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*NOOB FORUM FOR SGS3*
Xda community,
I decided to start this thread to help some newcomers along. When I was a NOOB, I had a lot of questions. I couldn't find the appropriate place to ask the questions, I didn't know how to use the forum tools, I didn't know which questions were good questions, I was worried about getting bashed by some senior members, and I became discouraged. Feel free to ask any questions in here. You will not get flamed for asking any legitimate question. I won't hold your hand.. If you have a question that is all over the Internet, I'll point you in the right direction and tell you how I found that information.
YOU KNOW YOU'RE A NOOB IF..
- You are new to rooting
- You are new to flashing roms
- New to adb, fast boot, drivers, bootloaders
- You don't understand the terminology
- You don't know the difference between a rom and a kernel
- You don't know how to use XDA forums
- You can't explain what rooting is and what it does
- Many more..you get the point
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*Reserved for useful NOOB guides for SGS3 and Android
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Good deal. Hopefully this will work out and avoid a lot of the clutter in threads with silly questions and the typical additional clutter of "search! Wrong section!" Replies lol.
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Perfect post hi guys quick silly noob question does the carrier logo or txt appear on the upper left hand corner of the screen kinda like the iphone is there a way to enable that feature? Thanx
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Here's a noob question:
Why not just post your noob question in the 'Q&A section'?
Biga173rd said:
Perfect post hi guys quick silly noob question does the carrier logo or txt appear on the upper left hand corner of the screen kinda like the iphone is there a way to enable that feature? Thanx
Sent from my GS3
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I know that it can be done, but do not know how to do it. I will look into it
Edit: PM Josh Beach... Here is the link to his JellyBean rom which is amazing..http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33030333#post33030333
He will make custom pull downs for $5...Or, you can just wait until someone has the same request =)
arozer said:
Here's a noob question:
Why not just post your noob question in the 'Q&A section'?
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because most n00bz have the same question! and other people don't want to see it posted 1000s of times plus it waste space on the servers.
arozer said:
Here's a noob question:
Why not just post your noob question in the 'Q&A section'?
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jamcar said:
because most n00bz have the same question! and other people don't want to see it posted 1000s of times plus it waste space on the servers.
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I think he meant that this thread should have gone in the Q&A section and not the general one...
Anyhow, good move! Hope the noobs come in for guidance. I too had many doubts and was discourage at some point from asking questions, now I try to help as much as I can
What exactly do I need to root a Verizon Galaxy nexus with jelly bean 4.1.1
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BenMart10 said:
What exactly do I need to root a Verizon Galaxy nexus with jelly bean 4.1.1
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First off... this is Sprint GS3 thread/forum
But I'm a nice guy, here you go, its the thread for the VZW GN root tool kit. Read through the initial post and a few pages from the end before even using it, to make sure of what it does and how and also if there are any bugs in the latest version.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1400871
BenMart10 said:
What exactly do I need to root a Verizon Galaxy nexus with jelly bean 4.1.1
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Best bet is to go to the forum for that device and look in development section. Should be all the info you need in a sticky.
ARE YOU HIGH?! No noob is EVER gonna see this. You didnt post it in the development section. :laugh:
Biga173rd said:
Perfect post hi guys quick silly noob question does the carrier logo or txt appear on the upper left hand corner of the screen kinda like the iphone is there a way to enable that feature? Thanx
Sent from my GS3
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Try miui. U might like it...
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billard412 said:
ARE YOU HIGH?! No noob is EVER gonna see this. You didnt post it in the development section. :laugh:
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WINNER!
billard412 said:
ARE YOU HIGH?! No noob is EVER gonna see this. You didnt post it in the development section. :laugh:
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You are right. Please some Mod move this to development.
And rename it to “Noobs don't need to READ this.“
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Thanx for the info
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jamcar said:
because most n00bz have the same question! and other people don't want to see it posted 1000s of times plus it waste space on the servers.
