Hi everyone, I am a 42 yr old about to start up a ecommerce business selling ebikes, ebikes conversion kits, ebike accessories, and e Mopeds. I am a novice in the world of smartphone modification. But I have done almost everything that a novice can do. Trying to learn more.
Hi, i'm a 57 years old german. Born in the former GDR (East-Germany). Got degree in informatics by GDR, worked as a programmer on ESER a IBM 360/370 clone, later i was going the way from i8088 up to todays cpus. I'm a programer ( C,C++, Pascal, PL/1, but also assembler ), Got Novell Master-CNE twice, CNE up to 5.x, Microsoft MCSE etc. up to 2008, some Linux certs. Not really interesting in modification of smartphones. A log time ago i bought a Samsung Galaxy Note 3, changed to a custom rom later because apps are requesting Android 6 or later, but Samsung doesn't update beyond 5.0.
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So almost everyone here is a Android guy or using it for a long time.
Let's get back to past.
So when you heard the name Android
And when you got an Android device ?
Share your story to us and have some fun with memories.
My story :
I don't actually remember when I heard the name for the first time but as I can remember I was using a Symbian phone and in a website I saw the name Android in app categories. Maybe it's 2011.
And my 1st Android phone was Samsung Galaxy Y young . My last Samsung as well
Star Wars
guess my 1st Android came as a Work Package almost 10yrs ago.
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I need to research the Nokia Ngage? I believe it is. 1st Gen Gaming Phone.
Yes, we had a version of NCAA Football for this Prototype.
It only showed Landscape?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-Gage_(device)
At the same time that the Palm Pre came out.
2009ish
Whenever Google announced it I think. I remember thinking "Wow! Linux on my phone... supported by Google?? This is a dream come true."
Oh, how young and naive I was
As far as I remember, I first heard of Android with the release of the Samsung Galaxy S2, I myself started using Android in 2014.
A m8s of me went with meh to buy Nokia GSM
And when at store
m8s said that touchpad/touchscreen is 'NOW'
I wanted Nokia Asha GSM
So copped 'Smartphoni'
And when installed Parts of A ROM: AlienROM V5-V6
for my XPERIA E
I encountered ViPER4Android which did not work
because no r00t/busybox, and really wanted it because it felt interesting.
Now I have X Compact (Kugo)
I like SONY kind of phones, X-series
...
Anyways..
first time I heard about Android was when the woman from Vodafone tried to sell me my old HTC Magic back in 2009 together with a mobile data contract. I didn't think highly of mobilephones until then but Android really changed my view (especially because of the Linux internals)
2010(not sure of the month) when I got my first Android device, the HTC Hero.
The first time I watched a sci-fi movie as a kid, about 35 years ago. :good:
When my age was 14.
rhrokib said:
So almost everyone here is a Android guy or using it for a long time.
Let's get back to past.
So when you heard the name Android
And when you got an Android device ?
Share your story to us and have some fun with memories.
My story :
I don't actually remember when I heard the name for the first time but as I can remember I was using a Symbian phone and in a website I saw the name Android in app categories. Maybe it's 2011.
And my 1st Android phone was Samsung Galaxy Y young . My last Samsung as well
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The first time I heard word Android was at school, the first Android device I biught, when I was a student.
Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - A long time ago.
I hear about Android when Samsung launches Galaxy S2.
Radiohead
star trek in the late 90's
On my birth, may be.
It was like 2009, I used to be a "modder" on old Nokia (BB5, S40 and related) and Old Sony Ericsson (DB2020, Db3150) and when my last phone dead I started to see in many forums a lot of screen shots and post talking about android, so I became a Android lover
2010 I think, heard it with GPS technologic.
1976 in the movies. I was 9 years old.
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Hi! I'm abdulrahman15ar.
I've affected by ORD (Obsessive ROM updating Disorder)!
Before going to my story, I've to tell How I found that this Addiction is a COMMON DISORDER throughout the members of xda community & other ROM development forums
In this week full of times, I often thought that I've to search about this addiction on Google. But my addiction also made me forget this research!! Finally, Yesterday I'd searched on Google as "Custom rom addiction". Oh GOD! There are really an available posts about this addiction and they named this as an ORD (Obsessive ROM updating Disorder)!!! :sillyhhh no....!! Now I got another mental disorder!
Yes! I've already had Depression, Anxiety and Importantly Social Awkwardness which is already the known symptom of Smartphone Addiction.:crying:
Okey!! Now come to the point...
I'm severely affected with ORD.
It was started a two years ago (In 2015). At that time I was with Nokia X which runs on Nokia X software platform v1. As everyone know that the OS has poor Android experience. Then I found something on Internet about Custom ROM flashing. At first, I didn't know more about recoveries like CWM, TWRP.... So I've had bricked my phone a lot of times. Gradually, I've learned that How to flash any custom ROM and perform tweaks (Still I'm learning something small matters on ROM flashing everyday). I've changed the ROM on my Nokia X a lot of times. Then I realized that this business is not good and I've to change myself. Then I bought a Lumia phone (Nokia Lumia 520) in which the ROM and even a Launcher can't be altered. After a two days of Windows Phone experience, I can't control me to see only the same System UI on Windows Phone which is quite hard to use. After one and half month, I sold it and I'd passed my days with my Nokia 225 feature phone and searched to buy any other phone. Then I bought a Nokia X2 Dual SIM. Even though Nokia X2 had an improvement on System UI (Its Nokia X software platform 2), I can't stay at Stock version of that OS. I also changed its ROM to CM12 with bugs. Had a life with it for a time. Then I sold it and had a Nokia 225 again in which there's no possibilities of addiction. Even though, I need to have a Smartphone for some works. So I bought a Xiamoi Redmi 1s phone which I'm still using. Ohhh........no! It has a lot of Custom ROMs and still the latest LineageOS 15 is under development....!! What can I do! Can't control and stay the Stock version or any other ROM. Jumping and jumping daily. Also the company makes me to be too addicted! They're giving MIUI 9 update to my phone!!
