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Running ROM in Emulator

I have installed the SDK and Eclipse. I have created an AVD and run through the little tutorial. I can start the emulator using the (windows) command line. How do I run a "cooked" ROM in the emulator? If there is a better place to post this question, please let me know. I am particularly interested in the Hero (CDMA, Sprint).

The sdk emulator emulates an older ARMv5. I for one don't think it's very practical for developing custom roms on but it has been done before. I remember hearing a couple people saying they had Sense UI running on it. Cool but kind of pointless if you ask me. Anyways:
http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/emulator.html
has just about all the info you'll need to do it.
Speaking of emulators. I merged zen and emulator to get my name zenulator back when I messed around with console emulators for the ps1 and dreamcast. Before android took over

Zenulator,
Thanks for responding. That's exactly the page I was using. Can I simply replace userdata.img with the boot.img from the ROM? I'm just curious to see what the various ROM's will look and act like. (I do not yet have a smartphone; I've got a stupid one. My wife promised my a new phone when she upgrades hers, and the Hero looks really good to me.)

WarpSpeed said:
Zenulator,
Thanks for responding. That's exactly the page I was using. Can I simply replace userdata.img with the boot.img from the ROM? I'm just curious to see what the various ROM's will look and act like. (I do not yet have a smartphone; I've got a stupid one. My wife promised my a new phone when she upgrades hers, and the Hero looks really good to me.)
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Ah I see. I'd get the evo if your planning on buying a new smart phone.
Also no you cant just swap out parts from the roms postrd in the forums since the emulator runs off a yaffs system image and also it doesn't run a boot.img. It uses a separate kernel and ramdisk.

Zenulator,
Thanks again, particularly for preventing me from wasting my time over an impossible task. One cannot help lusting over the EVO. However, I carry my phone in my pocket, and the EVO might be a bit too big for that. Furthermore, I don't really use a phone all that much, so it's hard to justify the extra expense. I have suggested to my wife that she get one.
Are there any other emulators or virtualization techniques I might use to display a ROM's function on a computer monitor? Do those guys who create the ROMs simply try them out on their own phones, or do they have software which will allow them to first test their creations on the computer? I fiddle with Linux, and have used VMWare under Windows and Linux. Took a stab at Zen once, but didn't have the right hardware.

just an idea.. It wouldnt be hands on but you could youtube the different roms and see what they look like

Furthermore, I don't really use a phone all that much, so it's hard to justify the extra expense.
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Aw man, you would sooo use your phone 300x more if you had a smart phone of any kind, though I'm partial to Android ; ) . I can't remember what i did before my first BB.... Ahhhhh the memories.
Easily justifiable expense. LOL
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I used my phone like 20 minutes total throughout the day when I had a dumbphone.
My Hero gets used and abused hours each day.

You all are preaching to the choir! I want a new phone so bad that I can taste it. I've been scouring the forums, learning as much as I can, and I can hardly wait. The Hero looks just right for me, and I'm really looking forward to using an open file system. It looks like Sprint will be dropping the Hero soon (price is going down) and replacing it with a "Hero 2," apparently essentially the same thing as the htc Legend. We'll see. Anyone heard any other news?

I probably play more on my phone than I text or talk, but don't regret paying $25 more a month than I was with MetroPCS. I can't see myself paying nearly $100 a month just for the Evo as I am on a plan by myself.
This is not completly on topic, but there is the Android OS for computers. You think I could take the kernal and ramdisk, etc from the Hero and swap it out with the ones from the Android OS
http://gadgets.softpedia.com/news/How-To-Run-Google-039-s-Android-OS-On-Your-Windows-PC-3897-01.html

&RoidRage,
Thanks for the link. I followed it out and downloaded the complete iso. I will look inside it and play with it, maybe live, maybe virtualized. It might be fun to see if some components can be swapped out, though I doubt it will work.
Dual processors running at 1.5 GHz seems overkill for a cell phone, but then, that's why we're here.

Hi all
I'm trying to load a ROM into the emulator, how can I do that ?

Kcarpenter said:
Aw man, you would sooo use your phone 300x more if you had a smart phone of any kind, though I'm partial to Android ; ) . I can't remember what i did before my first BB.... Ahhhhh the memories.
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seriously, my dumbphone was on like 20 minutes a day
and my hero is overused easily (especially in class)

how i run roms that dont have the system.img ?

