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Instead of 10 postings, how about asking the new user to answer a developer-level question, before granting posting privilege to developer forums?
e.g. What is the name of the Virtual Machine used by Android? etc.
Should I suggest other similar questions?
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Nate2 said:
Instead of 10 postings, how about asking the new user to answer a developer-level question, before granting posting privilege to developer forums?
e.g. What is the name of the Virtual Machine used by Android? etc.
Should I suggest other similar questions?
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I have considered this before, but the issue is how we add this into vBulletin in a non intrusive manner... I guess a quiz to get access to a non "new member" group would do the trick though...
I wondered about that myself. As good as that would seem, what about the people that are not really into developing, just love the work which other developers do. That would be unfair to people like them.
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I wondered about that myself. As good as that would seem, what about the people that are not really into developing, just love the work which other developers do. That would be unfair to people like them.
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Well, implement both rules then. Do one or the other. I personally don't do a lot of developing, but sysadmin type stuff (how I love Linux ) and something like that question could be found using a bit of *cough* googleing *cough*. I mean its only 10 posts, its not like its gonna kill you. I got that in less then a day.
My 2 cents.
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The 10 post rule is pretty hard for someone like me. I love certain mods, and am a developer of embedded software. I really only have a few forums I would like to post in, but I'm required to make other posts I could care less about just to post to topics I care about.
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there are many ways to gain 10 posts without spamming.
developers that want to develop here shouldnt have any issues answering 10 questions of noobs in the Q&A section or find a general thread that is related to you or some of your interests and ask some questions or share your experiences with that subject.
it is really easy to get 10 posts.
and you are 4 away...
Still, the 10 post limit is quite annoying and .. i'm still unable to post on the dev forums.
completely agree ...
it should actually be increased to 25 posts IMO
10 is too little
the correct place to post are in Q&A or General of each section
DEV is only for actual coders (programmers)
While I agree that the case can be made for 10 posts being a small amount, the problem is the sheer amount of people posting. I am unable to check XDA during the day, so most questions that are ones I would answer are already answered. The devs are good at that. Also, the "find something to post about " exactly the problem. I could care less about what case is better, or what skin looks good, or whatnot. Weeding through all the fluff is exhausting. Especially after a long day if development at work.
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I agree. This would be better
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AllGamer said:
it should actually be increased to 25 posts IMO
10 is too little
the correct place to post are in Q&A or General of each section
DEV is only for actual coders (programmers)
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I agree, I am constantly moving threads out of Dev from users in the 20 post range. If only we could implement some kind of redirect to the rules when when someone under 10 post count attempts to post in Dev, or even a redirect to 12anons 10 post explained
The 10 post rule needs to become stringent IMHO.
Or even a quiz to determine the level of experience
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AllGamer said:
it should actually be increased to 25 posts IMO
10 is too little
the correct place to post are in Q&A or General of each section
DEV is only for actual coders (programmers)
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People who are specifically coding for mobile platforms or people who code as a profession? I don't see myself doing any android coding in the near future but I do have an interest in the developers forums and you never know, I could help someone.
hi iam from chile.
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People who are specifically coding for mobile platforms or people who code as a profession? I don't see myself doing any android coding in the near future but I do have an interest in the developers forums and you never know, I could help someone.
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I'm sure they mean for mobile platforms. That is what this forum is for, right?
Still -- ask me anything about Mumps and I'll answer it! And the first person who knows what Mumps is without searching the internet gets a cookie.
Another problem is if I've been a member for a certain amount of time, it should be a factor. I've been following these threads since my touch pro 2 days but never posted. Now when I need to post, I have to go through this initiation to even begin posting. And on to of that o have to wait five minutes between each one? Lol.
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Can we please have any alternative method, I'm a developer myself who specifically registered to post a reply in one of the threads over there and it's incredibly annoying that I have to find some ways to hunt for 10 other threads and post something before being able to do so!
I do agree that it's a good thing to have some limitations, especially on opening new threads, but surely there must be a better way to grant access to just simple replies.
Does being in the top 1% for reputation on Stackoverflow count?
How about "Using Paint, point to where the Search button is."
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Can we please have any alternative method, I'm a developer myself who specifically registered to post a reply in one of the threads over there and it's incredibly annoying that I have to find some ways to hunt for 10 other threads and post something before being able to do so!
