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[General Topics] Deadly:
Not for devs... but limited to users who nominate the devs....

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[General Topics] willverduzco:
Bingo. :)
[General Topics] ebol94:
Quarx's the best developer. He's the reason why I can keep updating my Motorola Defy, even thought it hasn't received Ice Cream Sandwich, we're running Jelly bean 4.1.2 !
[General Topics] AlexGraves:
Owh YEAAAH!!!... Cheers for Quarx!! :D:D:D

He deserves it!!

Sent from my Nexus 7
[General Topics] nidhish91:
I was the second guy who nominated him(check pg.9) :D

i feel so proud of my developer..Thanks Quarx for development in Defy section. I am proud to still use it :D:beer::thumbup:

S3nt fr0m my D3fy 0n J3llyb34n
[General Topics] KicknGuitar:
Congratulations Quarx!

However, I think a second round of "Thank You's" are in order for all the Devs.

Take your pick, this one's on me.
[General Topics] Quarx:
Big Thanks to Users for voting and to XDA team for the nice competitions and gifts. I'm really pleased :victory:

I sent the address in pm:)
[General Topics] Da Avenger:
Congratulations Quarx

Quarx Truly Deserves it,for the constant development for Motorola Defy.Its Great to hear him winning :D ;)

Congratulations Quarx on winning :victory::victory: :cool:

Keep Up the Good Work :good:
[General Topics] theclaytons:
Mate, you deserve it. You are amazing with what you have done and continue to do.
[General Topics] bbllaazzee:
Congratulations Quarx, a well deserved one :victory:. You make all Defy holders proud to have JB on their devices.
[General Topics] eda80:
The best:)

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[General Topics] nikufellow:
Congrats quarx :D

A well deserved victory :)
[General Topics] srijithn:
Motorola Defy !!!

Congratz Quarx.

and thanks to XDA .,

on organizing such competitions and announcing the winner !!!
[General Topics] clim30j:
Please let us know why Quarx sir is chosen as winner.

Congratulations Quarx sir (",) your CM7 saved my Defy-green lens from the issues Motorola gave us in Android 2.2.2.

Although many are happy that Quarx sir wins, some users may be interested to know the reasons behind choosing/deciding the winner in this contest.

This request may seems "harmful" to the XDA community, but people reading through this contest's thread will find that developer "indie" sir seems to have more votes than Quarx sir.

Please forgive me if i have said/done anything wrong.
[General Topics] AlexGraves:
Congrats, Quarx!!

So after this, you will be developing CM rom for Nexus 7 as well? :D

That would be awesome!!! :D

Sent from my Nexus 7
[General Topics] :
Congratulations Quarx, thoroughly deserved, hence my nomination (the first in the thread!).
[General Topics] srijithn:
:?

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But Still., If you have a US postal address., The product can be sent there ?:confused:
[General Topics] Deadly:
Uumm.. yes... that's what was written on portal if you can remember... you need to be U S citizen or you can give a US shipping address if you have someone there who can send it to your home country at your own cost..

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[General Topics] m4manusraj:
Quarx the great..

I really say that Quarx deserve the prize....

He is actually the GOD of Motorola Defy...!!

Congratulation...
[General Topics] Maxxxxxxxxxx:
Congrats Quarx looks like even I have a nexus
[General Topics] KeesStolk:
Congratulations to Quarx, I don't no his work, but I have read a lot of good stuff about him. He sounds like a great helpful Dev.

But, when I do some counting, I believe that Indie had more counts and so has Satdino.

Or am I missing something?

I know indie works and I am loving his work and I am proud to be in his team. Although family is a better name for it.

Anyway, I like to know if I made a mistake with counting?
[General Topics] Gizmoe:
Even though indie probably did come up more the contest was limited to US voters.
[General Topics] Deadly:
I don't think that's how it was... everyone had right to vote whether they live in US or not... the users wouldn't have been eligible for nexus 7 that's all..

What I think is, they never said how they will choose..

They only said posts with thanks on them will have more chance in getting selected...

