yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Off-topic] Mostafa Wael:
hi guys,

i am a flash-o-holic person who flashes the latest mods and test builds no matter what time it is or what i have to do in the day

and i am beginning to get distorted in my daily routine, just all what i do now is opening XDA-developers threads in my signature, checking Gmail for the other threads, opening phonearena.com to check out latest phones/updates/phone-related news of phones i know that i am not going to get. Other activities are very minor, maybe eating, sleeping and going to training. Learning has become very hard to me, although i get great grades, and i have finished the subjects objected for a local university.

ok, it may sound a bit normal, well if you are in the place of my mother, you will just see how disgusting it is!!

i first said that i will take extra A.Levels so i can go learn outbounds in Germany or something. But now, although i have plenty of time, i make nothing except cracking the F5 button on my laptop and checking Gmail every hour! Maybe what is new is playing music on my Sub-woofer, but hey, nothing useful is done! i thought of being a ROM developer, but due to the presence of a crappy 5-years-old laptop, i am unable to set up ubuntu or anything!! Plus i thought that this will make the situation harder, and more difficult to solve!!

so tell me what to do?!? i need to be a human again and focus on my learning!! thanks god that this addiction came after i finished my obligatory objectives for a local university in my country. I don't know what would have been the situation if i was still before high school for instance!!

Ohh and i forgot to mention, i have been a bit anti-social too, and some people say that i have been a weird man! i have liked to be at home more than ever, that is driving me crazy!! and when i talk to a friend of mine, i notice that my talk deviates away from the main subject towards Technology and phone-related things! yeah i have been trying to reduce such thing, and it is decreased now, but 70% of the thoughts coming in my head are phone-related and only 30% are real-life situations that i like to share with my friends...

i thought that withdrawing my phone would solve the problem, but i noticed that i was pessimistic more than ever before!

So guys, i wish i have some help here!!!

XDA has served my 2.5-years-old S3 a lot, it is now blazing fast and smooth with my current setup {with some kernel altering from time to time} and i guess that it may endure another half year again, but also i have been anti social, lazy {i go to morning training really hard, in the old days of gold, i used to have from 2 to 3 trainings per day, varying from fitness to swimming and running. Now i hardly go for 2 trainings} and a bit of being a humanoid person instead of being a human. People check their instagram and twitter, while i just sit waiting endlessly for just a piece of damn article on phonearena.com

Now excuse me i have to go to training :D my Dad is just pushing me to the door....

Thanks OP for opening such a thread!

hope that we come up with a solution, and the faster, the more helpful!
[Off-topic] mobilemsseana:
Note4internationalbuild

I had hoped I was finished, but NOOOOOO I just HAD to try an international ROM for this thing, and it...is....awesome.

Why, why is Android so wonderfully, sexily FLASHABLE? It's almost not FAIR.

:crying:

What's also not fair is when I brick. I bricked two days ago and took it as a sign I need to FLASH SOMETHING ELSE....

and I did. Had to go back to stock, but why stay there? So I waited till I was sure it would work again, and right back to International I went.

OMG.

I am a broken ORDict. But I will heal, I just won't look the same.

I admit, I am powerless over awesome ROMS. My Android Life is unmanageable.

BUT...I have come to believe that a power greater than bricks can restore me to sanity.

SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 4

SAMSUNG GALAXY S3

HTC HD2

HTC TOUCH PRO 2

SAMSUNG I780

SAMSUNG I760

BLACKBERRY 7200e (DON'T KILL ME!)

PALM TREO PRO

HTC MOGUL
[Off-topic] akkufix:
Sorry. No time to write anything - i have to flash... :eek:
[Off-topic] s8freak:
Flash, flash, flash, FLASH, FLASH, FLASHFLASHFLASHFLASHFLAAAAAAAAASH!!!!!

flash
[Off-topic] TheRomMistress:
I managed to find a cure for my ORD. It came in the form of a thick gelatinous cream that was quite tasty mind you....plus I bought an LG Flex which basically has no action. Unfortunately, my Flex took a nose dive off a short table thanks to a large blender and a clueless sister. Now I am stuck using a 2013 flagship, the HTC One M7, which luckily has quite a bit of development going on. Now I have fallen hard. I need my fix. I.need.to.flash! Is there anyone who can help me?

