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Post-root donations

Hi all,
I've received a large number of requests from people looking to donate money to me in thanks for rooting the Droid 3. I appreciate this community's eagerness to reward the effort I put into this research, but I've already gotten the phone I asked for and I think there are better uses for your money besides throwing cash at me.
I encourage everyone who wishes to donate to me to instead give your money to a reputable charity organization. Those with U.S. credit cards can donate online to the American Red Cross, which performs charity work across the world and allows you to specify what you'd like your contribution to go towards:
https://american.redcross.org/site/...eGiving&pagename=ntld_main&s_src=RSG000000000
Feel free to post details of any donations in this thread. Enjoy the rooted phones!
Regards,
Dan

This is such a respectable thing for you to do. Thanks so much for giving to the community and we all appreciate all you've done.
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Really respectable! I appreciate you Djrbliss! Thank you.
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That's very cool of you to do. Thanks for all your hard work and generosity!
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djrbliss, thats awesome dude

Quite generous of you. Thanks for root, donation to Red Cross processed...

Thank you
djrbliss said:
Hi all,
I've received a large number of requests from people looking to donate money to me in thanks for rooting the Droid 3. I appreciate this community's eagerness to reward the effort I put into this research, but I've already gotten the phone I asked for and I think there are better uses for your money besides throwing cash at me.
I encourage everyone who wishes to donate to me to instead give your money to a reputable charity organization. Those with U.S. credit cards can donate online to the American Red Cross, which performs charity work across the world and allows you to specify what you'd like your contribution to go towards:
https://american.redcross.org/site/...eGiving&pagename=ntld_main&s_src=RSG000000000
Feel free to post details of any donations in this thread. Enjoy the rooted phones!
Regards,
Dan
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I just completed rooting my droid x using your exploit, with some help from those that packaged it into a very user friendly modl I always pay my dues and came to donate and am very touched by your post. Be assured that I will send a donation to a group that can use it well. Thank you for your kindness and for showing the modding community in its best lights!!

Thanks for helping me with my droid X I really appreciate your help. i was going to send you donation but i see that you liked us to send it to a charity I donated to the red cross... hope you enjoy your new phone .. Thanks again ..Hi From El Salvador

Long time lurker first time posting. djrbliss, you're amazing and generous... selfless! Another donation is heading to the Red Cross on your behalf. Thank you!

[XDA-Donation]Give a penny, not like you will use it in the store

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8. Donations.
We appreciate all donations to xda-developers.com, it keeps our forum online and well maintained. As a user you're allowed to ask for donations in your signature as a thank you for your hard work. However donations up front are not allowed, this forum is about sharing, not about getting paid to do something, that's what your job is for.
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OK, so I made a donate button, hopefully the mods approve (it is for a good cause). Input your donation amount [for now, we are doing pennies, maybe we might increase it a little later on(now that I think about it, if 100 members donate 0.01, that's only $1.00 lol w/e)]. We'll see how this works. I'll try to list the people that donated, for (Sugar Honey Ice Tea)'s and giggles. (The forum needs to be family friendly.)
No donate button. I don't know when my bank statement will come in.
Just go to your account and send the penny as a gift. No charges and I don't need to verify.
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P.S. Add a note with your XDA username, so I know who you are.
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You all know that idea, and you always thought about it. I was thinking about it as well. Now with internet it is much easier to do. Would like to know if it would be ok with the mods/admin to start a donation account where members would donate a penny (or whatever the lowest donation amount is), and then me wee how much is collected in a given amount of time...and then of course donate all of it to XDA to pay for server space, etc. What do ya'll think?​
CURRENT BALANCE:
$4.15
DONATED LIST
Jaszek ($0.01)
DirkGently (£1=$1.52 Thanks)
Archer (£0.01=$0.01 Thanks)
BazookaAce (€2.00=$2.61 Thanks)

I'll donate for teh lulz
even if was just for you xD
Max. (From my Galaxy 2)

I'm in

4 million members..perhaps 100 Thousand of them active..
£1000.00 in pennies..
Not a vast sum but could probably feed a few third-world families for a year. Let's do it!

Oooor, lets bump it up to $1.

Well you guys can chose. I guess I would need a mods permission to do this first.
If we bump it up to $1, I take 25% for coming up with the idea .

I remember a website where you can give money to raise a bar to reach the top, but I forgot what its called. Anyone know?

In for a Penny, in for a pound!
Happy Xmas.

jaszek said:
I remember a website where you can give money to raise a bar to reach the top, but I forgot what its called. Anyone know?
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Kickstarter?