So, there is no rule they should reveal how they choose...

As there are several devs here who really deserved to be winners.. its always sad to see that at the end of the day, only one can be chosen.. but we must accept it and be happy with whatever the decision..

As winner seems to be single handedly made later versions of android to defy users.. its quite a feat I feel... I don't know much as I have not owned a defy device... but being stuck on gb in my device and devs trying hard to bring ics .. I know how hard it is to single handedly do the work, what he did.. this is just my opinion...

But everyone else had worked really hard too.. so its always difficult to choose...

And we should leave it as it is and shouldn't ask why they choose like this or what the reasons were etc..

Seems to me revealing how they choose will cause more conflicts than any good its going to do.. and I don't think they are gonna reveal it anyway...

I for one, am happy to get a chance to appreciate all the works of dev with this opportunity they provided regardless of who won.. I voted for chain fire.. but he didn't get much votes... it was just about rom devs mostly... but everyone has equal share of having their voices heard and that's was important about this contest I feel...

Thanks xda for providing a chance to give our appreciation to all our devs who deserve it really...:thumbup::thumbup:

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[General Topics] ::indie:::
I am glad this thread re-opend so I can thank xda for this contest and all you for voting especially the ones who voted for me.

I am really honored!

Congratulations Quarx.

This is the rules:

Due to previous difficulties we’ve encountered when mailing internationally, this contest will be open to

US residents (or those with proxy US shipping addresses)

only. The winning entry will be selected by myself and the rest of the XDA Administration team.

We will be looking at which posts receive the most “thanks,”

but that is certainly

not the only criteria for winning

. Finally, since each member can only have one “favorite” developer, each community member is allowed at most one entry. Those with multiple entries will be immediately disqualified.

I read the hole thread carefully and here is the results from my counts:

Posts only with US residents (from the flag).

THANKS

Post that received the most “thanks”

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=34749215&postcount=594

it was made by Satdino (American citizen with proxy US shipping address)

This post received 200 “thanks” the second post has had only a few “thanks”

VOTING POSTS

5 voting posts for ::indie:: from US residents

4 voting posts for Quarx from US residents

Voting Posts from all Users .

THANKS

Post that received the most “thanks”

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=34749215&postcount=594

it was made by Satdino (American citizen with proxy US shipping address)

This post received 200 “thanks” the second post has had only a few “thanks”

The second post received 51 “thanks” and was made by srijithn for Quarx

This mean 150% more “thanks” at Satdino's voting post.

VOTING POSTS

200 voting posts for ::indie:: from all users

140 voting posts for Quarx from all users

30% more voting posts for ::indie::

Is there a mistake?

If not it will be nice to know the criteria for choosing the winner.
[General Topics] vedhasd:
Well i dont wanna raise any issues to the developer community, but this is what i feel for Quarx!

Quarx is a 21 yr old guy, who passionately devotes time for this development apart from his college work and important career phase.

He not only rescued our defy/defy+ which were long forgotten by Motorola, but also poured life with Custom Kernel on a locked bootloader, with hours and hours of testing and debugging! Imagine our device travelled a long journey from:

eclair->froyo->gingerbread->ics->jb(4.2)

Which is pretty difficult in my opinion on a locked bl, generally htc,samsung, sony have got tools to unlock bootlaoder (as seen on my friends' phone) so the development may be faster, but still quarx manages to achieve the breakthrough! Also the ROMs are perfected for daily use!

Hence quarx deserved the gift!

I know all the developers here are very brilliant and everyone deserves #respect! And thats why i urge xda/sponsorers to come with more and more such competition!

All the best quarx, indie!

We are thankful to have such a community!

Thank you XDA!
[General Topics] StreamingMT:
Je remercie Indie; pour ces ROMS Note 2 et S3, il fait énormement de mises à jours et réalise un travail super.

Big thanks to Indie!

http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=2576548

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[General Topics] shalabhbatra100:
Good Motivation

:good:
[General Topics] Gizmoe:
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[General Topics] Deadly:
Lol.. I did read your post.. The first paragraph was reply to your post that's all.. I never intended anything else at you..

