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[General Topics] fryingpan0613:
^ This

sent from my awesomely huge Note II
[General Topics] DomusX10:
I thank you Zohaib0001 for the wonderful ROM Xperia T style for my Arc S.

He had a new life since I put it.

And then thank the philosophy of this forum: "Who knows more, teach. Who knows less, learns". Simple. Light. Wonderful.
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I'm thankful for Lloir one of the best developers on XDA. He has been into android forever, since the day it was released and followed it ever since. The first time I really ran into him was when I found him in the HTC One V section. He was working on CyanogenMod 9, blindly. His phone had bricked from a radio problem HTC knew about and decided to ship the phone with. He did this development blindly for weeks on end, and even fixed all the usability bugs. Lloir is the one I have learned a lot of my rom development skills from, also. Without him, I would be stuck only knowing how to do kernels. The community is genuinely better with this amazing developer, who deserves every little bit of his recently gained Recognized Developer title!

Thanks lloir
[General Topics] The Real Sitek:
I have to ask, no themer love! We make awesome pretty!

Kidding!

Here's to you, devs! :beer:
[General Topics] chadouming:
That is really an interesting contest ! Even tho i can't technically participate this contest (I am living in canada which is not in US), i wanted to share my story.

I am in touch with a lot of dev and learned to know some of them more. To list those i talk with often : Codeworkx, xplodwild, nebkat, Espenfjo, cdesai, Entropy512, gokhanmoral and pulser_G2. One dev tho made me take a deep plunge into android world. Unfortunately, i havent been able to talk to him for a long time, however, this dev is Tk-Glitch.

He made himself famous with his glitch kernel for the SGS I, and then have moved to the north-american SGS III. At the time i met him, i had a Telus galaxy S. It was not much different from the GT-I9000 beside the fact it had 4 capacitive button instead of a home button and 2 capacitive. i entered the world of android with cyanogenmod 6.2 (This would be android 2.2 for those not in android world enough long) and quickly tried to get more. This search of knowledge landed me on XDA, when it was an already big accumulation of tips, guide and general love for android. I also learned (by try and fix after) that i could flash GT-I9000 rom on my SGH-T959D without having big problem. The only "Major" would be that i could not enter into recovery or download mode with key combination at start. As i had also flashed I9000 bootloader, to enter into these mode it also required the home button to be pressed. Home button that was missing on my phone. Other minor issue was some of the capacitive key being badly mapped. I could live with that. I then enetered the world of custom kernel. So, after flashing cyanogenmod 7 and a few custom kernel, i was feeling it was somewhat good. Then i tried Glitch kernel. I falled in love. Everything was looking so fast with it. I quickly got in tought with Tk-Glitch and became one of his beta tester. At that time, i would still use GT-I9000 kernel. After i saw that my phone could be quick and after a few "Brick and despair from try and fix after method" I decided that i could have even more of my phone. I so then writted a guide for every telus user to get GT-I9000 rom on their phone. I also went into fixing my keymapping problem ending in a fully fonctionnal (except download and recovery key combination) phone ! Later, like it was not great enough that Tk-glitch had me to test his beta, he decided to make a Telus kernel. Which contained kernel level fixed keys. At that time, he could produce easily 4 or 5 kernel per day for us to test. And i was waiting these after every work/school day. Tk-Glitch contributed into my ocf (obsessive compulsive flashing) problem. After seeing how much could be done just by looking his work, i tried to get more and more implied into the android world. I read all the things i can. I never launched into a large scale project (except recently with TeamBBQ) but i try to help people when they have good question. Even if i speak to a lot of dev all the time, i miss the time i would end the day and see a lot of kernel to flash. Eh, i guess i can't make much about nostalgy.
[General Topics] RayGarden:
FranciscoFranco - Galaxy Nexus Kernel

Thank and Respect

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I herewith would like to thank Francisco Franco (Portugal) as THE Reliable Kernel Developer, supporting the Galaxy Nexus (and more devices).

Efforts to Improve

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Francisco has put all his efforst in creating the best Kernel for both ICS and Jelly Bean ROM's and still his work is in progress, now the Galaxy Nexus has been updated to 4.2.

