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A Ramble About Nothing

So, I am about to hit my 1000th post here on XDA, two away once I get this one posted. My initial thought is:
"It took me this long? Didn't bartek make that milestone in like his third day?"
I think back on my history around here, I think I barely had 50 posts back in January when I launched the first Br1cK'd No Bloat. Since then what a ride its been.
I just wanted to take second to thank everyone out there, the real Developers (doin it better than I can, making it possible for me to carve a tiny niche around here), the Themers, the Bug Finders and Problem Solvers, the Porters, the Users (constructive or not), the Mods, the Trolls, the Haters, and the ones who never read the OP. All of you make this place what it is. I have truly learned a lot around here, whether its been about android software, or how 15 year olds with an inferiority complex act on the internet, from the safety of mama's basement. I salute you all, but some of you with only one finger.
So here's to the next 1000 posts, and whatever madness they might bring.

Haha, well said man.

Lol yes well said

Pleasure having you around man, keep the roms/themes/ports...coming and here's for another 1k! :beer:

Amen!
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very nice congrats on 1000!

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Is there where i apply for the troll academy?

Congrats!
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Thanks for everything you've done here on XDA. It's been a pleasure...

So long and thanks for all the fish

This will be my last thread here. XDA is no longer the site I once loved and cherished.
Thank you to all the devs here who've had made my Shift awesome and who I've learned so much from.
Thank you to all the friends I've made here. I'd be sad to leave you but I know that I'll still be seeing all who matter in Huddle or IRC.
ALL HAIL OTAKING71, THE RAPER OF HBOOT!!!

Hate to see you go man but completely understand. See ya in the irc and huddle

I hate to see it too,not far behind see ya in the huddle!
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Well this sucks! But we will still be in contact... unfortunately, or should I say fortunately, I will be cancelling my membership shortly. Certain people have turned their backs to the TRUE community members and it saddens me because I too enjoyed this site at one point... see you in the huddle boss!
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Aww that sucks. I am close to the same point though.
and where is the Huddle at? Im assuming you mean google+ do I just search for EVO Shift then?

Gonna miss you man. XDA has changed in last 9 months i've been here and not for the good either
Sent from my evo shift as mods are retarded

what used to be different about xda? ever since i got an evo shift and my friend told me about xda i've been hooked. i'm on here everyday finding out new information. this thread makes no sense to me...

jwigley24 said:
what used to be different about xda? ever since i got an evo shift and my friend told me about xda i've been hooked. i'm on here everyday finding out new information. this thread makes no sense to me...
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A major part of it from what I have seen since I've been here is the quality of the people. Not accusing or placing blame on anyone. But there is a major difference from when I joined in march to now.
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I understand completely, as I used to be very active on here, but do little more than lurk in the shadows these days. The people here are rude miscreants, the mods/admins are power tripping paedophiles living in there moms basements, and there is really nothing posted on here that cannot be done with a minor understanding of linux and java.
P.S. After what the mods did with Indirect, while supporting a scam artist, I feel confident of a ban. So, to the mod that bans me, I forgive you already, as I have worked hard to put myself in an excellent place in life, you have not, so I understand the anger. Look at this way, at least you and your mother will have a dinner topic to discuss (as opposed to the ususal conversations about the health of her favorite cats).

cloverdale said:
I understand completely, as I used to be very active on here, but do little more than lurk in the shadows these days. The people here are rude miscreants, the mods/admins are power tripping paedophiles living in there moms basements, and there is really nothing posted on here that cannot be done with a minor understanding of linux and java.
P.S. After what the mods did with Indirect, while supporting a scam artist, I feel confident of a ban. So, to the mod that bans me, I forgive you already, as I have worked hard to put myself in an excellent place in life, you have not, so I understand the anger. Look at this way, at least you and your mother will have a dinner topic to discuss (as opposed to the ususal conversations about the health of her favorite cats).
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Was talking to Indirect on IRC.
He wanted me to tell you he says thanks cloverdale and that you can find him in the shift forums of sdx.

I have to say i totally agree, im sorry to say xda is corrupt... even though the devs are great this has gone to far. 1 month ago the shift forums were a peaceful place, we all got along knowing that every shift is different... now mandatory donations and jerks come along
LET THE HUDDLE LIVE ON!