I'm tempted to give you two pennies!

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Kickstarter?
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That was it, but it's too late now. lol

servase said:
I'm tempted to give you two pennies!
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Do it. lol

Have another penny

Just a suggestion, if you will actually donate the $$ to xda, shouldn't you change the thread title?
Definitely NOT being sent from my HTC Amaze4G until Christmas Day.....

Babydoll25 said:
Just a suggestion, if you will actually donate the $$ to xda, shouldn't you change the thread title?
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Only people who pay pennies get to decide that
What she said.

Yo Jay-Z, you've received 2 euros from the almighty bazooka

May i suggest the first $5.00 raised goes to Jaszek, to buy him a Christmas Four-Pack from all of us?
The rest to go to xda/charity...?

Hahah, fine by me!

Babydoll25 said:
Just a suggestion, if you will actually donate the $$ to xda, shouldn't you change the thread title?
Definitely NOT being sent from my HTC Amaze4G until Christmas Day.....
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I'll do that
DirkGently said:
May i suggest the first $5.00 raised goes to Jaszek, to buy him a Christmas Four-Pack from all of us?
The rest to go to xda/charity...?
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I am pretty broke right now. lol. Well for now I'll let it run until lets say Dec. 31st, and we'll see what the final balance is. Then I might steal from it. lol
And thanks everyone for donating so far (especially the people who killed the point of donating a penny and donated more [and also its only Europeans donating now, americans show them you arent cheap ])

Sorry! I'll be MUCH cheaper next time!

The Story of Steve (aka the DJ_Steve needs Donations thread)

Here is our little sob story.
DJ_Steve is a well known developer for not just the Streak 7, but also the Toshiba Thrive and Streak 5. About 7 months ago, he asked me to join up with him in development of ICS for the Dell Streak 7. Naturally I accepted to learn from a great dev.
In the past 4 months Steve has gone dark . After talking with him, it turns out he is having financial problems. He has been working double shifts at his job, left his apartment and moved in with his girlfriend, sold his Subaru, sold several tablets, computers, and other personal belongings in an attempt to get himself on the right track. Things are improving in his life, but he needs help with one other bill.
The server.
The server is a Core-i7 with 16GB of RAM with SSD drives. It lets us build a complete version of Android 4.0.3 in 40 minutes. It has all the things we need to build for all three devices plus experiment on other things, like kernel development and new devices that could lead to better things for our devices.
Current cost is $59.95 USD a month to pay for this server. We are looking for help paying for this. At the bottom of this thread will be two different donation links.
One is his USD/GB donation if you want to donate in small or big portions.
The other link is to pay a month of the bill itself, directly to the host of the server.
I am not asking anything I wouldn't do myself, as I will be paying for a month of the server myself.
I am asking for at least 6 months worth of donations (5 after I pay for a month), so a total of $300 is needed. This should be enough to get him through a tough time without the worry of another bill to stress about.
With the help from this, we can get Steve back on track and get him back to developing.
Pay for the Server directly: (removed because its a one-time only link)
Give donations to Steve:
GBP Donate | USD Donate

And Steve wants to add this:
"thanks folks now you know the reason i been so quiet lately i havent had the time to do anything due to this , if anyone did pay via the direct payment server link let me know the paypal transaction id(s) and i can pass the info to my server company to make sure it get credited correctly "

How is this going so far? Any response?
Regards,
Hans

We had one user on TabletRoms.com say he paid for a month of service, so its a great start

Since the sever donate link is gone, I just sent $60(6NG74443LG717281V) directly to Steve. Hope this helps out.

Made a donation. Best of luck Steve.
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Donated $60 to Steve.

Thank you so much, guys, I know Steve really appreciates it.

Will donate as soon as I have some more funds myself. Currently balancing a bunch of bills and rent that all came in at the same time this month.
Will donate once I have the money for sure though.

I put in 60 bones, since I couldn't find the "pay for server" option. Steve good luck dude, can't wait to see what you guys come out with next!

siobhter said:
I put in 60 bones, since I couldn't find the "pay for server" option. Steve good luck dude, can't wait to see what you guys come out with next!
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The link for direct pay to the server was taken down because it was a one-time-only link.

Maybe Dell should be hiring Steve....
Wish you luck! You are a very talented developer.

As soon as I get some funds I will throw a few bones his way. May not be much.but every little bit helps. If it wasn't for you guys development for this device would be dead. So it is greatly appreciated and anything I can do to help I will.

just sent him $60 ... hope to see him back in action soon

If he went to work for dell, he'd have to learn how to speak indian!