Since i'm using Franco's Kernel, my Galaxy Nexus has improved both Performance and Battery Life to (at least) 150%.

App and Forum Feedback

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Not only that Francisco provide a Kernel Updater App, but he allways stay calm, try to answer all the questions, even a question has been asked many times. To manage a Forum Tread is not easy!

Nexus 4

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Francisco now is focussing on the Nexus 4 so......focus on his tread. You will not be dissapointed!

Off-Topic: i told Francisco once......someday you'll get your transfer (like in soccer). now recently he has made his move. wishing him lots of succes!

Greetz Raymond
[General Topics] VisualTech48:
I want to thank this great developer that brought the ICS to the Galaxy S plus.

What he did is amazing. He is the one, the only dev that acctualy made it to make a bootable ICS for S Plus.

His Name Is : Arco69

The whole S Plus forum thanks him for the great work he did. Now after a few months we have allmost 100% working ICS !CRAZZZY!

Thanks to him, and other great devs (Ivendor, Doomsday94, etc.) we got a booting 3.0.x Kernel, and we started makeing Jelly Bean for our device.

His uniqe work made our phone one of the greatest phone i ever hold in my hand. Thanks to his work he proved and nailed samsung because samsung sayed " ICS Won't be able to run smoothly on the device because of the lack of ram and processor power". He Proved then that they were wrong and im happy that he did it. His work we allways be renembered.

THANK YOU ARCO69
[General Topics] paul96:
theimpaler747

My favorite dev would have to TheImpaler747 for all his fantastic work on the hero cdma.

He has made the Impaled series of themes for this devices and for many other devices. He also wrote a very helpful guide that explains how to theme very well. He also repeatedly make roms for the hero before other people did and kept bringing life into it when it seemed like it was a dead device in 2010. I also remember him being very helpful by responding to questions quickly and in his "Q/A about CM" thread.

Heres all the threads that were started by him : http://xdaforums.com/search.php?searchid=103201096&pp=25

profile: http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=2433609

Good Luck :D
[General Topics] Lrs121:
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Im grateful for all the amazing work that dzk better known as dragonzkiller has done for the Droid X2(MB870) and by association the Milestone X2 (MB867). He's consistently brought an almost completely functioning version of cyanogen mod to the droid x2. even up to the latest version as seen here CyanogenMod 10 Alpha 1 for the Motorola Droid X2 and here [ROM][ALPHA][JB]CyanogenMod 10 Alpha 2 [UPDATED 10/7/12] he was unable to get it completely functioning only because of the thoroughly locked down nature of the device that motorola has imposed on us. even so he has beat all odds getting CM to work on the device while still working on a kexec up to the moment his phones memory litterally started giving up the ghost. While he did not do direct work for the MX2 it was simple to port it over making my device the mx2 actually bearable to have and because of that he has my eternal respect for doing all of that while going through the hardships of going to school for such an incredibly difficult degree and dealing with life in general. While he already has his next device picked out i would like to show my appreciation to dzk by earning him a free device to play with on his own time. One where he doesnt have to go through all the difficulties of getting what he wants on his device and the nexus 7 would be a great way to do that. while ill admit id be nice to get another nexus 7, im really not posting this for me but for him, especially cause im already going to get one for christmas. Though my luck with technology id need a second one as a back up cause the first one bit the dust. Honestly if it were possible id want to give any developer that has had to deal with the crap motorola has heaped on us to get a custom rom and/kernel working on their device a tablet for their hard work but thats not possible.
[General Topics] Unexist6969:
Dorimanx for sure, the stuff he does for users and listen to everyone of them. He is probably the most friendly dev towards users. Check his thread in S2 section. There is like 500+ commits every new release. I haven't found any Nightly' kernels in other threads yet. I'm not saying he is the best dev. Imo Entropy512, Gokhanmoral & Codeworkx and every dev working on an Exynos device is a beast. Ti-omap/nexus/qcomm is childplay for them :P Not to forget myfluxi's awesome work in the past! Bajee11 is the only 1 making real roms not totally based on cm.