I do agree that it's a good thing to have some limitations, especially on opening new threads, but surely there must be a better way to grant access to just simple replies.
Does being in the top 1% for reputation on Stackoverflow count?
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We are working on other ways to keep the foras clean. Please bear with us while we work things out.
1. Any rom posted must be listed in a Roms sticky for each device.
2. Any kernel used or posted must be posted also in a Kernel sticky for each device.
3. Any updates to either must be updated in said sticky.
4. Sticky posts should be maintained to be current, not up to date as of a year ago. Look at Desire HD sticky, it suggests to go to the complete desire hd info thread, and it is current as of last May.
5. MD5 or other checksums for all!
It is hard to find the CURRENT version of a kernel, or radio because there is no kernel section, and the radio/ril threads do not have all the radios/ril in the OP. Yes I search, yes I read, in fact I read many threads every day, but it is difficult to figure out where the right or newest version is if they aren't all together. It has become a big mishmosh of information. The mods try to keep posts relevant to thread, but they need to help implement a better structure for the actual files.
This isn't a bash against mods, so calm down, just a suggestion to improve the site for everyone and reduce the number of garbage posts that exist because of disorganization.
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You are right
your right
nice thinking man
There is a general naming convention used in most forums. If something is out of date or in need of attention in your device specific forum, please contact your FSM.
Absolutely right bro. Thanks for jotting it down.
Wouldn't it be easier to have subforums for kernels, roms, mods etc?
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If only xda actually used ur ideas than this would be an even more beast app
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It's really about consistency and an easy way to find the information you're look for. I think a WIKI along with editable lists would be much more maintainable than a single thread to represent very different things. And then have discussions go on in the background.
Having discussions over new roms and [ROM], [KERNEL], [HBOOT] and [etc] releases in the same subforum leads to a confusing experience. Not to mention many different subforums per device, and seeing users posting questions to not so relevant forums (or not having permission to post to the right forum). The user experience is quite aggravating, actually...
But I don't think Forums are an easy way to handle discussions, anyhow. Once you get to more than a few pages in a thread, it becomes hard to track all the information that's going on, even though it's all available publicly.
It would be nice if posts that were 'thanked' were shown with higher priority vs. the ones that weren't. Or maybe something a la reddit with its upvotes (but that has its own set of problems too).
shurane said:
It's really about consistency and an easy way to find the information you're look for. I think a WIKI along with editable lists would be much more maintainable than a single thread to represent very different things. And then have discussions go on in the background.
Having discussions over new roms and [ROM], [KERNEL], [HBOOT] and [etc] releases in the same subforum leads to a confusing experience. Not to mention many different subforums per device, and seeing users posting questions to not so relevant forums (or not having permission to post to the right forum). The user experience is quite aggravating, actually...
But I don't think Forums are an easy way to handle discussions, anyhow. Once you get to more than a few pages in a thread, it becomes hard to track all the information that's going on, even though it's all available publicly.
It would be nice if posts that were 'thanked' were shown with higher priority vs. the ones that weren't. Or maybe something a la reddit with its upvotes (but that has its own set of problems too).
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The latter system of thanked posts is in testing in the galaxy nexus forums right now
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The latter system of thanked posts is in testing in the galaxy nexus forums right now
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What about having subforums for kernels roms(like aosp/sense) etc?
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idea
I think we need a separte part of forum for our samsung galaxy s plus 9001 no insead of samsing galaxy s 9000
so this is my idea LOL
right on point. i think some re-structuring would help to make things better! Thanked!
I am all for devs getting more standards imposed on how they post but shouldnt all posters have more standards.Recently when mods tried to impose standards on the general posting population they didnt think they needed to follow any rules.
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I think we need a separte part of forum for our samsung galaxy s plus 9001 no insead of samsing galaxy s 9000
so this is my idea LOL
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I agree with this one but this has been already answered by one of the modes - no green light from the XDA mgmnt for the sep. section for i9001.
We need a site mirrored on this site except with no comments, just the basic skeleton. Newbies can start there, answer and ask any questions and developers can choose to respond to stupid questions if they wish. This site will be a time trial site where spammers and the developmentally challenged can be routed out early on. Existing members will fear being sent to the kinder garden site and so will also follow the rules etc.