Well, this thread appears to be full of mature people doesn't it?
Closing this before someone else calls us "power tripping paedophiles living in their moms basements"

Leaving the Atrix....

i now have the SGSII, just got it today and loving it, i've also moved to Sprint due to better service plan, annnnd i get a 25% discount on my bill cause of my job, i loved the atrix but it was time to move on to Sprint to help myself out budget wise, but i hope yall get ICS and more roms(hopefully an official version of CM7) it's been great yall
and no this wasn't meant to steer anybody away from the atrix, just saying goodbye and thanx for all the help and laughs yall, keep it up

What is the point of posting stupid threads like this?

rdubyah said:
What is the point of posting stupid threads like this?
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+1
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rdubyah said:
What is the point of posting stupid threads like this?
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u had to be the a**hole, u just couldn't hold it in huh? GREAT JOB!

cool story, bro

G1-8701 said:
u had to be the a**hole, u just couldn't hold it in huh? GREAT JOB!
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well, i don't think anyone cares about what you do.
so, bye, and... someone should delete this useless thread.

Should have held out till next month for the Galaxy Nexus

It's too bad XDA is overrun with assholes. If you don't care he's leaving, then don't reply and his post will quickly fall the bottom and no one has to read it. Take your insecurities out on someone in real life; see how that works out for you.
G1-8701, peace out. Enjoy your new phone. Though, you should really check out the new Atrix 2. It's way underrated and the sleeper phone of the year (or couple months, whatever it turns out to be).

loderjm said:
It's too bad XDA is overrun with assholes. If you don't care he's leaving, then don't reply and his post will quickly fall the bottom and no one has to read it. Take your insecurities out on someone in real life; see how that works out for you.
G1-8701, peace out. Enjoy your new phone. Though, you should really check out the new Atrix 2. It's way underrated and the sleeper phone of the year (or couple months, whatever it turns out to be).
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On so many levels, XDA used to be so much different. (AKA a lot friendlier)
The people trolling in threads and others retaliating with profanity is exactly why we are seeing more and more devs leaving.
We need to have more "community" going on around here. If you don't like a thread, please fight the urge to ignore it instead of getting into a flame war.
And on that note, can we please lock this up?...
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Agreed. I tried making a thread to get people too come togther and acomplish something for the betterment of our device and of course same deal someone had too come in and run there mouth. I should have ignored him but spoke my mind and now my thread is closed. Come on people were all on here because we like our device not too argur and pick fights with people.

rdubyah said:
What is the point of posting stupid threads like this?
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I hate to quote myself.

OMG PLLLLLLLLZZZZZ STAY, WE COULDN'T IMAGINE THE THOUGHT OF YOU BEING IN ANOTHER FORUM.
OH WHOA IS ME, HOW CAN I LIVE WITHOUT THE..
had to use caps for the extra sarcasm.
to the OP, Don't let the door hit ya!

Wow.... This thread is just full of crap....
Sent from AT&T SGS2

joshyy_rey said:
Wow.... This thread is just full of crap....
Sent from AT&T SGS2
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Prime exanple of why the Atrix forums are sometimes the bad part of XDA...
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This kind of thread is not necessary. Closed.

Goodbye Epic

After nearly a year with the Epic that I had high hopes for, I jumped... After the lack of updates/bug fixes and the little quirks that I learned to live with and even defend, as stupid as that is, I snatched an evo 3d from the net. I've had it about 12 hours and so far I dig it. Very smooth, no noticeable bugs yet and battery life seems to be good too.
I'm debating on keeping the epic and seeing how it performs when CM7 is or gingerbread is up but I really don't see me going back. Although, that display is excellent.
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Good luck to you, but did you really need to start the thread to tell us?
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Probably not, but I've been lurking here for a long time, gathered lots of info and got a lot of help, which I appreciate. I'm sitting in a hotel, bored. Thought id post up in case anybody else is on the fence...
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ahowsare said:
Probably not, but I've been lurking here for a long time, gathered lots of info and got a lot of help, which I appreciate. I'm sitting in a hotel, bored. Thought id post up in case anybody else is on the fence...
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You should keep your Epic just in case you need a good camera. HTC cameras always sucked.

Since this is here, I feel the same way. I have so many problems with my Epic that I'm considering getting the N4GS, but I gotta dig into the forums to find out the most common problem it has
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Yeah, wanted to love the epic, it was like a bad girlfriend tho.... I dug around the forum a bit and did some reading, considered a nexus or an epic touch but just couldn't bring myself to go with Samsung again. Got a good enough deal on this evo 3d that I'll barely have any out of pocket expense if I sell the epic. I will miss the screen and the keyboard but those weren't a good enough reason to continue dealing with the bugs.
Day two with this phone, can't put it down. Have had a few FCs with rss apps but life is good. Straight outta the box, everything works as it should, very responsive, fast and smooth. Don't see a need to bother with flashing anything.
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You could've posted this in the off topic thread...
sent from my cm7-ified epic

Thanks for all of your contributions to the board. You will be missed. RIP OP.

stir fry a lot said:
Thanks for all of your contributions to the board. You will be missed. RIP OP.
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Lol... hilarious. And it is so funny how these kinds of OP threads happen all the time. They are a complete waste. Yeah... we all care that you are jumping ship. Pfft.

