yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] sl9:
Lets get organised here, lots of people have said they will donate but we need to know where to send the money to. And we need to do this quite fast, because it takes at least 1-2 weeks to ship to Poland and it will take another 1-2 weeks to collect all the funds and purchase the item.

Most eBay sellers would not ship to unconfirmed address in Poland, so I am happy to organise this, ie. collecting the funds, receiving the uni to my PP confirmed address, and sending it on anywhere in Poland via courier. I am reliable, I have a 8 years of trading history on eBay with 256 feedback and 100% rating (my id is "sl9sl9").

But only if Tomal agrees - is this OK with you? We need to start NOW to get this in time, so lets get the donations in and lets DO it! :) We will need at least $250 USD (£125 GBP) to cover the Uni and shipping fees.

If there is any problem with the eBay seller or the Uni is in poor condition, then I will send my own Uni to Tomal to avoid any delays (I can use other phone in the mean time) :)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] tomal:
This is absolutely ok with me. :)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] StevePritchard:
OK - sounds good. Let's let sl9 arrange everything then. What PayPal account should we send the funds to? I guess we have two options - 1) Send funds to Tomal, and once he has enough, he can send to sl9, or 2) send to sl9 direct. I suggest the latter, as we are likely to avoid unnecessary PayPal charges with a single transfer.

Cheers,

Steve.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] Vipeone:
If we could buy one of those in about a week time I could give it to my cousin who is going to Poland on The 6th of September and he could post it to Wroclaw. It would come out a lot cheaper And I can add my money to sort out the postage
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] sl9:
That settles it then, LETS DO IT!!! :D

I'll start hunting on eBay for a cheap (but good condition and working) Uni, and if you could please send your donations here:

Click HERE to donate to Tomal's HTC Universal fund!

I will start the ball rolling, with a $80 USD donation :)

I will provide a daily total of amount received, and will let Tomal and everyone know when we have enough :) And I'll be sending a message to Tomal containing my name, address and phone number so that he can be sure I am reliable (you can also check out by eBay account which is "sl9sl9").

The last thing we need to know, is what address to send the item to, and on what date it needs to arrive? Tomal: Please contact me when you have this information. Of course we cannot predict the exact day it will arrive, but we should know it to the nearest week. And if it is a hotel, I would recommend calling them first to check that they can receive parcels for guests, and will need to know the room number.

Edit: Also Tomal could you please add the above information to your first post in this thread, so that people can easily see where to send donations to without having to look through 6 pages - thanks!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] Park:
I would like to send the funds but the provided link for sl9sl9 does not work. Please, set something up a little bit user friendly for us so we can start donating toward "Tomals Univerisal". Thank you.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] sir topas:
If you are still interested in this Qtek 9000, please let me know where to ship it to and I will get a quote for the cost of shipping to that address. Thanks and I hope to be able to be of service! :)

EDIT:

The cost for shipping from the US to Poland with US Postal Service Priority Mail International is USD $32 with an estimated delivery time of 6-10 days. To add insurance is USD $5.

The total will be $200+$32+$5=$237. This amount will cover shipping + handling. This is assuming that there are no customs taxes or duties. If there are any, I would request to be reimbursed for those costs also.

Please let me know if this is acceptable. Thank you!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] sl9:
OK you have a good point, I have made a nice easy to use link that will take you directly to the Paypal donation page :)

Click HERE to donate to Tomal's HTC Universal fund!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] orb3000:
DONATION CONFIRMED 10US

Hey guys come on! let´s donate asap!

Cheers

Let us know how the process is going

Cheers
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] XL3N7:
The link asked for a donation in GB pounds, so I have donated 26 pounds which should be around $50 US as promised. Let us know how it goes.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] sl9:
Many thanks XL3N7 and orb3000!

Yes the link is in GBP, sorry I didn't know how to change that.

