[HTC Pico (Explorer)] thewisenerd:
. oh well. it doesn't. I used RC#3 (something very similar, derived) and do not find much battery drain, and I got the usual ~6 hours.

calendar: the 'CALENDAR'. some people do organize their day.

CM account, CM home: for VAS like data encryption, finding your lost device, etc. Read this: http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/cyanogenmod-account

And, PowerAMP? seriously? you do not want Apollo and DSP Manger (<5 mB) with a lot of functionality, but want to use a paid software (pirated, I'm guessing) (or its trial, with minimum functionality)? And, even that needs gapps. So, make sure you double check your statements. there's a lot of ambiguity in it.

has no relation to "even if I slimmer the ROMs, people will complain "where's this, where's that""

well, your mindset is what the problem is, here.

are you really trying to make sense here?

are you kidding me? What has functionality to do with benchmarking?

Just because CM has been "generous" enough to keep their update-binaries compatible with older versions of CWM, doesn't mean they will; forever.

really doesn't make any sense to me.

that; was a sense ROM functionality, where the phone is in a hibernation like state when you switch it off.

our 'job' is not to make things easy for you. and, for the record, i don't even know how to write a bat file; haven't used windows in a very, very long time.

whaat? your OS. period. if it takes time to detect your phone, NOT our problem. MTP with TWRP 2.8.0.0 is identified as soon as the USB is connected and MTP is turned on. How I know? dmesg.

your OS, your problems. not. the. fault. of. the. phone.

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it isn't about the money. really.

the other day, i was having this conversation with my friend, IRL. i started it, accidentally.

start of convo.

me: dunno what we are going to do in life, all we are doing is building kernels and making bacon; and parents shouting that we are good for nothing.

friend: we spend a lot of time building custom ROMs when we get nothing in return.

me: the latest version of android is more than enough for me.

friend: i mean, we spend all day (and night), all we do is try to fix bugs and nothing more

me: we build ROMs, we provide users with the latest updated software, with security and features enhancements

friend: that should be the oem's headache. google's headache actually. they should provide android updates for every device available. its their headache.

me: no it is not. when you buy a device, it costs more than what it costs to make the device. it is because the oem hires developers who work on booting the latest verision; and pays them salary for their work. also, if it wasn't for the rooting/unlocking bootloader of <phone>, your phone woudn't have had so many custom ROMs to choose from.

friend: that's the problem. all devices should be locked.

me: that would defeat the purpose of AOSP, and android in general. and it would become an apple-like scenario.

end of convo.

so, why we do it, we don't know. we want to make our devices better, and at the same time, help the community make their devices better. in the end we all end up with working jobs we hate, only some are lucky enough to end up in the jobs they like. so, money isn't really our objective of building ROMs. we just want support from the users; and as a matter of fact, donations are purely voluntary and widely spread in the FOSS community, where normal users and even other developers show their gratitude towards the developers by helping them buy a cup of coffee or a pint of beer, whatever may it be; thus helping them pay their bills, IRL.

why dontate, exactly; thou may ask.

i'll quote this: