Hi All
I have been reading XDA threads for almost a year but just recently joined. I recently bought a s20 ultra 5g and am interested in unlocking the BL, rooting, flashing mod OS. Since I have no experience doing so and am just now starting to learn bout computers and dev I will be looking for help from those of you with experience.
My background is in RF, Radars, CO2 manufacturing lasers, IT project management, my degree is in business with a focus in sales and marketing, and a background in the US military.
Despite all that I have recently become enamored with networking, security, and developing. Contemplating going back to school for and additional BS in a computer related field and trying my hand at the IT/IT management sector.
Paddyo13 said:
Hi All
I have been reading XDA threads for almost a year but just recently joined. I recently bought a s20 ultra 5g and am interested in unlocking the BL, rooting, flashing mod OS. Since I have no experience doing so and am just now starting to learn bout computers and dev I will be looking for help from those of you with experience.
My background is in RF, Radars, CO2 manufacturing lasers, IT project management, my degree is in business with a focus in sales and marketing, and a background in the US military.
Despite all that I have recently become enamored with networking, security, and developing. Contemplating going back to school for and additional BS in a computer related field and trying my hand at the IT/IT management sector.
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Hey all!
My real name is Brandon Miniman, and you might have seen me on YouTube back in the day in Pocketnow videos. I live outside of Philadelphia, PA, and live with my wife and three kids (two girls and a boy), plus my puggle dog Ava.
I've used phones since the days of Windows Mobile phones (long live the HTC HD2 and Moto Q!). I currently use a Galaxy S21 Ultra and iPhone 12 mini.
Today, I'm part of the core leadership team at XDA where I spend my time overseeing operations (which includes working with mods, portal writers, and our technical team). Lately, since the upgrade from vBulletin to XenForo, I've been spending a lot of time working on a plan to grow the XDA community and make it the best place in the world to talk about phones. It's a tall order, and it's a bit complicated, so if you have any ideas or want to help, I'm all ears. My title is "user experience admin" because I'm the go-to guy for making the experience better on the site for users. That also means you can yell at me if you don't like something
You can follow me on Twitter if you care to: @brandonminiman. My DM box is always open if you have any questions or concerns about the site, or if you just want to say hi
Cheers Brandon!
hi everyone, im new here.
XDA was best warm home for AOSP.
XDA I like this portal for AOSP.
Hi every body, average user of modded rom, I'm here becauseof some mistake ... as usual...
Okay, you welcome!
Hello XDA, it's been a long time since I was truly active in these or any forums because life and reality provided an unintended distraction and then the pandemic. I find myself with a bit more time where I need a necessary diversion from reality and this forum has always provided this nerd with a world-wide community of nerds who really and truly know their ****. I have social networking friends that I follow, that I met through here and other technology forums that I have been friends with now for almost twenty years. I'm sure that how we met is irrelevant to many of them since we interact more about our day to day lives then the nerding out we did here in the forums. See, as a nerd, making real world friends was always difficult, but here, at XDA with my G1000 from Hitachi, one of the first-ever smart-phone, with a keyboard and a screen running Windows Mobile. I came here looking for a way to back-up my sms and call log to Microsoft Outlook and some genius had figured out a way to do it. I then had three different HTC Windows Mobile devices and XDA let me do amazing things with them.
Then, because I got suckered in to Sprint!, I upgraded to a Samsung Galaxy SII Touch or something ridiculous like that and it had so many issues out if the box but 2ss an amazing device. XDA was like High School and this is where you went from teen hacker wannabe to legit 1337 skills by rooting and then installing custom roms. The addiction to that thrill of knowing that a mistake, zigging when you're supposed to zag or skipping a step, rushing and missing something could spell disaster. I dropped a phone while installing a rom and the device boot-looped hard. Not to worry, XDA was here and someone else had done something similar, there was an entire forum thread devoted to all the people who had face-planted the rooting, rom or other process and lobotomized their Android device.
I still occasionally peruse the forums, lurking and liking and once in a while, replying. I just wanted to stop by and thank you for what seems like 17 or 18 years if amazing things. By you, I mean the people who run the forums behind the scenes at all levels and the moderators that keep the law and order necessary to thrive and function and you the users who's knowledge and other contributions are why we are here in these forums, from the creators to their guinea pigs to every other lurker like me. Thanks.
Blu3Fr0g said:
Hello XDA, it's been a long time since I was truly active in these or any forums because life and reality provided an unintended distraction and then the pandemic. I find myself with a bit more time where I need a necessary diversion from reality and this forum has always provided this nerd with a world-wide community of nerds who really and truly know their ****. I have social networking friends that I follow, that I met through here and other technology forums that I have been friends with now for almost twenty years. I'm sure that how we met is irrelevant to many of them since we interact more about our day to day lives then the nerding out we did here in the forums. See, as a nerd, making real world friends was always difficult, but here, at XDA with my G1000 from Hitachi, one of the first-ever smart-phone, with a keyboard and a screen running Windows Mobile. I came here looking for a way to back-up my sms and call log to Microsoft Outlook and some genius had figured out a way to do it. I then had three different HTC Windows Mobile devices and XDA let me do amazing things with them.
Then, because I got suckered in to Sprint!, I upgraded to a Samsung Galaxy SII Touch or something ridiculous like that and it had so many issues out if the box but 2ss an amazing device. XDA was like High School and this is where you went from teen hacker wannabe to legit 1337 skills by rooting and then installing custom roms. The addiction to that thrill of knowing that a mistake, zigging when you're supposed to zag or skipping a step, rushing and missing something could spell disaster. I dropped a phone while installing a rom and the device boot-looped hard. Not to worry, XDA was here and someone else had done something similar, there was an entire forum thread devoted to all the people who had face-planted the rooting, rom or other process and lobotomized their Android device.
I still occasionally peruse the forums, lurking and liking and once in a while, replying. I just wanted to stop by and thank you for what seems like 17 or 18 years if amazing things. By you, I mean the people who run the forums behind the scenes at all levels and the moderators that keep the law and order necessary to thrive and function and you the users who's knowledge and other contributions are why we are here in these forums, from the creators to their guinea pigs to every other lurker like me. Thanks.
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Glad to see an old timer around!
HTC was my fav brand for many many years....
Hope to see ya around.
Cheers!
Hello fellow XDA'ers. I am an 'experienced' IT nerd, ie I can remember when mobile phones were the size of a suitcase. My background is mainly front end systems - HP/Tandem, a little mainframe, and a lot of PC building and some lower level electronics builds. I have always loved tech, especially when it can have a tangible benefit, and detest planned obsolescence, to the point of recapping monitors before replacing them! I was drawn here by the Android debugging discussions that mentioned the ADB utility, which was not something I had ever toyed with. The knowledge on display here has been invaluable to me, assisting to resolve a major headache on the lead-in to Christmas - MrsCs HTC10 screen problems! I have joined here to throw in my solution to an ancient discussion forum, a cunning workaround that doesnt involve bricking the phone, as I'm sure we are not the only ones in possession of an HTC10.
Cheers,
MrC
Hi... My names David and I'm 55 and I'm from Kansas City. I came across this site when I was looking to download the FRIJA application to go with my ODIN 3.10.7 application that I've recently downloaded to flash, repair and upgrade several of the Samsung devices that I have (Galaxy A50, J7, Tab 3 & Galaxy Note 10.1). I became interested in development about 2 and a half years ago, after my phones and accounts started being hacked by someone with some very exceptional talents. The attacks caused me to begin learning Android, Windows and Chromium systems, along with the laws that pertain to international data transportation and protection. I have became very interested in these subjects and now I am hoping to continue my learning enough in these fields, and others, that I can eventually work with and develop cybersecurity applications for the new Cryptocurrency markets. I will appreciate any and all the help that anyone is willing to provide me with. I'd like to say that it's nice to meet everyone and thank you. I'm looking forward to meeting and talking with everyone more.
