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[About XDA developers] cs098:
Well my story....

not much really

I joined xda not a few months ago but was on xda infrequently starting on 2011.

Started on my first Android a xperia mini pro and still use it even today as my daily driver. For the months I have been using it I really wanted to root my device and get jellybean, but all the tuts were confusing and scary, so I backed off, but when the ics update came which did nothing at all for my device, my frustration increased. S I decided to ulock the bootloader once an for all. But the offical bootloader unlock guide and every single site and web page I've been through had too many steps and was confusing. I was about to give up until I came across this

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1794800

This FREAKING saved my life and when I finally managed to get the cm10 boot logo I was ecstatic.

I wasn't the end of my troubles however as the rom had a bad battery life.

So without any knowledge I flash a new version of that rom without any wiping which bootlooped by device. Thinking this was a kernel problem, I accidentally flashed a ics rom (derp). This made me register on xda and I posted by first noob question here, of course nobody was able to help me because I stupidly thought the kernel I had was for jellybean, it wasn't until 2 weeks and looking at the name of the kernel that I banged my stupid head and flashed the right kernel. I also had a time where I wiped my sd card to "save space" (XD) which aborted all my cwm rom installs, once again xda came to the rescue and saved my device.

Now I am a senior member, enjoying the forum and all the users here while trying to help as many noobs as I can :p.

THANKS XDA!!!!!!
[About XDA developers] AtoZ0to9:
I joined in July 07, solely for stock RUU files for WinMo phones that wouldn't boot properly or needed upgrading when I worked as cell unlocker / software guy, and did sales... I did that for a about 2 years, sapping files to repair phones... At some point in the process I did take a break from phones (went to rehab) but got back in at the same company, and around the time picked my HTC Fuze... It was slow, annoying, and full of bloat even with a custom RUU loaded, but I loved it... I never posted during that time... Eventually I sold my Fuze to a customer in a back door deal for $150... After my Fuze, I switched over to the dark side, and got a Blackberry 8900, still sapping files and never posting... I really can't remember was android around at that time, but I'm sure it was somewhere in the 1.x range, maybe close to Donut... I decided to move on from the phone business (got fired) and forgot my XDA password and info... Forgot about the site since I didn't need it... Eventually my BlackBerry was stolen by a chick at a bar, and I needed a new phone... Android was raving at he time, so I went straight in and got the best one at the time, Nexus One... I loved that phone... Making the little trackball change colors, and having different screen animations... I loaded every ROM there was to it... I finally posted maybe 30 times or so through the life of the phone... It was up to 2.1update1 when it too was stolen by I'm pretty sure someone I worked with... I was heartbroken... My poor $530 + tax Nexus One had been taken from me... So once again, needing a phone, in love with android, I got a Samsung Captivate on contract from AT&T for $200... I knew it's what I was getting, so I had everything ready for it... In as long as it took to get it hooked up, it was rooted, with a recovery and ROM... I mainly lurked... every now and then answering a question, but mainly lurking... I eventually picked up Galaxy Tab 10.1, played with it a few days, then stuck it back in the box... It rarely gets powered on, only to make sure that it still works... Sometimes it's battery completely dies, and it had a full charge before I used it... So it's seldom used... I think it was around Apr 2012, when I started posting more and more... Also got an S3 around the same time, got it on preorder... went from 100 something posts in that time til now... but all the time before that lurking around... I can be considered cocky, and short at times... I only mean to help and mess around at time for my own amusement... Not trying to stir any trouble... So I have much to thank XDA for, it supported my job for a while, always provided me with custom stuff for all my devices, and now a place I consider home... Thanks, if you read this far...
[About XDA developers] Timborino:
Old Noob

Thanks to XDA and everyone who contributes to this site.

I'm an old NooB. I started as a tech in computers back before there were hard drives and www's. Flashing meant a girl was showing her breasts, the storage devices were 7inch floppy drives and RAM was 1k and you were killing it. The screens were green or orange and if you couldn't type well you were going to struggle in the job. I chose hardware. It was less tedious and I could relate to it better. Software wasn't my thing, I needed to be able to touch the machinery and know how it worked. Well, thanks to "super large scale integration" computer hardware became disposable and so did my job.