[MENTION=252661]egzthunder1[/MENTION] would you be so kind?
[Off-topic] USBhost:
Welcome back to ORD
[Off-topic] TheRomMistress:
Why thank you kind sir, the pleasure is all yours I'm sure.
[Off-topic] USBhost:
:good:
[Off-topic] egzthunder1:
S-OFF? I know a guy... :p
[Off-topic] TheRomMistress:
Maybe S-On.
[Off-topic] akkufix:
Sorry, but you are lost...

In the times, as i owned my M7, i descended into to a deep hole after i s-off' ed it with "Rumrunner".

This totally kicked me away...so, be carefull. Once your HTC is s-off, there is no way to get back into your normal life again. :eek:
[Off-topic] TheRomMistress:
I think I might be...But bring lost ain't so bad. At least I'll get a nice white coat of my own. It even had a place to bundle my arms when I get cold. No more stretchy shirts trying to warm my arms. What's look at the bright side. I'm off to the funny farm now.
[Off-topic] akkufix:
May you give me your post in binaries or QR, so i could flash it into my brain? :silly:
[Off-topic] TheRomMistress:
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[Off-topic] s8freak:
There is no cure I am hopelessly lost
[Off-topic] akkufix:
First flash gave me a softbrick, so i had to hard-reset me. But then it worked :good:
[Off-topic] TheRomMistress:
user error. Don't blame my code - its flawless
[Off-topic] USBhost:
Your so right

The problem was with the old human kernel v1.0.2.3

That has bugs with flashing
[Off-topic] akkufix:
No, code is ok and kernel too - it was a hardware issue, concerning optical flashing aera, which didn't worked in the right way...

So, a "clean" hard-reset solved it all.
[Off-topic] TheRomMistress:
I always flash clean.
[Off-topic] egzthunder1:
What is all the ruckus in here?

Oh, hi [MENTION=2507098]TheRomMistress[/MENTION] :) Taking out the cobwebs out of the lounge chairs, I see?

I just flashed my Xperia z ultra gpe 4 times yesterday, taking it step by step from 4.4.2 all the way to 5.1. Nothing fancy as it was all stock ota, but I did do it without safety (didn't do a nandroid)... Felt good!! I did have to do some cleanup afterwards as it was a dirty flash. :p

Aw well... Good to be back :)

There are two rules in life for being successful:

1. Never reveal everything you know;

2.
[Off-topic] NOSTALGIA:
i dont wanna join the club but i admit i have this disorder since i got my 1st rooted phone ..

galaxy s w,

galaxy s 3

oppo find7a

lg g2

ONEPLUS ONE
[Off-topic] orangekid:
Been flashing 5.1 ROMs on my 1+1, finally found one I like.

Now having fun trying to get the xposed modules I like working. I are have flashing problems.
[Off-topic] Maynard100:
This can't stop which is good.
[Off-topic] egzthunder1:
You have got to be kidding me... Out of all the threads on our site, you chose one opened by an admin (me) to boost post count....

Now, I am gonna have to follow you around to ensure that you don't spam your way to 10 posts...

There are two rules in life for being successful:

1. Never reveal everything you know;

2.
[Off-topic] Clark Joseph Kent:
Blahahaaa, can I track him...

:laugh:
[Off-topic] s8freak:
I don't care who you is dat ders funny right der
[Off-topic] egzthunder1:
I sometimes wish we were still able to thank posts in OT... I will have to randomly thank another one of your posts then :p

There are two rules in life for being successful:

1. Never reveal everything you know;

2.
[Off-topic] USBhost:
I know
[Off-topic] Maynard100:
What if someone asks for help?
[Off-topic] TheRomMistress:
Oh my that was a good show...can't fix stupid, that's what my momma always said or was that forest gumps momma..
[Off-topic] chejofan:
Hi, guys! My name is Javier, and I used to have ORD. On the other hand I suffer OTC (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). No kidding. I had and iPhone for one year, jailbroken, of course. I wanted to buy and android phone, because of the open nature of android, so I could install whatever ROM I was interested in. But guys, I was doomed. The first months were just relaxed, since I had a brand new LG G3, so I just enjoy may fantastic new phone, calling, taking pictures with its amazing camera, listening to music, enjoying its outstanding 5,5' QHD screen and son on

