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[General Topics] Drabir Alam:
The developer I am most thankful for without a doubt is Alex C. :highfive:

I had an HTC ChaCha that had piss poor battery life and was slow as hell. Alex developed a port of CM7 for that took care of both the issues. On top of that he took care of the tiny memory issue by putting A2SD support in it. He still develops for a device that has zero popularity and some unfortunate Qwerty keyboard loving owners. Thanks to him, we are heading for CM10 on it. And it's because of his ROM that I still use that phone. It was on its way to become a paper-weight a long time ago. Thank you Alex. Keep rocking and keep developing. No matter where you are, ChaCha users will always remember how awesome you are :good:
[General Topics] LorD ClockaN:
Hard to name only one developer...

but my vote goes to LeeDroid for his devoted work towards XDA and community

no story to tell when there are thousent of them
[General Topics] SimonHenryz:
The first dual core smartphone

Greetings to the moderator and everyone participating in this thread.

(Light in the engulfment of darkness)

Imagine a phone with great expectation, it being the first dual core smartphone ever made. It never lived to such high expectation. Imagine a phone that the manufacturing company had abandoned for a while. A dual core high end phone with good hardware, but with poor software support. Imagine a phone that lagged terribly, extreme black screen of deaths, poor connectivity issues, and crazy battery drain. It got to the time the phone was void of finesse, dropped by a lot of telecommunication companies, and forgotten. I, fellow phone users and developers, got frustrated with the lack of support from the company until hope came in the middle of darkness. This beloved phone is the T-mobile lg g2x. Till date, the g2x has no proper drivers for a fully functional ice cream sandwich and jelly bean ROM. Developers like Benee, the Eaglesblood Team, Ricardo, all deserve credits for the role they played in resurrecting the g2x that most people had lost hope on.

My favorite Developer goes to Tonyphttp://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=3605868. :good:

Not every Dev can boast of having a smooth Jelly Bean ROM without proper drivers and full hardware acceleration. Not many people can say of a Developer that organizes his thread with gentility and simplicity, earning respect in return. Only a few can say of a Developer that leaves no question unanswered. Having a Developer that is ecstatic when there are no bugs present on his Rom is simply amazing. Tonyp is happy when the g2x community is happy, he understands our frustration and gives us hope.

Tonyp made an exceptional Jelly Bean Rom with no drivers, though, credits to Benee and Ricardo. He uniquely polished the Rom with goodness in all ramifications. To get a smooth Rom without drivers is remarkable. As said, what makes him my favorite is how he sees his users as his kids, feels the pain of his ROM users, and organizes his threads remarkably. His vacations are not really vacations . His sleeps are not really sleeps. Tonyp works tirelessly on his Roms during vacations, he is one to be remembered.

Links to his work

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1891480

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1762647

Happy Thanksgiving everyone :o
[General Topics] PoorCollegeGuy:
I actually do not wish to enter the contest, but rather I'd like to give my Nexus 7 entry to a 2nd developer. They are XDA Recognized Developers interloper and bigrushdog. Both have done a lot in terms of development. bigrushdog is known currently for his work with Team EOS and interloper has released a variety of things. I ran Team EOS on my Galaxy Nexus (maintained by bigrushdog) the entire time I owned a Galaxy Nexus.

While others may be going "this is my fave dev because i love this ROM", etc, I want to thank bigrushdog and interloper for being amazing mentors. When I first got into stuff like AOSP compiling and the like, these two developers were there for me every step of the way. From setting up the build environment to downloading source, and on down to the odd and ridiculous problems that apparently only I have, the two of them answered my seemingly inexhaustible string of what probably amounted to noobie questions.

It seems trivial, but in days like these, learning can be a pretty daunting task for noobies. You look at the latest generation of developers and nearly all of the have a mentor who's already a well known developer. These developers take time out of their busy lives (working, family, development...it's a lot of work!) to sit down and teach people, even if it means answering questions that have already been answered before. Granted, I was told more than once to "Google it", but interloper and bigrushdog supported me through my entire trip from not knowing anything about AOSP to building and compiling working ROMs, and even some tips and tricks along the way.

