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cajunflavoredbob

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thelowend said:
Yo guys. Just had a quick thought about a cool idea.
When I go into the Q&A section of forum and try to answer a question, I sometimes wish I somehow tag another user in the post because I know he/she could better answer the question. For example, I was trying to explain a specific method of sbf'ing to someone and while I was close to spot on with the answer, I wasnt quite clear enough for the asker. Had I been able to tag the creator of the sbf, he would've been able to provide a much, much better answer.

Thanks for reading guys! I know this feature would make XDA a better place.
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We've brought this up before and were shot down. Something about servers and bandwidth or whatever. For now, sending a PM is the only thing we've got.
 
Asovse1

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Admins can see deleted threads, right? If they could, this would help my case a lot more than I could ask for.

There's this multi-device ROM promising a new flavour of Sense for a bunch of legacy and low-end HTC devices. Problem is, for the Legend, the thread has been deleted! I vaguely remember it existing in the Legend Android Development forum. (I could be wrong, but then I checked with the dev to make sure it was posted)

This is the original thread on the HTC Wildfire S forum:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1445517

Here's a thread on one of the supported device's forum, the HTC Aria:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1573059

Yet nothing for the HTC Legend. This is our first Sense 3.5 ROM, and I swear it existed once for us Legenders. We really got worked up for this.

I'm just curious as to why it disappeared. And hopefully, I request that it may be restored to the forum.

Thank you.
 
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There's quite a lot of crap going on in Galaxy Ace developement forum - flaming in dev threads and so on. The dev forums could be altered so that only the OP (and mods) have the right to post on thread (Releases forum), then dev discussion forum, strictly on topic. All the rest of the cr(a/o)p in general discussion. Flames and rants should apparently have their designated forum too.

That would need some modpower, though.
 
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DMCrimson78 said:
There's quite a lot of crap going on in Galaxy Ace developement forum - flaming in dev threads and so on. The dev forums could be altered so that only the OP (and mods) have the right to post on thread (Releases forum), then dev discussion forum, strictly on topic. All the rest of the cr(a/o)p in general discussion. Flames and rants should apparently have their designated forum too.

That would need some modpower, though.
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I'd like to see this extended to Development in general. Devs and Mods (won't even be necessary) in Development, and a dedicated Q&A thread in Q&A for all the junk.

A big overhaul, yeah. A lot tidier and easier on the Mods? Yeah.

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DMCrimson78 said:
There's quite a lot of crap going on in Galaxy Ace developement forum - flaming in dev threads and so on. The dev forums could be altered so that only the OP (and mods) have the right to post on thread (Releases forum), then dev discussion forum, strictly on topic. All the rest of the cr(a/o)p in general discussion. Flames and rants should apparently have their designated forum too.

That would need some modpower, though.
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Hit the report button on it! It's the best way to let us know what's going on.
 
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Asovse1 said:
Admins can see deleted threads, right? If they could, this would help my case a lot more than I could ask for.

There's this multi-device ROM promising a new flavour of Sense for a bunch of legacy and low-end HTC devices. Problem is, for the Legend, the thread has been deleted! I vaguely remember it existing in the Legend Android Development forum. (I could be wrong, but then I checked with the dev to make sure it was posted)

This is the original thread on the HTC Wildfire S forum:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1445517

Here's a thread on one of the supported device's forum, the HTC Aria:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1573059

Yet nothing for the HTC Legend. This is our first Sense 3.5 ROM, and I swear it existed once for us Legenders. We really got worked up for this.

I'm just curious as to why it disappeared. And hopefully, I request that it may be restored to the forum.

Thank you.
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The OP has no deleted threads or threads in legend area
 
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gage0727

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help with the fourm please!!

hello, first let me say how much I love it here. I have found so much useful information here its not even funny. I am dying to learn enough to help out in any way I can. the problem I am having is the threads for example are hard to follow. you go into a Rom thread and two post down their is a question or the date on the Rom post was last year. we have no way of knowing if its current or not unless you want to read 500 pages. trust me I tried it. I opened up a post and asked for a how too on Rom manager. got flamed for not using Google by 4 different people and then had the thread closed on me. finally had to go to a different fourm to find out any thing about rim manager. I use to back in the day deal with sat ird and the cam's that went with them. satellite talk (dishnetwork). the fourms I was a member in we had a software area that had basic guides. we had scripts we would right and we would post them and lock it to were we could be the only ones that edited that post. the wiki is a great ideal I can't wait to finally see it and learn. the bad thing is we wouldn't ask so many dumb questions if we could find and understand the information. a lot of us speaking for my self I want to do this hobby because its really cool. wish some of you would remember some times someone asks a dumb question because Google didn't answer their question good enough for them or dumb it down enough. lol. to the mods if you are seeing a lot of question about some thing specific maybe a guide wrote step by step may help to do away with that question. oh and trust me I know people want things just handed to them but some of us don't want to be the one in the next post crying because we bricked or phone because we didn't understand what we were doing.
 
