of the best guides on this forum, and Jim is a Master of the ATRIX 2. With the guides from Apex, and Jim's devotion to the A2 community, no one deserves a greater Thank You than these two men. They have made me LOVE my A2. (It's a good phone, but with their contributions, its become a beast in my eyes)

I came to XDA a n00b, and because of them, I've learned so much and am now able to help others. And that to me is fantastic. These guys devote so much of their free time to helping people like me and I'm so grateful for them and XDA in general.

Apex_Strider and Jimbridgman have become not just my go to guys for assistance, but also very good friends of mine. If this entry wins, I want them both to receive the Nexus 7, not me. But it's not about the tablet, I just see this as a way of saying thanks to these guys for everyone to see, and to share how grateful I am for these two Gents of XDA. :) Thanks guys, I appreciate everything, more than you know. :thumbup:

Sent from yours truly..

ΧΔΑ Fraternity's Rush Chairman
[General Topics] elwood:
I would have to agree with this. Mijj is the best around. I came to the epic 4g touch from the OG evo and was a little confused since rooting was a little different with one-clicks and all. Mijj and rwilco are 2 of the most generous devs I've come across on xda and to be honest the only Rom besides the jelly bean leak I've ever been interested in installing. Mijj and team nocturnal are in 2 words THE BEST
[General Topics] khamees_xi:
so in my view it shoud be doomload as many xperia users know him as he is one of the few person what helped in development on xperia mobile phones in xda forum as in this year also i have got 3 mobile phones. in my phone at least two or three components of the rom are from him and he has been alot help in xperia play arc mini... lets say in almost in all xpreria mobile phones and i am a very thankfull to him as even know also i am using his famous doom kernel and my favorit flashing software flashtool
[General Topics] onward1:
id have to say JASONBEACH the jellybomb rom for my liking seems to be the best..no issues smooth....thx jason and XDA for being there...Happy thanksgiving to all...
[General Topics] shangrila500:
I'm very thankful for Adam Outlet, and the African-Canadian Sock Monkey, for releasing the unlocked bootloader for the VZW Galaxy S3. Without that I would have never been able to push my phone to its limits and flash roms, without kexec, and kernels.

Sent from one of the many Anthropomorphic Personalities of the Disc
[General Topics] reMer(x):
adam outler or pawitp

adamoutler

has contributed so much to so many devices that everyone knows who he is. Personally, I have has the pleasure of exchanging a few emails with him when I bricked my galaxs s i9000 and he was extremely helpful and courteous. His development of the unbrickable mod saved my phone. I still have it today thanks to adamoutler.
[General Topics] un4seen:
Personally, I think that among the most deserving are people involved in getting Android to work on the HTC HD2. On a personal level, they are the ones that really got me interested in hacking the system open and learning what makes it tick, and in a broader sense they are the ones that got many people interested in Android - even if just because of the publicity HD2 got for being hackable as it is.

I don't really want to choose from the OG developers for HD2, because the amount of knowledge and work behind first steps in HD2 development is so impressive. But, since I have to choose, I would like to thank securecrt, for creating the NativeSD.

After constantly flashing HD2 with my lame ROM attempts, it had so many bad blocks in NAND it was barely usable, to the point when I gave up and got the SGS2. The NativeSD method brought it back from the drawer and into active use as a learning device.

Bringing an essentially dead and useless device back to life while making it better is a hell of a feat, and I think it deserves recognition.
[General Topics] glockliberty:
I am exceptionally thankful for kushdeck aka deck. There are many others, but his AOSP rom on the HTC Evo 4G was so great that when it was time for my upgrade I chose the phone I knew he was developing on. I was not disappointed. He has done a fantastic job of maintaining CM10 on the Evo 4G LTE, and I could totally see myself following him to whatever the next device he chooses to develop on. In addition to being a great developer, he is one of the most accessible developers whose work I have enjoyed. I always know where to find him if I have any questions.