So there's my entry. Should it win, I want one Nexus 7 to go to bigrushdog and the other to go to interloper to do with as they please. It's not every day you find recognized developers willing to sit there for a few hours over the course of a few days to answer questions and help teach. It's that kind of patience and knowledge sharing that truly embodies the XDA spirit and helps not only promote current development (as bigrushdog had me building Team EOS ROMs instead of CM, like most first timers :P ), but helps spark future development as well.

See you guys on the Portal and Happy Thanksgiving :)
[General Topics] galaxys3man30:
All my thanks goes to Josh Beach the dev of the jeely bomb theme on the S3 and the note2 his roms rock these two phone n can't him enough for all his hard work

jelly bombed SGS3 jelly bomber 4life
[General Topics] justgotusedto1.1:
For me its mike1986 and ARHD 15.0. A bug free ROM. Brilliant
[General Topics] cybertang:
what I am thankful for

My story is probably like everyone else

Im thankful for those who made who i am possible I was a solider in the army 19d for those who dont know what that is a cavalry scout

Its a pretty action oriented mos i have seen death in a land far away from our own and watch those i call friends fall all around me just to come home to a family who didnt understand why i was so hard and antisocial. it was that way for years but my family stuck by my side and slowly help me become social to an extent but i still wasnt a functional part of society i was still s

it wasnt until i met my now wife she came in with patience and a kind heart total reverse of me and help warm my soul, it was about 3 months in that me and her found out about our first daughter, that there was a complete reboot of my ways i worked hard got us a car and then started working again, it wasn't till about almost exactly a year later we were expecting our second daughter...oye....by then we started building our life stabilizing me...im so grateful for those who stuck by my side and warmed my heart and took me from my dark place

people i would like to highlight

My grandfather Manuel may he rest in peace he was the only father i knew and he stood close to me all the way till the prompt end

my grandmother Yolanda she is as much of a mother to me as my mom

My mother Paula and her sticking through while i fought in war and not having a heart attack every time the government called her saying i was involved in a accident in combat

my wife Faith for giving me a new way of life appropriately named

my daughter Nalanni for giving me a joy i never experienced till i met her

my daughter Alana for just showing up and adding so much more joy to my life

Life it always has a new start and for that i am thankful.

also the dev i would like to include is djintrigue in the sgs3 t-mo section author of frosty roms
[General Topics] kv1dr:
We don't have thanksgiving in our contry, but I will still thanks to our great developers FXP(Free Xperia Team) for their greatest cyanogenmod for our xperia devices and I also thanks to slade87 for great kernel and also AeonWorld and Till-Kruspe for all mods and themes. Without your hardwork, our Xperias wouldn't be so great devices. Thank you.
[General Topics] HardcoreUwe:
richardtrip

Hello,

the developer i would like to thank is richardtrip with his Ginger Villain ROM for the HTC Desire.

The HTC Desire was my first Android mobile phone. It was a hard decision to root my phone. I read a lot of tutorials and than one day I rooted my HTC Desire. After testing some ROMs for the device I stayed at Ginger Villain. The Best ROM There Is, the Best ROM There Was and the Best ROM There Ever Will Be. (Bret "The Hitman" Hart ;) ). I looked at the thread every day and was happy about every new feature. But than there was that one day, that every smartphone will have. A new smartphone arrives. My new one was the HTC Sensation XE (which I rooted on the first day^^). But what now with my HTC Desire? My sister had a Xperia Mini Pro. So I give it to her as a present. It's now more than two yeats ago that I bought my Desire. My sister is still happy with her "new" mobile phone and did not know about the force in it and all that possibilities with root access. She loves the ROM and did not miss the Sense GUI.

richardtrip gave me that first wow-effect on my phone with his ROM. I learned to love senseless ROMs. On my Sensation XE, I have one, too.

Thank you richardtrip for that great ROM! You changed a little part of my life.;):)

HardcoreUwe

PS: If there are some spelling mistakes...they must be:laugh:
[General Topics] rirozizo:
i really really really want this! even though i'm not in the US (i'm in lebanon) i hope you make me an exception because i SERIOUSLY want this :D

i want to thank my favorite dev Flinny for making the JellyBean test Builds for my HTC Desire Z.

since my Desire Z was lacking of RAM, i needed to figure out a way to remove the Sense framework... so if it wasn't for xda, i never went this far and realized i love android so much!

