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misfit1306
28th October 2009, 09:36 AM
Xda developers community,

Here I sit at the end of approximately 78 hours of a joyfully sleep deprived journey of pure tech excitement. It all started with my two month old G1 Dream, which I am crazy about, suddenly began to annoy me with its ridiculously small internal memory. I offered my dilemma to the overlord of infinite knowledge, Google, and all roads kept leading me here. I began to read, found answers,and developed the uncontrollable urge to join the action. I've read, rooted, rommed, wiped, re-rooted, re-rommed, nearly bricked, cried, picked myself up, read some more, fixed, and utterly tweaked my G1 into a steroid laced technological work of art. Twice I wanted to ask questions but fought my hands away from the keyboard as I read the seemingly harsh and usually condescending replies as my fellow noobs received. Quick and deadly were the Chinese stars of sarcasm as they split their heads open, ending each post with "you would have found this if you'd just taken the time to read the forum". Each one of them ending in that little blue "Link of Shame" they provide linking you right to the detailed answer that was posted like two weeks ago. Not me....no sir! I decided to read and discover the what lies within for myself. I'm so glad I did too because I've learned more about my G1 here in three days than all my accumulated phone knowledge combined. This place is a tech-rebels think tank of knowledge from some really knowledgeable people. Everything I studied and tried was 100% accurate and easy to follow. Thanks to all of you for sharing your discoveries with all of us "Noobs" out here. I'm hooked on XDA! Sleep.....we don't need sleep where we're going....STANDBY FOR REBOOT!!

orb3000
28th October 2009, 09:44 AM
Welcome to forums

Great and nice words of introduction:)

Read, Search, Respect and Enjoy!!

galaxys
30th October 2009, 12:32 AM
Enjoy this great forum! Read, Search, and Happy Flashing ;)

Stericson
30th October 2009, 04:32 AM
That has to be the best first post I've ever read....

Congrats on all that you've learned. :)

here.david
31st October 2009, 03:55 PM
Xda developers community,

Welcome to the "family" I too followed your process....:D

So 'cool' yet spending way to much free time will be the thing to look out for....:cool:

Really, Your post is outstanding....wish it could be on all ROM's 1st page...:eek:

PM me if you ever need to...DID you know to click on the persons name (top left of their post) to PM them and/or see all their postings....a quick way to get help I have found....

beast0898
31st October 2009, 04:13 PM
Nice post and welcome to the forums!

We were all "noobs" once mate, at least you did the right thing and read up.

Far too many "users" here just want answers, finding them for yourself is far more satisfying.

So now you've read up on the Billions of pages and dug your way through the hundreds of forums, when will you be releasing your first Rom?

LoL

Welcome to the forums mate, may you be stuck here forever like the rest us!


Cheers,


Beasty

afn691
31st October 2009, 08:43 PM
Welcome to your Home!!!

That's similar to what I experienced sometimes. But if you read and read and then you ask about something that "is there" and you did not find, I think nobody will throw you to the lions.

Now, enjoy... and help make this site greater !

misfit1306
3rd November 2009, 06:00 AM
I raced to the office today to ignore the growing pile of work on my desk, darted past my idiot boss mumbling something about deadlines or some crap, and sat down to start the day off with a triple espresso and a theme flash straight from the XDA threads. As I waited for my phone to reboot I started feeling the sharp pinch of conviction. All day long people, myself included, run to the elite developers of XDA for endless advice on flashing, features, firmware,roots, roms, and recovery screens and freely download to their hearts content. Then strut around showing everyone there phones as if they were some sort of underworld hackers. But does anyone stop to think about all the endless hours or trial and error, defeat, lines of code, complaints, and everything else that goes into these works of art? Each day I learn a little something more and gain a deeper insight on the hard work that so many put in so that I can carry around my super fast , fully loaded, and ready to tether G1 each day. Allthough I really dont think these folks do what they do for fame or fortune, I still feel like I need to give credit where obvious credit is due. Thanks for the hard work, warm welcomes, and dead on advice I recieve each day here. And the flavor of the day today is an RC29 build, Cyanogen pimped out recovery and his latest update, very nice "Black Ice" theme, and a phone I cant seem to put down. Oh crap...here comes that jack a** boss of mine and my boot loader is stuck in a loop. I gotta start establishing better priorities.......like getting up and closing my office door so I can wipe and reflash this bad boy!!

Laurentius26
3rd November 2009, 10:56 AM
Hihi.. nice writing. :D

Welcome on board. :)

Grtz Leo :)