I'm curious what the total of donations has come to? Seems it should be close to if not past a 6 month cost of the server ($300?)
I get a bonus from work on Friday and want an update about the closeness of development continuing as I plan to contribute and will be using the same bonus to have my dell dock installed in me car. My streak will be sooo much better as a dash head unit running the latest and greatest, the current beta4 has caused me to hold off on the car install.
Thanks
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ElfinJNoty said:
My streak will be sooo much better as a dash head unit running the latest and greatest, the current beta4 has caused me to hold off on the car install.
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Not to run too far off topic but I don't know how many times I have considered doing this with a 5 or 7 inch device. Wire the audio out to an amplifier and then out to the car speakers. Possibly use USB host to add a flashdrive or HDD for extra music storage.
Good luck! Should be a fun project

I sent a message to Steve to see how much he got

Wetzel402 said:
Not to run too far off topic but I don't know how many times I have considered doing this with a 5 or 7 inch device. Wire the audio out to an amplifier and then out to the car speakers. Possibly use USB host to add a flashdrive or HDD for extra music storage.
Good luck! Should be a fun project
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You mean like this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1371660
I've since converted to a BT connection with full steering wheel / HU integration. More on the topic can be found here:
http://www.rx8club.com/showthread.php?t=225539

Sorry but this kind of thread is not allowed on xda no matter who it is for
There are lots of people in the world who have stories like this and we cannot use xda to collect for them, that is not what xda should be used for
8. Donations.
We appreciate all donations to xda-developers.com, it keeps our forum online and well maintained. As a user you're allowed to ask for donations in your signature as a thank you for your hard work. However donations up front are not allowed, this forum is about sharing, not about getting paid to do something, that's what your job is for.
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(Iniciative) Donation for ICS

Huy everyone,
Today on htcmania (it is like xda but at spanish) they make a Iniciative to donate 1.(dollar, peso, euro, or your coin in your contry) in order to buy an used Optimus Black for me. As you know I got stoled my OB few time ago but I keep working even without it as hobby, the real thing here is way so difficult without it. I don't want to say that stable version will come if I got one but I can say that I will work more efficient with one in my hands.
So if you agree with this and you can donate 1 it could be the difference. I need 250 dls more or less. We have already 22 in our account as donations. If 228 ppl donate 1 dollar it could be easily done. Since latest version 2a got 8k downloads maybe isn't that difficult to be done. I will put new threads on our blog and a colored bar with the progress about donations. What do you think??
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You cannot ask for donations here on XDA. From Rule #8:
8. Donations. We appreciate all donations to xda-developers.com, it keeps our forum online and well maintained. As a user you're allowed to ask for donations in your signature as a thank you for your hard work. [BOLD]However donations up front are not allowed, this forum is about sharing, not about getting paid to do something, that's what your job is for.[/BOLD]
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DroidHive down?

it seems that the website DroidHive.com is down.
very shocking! planned to see the update of CM9 on Droid Bionic, but couldn't log on for days.
anyone knows?

theyve changed locations again and seem to be having troubles keeping thier sites up .... ( learning not to anger hackers it seems)

http://rombot.org/forums/

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http://rombot.org/forums/
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okay, thx a lot

People are saying the owner put the domain (DroidHive.com) up for sale and skipped off with all the donations so I would think twice about donating, would also be concerned if you use the same login and password on anything else.

Dougau said:
People are saying the owner put the domain up for sale and skipped off with all the donations so I would think twice about donating, would also be concerned if you use the same login and password on anything else.
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This is not accurate. Please refrain from spreading rumors.
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DroidTh3ory changed his twitter handle to @KillDroidHack
DroidHive is no longer DroidHive, the main contributors have set up at least 2 new sites, one of which is Rombot.org (krackflashers.org)
Donations are donations; if you appreciate the work that someone has put into a ROM, or an app, or a website, then donate. Donations are not a service agreement. If you like a site, and then donate, but the site operator decides he can lo longer support the site, this is not 'skipping off with the donations'. The developers on DroidHive, and many other android developer sites have jobs, families, and other obligations that sometimes cause their hobby of developing for Android to take a backseat.
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This is not accurate. Please refrain from spreading rumors.
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At least what I posted is what has been said by some of the staff on Twitter and in the chat part of the Hive, if it's inaccurate maybe you can tell us why:
1. It has been operating under http://krackflashers.com,
2. The domain is up for sale @ godaddy.com?
3. The forums are offline?
4. The DNS as well as displayed sight names have been changing daily?
5. DroidTh3ory was the site owner, is that correct? what happened to his twitter account and why has he all of a sudden gone missing from everything?
You'll admit any website displaying the above listed facts should be approached with caution.
So what's the scoop then???? If your saying it's not accurate please inform us, the Android community (especially those who have contributed money) have a right to know don't we?

