Hello
Every time I try to search more than a single word it looks for any of the individual words - even when I am putting the words in quotes "" or as word1+word2+word3.
What am I missing here? Is there no way to search for phrases on here?
I found this :
Basic Search Syntax
Search multiple words use Boolean operators such as:
- AND (ex. ajax AND instant)
- OR (ex. ajax OR instant)
- NOT (ex. ajax NOT instant) or use the minus sign (-) (ex. ajax -instant)
Search for an exact phrase using quotes:
- (ex. "instant email")
Search for wild cards using asterisks (*)
- (ex. *mail)
black3yed said:
I found this :
Basic Search Syntax
Search multiple words use Boolean operators such as:
- AND (ex. ajax AND instant)
Search for an exact phrase using quotes:
- (ex. "instant email")
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Yes, but as I said neither of these seems to work on XDA .
Unfortunately, vBulletin's search function lacks recognition of Boolean operators. It makes searching for exact phrases difficult.
Try to use the keywords from your phrase. For example, instead of 'root for captivate', try 'samung captivate root guide' or something similar. The more specific you make it, the higher the chance of your top hits coming back with all your keywords.
It's a known issue, and there's been a lot of discussion on what can be done to get around it. Unfortunately with it being a 'feature' of vBulletin, it may take some time for this to occur
Good luck! If I can help with your search at all, feel free to send me a PM
Hate to resurrect this thread from the dead but, this is especially frustrating for searching within threads... Trying to search by phrase or just two words gives an impossible result
For example I'm try to search for "change color" unfortunately I get just the individual words results, and 125 pages of results lol :crying: Seems like I run into this wall on a weekly basis, frustrating. Usually I can just do a google search ie. site:forum.xda-developers.com "my phrase" but this doesn't let me search within specific threads.
There is still no work around for this right?
quick_ said:
Hate to resurrect this thread from the dead but, this is especially frustrating for searching within threads... Trying to search by phrase or just two words gives an impossible result
For example I'm try to search for "change color" unfortunately I get just the individual words results, and 125 pages of results lol :crying: Seems like I run into this wall on a weekly basis, frustrating. Usually I can just do a google search ie. site:forum.xda-developers.com "my phrase" but this doesn't let me search within specific threads.
There is still no work around for this right?
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Use double quote marks round your query?
"like this"
pulser_g2 said:
Use double quote marks round your query?
"like this"
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Unfortunately that doesn't work anymore, just gives results of the individual words.
that's so incredible that this simple thing cannot be solved on the biggest forum for smartphone, pfffff
in applications forums all the message are in a database and that is VERY easy to make a query for exact phrase with php.
I think xda dont want, for unknow reason ...
ANd i am afraid to read several same bad answers here ( and one by an "Developer Admin" ! OMG ! ) : ==> use quote '"like this"
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READ OR TRY , BECAUSE THAT DONT WORK !
anyway i give you my contribution , use Google ,
with the "trick" : site:forum.xda-developers.com
example :
"smallest rom" site:forum.xda-developers.com
unfornunately that dont work for specific smartphone forum then : give in more some indications to Google :
"smallest rom" I9300 s3 site:forum.xda-developers.com
jimi27 said:
that's so incredible that this simple thing cannot be solved on the biggest forum for smartphone, pfffff
in applications forums all the message are in a database and that is VERY easy to make a query for exact phrase with php.
I think xda dont want, for unknow reason ...
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lol. xda DB is huge. Querying the database directly is not a good idea since it can heavily impact the performance.
Thus the need of an external service for indexing and searching, such as Apache Solr..
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Everyone makes a big deal about not posting until you search the forums. Well how can I search the forums when key terms like VPN and GSM and GPS yield no results because the engin ignores strings shorter than 3 characters.
Is there some way to fix this?
amazing how you have a hermes (according to your signature) and have failed to read this sticky
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=298893
Because Google search is so unevenly applied for most sites I usually ignore it.
Here's the other thing: google search is kludgy, contextually inept and horribily inconvenient since it's not built into the interface.
