[About XDA developers] s1l3nt:
ERR so i'm bored and decided to tell my story of joining xda. A long time ago when the Sidekick use to be "the thing", i decided to get one and was really disgusted by it. Eventually my dad got a nice phone at that time (T-mobile Dash aka HTC Excalibur). I was impressed by it so i got myself one too. Eventually i would Google and Youtube "cool things to do with t-mobile dash" and i would find some things like installing certain apps, emulators, and some cool tweaks. At some point i saw that there was a windows mobile 6.1 os version, my excalibur had 6.0. I searched and searched to find a way to update officially and couldn't. Then i found something which lead me to XDA. It was a custom rom (kavana and rose rom. Thanks to kavana,NRG,ricky,and stylez. :) I would install it and i would be really happy about it that i was able to update unnofficially.

Eventually that would last me for a while because the phone was running better than stock. It was overclocked, debloated, lots of tweaks, latest update, and a better ui. That was back in 2008 to 2009. Eventually i got an iPhone 3g because i wanted something with touchscreen and that would last a while after jailbreaking and blah blah and left xda for a while and went to an iphone forum. Eventually i would get bored and felt abandoned when the 3gs and the iPhone 4 came out. I was planning on getting the iPhone 4 but another phone caught my eye, Samsung Captivate. I knew very little about android at that time but i was seeing how it was growing from the G1 then eventually leading to other devices. My friend had a G1 and i was impressed by it but he didn't use it much and i felt like i've done more on my iphone than he did on his phone. What i didn't know was the oem skins over existing android os, Touchwiz, sense, etc. So i decided i want to give android a try because one thing that made me interested in android was their widgets. What really got me interested in the Samsung Captivate was it's screen, Amoled Display. So i got the phone and it was a new thing for me. Took me a while to get use to it but eventually i would start liking more and more each day. Made me fell like in idiot for having an iphone that i had to jailbreak every time a new update comes out. Captivate was running eclair at that time with Touchwiz 3.0, i think. Then it would start getting slow on me and i hated the at&t bloatware it came with. I also hated the touchwiz launcher and eventually replaced it with launcher pro. Then i searched up "cool things to do with samsung captivate" which lead me back to, well you guessed it, XDA. So it sent me to the captivate forum thread which had a lot of things to do. That would start my journey with android and custom roms, kernels etc. I would run cognition rom, a themed aosp touchwiz rom, roms from The Collective team, andromeda rom from AdamOutler, and lastly my favorite one, CM7. Thanks to Designgears, The Collective, Mikeymike01, sixstringsg, AdamOutler and Cyanogenmod

Of course, thanks to XDA-developers for keeping everything all in one site where i can make all my devices run at its full potential. From my htc excalibur to my current htc one x, all my devices are running better than it was out of the box. From XDA classic to XDA 2013 beta, XDA was always filled with a great community of developers, moderators, and contributors.

Other devices i had after the captivate were the Xperia play 4g thanks DooMLoRD for awesome kernel and alejandrissimo for bootloader unlock

nexus s damn to many people to thank, Thanks everyone in the nexus s forums

asus transformer, Thanks everyone in the asus transformer forums

and now the HTC one x and the nexus 7, Thanks everyone in those forums aswell

btw thanks to everyone that i thanked in this post in making me a flashaholic :)

I'm never going to type this much in a post again :silly: