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

[Hover-Shuttle]

Originally Posted by tjmontan

Anyone having issues getting the task Mngr to hold when you tap in the right corner...It seems to be very intermittent but a pain...

Yes it is... but I have found that if I have an app open it will always stay on the screen, otherwise it will disappear before it opens...

[ohenebajoy]

Beautiful rom. is there any way i can add sprint nav tab, doc tab, facebook tab to this rom? if so where can i get them from? thanks again

[xpressyourcell]

Originally Posted by ohenebajoy

Beautiful rom. is there any way i can add sprint nav tab, doc tab, facebook tab to this rom? if so where can i get them from? thanks again

Sprint Nav tab = 2012.13 This is 2012.12. I left out the facebook tab cuz it was prettymuch pointless. Only follows contacts that are assigned to facebook and you cant do anything with it. I saw somewhere that you can add in the document tab, reader tab, call history tab, manila tv, but I don't use any of them and as I've said from the begining, I use what I cook. I don't cook 2012.13 cuz I'm on Verizon and have no use for sprint only tabs on my phone, nor can I test them since my only Sprint beta tester (and donator by the way) jumped ship to someone elses ROM.

[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.

[Lynkz83]

^^^ +100

There are cabs all over this site to make roms they way you want, or you can cook them urself, by clicking the lil paperclip image next to the thread on the main part of the forum you can see all attachments that were posted in a thread..

[info[]box1]

Wirelessly posted (Opera/9.80 (Windows Mobile; WCE; Opera Mobi/WMD-50369; U; en) Presto/2.4.13 Version/10.00)

xpress.. i totally understand your point of view and at times i wish i had the currency to donate. i love to see raw energy and persistence like wish you and a hand ful of chefs display day after day.

your roms are proven stable including great battery life, even with the highest value of eye candy. thats almost to impossible to achieve. but you make it happen everytime, i noticed that last month when i ran your dusk for the first time. plus when you say you just learn how to cook, that say alot about you.

im only here to support with positive feedback. im very happy with your rom the way how it is. the facebook tab is useless, also i have garmin on my tp2. even if i didnt it not that hard to install and launch from start menu or even cookie home tabs.

keep up the great work, enjoy the family and thanks.

ps. i will hit the thanks button soon as im out the mobile version of ppcgeeks.com...lol

[vin255764]

Originally Posted by xpressyourcell

. I don't cook 2012.13 cuz I'm on Verizon and have no use for sprint only tabs on my phone, nor can I test them since my only Sprint beta tester (and donator by the way) jumped ship to someone elses ROM.

Whats the point of having a thread and do beta tests somewhere else
Anyways,I can make a sprint tv & navi tabs cab for your ROM if you attach your 26948339_manila
Keep up the good work

[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

[xpressyourcell]

Originally Posted by vin255764

Whats the point of having a thread and do beta tests somewhere else
Anyways,I can make a sprint tv & navi tabs cab for your ROM if you attach your 26948339_manila
Keep up the good work

Thank you Vin, I'll get right on that and have it posted shortly.