But developing happens. When Lollipop were released for this phone, suddenly new ROMs and their consequents updates appear everyday. And I feel in the the flashalholism hell. I started to compulsively flash every single new rom on XDA and beyond, looking for the perfect ROM, but, man, there is no perfect ROM. You always have ta accept compromises, AOSP speed vs camera stock quality, cutting edge software vs stability and so on. I became my phone's slave. Somedays I even flashed 3-4 ROMs in a single say. In most cases I stay no longer than 2-3 days with the same ROM. I was always visiting the XDA threads, writing comments, trying to help people (the only good side of this disorder). My girlfriend became upset ("you're obsessed with that f**** phone", "no darling I'm just looking the perfect ROM. I'm almost done"). I think you know what I mean.

I have lost data, for one week I was without whatsapp, and this, man, in Spain, means that you are a f**** outsider. I cannot talk with anybody and nobody talks you.

I became truly lost. But I reminded the Lord words: "The phone was made for the man, no the man for the phone", and I saw the light "The ROM was made for the phone, not the phone for the ROM". I left behind all the hype about the ROM state of the art and AOSP, and I looked for a good ("best" is a forbidden word for a flashalholic) stock ROM in order to get the best from my phone, and the nightmare was over.

I've sticked to cloudy ROM for about a month. I barely visit the xda threads (sorry guys), only for taking a look into Cloudy. And I'm perfectly happy.

So long story short: ORD is a disease and can be cure. You only have to realize that the only point of having a phone is using it not messing with it. My social a sexual life is much better now :cowboy:

And remember the words of Rocky Balboa (the most important and wise philosopher in human history) to Ivan Drago: "If I can change, YOU can change".

And yes, you can.

I hope the best in your rehab. :fingers-crossed:

By the way, because of this, I'll never buy a nexus phone. They're devil's work :silly:
[Off-topic] USBhost:
We should reclassify ORUD

from disease to virus

Hmm I like this virus I have

I don't want to cure it.. :cowboy:

You must have had free time to get a gf

Because for me lol

I have no free time for social activities

My commen day is:

School

Kernel development / flashing kernels every 20min or so

Watching anime as kernels compile

Watching AMV on YouTube as kernels compile

Being a XDA alcoholic with OCD helping other people and or

Testing stuff for them... As kernels compile

watching game movies as kernels compile :: not as often...

Playing video games

If I have time during the week :: which is rare

Flashing ROMs

hardware moding my n7 and n9

Ubuntu tweaking

Reinstalling Ubuntu do to too much tweaking :: happens at lest once a month

Installing Ubuntu on other systems to make them servers

To host my anime and game movies

And if I have free time after that

I flash ROMs on my note 3 :: about 3times a year
[Off-topic] egzthunder1:
Hmmm... I would have said Ron White...

"They call me... Tater salad" :p

There are two rules in life for being successful:

1. Never reveal everything you know;

2.
[Off-topic] Clark Joseph Kent:
:good::highfive:
[Off-topic] geegs8:
I might love you right now. I'm in a vicious cycle of rom flashing, and finally considering... just flashing a stock rom and calling it a day. BUT WHAT IF THERE IS SOMETHING BETTER OUT THERE. Will you be my sponsor?
[Off-topic] chejofan:
Hi, mate! Forget about perfection. You won't find it anywhere. In my opinion, AOSP are just overrated. Besides nexus device, you'll loose a lot of features and you'll have to deal with bugs, continuos update and so on. Just choose a good stock based ROM, usually the most popular on xda-forums and stay on it. I've been in Cloudy for about a month. This weekend I made a mistake. I flashed CM 12. In a while, I was looking the new great thing (Bliss? Hazy? Slim?). I realize that this everlasting searching for THE ROM it's not woth it. I'm back on Cloudy again. I hope, I learnt the lesson.