What's with the politics comment?

I'm not doing any politics.. Sorry if it felt like that to you.. You just understood me wrong.. I don't wanna comment on this again.. I don't know how you got that idea that I was doing politics... Sorry for confusion..

I was just stating my opinion to asking of how things are done to select winner.. It wasn't a reply to you.. Only first paragraph was towards your post...

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[General Topics] Gizmoe:
I re read the post and realized I mixed up what you said with someone else so forgive the politics statement. Also your the one who said its only open to US voters and the portal admin agreed with you, so now I'm confused. It's really early where I live. Sorry.
[General Topics] Deadly:
No problem man.. Confusions do happen... I was genuinely confused with your post:eek:

Glad you understood.. :thumbup:

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[General Topics] GlasGhost:
Wish I had known about XDA sooner.
[General Topics] BBKGTTDi:
Better late than never known at all :angel:
[General Topics] hassantalal11:
:cowboy:
[General Topics] willverduzco:
Hi again, all! Time for a quick update!

We have selected a voter to win the contest, but before we proceed, we would like to present you all with an option.

We picked Quarx as the winning developer due to his proficient development work, the gratitude shown by his fans, and most importantly, because he develops for a good, but forgotten device that would otherwise go unnoticed and leave many users without a suitable alternative to OEM-derived doom.

However, I see that a fair number of voters would like to see ::indie:: as the winning developer instead. We didn't select him as the winner because his relative impact on the devices he develops for hasn't been as large due to the fact that there are already so many other extremely talented developers also working on all of those devices.

Now this is where I let you choose what happens.

We have two Nexus 7 tablets to give away. As I said earlier, one is going to Quarx. (On a side note, Russian addresses are much, much more complicated than American addresses!) I would like you to choose what happens with the second device.

I have enabled a poll in this thread. You can now choose whether the second Nexus 7 goes to the winner who nominated Quarx or to ::indie::. I will leave this poll open until Sunday. Good luck to all!

Finally, I've seen a bit too much trolling and arguing in this thread. I hate to say things like this, but keep it friendly in here. Don't make me IP ban you from the site. Don't forget that the admin hammer is much larger and angrier than the moderator hammer. I don't like wielding it, but I will if necessary. So let's be mature, and congratulate the winners. Heck, you can now even pick the second winner!
[General Topics] my2ct:
Let the second device go to indie, wie need those developers. The community profits from their work.

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[General Topics] fairxda:
Changing the rules afterwards?

Ok, Indie should get a Nexus too in this concrete case!

But by which arguments in a more abstract figure one could change

the rules afterwards?

By the way: I would pay some money for a third device! Let me say: 10 Euro.

If it would be possible to pay in an easy way, i am sure that more users would pay too for indie ...
[General Topics] FcukBloat:
probably they are changing the rules because many did cry/complain for indie after the result (indie himself cryed for the result...)

and because people is keep asking asking and asking.. as you are doing now..

why just don't accept the result/decision instead of asking?

doing this way I think it is difficult more contest will come in the future.. someone has always to complain for something.. what a sh*t!!

if quarx was the winner, probably he deserved it more than indie (in spite of the posts/thanks arrived in this thread, also consider that defy owners are much less than samsung owners, so you can not just compare the thanks arrived.. guys wake up!!).. the reasons was explained and btw they could be imagined without asking many times for them (I don't think here are xda are racist or something and made quarx win because of other reasons a part from the kind of job done..!!)

so if they are changing now the rules is to give indie some more chances to win as well.. and make all indie's fans shut up!

but it seems it is not enough.. and someone is still not happy and have to complain..

ps: considering quarx deserved to win for me, of course I did vote to give the nexus 7 to a quarx's voter..
[General Topics] KeesStolk:
Although I understand the decision that is been made for the first device, I still have some mixed feelings about.

Anyway, not up to me.

But it would be far, when looking at all those votes for indie, that he will get the other one.