Please don't leave...
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jamice4u said:
You should keep your Epic just in case you need a good camera. HTC cameras always sucked.
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But there's 3! And more is better.
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Kool beans OP, I got sick of my friend talking about his Captivate being the $h!t on CM7 and my Epic still having issues all the time. I looked at the Epic Touch but just found it hard to deal with the footprint and the fact that work gave me a Droid x2 (biggest POS ever!) to carry, my pockets are only so big.
I'm rocking the iPhone 4 (regular) and I'm satisfied, hope this will work out till the new LTE phones debut.
Thanx to all the DEVs and users that found how to fix the $h!t Samsung/Sprint where incapable of fixing, with out you this phone would have just been an Epic Fail.

The design intent was good, just fell short for me as finished product. I guess after spending 4 years with IPhones I wanted a phone that worked as intended and only root/mod if I wanted to, not because I had to.
somebody dropped the ball....
I'm sure you will all be thrilled to hear that I'm going to keep hanging around and lurking, if
cm/gb/ics ever roll out it may sway my opinion...
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ahowsare said:
The design intent was good, just fell short for me as finished product. I guess after spending 4 years with IPhones I wanted a phone that worked as intended and only root/mod if I wanted to, not because I had to.
somebody dropped the ball....
I'm sure you will all be thrilled to hear that I'm going to keep hanging around and lurking, if
cm/gb/ics ever roll out it may sway my opinion...
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Stock ec05 is the most BEAUTIFUL thing I've ever seen. Way better than ios. Have you ever just run stock? There's nothing wrong with it.

This is a message to everyone making threads like this. No one cares that you are leaving, you aren't helpful at all lurking for months and posting once every few months to *****, you don't deserve your own thread and special goodbyes and all you'll get is asinine jokes because its what you deserve.

ugothakd said:
Stock ec05 is the most BEAUTIFUL thing I've ever seen. Way better than ios. Have you ever just run stock? There's nothing wrong with it.
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I have to disagree lol, although stock is better than ios its far from "BEAUTIFUL" haha.
Sent from my Samsung Legen-wait for it-dary! 4g

Not much of a postwhore here, most of my contributions to this place were via pm.
If you don't like it, don't read or reply. Threads like this can be beneficial to others that are in the fence.
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ahowsare said:
Not much of a postwhore here, most of my contributions to this place were via pm.
If you don't like it, don't read or reply. Threads like this can be beneficial to others that are in the fence.
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so they couldn't just read the many other useless threads like this one? Or you couldn't just post in off topic as was suggested earlier? No you need your own thread to say you aren't using the phone anymore even though there were more than likely thousands of customers to take your place today.

sephiroth009 said:
This is a message to everyone making threads like this. No one cares that you are leaving, you aren't helpful at all lurking for months and posting once every few months to *****, you don't deserve your own thread and special goodbyes and all you'll get is asinine jokes because its what you deserve.
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I have to agree with this. Unless your a DEV or someone on these threads everyday contributing and helping others, nobody cares. Just go in peace and thank you for coming. We have enough crap in General with lazy people that don't want to read asking "what's the besat ROM"!

sephiroth009 said:
This is a message to everyone making threads like this. No one cares that you are leaving, you aren't helpful at all lurking for months and posting once every few months to *****, you don't deserve your own thread and special goodbyes and all you'll get is asinine jokes because its what you deserve.
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Way to be mature.
If you don't like the post, SKIP IT. Don't come here and be a douche bag.
By posting to it, you're keeping it on the top. You're acting no better than the OP.

