[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] itzik2sh:
So this day came earlier than I thought.

I even said not lately though, that I will hold on to this phone for as long as it would last.

but...I kinda have mixed feelings selling today my last SGS 4G (had 2 of them).

At first, I had SGS international version (i9000) and came to the US as a tourist in Summer of 2011.

While in the US, I wanted to buy 2 more of them - 1 to my mom and 1 to my wife.

Somehow, the Manhattan cellphone shop seller tricked me into buying this phone saying "they are the same",

only to find out the same day that they are not.

So, when I came back to my home land (Israel) I took both of them to me and my wife and gave my mom the i9000.

After bricking my own, flashing a vibrant ROM, doh... I started to learn more, flashed Raver's ROMs than Valhalla and finally started to inject Hebrew and other languages into ROMs. flashing 95% of the ROMs in this forum until I left my wife with FBis251's AOKP and I kept trying every possible ROM that came.

At some point I tried to port ROMs, but that didn't quite work, and I haven't ever tried to build them from source.

I can say that due to the miserable internal storage it has, I lost many sleepless nights swapping apps with Titanium Backup (never got the hang of sd-ext and it never worked for me) and I must have cursed Sammy and everyone related to it, but, in the bottom line, I used this phone to the limit, understood how Android really works, made 2 corporate presentations on Android OS and finally decided to study mobile applications development (I already finished the Android part, now starting the iOS) and I believe I will be starting my own mobile app development business in a few months, so I can't really say this phone hasn't driven me into changing my career and destiny.

So after selling my wife's SGS4G to a classmate for mobile app development purposes (upgrading her to i9300 international SGS3), and after upgrading my mom to the same model - I decided to return to my old SGS i9000, selling today my very own (most abused) SGS 4G and finish this part of technological life.

I plan on holding the i9000 until March/April 2015 when the SGS5 will come out -at that point I will buy SGS4 (it will be cheaper then).

I'm never on plans or commitments, I barely speak :) ...

So I want to take this opportunity to personally thank the amazing guys who walked with me this long journey,,,

RaverXXX - my first ever flashed ROM (I think it was Froyo Audiophiles....)

Krylon360 and DRHonk - For Valhallla ROM (my very first self customized ROM)

Alon2 - Who together with me gave the world the first ever Hebrew SGS4G ROM.

FBis251 - For KJ6 debloater, Aroma installer customizations, TWRP, AOKP and more...

DSexton702 - For giving us crazy mods and customizations and having limitless patience and support (well, until he moved on...:)))

Bryan (AKA Bhundven) and AntonX - For keeping development alive, mostly great kernels when we most needed them.

Jeffsf - For the auto-brightness fix.

Erikmm (Beastmode) - For giving us MIUI (my longest lasting ROM :)) almost a year back and forth) and many more ROMs and endless support

DaothanDuy - For keeping the legacy of Erkmmm (see above) with endless ROMs that keep appearing.

Lumin30 and eollie for their endless support, guides and explanations.

Shortbusdriver for testing my first HebAOKP build...

For sure I forgot many others I'm very thankful to, so please bear with me.

My best wishes to you all and hopefully we will meet in the future doing great things together, remember this and have a good joyful laugh.

Take care.

Itzik2sh.