Whether or not he and I win a Nexus 7, I think this is a great opportunity for the whole community to show some appreciation for the hard work that developers do to help us enjoy our precious hardware :)
[General Topics] reMer(x):
adam outler or pawitp

+adamoutler has contributed so much to so many devices that everyone knows who he is. Personally, I have has the pleasure of exchanging a few emails with him when I bricked my galaxs s i9000 and he was extremely helpful and courteous. His development of the unbrickable mod saved my phone. I still have it today thanks to adamoutler.
[General Topics] ickk:
I am nominating aminaked for his work on naked browser because I feel he could use the tablet the most out of the developers I'd nominate.

Since it's release I've tested and reported any problems I found to ensure the browser is the most stable browser on android. I knew when I first downloaded his browser it would be my default, and my biggest problem with my browsers is anything that would require patience.

After receiving tons of requests and reports from myself and others, aminaked has proven that he's a developer dedicated to supporting something he created. I've been doing a lot of the tablet bug reporting on my transformer prime, and I think he could use a nexus 7 so that way the browser gets better tablet support so we all can shut up those reviewers that keep complaining about app ecosystems.

If I can I'd like to give a big shoutout to chainfire, motley, clemsyn, craiggomez, the virtuous crew, and jermaine for all their support for my device. All of them are truly exceptional developers alot of us are thankful for. I'll try to keep out of my device forum because if we lose what developers we have left to nexus 7 development forums we won't have anything left haha :laugh:

Happy Turkey Day everyone.
[General Topics] JiminyCricket64:
Thanks again!

True thankfulness comes from being unselfish & grateful for what you

have

. I am very thankful for the work that burnsra has done with the Sprint line of Nexus S & the Galaxy Nexus. I asked him once why he has no donate link...his response: "I do this for the community and for fun. If you wish to donate, go to http://rally.org/devinsdrive. Have a great day!"

This is really a genuine guy that is thankful for what he has & seems to want to share this unselfishly! :cool:
[General Topics] bauersein:
Hi,

I am most thankfull to Koush for his work on cwm.

I used it so much i can clear dalvik and do a factory reset without even looking on my phone. Just kidding, but it feels like I could.

As I'm not an US-resident, I can not win(get) the Nexus7. If my post will win, please give one N7 to Koush and let him choose another(his) favourite developer to give the second to.

Regards Chris
[General Topics] tobiascuypers:
Well to me the Developer Thathas made the most impact in my life (personal an school)would be Hashcode. Hes helped me by being the only one in the Kindle Fire area who's bother to create the only working 3.x kernel which so many people use. He's impacted my life by when my lab top broke down I had to type my English final on my kindle Fire on a ICS rom an I passed the class.

If somehow I win I would love to give Hashcode a gift he could start developing on to help even more people and know that many people are thankful for him.
[General Topics] dinos3:
My vote for: bedalus!

Thanks for you benchmarks/kernels/tweaks and much else :)

Happy Thanksgiving day for all!
[General Topics] spitefulrain:
NOOBNL!

The developer who I am personally most thankful for is noobnl, hands down. He helped make my Samsung Moment, which was my first android phone, almost enjoyable to use. He then also helped with the original root method for the Samsung Epic 4g. I almost bricked my release day model testing those root methods, but he helped walk me back to a working phone again. He also gave me the first taste of AOSP by bringing the Cyanogenmod 6 alpha roms to the GS1 while I still had it. He's done a lot of hard work and definitely deserves a Nexus 7, and I am definitely thankful that he made my phones infinitely better.