If you want to work out much it is in USD then £10 GBP is $18.51 USD at the moment - close to 1:2 ratio. You can check exchange rate quickly in google, for example type in the search box: "1 GBP to USD".
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] mandy_bikerboy:
im sorry i cant help u much in the monetary grounds for now as my pockets are empty the thing that happened to u i also had the same problem last week got the display changed and everything is fine now so my guess is it may be the screen
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] tomal:
I think it should be USD if you change the following inyour link:

currency_code=USD

instead of

currency_code=GBP

Donate to Tomal's HTC Universal fund

.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] Park:
I cannot get the paypal account to work for me which I have tried signing in to paypal for 30 minutes and also have tried putting in the information on the left side page. I do have a paypal account which I am also a ebayer. Can I make a donation directly to Tomal's email address which I beleive will work. Let me know on how I should go accordingly. Thanks
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] orb3000:
That´s very strange

Normally from my country all internet operations are very difficult, but this time was extremely easy. I did not have a paypal account so I used the left column and done!

So maybe you can try with another browser (That happen to me) I use normally opera and I couldn´t then change to the ugly IE and made it easy!

Good luck
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] Park:
I have found a solution. For those people contributing to "Tomal's HTC Univerisal Fund" if the provided link does not work for you and you have a paypal account just go directly to www.paypal.com and log into your account by putting your user name and password and then click on the pull tab to send the money directly to geoff@boltconnect.co.uk regarding for Tomal's HTC Univerisal Fund which is taking care of this for Tomal. This is the only way it has worked for me.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] sl9:
Thanks Tomal, links updated for USD :)

Current donation totals for today

(all amounts shown are converted to USD)

sl9sl9 - $74.06

orb3000 - $10

XL3N7 - $48.14

StevePritchard - $27.77

Park - $25

Total: $184.97

We are over half way already!!! I will find out the exact international shipping costs tomorrow, I expect them to be around $30 USD.

Amazing work so far guys, thanks very much to all the above who have donated to this cause. Tomal will be making new ROMs again in no time ;)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] darkblak:
Blimey that was quick!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] sl9:
Wow, we just got another large donation of $50 USD, now we are getting close! I don't know the forums name of the person who sent it in, so that person will remain anonymous unless they post here to confirm :) But thanks very much for that!

At this rate we should aim for around $300 to cover the double shipping costs, I think that will be also enough to get Tomal a great condition Uni instead of a 3 year old "very used" one :D

Edit: D'OH!!! I just missed this one, was outbid by only £2! Oh well, there is lots of others :) http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250285108207
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] darkblak:
That'll be me then.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] leffetripel:
10$ as promised :)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] sl9:
Many thanks to darkblak and leffetripel :)

I must admit I did not expect for us to get close to the target in only a few hours!

I'm actively bidding on Uni's now, we should have one in a few days at this rate.

Once again, thanks to everyone who has donated so far. This great community is one of the reasons why I will always buy HTC phones!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] enigma1nz:
Done :) Now lets hope for speedy resolution for Tomal. :)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] sl9:
Received, many thanks :)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] sir topas:
Post updated with shipping costs to Poland
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] casouzaj:
Have just transfered $10 to geoff AT boltconnect.co.uk's PayPal account.

My Exec is dead for 3 weeks now. I've been forced to switch to another PDA/phone, but Tomal's ROMs have served me flawlessly along the last 2 years!

Thanks a lot, Tomal !

Cheers!

Carlos
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] orb3000:
Hi sl9

Please let all us know when the donation has reached the amount needed to buy and ship, so we can follow up this proces till Tomal recieves his UNI

Thanks all to joint to this petittion!

Tomal, all the memebers who donate you happyly were with not any interest and just to show gratitude for all the WORK you MADE for all of us.

And speaking just by me I am not donating because I expect more ROM´s, just because I want to help!

Cheers,
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] XL3N7:
My guess is that no one of us is contributing to get more roms, despite my joke regarding the 20xxx rom. To be honest, I really wouldn't mind if no newer roms came out, as I rarely use the Uni. My Touch pro should arrive in the next day or two and my Trinity gets all the abuse.