And another thing, it's not current. (from the sticky post: "Remember that Google takes a couple of days to "crawl" sites for new info. so results will not show the absolute latest posts.")
The application list next to the home screen, has anyone heard if any updates are coming? I always assumed it would have a skiplist functionality like the contacts. It's kind of raw the way it is now, and we're getting closer and closer to an RC.
Anyone know if you can search through the list using the Search button?
lordcanti86 said:
Anyone know if you can search through the list using the Search button?
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Yep, you can. Uniform search ftw.
Windcape said:
Yep, you can. Uniform search ftw.
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Incorrect. There is no unified search. Search is contextual.
RustyGrom said:
Incorrect. There is no unified search. Search is contextual.
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You read the second part wrong
Uniform = Search button does the same everywhere.
I just had to add more words than just "yes" to the sentence. 10 character minimum per post!
Windcape said:
You read the second part wrong
Uniform = Search button does the same everywhere.
I just had to add more words than just "yes" to the sentence. 10 character minimum per post!
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But you can't search the app list...
RustyGrom said:
But you can't search the app list...
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It's my understanding it's meant to be possible.
The search-button in the emulator opens Bing for everything but custom loaded application with the search button mapped. So I would be a bit vary about judging to much from the emulator only.
(I also have some faint memory of seen it working in one of the unlocked emulators.)
In the current version of the emulator it's taking me to bing's website. However, I think this is a major gripe noted by many beta testers and developers so we should see something more updated at release.
I'm hoping that the search button becomes contextual here as well as adding in the jump lists. However, with the default number of applications a jump list might become a burden. After almost every other item you'll have a new letter block taking up screen space. It might be best to configure it to only activate the jump lists if you have X applications installed on the phone.
The search button currently allows you to search through your contacts list in the people hub, and allows you to search through locally downloaded emails in your inbox.
I really hope MS gives more options like allowing grids instead of just a list. A jump list in gridded form (like what shows on the Zune HD) would be great.
There's something wrong with the links on xda. They redirect through api.viglink.com.
This is bad for a couple of reasons:
- Manipulating links so that they point to a different address than displayed in the status bar is generally considered bad behaviour equal to malware.
- It breaks context menu functions like "open in another browser," "send shortcut to desktop," "translate," "search," etc.
Can you repair the links on xda so that what you see in the status bar is what you get? You don't want to modify links in a way that breaks browser functions, do you? I understand that you need to make money somehow, but please try to do so in a non-destructive way.
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There's something wrong with the links on xda. They redirect through api.viglink.com.
This is bad for a couple of reasons:
- Manipulating links so that they point to a different address than displayed in the status bar is generally considered bad behaviour equal to malware.
- It breaks context menu functions like "open in another browser," "send shortcut to desktop," "translate," "search," etc.
Can you repair the links on xda so that what you see in the status bar is what you get? You don't want to modify links in a way that breaks browser functions, do you? I understand that you need to make money somehow, but please try to do so in a non-destructive way.
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Sounds like you may have some malware installed on your PC or your web browser screwing with your links, you might want to check that. All of the outbound links in the XDA forums that I checked just now link directly to the external URL, standard "A" tag links.
My university is gonna like that. It's happening on their computers.
That'll teach them for forcing internet explorer on the entire department
(But it only happens with outside links on xda, not on other sites. Is there some xda-specific malware running wild?)
Nah, it's not malware or anything. It's something the owners decided to implement at some point. Sorry don't have any specific information though. Just letting you know it's not anything on your end.
This happens on almost every link I click on on my nexus 5 from any browser.
Hi,
if you want to phone somebody - let's call him Jochen Altmann - you can dial J-O-C... (5-6-2...) and the contacts get checked for matches. The more letters you type, the less possible hits are displayed. This also works when you start by typing the last name A-L-T...