http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=2682982 <--- His profile. You da MAN noobnl!
[General Topics] MrWicket:
mine is a tale shared by many but since I really want a Nexus 7 I'll tell it to you. Last year around this time the Galaxy Nexus was announced and we all were sitting in anticipation of being able to get our meat mitts on one! On top of the excitement of a new Nexus the news that Verizon was getting it as well had those of us on Big Red in complete shock and awe that we could finally taste the sweet nectar that is Nexus. That's when the sky went grey and the waiting started and little did we know this was just the beginning of things to come. After many rumors and come and gone release dates the Galaxy Nexus LTE finally launched and I went and bought one immediately and even had a update waiting for me on first boot, life was great, I had a Nexus! It had Ice Cream Sandwich, was stock, fast, sexy! This is about the time when things started to go wrong, not with the phone but with Verizon because 4.0.3 came out and all Nexus's got it, but Verizon's. To make things worse 4.0.4 came out and again nothing! Then finally 4 months later the update showed up and I found myself justifying the delay saying things like "well, at least Verizon does good testing" and "it's for the benefit of their customers to make sure it's good enough!". Things were good for a while and then Jelly Bean was announced and pushed to AOSP and started going out to the Nexus line up and again, nothing for the Verizon version. I was already unlocked and rooted so I headed to XDA the moment I heard that there was a ported version for the Toro GNex and oh wow! "This will tide me over for the next few days till Verizon pushes the OTA!" I thought to myself and oh wow was my optimism misplaced! This is where the silver lining on the storm cloud comes in, Bugless Beast! I knew of Petes ROM and that it was always legen ---- wait for it ----- dary! I flashed and wow, so solid, so smooth, so bugless! 4 months later Verizon finally got around to pushing the OTA update out but I've stuck with BB, I get updates very fast whenever new code is pushed to AOSP or new binaries are added and things are always stable! So, the hero of this story is Peter Alfonso! Without him I'd be stuck with slow updates and left in Verizon's whirlpool of EOL devices. so thank you Pete! :)

http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=2331243
[General Topics] bobyracer2:
im very thankful to the virtuous team and synergye from Desire HD development thread for bringing us the best experience of the 3.0 kernel and sense 4(VT) and jellybean(synergye) although HTC decided to not give us the 3.0 experience :DDDD
[General Topics] garzacorporations:
I'm thankful to Huexx for his great work with LG Optimus Black ROMS
[General Topics] Deadly:
Chainfire

First of all, thanks to WILL VERDUZCO for the news and thanks to all who made this contest.. This is a very nice opportunity to show our gratitude for all the devs who work so hard for community and for their great contributions.. seeing these many entries makes me wonder if at all we can really cover all of the deserved devs in this thread.. i feel its not possible..

Anyway, i want to vote for Chainfire, Not just because he made SuperSU app which is very helpful to most people as all of us need a rooted device with gui based app to handle su permissions for app..

But more than that, i want to thank him for his awesome work on Chainfire3D app which brings low end phones experience to a whole new level if you know how to tweak settings..

Also, even more important mention of his work should go to MobileODIN.. All samsung users must have heard about this app and almost all of you have heard of odin.. This mobile app makes flashing firmware updates through an app.. and no need of a PC to flash a firmware.. that's just amazing work! So , all in all its a great number of works from him and his wonderful tutorials/guides.. So, hatts off..

And if i win this contest, please give my tablet to Manoranjan2050.. As he is the one who taught me how to make a kernel and thats what led me to start building kernels.. I am really grateful to all of you developers of XDA.. thanks everyone for making such a nice learning experience here..

Also, i would like to thank my other device forum devs who has helped me a lot to be what i am today.. Manoranjan2050, Maroc-OS, Kurotsugi, Savie, doky73, b16h22, and also hell_lock
[General Topics] SkyandDirt:
I'm thankful for franciscofranco's work on all the nexus devices, which are the only devices I use. Franco has always shared his work with the nexus line and its fantastic. His work is always stable, fast and very reliable. Anyone not familiar with Franco's work, I suggest you check it out, you wont be disappointed. Also if you like his work you can support his development by purchasing his app from the play store. Happy thanks giving Franco and all of XDA.
[General Topics] el_venga:
i would really like to thank cyanogen. back in the day where there was only the G1 he out done himself a lot. right now he and his team are among the greatest developers i know.
[General Topics] safariking:
Thanks for your vote on me:D