By the looks of things, some money may be left after we purchase Tomal's Uni. I would suggest those money were donated to xda-developers if a small amount is left and of course if everyone else agrees.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] sl9:
Many thanks casouzaj!

Right now, we are only about $30 away from the "ideal" target of $300 USD :D I will post a more detailed breakdown of donations tomorrow. I'm quite sure that we will have a Uni within the next 2 days, I nearly won 2 auctions already today :) If we reach this target, then we can get a really excellent condition Uni for Tomal, and a fast, safe airmail delivery with tracking number.

I will be posting regular updates in this thread, and we should get a tracking number from the courier so you can all follow the item to its destination :)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] sl9:
Yes there will most likely (but not neccessarily!) be a small amount left over if we reach the target of $300. There will be a full breakdown of funds received, spent, and any left over at the end (complete with receipts).

For my own contribution I would be happy for it to go to either Tomal himself or xda-developers, or both with a 50/50 split. Maybe the last one would be best, what do the rest of you think?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] TehPenguin:
$30USD Donated

(Thanks for all your work Tomal)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] x_JoM_x:
I salute you all that donated.. and to Tomal, sorry I cant help financially. Good luck on this effort by the xdadev community.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] sl9:
Wow! Thank you TehPenguin, I did not expect in a million years we would reach the target in only 1 evening, is this some kind of record on here? :)

If anyone else reading this wants to help, you can either donate to Tomal directly HERE, or to xda-developers HERE.

YES, WE HAVE REACHED THE TARGET!!!

I have recalculated the donations and here is the final breakdown:

sl9sl9 - $74.06

orb3000 - $10

XL3N7 - $48.14

StevePritchard - $27.77

Park - $25

darkblak - $50

leffetripel - $10

enigma1nz - $10

(forums name unknown, via e-mail) giuffsalvo@[REMOVED].it - $10

casouzaj - $10

TehPenguin - $30

Total: $304.97

Note: Some donations including my own were made in £GBP, so the above have all been converted into $USD at the exchange rate of today (26/08/2008) to make it it easier to look at.

Once again thank you very much to everyone who donated, this community really is fantastic.

Tomorrow I will continue the Uni hunt on eBay - this will take 1-2 days and I'll post the link here when we win it.

Now I must go to bed at last, next updates will be later tomorrow.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] orb3000:
Thanks a lot sl9sl9

Great team work!

This is a great response form all of us! that´s what I like a FRIENDLY community!

Let´s keep that way

Cheers to all
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] tomal:
Guy's,

I never expected that much, for me it is an unimaginable case. Seems I'm in a dream. :eek:

I don't want just to say "thank you", your spirit and team-work is is simply unbelievable!!:eek: :eek:

By the way, I've received another 10 USD (5+5) from leolipop and an unknown nick. I'll transfer them if required...

cheers
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] rod555:
20$

$20USD Donated, thanks Tomal for your job, wonderful last rom!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] sl9:
Now we have a Uni for Tomal!

This is the eBay auction I just paid for:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=310078203787

It's an Orange SPV M5000, in "perfect, near mint" condition with battery and charger (Tomal do you need the UK charger? if not I can leave it out to save on postage money). There is about £25-£30 GBP money left over for the international shipping fees to Poland, which should be plenty.

The Uni should hopefully arrive at my house tomorrow, of course the first thing I will do is install Tomal's 8.2 ROM!!! ;) So hopefully it should arrive in Poland as early as next week!

Tomal: the 1-2 donations that were made to you directly are for you alone I guess, we will not need that for the "Uni fund" because we have already reached our target here :)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] enigma1nz:
WOW!

HIP HIP HOORAY!!!!!!!!! Well done everybody!!!!!!

