As some of you may have noticed, I have been very inactive in the Android world over the past month or so. I wanted to take the opportunity to let everyone know what is going on.
My wife is 8 months pregnant, and starting about a month ago she has been having some issues. Nothing too serious, but it means we have to go to the doctor several times a week to make sure she and the baby are not getting worse. She is also not supposed to leave the house if possible. As much as I enjoy the playing around I do with Blackhole, my family has to come first.
The Baby could be born any time now, and I simply don't have the time to devote to Android like I used to. I will admit that what little free time I have left now goes to extra sleep (cause I know I won't be getting any for a while after the baby is born). Lets face it, I'm no Adrynalyn or Jcase. For me Android has always been a hobby, and I do what I do mostly for myself, but just decided to share it.
I do plan on getting back into things once my life has settled down a bit, and if something major happens (Official GB upgrade anyone?) I'll try to make the time to release an update, but don't expect anything from me for a while.
I want to say thank you to everyone who has supported me with kind words, donations, suggestions, testing, bug reports, etc. over the past 9 months or so since I started developing on the Fascinate, and I want you all to know how much I appreciate you.
TTFN
Good luck with the little one coming
Thank you for all the work you have done so far
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Hope everything goes well for the rest of the pregnancy. That's is absolutely your first priority. The things will settle down a couple of months after your little one is here.
Good luck as you await the birth. I'll keep you and your family in prayer. Our first born turned 15 months this week and they really are time consuming, but so worth it.
It's good to see you have your priorities set.
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I'm sure the community appreciates everything you have done. Good luck with your wife and child and your right, you probably won't be getting much sleep do nous a good time to catch up.
Family comes first man. Do what you gotta do to take care of them! Hopefully all goes well and you have a great healthy baby!
Good luck dude, family first
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Good luck bro. I'm in the navy so i understand about family life. It comes first always.
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Thank you all, I'm glad you understand. That's one of the benefits of working with Android, a generally more mature community than the iTeens.
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Thank you all, I'm glad you understand. That's one of the benefits of working with Android, a generally more mature community than the iTeens.
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Psht aint that the truth!
I too am a military guy and my wife is about to pop with our 2nd daughter so I totally get the not much time thing. Again good luck with the new child! Exciting times are ahead!
Family first! Wise you are, hmm.
All the best & best of luck with the wife and child.... Thank you
Thank you so much sonofskywalker3 for all the hard work and contributions you have brought to the TB community. Best wishes and congrats to you and your family as well.
Really? If this is a mature audience, I'd hate to see an immature one.
Nothing against you and I hope everything with your wife goes ok, but a lot of devs for android are not even out if high school.
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nrfitchett4 said:
Really? If this is a mature audience, I'd hate to see an immature one.
Nothing against you and I hope everything with your wife goes ok, but a lot of devs for android are not even out if high school.
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True enough, and we certainly have our share of drama queens, but overall I think the user base for Android, and especially those active in the Modding community, are much more understanding when it comes to the important things. Sure we've got people who will pitch a fit if things don't go their way, but I've seen nothing but support when I'm letting everyone know that I'm taking a major break. No "But wherez my r0mz dud3!!", just well wishes and genuine concern.
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Thank you all, I'm glad you understand. That's one of the benefits of working with Android, a generally more mature community than the iTeens.
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Good luck sir, I will be looking out for your roms whenever you have time to release one.
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Thanks for all your work and I hope all goes well with you and your family. As a father of a 14 month old myself, it's good if you are already acclimated to getting little sleep. Who'd a thunk that developing would be good training for fatherhood!
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True enough, and we certainly have our share of drama queens, but overall I think the user base for Android, and especially those active in the Modding community, are much more understanding when it comes to the important things. Sure we've got people who will pitch a fit if things don't go their way, but I've seen nothing but support when I'm letting everyone know that I'm taking a major break. No "But wherez my r0mz dud3!!", just well wishes and genuine concern.
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That's cool. Take care of your family. Seems like there is quite the dev family here on the thunderbolt so I'm sure there will be plenty to play with in your absence.
Despite Miketoasty's distasteful example to the contrary, I still believe the Android community is generally mature...
Just wanted to take the time to thank the community here for all the awesome work to help keep this device alive.. specifically design gears for helping me with cwm and dan Rosenberg for root and all the devs who keep the forums alive with great new stuff!
But its come time for me to pack the o3d away in a drawer cause I just ordered my new iPhone 4s....
Jk. I did order a brand new GSM Galaxy Nexus...
Mainly I want to let people know that i dont have the time to maintain my rom or theme threads... so if anyone wants to take over any of those projects.. no need to ask.. consider them yours!!!
Thanks again everyone.. best of luck for all of ya! Maybe I will see ya in some other threads. =)
see ya around trek and thanks for all your hard work
at this rate the LG Optimus 3D Sub is gonna be inactive in my years at xda i have not seen a forum loose so many users oh well you one omap away will be seeing ya . the 4s joke how bad is lg bad ? it makes you wanna leave android for good ol' apple ios.:good:
Damn well thanks for everything
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I should have packed mine away but I sold it. Now I miss it, terribly.