But I'm only speaking for s2 section.

If I had to choose between most friendly/requesting all users features then I would say Dorimanx

But reading Entropy's story I must say he is the best if not one of the best.

Without him (and other CM exynos maintainers) we would've been nowhere. Most devs learn alot of them. Living with touchwiz is **** & ugly than what OS ever. I probably would've sold my device if there wasn't CM support. Would've probably a good thing tho cuz Samsung isn't releasing sources at all. And ignorance towards Devs. They don't deserve it people buying 50-60M devices of them every quarter of the year.

Now if I have to choose between the best XDA Dev it's Entropy512 (I think he deserve's a fully working AOSP device ;p)

All the time he has spend on exynos software is incredible he deserve's more than what he is giving to XDA. And he's still maintaining the 4210 device which is great after all the mess he & Codeworkx and alot of others have been through.

And if Exynos was open-sourced like tiomap/qcomm we would've the fastest devices ever I'm sure. Even the S2 still beats out a duel core krait. Samsung is only about hardware but software is a nightmare :)

This all is my honest opinion from what I've learnt in XDA and been reading. But probably most people choose the dev of their own device or who has got the most roms/kernels. That's not the point. I don't like that business kind of developing.
[General Topics] FC1032:
I would have to vote molesarecoming (and team) for ParanoidAndroid on the Gnex.

It is truly innovative in that one ROM can cater for such a wide variety of users. I remember watching and using PA grow in the early stages, from when apps didn't fit the screen up till now where things work perfectly.

I initially tried this rom because well, this is XDA, you try anything new! I found having the combined tablet bar at the bottom a nicer use of space and it seemed a lot easier for one handed operation. It also made me less Paranoid about burn in from the status bar. Some apps just seem better in tablet ui and to me it remains a mystery to why they aren't like that by default.

Hope molesarecoming (and team) the best!

I know this is for US residents only (or people with proxy), but I still want you guys to know about him and his work. I don't mind organising a proxy if we get chosen :D
[General Topics] d34thbl00m:
I fully agree. Without DZK us X2 users would have smashed this phone into pieces a long time ago. Hats off to him for all the hard work he's put into this phone.
[General Topics] PhxkinMassacre:
I am most thankful for Myn, he made the first rom i ever flashed which was warm 2.2 to for the og evo 4g. His rom was fantastic and i kept going back and back to it no matter what else i flashed. Then once android 2.3 came out he ported over sense 3.0 and made the synergy rom which i must have run for 6 months straight. Not only did he make some awesome roms though, he also took a bit of time to help me out when i was curious about development and with his help i made my first flashable zip which was a zip that added DSP manager to any rom and from then on my knowledge just grew from there. He isn't the only notable dev in my mind that i was thankful for but he is by far my favorite. :)

p.s. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
[General Topics] wildps2king:
I would have to say that my favorite developer is kejar31. In May, I bought my first Android phone: the Galaxy Nexus. Before my Galaxy Nexus, I had an iPod Touch and, of course, had it jailbroken and modded it left and right making the most of it. Naturally, I wanted to do the same with my Galaxy Nexus! I remember I was very nervous when I rooted it for the first time and switched between different ROMs. I had so many problems with them, including bugs, things not working as they should and such. I actually went back to stock for a short period of time. Then I came across Gummy. I fell in love with the ROM and I had little to no problems with it! There were so many features added and it really changed the way I looked at Android and it showed me all the potential my phone had and how much Android had to offer.

I would like to thank kejar31 and the rest of the Gummy Team for their amazing work on Gummy for the Galaxy Nexus!
[General Topics] thejrcrafter2:
fattire.

I'm thankful for quite a few developers here, but I guess my favorite has got to be fattire. Before I got my Nook, I really had just about no skills with Linux in my mind. Of course, to others, I was a computer wizard, but not to me. When I saw the Nook, though, I saw so much learning/hacking potential in this device. I got the Nook pretty, when CM7 was still in early development. I didn't really have much fun with the early ROMs, but I still learned about what really happens when you root a device, and what rooting actually means.

