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[About XDA developers] jocami:
First Time

This web its just great, when the first time i saw an android phone (from a friend) i just get get in love with it a year ago... and got my HTC MyTouch 4g!!!!!!!! the android of my friend was rooted so i wanted to do the same for all the stuff he could do it with the phone rooted... guess what ppl? this what the first page that help me to root my phone :D i was so happy ^^ i love my android and i love this page cuz it still help me in so many things... here are great guys that provide good information. keep strong comunity and go on!
[About XDA developers] =-=:
I still remember that my first Smart phone how to came in my hand~

At 2011 January ,my brother bought a new phone - Nokia C3-01 ,it is a touch & type phone.He give me his Nokia 6300 play game ,but that phone is very very badly cause my brother listen music when he bath and the phone drop in to the water.From that moment,that phone cannot insert SD card more.

2011 May ,6300 can't save SMS more than 2000++ ,but I wan breaking the record .One time ,I play game until the battery low and shutting down .From that moment, 6300 can't wake up anymore (I think that phone memory no more for start phone)

after one month (2011 June) ,I bought a NEW SMART PHONE at my school holiday!!!! Sony Ericsson W8.At that time,my friend many is using X8(after one month everybody change Samsung :crying: )

when I bought W8 after 2 days , I see youtube have ppl install android2.2 so I step by step to install and SUSCEED!:laugh: but at that time I fear cannot back to 2.1 so I go to recovery delete all system file (the day after tomorrow I go service center service my phone)

after 2 hour's my phone is going back to 2.1 :laugh: after one month , I wan to use 2.3 and install by step by step but fail …… break phone ……I go to surf internet and XDA this website teach how to save break phone by using update service

more experience to install more ROM ,now my is unlocked bootloader &android4.1.2 !(Thanks nAa)

Thanks XDA!let me proud my W8
[About XDA developers] :
Re: }}} Describe your journey to XDA. Make sure to thank XDA

Guys please dont laugh at me after you read this all..

I got my first android phone 5 months back (a galaxy y). Well I knew nothing about android at that time. Or it was just a replacement for my old Nokia 500. I loved that phone also and now I love android for its flexibility.

So how come I got here?

As I registered with google account on phone and started exploring apps in play store, one of the few things I searched for was an antivirus:p. I dowloaded lots of them like avast and avg. Most I liked was avast. Then while looking in its options I was stuck at avast firewall. It asked me to root my device. I knew nothing about rooting (google to the rescue). Got the update.zip from some blogs and rooted it. I was glad that I would test firewall and block unnecessary apps from using data.. And it was like a facepalm... Avast said my kernel does not support firewall and I need to flash a custom rom/kernel with firewall support. Again googled but I wasnt brave enough with flashing roms and kernels. It took a month for me to flash creeds rom and kuro kernel. And that to I got from a blog. Now the firewall was working but xda was still unknown for me.

Then I searched for ics apps on play store and it luckily got me to a cm7 ics theme. Then cm7 search got me here at xda. I was just looking at my device's forum and learning things. I learned a lot and finally I thought of registering. And now I am here.

Hope no one gets bored with my not so long story. ( its not a story actually :rolleyes: )

Thanks to xda and to everyone for this awesome collection of knowledge.

Thanks to TonyStark for giving me a chance to post here.

Have a nice day sir!

__________________________________________

It Doesn't matter how much you grow up,

you will always get disappointed if your biscuit falls in tea
[About XDA developers] Ghostfreak NB:
Re: }}} Describe your journey to XDA. Make sure to thank XDA

Its just sharing your experience and thanking Xda for its worth

We respect others' opinion and there's nothing to be laughed at!

:)
[About XDA developers] wasabitobiko:
Invaluable resource..

I've been using XDA since 2010 which should tell you something as I don't have any posts. I read, read, read. Most everything I've been able to do with my three android phones and tablet I've done through others' posts and instructions. I visit daily to get insight and become a bit more involved.

thanks guys.
[About XDA developers] mfsr98:
So, I wanted to post this when I had 1000 posts, but I acindetally let the post pass :/

Anyways, I will describe my good trip on XDA here.

