How do devs test their builds without fear of bricking? - Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III

Just a random thought, was wondering how devs do that.
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sevenpioverthree said:
Just a random thought, was wondering how devs do that.
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Who said the devs weren't afraid of bricks? They're just generally good at avoiding them because they understand Android and their phones better than most folks. It comes with the developer territory. Anyway, I've seen plenty of devs have to quit maintaining ROMs or kernels because of bricks. They just don't generally make super-obnoxious "OMG MY PHONE IS DEAD!!!11!1 SOMEBODY HELP!!1!" threads when it happens, so it stays out of the public's attention.
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EndlessDissent said:
Who said the devs weren't afraid of bricks? They're just generally good at avoiding them because they understand Android and their phones better than most folks. It comes with the developer territory. Anyway, I've seen plenty of devs have to quit maintaining ROMs or kernels because of bricks. They just don't generally make super-obnoxious "OMG MY PHONE IS DEAD!!!11!1 SOMEBODY HELP!!1!" threads when it happens, so it stays out of the public's attention.
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This 100% I know of a few too.
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Ooh interesting, thanks guys, that makes me respect them devs even more

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Chef Forums?

I'd like to make a suggestion for XDA to consider.
I was just about to suggest to DL that he open his own website forum after watching how many threads become very, very, very, painfully long - like 400++++ posts for each build. That makes it hard for newbies to understand what's going on, and even for those of us who do know, to find what we're after.
I am wondering if those developers who regularly post ROMs here on XDA might be given their own sub-forums for the purposes of bug reports and improvement suggestions to manage their own product.
For example, guys like NRG, DFT, DL and others are always posting updates. But the threads get very long, and very confusing with duplicate posts. If they had their own forum subsection - say for example DL could have his own Android subforum for troubleshooting his NAND and SD builds, that would, I think, very much help.
Just an idea.
Thanks!
We have one, it just didn't really take off, so it's been "upgraded"... more info is in svetius's State of Site announcement : http://www.xda-developers.com/announcements/the-state-of-the-site/
Dave
DaveShaw said:
We have one, it just didn't really take off, so it's been "upgraded"... more info is in svetius's State of Site announcement : http://www.xda-developers.com/announcements/the-state-of-the-site/
Dave
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Duh. And I now remember reading that very announcement. Now you know why I drink on the weekends... to help kill off the old, slow brain cells.
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BillTheCat said:
Duh. And I now remember reading that very announcement. Now you know why I drink on the weekends... to help kill off the old, slow brain cells.
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And now we have the official announcment : http://www.xda-developers.com/announcements/become-a-recognized-developer-of-xda/

Port request sensation 2.0

Hi all I'm piggy backing off the original post in themes seeing if we get more action in here
"Really excited that everything is moving so quickly and can't wait to get my flashing fix in. I saw this ROM in the international SGS2 section and since i dont know anything about developing I'm kindly making a request for one of you awesome Devs to port this. "
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1194765
Looks like a cool ROM
I have a feeling you are about to get flamed for not putting this in the Q&A
I don't have a problem with it being in here because I would love to see on the E4GT, but a lot of peeps won't.
Good luck!
would love to see this rom on our et4g
crevis24 said:
Looks like a cool ROM
I have a feeling you are about to get flamed for not putting this in the Q&A
I don't have a problem with it being in here because I would love to see on the E4GT, but a lot of peeps won't.
Good luck!
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Read the rules, if you didn't make it, it dosent belong in development. Nobody wants to sift through random threads to find the roms, mods and kernels.
Best course of action would be to try and contact the devs and ask if they would be interested.
The original poster did and he said all he needs is a dev from our side and he'll help us port it to our phones s
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I don't think there has been a ROM ported yet... Would be nice to see it on my phone, closest you're going to get to that is if someone port it as a theme.
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Hacked? or just Searched

Ok guys I have learned how to root a phone, many thanks go out to all on here who helped me especially Big Goron, who rooted my first phone for me using team view.
Now I have a serious question.
Today at work I looked at my phone because it buzzed as if I was getting a phone call, what I found next disturbed me a lot, somebody had entered my phone and was looking at everything on it, now I'm not the best at phones yet, but I am pretty handy behind this computer, so I get home plug the phone in a start hunting, what I found is a trace log from a govt computer that as far as I am concerned illegally entered my phone, and being that I am neither democrat or republican I do NOT want the govt in my personal phone, will droid firewall from the market work? Or do I need more security than that?
Apparently....yes they CAN get into a phone.
Since I'm the first to respond to this thread, guess I'll be the generic asshole to ask: What nonsense are you prattling on about?
All I read was a theory with no evidence to confirm such allegations.
nikon120 said:
Since I'm the first to respond to this thread, guess I'll be the generic asshole to ask: What nonsense are you prattling on about?
All I read was a theory with no evidence to confirm such allegations.
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Lol
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To help ya out, please post the following... for starters...
What ROM/Kernel combo you on?
How did you tell someone was scanning your phone?
What app did you think you needed to block via droid wall?
You found a trace log, you say?
Post it.
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Flashaholic

No matter what from I flash and its been many lately... I keep finding myself going back to venums hydra rom. Still rocking it! I like paranoid but this one is more stable and I like its customizability better. The only thing its missing is hybrid settings. Period.
I flash, and always end up running Blazer 4.1 again. Ive since stopped flashing roms. Being a flashaholic with this device just isnt fun anymore. We need ICS. We need SOURCE!
dw3bb10 said:
I flash, and always end up running Blazer 4.1 again. Ive since stopped flashing roms. Being a flashaholic with this device just isnt fun anymore. We need ICS. We need SOURCE!
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Couldn't agree more. Are all the Dev's switching to the GS3??
RussellEstridge25 said:
Couldn't agree more. Are all the Dev's switching to the GS3??
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yes, every single dev is switching to the gs3. there will be absolutely zero dev work on this device once the gs3 is freely available to all.
cnstarz said:
yes, every single dev is switching to the gs3. there will be absolutely zero dev work on this device once the gs3 is freely available to all.
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Was I talking to you? No.
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chill dawg, just clownin.
im switching to an iPhone..
the dev is strong with this one.

att stinks

they told me latest update is releasing in batches.
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... and? I mean, honestly... that's what you base your opinion of a company on? Not their horrible customer service or their amazingly increase in dropped calls? LoL
I know we all want the latest and greatest but I sometimes question why everyone loves the official releases of these updates/patches... this exploit was sealed up by the amazing devs on this site many moons ago yet everyone gets a half-stack when an official release comes out.
well at least its not like when I was with verizon. Love the blazing fast 4g speed but updates what are they. always months behind the other carriers updates if you got it at all. then the locked bootloaders.
New to the cell phone world hm? It's pretty rare for an update to hit an entire country at the same second.
Carrier updates? Lmao people round these parts update there own s hit
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really...if you care about ota updates from your carrier, you really don't belong on XDA..
wase4711 said:
really...if you care about ota updates from your carrier, you really don't belong on XDA..
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Well said, sir. Well said.
Thread Closed and OP if you are unhappy with your Carrier you can always switch....but bottom-line XDA is not here for Members to rant on about their Carriers, Thank You.
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