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I will do my best to keep it clean and delete multiple questions
BenMart10 said:
What exactly do I need to root a Verizon Galaxy nexus with jelly bean 4.1.1
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You are in the wrong forum my man. This is the Sprint Samsung Galaxy S3 forum. There is a device search box on the top of the page. Type in Verizon Galaxy Nexus. I will save you time... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1894717
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ARE YOU HIGH?! No noob is EVER gonna see this. You didnt post it in the development section. :laugh:
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#1 This thread has zero development in it. I would like it to be in the development section. I have a strong feeling that it would be moved quicker than I can type the 1st post. If you can help get it moved, more power to you
#2 Noobs can't find their phone on here...let alone know what development is..lol
#3 37% of people polled think that Mitt Romney was responsible for the death of Osama Bin Laden. 41% couldn't name our vice president
POINT BEING: Let's not give the general public undue credit
I'm trying to keep the crap out of threads where I want to read about actual development
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#1 This thread has zero development in it. I would like it to be in the development section. I have a strong feeling that it would be moved quicker than I can type the 1st post. If you can help get it moved, more power to you
#2 Noobs can't find their phone on here...let alone know what development is..lol
#3 37% of people polled think that Mitt Romney was responsible for the death of Osama Bin Laden. 41% couldn't name our vice president
POINT BEING: Let's not give the general public undue credit
I'm trying to keep the crap out of threads where I want to read about actual development
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Im Confused, are you half noob urself or part of the joke? This does not belong anywhere near development. I was implying that most n00bs post they're questions there
Am i the only one getting annoyed from all these noobs creating new threads about upcoming devices? Can't people just do their own research and decide what phone to get??! Unless these noobs see us xda members as spiritual leaders...and whatever we tell them, they will do it
Not alone, but not with just the over abundance of these threads in particular, it also seems like a bunch of people just went out and got the phone and think they are the first to have issues of their own. In general people need to search more often and post less.
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That is true. maybe would be better if mods just make a sticky thread so people can discuss there about those phones.
LOL. cool man. it's just a forum man. if you can't ignore it just don't go here. just go to development section. cheese
I think it's more annoying making threads crying about it lol..
Either way no one's holding a gun to your head forcing you to look at them or read through them.
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MikHaiL_08 said:
LOL. cool man. it's just a forum man. if you can't ignore it just don't go here. just go to development section. cheese
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Oh hi there "dev"! You wish, but unfortunately for you this place is not ruled by emptyheads like yourself
lazarat said:
Oh hi there "dev"! You wish, but unfortunately for you this place is not ruled by emptyheads like yourself
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tell that to yourself. you look my grandma having her meltdown your all over the place. RELAX, HAVE A BEER.
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Crisisx1 said:
I think it's more annoying making threads crying about it lol..
Either way no one's holding a gun to your head forcing you to look at them or read through them.
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It's not annoying. he look like a loser making this thread.
MikHaiL_08 said:
tell that to yourself. you look my grandma having her meltdown your all over the place. RELAX, HAVE A BEER.
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It's not annoying. he look like a loser making this thread.
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Keep trolling lol until some mod checks your ip address and finds out you are one of those morrons who has been banned forever from this forum.
lazarat said:
Keep trolling lol until some mod checks your ip address and finds out you are one of those morrons who has been banned forever from this forum.
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You ok man? i think you need your medicine your having serious meltdown? hallucination maybe?
Worthless inflammatory thread
I installed it on my brothers sprint version. Ever since he constantly has to reboot his phone for signal to retrieve 3g...at least 4 times a day. Any ideas?????
yes, it's because...
read the cm10 thread, post in the cm10 thread, and dont start threads like this in the dev forum. -_-
cnstarz said:
yes, it's because
read the cm10 thread. -_-
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Link didn't work..
wally3614 said:
Link didn't work..
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ah, sorry, here we go.
there is no link. read that post again.
cnstarz said:
ah, sorry, here we go.
there is no link. read that post again.
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Sorry I don't see where u r trying to send me. I search before posting and didn't see anything specific
damn it i don't know what to tell you.
try pressing alt+f4 to bring up search.
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damn it i don't know what to tell you.
try pressing alt+f4 to bring up search.
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tehe
All these smart ass answers. Smh. n00bz. Anyway bro. Go to the CM10 thread or try the CM10 thread in Q&A.
I hope you were not directing any vs towards me?