[Q] A Newb to Android

I just ordered my Samsung Captivate and now I am just waiting...
Maybe I could pass the time learning about Android!?
Having only had a little expierience with my Friend's MotoBackflip running Doughnut and my current phone being Winmo 6.5, I wanted to know the best way to learn about Android before I recieve my phone.
What would be the best learning resource?
I have a feeling I am going to want to Root the phone which I don't completely know what that means but if it gets rid of the the Bloatware then I am just fine with it.
HTC has spoiled me so I have a feeling I am going to want to get rid of TouchWiz too but we'll see.
I have like a thousand questions but I am a pretty capable person so just point me in the right direction if you can!

as far as rooting i think you could take a look at the android dev forum , theres some info there about rooting and different roms available I believe

Don't use a task killer.
They are not needed. And there is no reason not to root. And it is pretty much risk free.
Sent from my iPhone with the bigger Gee Bees.

notasimpleway said:
Don't use a task killer.
They are not needed. And there is no reason not to root. And it is pretty much risk free.
Sent from my iPhone with the bigger Gee Bees.
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Weird, I thought a task killer would be essential. I've always wondered where those little programs go if you don't close them lol

Shival said:
Having only had a little expierience with my Friend's MotoBackflip running Doughnut and my current phone being Winmo 6.5
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Hmm, I'm in a bit of a similar situation (though I've owned an iPhone in-between owning WinMo and then Android).
First off, the best way to learn is to see whether devs had ported Android to your WinMo phone or not. If they did, use that to learn. If not, try reading an Android guidebook (e.g. T-Mobile G1 for Dummies) or simply using an available Android emulator. There's one at: http://tmobile.modeaondemand.com/htc/g1/
Lastly, there's a bit of a difference between Android's root and WinMo's HardSPL. The only purpose of HardSPL is basically to change ROMs...because WinMo pretty much allows you to do anything else you want. Android's rooting, on the other hand, doesn't just allow you to install ROMs, but it allows you to use a variety of programs which requires your phone to be rooted (e.g. ROM Manager), install certain tweaks, and so on.
As an analogy, Android's root is probably closer to iOS' jailbreaking than it is to WinMo's HardSPL. As with the iPhone's jailbreaking, rooting allows you access to a larger variety of apps, tweaks to change how your phone performs, and so on.
If you have any other questions, then basically the right direction to point you in is the Android phone forums around here. Read the questions others asked, see the answers, and learn. That's how I did it.

Shival said:
Weird, I thought a task killer would be essential. I've always wondered where those little programs go if you don't close them lol
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Android is built on Linux. Linux does not handle resources the way Windows does. Basically, it closes programs when it is done on its own.
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Your def in the right place. This is my first android phone and from what I understand the captivate is one of thee r easier phones to do anything with. I've flashed this thing a bunch of times already and there hasn't ben any custom roms released for it yet. Check out the stickies in the dev forum. Everything is there. And there s no way to get rid of touch whiz yet. Launcher pro is pretty awesome though. Its free on the market
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Is LauncherPro basically another UI?
When I goto root my device, which or what is going to be the best way?
Should I do the Onclick root program thing? or is there an even better way?
This is sounding like it is going to be just as much fun as the first time I Flashed my HD =]
[Edit]
I just noticed the Re-done Captivate guide so that looks like its gonna solve a bunch of my questions! Sorry that I didn't notice it before I posted.
Thank-you everyone that posted!
-Further Questions
Am I going to want to root the phone as soon as I get it?
Would it be best to use the phone with my Ubuntu partition?
I have a feeling I am going to want launcherpro, should I cash out and get LauncherPro Plus?

How did you get into hacking?

this is just basically just to see if you can remember how you got into the hacking world, and it'd be nice to know the device that started you off too! =)
well i got into this with my first smartphone, the tmobile shadow. i was perfectally fine with they way it was untill my sister told me about a website (allshadow.com and xda ) where i could do alot with it! so i checked it out, and with due time i enjoyed it, and eventually grew out of it and moved on with the touch pro 2 and actually started using XDA from then out

Sony PSP custom firmware scene, then got HTC Kaiser, then Touch Pro 2, now HD2. Before the psp stuff, I was modding my XP comp and my guitar, amps, and effect pedals.
Gotten kinda bored with it all lately tho, used to be that if it had current passing thru it, I found a way to make it run linux. I haven't gotten on a pc in 2 months and dont even miss it. My phone is all the more internet I need or have time for anymore, and it's as modded/hacked as its gonna get.
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I got into hacking phones when I got my moto V710 (on verizon) and I realized they had disabled side loading .mp3 ringtones. Every knows the class action lawsuit they had because they advertised that as a feature. I started seem editing then flashing different firmwares and it all snowballed into full on modding whatever I can get my hands on.

