I came across this a little while ago while looking around the webs. I searched here but didn't find anything quite like it, would anyone be interested in picking it up? I was going to post in the development forum but I don't have enough posts... And it is a question of sorts.
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so I've been checking out applanets forums today and they have a shoutbox, basically a chatbox that stays on the site no mater what thread your looking at. I think something like that my be helpful to the newcomers that come here and want to ask a question, that way theres no more million posts of the same question cluttering up the important stuff and making a thread so big (kaosfroyo thread anyone)
just wondering what the mods think about this.
I love this forum just want to see it get better
Sorry I missed the town hall meeting. I am a noob to Roms and phone moding, I did do a lot with the original xbox back when it was fun to mod. Ok a little off toppic.
One thing that noticed you never looked at is where are your noobs (me) comming in to your site? I have only been looking at roms for about a week. All of the searches that I did about roms and rooting my phone all led me to the "The Bible" and yes where is that located at. Most people will post there they find the information. You might look at moving that post to the general tab as this is going to be one of the first places that a person is going to look to first.
This will also be a place that a noob is going to post so dumb question for the 1,000,000th time. If you expect it, it will not be a bad thing.
And yes I did to a bad flash and spent about 5 hours looking for a way to fix what I did.
Thanks for your time and have a great day/night
Good point. I myself was thinking when I first started to look into flashing ROMs and such and found the bible in the Dev section. The Vibrant Bible has lots of information and should probably be in the General Section as it does draw people to the Dev section instead of General.
Maybe it should be in the Q&A forum as it has lots of both.
One of the biggest problems with this forum seems to be that for a development forum, there is very little actual development going on. Obviously only a select group of people have the knowledge and desire to truly develop custom ROMs, but there's a role others can take too.
I've been involved in other development communities, outside of Android, and I can't recall a community as poisonous as this one. The amount of high level technical discussion is nill. As inexperienced as I am with Android, I can't remember the last post that sent me running to google to read more about something. There seems to be little to no give-and-take between developers, which is typically the most fun of any development group I've been a part of. The goal of working towards any common framework seems non-existant.
The supporters of certain ROMs resemble cults more than critical, helpful users. I can't count the amount of replies I've seen to legitimate questions or criticisms saying nothing more than, "Developer X puts in all this time, so you should just be thankful", or some iteration of that. While possibly true, that's the type of worthless hero worship that provides nothing in a community like this.
Even the individual developer forums are worthless. They're 75% "you're awesome" posts, with the other 25% being bug reports.
Obviously the popularity of XDA has made it a destination for simple support posts in addition to development discussion. I guess that's frustrating, but can be handled through moderation. I know on other forums, if I had nothing to do, I'd sit in the help section and answer posts for a couple hours. I'm sure we've all posted on other forums and received helped we're thankful for. Certainly the level of douchebagery that half the users here show isn't needed.
I don't know. Maybe all Android communities are like this. The fragmentation of the development, even on one divice, definitely doesn't help. But it's not the most enjoyable place to read I've ever found.
This is all you need to know:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9831517&postcount=3
The town hall closed too soon, closed 5pm eastern time. Sucks for us on the west coast. I was actually typing and clicked send when I noticed the forum already was closed.
scrizz said:
This is all you need to know:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9831517&postcount=3
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I am sorry that is not all that I needed to know. This was a post for an idea that was not brough up in the town hall. yes I did read the full town hall and no it was never said in the full thread. So before you give a link please make sure of the Question.
That is another reason that you get people pissed off. You have people say "this is all that I need to know" but they did not even look at the full question. This was not a question of what happened in the town hall. It was more like please think of this.
The Bilble thread is a great place for people that are new to star reading about what to do and what not to do. but it really does not have a thing to do about develement.
Thanks for all the other posters I enjoyed the coments.
It seems as the community grows that more people are in search for the very basics of getting started with modifying their G-Tab. Instead of searching through hundreds of posts is there a way to have the basic threads always on top?