Kisses to all! :)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] rod555:
YESSSSS :)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] heixx1:
For some reason my country is not listed in PayPal. Is there another way to make donation?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] sl9:
You can send a private message to Tomal and he can probably help you if you would like to donate to him. Or you could donate to xda-developers instead if you like, I don't think that uses Paypal? But the Uni fund has reached its target, so we don't need any more for this :)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] StevePritchard:
Fingers crossed that all works out ok - I'd be a little concerned that the auction says it's an ORANGE SPV M5000, whereas the picture is definitely an O2 Xda Exec. The guy's feedback seems good, so it's probably a mix-up somewhere along the line.

If we did get an Xda Exec for Tomal, then so much the better - it's much nicer looking in black than it is in the grey.

Cheers,

Steve.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] orb3000:
If any money is left after paying Tomal`s UNI and shipping costs, I would suggest to donate it to XDA to also help this fantastic site.

Same case if anyone else want to donate, please refer to the link posted by sl9 to XDA.

Good to know the UNI has been bought!!

Tomal, just wait a little longer to recieve it!

Thanks to all the people has helped on this!

Cheers to all
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] Jmp_3f8h:
The other one was me :p thanks for your efforts!

Marco.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] pa3x:
I'm glade you did it. :)

I'm holding && (cross fingers) to finish this to the end with easy.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] sl9:
Are you sure that's an XDA Exec in the picture? It isn't very clear. Either one of them will be fine as long as it's in brilliant condition as the seller described :)

And it's personal preference really, I prefer my MDA PRO over the Exec and I don't think Tomal minds either :D The reason I got that one, is because it was "buy it now", in very good condition, at a reasonable price and the seller had good feedback - there were no others which matched those 4 criteria at the time unfortuantely. I do think we got a good deal though.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] orb3000:
That´s correct

The more important is that UNI is in good shape and condition, the color is not important this time.

sl9 made a good choice on behalf of all of us, and I´m sure Tomal will be pleased, no matter if it´s black (Wich I prefer also) or gray.

Good day to all
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] KwiHa:
My donation was send to Tomal. Thanks your work!

There is an O2 XDA Exec on the picture not Orange SPV M5000. I have both of them, so I can see what is the difference. :D

Exec: Black, it has white "XDA EXEC" and "O2" text above the keyboard, blue keyboard light.

M5000: dark grey, there are no text above the keyboard and has a red keyboard light.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] tomal:
Thank you so much.

Amazing response from you pal's.

All the best.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] sl9:
Tomal's new Uni has arrived !!!

(You can click on this thumbnail to see a high quality 3MP photo)

Tomal's is on the left and my 3 year old MDA PRO is on the right - running Tomal's new 8.2 ROM of course ;)

As you can see in the photo, the quality of this M5000 Uni is 100% perfect - it's completely brand new with no scratches, marks or dirt at all (unlike my MDA PRO!). The call timer logs are blank, so this phone really is new and has never made any calls before.

It has a battery which also looks brand new, so for the first time Tomal will have a real Uni battery (until now he is using a home-made battery! See THIS post).

I will post it this week, so it should arrive in Poland next week, so Tomal should be 'back in business' very soon - this is the dawn of a new Uni era for Tomal :D

I will of course post further updates when the Uni has been shipped and the tracking number etc - then we need to decide what to do with any money that may be left over.

Enjoy, my friend!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] tomal:
WOW!!! What a nice a picture! :D

Well my friend, I'll share the story of my beloved Uni.

I bought my Uni at September '05 from T-Mobile Austria. Standard price was Euro 860 but one of my Austrian friends bought the package for me for only 540, offcourse in locked condition.

I've unlocked the device using Buzz's tool when returned to my country. It has served me a long until October last year. Then the battery has lost his life and I was patiently looking for a replacement but couldn't arrange. Suddenly one of my colleagues went to Austria for a training and he bought a battery for me. Unfortunately it was a faulty one and refused to serve me just after two days.

It was a real terrible situation for me, I was madly looking for an alternative. I did a thorough search on internet about the chemistry & technology of Lithion-ion. Finally I got the idea, it's very simple! Why not just replace the cell inside the battery!