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gage0727 said:
hello, first let me say how much I love it here. I have found so much useful information here its not even funny. I am dying to learn enough to help out in any way I can. the problem I am having is the threads for example are hard to follow. you go into a Rom thread and two post down their is a question or the date on the Rom post was last year. we have no way of knowing if its current or not unless you want to read 500 pages. trust me I tried it. I opened up a post and asked for a how too on Rom manager. got flamed for not using Google by 4 different people and then had the thread closed on me. finally had to go to a different fourm to find out any thing about rim manager. I use to back in the day deal with sat ird and the cam's that went with them. satellite talk (dishnetwork). the fourms I was a member in we had a software area that had basic guides. we had scripts we would right and we would post them and lock it to were we could be the only ones that edited that post. the wiki is a great ideal I can't wait to finally see it and learn. the bad thing is we wouldn't ask so many dumb questions if we could find and understand the information. a lot of us speaking for my self I want to do this hobby because its really cool. wish some of you would remember some times someone asks a dumb question because Google didn't answer their question good enough for them or dumb it down enough. lol. to the mods if you are seeing a lot of question about some thing specific maybe a guide wrote step by step may help to do away with that question. oh and trust me I know people want things just handed to them but some of us don't want to be the one in the next post crying because we bricked or phone because we didn't understand what we were doing.
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Doesn't seem like you searched very hard considering the very first search result for "rom manager" is the support page for the app. If you don't want a bricked phone then don't start flashing things until you understand what you are doing. Sounds simple right? This isn't a support website. If you can' search and find information here, you're always welcome to ask a question, but remember that we're going to come down on you if you don't even try to help yourself.
 
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Hi!

I don't know if this is the right section to ask my question. I wanted to know if I can change my username and if I can how sould I do it.

Thanks
 
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gage0727 said:
hello, first let me say how much I love it here. I have found so much useful information here its not even funny. I am dying to learn enough to help out in any way I can. the problem I am having is the threads for example are hard to follow. you go into a Rom thread and two post down their is a question or the date on the Rom post was last year. we have no way of knowing if its current or not unless you want to read 500 pages. trust me I tried it. I opened up a post and asked for a how too on Rom manager. got flamed for not using Google by 4 different people and then had the thread closed on me. finally had to go to a different fourm to find out any thing about rim manager. I use to back in the day deal with sat ird and the cam's that went with them. satellite talk (dishnetwork). the fourms I was a member in we had a software area that had basic guides. we had scripts we would right and we would post them and lock it to were we could be the only ones that edited that post. the wiki is a great ideal I can't wait to finally see it and learn. the bad thing is we wouldn't ask so many dumb questions if we could find and understand the information. a lot of us speaking for my self I want to do this hobby because its really cool. wish some of you would remember some times someone asks a dumb question because Google didn't answer their question good enough for them or dumb it down enough. lol. to the mods if you are seeing a lot of question about some thing specific maybe a guide wrote step by step may help to do away with that question. oh and trust me I know people want things just handed to them but some of us don't want to be the one in the next post crying because we bricked or phone because we didn't understand what we were doing.
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at the bottom of any post it will say the time and date that post was last edited.

so even if the first post is 2 years old, it may have been edited and Updated to new version last week. and the edit date is the clue. or most rom threads will have a changelog that includes dates.


keep reading after a few weeks/months you see it and know without looking. just keep at it.
 
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    ragapa97 said:
    Dear admin/s, I take this opportunity to express my great resentment and disappointment in the attitude if one TheDeadCPU, who has chosen to close down kquicksalls thread in the inc s ROM development sub-forum. I realise the action has occured due to ruffling of the feathers of the above-named admin, who has taken umbrage to initiate such drastic action.....
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    Bottom line is people just cant talk to anyone any damn way they feel. This is not a site to make people popular. Hell I dont give a **** how many people use the kernel, rom, mod, or hack. Act like a fool and you deserve to be banned for good. The rules are here for a reason. Either follow them or leave, your chose.


    Now I have had to hold my tounge on this for a while but no longer.
    XDA is a developers site
    XDA is a free forum you are ALLOWED to use. We could make it invite only
    XDA is and always will be about the developers. And before you say without the users there would be no XDA, Bull****, who do you think used the stuff before normal people even knew what a smartphone was......wait for it.........other developers. People that could give good feedback with relavent info. Like Logcats and crash messages. Not just "dahhh this is broken, please fix". And even Maybe help fix what is broken.

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    XDA is not your friends house
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    XDA IS a place to come to learn and share your knowledge. If you are not here for those reasons then you are here for the wrong ones.