First, I bought an HTC Touch HD (Windows Mobile 6.1) in 2011, which is the most stupid decision I could do but it was cheap, so... Anyways I was happy with WinMo for like a month, 'till I wanted something new, something different, so I wanted Android. I didn't know if this was possible, so I searched in YouTube for something like that (I usually search for these things on YouTube so I can see the comments and if everything is safe) and I found a build of Android Gingerbread that ran on the SD ( I actually only figured that out when I rebooted my device ), so I went and installed it. Everything went fine, but I had some questions. This is where I found XDA and asked my questions on the forum. Stilll, this build was too slow, so I wanted to fully replace WinMo, which was when I found tiad8 . com. This guy (tiad8) kanged a lot from the XDANDROID (original Android-on-HTC devs) kernel sources but he actually made a functional ROM for this phone. He was very insulted by the original devs and I don't have an opinion on that matter, since I used both of their works. Anyways, later fagyi (another dev) took care of the ROM for the HD and I actually made kernel progress and a lot of things for it to be a fast ROM, so I ended up using his ROM and doing a post of it here on XDA. The first post was blocked by the XDA mods () but then fagyi posted the ROM itself and people still go there. After this ROM came out, I realized I couldn't use it since my phone got very hot (not on the ROM, actual motherboard problem) and battery was spent in like 2 hours. I had to buy a new phone, and I waited like 3 months to this, but on the last Christmas I finally got a Galaxy Nexus! When I got it I already understood a lot about Android development. Flashing ROMs was easy as pie (obvious, it's a Nexus ) and this is what I use now. I want to thank everyone on XDA that made it possible for my phones to be better and better by using their spare time to do this! Here are some names (not by any order) :

- fagyi;

- tiad8;

- ACL;

- arrrghhh;

- stinebd;

- HerrickWong.

Sorry if I forgot anyone.

Thank you XDA for these wonderful 2 years!
[About XDA developers] mooseo:
awesome place to start

XDA has been an awesome place to start doing more with my phone. I bought my Galaxy S2 and it was such an improvement over my old Treo that I didn't mind the weird things about it. After about a year, I got around to exploring all the ROMS that I thought I would have installed right away. I'm so happy with the well written guides (especially by creepyncrawly) and the great ROMS like supernexus (thanks Faryaab). I'm having a lot of fun with my phone. Thanks.
[About XDA developers] R3M768:
I came to xda when i wanted to root my phone and i stayed on this ever since however i only created an account a while ago
[About XDA developers] SerhatSoylemez:
Hi, Iam from Turkey.

I bought my new phone Nokia Lumia 620 a month ago. While I was trying to search Google about new Windows Phone applications, I found XDA.

Its really an interesting place. There are lots of information about my new phone.

Thanks XDA.
[About XDA developers] thesefardi12:
I came to xda by my great friend and tech savvy Bruce Bivins and he taught me how to flash and follow the steps given here so now I sport my deviant hyperdrive10 Rom and loving it. I love xda and thank you all developers and contributors for what you do in the Android community. You make Android life fun and pleasant to live and deal with. :):D:p
[About XDA developers] ereziel:
My comment will be short but resumes it well.

I just could not live without xda, and in my opinion, Android would not be the same without it, its info, its devs, its roms... EVERYTHING.

I am addicted to see everyday if there are new useful stuff like a drug hehe.

And that's it, thank you :)
[About XDA developers] sst1.0:
I lurked and read for a long time. Really wanted to root my devices but was always scared of the dreaded brick!

Needless to say, after reading a million posts, watching about as many YT videos I took the plunge! Have been enjoying flashing and modding ever since. Officially joined the forum a couple days ago. I still have a lot to learn, and think I can learn most of it right here, thanks!

Thanks to shabbypenguin for some great work, and qbking77 for some very good videos!
[About XDA developers] TonyStark R.I.P.:
Thanks for posting here with #4000:highfive:

The next 4k should be even more exciting
[About XDA developers] [AltaiR]:
Well mine started a bit more than a year ago..around february, when I bought my Galaxy S2. I had no idea then what root means. All I heard about was how amazing it was.