Cheers!
[Off-topic] s8freak:
There is ALWAYS a better Rom, Mod, theme out there. I've flashed 135 S4/S5 VisionX T/W Roms alone and as many as 5 different Roms a day. We are what we are flashaholics and I don't believe there is a cure nor do I want one.
[Off-topic] USBhost:
Well said.
[Off-topic] s8freak:
+1000 I've flashed 3 Roms today on my OPO LOL bring it on devs
[Off-topic] TheRomMistress:
No such thing as a good ROM these days...they all suck compairded to stock aside from that you can do extra bits. I can't find a decent ROM for the M7 to save my life....But I can't flash the RUU since I am on a MAC....meh
[Off-topic] USBhost:
cough cough try linux / windows
[Off-topic] TheRomMistress:
I am too lazy...
[Off-topic] orangekid:
Blasphemy!

I run stock for all of 4 seconds on any new phone, now I get it HTC is a bit of pain getting S OFF sometimes, but I'd go Viper over stock any day, AOSP choices notwithstanding. Can't imagine going stock on any phone, the OnePlus One was about the best stock experience, but still not enough tweaks..
[Off-topic] akkufix:
Lazy to install a VM on Mac? No way, if you have ORD - you would do anything to get binaries on your phone. :eek:

For M7, i recommending Omni. Sense is a pain.

In the time i owned my M7, i let build the rom around two-three times a week and did lot of kernel moddings.

Also on my PC at work :angel:

Further i tried Miui...but this is another story.
[Off-topic] TheRomMistress:
No I've cured myself. The key is to obtain a lack of motivation and a forget that attitude.
[Off-topic] zelendel:
I hear you there. I run one rom and thats about it. Can't say it's stock as I personally hate what they did to sense after converting it from WM. The roms for the m7 are bad as long as you stay away from CM based roms and don't mind the camera being OK at best.

It's just gotten to the point where I realized how much time and fun I was missing by messing with my device so much.
[Off-topic] TheRomMistress:
Tbh, it's not the same since the demise of winmo 6.5...
[Off-topic] zelendel:
Isn't that the truth. Even thought about picking up an HD2 or a Tilt2 to run as my daily driver just for it lol.
[Off-topic] orangekid:
I still have my HD2
[Off-topic] zelendel:
That would so be my daily. Proof that a device doesn't need tons of specs to work great
[Off-topic] TheRomMistress:
I consider the same often
[Off-topic] egzthunder1:
Ditto...

I am running stock 5.1 on my xzu gpe with a completely customized launcher (Launcher Lab) with my own design and that is enough for me...

As far as WM... Yup. It was far more fun back then.

There are two rules in life for being successful:

1. Never reveal everything you know;

2.
[Off-topic] dotnetguyaz:
Yeah? What of it? Gonna give me **** about that now too? lol
[Off-topic] TheRomMistress:
You just said that to point out my mispelling...I new there was a silent letter in there somewhere.

What can I say? At least I still have my looks...but I suppose that wont get me far in this forum...Good thing you guys are smart :P
[Off-topic] TheRomMistress:
At least your young at heart :p
[Off-topic] :
umm actually no, haha, did not even pay attention to how I spelled it , habit ...

We is fart smellers ... ummm no that's not it ... Smart Fellers, yeah that's it ...
[Off-topic] dotnetguyaz:
This was me in my younger years:
[Off-topic] dotnetguyaz:
Uh, huh... having one of those senior moments again?? :rolleyes:

Yes, yes I am... and damned cute too for an old fart! Why you should see the ladies hitting on me at the shuffleboard court!

I look at it this way... at the rate I'm going, I'll be getting my Denny's senior citizen discount any day now... lol
[Off-topic] TheRomMistress:
Well you must be old because my dad doesnt even look like that! :D

lol @ FART SMELLERS
[Off-topic] :
My latest self portrait ...
[Off-topic] dotnetguyaz:
Maybe... but see that chick? Oh yeah, she's into me... uh huh!

(my how we've digressed!) :D:D:D
[Off-topic] TheRomMistress:
You crack me up. How about the bingo...I hear thats a great treat for you "old" guys
[Off-topic] :
haha, yeah well ORD takes many forms .....
[Off-topic] TheRomMistress:
You are too much. If you keep at that smoking, you prbably will end up like that....im just sayen
[Off-topic] :
BINGO, BINGO!!! That is for old ladies!!!!