So here I am with this computer in my hand, a recently purchase Motorola Atrix 4G, that has the computing power of a warehouse full of the old 8086's I started on. I decided I wanted to know more about these little wonders of modern technology and so here I am. Through the wonder of the newfangled WWW, an old dog is learning new tricks (and a new language!).

I know some people complain about all of the reading and frankly, I do too sometimes, but it's all of that reading that has facilitated me learning the language - new words for things I pretty much knew (for all of the advances the basics haven't really changed) and a lot of what developers now specialize in, common users had to know back in the day just to turn a computer on! Not saying you guys aren't good, just saying the more things change - the more they stay the same.

So I'm diving head first into my Motorola and my wife's HTC MyTouch 4G Slide with the help of my son who is a network security specialist (in a job where if you knew you'd be dead by now), and everyone here. It's frustrating, and a heart attack a minute (everytime something blinks I imagine how much I'm going to have to spend on a new phone to compliment my new 'brick') and I LOVE it!

Thanks for throwing an old dog a bone and making him feel a little less ignorant and helpless (don't worry you whippersnappers will get there eventually).

Timborino
[About XDA developers] Nebucatnetzer:
For me everything started with my first Android phone.

The Nexus One.

I read in a newspaper that Google would be releasing their own phone with Android as an OS which was based on Linux.

At time I was very inexperienced with technology (I still am compared to the great ones here) however not uninterested so this blew my mind somehow.

I can't remember exactly how I got the idea but I can remember that I thought something along this lines:

"Well Linux can be installed on a PC so that means we can do that on a phone to. And Linux is open source so we can change everything!"

Of course it was very easy in my head and I didn't know that there were already similar things happening with other devices.

Anyway I then bought the N1 and used it for one week locked and pure stock because I've only seen one other Android device before.

When I then unlocked it and tried my first custom ROM

It introduced me to my first soft brick which thought me something very important.

The instructions are there for a reason. READ THEM!

After that I started reading. A lot.

Mostly on a Swiss forum called pocketpc.ch.

I quickly noticed however that they mostly translated threads from XDA (with proper credits of course) which delayed and filtered everything a bit.

This became a bit annoying since I wanted the latest and greatest.

My English wasn't very good back then so I didn't switch immediately but I learned.

So slowly but steadily I moved over to XDA.

I really fell in love with XDA and around the time of the purchase of my Nexus S I registered here.

It thought me many great things and I love the spirit here.

People from all around the world working (mostly) peacefully together to improve things. This really motivates me over and over again.

I always wanted to help keeping this spirit alive.

I did this by mostly answering easy questions.

Then sometime last year Karvind (the developer of SlimROMs) was looking for a beta tester for the Gnex because he didn't have one at that time.

I took the chance and tested a lot of builds for him.

Then SlimROMs started to grow and Krarvind was looking for people who could help him with all the work (it was a one man job at that time).

So I learned to compile and became a SlimROM device maintainer for the Gnex.

And here I am now part of a great team learing more and more about Android and it's development.

I hope this is just the beginning of my journey with XDA.

Thank you for teaching me so much more than just tinkering with my phone.
[About XDA developers] domini99:
Re: }}} Describe your journey to XDA. Make sure to thank XDA

as first: i can not disable computer signature on phone so sorry for that :(

no computer in range:

My story:

i got my first android phone on christmas 2 year ago.

a galaxy mini.

it came with froyo 2.2.1

after some time my storage went full. after a month it became slow.

i heard there was some cracking-thing called rooting, but i didnt want to do it coz i was a noob and tought it would go wrong.

finaly my phone started acting weird, it was crashing and showing weird screens,

that was the point i registered XDA. It didn't really help to fix my problems with froyo, but they all mentioned my to update to gingerbread using Odin.

but i didn't trust the app and was scared off failing.

finaly i decided to root my stock froyo.

after a lot of reading i found a video on xda how to do it.

i succesfully rooted my stock froyo with superoneclick.

a world opened! i could move my apps to sd and get free space, i could install cool and usefull apps,

but froyo was old, and i tought cm7 looked great.

i looked around and saw i had to upgrade to gingerbread.

after a lot of reading i started to understand flashing.

i updated to gingerbread and flashed cwm.

with cwm i flashed cm7.

it gone wrong and i bricked. i was freaking scared! after another try i succeeded.

another universe opened :eek:

cm7 was awesome! i started to learn about ROMs and flashed another and another. I started thinking it was fun :)

XDA teached my to have a lot more fun with my phone.