Thus started my quest for knowledge. And there was no better place than xda for it. That the stock firmware was bloated and outdated is of course another big reason for all of us. And there was no better place than xda for it. The road was specially difficult for my S2 is not the I9100 international one. I got a korean M250S and everything I read was for I9100. So I started reading and reading and reading. Finally got the guts to root and flash. Been a experimenting ever since. Have been using cyanogen until samsung messed up with the sources and all. So now I am back to stock, NeatROM lite. I finally got around to registering. Meant to start contributing in the NeatROM thread and answer the hundreds of common questions as I am not really a noob anymore. But that stupid 10 post limit won't allow me. So here I am trying to get 10 posts!
[About XDA developers] spaazm:
Hi guys,

I'm with you for almost 2 years and it probably is my first post. I've sent all my bug reports and feedback using PMs. Thought its annoying at first, when I couldn't post in Dev sections, but now I know it's a counter measure for my inherited spamming skills.

You see? I'm back on topic now.

Back then, when I heard of xda, I was in possession of my first smartphone. It was Galaxy Spica. After using it for almost half a year, I've conquered my fears about rooting it and decided to do it. I've found some links to xda on a Polish forum.

I registered. Downloaded a tool that was supposed to root my device painless and with a nice UI. It did its job as intended, but the root was not permanent. It disappeared after reboot. Can't exactly remember what I've done after, but I managed to soft brick my phone.

Naturally I panicked and went straight to service. Paid what they wanted and after 10 min. my device was up and running.

Long after that I learned that all they did was a factory reset done with hardware keys combination.

Next step was getting to know with Odin. We cooperate till now. I got to know guys like crybert and Broodplank, although they probably don't know I exists. I use their work daily. Thank You!

Now I'm on Galaxy SGS+. I bit wiser then 2 years ago. I'm very happy that my device is well supported here. I'm running JB based ROM and kernel. My friends envy me. Friends with S3 or Note, so I'm quite like a king of the hill right now.

That wouldn't be possible without xda and people like crybert, Broodplank, Tim, davidteri, Xistance, ivendor and many more I can't recall atm.

So my thanks to you all, keep it up.

Wysłane z mojego GT-I9001
[About XDA developers] mrjraider:
Well I joined XDA in Juli 2012. I was aware of this website and it's Android Community but I was to lazy to make an account and join the adventures of flashing, modding and tweaking. However, I was a member of a Dutch Community of Android called AndroidWorld. This website has some topics about custom ROMS and mods and was always linking to here. Also for my mobile, I was just Googleing and I typed Samsung Galaxy S Plus GT-I9001 ICS in the end I came here.

After some weeks i decided to make an account.

Several weeks ago i decided to purchase TapaTalk so I could check any time, any where with my phone.

Also a small detail, my Samsung Galaxy S Plus was purchased in february 2012 and it was my first Smartphone ever ;) Also my first contact with Android :)

I dont have much knowledge about Android etc. But this is a perfect place to start learning and understanding Android..

Thanks XDA for being this big and awesome :)
[About XDA developers] angelusnovus:
XDA is simply the best website around the net. Here I can find all the infos I need and most of the time the developers are in touch with people to answer questions about issues. I visit the forums and the website daily.
[About XDA developers] _deleted_:
My journey

Roar, as i'm bored and decided to look around XDA a little, thought i'd share my story.

I originally was an iPhone user (i know, i know, shameful). I'd had fun jailbreaking iDevices etc, until i stumbled across my very first android device - HTC Sensation XE. I started to wonder if there was a android 'jailbreak' (lol...noob alert). Then i found XDA and all the wonders it holds. It came at the right time as i was struggling with a large stint of severe depression (even to the point of dropping out of college) due to personal reasons. I'd finally found something i could contribute to and feel apart of something, keep my mind active and out of this depression i would often fall into it. XDA weirdly really, really helped. It's a little more than just a hobby to me :)

Then after a while, i started feeling like i needed to contribute even more to XDA, i started trying my hand at themes, working with certain rom teams to beta/bug test, but i still needed more. So i decided to find out how to become a moderator here. I'd gained quite a reputation for my infamous 'drop-kick' to off-topic posters in development sections.

I applied to be a moderator at the end of last year, and here i am now :) contributing, moderating and feeling happy and relatively depression free!! (My life is finally getting back on track - i start back to study in September!) Thanks XDA for helping me out of the deep, depressive hole i was in.