Ex. How to in install clockwork
How to install a ROM
How to NVFLASH
How to get back to stock
Having posts like this in the beginning of a forum should help limit the amount of duplicate requests for things. I am no expert. I am not a Dev. But I am not an idiot either. I have had to search for basic things like how to properly configure a GPS to the G-Tab. After going through about ten pages I finally found that I was looking for. Again this is just a thought.
dgondrez,
In the developers sections you will find a good amount of 'Stickies' that tell how to do all of the things you are asking for. They are very handy and usually kept updated so you don't have to read hundered's of posts to find the information you need, it is kept in the first post of the thread.
Howdy all,
As we all know the TF201 is a delicate beast with it's share of problems. Shuts down randomly, wifi, gps, shoddy performance and manufacture, and horrid support.
One problem faced by a lot of owners is the easily busted digitizer. It's straightforward to replace and many have done it, but are plagued by ****ty digitizers from China who sell them like crack to addicts and don't give a whistling turdburger that the x-axis is screwed.
Would anyone here be willing to point me in the right direction to compile a new driver to fix this issue with the digitizer? It would be phenomenal if someone could...digitizers are relatively cheap these days and getting more so.
**I do know that asking for things from the dev brains around here is frowned on, but this is an ongoing issue for all users and can affect anyone at any time. By someone with more brains than the rest of us figuring this out the driver could be used in future releases to alleviate this problem
I asked for this thread to be moved.
Obviously the users in this particular forum are unfamiliar with the "Do not post in the development section" rule.
Unless you created or ported and have a end product you should NOT ever create a thread in the development section.
This is been an every day occurance and you should have posted this in a different section. If it's a question, Q&A. Any thing else, General.
Got it? Good.
Found the part where it says if it can be quoted as a question then it shouldn't be posted here. After checking a half dozen posts.
Instead of being a rude about it try being a bit more polite. "Hey man, can you delete this and move it to X part of the forums? Rules here XXX... say not to post that stuff here"
And it's not an every day occurrence. I've been here steady keeping up on several releases.
Got it? Good.
The amount of times I have said the same thing is astounding.
It's just become a common occurrence here. And I just want it to stop.
Do you understand where I am coming from? Sorry if I came off as dickish.
I can understand that.
The sticky with the posting rule should be kept at #1, capitalized and in bold. And a bit more clear. I dug through several posts trying to find it so I can see why the random post would pop up asking for stuff.
Nightpath said:
I can understand that.
The sticky with the posting rule should be kept at #1, capitalized and in bold. And a bit more clear. I dug through several posts trying to find it so I can see why the random post would pop up asking for stuff.
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Hello, i got file, which should be included to ROM and our problem with iverted Touchscreen should be decided )
Please, watch my topics and get file who CAN INCLUDE IT TO ROM
Very very thank
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1837997&page=3
I noticed a guy on Ebay now has several different types of Transformer Prime digitizers :
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw...em=190729331526&_sac=1&_osacat=0&_ssn=ewwt-au
ZVLT452
UQLT452
VJLT452
I can't seem to find these serials/versions on my tablet...has anyone seen similar?
I sent a message off to the seller. Sweet baby Jeebus, if we can match our touchscreens to his part numbers then we will be in luck!
Hello
These days i've been a little bit frustrated because we are not going to get a fully functional ICS or JB on our devices so now i'm trying all the roms i find in the forum to find out which is the most good looking.
Do you know if someone has made a port of Meego to the Atrix?
joelorona said:
Hello
These days i've been a little bit frustrated because we are not going to get a fully functional ICS or JB on our devices so now i'm trying all the roms i find in the forum to find out which is the most good looking.
Do you know if someone has made a port of Meego to the Atrix?
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There has been some talk about this.
Yeah i read that before, but there is not a single serious answer.
I can't port it, i just wanted to know if someone is working with it
This question has already been asked in this section, and you were aware of it BEFORE posting your question. That is a super quick way to get a reprimand from a mod. Please don't clutter up the forum with repeat posts.
once again, i read that before posting, but neither of you answer with a serious response....
if you are going to answer " why don't you just port it yourself" like they did.... fml
You are missing the point. Intentionally creating a duplicate thread is a big no no on xda.