Thank you XDA :D:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

After that ics came out.

without xda i never found that beuty.

and now, i have a completely modded Arc S :D

thanks to the developers to produce this great job! :thumbup:

next to that, i always wanted to have a hackintosh. i never succeeded.

but i got personaly helped my a member on this forum, Quasimodem. thank you :D

this forum started me to learn more about computers and phones, and now i know how to install Windows/ Linux/Mac OS X/Flash, fix, modifie, root, unlock phones

i even started making my own ROM, all caused by XDA :D

this forum learned me my life.

Thanks everybody on this forum :D
[About XDA developers] 74M3NUMB3RS:
Re: }}} Describe your journey to XDA. Make sure to thank XDA

First....

3 Days B4 Birthday

i was 11 back then...

3 Days b4 birthday April 3 2012

then we go to a mall..and my brother requested a new phone..

then we go to the samsung shop then my brother found Galaxy Ace...since its my birthday i said can i get a phone too....

we no have nuff money to afford two galaxy aces so we bought two galaxy youngs....

nao at first i dunno that phones have os :eek: i only know os is 4 PCs lol :rolleyes:

my brother teached me the basics cause he read some articles bout galaxy y and other phones...

April 5 2012 My Birthday!! M 12 Nao Awww Yeaaaa

it all begins with this game...

Zenonia 3....

my brother shared the apk of the game then played for awhile...i suck at the game and i searched for hacks :eek: yeah i suck :( found the gamecih app but i it has errors..no root access nao i found gamecih forums and found a friend there...nao he said go to xda and find a tut to root i registered and didnt find anything...so i left xda and didnt visit xda for a month i think..

i searched at youtube how to root then i successfully flashed it...

nao im nao at the gamecih team

then the topic changed to custom roms i dunno what is it and i asked em...they redirected me to androidpolice then now i know what is a custom rom...

then i continously asked them how to get it...so i made my first thread on xda...crap thread...

its a question thread that ask what is the best rom?yeah i didnt follow rules that time lol..

mehhhh m gonna make it short lol

i searched again at youtube..

then saw galaxyyarchive creeds rom 3.5 vid i followed the instructions carefully cause m scared to lose my phone...

then i jumped because of happiness cause i flashed it sucessfully then i flashed creeds rom again and the theme..nao its bricked i rushed to gamecih firuns at the pc to tell me what to do they directed me to xda and maked my 3rd? 2nd thread...

its a panic thread

how to fix phone blah blah then after that i stayed in xda and left gamecih forums...

nao i learned hao to make a kernel and a rom because of the help of people here even if i asked a noob question...they still answer it...

i thank XDA cause i have new friends...i also learned so many tech stuff...and nao im continuing to learn more tech stuff..

thanks XDA...SALUUTTTEEEE...

Lets Do The Harlem Shake

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[About XDA developers] ortrigger:
My road to xda started a little before Christmas of 2011. I was still 'teh noobz' back then and wanted an ipad but I couldn't afford one so I had started looking into android tablets. Then the Kindle Fire was announced. I mentioned it to my mom and said I was kinda interested in it. I didn't say much more after that. Then, on Christmas morning, I was given a Kindle Fire. At first, all was fine and dandy. Not having the google play store bugged me though.

In the beginning, I was content with just having the Amazon App Store. As time passed by, though, I began looking for ways to get access to the Play Store. I stumbled across a few articles about how to do it but none of them worked. Then, I stumbled across this thing called the 'Kindle Fire Utility.' It said that it would root your device, install GoLauncher, and the Play Store. I read a few more things about it and ran the utility. I had no idea what having root meant or even what to do with it. I used it like that for another month or two.