Thanks for reading :)

:victory:
[About XDA developers] NadMaj:
[MENTION=4689025]Lady Android[/MENTION]

very inspiring... :) and i know there are many users here who can relate to your story... xda is not only a site to get some info about rooting and flashing or whatever.. it can also influence our own person in a positive way.. and I'm happy that in your case you used xda as a medium to keep yourself from your depression instead of doing things that can further pull yourself down..

xda has evolved from being just a tech site into a community where people share the same passion and helps each other... and that is what separates xda from other similar sites...

so again thank you xda.. :)

btw., i don't know you but am so proud that you overcame that dark stage of your life.. (the iphone stage lol) :D

EDIT: removed sig... posted earlier using tapatalk.. :)
[About XDA developers] :
My story is a bit different from others:p

So jst after completion of my exams got my first android xperia neo v. For me android meant to be apps and games thats it. I installed abt 15 apps the very first day. Lol i was appaholic every day used to be amazed by new launchers and apps and games. Just after a few months of installing apps came across an app recommended in a launcher thread on playstore. The app was xda premium. I installed it to see what it had to offer unlike other apps. So i created my new account here on xda on 21st october 2012. I came across many threads here. I used to have a misconception in those nooby days that xda is all about creating threads for your questions related to ur specific device. So i went on creating 3 noob threads. (U can see in my profile:p). Then i saw a thread in themes and apps section for sharing setups. Well i didnt know to upload screenshot. How noob i was!:p made a thread regarding that and got first very bad experience with 2rc's,1rd blasting on me in a single thread. Poor me! I deleted this app that very day bt reinstalled after a few days jst to see the setups of ppl and decided i would be senior xdaer. Then met the first very person [MENTION=4392940]DeathCzar[/MENTION] who revolutionised my life. He taught me rooting, updating phone. Then thought to flash my first custom rom. Bt a silly problem regarding firmware had a big issue for me and got a blasting almost daily from him to learn things and read instead of asking. Then the second most inspiration was [MENTION=4788442]Ghostfreak NB[/MENTION] who helped me flashing my first custom rom. And first boot took 10 mins and i was frightened like **** to play with my phone. So i decided never to flash henceforth!:silly:

Bt later got my bootloader unlocked and became a flashalcoholic. And still love flashing roms and kernels. But honestly speaking never ended in a boot or bootloop issue.

There are many people who have inspired me a lot the first being [MENTION=4392940]DeathCzar[/MENTION] [MENTION=4788442]Ghostfreak NB[/MENTION] [MENTION=2784807]DooMLoRD[/MENTION] [MENTION=4910197]Attitude.SSJ[/MENTION] [MENTION=4697214]Dev Jaskirat[/MENTION] [MENTION=4432837]Aarush[/MENTION] [MENTION=4872418]LoneWanderer[/MENTION] [MENTION=5036857]vishal_android freak[/MENTION] [MENTION=4733114]harsh586[/MENTION]. I just want to thank each of them for all they did for me and a huge thanks to XDA. Have many friends out here now and learnt a lot of things including keeping patience (while rom boots:D:D)

Last thing i would say is i never liked reading. Bt now thanks to xda i like reading soo much reading threads comments helping each other.

XDA HELPED ME TRANSFORM INTO WHAT I AM TODAY!
[About XDA developers] DeathCzar:
So here's my story:

I bought a new android and straightaway made an xda account the next day. Me, being the geek I am, started reading a lot of threads, guides, etc and decided to root my device. To be honest, I was scared to root my device. But one night, a sleep deprived me decided to root at 3 A.M! After I rooted, my fear of bricking my phn disappeared. Then it was just a smooth ride, unlocking bootloader, flashing my first rom, testing stuff for devs etc. Messing with my phn became my hobby. I started helping out ppl on xda, blasting those who acted like noobs and helping out devs ocassionally. Then one day, a kid (guest at my house) broke my phone. And then I broke a replacement phn. After that dad said u wont be getting a new phone anytime soon. So I stopped logging in on xda. Today, I came back to xda after months because I got nostalgic.

But all that about phones aside, I met a lot of wonderful people on xda. Xda helped me get rid of my shyness of talking to strangers, and I am greatful for it.