More like Shuffleboard ......
[Off-topic] dotnetguyaz:
Actually, my girlfriend and I are going to some "midnight bingo" thing at one of the casinos sometime in the next couple of weeks... supposed to be bingo for the young or something...
[Off-topic] TheRomMistress:
I dont see anyone....hmm, dementia kicking in?

My mind is too tired to think about smarticle things
[Off-topic] :
man that Energy thread is quiet with out us over there stirring up trouble ...

and their latest favorite target , ME, not over there to take pot shots at ...
[Off-topic] TheRomMistress:
haha, I knew it!!

My Maintenance man plays Bingo...he is like 60
[Off-topic] TheRomMistress:
Well, I am pretty sure I started the pick on Watcher phase this week...we shall wait for next week yes? Plus, your in a good mood-ish
[Off-topic] :
ok, got that Ahen ROM downloaded , flashing now, gotta feed the disorder ....
[Off-topic] :
I just have low tolerance for the same questions over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over, and with statements like "It's broke , fix it", what's broke, not coming to your house to set your vcr clock for you ......

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
[Off-topic] motisu:
I agree with all of you. I miss my old Rhodium. I would have loved to continue using it. Now it just sits and gathers dust.... :crying:

BTW, great to see all the old times again.:D
[Off-topic] Clark Joseph Kent:
Wrong place to make you post count....now head to the Q&A or General sections and do some real providing to development, to make your posts.
[Off-topic] motisu:
Not to be offensive, but EGZthunder and I go way back to the days before he was a moderator. If you check the earliest posts in this thread, you will find quite a few from me. I have been a member of XDAdevelopers for 9 years and have way over 1000 posts. In my old days, I was very helpful in the Blackstone, SX66, and the Rhodium fora. I have been far less active since my move to Android as I know its internals far less. Nevertheless, I have no need to "up my post count".

Have a wonderful day:D

Motisu
[Off-topic] Clark Joseph Kent:
Sir, check my post I wasn't addressing you. I removed the post, but still quoted the member I was addressing. And no offense taken...

Judgment from my M8....
[Off-topic] motisu:
Then my sincere apologies, good sir!!! onward and upward, the ROM burners. May we still have much pleasure in our addiction for years to come. :victory:
[Off-topic] egzthunder1:
Holy Jumping balls on a stick! What's up moti?!? How's life? What have you been up to?

There are two rules in life for being successful:

1. Never reveal everything you know;

2.
[Off-topic] motisu:
Still alive and kicking.:D A bit older and slower but still around. Left work for an early retirement so now I have WAY more time to lurk in here.

How you doing? Been following your progress and ascent in the XDA hierarchy with much interest. Truth is, these young whippersnappers are so touchy and impatient that I usually stay quiet in the background. Every once in a while, I do try to help when I can.

My present toy is my Tab 2 which I use for all my experements. Just installed CM12.1 on it after playing around with SlimLP. It is very weird that the oldest Android machine that I have is running the newest version, but that is our affliction, isn't it? and I hope that I never get cured from it....:p
[Off-topic] orangekid:
Used to flash on the daily on my Touch Diamond, the 2nd best device ever!

These days I like aosp, done with sense...
[Off-topic] zelendel:
That was a good device indeed. I used to flash hourly helping test out roms from Josh and twopumpchump all the time.

Agreed. Sense really went down hill when they changed it for android.
[Off-topic] orangekid:
Remember editing individual manila files? And when cookie home screen came out that was so awesome.

I used to recmod all the new leaked system builds daily, adding in the latest cabs. Took hours but it was always fun.

HTC owned WM, but after that it wasn't the same.
[Off-topic] zelendel:
Yeah I remember those days.

Sad kids now a days will now nothing of timebombs in leaked software.

Cookies home tab was and still is some of the best development I have seen. I think I still have my files from when a bunch of use were working on Max sense.

Even came across a ton of my old cab files
[Off-topic] orangekid:
Yeah, the good old days.

People don't know how good they've got it these days.

Back then you couldn't just 7zip. a ROM
[Off-topic] USBhost:
To bad I was too young and an Apple fan back then :crying:

Only if I could have seen the light sooner
[Off-topic] orangekid:
No worries, I'm still an apple fan...