Soon, I started exploring more on XDA and learned about custom roms and the difference between the separate versions of android. I wanted to get Ice Cream Sandwich on my KF. I looked into the steps on how to do it and soon I was flashing different roms to find my favorite. Not long thereafter, Jelly Bean was released. I enjoyed CM10-based roms for another few months until I bought a Nexus 7.

With the Nexus 7, I started digging more into the inner workings of android. My wife will attest to the fact that about that time, android became more than just an occasional rom flash. I was officially a flashaholic and was spending a good portion of my free time researching different aspects of the android os. XDA became an invaluable resource to me at this point. Whereas, before, XDA had been my go-to for questions on how to recover a bootloop, etc, now it became my teacher.

I have since gone on to begin kernel development and I have dabbled a bit in rom development. I own two android phones, both rooted, one running my own custom kernel. I have learned so much from XDA and am so grateful for all the devs and members that have helped me along the way. I sincerely hope the journey will continue to Key Lime Pie and beyond. Thank you XDA.
[About XDA developers] caponer:
Re: }}} Describe your journey to XDA. Make sure to thank XDA

It was a fine night and I was playing chess on an online site through my precious samsung galaxy. Suddenly I was asked to get a delivery from a restaurant and I went out. I had a thought I shouldn't carry my phone cause it was just 1 minute away but I did. Alas! How I wish I hadn't. I picked up the parcel and on return journey the phone fell out of the torn pocket of my pajama. Immediately I raced back but the phone was gone. I googled up for a locator tool to be installed via PC and landed up on XDA. However I never got my phone back. No thanks to XDA so.

So I bought a new one. Cheaper one. This was cheap but there were several catches in it. One of the biggest catch was the screen was faulty and would flicker if set to lower brightness. I was determined to fix this issue. I felt I needed to root the device to modify anything. Again I googled up and landed on XDA. I was successful in rooting the device but learnt that the problem was actually in the kernel and I have never actually fixed the problem but got around it by using an app called Voodoo display filter. But still I hadn't taken to xda. So no thanks to XDA yet.

Months later I was cleaning some emails and found verification email from xda and I clicked on and I landed on xda and now I regularly login here when I am bored for time pass :p

Thanks to xda for the time pass it provides me and hilarious characters and mods who frantically pm you whenever you do misconduct and people who give hilarious retorts.
[About XDA developers] InfinityFTW:
Re: }}} Describe your journey to XDA. Make sure to thank XDA

Christmas Eve two years ago, I got a Huawei Ideos X5. It came with froyo. Later, there was an official GB update. After that, I wanted to root. I was a noob. I used superoneclick, and it succeeded. Then I wanted a custom ROM. Booted into bootloader, (which I thought was recovery) and did a factory reset. I panicked, as I saw there was no install zip from sdcard! I pressed reboot, and when it booted, I had no WiFi! Some days later, I took it to the store, still rooted, and I got the money back. Bought a Sensation with a subscription. I rooted it, and installed a recovery. Then, I wanted to flash ICS ROMs, with GB firmware. Bootloops, bootloops everywhere. I then solved it, and my flashing addiction started. Sense, Miui, aosp, everything that was packed in a zip file with an updater-script. During this period, I signed up on XDA. The flashing addiction kept on going for months. Then, something terrible happened. I had been training, and when I was done, the phone fell out of my bag, down on the ground. It layed on the ground for one long, rainy night, until someone found it, and returned it to me. It was water damaged. I could use it, but the battery drained to 20% in no-time. Luckily, I bought it with an insurance. I sent in a damage report, and after some long wait, i got an answer. I had got 4000 NOK back in insurance. I was happy. Went to an electronic store. Note II costed 5000 NOK. Parents put in a thousand as a Christmas present. Here I am. vvvvvvvvvvv

Sent from my GT-N7100 using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2

EDIT: I wanna thank XDA for entertainment, struggling, and problem solving
[About XDA developers] DesertHawk:
Re: }}} Describe your journey to XDA. Make sure to thank XDA

Right. Here comes the novel.