Dave913 said:
Hi... My names David and I'm 55 and I'm from Kansas City. I came across this site when I was looking to download the FRIJA application to go with my ODIN 3.10.7 application that I've recently downloaded to flash, repair and upgrade several of the Samsung devices that I have (Galaxy A50, J7, Tab 3 & Galaxy Note 10.1). I became interested in development about 2 and a half years ago, after my phones and accounts started being hacked by someone with some very exceptional talents. The attacks caused me to begin learning Android, Windows and Chromium systems, along with the laws that pertain to international data transportation and protection. I have became very interested in these subjects and now I am hoping to continue my learning enough in these fields, and others, that I can eventually work with and develop cybersecurity applications for the new Cryptocurrency markets. I will appreciate any and all the help that anyone is willing to provide me with. I'd like to say that it's nice to meet everyone and thank you. I'm looking forward to meeting and talking with everyone more.
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Nice intro, welcome to the forums
HI!
I'm nomike (pronouns: they/them) living in Vienna/Austria.
I started rooting phones and putting aftermarket firmware on them back with my Samsung Galaxy S4 and CyanogenMod.
I regularly relied on posts here at xda for that and now finally created an account as I'm currently trying to mod a medion lifetab X10302 and need some advice on that.
I'm currently almost 40 years old and with 23 years of linux experience, the majority of those as a developer, sysadmin and cloud specialist, I consider myself an expert in that. I haven't rooted and modded android devices that frequently, so I'm certainly no expert there. I haven't kept track of the changes in the modding scene (e.g. I never used Magisk and don't yet fully understand the concept behind it or what it actually does), but I'm a quick study and I'm generally not that afraid of pushing a button to see what happens.
I have developed a couple of small open source projects over the years, but none of them are in widespread use, as far as I know. Probably at least partly because I don't care marketing them. And I collect small snippets on my personal homepage, but also not all too much.
My personal interests are collecting vinyl records (especially progressive rock), t-shirts, and retro computers (Commodore 64, Commodore 128. Amiga 500, Amiga 600, Atari 1040STFM), playing the drums and I'm currently learning how to play the guitar. Besides that I'm quite active in the local polyamory scene and I'm regularly giving talks and organizing discussion groups about safer sex, as I collected a lot of knowledge in that area in the last couple of years.
I guess that's all for the moment.
Cheers
nomike
nomike said:
HI!
I'm nomike (pronouns: they/them) living in Vienna/Austria.
I started rooting phones and putting aftermarket firmware on them back with my Samsung Galaxy S4 and CyanogenMod.
I regularly relied on posts here at xda for that and now finally created an account as I'm currently trying to mod a medion lifetab X10302 and need some advice on that.
I'm currently almost 40 years old and with 23 years of linux experience, the majority of those as a developer, sysadmin and cloud specialist, I consider myself an expert in that. I haven't rooted and modded android devices that frequently, so I'm certainly no expert there. I haven't kept track of the changes in the modding scene (e.g. I never used Magisk and don't yet fully understand the concept behind it or what it actually does), but I'm a quick study and I'm generally not that afraid of pushing a button to see what happens.
I have developed a couple of small open source projects over the years, but none of them are in widespread use, as far as I know. Probably at least partly because I don't care marketing them. And I collect small snippets on my personal homepage, but also not all too much.
My personal interests are collecting vinyl records (especially progressive rock), t-shirts, and retro computers (Commodore 64, Commodore 128. Amiga 500, Amiga 600, Atari 1040STFM), playing the drums and I'm currently learning how to play the guitar. Besides that I'm quite active in the local polyamory scene and I'm regularly giving talks and organizing discussion groups about safer sex, as I collected a lot of knowledge in that area in the last couple of years.
I guess that's all for the moment.
Cheers
nomike
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Nice intro!, Welcome aboard