So in short, my vote is to indie.
[General Topics] raubkatze:
Absolutely agree! And, yes, my vote is to Indie too!
[General Topics] Chris_84:
You guys know who I choose. :)

My vote goes clearly to indie! You already got the link to his profile a couple of times! :)
[General Topics] Maxxxxxxxxxx:
vote for Quarx again and again and again.....

porting to device with own kernel unlocked bootloader is way way easier than to port all versions on android after 2.2(froyo) to a locked bootloader and stock kernal (until few months ago), even if he doesnt win defy owner will buy him one coz he is the one because of whom we run all the latest versions of android

no offense did any other dev do that?
[General Topics] fairxda:
You think one should only say yes or no and not write so much?

You are right!

I have a defy+ and I voted for Quarx and now for Indie if we users pay some money for the third nexus - for Indie!
[General Topics] fifamaniac:
Omegas Indie dev and his team are the best in the place...

Omegas V34

Siyah 1.8.4

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[General Topics] cooza:
indies the best

First vote goes unchanged.Definetly indie is the winner here folks:victory:
[General Topics] Xode:
Changing the rules will not change anything to me .... ::indie:: was and still are my choice ..........
[General Topics] :
I was one of Quarx's nominators.

I would still have nominated Quarx if the competition had stated that two Devs would win Nexus 7s, and I'm very pleased that Quarx did win. I have donated to Quarx also for his development work.

I have in the past run a forum, and I'm fully aware what a difficult job it is and that you can not please everyone all of the time. This is a good example - although the rules stated that post counts and thanks counts were not the only selection criteria, Indie was vocal about his feelings that he felt he should have won and his supporters have echoed that. They will easily win the vote as, as stated earlier in the thread, there are many more users of samsung devices than the Defy.

I think the principle of changing the rules and structure after the competition has closed is a very bad one. If it were the lottery it would be drawing the numbers, and then deciding that you have to add them all up to win.

Personally I would rather see the remaining Nexus 7 become the object of a new christmas competition for developers if the original rules of the competition are not going to be followed.
[General Topics] FcukBloat:
..so you were "on my same side".. I quoted the wrong post sorry :D

actually it was intended to all indie fans blaming xda for making win quarx.. :P
[General Topics] oSandmaNo:
Let indie have the second Nexus 7!

After all he did get so many votes.
[General Topics] fairxda:
If there are some, let them do. Maybe they are fighters as you and me ... ;)
[General Topics] Deonix:
I like the idea but why change the contest? It's only correct that the Winners are the dev and user who voted. I respect your judgement but i see no point in changing them. I see people post about others devs.. should i expect to see them included later in the poll? I know, i voted for Quarx but i voted for him not for me.

I vote for leaving the contest the way it was from start. As you said Quarx was chosen for his contribution and the great users who voted for him should get their prize.

And there's the future giveaways and contests? If this one gets changed and the user does not get it, what can we except from future giveaways like this one?

Again, i write the above lines with great respect and admiration for the XDA community.
[General Topics] fifamaniac:
Indie from Omega's Team must win this one!! He diserve it... here is the link from his profile

http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=2576548

Thx
[General Topics] Leoisright:
Ask quartz if iindie can receive the second device. If he says no, thats up to him.

Hard to change the rules after the contest is over. If people cried or what not for another Dev, they should pool money and get one donated to them. Its $249...not that much money for a ton of people voting for a Dev.

sent from my Nexus 10 Stella
[General Topics] cuchulain22:
My vote goes to Indie :)
[General Topics] TrayLunch:
It says a winning nominator had been selected, right? I think you should ask the winning poster/nominator if they want to give up their Nexus 7 for indie. They've already rightfully won it according to the rules, and now you're putting it up for community vote whether or not you give their prize away? I'm sorry, but that's not the communities decision. It isn't theirs to give away. They didn't win it. I didn't nominate either of these devs, and I'm sure they are both really deserving, but rules are rules and there can only be one winner.

If you want to change the rules after the fact, do it, but don't put the decision/blame on the community. It's XDA's to give away, and it's XDA's decision of who they want to give it to. Lie and say Indie nominated Quarx if you want.