I started with a ipod touch 2g and jailbroke it. Then got the 3g then 4g... Then I got this... knew about root because I dual boot linux windows, I thought if this was linux it was rootable, started there
Sent from my captivate running firefly!

ryanmahan said:
I started with a ipod touch 2g and jailbroke it. Then got the 3g then 4g... Then I got this... knew about root because I dual boot linux windows, I thought if this was linux it was rootable, started there
Sent from my captivate running firefly!
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+1 Dis. I got in basically the same way. I jailbroke the 2G, got Android Froyo running on it (iDroid project) and JB'd the 3GS.
Now I have an Atrix Rooted and with gingerblur.
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well i didnt start till i got my captivate when it came out found XDA and boom from there have been an addict

Oh man, I forgot about seem editing, I was doing that back on the Moto Razr lol. Getting the party lights goin and making themes was big stuff back then. Jeez that seems so long ago now lol
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I actually started with my Nintendo DS, then I moved to my Touch Pro 2 with dual booting and loading multiple roms
Now I have my Nexus S baby that I take care of better than my vital organs haha Those can be replaced...
-I wrangled together some consonants and vowels and created this post-

If it counts it was an aspire one and modding my linux install to suit my needs, otherwise my mini pro
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I started by making themes for my Nokia 5300, then I got a used G1 that I didn't care if I bricked... (but now I'm my entire families phone/IT consultant....)
Sent from either my Nexus S, N1 or telepathically using two tin cans and some string.

Now I have my Nexus S baby that I take care of better than my vital organs haha Those can be replaced...
-I wrangled together some consonants and vowels and created this post-[/QUOTE]
+1
Ha ha me too!
Sent from either my Nexus S, N1 or telepathically using two tin cans and some string.

I got bored... So I googled things to do with a HTC Hero.... Found theunlockr then got pointed to xda.... Found out someone had stolen my username but I tried the username with my normal password and it worked

My first smartphone was the vogue and i enjoyed it how it was and knew about xda very little and found a way to stream radio and xm radio on here and havent visited it since 2008.
i then got a tp2 and actually was fine with it until i heard about wm 6.5 was out on custom clean roms so i finally got up the courage and time to read on how to unlock and flash roms.
i was addictted to mighty roms over at ppcgeeks and loved the taskbar mods and all the fun stuff such as getting rid of crapware that sprint put on it and made it better and had 6.5.5 a few months later and enjoyed it til i heard the first fast android phone with keyboard came to sprint and had all the hardware specs on it : The Epic 4g, unlock htc phones it didnt leave any feutures out of it and im loving it 7 months later.
i read up on rooting and rooted and started flashing roms and mods and been even more happy, this phone can do it all.
I also have a jailbroken ipod touch,
So it all started with my tp2 getting irritating waiting for sprint to deliver an update to 6.5 and the ugly colors on the interface of sense

It started with my old and grey (it's actually black) HTC Touch back in 2006 and a part of me just can't be satisfied with a stock product. No can do babydoll, no can dosville.

well i had a piece of crap sidekick lx and my cousin had a g1 rooted and i saw the true possibility of a phone so i bought a white g1 and he helped me hack it and get started now im rocking a mytouch 4g with CM7

haha, some great stories so far!
its funny how seeing little things go a long way to opening doors for you to do more!
also cause of my TP2 i ended up getting 3 friends get a TP2 cause they were blown by the awesomeness that it is! lol

Started with my linux based moto ROKR E8. What a pos that phone was, but i loved it. I made it do anything my friends iphone could do, basicly turning it into a monster that used wayyy to much power. Then i got a motorola defy. Flashed some of Higgsy and HandlerExploits roms. That wasnt enough for me though. I tried updating to 2.2 and kept getting stat. 7 error. Then i ended up here. Htc droid incredible, stock rooted. Not really feelin anything in the dev section over there. Maybe ruby if we dont get a 2.3 update soon. But ya, im still learning.
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Well, I first started off by hacking with psp custom firmware then I moved onto game hacking such as COD/Battlefield. As soon as I got my X8 I went to the internet to find out how to get Android 2.2 on it, google lead me here now I have a Xperia Play and HTC Desire S but my only interest is to hack my X8.

