{ROM}XpressGlass/Dinik Anastasia - [07/07]23563/2012.12 CHT/XDA/Provisioned

[xpressyourcell]

OK, I'm putting this in a separate post because I don't want anybody to take this personal. I am currently supporting 4 separate themed (or unthemed) ROMs. With 1-2 varients mostly. Dusk, GTX, Clean, and now Anastasia. As I do this, it becomes more and more difficult to maintain my personal, professional, and chef lives simultaneously. Luckily, I have a very supportive Beta group and have now taken on a volunteer Chef's assistant. I have been called: machine, madman, cyborg, etc, etc. I spend many sleepless nights working diligently to make these ROM's work, not only for you, but for myself as well becuase when I get up in the morning, I have to have a working ROM on my phone.

I DON'T GET PAID FOR THIS. Not on THIS medium anyhow. I charge people in person to flash and setup their phones. If I could charge for my ROM's, even $.99 per DL, I would. And I would make a descent enough living at it. Or at least, it would make a descent 2nd job. Yet, I have found that the people who appreciate my work enough to actually show it, are few and far between. In fact, the more downloads I have from a specific carrier, the fewer donations there are. I get the most downloads from Sprint customers. That being the case, you would think that I would cater to Sprint more than everybody else. Problem being, USCC and Verizon customers show their appreciation.

I see other chef's that pump crap ROMs out all the time. Battery life sucks, lockups, crashes, things go unfixed for 6 months or more and people are happy to stay with that chef's ROM, and even contribute to make the ROM better. Contributing graphics, making cabs to fix things the chef didn't, etc. I take what I see in those ROM's a diligently work to make sure that my ROM's don't have those problems. We are called CHEF's. Why, becuase we take the ingredients of a ROM and combine them to our personal tastes and use that to create works of art. Would you walk into Wolfgang Pucks kitchen and say, "hey, this Steak was great, but next time could you cook it with A1?" If I didn't cook it just the way you like it, there's probably some A1 (a cab) that will make it the way you want it. I don't do carrier specific ROM's anymore cuz they take up the WHOLE day just cooking and uploading. Therefore, I will cook ROM's that will work on ALL carriers and YOU can add the carrier specific stuff.

I started cooking 4 months ago because I was tired of ROM's that didn't work the way I wanted them too. I made them public because I thought other people would appreciate the fact that I struggled to learn the kitchen without much help. When I started, I didn't know jack about editing mode9,xml,registry,dat, or any of the other stuff required to cook a ROM. The only thing I knew how to do was change manila image files.

I switched to 2012.12 cuz I don't use ANY of the tabs that are not in the ROM. Yeah, they are cool, but mostly worthless and were becoming a pain in the butt (especially the facebook tab which was screwing up the whole flow of the ROM)

I'm not an expert. I don't cook for other phones. But if it's crap...I won't put it out to you. In return, I ask that you use some common sense, use the "Search" function, and remember...I'm still learning. I do have a family, this is not my JOB it is a hobby, and I can go out, just as quick as I came in.

And if this offended anyone, Sorry, I guess I won't be the most popular chef on the block.

[Jaybell4444]

I'm not an expert. I don't cook for other phones. But if it's crap...I won't put it out to you. In return, I ask that you use some common sense, use the "Search" function, and remember...I'm still learning. I do have a family, this is not my JOB it is a hobby, and I can go out, just as quick as I came in.

And if this offended anyone, Sorry, I guess I won't be the most popular chef on the block.[/QUOTE]

Very well said Express!!! You didn't offend nobody on this end my friend. All Sprint cabs are easy to come by and can be put on seperately as well as other cabs and mods. Your work is AWESOME dude and very well appreciated by many here on this website. I for one Love your work and the time you put into these Roms. I cant thank you enough for doing something for others and not getting paid for it and sharing it with all of us. these are all the quailties of a great chef! Thank you!!!

[majorassface]

XYC,

Thanks for all the hard work. I've been running your last Dusk rom with a few Anastasia addons for some time now and it's solid. Now I think I'll be flashing this beautiful new rom this weekend.

Also I don't think anyone took your words the wrong way. I think most of us feel the same. You are more than entitled to venting your frustration with the rom junkies in these forums.

Best
Major