[ROM] [22.07.2011] DarkyROM v10.2 ★ JVQ ★ What are you waiting for?

[Mumin]

This is the full story - the problem is, my crew didn't want to hear what I wanted to tell them.

I wanted to fusion DarkyROM with Android Swiss and nothing would have changed (for the worse) for the community itself. It would have grown bigger. Things would have been more professional. The server move / domain transfer was needed in my eyes as the hosting on Hristo's (ficeto's) server wasn't really realiable (always downtimes, many occurencies of slow loading times etc.). We would have moved it to a server in Switzerland (that's on www.cyon.ch if you're interested), so users have more stability.

About the fusion / administrative change:
The club Android Swiss has been founded by 2 young men (like me) and we share our interests (to make Android more popular). There are almost the same amount of people active, like on DarkyROM.
I didn't want to take care of all the administrative work (yes, dear Hristo, Robbie and Tom: there's administrative work with a community around 40'000 users). It doesn't stop with only making ROMs…
I wanted to come back making ROMs after my apprenticeship.

I forgot to say: Android Swiss is not a company or a commercial club / association.
Their goal is to have fun with Android and share this.
They wanted to make Android more popular (because here in Switzerland, everyone has an iPhone).

We wanted to take DarkyROM further and revive it (again). Here's why it has to be "revived":

Yes, the user registrations rised up (but not fast), but looking at Google Analytics, you could see that since (almost) 1 year, the monthly visitors went down from over 500'000 to less than 30'000…
And it was going down every day.

The DarkyROM Crew made some ROMs, yes.
But it wasn't the same spirit like it was in the original SGS 1 times.
Not much of those "full ROMs" appeared.

And speaking of "hard work" (this is for you, Hristo): Hristo (ficeto) clicks his script, puts in the firmware and a new base ROM has been created automatically. So much to speak of "hard work". Making a full ROM (like comnam90, Robbie and me) takes a lot of time, because you do everything by hand (every small png and line of text).


What makes me very angry is that this is still my project (I'm the original author and a project doesn't automatically change his ownership when the original author takes a few steps back) and I trusted Hristo (ficeto) when I gave DarkyROM to his server (which he got donated by the whole DarkyROM community >> $ 3000).
I do appreciate what my crew has done for DarkyROM. But I still have the right to decide what's gonna happen (administratively). For the crew and the members, nothing would have changed (for the bad).
No one would have told my crew what to do in the future.

It's true, I haven't been doing ROMs for over half a year (But I've done a ROM for the SGS II and helped with the SGS 1 (v10.4.x) not long ago). But those people don't understand that I'm very limited in my 4th year of education.
I don't just have to go to school. I also work (makes a total of 100%) when I'm not in school and have to prepare for a lot of exams all the time. And I think I have the right to stop development temporarily until I'm finished with my apprenticeship.

Oh, and I forgot to say: Yes, of course I became something for the fusion!
I became a Samsung Galaxy S III (when it launches) to make a comeback ROM.

I'm sad / upset that my old crew now takes the whole user base / database and creates a new community with their new name. This is what Hristo wrote to my girlfriend Gabriela.
That is theft in my eyes! It's just not fair.

And let's be honest: if you would build your own company / project, you also would rather have your data with you than giving it to someone you've never seen in real life. You just feel more safe if something happens (death, accident or whatever).

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My proposal: I'm also not perfect. Maybe I should have informed my crew before this has been formed.
But it would have ended in the same way as it has now: they would have just banned me because Hristo has the server (the power) to control everything and they wouldn't listen to me.

I think my crew should have just said: "Okay, Joël, we don't want to work with you anymore. We are going to take our ROMs with us (those that Robbie and Hristo made alone) and create our own community". That's what would have been fair. If they believe in what they do, they would have no problem to build up the community what I've achieved / founded.

Last but not least, I want to say that I never wanted such a "war".
We (and Android Swiss) want peace, not war. With the support of the users and Hristo giving me my domain back, I'll rebuild DarkyROM together with Android Swiss.


Peace!

Joël Staub
- Darky.

joel its mumin from DarkyROM (Alliance ROM)
I read the chat you had with the other devs, and yes they are angry that you didnt inform them of the fusion before you did it. and yes you are angry that your project has been taken over. but you gf has posted a few thing and yes i agree, i dont think you did it to sell our data. it will be nice to see you part of the "Alliance".
i wish the best for you and your girl.
i hope we will see you again sometime around the "new" forum
take care

 

[bambam1978]

Hi Darkyy. I believe you did what you did with the best of intentions but can you please do me and everybody else from the community a giant favor, please answer the question yes or no did you sell our user data? I believe and correct me if i'm wrong that your intentions were pure but unfortunately I have to agree with the crew that you should have talked to them about it first. Now saying that I also believe that it was yours to begin with so it is still yours. On a side note your ROM was the very first to make it to my sgs i9000 and was on it for almost a year.(by far the longest a ROM has stayed on this phone) I wish you luck in school as it is very important and hope at some point you can have a sit down with the old crew and hash things out. Best of luck on your exams and your future.
P.S. Please answer the question.