I started hacking when I was like 6 and I hacked AOL for free internet then I moved on to learning some C++ at 11 and then I started hacking my Motorola Q. Started Android with the Nexus One after seeing how open Android was (ex-iPhone user)

I started patching with Siemens Mobile in year 2005, next Sony Ericsson K750i, Nokia and now SGS.

ROM Building

THIS IS GROUND ZERO for me. LG released a phone with one of the best hardware setups i have seen on any phone, especially with the dual ram dual channel memory. those 2 things coupled with the dual core processor, make this phone incredibly smooth. i am currently running Thriller on it, and though the Dev for said rom bailed out on us, i still have hope that this phone will continue to improve, and those of us who see the true potential of this device, will continue to have faith, and work with each other to make improvements.
personally, i'm wanting to start development using the ICS SDK and hopefully port a great version of the software onto this phone. i know it's ambitious, and i know it would take a long time, BUT, this is something that i want to do, to learn the skills of rom building, and possibly make a career out of it (i dunno, get on at Google as a Dev there or something?)
i know that to port ICS onto this device, i'm going to have to write drivers for the rom from scratch, and as i have no prior knowledge of how to do that, it may take a while, but seeing as it all runs of the same base kernal as Linux, as well as MacOS X, those who actually do have knowledge of how to do this, could be a great help. if anyone is interested in helping me in this journey, PM me. "There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" well, i say WHY NOT?!?! if there's a will, there's a way, right? who knows, maybe we'll get ICS ported before LG even announces that they're gonna be upgrading to it (newer-as of 2011 dunno exactly when-google polocies state that any phone launched with an android OS are required to update to the newest OS within 18 months of launch)? now wouldn't that be a smack in the face to LG? a bunch of unpatient people who were unwilling to wait for their bloody port to a new version of software, banding to gether to make it happen before they can. PM me if you're with me. i'll give personal, private contact information to anyone who sounds at least as serious as i do about this.- IrishPunk
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Use the search function on how to build roms and yeah we do have plenty of devs in here.

Agreed, when I saw gtg was gone it was like a balloon deflated. DG is gone too. We may never get fully functional CWM, and doubtful the O3D ROMs will port fully.
Guess its good I still have a few days to swap for the SGS II.
I guess I will have to take my humble pie as I do. I never thought I would take the Thrill back, I chose the Thrill knowing the SGS II was right there. But, I don't want to kick myself in a month when that window is done, and the used price of the Thrill has already tanked.
Sent from my LG Thrill Faux G

I'm past my return window, and it just sucks that this phone is a month old, and everyone is losing hope and returning it. I'll just stick it out with my multiple batteries and learn to work on it.
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Everyone is bailing too early. I mean this Will get GB it's just a matter of time and patience which seems to be lacking with a Lot of people who bought this phone. Regardless though I assume building a Rom will be easier once GB get's rolled out although I could be wrong.

Patience will pay off in the end. If for nothing else, than to fix the battery life which seems to be what's running everyone off. I had the horrible Dell Streak when we waited for like a year for Froyo. If I can do that, I can wait on GB.
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yup yup
I learned alot about this stuff messing with my inspire.. when i heard about the thrill coming out i was like "finally theres something like the evo 3d for att" it was a no brainer when my upgrade came a few days ago.
I did tell myself that i would give the phone a week to wow me.. or id be exchanging it for a SGS2.. however.. every day i read these forums, and the O3D forums and im constantly being amazed.. ive found an excelent rom and have almost worked out all the mms, 4g issues from using a O3D rom..
everyday im just a little closer to friday and the trade back.. but every day im amazed just a little more.. id love to learn the rom building process but i frankly do not have time.. every dev. ive ever dealt with has been more than courteous as long as i did make an attempt to look into the issue on my own first.. im excitedly awating CM7 for this phone and its almost there.. all i need now is an OC kernel to crank up this 1ghz dual core and ive got my daily user for the next 2 years..
I eagerly log in each day looking for what new tidbit is up and running.. i love being on the ground floor when everyone is bailing... the same happened for a couple of weeks with the inspire if you remember.. it was a pain to root.. but those that stuck in there found the wait to be worth it.. the same will happen with the Thrill.. im sure of it..
just hang in there guys and thank you to all the devs that are more knowledgeable than me. your work IS greatly appreciated.. your all my heroes..
Thanks again.. I think im in it for the long haul with the Thrill..