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I'm leaving this forum, and moving on to the Samsung Galaxy S3 forum.
I just want to say thank you to all the developers, for all the work you put in your roms. And you do all this for free, on your spare time. You give us support, help and tips. Keep hacking and coding guys!
You have really made my android experience so much better.
I wont mention any names, just send a big thank you to all of you.
septix out.
Good to hear, my girlfriend is getting a S3 soon because the battery in her galaxy s 4g battery is crapping out. She said I can use the phone if I buy her a new battery for her s 4g as she still prefers that phone.
Only bad thing is I can use it as long as I don't root it lol
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Hey guys! I just wanted you all to know that I have finally moved away from the Thunderbolt.
I wish you all the best of luck with the development! Thank you to all of the developers who still carry on development for the device. Without you guys, I would have left the bolt over a year ago... but you guys kept it cool and worth staying with.
Also thank you to everyone who has helped me along the way.
I recently moved and the Thunderbolt no longer maintains even WiFi for some reason... so I was forced to move away from it.
Again, thank you all for everything!
Have fun with your new device.
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Take care bud, was always a pleasure having you around!
Enjoy your new toy. :good:
See you around
Sad to see you go bud, was fun having you around, and a few of your posts really cracked me up (see dickmode). Enjoy your new device!
Haha! Yeah, we had some good times on here for sure!
Thanks for all the memories and help from all of you!
I'll still pop in every now and then I'm sure. Hope to cross roads again with you guys later on!
Take care everyone!
Well, I also left the ranks. My family has been pressuring me to get them their first smartphones, and by the time we were through at the cell phone store, I had one too. While I really was hoping to get the next great phone (eg, a Nexus 4x with replaceable battery, SD card, and LTE), we all went with what I think is still the best combination of size, speed, and features (replaceable battery, memory) while also having a community for future, um, er, rooting fun. The Samsung Galaxy SIII. I was tempted by the Note 2 but the thing is just too big; the S3 almost seemed too big, but it is also nice and thin.
Anyway, I will miss the Thunderbolt. I was really fortunate with my ROM choices (SOAB, Thundershed, and Santod's ICS Eternity). SOAB was a good entry to rooting, Tshed was bulletproof, and Eternity was fast, smooth and awesome in features and performance. But most of all I will miss the awesome developers who contributed to their talents and time to make the Thunderbolt better that what HTC and Verizon could ever do. And the great community here and on other bulletin boards. People like QuickDraw, who has always been quick with the advice or support.
I have some Thunderbolt accessories free for the asking. A Rezound battery. A slightly broken Platinum holster case in black (one small piece of the case broke off but it doesn't seem to effect the use at all and you wouldn't even see it if you didn't look) and a virtually unused PowerSkin case. Let me know if you want em and I will ship them to you. At some point I may even give up the Thunderbolt itself.
Thanks again everyone...
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Hey guys! I just wanted you all to know that I have finally moved away from the Thunderbolt.
I wish you all the best of luck with the development! Thank you to all of the developers who still carry on development for the device. Without you guys, I would have left the bolt over a year ago... but you guys kept it cool and worth staying with.
Also thank you to everyone who has helped me along the way.
I recently moved and the Thunderbolt no longer maintains even WiFi for some reason... so I was forced to move away from it.
Again, thank you all for everything!
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Ooh! Which device are you on now? I hope you'll come visit us Bolters every so often. Perhaps we should make an Off Topic Bolt thread hahaha. Anyway, I hope it works out for you! I'm still new to Xda, but I'll miss you! Hahaha
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Well, Infuse community... it's been great helping others and being a part of this community. I recently had the chance to trade my loyal infuse for a Motorola Atrix HD, it's time to say the first real community I've been a part of.
Firstly, thank you to Scott, Andros, qkstr, and gtg. You and many others have made this a fantastic phone and an even better community.
Second, thank you to everyone that needed help in the q&a, as it gave me a chance to help people.
Lastly, thank you to everyone else that has made this phone one of the beat smart phones I've ever owned.
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Had to smile when I read this. I just recently switched to an Infuse after two-plus years with an iPhone 3GS. I've upgraded the Infuse in several steps from stock to JB (Butter) with no problems whatsoever. I picked the Infuse in part because of the active community here on XDA, and my previous experience upgrading a Viewsonic G-Tablet with the help of the XDA community there. I am so glad to finally get Apple out of my life, especially the hated iTunes. As longtime Infuse users move on, at least one new user discovers it as something new and better than the phone they had before. Cheers.
I still have my infuse and several roms from the good friends in the XDA Infuse department. I have the SGS3 but kinda miss my ole buddy. Guess I can use it to mess around on. Thx to ask the Devs and community
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