Flinny was my inspiration to make my first ROM, because he got so popular with his build and made my DZ come alive :D
[General Topics] jackplatonic:
My story

Hi! I am new to the android world and as a windows user i had a lot of prejudices about android devices! However my love of books pushed me to buy a tablet to enjoy ebook reading without having to print them! My choice was samsung galxy tab 8.9 because of its portability! This device brought me to xda forums and to samsung galxy tab 8.9 section! There i found a very active developer "Safariking" from his threads i discovered the real charm of android OS and the fun of owning an android device! So my vote goes to Safariking

Good Luck everybody

:o
[General Topics] ptrics:
Mike1986.

Vote through tunelbear

mike1986 (http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=1631739) too cuz his Rom on my HOX its blazing fast and great support from his team, working on it's ROM even before the device when out.
[General Topics] ekabon:
Thankful for the cb56's Data Easy Pro apk

I'm thankful for the cb56's Data Easy Pro apk, as that app is the best app I have ever purchased. It solved the biggest problem I have ever had, actually I think everyone who has big screen smartphone does have this particular problem, - crazy battery drain. I have tried so many different battery saving apps, but none of them is not as good as Data Easy Pro. Thanks to his app my battery life has been extremely extended! Many thanx for that cb56, I hope you'll win nexus 7!)
[General Topics] jkt97401:
I'm thankful for Kushdeck over in the EVO 4G LTE forums, he has brought CM10 to a usable level and it has made a world of difference on my phone!

Thanks Deck!
[General Topics] nuckel82:
Mike1986 gets my vote!
[General Topics] acesabe:
Dragun Korr FTW!

For me Dragun Korr for his endless time, amazing commitment, huge effort and top style. No other dev I have seen pumps out so many new versions in such short time, and brings us so many hot new features *and* all smooth and stable to boot!

Dragon Korr FTW!!

http://www.dragunkorr.com
[General Topics] XxlemonxX:
I would like to say I'm thankful for Jmz. He has done so much for the CDMA version of the HTC one v. His work isn't appreciated enough in my opinion devs work days and days on projects/ROMs. I think both tablets should go to devs. :thumbup:
[General Topics] Moscow Desire:
Well, as I am an XDA moderator, not sure whether I should be entering contests ;)

I got into customs roms some time ago, but mostly just the basics for the Iconia A501. Pretty new at things. One of the people whom I could always count on, was a fellow A500 themer named Civato

Civ was always 2 steps ahead of me, and ahead of most other Cooks when it came to the Iconia. Because of him, I was was able to broaden my horizon, and learn a lot of things about Rom development, scripts, and most other things pertaining to it.

In fact, he's the first person who stuck by me, and instructed me in how to deodex and de-compile properly. Not a lot of people would go out of their way to do this. And I'm not the only person he's shared this info with. As far as I know, he's never refused to help a person who honestly wants to learn. I know, that if ever I have an issue, Civ will always be there to back me up and help me out. Eventually we'll figure it out, then release it to the users.

The Iconia A500 is an older tablet. It's ain't no Nexus 7, 10, or GS III, or any of the other "flagship" devices. But thanks to Civato, it still keeps up with the latest. If it weren't for his tireless efforts. I think a lot of people would have given up in the A500. Heck, just take a look in the forum. Pretty much every bit of development you see, has his name tagged to it somewhere. He's pretty much devoted to the Iconia family.

As a matter of fact, a few weeks ago, he hard bricked his PB Liberty Tab (A500). Cooked the memory. I know he did it while developing a newer recovery system. He didn't say so, but I knew he was working on it.

Most people, would have taken the opportunity to go and get a newer tablet. But not Civ. He waited until he could locate another 500, and continue Dev work. Not a lot of people would do this.

I'm sure one day, his name will be synonymous with the Iconia A500. A legend. But hey, it pretty much is already ;)

MD
[General Topics] cardav1981:
Mike1986

Im thankful for mike1986 for his ARHD Rom (DHD) its still the best rom for the dhd even though its not been updated in a while i havent found a better rom since, when i got my dhd i got directed to this site by someone who said you can root your phone and put custom roms on it after scouring the threads mikes layout and how the information was relayed made it easy for me to understand and have the confidence to unlock bootloader and root my phone.

http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=1631739
[General Topics] Thracks:
I am most thankful for the work of lead AOKP dev Roman Birg, aka Romanbb. My first foray into the Android world--after YEARS OF SUFFERING WITH A BLACKBERRY--was with the Galaxy Nexus. For the better part of three years, I'd sat the sidelines becoming an expert in all things ROM/kernel/hacking/modding-related, so I could give my friends a better experience with their devices. I've flashed hundreds of phones to custom firmware since the G1.