    I have watched XDA become a place where every dumbass in the world has a smartphone and comes here thinking they have the right to anything. Well guess what? You dont have the right to ****. We share it because we want to and we dont if we dont feel like it. Are the Developers or the Mods required to make you happy? Nope not in the least. Wanna leave. Go ahead. I beg you, please do. The less people that are asking dumb question cause they dont know what they are doing (this is understood when your new, but at least look) or are too lazy to look for it the better.

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    Hi all

    A few of us Moderators have been getting PM's that in my case have not been dealt with due to the fact I am not always on the board.

    All of us do this for free and in our spare time, and over time we move on, get new toys, or even go back to a real life without a keyboard under our fingers.

    Please try to understand that some of us are Bias (I admit to it I have a BA and am not intrested in many of the other sections).
    Thus I for one do not read all posts and all sections, I feel this is true for others, like I said I feel this.
    We all however try to check the trash and keep the news clean.

    For this reason we need a form of communication that is not based on a person but directed to a group and in this case its the Moderators and Admins.

    It is with that motivation in mind that I have opened this thread and made it sticky in the hope that you are able to post issues that you think that at least one of us should deal with.

    Please note that this board does not tolerate cracks, serials, pirated versions or the posting of software that should have been aquired by legal means and we will remove (delete) them when found. Please help us keep this site clean by posting links of that sort in this tread as well as telling us if you have found anything on the ftp site.

    Please use this thread, use and edit the wiki and remember this board would not be as great as it is without YOU.

    Thanks for your support.

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    Jsmokey said:
    Thats true when a good or bad relationship is made with a mod not specifically here but any forum it can make things very unfair to the user but there are plenty that do there job's as they should almost like a judge where no matter the situation your ruling is fair based not on who is involved but on the situation at hand. Things can go bad with mods though and be unfair, when I was at xbox-hq I formed a good relationship with all the admins and mods except one, I'm not going to give his name but I had proven he was giving out misinformation a number of times and banning the ones who called him out or got pissed cause he screwed up there xbox with what he was telling them to do, I was the one along with my buddy wes and a few others that was on there getting them all working again. One day he banned me for it so I emailed the site admin and since I had already been talking with them about what he was doing and the problems he was causing killing ppl's box's and banning ppl the way he was not for any site rules violation but because he wanted to for whatever lame reason he had. Anyways I emailed the site admin and since I was already in the running to be a mod he unbanned me banned the offending mod and gave me his position. After that no one had any problems. Over here I see no real problems with any of our mods, they all seem to have the site, its procedures, and rules in best interest and thats how it should be. I know mods do form friendships and sometimes problems with users but it should never be a part of a decision they make it makes things unfair to other users, just like trying to force mods to look into someone getting a position is unfair to the person trying and looks bad on them and the person they're trying to get it for. I've looked into nils work on here and he shouldn't have much trouble getting dev status but everyone but him really should stay out of it cause you're making him look bad and making this whole process harder on him and adding alot of stress he could do without as being a dev for any device/console etc... is already stressful. Anyways nils I hope things work out for you, and mods keep up the good work, I know with how large the site is you guys put in alot of hard work keeping things under control and your work and services are highly under appreciated. On the topic if requests I agree that a noob specific section would be great for ppl just coming to android wp7 etc. When coming here it puts alot if ppl in way over their head trying to find the right info to get started and it would hopefully cut down on repeat threads asking the same things, how do I start dev, how do I find this or do that. It'd also be great if in chef central we could get a sticky with links that are kind of burried in the threads in there that are helpful to beginning rom cooking as there are way too many how do I start rom cooking threads started in there that pushes the useful info further and further into the far reaches of chef central that could all be easily answered this way, I know cyanogen's topic over there is stickied but its really only a small part of the good info burried in CC.

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    Just a question I'd like to ask the forum admins....
    When some lame junior member makes six battery widgets, it features on your headlines, but when a seasoned recognised developer in the HTC Incredible S section manages to port TWO JELLYBEAN ROMS AS A FIRST-EVER effort for the inc s, no one takes notice ... "Ho hum, what else is new"...
    Why the stepchild treatment to this section? Please feature this in your headlines please.. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1854796


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    I want to thank all the Mods...I did referral trading for a few years and spent about a year of that being a moderator on two of the forums I worked on. It is HARD work being a mod especially if you have a wife and or children. Your family deserves to have you in their lives and being a mod requires time spent in the forum away from the family. I ended up in some arguements with my wife over how much time I was spending on my computer....She was right; I was on it too much!

    For all you mods out their I want to suggest that you remember your family does come first and the forum second. Many users do not understand this and sometimes expect you mods to be there all the time. The forum will still be there after you spend time with the family. The users here may get frazzled having to wait but it is better than having your spouse getting frazzled!!!

    Forum users please remember these mods have lives that come first and they try very hard to balance life with being here helping you FOR FREE!
    God bless this forum God bless our mods!!!

    Peace out....

    P.S....Lets all try and help each other around here, you will get those ten posts before you know it...Read, learn, post.......suddenly you will have over 100 posts!!
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