My addiction made me to post this also!
https://youtu.be/_qATs3y9bhQ
Please anyone help me to exit from this wave!!!
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I am a musician from Germany, have been all Sailfish for years. That phone broke just months, before I'll get my new one, so I bought a used galaxy s8. For the first time I was on a branded phone, before the Sailfish device it were Nokia devices (N8 with Symbian and Lumina 1020 on WP).
Horrified, how many things Google asked me about and Samsung and so on, I trie to find a solution for this device. It will be my sons first own smartphone, so I want to prepare it to be reasonable "degoogled". On the other hand, he mostly likes camera-features, so I'll stick to modified stock-rom.
This is a worthwhile learning experience for me, because next I'll get a PlanetComputers Astro. Wich is a dual boot device with nice keyboard wich will mostly run on Android. So I hope to get used to the Android world before my next phone comes.
So I'll be not much of help, but I am great in asking stupid questions...
See you.
I started the game rooting my G1. You know like the first Android phone and it had a physical keyboard. Promptly installing Cyanogen MOD and keeping the phone updated well past its prime. I have used ODIN and flashed boot.img, installed custom roms and then the g-suite afterward because it couldn't be included.
That being said the last phone I rooted was a Sony back in 2015.
I just got a Pixel 2 and was happy not rooting.
Had an iPhone 12 pro for a while but promptly lost it. I can't remember passwords for ****. What a waste.
Now I have a silly little Samsung Galaxy A01 (SM-S111DL). TracFone. Don't really have access to a computer. I found the rooting thread but it is for the ATT model. I am a little weary flashing the software provided in the thread because it says for that model only.
Just because I have rooted in the past doesn't mean I am up on the latest methods.
I will keep reading the forums and lurking wisely.
BTW I am 41 years old with a degree in Computer Science but never held a job past Technial Support for Nest Learning Thermostat.
Well I dabbled in consult work with developers looking to access the API for a credit card processing gateway. We worked with SmartBear and mainly ingenico card readers.
Currently unemployed.
Also, I dabble with Ubuntu Linux, which I feel is mainly Russian software, a bit of a conspiracy theorist.
Loved the Android SDK back in the day. I used to spin up one or two instances of a particular phone. Thought I would actually develop an app one day. Didn't quite pan out, kind of past my prime in the technology department.
Any way, print "Hello, World" and all that.
ZaphodBeetle said:
I started the game rooting my G1. You know like the first Android phone and it had a physical keyboard. Promptly installing Cyanogen MOD and keeping the phone updated well past its prime. I have used ODIN and flashed boot.img, installed custom roms and then the g-suite afterward because it couldn't be included.
That being said the last phone I rooted was a Sony back in 2015.
I just got a Pixel 2 and was happy not rooting.
Had an iPhone 12 pro for a while but promptly lost it. I can't remember passwords for ****. What a waste.
Now I have a silly little Samsung Galaxy A01 (SM-S111DL). TracFone. Don't really have access to a computer. I found the rooting thread but it is for the ATT model. I am a little weary flashing the software provided in the thread because it says for that model only.
Just because I have rooted in the past doesn't mean I am up on the latest methods.
I will keep reading the forums and lurking wisely.
BTW I am 41 years old with a degree in Computer Science but never held a job past Technial Support for Nest Learning Thermostat.
Well I dabbled in consult work with developers looking to access the API for a credit card processing gateway. We worked with SmartBear and mainly ingenico card readers.
Currently unemployed.
Also, I dabble with Ubuntu Linux, which I feel is mainly Russian software, a bit of a conspiracy theorist.
Loved the Android SDK back in the day. I used to spin up one or two instances of a particular phone. Thought I would actually develop an app one day. Didn't quite pan out, kind of past my prime in the technology department.
Any way, print "Hello, World" and all that.
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Glad to have an old timer!
Welcome officially
Yo it's finally time to sign up and partecipate:
Age: 34
Gender: m
Origins: somewhere in the Mediterrean sea...
First PC ever assembled totally by myself (And booting), age: 14
First time I borrowed the complete DOS environment Admin's manual, age: 12.
First hw ever flashed: I think it was a dvd IDE burner (or maybe a Tv Sat key card?), age 13.
First ever installed linux-OS: about 10 ys ago.
First Android phone: year 2015
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Have come in xda many times for recovery imgs, tips and tricks. There are so many smart developers around here! Personally i'm not interested in this kinda learning, but sometimes I need a place for stock or modified Roms or simply some update on adb Shell and mods.
Cheers ivano
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Yo it's finally time to sign up and partecipate:
Age: 34
Gender: m
Origins: somewhere in the Mediterrean sea...
First PC ever assembled totally by myself (And booting), age: 14
First time I borrowed the complete DOS environment Admin's manual, age: 12.
First hw ever flashed: I think it was a dvd IDE burner (or maybe a Tv Sat key card?), age 13.
First ever installed linux-OS: about 10 ys ago.
First Android phone: year 2015
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Have come in xda many times for recovery imgs, tips and tricks. There are so many smart developers around here! Personally i'm not interested in this kinda learning, but sometimes I need a place for stock or modified Roms or simply some update on adb Shell and mods.
Cheers ivano
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Hello Ivano amd welcome to XDA!