But I never appreciated the work of the community so much as I did when I finally had a phone of my own. Last Christmas, I bought myself a Galaxy Nexus and immediately dove into the world of custom ROMs. CyanogenMod did not yet exist, and ROMs like MoDaCo didn't give the customization I was after.

Then I stumbled across Romanbb's ROM, knowing from its description that I was looking at something truly special from a developer that was earnestly passionate about providing the best Android experience for my device. I flashed every. single. build. that Roman ever compiled and published for the GNex. Except for an occasional Facebook sync issue in the earliest days of the project, I never--and I seriously mean this, not once--encountered an issue. I believed so much in his work that I spent hours a day on the GalaxyNexus and AOKP subreddits helping others get the most out of Roman's work, because I wanted them to love their device as much as I love mine.

I trust in Roman's work so much that I bought a Nexus 4, knowing that his development focus--and that of the greater Team Kang's, whom I equally appreciate--would shift to that device. It lies in waiting, waiting for the day I can flash AOKP.

Thank you, Roman, for improving my life each and every day by making my phone faster, easier to use, more versatile. Quite simply, you made it the phone I wanted it to be. For free. You're the best. :)
[General Topics] thebeastglasser:
Wicked thankful over here for madmaxx82. When I was new to Android and I got my Evo 3D, I didn't want to get S-OFF and to be honest I figured I was going to brick my device.

And then I saw 4ext recovery by maxx, it made it so that you could easily flash ROMs while S-ON! I would've initially given up on Android if it wasn't for him, as I was getting sick on ROMs not being functional while S-ON.

Later on, now that I do have S-OFF, 4ext remains one of the most fully featured recoveries out there. Huge fan.

Thanks again Max!
[General Topics] BigRitz:
Mijjah74 gets my vote for sure thank you sir for your hard work dedication and for you willingness to take chances and make this phone cutting edge and run like a champion.

Rw btr ga kbzzle are all on my thanks list as well , w\o these guys i would've left xda its because of them i ahve stick it out and put in my 2cents where needed
[General Topics] lokesh1699:
Aokp by task 650

Task650 is in my view is doing a lot of work for the Galaxy S3(http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1766684)

His rom is very stable, smooth and good on battery. Never have i gotten random reboots on the releases for the last two months.

He updates regularly, responds immediately to users comments.

I have been using his rom on my phone and must say no other rom feels good enough with all the features.

Thanks task650!!!

Happy thanksgiving
[General Topics] jRi0T68:
My android experience wouldn't be the same without either Roman or Whitehawkx, since the dawn of the Vibrant.

My official vote, though, goes to Chainfire. Dude is all over the place bringing insecure kernels to those in need. My respect for him, as well as Roman and Whitehawkx, is immense.

As for my entry, throw that toward ronnie498. I don't need a tablet, and my heart goes out to that guy and his family for all they're enduring this year.

Sent from the top of my muffin.
[General Topics] Sinistertensai:
Its great to see so many names of familiar devs I know listed, granted though I think the top developer of all would have to be chainfire, with out superuser and superSU well we'd be **** out of luck. Roms are cool and all but every rom made contains this one little app that grants such great power so to say the least chains got my vote
[General Topics] webharsh:
First of all I'm thankful to XDA for providing such a wonderful platform for developers and users to come along and explore their phone (devices) to the fullest and enjoy as much. The openness provided by android is why I decided to buy an android instead of iphone (or any other) for my first smart phone. And I'm so happy today that I made that decision. My phone is HTC Sensation 4G I bought it about one and half years ago and I did not realize its true potential until I got tremendously bored of HTC sense and hell frustrated for not getting ICS. Early this year is when I rooted my phone and hell went loose :). I appreciate hard work from Kristof and Splder for providing amazing sense/senseless and slim ROM's. But once I got CM9 it was my daily driver. And I'm most grateful to CyanogenMod team for making such amazing ROM.