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God man, so annoying having smart asses like you jumping in to start something. Just stay out my question if you have nothing to offer, that is the entire point of asking for help. I have searched old posts and found a couple of people asking about signal issues, no real answer, so unless YOU r new to xda like I kinda am and do not notice thousands of posts in which sometimes it may not be as easy to find an answer someone else may have a lead on, just simply stop smiling at yourself about a chance to be a wanna be intellect.
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Hey hey hey, chill, he was referring to the other post besides yours. His post was the one post that was actually saying something constructive to help you.
boydefecto said:
Hey hey hey, chill, he was referring to the other post besides yours. His post was the one post that was actually saying something constructive to help you.
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Glad to hear that I formally apologize. It does get ridiculously aggressive here sometimes by NOT the mods but members.
.Bambino said:
All these smart ass answers. Smh. n00bz. Anyway bro. Go to the CM10 thread or try the CM10 thread in Q&A.
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I am sorry Bambino and thank you hope our relationship can be salvaged lol
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I hope you were not directing any vs towards me?
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what hes trying to tell you is to ask that question in the cm10 thread located in this same section or ask it in in the Q&A section.
Threads started in this area are for devs to post ROM or Kernel info/download type stuff. There is your answer in short.
Please read forum rules before posting
Development is for developers only to post release threads
Questions go in Q&A
Thread moved
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Answer, switch from lte to preferred Wcdma no SIG lost since
Or just flash the APN fix in the CM10 forums...
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Visionikz03 said:
Or just flash the APN fix in the CM10 forums...
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Yeah if what I said doesn't work and you have tons of time to sift through it all and try and find it. Like I just did, search apn cm10 sprint and it is a spider web. Hopefully someone sees this that doesn't know to check it that is having the problem, and maybe this will work for them. If not then hey, gotta do...
Here's the link to the file. The flashable link went 404 for some reason but this is the same file that is flashed. Just follow instructions.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34981237
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Is it just me, or am I seeing more and more ROM's that are CM9/10 and AOKP/AOSP based being put in the development section instead of the original section where they belong?
Would asking a MOD to move them to the proper section be asking for trouble? I am just curious because it is cluttering up section and making it hard to find things...
graydiggy said:
Is it just me, or am I seeing more and more ROM's that are CM9/10 and AOKP/AOSP based being put in the development section instead of the original section where they belong?
Would asking a MOD to move them to the proper section be asking for trouble? I am just curious because it is cluttering up section and making it hard to find things...
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The way I see it, they are technically Android Development, as are all the ROMs in the original section. And, they are technically not original projects since they are heavily based on someone else's work. Ideally we would have a sub section for Stock and a sub section for AOSP/CM based ROMS, but I don't see that happening anytime soon.
I do feel your pain though. The Android section is getting to be quite a mess.
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The way I see it, they are technically Android Development, as are all the ROMs in the original section. And, they are technically not original projects since they are heavily based on someone else's work. Ideally we would have a sub section for Stock and a sub section for AOSP/CM based ROMS, but I don't see that happening anytime soon.
I do feel your pain though. The Android section is getting to be quite a mess.
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Well that's the thing, original development is for the AOKP/AOSP and CM9/10 ROMS and Android Development is for the TW based ROM's be they stock or otherwise. It is so confusing...
I personally believe that all AOSP based ROMs should go in Original Development and all TouchWiz based ROMs should go in Android Development.
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I must agree as well, can be a brick waiting to happen!!!
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prguzman1978 said:
I must agree as well, can be a brick waiting to happen!!!
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Exctly. People can get confused Wth the installs.
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I do kind of aggree. why is there no one click aosp roms?
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I dont ...let the chips fall where they may...love the devs in any section thats putting in work....hell even the peeps that post in he wrong portion of the forum are kinda funny
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marksedge said:
I dont ...let the chips fall where they may...love the devs in any section thats putting in work....hell even the peeps that post in he wrong portion of the forum are kinda funny
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Please don't get me wrong. I love any dev that is putting new stuff out. But.... When they are putting stuff in the wrong section, it is confusing and bothersome.
Only original development IMO is CyanogenMod and AOKP everything else is based or a copy of those two.
I'm referring to ROMs not tools or kennels.
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graydiggy said:
Well that's the thing, original development is for the AOKP/AOSP and CM9/10 ROMS and Android Development is for the TW based ROM's be they stock or otherwise. It is so confusing...