I started out using ROMs on the Streak, but have never tried to build one until now. Have you ever tried searching the forums for Android ROM building? Yeah good luck with that. I've even tried just googling Android froyo ROM creation, most of what comes up is for HTC.
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im not giving up on this phone.. its one of the best so far.. its so much fun having it .. lets just hope for a better tomorrow .. with roms all over ... like the good old days with the tilts

moe87 said:
im not giving up on this phone.. its one of the best so far.. its so much fun having it .. lets just hope for a better tomorrow .. with roms all over ... like the good old days with the tilts
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Oh wow haha I guess it started way before my Streak. I forgot all about my tilt 2 that I put all sorts of roms on.
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well..
if were gonna go back..
the hardest thing i ever did was put "3d" custom flash menus on my SonyEricsson W810i...
among.. other stuff..
but i believe the SEw819i was when i got the modding bug.. lol

Right now my concentration is on modding my Thrill and these original Xboxes that were just given to me Woot! Lol
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AzraelsVoice said:
I'm past my return window, and it just sucks that this phone is a month old, and everyone is losing hope and returning it. I'll just stick it out with my multiple batteries and learn to work on it.
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well how about you ask gtg465x for his kitchen, he's left the thrill, so he might be willing to help

If you do find the needed tools plz let me know. I'd love to try my hand at helping to develop for the thrill. I work for att and all my coworkers have ditched the thrill for the sg2 but I like the thrill way too much to leave it.
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Aah a fellow co-worker! Glad another AT&T employee is keeping it real with the thrill lol. I am always searching but don't come up with any results on LG Android Rom creation. Then if you ask in a post all you're gonna get is a smartass telling you to search for it. I'll find it one day!
Of course I've already got adb and the android sdk, I just need to know what I need to go with it.

Well you will need linux but here on the forums you can find something called Android Utility. Pretty much comes with everything you need to make roms, edit apks even some boot.img tools. For windows i have no clue, I do everything in linux. Good luck.

Aah once again Linux and I come face to face. I suppose it's time to bite the bullet.
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AzraelsVoice said:
Aah once again Linux and I come face to face. I suppose it's time to bite the bullet.
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Linux can be fun. I would suggest Ubuntu, also a lot of people run Linux in a virtual machine inside windows. If you have any questions feel free to pm me. I enjoy playing with Linux.
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Awesome, thanks. Gonna start downloading.
Reason# 1,000,001 Android is better than the iPhone. I can download Ubuntu our whatever else I want with my phone while at work.
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Dude, loving some Ubuntu! Where has this been all my life? I have the Android utility downloaded, but will have to wait for tomorrow because I have to download Java. Always something lol
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What brought you to xda?

Mod Edit: Moved to Off Topic
Yay another crazy thread from Shadow_Android!
So how the title says what brought you to xda?
I'll start!
So one day while i was using my xperia mini pro it got really slow and hot i got mad and the phone suddenly rebooted
From that day and on it would happen like 3 times a day, it got really frustrated
At that time i didn't know about root and custom roms
After a few weeks i went to a party a my grandma's house, my cousin that know a lot about hacking asked me if i had my phone rooted and i was like "what the hell is that?" so we went upstairs to his room where he had his laptop and everything else
After a few minutes he got my phone rooted and he told me all the cool things i could do with it
the same day at my house i started looking for apps that needed root i came across some really cool apps with cool features like being able to change the font of the phone and the bootanimation and to be able to eliminate all the bloatware
I was really happy with my rooted xperia mini pro but the reboot problem was still there
my cousin had also told me about roms and all that crap but at that time i didnt pay much attention so in my search for making my phone faster i came across this site
I was really amazed of all the new features the custom roms had so i decided to try them out!
From there and on it was all about flashing roms and staying updated in the rom i used which was cyanocomb (really good rom)
After flashing my first rom i made an account so i could post my opinions and suggestions about the roms
After 7 months of using my xperia mini pro i sold it and bought a brand new g2 unlocked
That was my story know its your turn!

