[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Abhinav1997:
Merry Christmas

Hello Guys and belated happy Christmas(pretty late :p )

I wanted to thank all of you awesome users for all your support. Xperia STE has been running for nearly 8 months now due to all the support from our users.

For those who don't know, XperiaSTE was mainly started with three people Info4Geek, Garcia98 and me. It was on April 27th or 28th of this year when I approached Info4geek about a server he used to have back at that day and that time, CM development for our devices was stopped because the the AOSX team were busy with proper bug fixing on clean AOSP base. I worked with AOSX team but we(XperiaSTE team) also wanted users to have CyanogenMod as many users did PM us. So at april end/may start we started providing CM builds with the new updated CM sources.

We used the patch system(using separate patches and applying them) until on 4th may when percy_g2 suggested us to rather fork the repos to our github and then merge the upstream changes and we were on it right after that. I patched up the repos till 5th may. On 6th may, we had our first build with updated trees and patches from AOSX. Recovery wasn't working at first but it was fixed that day itself.

On 6th may we had the greatest additions in our teams with percy_g2 and Gava97 joining in. And that day, we had proper OTA integration in the ROM(thanks to Info4geek). Soon after on 7th may, we had another great addition to our team as Xperia Sola maintainer, alwaysadeel (I don't know why he uses always in his name :p ).

After that we've been working on fixing stuff and providing you guys the best we could. A huge shout out to percy_g2, Info4geek and Garcia98 for merging all the upstream changes properly restlessly and spamming my gmail every morning with tons of upstream changes github messsages until I filtered it. (xP)

The server info4geek used to have had very less space and was soon coming to end. That's when we needed a build server to provide you guys with the builds and we turned to our awesome users and you guys sure enough provided us with enough funds to run the server.

This is when HubDroid was invented. We thought that there are many newbies and devs who aren't able to work to their potential due to lack of resources. So we thought of providing them with our server so that they too can learn and build cause even I didn't had resources when I started development and I'd like to thank TeamBlueRidge for providing me with their server which helped me to reach this level.

We now have 18 good users [MENTION=5265948]Info4Geek[/MENTION] [MENTION=5156330]Garcia98[/MENTION] @alwaysadeel [MENTION=5338729]Gava97[/MENTION] [MENTION=4913184]percy_g2[/MENTION] [MENTION=4166848]DevSwift[/MENTION] [MENTION=5322548]AndroidNoob69[/MENTION] [MENTION=4835685]Matoxxi[/MENTION] [MENTION=4450732]CallMeAldy[/MENTION] [MENTION=4364516]dagger[/MENTION] [MENTION=5522022]Flo0008[/MENTION] [MENTION=5334172]Gnome[/MENTION] [MENTION=5265704]Alx31TLse[/MENTION] [MENTION=5226068]Men_in_black007[/MENTION] @AGONTUK [MENTION=5158920]kirmaniarslan[/MENTION] [MENTION=5044750]v_superuser[/MENTION] and me, @Abhinav2 and we make hundreds of builds on these devices: Sony Xperia 2011 to 2014, Google Nexus, Samsung, LG, HTC and Asus Zenfone and there are more than 40,000 downloaders for approximatively 5TB of outgoing traffic each month.

A huge thanks to our server admins Info4geek and percy_g2 for managing everything and to all you guys for helping us run this server for almost half a year now.

Our server with taxes cost 43 euros. We also own a mirror server for which Info4Geek pays. As you can see in his signature, we've funds to run this server for january but after that we'll need funds to continue with our work on the devices. We use this server to also host our site. You guys can show your support by donating us here. We appreciate each and every buck you guys send us and a huge thanks to all who have donated till now. None of this money is used for any personal use and goes straight to cover up the server costs. So you guys can help us with that by sending your donations to that link and we'll do our bests to support all the devices.

Some stats you guys can look by(thanks to i4g again)-

6 month network usage graph:

6 month cpu graph:

And apache web server traffic-

Thanks again to everyone.

Also PS: [MENTION=5265948]Info4Geek[/MENTION] It's been 8 months. Now get that [WIP] tag down from the general thread :p

Cheers,

AJ