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Menneisyys
17th August 2007, 01:50 PM
Use the Smartphone General forum for GENERIC posts, hacks, tutorials, questions!

If you have a question / tip / hack / trick also applicable to (most) other Smartphone models, please PLEASE post it to the brand new General Smartphone forum (http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=385). Few Smartphone users check out the forums of other Smartphone models and, therefore, your questions / tips / other stuff will be read by a LOT more people if you post it to a general forum than in just a model-specific one.

As has already been pointed out, everything should be posted to the new General forum (http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=385) that isn’t ONLY related to the particular model. Some examples of what should be posted to the General forum and what should stay in a device-specific one:

posts like “the HTC Vox (s710) has a very bad-quality rubber cover” (example HERE (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=322041) and HERE (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=310395)) should stay in the device-specific Vox subforum because it’s (currently - we'll see how the forthcoming HTC Wings fare in this respect) only the Vox that is affected by this problem. The same stands for problems with the bootloaders of a given model or specific ROM upgrades, ROM versions, unlocking etc. only applicable to a given model (and nothing else).
posts like Live Messenger CAB’s (example HERE (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=311050)), OpenVPN hacks (example HERE (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=315609)), Adobe Flash hacking (example HERE (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=307465)) etc. should ALL be posted to the General forum because these hacks, information etc. can be used on (almost) ALL Smartphone models.
if you have a question that you feel can be answered by other Smartphone users, do NOT post it to a device-specific forum, but to the generic one. Generic questions are “What Web browsers should I use?”, “How do I configure my e-mail client?”, “How do I install Flash on my device” and so on. ONLY post questions like “What about ROM version X.Y for Smartphone model XY”, “How do I enable HSDPA in model XY”, “Where should I get WM6 for model XY”, “I have problems with the rubber covers of my Vox”, “My Excalibur’s buttons are hard to press” – that is, questions you’re absolutely sure about belonging to model-specific forums.

Also, make sure you continuously monitor the forum because I’ll post a lot of brand new Smartphone-related information in there.

Again and again,

POST ALL your questions / tips / hacks in the General forum if you find it can also apply to / answered by the owners of other Smartphone models
frequently visit the new forum for new tips / questions and, last but not least, my tutorials / roundups :)