I started off on ppcgeeks forums back in the winmo days, cooking roms etc. I then made my way to xdandroid, then finally purchased a sony x10, joined xda in hopes of rooting it, sold the x10 and bought a stock DZ after reading I could sim unlock it myself! Haven't looked back since. Love xda, and love the development that goes on.
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Bought my G2 because at the time it was the best phone and had a keyboard. Knew about root and all that with my computer tech background but needed a reliable forum to get answers to harder questions. read for a few weeks actually before I joined and posted and tried helping ever since

For me it started with my first smartphone, the Sony Ericsson X2 (looks very nice, but the software... oh god) anyways, yeah just searched random stuff on Google on how to improve it, because this phone was terribly slow and had so many problems and one of the links just brought me XDA,

For me it was being on a G1 and wondering how to tweak it. A google search led me to a youtube video about Super D rom and within that video was a link to XDA. Ah the memories.
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I came here for the first time trying to put Android on my old T-Mobile Wing. Now that I have an Android phone, I come here all the time.

I originally bought a G1 and was fine with it for a while. At the time I wasn't very tech savvy, although I had built a computer, and had no idea you can mod it. I started reading Android blogs and started seeing these posts about rooting the G1 and doing all sorrts of mods on it. I soon found out my soon-to-be-brother-in-law, who was way more savvy, had a G1and had rooted his phone. So I asked him to root mine and he installed CM3.x, which was Cupcake based and was done by cyanogen himself as this was before the CM explosion, and showed me the XDA thread. From then I was hooked.
Edit: @G1ForFun, I remember using SuperD! That was a badass ROM with the memory hack!
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For me it was simply to see what i could do with my G1, tweaks and all that good stuff, I simply love to hack my phones, I dont post much i mostly read because my questions are always answered before i even ask .. this place is awesome man.. now I have G2 and im learning "ADB" and its a breeze.. these Devs are amazing and the community is so helpful.. My home away from home

Like some of the others I got a G1 and then found out that XDA was the place where everyone was tweaking it. Started with android 1.0 and enjoyed the build up to cupcake etc. First onscreen keyboard. Getting the video camera to work. Getting first multi-touch. Then getting Sense on the G1. I was addicted. Now with the Vision the scene is so fragmented with so many different android models. But I still try to keep up with what is happening. Can't wait for the attempt to get ICS on our handsets.
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I had a Tmobile Dash (HTC Excalibur) and WinMo5.0 was killing me. Google brought me here.
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I came here when I first had my now retired HTC Hero (GSM version) and was looking to get some extra performance out of it. As I am still doing now with my DZ, that meant installing some Sense-free ROM.

I first came to xda after trying to find some programs for my HTC diamond, and from when i came to the site i found all the customroms i could get. I had my HTC diamond for 2 years (still running android). But last year i found out that i needed a Android phone, with a physical keyboard. So i got the Desire Z, and its the best phone i've ever had.

First time login to xda bcoz i want to root my DZ. Got all the information & successfully root my DZ.
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I first came to xda when Cupcake was leaked (maybe ported from mytouch?) for the G1.
I actually rooted my phone solely for the virtual keyboard and the multitouch hack way back when you had to telnet into your phone to root. "wtf is telnet?!" I ended up figuring it out, and the Android community is now one of the best communities that I've ever been a part of.
The G1 days were awesome btw, when we had everyone working on a single device.. JesusFreke, Cyanogen, TheDude, haykuro, etc.

Wanting to know more about android and what I could do with it
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To learn more about android
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After having my G1 for a couple of months, I discovered xda by the search terms: hacking Android. I read up on rooting, appplying themes and installing custom ROMs for my G1. I learned a lot here at xda. Rooting an android phone makes everything so much better. I have always been a fan of getting more bang out of technology.
T-Mobile G2 | meXdroidMod GC AIO

First Android phone was the HTC Hero and I came here to get some optimized ROMs for it so it would run smoother. I've been here ever since, currently have a DZ, looking to upgrade soon again.

well, i remember that i googled a thing that day, i forget what the thing is, and MR. Google brought me here, then i found there are so many modules here and people seems to know a lot, LOL So come to Xda every day has become a part of my life

I was trying to root my DZ with some finnish instructions.
They weren't complete, so i needed to search for help