[Off-topic] Jarmezrocks:
How to get over ORD, by Jarmezrocks.

Like a bad comedown the bootloops from hell enter life and you become a lost sole. Not contactable by anyone that can help you and no one of contact to the outer world. Attempting to substitute your disorder by using a lower grade (even non android device) will not work either. How does one expect to improve or tweak a lower spec device when there is a clearly much high spec device waiting to be flashed?

There is only one cure for this....and that is to become a dev! "How does that work?" you may ask? this would surely make the situation far worse?

I should add in here.... become a dev for a device that you don't own. Be thorough and dedicated in your developments and feed the teams needy of flash addicts.

You are unable to test flash your self, so it is the only answer.

The flow on effects from this is that you become so busy ensuring that your developments are right that you don't get an opportunity to search XDA for ANYTHING!! And if you do then it is for something specific....and the off chance you stumble across a thread like this is....well....rare.

Not only that but you have an opportunity to stabilise your own device, you don't do risking flashes, you wean your self to making the thing "functional".

I must warn that you will not escape the tyrants of mass users who have issues and in need of a "fix" (a bug fix) from you the "cook"; the terminology being not all too dissimilar to a drug addict is it? I soon dulled to the need for latest versions….I wanted stability. The need to update the ROM to the latest version dies when you make functionality stable. There comes an overwhelming sense of satisfactions and achievement in making something function that hasn't functioned ever before….even if it IS several versions old. The quest for understanding in the android OS paramounting the urge to flash.

I soon have become so disgusted with bootloops that I held back on a stable version and let flash addicts feast and frenzy over the new delights of an incremental update. You must block the tyrants out from your brain….. It is not you with the problems it is them! I am but a person not a team of cyanogen mods, they need to curb their need not me cater for their version issues. I started to feel better day by day. It didn't matter that I was loosing "users" (more similarities eh?) to other cooks. They can go get their fix elsewhere. Hmmm I am noticing those that are testers that a loyal….. They are sticking around? Why is this so? What is this characteristic of a loyal tester? I take note and see that there ARE other devs who have….so it seems an old version of gingerbread and still many users loyally sticking by them? Now this category of users are extremists in the opp direction….they have stuck to a customised ROM version (stable I might add) when the vendors them selves have released ICS? MAN ARE YOU STUPID?? WHAT GIVES? Hang on a minute….. Do these guys suffer with a phobia? Could I be pinned with the regrets of supporting several versions because of "anti-flash addicts" wanting bug fixes for Froyo (that are clearly in Gingerbread) as we move on to from ICS to Jellybean? Who knows? Who cares really!

My life and world is changing! I am feeling even better again! I can breath easy again. My family and friends love me again, I am contactable…my message bank is bare. My phone has productivity apps installed and alarms for reminders to do things…..in life…..like normal people do. The people who are old friends are no longer offended when they SMS me and receive a response not all too dissimilar to "Who's this?" as I am in-between flashing the next version and haven't restored my contacts. You know life is al but over when you are using flight mode to grasp and hang on to these meaningless sms messages to respond days later after you have come out of bootloops. Stop grappling people! Stop grappling at the addiction and all that is feeding it. Change. You can do it.

Your world will be filled with a better feeling when you realise that you are now contributing to XDA rather than consuming it and sucking off it like a leech.

I will admit I am running the latest version of firmware for my phone, however it is because it is stable. Thank you XWLPG. I have weaned my self from leaked releases. If you are living and consuming your self in nightlies and are becoming frustrated when "nightlies are not nightlies at all" and your left with a frown on your face then I think you are beyond saving. You are like the walking dead "Ice Addict" of the Android world a parasite by all that walk past you, oblivious to the conversations that take place as you flash your next version. I pity your soul go throw your phone in the bin. Your only saviour in life is to wake up and find a purpose driven motive rather than an ego driven one….find something in someone else to help them and use that. Other than that the only thing that may halt you is bricking your device….with a lengthy and struggling fix for your device. It will ground you enough for you to get some clarity around who you are again. You are a person not an android remember that!

Good luck may god pity your souls.

Former ORD sufferer. Jarmezrocks