KDH did not just vanish and I highly doubt donations have been stolen. Unreal.

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KDH did not just vanish and I highly doubt donations have been stolen. Unreal.
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Cool, then what's the real story with DroidHive?

under new name and look, but droidhive community is bulletproof. we take care of one another and frankly *i dont even care* what my donation was used for. it was given as a sign of gratitude.

Why do people insist on spreading crap about which they know nothing about? If you MUST know what really happened, he went on vacation with his family and all this crap happened while he was gone. And people just made up rumors based on what they assumed happened. He was very pissed when he got back as he should have been. Believe what you want but stop spreading rumors and conjecture as fact. Honestly, I never understood why people get into this kind of nonsense...
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Why do people insist on spreading crap about which they know nothing about? If you MUST know what really happened, he went on vacation with his family and all this crap happened while he was gone. And people just made up rumors based on what they assumed happened. He was very pissed when he got back as he should have been. Believe what you want but stop spreading rumors and conjecture as fact. Honestly, I never understood why people get into this kind of nonsense...
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Agreed...these people spreading rumors are idiots. What does it matter what he does with the donations anyways? People donate to him because he spends his time making amazing ROMs for people, and he has made countless amount of ROM's for us people who have no clue what we are doing. So we donate to him in appreciation for what he has done for us. So he can do whatever he wants with that money. It would be different if we donated to him in anticipation for something and then he bounced, however that is not the case.

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Agreed...these people spreading rumors are idiots. What does it matter what he does with the donations anyways? People donate to him because he spends his time making amazing ROMs for people, and he has made countless amount of ROM's for us people who have no clue what we are doing. So we donate to him in appreciation for what he has done for us. So he can do whatever he wants with that money. It would be different if we donated to him in anticipation for something and then he bounced, however that is not the case.
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Exactly. I donated cause he provides a useful site, does amazing work for the community, and puts up with stupid people. He could go blow that money on beer and hookers for all I care. LOL.

rombot dot org

SamuriHL said:
Exactly. I donated cause he provides a useful site, does amazing work for the community, and puts up with stupid people. He could go blow that money on beer and hookers for all I care. LOL.
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Give me money, and I GUARANTEE that I will spend it on beer and hookers. Transparency rules.

Underwater Mike said:
Give me money, and I GUARANTEE that I will spend it on beer and hookers. Transparency rules.
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Roflmao!
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Right from the site: http://droidhive.us.to/forums/index.php
MEMBERS, WITH THE LAST HACK DROIDHIVE SUFFERRED THE DONATION MONEY DISAPPEARED AS WELL... WE HAVE $200 NOW AND NEED ANOTHER $400 TO KEEP THE SITE OPEN FOR ANOTHER MONTH. IF NOT THE SITE WILL SHUT DOWN MONDAY MORNING.. IF U CARE TO OR ARE ABLE TO HELP PLEASE CLICK THE DONATE TAB TO THE LEFT IF YOUR ON THE CONCISE THEME, AND HELP WITH WHAT YOU CAN EVERY DOLLAR IS APPRECIATED THANKS FOR ALL YALL HAVE DONE IN THE PAST YOU GUYS REALLY ARE THE BEST!!!
So it looks like no money was stolen, it just disappeared cause of wherever it was that hacked the site and now they need another $400 to stay open? How do we know the money won't "Disappear" again?
I make donations for ROM's and feel people need to support those who develop for our devices. However I wouldn't put to much trust in Droid Hive right now.

Then don't donate. Who's holding a gun to your head to do so?

SamuriHL said:
Then don't donate. Who's holding a gun to your head to do so?
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The OP asked about the web site and I answered the question with what I have heard in the last few weeks. I'm not saying anyone shouldn't donate (just I wouldn't @ this time) or the site owner shouldn't do whatever with the money, Just that everyone should look at whats going on and make a informed decision based on what they feel is happening.
And Sorry, I didn't mean to quote you in post #17
I support and wish the best for everyone involved with the hive, and will continue to support it with donations if it's still around in a month or so.

It appears that rombot.org is now gone as well.