 

[Chris_84]

Hi Darkyy. I believe you did what you did with the best of intentions but can you please do me and everybody else from the community a giant favor, please answer the question yes or no did you sell our user data? I believe and correct me if i'm wrong that your intentions were pure but unfortunately I have to agree with the crew that you should have talked to them about it first. Now saying that I also believe that it was yours to begin with so it is still yours. On a side note your ROM was the very first to make it to my sgs i9000 and was on it for almost a year.(by far the longest a ROM has stayed on this phone) I wish you luck in school as it is very important and hope at some point you can have a sit down with the old crew and hash things out. Best of luck on your exams and your future.
P.S. Please answer the question.

+1 Your rom was the first one on my sgs and you know the first time you never forget. Hope to see you soon again with a new rom. Maybe on s3 That would be great.

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[marcelogabriel]

The world is full of bad and envious people. Unfortunatelly, good people always are victims of them. We know that Darky's Rom will continue filling our phones with full life and as an example of selfless work.

 

[Abyv]

Hi Darky...I haven't used ur rom but I think ur too talented for someone else to stop. Wat happened isn't good but take this as a cause and march forward. I wish you a great time ahead and will surely join you wen u come out on S3

All the best
Phil

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[Neobomb]

DarkyRom Lives forever

 

[spirosbakos]

Put some rom man.cant wait

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[squirtsy]

Just curious but is there anywhere i can download the latest Darky ROM? Ive been unsuccessful in trying to find a rom as good as darkys

 

[bambam1978]

Just curious but is there anywhere i can download the latest Darky ROM? Ive been unsuccessful in trying to find a rom as good as darkys

Well you can visit Darkyy's site at www2.darkyrom.com or you can visit http://www.uni-rom.com/community/threads/cwm-i9000-i897-uni-rom-jw4-base.7611/ for the newest jw4 rom created by the developers who recently split from darkyy for creative differences.

good luck flashing

 

[squirtsy]

Yeah i couldnt get onto darky's site thats why i was having trouble.
Cheers mate

 

[jcbalunsat]

I hope joel would make an ics rom for the i9000. He has stringent rules in rom creation thats why i love his roms. I also hope that they work things out.

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[dark_knight35]

Now they finally took over and founded their new team 'alliance'. But they won't have success. This ROM was best in good old Galaxy S times, and I hope you will be successful on Galaxy SIII again, don't care about these idiots.

 

[Goldie]

Now they finally took over and founded their new team 'alliance'. But they won't have success. This ROM was best in good old Galaxy S times, and I hope you will be successful on Galaxy SIII again, don't care about these idiots.

Hahahaha....joker....you've got no clue. Stop dragging this out pleeeeease :yawn:

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[dark_knight35]

Hahahaha....joker....you've got no clue. Stop dragging this out pleeeeease :yawn:

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Can I help you somehow?

Darky ROM had it's best time on Galaxy S, and darky's crew couldn't achieve what darky himself achieved by far. And now they stole what he started.

 

[Goldie]

Darky ROM had it's best time on Galaxy S, and darky's crew couldn't achieve what darky himself achieved by far. And now they stole what he started.

By "they" you are referring to me and my buddies. This has no place on xda so please stop interfering in something you know little if anything about.

Thanks

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[Mumin]

Can I help you somehow?

Darky ROM had it's best time on Galaxy S, and darky's crew couldn't achieve what darky himself achieved by far. And now they stole what he started.

It isn't stolen, I am a mod there and I can tell you, darkyroms server was handed over to ficeto, but Joel was still admin, as was ficeto. So theoretically ficeto and the crew have as much right over darkyrom as Joel does. But no this doesn't matter as darkyrom (joels rom) and alliance rom (fiecto and crew) will split soon.
Now I think everyone should go back to the topic this thread was made for

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[vineet_d]

Please help...

I am on DarkyROM JVH v10.1 and want to go back to stock. Please help me on how to do it. Thanks

 

[Kees-Jan]

I am on DarkyROM JVH v10.1 and want to go back to stock. Please help me on how to do it. Thanks

You have to download a stock ROM (see http://www.sammobile.com/ ) and use ODIN to put that ROM on your phone.

on http://www.sammobile.com/ you can find the correct ODIN and how to use it.

 

[Kaantjee]

I've used Darky rom for almost 2 weeks because of the Multi-view/multi tasking, but i realy dont like the speed of the rom.
It is very slow, apps are slow, the launcher is slow, the menu is slow. I have not much apps on it, got it overclocked to 1,7GHz and use the Siyah kernel..

Nope, untill the rom is made faster I am going back to Jellybam, i've flashed it on so many phones. And going back to it.
I love the multi view, but not the rom.

 

[csapdani]

I spent about two hours trying to revert back to Gingerbread after finally getting too tired of the instability and the many other problems of all the ICS/JB ROMs for the i9000. I didn't like any of their interfaces either. Finally got this ROM to install (with the Resurrection ROM) and boy was I happy! It looks so nice, works perfectly, doesn't lag, I love it. Just wanted to post this here in case the dev checks this thread: Thank you!