Strangely, this does not work if the first name contains an Umlaut (ä, ö, ü) or a German ß. If that is the case, the contact won't be displayed. E.g. if I wanted to call 'Jürgen Altmann', neither typing J-Ü-R... (5-8-7...) nor A-L-T... makes the contact show up. The contact is totally ignored, as if it didn't exist.
This problem does NOT appear, if only the LAST name contains ä, ö, ü or ß.
Also, the problem does NOT appear, if the first name contains any other special letter like é.
The problem seems to affect a number of people, not only my phone. And it seems to be a Fairphone issue, not an Android issue.
Any solution available?
Best,
smartn
Hi,
smartn said:
Hi,
if you want to phone somebody - let's call him Jochen Altmann - you can dial J-O-C... (5-6-2...) and the contacts get checked for matches. The more letters you type, the less possible hits are displayed. This also works when you start by typing the last name A-L-T...
Strangely, this does not work if the first name contains an Umlaut (ä, ö, ü) or a German ß. If that is the case, the contact won't be displayed. E.g. if I wanted to call 'Jürgen Altmann', neither typing J-Ü-R... (5-8-7...) nor A-L-T... makes the contact show up. The contact is totally ignored, as if it didn't exist.
This problem does NOT appear, if only the LAST name contains ä, ö, ü or ß.
Also, the problem does NOT appear, if the first name contains any other special letter like é.
The problem seems to affect a number of people, not only my phone. And it seems to be a Fairphone issue, not an Android issue.
Any solution available?
Best,
smartn
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This is really an Android problem. Also because the search only matches the begin of a word you can not search for "rgen" for example.
_keesj said:
Hi,
This is really an Android problem. Also because the search only matches the begin of a word you can not search for "rgen" for example.
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1. No, as stated before, this is NOT an Android problem - it did not occur on other Android 4.2.2 mobiles that I've tried.
2. You're right, the search term has to match the beginning of a word. But this is the way it works, no matter what specific letters the search term contains, so it's not a bug but the way it's meant to be.
Hello
smartn said:
1. No, as stated before, this is NOT an Android problem - it did not occur on other Android 4.2.2 mobiles that I've tried.
2. You're right, the search term has to match the beginning of a word. But this is the way it works, no matter what specific letters the search term contains, so it's not a bug but the way it's meant to be.
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I did not look at the code I tried entering a few name containing special chars and once I was able to reproduce the problem searched the web for an answer:
I found the following thread from 2009!
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3732
Thanks for your effort, _keesje, but after flying over a good portion of the 235 entries on the website which you linked, it seems to me as if they were dealing with another bug in the search function: the problem that a contact search is only limited to the names, so you can't search by company etc.
Surely a problem worth mentioning, but not the least helpful in the matter I'm dealing with - or did I miss anything? If so, please provide the number of the entry.
smartn
In the meantime, Fairphone has replied to my direct request:
"Thank you for your email. Our development team is aware of this issue, and we hope to include a fix the future update.
Cheers,
Rick"
I hope so, too.
But meanwhile, I'm still thankful for any other approach...
Whenever I log into the site I end up on a search result page with a random string.
Generally looks like: "98ei10dj3j50dj55kal3l59zmn3z8832i", or similar. The page says "no result found", or equivalent. It's distinctly different than the Algolia search page or results.
Any idea? Seemed like the site was assigning me a random string and then searching by it.
artician said:
Whenever I log into the site I end up on a search result page with a random string. Generally looks like: "98ei10dj3j50dj55kal3l59zmn3z8832i", or similar. The page says "no result found", or equivalent. It's distinctly different than the Algolia search page or results. Any idea? Seemed like the site was assigning me a random string and then searching by it.
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Maybe @MikeChannon can help you out with this or refer another Administrator who does.
I, personally, have never heard of such a thing purely by just logging in but, just because I've never heard of it doesn't mean that it doesn't happen.
Have you tried different browsers on the PC and/or the Android to see if it's consistent?
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It happens on Pale Moon (latest), in Win7x64 and Win8.1.
It's always a 32 character string.
The string changes between sessions.
Thank you!