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[General Topics] pedja381:
My vote goes to :indie: :thumbup::thumbup:
[General Topics] fryingpan0613:
^This. I completely agree, no matter how great the dev this was not the rules from the beginning. If the users that support that dev want them to have one so bad, they should start a donation thread for them.

Without the community voting, the original dev wouldn't have one, so the original rules should be honored. I don't believe it is fair to change the rules after the contest.

sent from my awesomely huge Note II
[General Topics] gal peleg:
My vote goes to :indie:

his the best!
[General Topics] julesg73:
::indie:: all the way no doubt
[General Topics] abhi.eternal:
This is what I feel about the modification to the contest rules > :silly:

This is the first instance I have come across where rules were changed for a contest AFTER it ended and one of the winners was chosen! I am not saying ::indie:: is a lesser developer than Quarx but I am pretty sure that if the situation was the other way round, Quarx would simply have congratulated the winner and moved on.

To admins, mods and everyone - we should learn to respect a decision for which rules were already laid out. Neither Quarx nor ::indie:: asked for the N7. Quarx came out just a little better in the end. As someone already suggested, for people who still want ::indie:: to get a Nexus 7, why not get together and gift him one; he sure deserves it :angel: Or you can vote on the poll to take the device away from a deserving winner from the community and give it to ::indie::, in which case it will not reach ::indie:: without the silent tear of some deserving member :rolleyes: Btw, I am already out from the competition as I am not from the US :p
[General Topics] willverduzco:
Guys, instead of complaining about the

potential

modification (which was presented as a

votable option

because of popular demand for Quarx to be awarded a prize), show your opinion by voting. Not to say something like, "this is why we can't have nice things," but... This is why we can't have nice things. As you all undoubtedly realize, the power to choose whether we keep the original winners or modify the rules is solely in your control now. So get out there and vote. Heck, get your XDA friends to vote. If the majority thinks we shouldn't modify the contest, we won't. If they majority thinks we should, we will.
[General Topics] bigtoysrock:
Only in America can we change the rules after a contest ends...... :rolleyes:

Leave the rules as they were when the contest began.
[General Topics] iakovidis:
I am one of indie's voters.

I believe I can see both sides here.

First side says sick to the rules, give one tablet to a developer, thank him for his work. A great gesture. A side-appreciation token along with the donations he might get. I agree 100%

Second tablet-sick to the rule, give it to some random voter. Hm.. ok. But I can't see the real reason here. Maybe the winning user will feel that finally doing ..... nothing to the community got him something? Or that he just got lucky on a random giveaway? It's the rule, but it's pointless imho

Second side says sick to the rules on first tablet. Change the rules on second one.

That's the side I should vote for but I am not sure. I believe it's better but still..

There are so many developers with great work that make xda what it is.

Maybe a random recognised developer would be better? ;)

P.S. sorry indie but you already won in my heart :) If you plan to support nexus 7 I'll chip in ;)
[General Topics] fireblade:
As willverduzco said it's up to US to decide what will happen.. and if you have a look at the poll you already know what the majority of people want. So agree or not, it's not xda changing the rules, they only gave us an option, but ultimately WE are changing them.
[General Topics] TrayLunch:
I'm sorry, but I'll have to disagree here. It doesn't go to a random voter. The second tablet was to go to a deserving nominator who stated the best case for the winning dev. The winning dev was supposed to be based on a quality post that received the most support via thanks, and whatever else the admins decided was important. I'm sure a lot of thought effort and heartfelt sentiment went into the winning post.

I'm sorry, but this is a huge mistake. This shouldn't be left up to the community. If the rules are gonna change, it should be the folks who are deciding the winners that do it and take responsibility for it. SMH

Elite Tester for Mijjz Goodness
[General Topics] tisazalay:
I vote ::Indie:: in case I win the Lexus 7 please send it to ::Indie:: right away.
[General Topics] gimmick56:
Vote for indie

My vote goes to the one and only

:good: """indie""" :good:

Here is the link from his provile:

http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=2576548