I really got into hacking when CM9 came out. (this is where fattire comes in, too.) I never thought that this not-so-great device could run a power hungry OS like Ice Cream, but it did. It seemed a bit too good to be true, and it was. Fattire decided to stop everyone from posting builds and make them all just link to source. At first this seemed like a terrible idea, but then I started to see a bright side. I've always wanted to be a software developer, and his was really where I would end up learning a lot of the skills, just by looking through the source code and figuring out what actually makes Android, and every other OS, actually do stuff. I learned a lot from this, and I didn't really want fattire to allow builds again, but I guess majority rules, and the majority just wanted a straight-up, flashable zip. Even though this great time of learning came to an end with just about nobody posting updated source, I still learned a lot from this experience.

Skip ahead to just a few weeks ago, when CM10 was released for the Nook. Ever since IO 2012, I was searching the interwebz literally every day for a CM10/JB build for the NC. It took about a month of waiting before CM10 comes along, and guess who posted it -nobody other than fattire. And whadd'ya know, he posted updated source! I immediately got started on compiling and reading all of the source. Once again, I learned a whole lot, but since these builds came just about every day, I decided to just compile every once in a while when I was bored and just use the zips I was given- and that worked out fine. Nonetheless, I still learned a lot about building ROMs and fixing problems, especially since you could just look up what changed with the ROM in the CM Updater then find the change in the source code, and see how the change affects how the system acts.

I guess what I'm trying to say here is that fattire is really a "learn-how-to-do-this" kind of guy, and he even goes to extremes like stopping all builds to make people learn. And that's good, because we really need more people in my generation (I'm in middle school by the way) to be doing work with computers, otherwise there won't be any more computers or devices when your generation (I'm assuming all of you readers are in the generation above me) goes away. And I don't want to not have computers. So thanks a lot, fattire, and all of you other teenagers reading this, actually try to learn a little about how computer work, because they don't program themselves.

That was a lot of typing.

And here's the link:

http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=3041959
[General Topics] Deltatiger:
My favorite developer would mainly be ErwinP [http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=3027779] from the Wildfire community. Though he is doing a major in Bio he still found enough time to get an almost perfect version of CM9 on to the wildfire. He had help from others in the community but even so he is my inspiration and i am learning hard to become like him. :D
[General Topics] ArcticFish:
im most thankful for tmogalaxys2 (http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=4721756).Just when my device started running our of devs, he came out of the blue. He brought new roms along with another dev to help him. He annd his all star devs gave a wide variety of roms and different bases that i know i can be happy with for monthes to come. I would also like to thank all of XDA because without it we wouldnt have anything. So Happy Thanksgiving Everyone. (fyi: im flashing his new update to his rom as i speak lol)
[General Topics] emindede:
Thanks tytung

My favorite XDA Recognized Developer is "tytung".

Here, you can find his profile: http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=2677399

I would like to thank him for keeping our legendary and precious device, HTC HD2, alive.

I believe that HD2 is a kind of very important device in the age of custom ROMs.

And tytung is the one of the milestone person who still keeps developing custom ROMs for HD2.

Thanks to tytung, we are making the most of latest Android versions.
[General Topics] dewadg:
Thanks a lot arco68!

Since the first time I visited XDA Developers forum, my phone has improved a lot. The best improvement is ICS upgrade from the best Galaxy W's developer arco68. He/she develops the CyanogenMod 9 (ICS) that Samsung didn't give for my Galaxy W, I'm glad to have him/her as my phone's developer. Not only CM9, now he/she also develops the CM10 for my phone. I thank him/her a lot. Thanks arco68!

+ I bet, without his/her help, my Galaxy W will be still running Gingerbread and has no any improvement potential!
[General Topics] prototype7:
Well, out of all the developers whose works I have personally used, the one I am most thankful for would have to be aeroevan. His development is what kept me on my old Droid Incredible 2 for as long as I had it, and he's still going. He is currently the only developer who is actively supporting Jelly Bean on the Incredible 2, and he also develops for the Verizon SGSIII.