With JellyBean, there is a new monster out. I'm very grateful to Bruce for bringing a fully functional CM based JB ROM so early on this device. Even though HTC Sensation is still not officially supported by CM for JB. My life is now wonderful with all Jellybean 4.2 goodies working with this ROM and most wonderful new 4.2 camera with sphere. I love all silly long arguments with my friends on iPhone vs android (and to make sure Android Always Wins!!!).

Now most of the time I spend browsing XDA refreshing pages continuously to wait for new updates to ROM's. (And now refreshing continuously to see first 4.2 build out :) ). This is such a great community with people helping out each other with all small to big issues.

Android is my life now and xda is my home. Can't imagine to live away from it :).

For biggest impact my vote goes to Bruce and CyanogeMod. Thanks a lot guys.

Long live xda. Adieu.
[General Topics] DemonWav:
I am most thankful for Supercurio, that guy is just incredible, and I don't think much explanation is needed for that. I also am extremely thankful for any of the members of the past development team, Team Nyx. Onecosmic namely is awesome, but Supercurio takes the cake.
[General Topics] vietchinh:
A very very big thanks to .... RaymanFX

RaymanFX is a Asus Tf 101 developer I dont know much about him, but he didnt let the tf 101 out in the dark and most developers didnt to, but hes shining now beside TeamEOS is also good ^^ for the rom and NoDiskNoFun for the ubuntu net installe, mike1986.for ARHD, jhinta for the amazing ubuntu kernel, whitekidney for the easyflasher, crypted for better gps and i ca go on with it, but I chose raymanFX.

He improve us(tf101 users), with roms, kernels (currently the best one is Elite kernel, performance boost for less wifi strength.) for gaming, smoothness ( transition was bit choppy for me with kernels until this one was release, smooth now :D.)

It really improve my TF101 user expierence ( idk how to write anyways my english is bad also : NOT OUR OPINION MAY DIFFER).

Long live TF101 for now.. until tegra 4 comes out: Tegra 4 rumours or might be confirmd idk or even nicer models... For me its TF101, just for now.

you might ask why i do this competition?

I love share opinions. I might win and will be happy with nexus 7, but TF101 will be my main source of doing homework, watch some stuffs even play small games or even bigger now with new Elite kernel. Eventhough it cant handel very smooth on high on dead trigger. Its still not to laggy to and its playable. What i am gonna do with nexus 7? Share it with my familiy. The power of tegra 2 lives on with new kernel :D. Eventhough it dont outmatch the tegra 3. It's still amazing.

Before i talk more crap.

Enjoy reading.

Have a opinion.

I am not good in english

Have a nice day.

Put smile on your face.:good:

btw where can i put my location + what is proxy us shipping? (i feel silly)
[General Topics] dweber81:
Yep I gonna have to say Mijjah too. His ROMs are so well though out. The update and skills are amazing.
[General Topics] nuclearmeltdown2046:
I have a BIG problem here.

How can a contest be held at this caliber with having only to choose one?

When you have great people like Josh Beach, Mijjah, Dazed, clark44, ktoonsez, Naddict, rompnit, BTR, freeza, kennyglass and others who found time in there lives to do something for us, not for themselves but for us the community how can you choose one?

I WILL NOT CHOOSE ONE....

Not one person I mentioned has EVER pushed me aside over noobish questions. Not one has ever not responded to my pm's. To be honest every one of these people helped me achieve in one way or another what I needed to grow in this community and that's knowledge.

With this much heart comming from just one forum I am proud to be a member of it .........

Peace, B

Sent from my SIII
[General Topics] msquared:
Codeworkx ...

CM rocks :):)

Sent from my GT-I9100
[General Topics] lvader:
I would say @Salesale from Neat Rom for galaxy S2 :good:

I follow this guy for a long time

I started with just a pm and asked if the rom (at that time) have spanish language. He answer right away and say that wait for it, and boom spanish.

His work is amazing, always at the safe side, great roms and he is always responding, no matter if you donate or not.

If you ask for a modification, he is always responding if is possible.

Great dev, great person. :good:

I hope that the people that use his rom donate, because his great work.

sorry for my bad English :D