2008. HTC Dream was my first phone. Rooted it on 1.6 and was over the moon. I was so happy that day when I removed apps so I had more memory on my phone for applications. I then flashed my first ROM which was an incomplete 2.1 Eclair ROM and I was so worried when most things did not work. I thought you only get one flash so I started fixing this ROM up myself. And that is where the spark for the development ignited.

Soon after that I purchased a ZTE Blade phone. It came with Android 2.3 and I was already making ROMS for it. I made an unofficial build of CM7, ICS looking ROM and TouchWiz 3 which came in the XDA Portal. I then worked with a few guys to get HTC Sense working on the blade and was very satisfied with that phone. As soon as ICS was released and the very first ROM came to the Blade I knew it was time to change, so as the CM9 ROM progressed I knew that this phone will have it. It won't be fully functional. So I made the biggest jump with my phone ever.

Normally a Blade user would go to the Huawei G300 but I decided to do it right and play with the big boys, so I got the One X. At that time I was writing reviews on my blog and YouTube so I thought it was a great thing to have this phone to do tutorials on. So I started getting used to this s-on thing.

Righ, So once I got my HTC One X I built a Galaxy SIII ROM. A few days after I realised that the battery was terrible. On XDA I was hearing alot about this Galaxy Phablet so I got myself one of those.

Then I built roms for lots of phones and i've cant be bothered to type anymore. as you can guess im lazy

Thank you XDA for everything and always keeping my occupied

Take care

Weeo.
[About XDA developers] cmason37:
I got my LG Optimus V on November 1st 2011. It was my first Android phone, and I never had a smartphone before then. I remember when I saw manual rooting tutorials, they were scary. Thankfully, I found Gingerbreak here on XDA. But I spent most of my time on Android Central, where the OV was popular. Then I got the Galaxy Exhibit. I remember I used to come here to update CM9 nightlies. I didn't really join until I had a problem with my phone. So I asked in a Q&A thread and it got fixed. And ever since then I've always visited XDA.
[About XDA developers] Leighindiana:
Thank you bunches xda

I very new to fhelp . Well. Very new as registered in forum.

I discovered xda when I got my very first smart phone a

Month ago. Xda helped me root my new phone the first

Week. It's a note 2 sprint sph l900. Then I tried out

Different roms and learned tons. I kind of a Linux geeky

girl, so I really taking off with android stuff. My new

phone is so fun and xda people here be such great

help to me. That why I register. I want say thank you

to all people here. :)

Thank you all!

When my apk stuff I make work good I hope I

can return help to others.

Mwahhh...

Leigh
[About XDA developers] tanujroolz:
My journey with XDA

I joined XDA in October 2012 just through some google search link probably trying to figure out something with regards to my HTC One X.

I knew about rooting phones (which is to say I knew that phones can be rooted to gain admin privileges and change a few settings) since one of my friend had rooted his Galaxy S about 4 years back, but always stayed away because of the warranty. But when I finally got tired of my HOX giving a horrible battery life, I decided to go for it. And what better place than XDA to read up.

I spent about 3 days just reading and clicking on links and finally figured out how much there is out there.

I initially thought i'd root my phone to use "Greenify" and that's it. This way, I thought I'd be able to continue on HTC stock, get OTA updates and save battery. But once I started visiting the developer forums and all the greats ROMS that are there, I knew that I had to try it.

Did a whole lot of reading and narrowed it down to 2 ROMS - the ViperX and Blade. At first I had no clue of even the basic stuff (like what kernel meant, what is S2W, what is fastboot etc.), but all that reading was really worth it.

Went through the noob threads and was able to unlock bootloader, root the phone, install the ROMs and all of that without bricking my phone :).

Finally settled on the ViperX ROM with all it's great features and was able to get what i want - a super smart looking HOX with immense battery.

I really appreciate the devs and posters here in terms of how detailed and helpful they are and how much time and effort they spend at this work.

Although I did make the noob mistake by trying to put a post for increasing my post count, but was corrected instantly.

I love this site and hopefully one day will be able to contribute to help others.

- Tanuj