He has kept us updated with awesome, stable kernels for each new release of Android when none of the other kernel developers stayed with us, and was really the reason we still have any Jelly Bean ROMs today. Along with keeping the Droid Incredible 2 alive and kicking with the newest CyanogenMod builds and the kernels to run them, he supports the latest CyanogenMod builds for my new device, the Verizon SGSIII, which he doesn't even own. He has helped me with questions about development in the past, and is just an all around great guy.

Honestly, I didn't expect to be writing this, but after reading through the other entries and how great it felt to see the members giving thanks to the great devs we have that make this site what it is, I felt he deserved a mention. Thanks for reading!
[General Topics] offgridgrower:
I am thankful for Josh Beach for jellybomb domination his work on the galaxy s3 makes it the best phone rom out there IMO!

SPH-L710/L710VPBLJ7

JellyBomb Domination v8

KT747-11/13/12 kernel

XDA-DEV APP
[General Topics] xyancompgeek:
Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Cheers to all at xda!

I first got involved with the site when I got a sony tablet s (not the xperia model) and I was looking for a way to root it...............and that's when my (by far) favorite developer came in..........condi............now I get that he hasn't been given 'developer' status, but let me tell you........the guy was a legend in my eyes. He gave the first tool to successfully root the tab.....made a proper video and text tutorial......made a lot of sweet mods to it............and despite the fact that there wasnt much base for the product, he kept going on with it. Finally when his tab got unrecoverably bricked, he wanted a few people to test a custom recovery for him. I put my name in and we got to know each well. What surprises me the most is he had complete faith that nothing would go wrong in his script. Anybody who can do these kind of tests over gmail chats is worthy of praise!!!!!!! Well, now that the new xperia tab is out, people have most probably forgotten the old one (new fads and all!). And I haven't heard from condi yet. But I still have him in my chat list and hope to speak with him again.

It's great to take a popular product and make progress with it. But what is even more commendable is to take a device that is locked down to the core and still make some headway. To be honest, the prize does not interest me very much (Though I do have a US Address you can send it to!). My aim was to make these developments and these people known. Had there been space for more favorite developers, I would have loved to include einschnaehkee (built a custom remote for the tab, from scratch) and djrbliss (found the initial root method!) and stifilz (general amazing support). But sadly there isn't.......Once again cheers to the xda team and happy thanksgiving!

condi : http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=422959

Owner of a Sony Tablet S, Galaxy Tab 2 7.0, Galaxy Note, Galaxy S2 and others
[General Topics] nikufellow:
Mijjah74 hands down . He deserves appreciation for his un paralleled contributions to the community .
[General Topics] Zfwaeld:
Thanks Entropy512

Entropy512, for his work on the superbrick bug that affected the E4GT and other Samsung devices, and for his continued work on Exynos devices despite lack of proper documentation. Also, several great presentations at the Big Android BBQ!
[General Topics] Fishuu:
Thanks Toldo!

My Favorite Dev here on XDA is Toldo and his awesome ROM! He can be found in my SIG...yeah thats how much i Love HIM

And he is one of the few who Develops for the Tab10.1 his ROMS are also flawless ...another person is also Ryrzy who is in charged of the Kernel --Yoda kernel

Just wanna thank them for their time for doing this...And to you XDA the best of the best !
[General Topics] carlosmonti:
My favorite XDA Recognized Developer is "salesale".

He is very supportive and always delivers the best rom (for i9100) and also the mods you ask him!! totally the best!
[General Topics] mjm128:
intersectRaven Get's my recommendation for the work he did on getting a kernel that supported FM radio on the Nexus One. At the time I didn't have a data connection and only had voice and text on my nexus one due to financial constraints. Being able to have a FM radio on my device helped get me through the work day by having a wider selection of music available to me. I was able to play music on my device and switch it up and listen to KROQ and other radio stations while I was at work working 8 hour days at a stainless steal manufacturing plant. I ended up using the FM radio support daily, and it brought whole new life to my device.

I just would like to thank him.

But hey lets not be selective, there's a lot of developers out there and contributors that make the xda-developers community function and grow. Everyone that's been a part of the community and been able to make development of our devices deserves a show of gratitude.