[Hero CDMA Android Development] jasonmaloney:
I already told you in the past not to message me if you're not going to heed my advice. And I really don't want my name attached to any of your work. Seriously, you've demonstrated fairly well here that you have very little idea what you're doing. You've been very lucky that some of the things you've copied have made an improvement in performance.

And on the subject of that, great job changing your story in PM. Every time in the past I've called you out for copying, you've defended yourself by saying that you spent time researching things to figure out how to tweak them, and now in private you said you copied things but got permission to do so. Well then, how about asking the people you copied from how the things they came up with actually work? I wouldn't have so much reservation to helping you if you'd just be more honest.

But I'm not going to help you. Because it's not going to help me. You have, what, over a thousand posts on here now? How many of those have been actually helpful to people in some way? Seriously, go take a look -- most of it is nonsense or just you drumming up your own stuff.

It's nice that you want to make a difference here, no matter what your real motivation is, but you're not going about it very well. If you find a thread around here with tweaks that might be useful to us, point to that thread. The whole point of XDA as a community is so we can all benefit from knowledge gained. Simply compiling everyone else's work into a flashable script doesn't help us learn why things work. I've asked you numerous times in this thread to explain why the things you post work, and you never have.

I haven't previously been going out of my way to complain about your work, but from now on I'm definitely going to be telling people to steer clear of it. It's bad enough that we hardly have any true developers around here anymore, but now that the Sprint Hero has become such a dated device, more and more people are coming in here with very little knowledge about Android and looking for quick fixes to improve their experiences. And having things here like your work that you like to call "stable" or finished, when it's clear that it causes problems, is dangerous to these people.

I make mistakes too. I posted a new version of the unstable Clockwork recovery, and I even went out of my way to warn people that it was dangerous and not to use it if they didn't know what they were doing, and yet someone installed it and permanently bricked their Hero. I'm not proud of that, but I also warned people that it might cause problems. I'm not above admitting my work might be flawed.

But your development process seems to be more along the lines of (1) look around the internet for things that others have found, (2) post them here for everyone else to use, (3) change them once you find out they didn't work like you expected. It's insulting.

And you've gone on before about apologizing for your mistakes, and saying how things will be different and you will put the effort forth in the future, but you don't. You couldn't even take the easiest part of my advice, which was that you are in violation of the GPL and that you need to carry a GPL license and a link to source code. That's just completely disrespectful.

---------------------------

TL;DR -- You copy other people's stuff, you lie about it, you don't understand how it actually works, and then you make a bunch of useless posts drumming up sympathy for yourself. I have no desire to help you. Don't PM me anymore.