[Off-topic] PantsDownJedi:
Hi, my name is Dean. I have ORD. I just found the thread.

My ORD started with the SGS2 on Gingerbread when the iPhone 4s was released and I wanted to something new as I felt the iPhone wasn't measuring up anymore. I just recently got a new phone after 15 months of having the SGS2. I had flashed at least 100 differant ROMS on the SGS2... at least. I know own a Motorola Droid RAZR HD XT925 and there is as yet only 2 ROMS that I know of to be tested. The new phone has put my ORD into remission because 2 ROMS, both of which are likely of less quality than just using the stock one with a differant launcer, isn't enough to push me into unlocking the bootlaoder just yet as there's no exploit and it must be done via Motorola's site which logs the action, voids the warranty, and has caused much debate about wheather OTA updates are given after the unlock. The understanding of the phone is still not very good by the community, but we all know that in the end, regardless of trade laws in Australia giving me a 2 year warranty throughout the contract while I make handset payments with my mobile bill, that I will unlock it at some point. I've stared at the unlock site and moused over the button numerous times. The urge to try CM 10 and 10.1 is pretty strong. The only thing that keeps me going when I the urge to unlock and flash is that the phone is pretty close to stock once you use a launcher that isn't the crap stock one and add toggles to the notifications. I've also been able to occupy my time and distract myself from unlocking by adding tweaks and mods here and there and recently had a eureka moment with Tasker, where it all made sense, and have a lot going on with that in conjunction with the App Factory plugin; but we all know that before long I'll give in and unlock. After I unlock; I'll flash. Then I'll restore. Then I'll flash back. Then I'll flash something else. Then I'll restore. The pros and cons of any given setup will always be on the other side of the fence.

I have an extensive Linux background and used it back when it was far from user friendly. I've applied as much as I can from that to Android (difficult at first but once the resources are found its quite nice) and I found a site to get me going with Java that I think may keep me from unlocking and flashing things; but at the end of the day we all know that I won't be able to last very long before I start flashing again.

Its worth it though. The decision to deviate away from the iPhone and use that "counterfiet Android thing" was the best decision a geek like me could ever had made. I hated my SGS2 for the first 2 months I owned it and regretted buying it. 2 months after that I couldn't imagine ever going back to an iPhone and it pisses me off that I own an iPad rather than an Android tablet. Sure, I use the iPad; but only for watching Netflix in bed and listening to music while I drift off to sleep, but that's no reason to have purchased such an expensive device that I can't even tinker with; jailbroken or not.

So that's part of my story, and now I've forgotten what it was that I was going to do to my phone after writing it. I'm sure there's some reason I have my laptop out, the phone next to it and the cable between them, but I don't remember what it was anymore. Oh yeah.. I'm pissed off that my battery drains from Google's data location collections. Wakeups left and right with Google Now turned off, so I have to play around with freezing location services and then redo my app that toggles GPS when it receives a text as well as adding unfreeze on open to all the apps that need it (Tasker eureka moment is paying off, otherwise I'de be flashing something). Hopefully that fixes it.

The down side of having a phone that doesn't flash things is manually moving files out of a zip folder and setting permissions. The up side is that I'm not replacing libraries that already exist in some cases.

Thanks for letting me share.