I hope I get a new android soon so that I can come back and rejoin this awesome community.
[About XDA developers] :
Sorry for OT bt my teacher and the person I admire the most is here... Wooow! Thanks a lot [MENTION=4392940]DeathCzar[/MENTION] for all you did for a noob like me
[About XDA developers] TonyStark R.I.P.:
Hey mate, add a little about what DeathCzar helped you with... Nothing off topic about that.
[About XDA developers] KidCarter93:
He did so in post #83 ;)
[About XDA developers] Groot:
My story so far...

First of all I am only about 1 month old registered to this site and I first found out this thread exactly at January 14, 2013 when I first got my android phone which is the Sony Ericsson Xperia X8. After days of reading, finding out on how to bring out the most in my android phone, i learned about the bootloaders, kernels, ROMs and stuffs. I saw that the only ones that can unlock their x8 is by having manufactured it 11W28 below. Well mine is 12W03 but without learning it first, I unlocked my phone successfully via Flashtool! I was friggin' overwhelmed and flashed the first ROM, GingerDX v30 by eagleeyetom and nAa's awesome kernel! Well my journey is only beginning, i hope to see new friends and developers to make the most out of x8 and I wanna thank the people here in XDA for being helpful and to the mods for keeping this website for the developers simply the best! :good: :good:
[About XDA developers] MoFo88:
while searching to resolve a problem where i couldnt boot up my htc desire hd google said TRY THIS B***CH i got on xda and i was OOOOOKKKKKK this looks like something! searched for my phone after i found it there was like 10k threads and i said ok i have to reg on this,

sure enough after a while i was intrested in rooting my phone, putting it on S-OFF changing roms etc etc etc...

thats how i got involved into XDA keep it up ppls this site rox
[About XDA developers] Arrowblue:
Same over here i was stressed because of my work ( IT ) as a tech programmer i did not had any other hobbys at all :D my brother had mini xperia pro and he had some issues with his phone:D i was trying searching for any solution and found XDA :D became a member next day bought Android phone and here i go :Dif have too much work related problems and i need a break than i just signin over here on xda to find new stuff and help others :D
[About XDA developers] F4uzan:
Hello all !

Got really busy in life, and bit bored with my work, so i though i can make myself tired by typing my long story.

So all my introduction to Android was started when i was still 10 years old kid, my dad bought me a Chinese tablet and we call it "iPad" (n00b alert level 99 !, lol). The tablet has built-in SU binary, but doesn't have an app to control it. I really like the tablet, then i saw an apps named "ROM Manager", yeah you know what it for. Then i tap flash CWM (i don't know what CWM is, yeah i think it's sort like, improvements), then you know what next.. the tablet is bricked.

After that, my dad bought me an iPhone 4 for my birthday gift, i really like it. Until i dropped it from stairs, and boom ! The screen cracked, the button is not working, etc. I cried all day long (not because the phone, because my SMS and music still there). One years after it, i bought my first Android phone, Samsung Galaxy Mini. I installed Launchers, Games, etc on it, till memory fulls. Then one of my friend, tell me to upgrade my phone to Android 3.0.3, cause his tablet are upgraded, he said it will work on all device (another noob alert). Then i googled up all night long, then found out how to upgrade my Mini to 2.3.x, the process of upgrading makes me scared, cause the title also says :

That means the upgrade will be full of risk. I decided to continue, and you know, it sucess ! No problem exist ! I really happy i made my first mod to my Android device. The next day, i google how to theme my phone, i found UOT Kitchen and theme my device. Then i search in google about CWM, what is it ? Then i found the answer. I decided to install the recovery to my device. That's how i meet with XDA, then i feel i want to contribute some useless thing. I spammed the General discussion (not spammed, sorta like, double post or something), so i can post something in Dev Thread. Then i grow up, i know how to compile from sources, i know simple linux scripting, etc...

Thanks XDA, for accepting me here !
[About XDA developers] Tesla:
[MENTION=4689025]Lady Android[/MENTION]

Hi, reading this made me happy. To see that you got out of your depression. I know my self how hard that is. You go girl. :good:

Holding my thumbs for a happy life for you.

Keep up the good work.

Regards.

//Tesla
[About XDA developers] Ubiquity:
I became involved with XDA because I wanted to ask a question about my recently rooted nook.

I've rooted an LG Ally and an LG Optimus V using stuff from these forums.

I have to post 10 messages in order to ask my question on a development-related forum for some odd reason