[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Yeah people are supposed to help. I started with zero knowledge, like you, but really wanted to root my phone, Droid X. I joined Droid X Forums and asked for and got help, from a developer when nobody would help me root the darned thing. Since the latest OTA (Liberty or something like that) took away the exploit used to gain root, I was screwed. The few procedures out there were ridiculous like removing the rom, going back to a previous rom, or some other stuff way over my head and how can you rom w/out root anyway? I tried all the root apks, the Windows cable things, nothing worked. So 1KDS Said sure you can root it with my script. He gave me the link, can use Linux, Windows, or Mac. I choose Linux because Linux is very easy to use, NO drivers needed at all, just plug and play! Wow did that work good and I was so grateful. The dev, 1KDS actually created 6 Linux iso files for downloading and easy rooting. You picked the one for your phone, downloaded the iso, burned it to a CD, put it in your PC and rebooted. It would boot right to Linux and automatically take you right to the rooting job. Plug in the phone, etc., etc., rebooting phone, swipe screen to unlock, rinse and repeat 3x and it was done! Amazing. We became good friends and the people there were nice. They would answer questions, help, make friends.

But it always seemed that everything and anything good always came from XDA. I HAD to get in. I joined, read some, asked a few questions, NONE of them were ever answered. It took me an entire year to finally make friends here and ask for help and get it. By this time, I could give help as well as take it. This was a rough place to get into, man. We have a unique system of rewards here. A "Thanks" system. Everybody gets six Thanks tokens a day to hand out to anyone you feel helped in some way. They do not have to crack the DNA code, write the theory of relativity, be a developer, or spend hours getting your problem fixed to earn a Thanks. The unused ones go in the garbage at the end of the day anyway. Me? I hand them out. Why burn them? We are all supposed to be friends here, working to a common goal. Your buddy might cover for you if you are sick. Somebody might make an effort to make a newbie feel welcome, answer a question for him, and I would for sure thank that person for "doing the right thing and spreading good will". If I feel bummed out and someone make a crack or comment that made me laugh, I would thank them. Even NASA knows the value of moral and camaraderie I wish more people here would keep it in mind. But I am not down talking the group, we are all really decent people, with very busy, complicated, and tiring lives. There are many times many people cannot be "happy and thankful" and I get it. But I wish a lot more of those Thanks tokens went to someone, instead of the trash. You can see Senior Members here who are really helpful, smart, and decent folks with a post count of 900 and a Thanks count of 102. The guy cannot be *that* mean and useless, can he? This is a really good place and I am proud to be a part of it. I take questions I really am not good at just because no one else will and I know there are people here that can answer this easily. Sometimes I get them to open up, give some details, explain what the thing is that they want to work and that is enough to "jump start" the question. LOL! :laugh:

But really, this is a good place man. One just has to learn the ropes before he can "play" and that is all there is to it. This is a developers haven and developers have little time or patience for dilly dallying or chit chat. Stargo is one exception I found to be really easy to talk to, even I feel guilty sometimes taking too much of his time and make efforts to keep it short.

Dumblecore, if you got an issue, ask away brother. I will answer it if I can, research the hell out of it, or ask someone who will know. You got a friend here, more than one! :laugh: (Oh please do not tell me you have an XT910! I will try anyway but that is a beast I never laid eyes on and does not even work in the place I live in, we all use CDMA. But I am doing it now with a guy in Jake's Q&A thread so what the heck, ask away! ;)

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Build Report:

06/26 from 06/25 OTA.

Man these builds are getting SO good lately! I just kept on going after that bomb on Friday the 13th. They just got better and better. 06/26 is working SO good I cannot find anything wrong with it. Using Apex Launcher Pro so I cannot comment on the themes. But everything else is an OK to launch. No orange icons, good signal, a wee tad of black screen but nothing serious. I installed cloud print to prove to someone it works and man, it really works well now. Nothing but happy with 06/26 and this is day 2. You guys want a good rom? This is it!