[Sprint HTC One (M7)] MallardDuck:
No problamo, my friend! I'm glad that little step thru guild helped fix the issues you were experiencing!

Slowly, as is the progress with most of my android work; I usually have very little time in my personal life to dedicate to Android-ing, and with my joining the pac team it's quiet a different process than it used to be for myself.

To elaborate, I'd like to share a bit more about my experiences to help others understand.

Before I was part of PAC, much of my process has always been starting somewhere I know stuff and working into the unknowns; learning as you go. Back in 2009 when I got my HTC Hero(sprint) I quickly tried as many android configurations that I could try, Toasts work, CM, DrachStar; these were the dudes who's work inspired me to love android and led me to where I am, constantly still working towards understanding and embracing Linux more.

Eventually, the habit of flashing the work of other devs got me curious about what I could do; I was the kid who, at like 14 or what ever age i was when Android was announced, said to my other tech-friends "DUDE, i can't wait to download android and put it on my LG Rant!"(not knowing how much I didn't understand, lol). So with that, I had decided, at the time, that the least I could download/sync the sources from CM and try to build my own nightly for my HeroC; luckily, the real devs had done most all of the work and all i had to do is download it in get the proprietaries from the devices and boom I had a ROM! :cool: I hit the JACKPOT! This was big, the first time I ever thought I could do it and then I finally had the chance and made it happen; but, then I realized I hadn't really done much other than download something and watch a terminal for 4 hours.

After that realization, I decided that even though I did something cool, that ~80%(or whatever) of android users couldn't and don't do, it wasn't enough. This is what inspired me to teach myself java(and many other languages), although VERY slowly and it's been fun the whole time; the key is that this is all still something I haven't much time to dedicate to, because of that for me this is (usually) almost a relaxing thing that I do now and I've learned to measure my success in how often I can get myself to try to fix/understand/tweak/hack something that I haven't had success with, rather than for how long or how "well" I can do the task. It may seem, Crazy.:eek: But I think that any of you could do the same as myself and just as much or more success!

All in all, Android, XDA, and Linux(and i guess you google) have all made me learn a lot of new skills thru my experiences; what I keep learning from all of them though, is that you can never not help yourself or teach yourself to understand something; although sometimes all it takes is another person. And being completely honest even for me it has been easy to give up on this stuff sometimes, and I tend to do it frequently; but the thing that rings true is that if it's easy to give up then, eventually, you'll give up on giving up and finally try again only to finally understand why you failed before.

Finally to bring the trip back to PAC and where I am at now; recently a lot of my work is picking things from the CM gerrit that may improve our device, patching it on my pac sauce and testing the builds. Once I have a booting build from either the Patch from gerrit, or a modified version of it, I give my input back in about how it preformed on my device and being built with PacMan Rom; when all works out we benefit faster than we would have, in cases where there may not be much feedback therefore a lower merge priority(since it hasn't been confirmed working by 3rd party). And that's the story of where we're at now. Recently, i've been doing a lot of personal, non ROM/pac, stuff and in the time that I have had much of it has been spent cleaning and fixing errors in my local repo.

I hope that, even though I hid it, this wall of text/life story wasn't too much and that you got what I was trying to convey; much of what I've done and do do is just learning(and testing/playing) and you all can do the same :good: with just a little time(spread over long periods of time)! :p

(like i said in my wall of text, I've been fixing my local repo after heavy patching) and currently have been re-syncing the whole folder after a small hiatus and many other test patching has either become outdated or generally messed up the build. Even if i'm not chatting it up with the pacteam much, i'm always working on testing other peoples work(and getting it to our devices quicker), which for me means I've been working with/in the CM repos alot. So now I just gotta get back to a 'clean' slate to dev on and then hopefully we'll find some fixes. :cool: