[About XDA developers] Abhinav1997:
Hello everyone...

I got my first android phone on 19th July 2012. The phone was Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro SK17i. I was really excited about my mobile I got nearly 2 weeks before my birthday. I started using the mobile by playing games and using some social networking sites and many other stuffs. While searching for some other apps and games, I came across through this wonderful site of XDA. Still I didn't knew much so just used to browse through the apps and games section of this site just as a guest and nothing else.

Then on July 29th 2012 I made my official XDA account. At that time I went to my mobile forum and sasw some awesome guides and works of people out there. At that time I still was....as we call "A NOOB". I visited the site but not much. I saw guides about rooting, unlocking bootloader, building ROMs, kernels and what not. I mean this site was like a tool for any noob to become an advanced android user.

I was firstly hesitant of doing all these and playing with my device as it was my new device and bricking it would really get me into trouble since I was/am just a 15-year kid as some say. After reading nearly 100s of pages(and I really mean hundreds) for some weeks I finally gathered the guts to root my device. I know many will laugh at it but yes it is as it is. And then following the guide I tried to root my device and guess what- My first brick! I was really scared cause as I said I was a complete noob and didn't knew anything about recovering it. I got scolding from my dad for doing all this damage to my device but he sent it then to the sony center and it was back within a day and was stock.

Then again I got hesitant of doing these things....so I never touched any of these thing for some months....Then finally again I tried to root my device after I came to know how to recover it myself. And then I again gave it a shot and then finally I was successful because I followed all the steps correctly. At that time I learnt from XDA that if we do everything as given and follow the steps we can never be unsuccessful. So finally after rooting I decided to install a custom ROM and again bricked my phone but this time I had a backup thus restored it. I came to know my mistake and again flashed it and it was successful. My first custom ROM was delicious sandwich.

Now after getting used to this community and it's people I decided to remain active...Many people like RC Sandy7, RC Mihahn and others helped me to come out from a noob to an average user. Then some days after I decided to unlock my device's bootloader to change custom kernel and I was successful at once since I followed each step correctly. Then I installed my first custom kernel which was FXP's CM10 kernel. I flashed the kernel successfully and then my CM10 ROM.

From here I started helping people and entering the era of developing, modding, cooking roms, making tools and much more. I made many friends on XDA, started writing guides, made ROM, made some tools, icon packs, vrthemes, mods and much more....and had really nice moments learning on XDA. I'm not saying i'm really good at android but yes...I'm learning eventually and am no more a NOOB...

Thanks so much XDA, the community and all it's people....It's all been possible because of you....

Best Regards,

AJ