[myTouch 4G General] ckisgen:
you guys feel free to flash whatever you want. that's what awesome about Android and this wonder little dev community :D

last time I looked in that other gb/sense thread, most people couldn't even get that ROM to boot, lol. i'm guessing there's a whole slew of misc. bugs. maybe i'm wrong.

however, to answer your question - there's a lot of differences between Team Royal and the other guys...especially one guy operations. (not even knocking them at all .. more power to them if they can put out a quality/comparable product AND support/maintain it properly.) hey, maybe their stuff is better - YOU guys decide. it's your phone. it's not like any of us make any money off of this. competition is good for any marketplace or community. our feelings aren't gonna be hurt if you use someone else's ROM. we do this because we enjoy doing it, we have fun, and we care about and want to see this Glacier/MyTouch4g development community grow and thrive. we all own these phones and want the best, slickest, fastest, most stable ROMs out there too.

this whole 'dev war' is silly and has gotten blown way out of proportion. so one guy within a group of other guys didn't see eye to eye on something. WHOA, there's a first time for that one, huh?! so what? he went his way and is a big boy and can do whatever he wants to do from here on out. our team is still very much in tact and is as efficient and rich in knowledge/depth/talent as it's ever been. there's no 'instability' on our end. we're not going anywhere guys, trust me.

except for a stray ROM or two, how 'alive' had our little dev community become prior to Team Royal coming on the scene? a guy or two has popped in here or there with a ROM since then but for the most part I think it's obvious who has been responsible for churning out fast and stable new ROM after new ROM.

it hasn't been perfect, nothing in the android dev world can be. but when there's an issue - WE CARE. WE LISTEN. WE STEP UP. and when a real issue has been identified - a team of dozens of talented developers and experienced modders and testers swarm in and work night and day most days of the week until we've hammered out either a fix and/or an update/new release for the ROM itself.

we've got like 20 guys on Team Royal including the handful of behind the curtain devs who come in and help on this script or that piece of optimization code, etc.

we have a team of 8 testers who do nothing but test these ROMs before, during, and after releases to try and iron out as many issues as possible. now, we're typically, if not always using the latest and greatest technology/kernels/code/ports, etc. so naturally there is going to be a learning curve .. most of these ROMs are still on v1.0 or early 1.x builds!! these things are PRETTY darn stable for initial releases if you ask me.

many of you may or may not know - but the creme' de la creme' of kernel developers, Faux123, is on Team Royal and is our kernel dev/guy/guru. this guys kernels are sick/amazing and he is working hand in hand with us (and has been) on making sure these kernels fit like a glove with these ROMs and vice versa.

now, we have recently gotten a lot more organized since we have so many people on our team working together and wearing different hats...and also by necessity because of the fact that we've grown so quickly as we've released so many ROMs in such a short period of time (WE'RE NOT SLOWING DOWN ANYTIME SOON GUYS, MORE INCREDIBLY COOL STUFF ALREADY IN THE PIPELINE COMING YOUR WAY) :D :D :D

we are trying to work even harder at keeping team members around on these boards (specifically our ROM threads) to help answer your questions, bugs, issues, etc. as quickly and timely as possible. we want you guys to be satisfied with our hard work and we want you to know we're not going to release buggy ROMs and eventually walk away and leave you guys to figure out how to make it work on your devices. these ROMs are gonna keep getting better and better and more and more stable.

SO .. I say all of that to say - let other people's work (ROMs, etc), service/maintenance of these ROMs, communication with you guys (the community at large) with troubleshooting/help speak for themselves. this is a Team Royal thread so I'm speaking up on behalf of our team and letting you know what WE'RE about. I can't speak for anyone else. They can let you know what they're about on their threads. if they don't - ask them. decide for yourself.

we apologize that we're a handful of hours behind on a couple of these releases - but in the past, we have erred on the side of releasing sooner than later whether we had the bugs/kinks worked out or not. and we've decided as a team that this is not how we want to do things as a whole.

as i type this - we've got 3-6 guys currently staying up til the wee hours of the morning testing the crap out of these new ROMs (mint, MIUI, ginger v1.3, others) so that we feel like we've reasonably gotten most if not all of the bugs we could find out of the ROMs so that the largest number of you can flash these ROMs and not have to wonder on your way to work or school whether your phone is going to work. or wifi. or whatever.

sorry for the length of this guys, but i felt the need to 'set the record' on a lot of this stuff.

and after much ado, barring any large catastrophe that we discover during final testing - we will have the release ready/fully tested v1.0 of RoyalMint for you tomorrow morning. i apologize because i know several of you will be heartbroken hoping for a release tonight but, i ASSURE you, it's worth the wait.

this ROM (like all of ours) is very much different than your usual port/quick dump file band'aided together. we add/edit/remove code in our own way. we have our own performance scripts we add in for speed and stability. we take the extra TIME and effort to optimize and trim down all of the APKs and other bazillions of parts that make up a whole ROM ... all in the name of SPEED/PERFORMANCE, STABILITY, and also most certainly, BATTERY life.

you guys are going to LOVE this ROM .. i promise :D it's unbelievably fast and we're 90+% of the way there on stability.

(sorry, no screen off animation right now...it's not in the HTC files for this type of ROM anymore and it's not that easy to just cut and paste it in...in fact, speaking with our main devs/coders, it's not easy at all...but we will look into it and if there's a way to feasibly make it happen without breaking something else, then we will)

thanks for bearing with us guys and for the overwhelming support!