[Off-topic] dkp1977:
I need help. Seriously :/

Hello.

My name is Mark and I'm ORD.

It started in late summer 2009 when I got my first HTC device: the Blackstone aka Touch HD. First I was pretty happy with the stock ROM (WM 6.1 and Manila 2.1). Then somehow I stumbled across xda devs and read a lot about how nice my device could become by just flashing it. I got a little excited by watching all those nice screenshots. But when reading the tutorial about how to flash my device, I felt nervous. It seemed so complicated and I didn't want to brick my phone. Anyways, it didn't take long until I shed my fear, downloaded USPL, a nice tweaked driver for Windows 7 and my first ROM: MIRI. I successfully flashed it and was pretty much satisfied. For about a week or so. I felt like I had to flash again. But since Miri didn't put out any new ROM until then, I was forced to try a different one. That time I gave XannyTech a shot.

You guys all know about that addiction, so what I'm a supposed to say other than that I kept that ROM for about 3 or 4 days until again I had this bad feeling of being incomplete somehow. So back to xda again reading dozens of threads, studying half a million feature- and bug lists and gazing at a countless amount of screenshots. Then I found the fix I needed, the one I call the final fix: EnergyROMs. Final not in the meaning of once flashed, happy for the rest of your life, but rather in the way that NRG keeps upgrading his ROMs in a speed that even makes a Warp 10 powered Enterprise appear like a snail.

Nowadays I flash every new version NRG puts on hotfile. If there is no new ROM within at least two days, I find myself randomly deleting registry keys and values until the only thing my blackstone manages to display successfully is the bootup screen. Just to have a reason for a hard reset. Not that much of a fix though, but at least some sort of substitute.

Now how did being ORD change my life? It began slowly, almost not noticeable. I bought a larger notebook bag in order to be able to carrie all the extras I needed for my blackstone along with me, I started scanning walls for powerplugs when I entered a building, stopped visiting friends, relatives even restaurants that didn't have wifi access. As time went by, things became a little more extreme. I had to learn a lot of things that I used to do before ORD back from the scratch again, since I used to do them with both hands. Now I had only one hand left. That's also the reason why I sold my car. Ever tried to drive a car with manual transmission with one hand only? oO Didn't work. Now I own one with automatic transmission. Not that I would really be able to use this one either. Driving is quite hard when your eyes are stuck to a - in comparison to the windshield of a car - tiny display. Doesn't matter. I found trains and busses I can use for getting to work or wherever I need to go. And yet another point where it gets some more extreme. Don't think I use direct connections from point A to point B. No friggin' way. There's spots where I lose my internet connection on the way. So I spent hours and hours taking all possible busses and/or trains to find a connection from A to B where I have internet all the time. That's what an addict I am. :(

Thanks god it hasn't gone so far that I have lost my wife and sons to that evil addiction. Not yet. oO