Immediately I went to a mobile-phone spare shop and bought two batteries with the same thickness of my Uni battery, exactly two batteries for Siemens CX75. I have unmounted the Uni and CX75 batteries, safely disconnected the cell's from the control circuit. Then, installed two CX75 cell's inside the Uni battery case and connected with Uni control circuit.

This is the final stage: I was slightly nervous, finally the battery has been connected to the Uni. But I was so exited when my Uni switched on after pressing the power button. :eek:

My hand made battery still serving me...but it is the end of the story of my Uni!!

Many thanks to all of you for your sooo cordial support.

All the best.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] orb3000:
Great work sl9!!!

It looks really in good shape!

I´m sure Tomal would be very happy and he can upload the favourite ROM he wants!

I suggest that the money left (How much was left?) we donate it to XDA, let´s hear the opinions of the other donators

Cheers!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] tomal:
Yes, please donate rest of the money to XDA (if any).
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] sl9:
OK, any remaining money will be donated to xda-developers. I am also happy for the section of my own donation to go to xda-developers.

I don't know how much is left yet, we will only know once the item has been sent and the international shipping charges paid for, so we will find out soon.

:)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] StevePritchard:
Excellent news! It's not the O2 Exec as pictured in the auction, as we discussed, but the fact it's pristene is just brilliant.

I'm sticking my neck out and suggesting it's a G3, my latest (second) Exec is a G4, and it has a little lug that prevents the screen from being rotated the wrong way, or too far - I'm wondering whether that came in at the same time as the internal G4 upgrade. The picture of the MDA doesn't have the tell-tale cut-outs in the hinge for the lug.

I have to say, it's quite heart warming to think that a bunch of strangers can club together and help somebody out this way. Well done guys!

Cheers,

Steve.

PS. Have been using v8.2 for a couple of days without problems - very nice ROM, and I LOVE the black theme.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] sl9:
It is indeed a G3, it has SPL v1.00 (my MDA PRO is also a G3) :) But despite being a G3, it's still in absolutely fantastic condition, which is what matters really.

I agree that it is quite extraordinary for a bunch of strangers to do this, the donations literally came in from all over the world, no less than NINE different countries out of 10 total donations! That is truly amazing.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] orb3000:
Yes it´s amazing but this site is also amazing, thanks to XDA we have the oportunity to get ROM´s form all over the world and users too.

Also Tomal is one of the bests chefs, so this reaction is a way to say thank you to him.

I´m sure toghether we can achieve great things!

Thanks to all people who joined on this petition so fast!

Specialy sl9 who take care of getting all money and made the buying

Cheers,
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] le_vente:
As I couldn't take part in the collecting money for Tomal's HTC Universal fund 'cause of my problems I would like to say I am late but not missing!

I love Your ROMs Tomal and I on to send You some support. Not too much as nowadays I look forward hard days but I have to thank You for Your amazing work.

There is a little problem with that: I have no credit card so I ask a guy from my country to help me:

KwiHa!

Please do help me doing that! I am ready to send You 6000 Ft (it's about 20 GBP) by any way You can receive it and when You get it please send it to Tomal by Paypal. You can find me in e-mail I think ;)

Can You help me?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] kotabunga:
is is how the real world supposed to be

You guys all perfect, hand-in hand together helping Tomal.....salute to you all, never thougt this would happen in the real world....

Thanks to Tomal for his works.....thanks to you all for keeping my dopod full with excitement...
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] tomal:
YES!! It is truly amazing and I was so exited by seeing that the strangers are willing to help me by any means.

An special regards to sl9 for his great team work.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] le_vente:
OK, but don't ever forget that You deserve it!!!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] orb3000:
If you want to help, please doneta the amount you want to XDA, (You can find how on previous post by sl9) Tomal UNI is already bought and it´s on the way to him no, so no necessary more donations, but XDA always would be ok to recieve any help from us

Cheers,