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NO. Original development is for Original work. Just taking CM source and compiling it is not original work. The Official CM ROMs and first AOKP ROMs ONLY go in Original Development. Everything else goes in regular development. There is a sticky in Original Development explaining more.
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NO. Original development is for Original work. Just taking CM source and compiling it is not original work. The Official CM ROMs and first AOKP ROMs ONLY go in Original Development. Everything else goes in regular development. There is a sticky in Original Development explaining more.
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so many are posting wrong than... As stated above, there needs to a section under android dev called "aosp" and one "touchwiz" and maybe "other"
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We can't start breaking down ROMs by aosp, tw, etc. Mopar, that's just too much for the admins. *Most* of the time, they are labeled and if not, users will just have to read for themselves (like they need to be doing anyway). If you guys feel like something is out of place, then you can pm any one of us in this section, and we'll go over it.
---Jay--- From the Nexus 7
jayharper08 said:
We can't start breaking down ROMs by aosp, tw, etc. Mopar, that's just too much for the admins. *Most* of the time, they are labeled and if not, users will just have to read for themselves (like they need to be doing anyway). If you guys feel like something is out of place, then you can pm any one of us in this section, and we'll go over it.
---Jay--- From the Nexus 7
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I have an idea to make sure noobs read the OP. Instead of a capcha to access the DL there should be a randomly inserted question based on the OP to get the DL link. If you answer the question wrong you can't retry for 10 mins, answer it wrong more then 3x can't DL for 24hrs so they have time to re read
I like to break stuff!
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Oh and it should be a fill in the blanks so they actually have to read to find the missing word/s
I like to break stuff!
-EViL-KoNCEPTz- said:
I have an idea to make sure noobs read the OP. Instead of a capcha to access the DL there should be a randomly inserted question based on the OP to get the DL link. If you answer the question wrong you can't retry for 10 mins, answer it wrong more then 3x can't DL for 24hrs so they have time to re read
I like to break stuff!
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Oh and it should be a fill in the blanks so they actually have to read to find the missing word/s
I like to break stuff!
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Brilliant!
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-EViL-KoNCEPTz- said:
I have an idea to make sure noobs read the OP. Instead of a capcha to access the DL there should be a randomly inserted question based on the OP to get the DL link. If you answer the question wrong you can't retry for 10 mins, answer it wrong more then 3x can't DL for 24hrs so they have time to re read
I like to break stuff!
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Oh and it should be a fill in the blanks so they actually have to read to find the missing word/s
I like to break stuff!
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I'll definitely be pointing this out to the higher up's. Lol.
---Jay--- From the Nexus 7
We definitely need to do something about the new guys and everyone else not following rules and posting in the wrong sections. Just in the past week, I have seen probably 30 posts get moved from General to QA. As well as new members trying to be internet gangsters when the get called out on their crap. I personally feel like punishments should be a bit more strict not just as a punishment for the person with the infraction but to save other users from having to deal with the crap that is getting dished out. I see a potential for a ton of good things in the future and I have a ton of ideas for structuring how things are handled. It is obvious that we have a lot more average users than we do admins/mods, maybe having a few more would benefit everyone and setting up a sort of system to make it easier for those mods and admins to keep things organized. I personally have had people tell me that I should look into being a mod because i don't take crap from anyone and I normally don't act like a flipping idiot when responding to the top tier morons that want to act stupid for attention. If a mod wants to contact me about my ideas and such, please feel free to do so.
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We definitely need to do something about the new guys and everyone else not following rules and posting in the wrong sections. Just in the past week, I have seen probably 30 posts get moved from General to QA. As well as new members trying to be internet gangsters when the get called out on their crap. I personally feel like punishments should be a bit more strict not just as a punishment for the person with the infraction but to save other users from having to deal with the crap that is getting dished out. I see a potential for a ton of good things in the future and I have a ton of ideas for structuring how things are handled. It is obvious that we have a lot more average users than we do admins/mods, maybe having a few more would benefit everyone and setting up a sort of system to make it easier for those mods and admins to keep things organized. I personally have had people tell me that I should look into being a mod because i don't take crap from anyone and I normally don't act like a flipping idiot when responding to the top tier morons that want to act stupid for attention. If a mod wants to contact me about my ideas and such, please feel free to do so.