Hello and OT thread

My wife just surprised me with a sgs3, for my bday. Anyways just wanted to introduce myself because you will see me posting. I will have a lot of questions, after i read of course. I came from the Desire HD and Sensation so i'm familiar with android and rooting but now i'm dealing with a beast and this is my first samsung phone. Anyways, i'm glad to be apart of a new community.
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Lets give this idea a try, make sure to read this post
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You know what, let's go with this idea.
As long as you guys can keep this friendly, lets make this the SGS3, hello and chat thread.
A few ground rules:
1) I am relying on everyone to report and ignore any trollish posts rather than respond to them
2) If this goes downhill, I will not hesitate to close it
That said, enjoy :good:
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Yes you need to read a lot. But for starting, read XDA rules (a must read)
And welcome buddy.
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let us all introduce ourself now

Yes, read read read and then read some more. search before posting and try not to ask stupid questions or ask for things to be spoon fed to you and you'll be ok
Hi, I'm graffixnyc and I like unicorns and long walks on the beach

Lol you guys are a much tougher crowd than the HTC guys. This is my 3rd android phone and have been a member of xda since last november. I know the routine but goodlooking out.
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swift2fly said:
Lol you guys are a much tougher crowd than the HTC guys. This is my 3rd android phone and have been a member of xda since last november. I know the routine but goodlooking out.
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Yes, I discovered that too when I switched from HTC to Samsung.. But then again I think more idots use samsung devices so patience runs thin with more senior guys. hahhaha

welcome...
2 rules to follow
1.read
2.read

if you are coming from HTC, you will catch up fast. SAmsung phones are usually "development friendly". Very easy to tinker with their phones (VZN Locked bootloader exempt)
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graffixnyc said:
Yes, I discovered that too when I switched from HTC to Samsung.. But then again I think more idots use samsung devices so patience runs thin with more senior guys. hahhaha
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or may be the senior guys are idiots here

This kinda thread actually isn't a bad idea, well what I mean is to have ONE thread to introduce ourselves in, we all know each others user names but maybe we would have a better community if we said a bit about ourselves and our first names or something.
Just a thought.
Tom, 27, software dev student, I enjoy electronic music, cars, the outdoors and of course gadgets of all kinds!
I hope other people get involved or else I've just made a right tit of myself
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nodstuff said:
This kinda thread actually isn't a bad idea, well what I mean is to have ONE thread to introduce ourselves in, we all know each others user names but maybe we would have a better community if we said a bit about ourselves and our first names or something.
Just a thought.
Tom, 27, software dev student, I enjoy electronic music, cars, the outdoors and of course gadgets of all kinds!
I hope other people get involved or else I've just made a right tit of myself
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Patrick, 36, Computer programmer, part-time night student, part time tech writer for land of droid, semi-pro musician (Spector bass endorsee)
There now we both look like tits.. a nice pair of tits, but tits none the less

Oh.. Hello
Saw, 32, Salesman and 'semi-pro' stock trader , love programming but still learning.
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aww heck, m might as well join in.....slappy 48, dad of two, separated, used to be self employed gardener, unemployed for last 2 years due to cancer(all good now) , philosopher, anarchist, peace lover, assassin of "best Rom thread"

Arsaw said:
Oh.. Hello
Saw, 32, Salesman and 'semi-pro' stock trader , love programming but still learning.
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Nice, I've actually been thinking of getting into day trading. My friend started doing it when he got laid off and now he just trades stocks in his basement all day.. He makes very good money and has no boss to answer to. But he does have a high risk of losing everything he has if something he had his $ in crashed
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Nice, I've actually been thinking of getting into day trading. My friend started doing it when he got laid off and now he just trades stocks in his basement all day.. He makes very good money and has no boss to answer to. But he does have a high risk of losing everything he has if something he had his $ in crashed
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Trading stocks is very risky business. Learn everything you can about stocks trading and then unlearn. Ironically, I make money only by not knowing too much about stock
Anyway, good luck to you and your friend.
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Jonathon, John, Jon whatever you want to call me I'm the vagabond of XDA, but occasionally I'm good for a piece of info here and there. :highfive:
Age: 18 Location: UK

Hi, I'm netarchy, and I'm an alcoh... oh wait, not that kind of thread. ;D

Haha you guys are cool. btw reading helped me today. My phone is officially rooted.
You can call me Swift. Today i turned 31. I grew up in the states but now living in cambodia. I am the Creative general manager/account manager for a film, music, ads and event management company. Look us up 391films and KlapYaHandz cambodia.
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netarchy said:
Hi, I'm netarchy, and I'm an alcoh... oh wait, not that kind of thread. ;D
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netarchy, I thought you were a porno-holic?

Other than a Forum I can not think of any other Online communication tool that would not send alarm bells running where a 59 year old communicates with a 16 year old!!!
That's the essence of a forum, we are all equal and no one judges anyone. We all share the same desire and that is our tech.
For those that do not know me....
It's Beards, your Senior Consultant Surgeon.
Happily married for over 37yrs with grown kids (yippee) and a Granddaughter who is my shadow.
I do a lot for charity (as in my signature) and am always willing to both help and learn.
At 59 nearing 60 rapidly..... please be gentle. A few of my brain cells have become lonely.