---------- Post added at 10:18 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:16 PM ----------

My vote goes to Kallt_Kaffe on the Galaxy tab 8.9 forum he brought us CM9/CM10 and CWM

Thank you Kallt_Kaffe

http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=2426812
[General Topics] Omgadroid:
Thankfull

there is not one dev i can be thankfull for its everyone here on xda anyone who has contributed even a single bit to xda thank you all (i dont want to enter i just wanted to let everyone know) Thankyou
[General Topics] BradleyR2010:
My vote goes to DerTeufel1980

He's an awesome developer his kernels for the SGS1 family are great and he gives awesome support and listen to his users, i know that his work probably couldn't be done without the help of different developers working together to give new life to our beloved SGS1, but the reason I'm thankful to DerTeufel1980 is because of his Kernel and the need of an app to control the different options he implemented, I started learning and developing an Android application, his kernel and his work gave me that needed reason and push to learn and now my app is a reality :)
[General Topics] Kohr-Ah:
Faux of FauxKernel on Sensation

My thanks goes out to Faux123.

Faux not only works hard on his kernel but does it while managing life and working all night and still continues to develop for us.

More specifically though why I thank him isn't for his kernel but helping us learn.

When I first started using Faux (2011 - On his thread is around posts 280ish) he would have us post our /post/last_kmsg files. The thing is he would explain to us what the file said and what it meant. From there he taught us how to edit init.d scripts and what the different values meant rather than just GIVE us the file and say try this. He would write out why and what it did and then to proceed to give us intellidemand just made my sensation sing.

So thank you faux123 for teaching us what things meant rather than just giving it to us.
[General Topics] rsngfrce:
My thanks!

Not interested in the contest, but wish to thank the following:

Dark3n... [APP][1.6+] SD Maid - System cleaning tool... Extremely responsive dev! I made a suggestion for SD Maid and several hours later it was integrated into an update on the Play Store... this will never cease to amaze me!

3c... [APP 2.2+] Android Tuner [BETA TESTING]... Extremely responsive dev. Special thanks for his work bringing link2sd functionality to Android Tuner.

Agat63... [UPDATE][KERNEL][SOURCE] FI27 AGAT_v0.6.8 with tREC_v0.2.2 11/07/12 ... For his continued work on his source kernel for the E4GT, even though he has moved on to the GSIII and needs to borrow the phone back from his wife to work on it!
[General Topics] raseac:
Mike1986..

Will You made ARHD for Nexus7? /please :)
[General Topics] bippo:
Shnizlon

My favorite developer (really) is Shnizlon (http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=1930589), such young developer and great talent but mostly super friendly to all his users, prompt helps everyone and no kang story, always developing from scratch and spending ours with optimizations, the nicest person I found here on XDA. His ROM's are always with care for details, with choices for everyone, simple perfection. I have never seen his really smile, his serious smile, but it feels good he have sometime ....time to smile. Give him both Nexus 7 tablets (it is thanksgiving isn't it?), he can port his dreams on it and make every other user happy! I really mean it!;)
[General Topics] KUN1:
My vote goes for http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=4196889

I've my Galaxy S since 3 years and I think it's awesome, that after such a long time in digital life, we still can enjoy the latests Firmwares etc.

I think we're here on XDA a big familiy and I think we've to say thank you to everyone who could help someone or is porting a Rom etc., specially all the devs ;)

Really hope that this go on for a very long time :D

KUN1
[General Topics] Darnell_Chat_TN:
NRGZ28

For me, it has to be NRGZ28.

http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=458936

I basically started using this site heavily because of his ROMs.

Started with Windows Mobile devices: Touch Pro, Touch Pro 2 and HD2

Then with the Sensation using his Android ROMs as the first custom ROM I put on it.

Over the years, I've used his ROMs most over more devices. More than anything by any other developer.