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You can put all the suggestions and questions you have all right here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1987254
The admins and MC do pay attention to it, believe me.
---Jay--- From the Nexus 7
I agree with the advantage of having more Mods and Admins, but you need to be careful about having too many. I've seen too many other communities die because of admin bickering and the admins getting really egotistic.
Also, I knew where you were going gray, before you finished the fourth sentence. Maybe a bit more subtle with your plugs, eh?
-EViL-KoNCEPTz- said:
I have an idea to make sure noobs read the OP. Instead of a capcha to access the DL there should be a randomly inserted question based on the OP to get the DL link. If you answer the question wrong you can't retry for 10 mins, answer it wrong more then 3x can't DL for 24hrs so they have time to re read
I like to break stuff!
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Oh and it should be a fill in the blanks so they actually have to read to find the missing word/s
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Something kind of along these lines was implemented into the JusTunBean inverted apps thread ages ago.
He was getting fed up with all the members who weren't reading the OP and continued to ask stupid questions so he asked other RCs what we could do.
An idea was suggested to hide a password in the OP somewhere. Once the password had been found, the member had to enter the password into an app which would then provide them with a download link.
The password was broken down into three parts and placed randomly in the OP but it would be clear which words were part of the password and which ones weren't.
It's just a shame that he removed the password because too many idiots were asking for it/moaning about it.
Just curious if anyone was working on AOSP?
Yes. Please read the threads that are stickied before posting something like this. It's also in the wrong section But yeah, someone is working on it, no idea about ETA, don't ask that question. You'll have to wait a bit, not sure. But it is coming! K, no one start a flame war or yell, things happen.
If I were you I'd run very very fast and by that I mean edit this thread or immediately apologize for asking about this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2173532
Dude did you look around the forums at all? There have been countless forums created asking about cm10 and aosp and the posters are ridiculed to no end.
Yes aosp is being worked on
No we don't have an eta
Don't bug the devs just be grateful with the current stuff and let them work
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Yes. Please read the threads that are stickied before posting something like this. It's also in the wrong section But yeah, someone is working on it, no idea about ETA, don't ask that question. You'll have to wait a bit, not sure. But it is coming! K, no one start a flame war or yell, things happen.
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Oops hope I wasn't too harsh I just saw this , sorry if I was mean
Dqm56 said:
If I were you I'd run very very fast and by that I mean edit this thread or immediately apologize for asking about this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2173532
Dude did you look around the forums at all? There have been countless forums created asking about cm10 and aosp and the posters are ridiculed to no end.
Yes aosp is being worked on
No we don't have an eta
Don't bug the devs just be grateful with the current stuff and let them work
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Oops hope I wasn't too harsh I just saw this , sorry if I was mean
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Why yes I did, but all they are is people saying stop asking. I don't see any actual answers or what is missing. I am not asking for ETA's or anything like that, this isn't my first day. But it just seems like this phone is about dead on the development side. The ATT seems to have much more of a following.
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Why yes I did, but all they are is people saying stop asking. I don't see any actual answers or what is missing. I am not asking for ETA's or anything like that, this isn't my first day. But it just seems like this phone is about dead on the development side. The ATT seems to have much more of a following.
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We have a lot of great devs and they work really hard behind the scenes they just don't like to be bugged or asked a lot. Thanks for being mature about this thread unlike some others. Yes it's on it's way, yes our devs are working hard. All we can do is let them work
As for what's missing I'm not the best to ask but up until know I'm pretty sure we were waiting on JB source, which just dropped last week
What's not working: nfc, GPS, camera, issues with efs & screen shadowing
Can we go one day? Just one day without a thread like this.
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No! Its a xda law. Lol
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No! Its a xda law. Lol
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It'd be different if anybody said anything different but it's always the same questions lol
Time to unleash the meme.
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One more for good measure.
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I just got word that all development for this device has ceased. I'm jumping ship now and moving back to my HTC Hero, as it's the best phone out besides this. Plus, Donut was the best of the OS versions. Please take heed to my word, and I'll see you all on PPCGeeks.
J/K..... Read more forums.
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Members please use the thread in place for this topic >>>>HERE