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A lot of great ideas that would help people actually find what they are looking for before they post the dame question that has been answered. If those q&a could just be moved up to the OP or to an asked and answered OP for the Rom......
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I wish we could really +1 posts, and also, when someone quotes our message in a reply, that the quoted poster can be notified. Many times I'm looking for an answer that may come days later, but I'll never know if there are hundreds of messages a day.
+1 and -1 with sortatiton option would be the best thing. That would help to find most useful info in threads really quick.
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What about linking a thread by category or handset vendor? For example, thread "Xperia Mini Pro active development" will be placed in "android development" category and "Sony Xperia" category. Both are the same thread. It's not a clone thread, but lonking thread, so one thread is original and another thread is a linked thread points to original thread (just like 'ln -s' in linux). So everyone can browse it from any category they used to be.
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Please answer me this question. I have been looking at the request device thread and it appears that only popular devices are only being added and no one cares of the request device thread. These are the most common i see on the thread:
ASUS Padfone 2
LG Escape
LG Optimus L9
Acer S500
Other Acer Iconia series
Motorola RAZR series
Now for my request is the pantech burst because we have a forum that is just getting way too cluttered http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1487576 I have submitted a request for this device three times now. For development: we have a rooted Gingerbread, a rooted Ice Cream Sandwich, three custom roms, have Clockworkmod recovery, AND working on getting CM10, AOKP, and AOSP working. We are very close to getting CM10 to work as a daily driver. Infact here is the link to how the progress is http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1818618
I extremely find this outrageous that the popular devices get one and very "unpopular" devices dont. I never see people carrying a Samsung Galaxy Player (proud owner of one) yet it has it's own forum.
One thing you need to understand is that this is a development site. As that's the case, of course newer and more popular devices will have a forum added for them because they have a lot more interest so therefore devs are more likely to develop for the device.
If a device has next to none development, there'll be less activity from the developers and that generally means less people will be interested in the device.
What would you suggest? XDA add a forum for each request that comes through?
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No not that. I just find it outrageous that no matter how many times you post in the new device request forum, they will not listen. Many people in that thread requested for the asus padfone 2 and im pretty sure there is plenty of dev support for the device. If there is some dev support like the burst i think it deserves its own device thread. I mean really, we are so very close on cm10 and yet no forum. The only thing not working is the data and wifi.
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I already explained why the forums that keep being requested haven't been created. See the first paragraph of my first post.
Explain how you would decide which devices had a forum created for them then. Obviously you feel that the current system isn't working, so what do you feel would work?
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I already explained why the forums that keep being requested haven't been created. See the first paragraph of my first post.
Explain how you would decide which devices had a forum created for them then. Obviously you feel that the current system isn't working, so what do you feel would work?
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Obviously the current system doesn't work for the end users nor the developers of lesser known devices. I own one of the most requested devices ever at one point and we don't have a forum yet. (Samsung Galaxy Relay T699) I would suggest taking any device that has a recognized developer working for it that is willing to moderate and implementing a system based on that. I would also suggest greater grouping of similar devices using sub-forums. It's too bad that this site's code doesn't allow for the use of tagging by subject or group, as that would help. Its not a simple solution as new devices drop every week it seems, but I maintain that a device so similar to the GS3 should have a forum lol.
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Obviously the current system doesn't work for the end users nor the developers of lesser known devices. I own one of the most requested devices ever at one point and we don't have a forum yet. (Samsung Galaxy Relay T699) I would suggest taking any device that has a recognized developer working for it that is willing to moderate and implementing a system based on that. I would also suggest greater grouping of similar devices using sub-forums. It's too bad that this site's code doesn't allow for the use of tagging by subject or group, as that would help. Its not a simple solution as new devices drop every week it seems, but I maintain that a device so similar to the GS3 should have a forum lol.
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If XDA was to add a forum for every device which has got a bit of development going on, then a load more moderators would be needed, OR the workload of the current moderators would be at the point where they couldn't truly moderate.
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Thus the part about letting the developers take responsibility for moderating their own device(s). Apart from hosting and storage limitations I wouldn't have a problem with each device having a forum, but honestly at this point there are probably 20 devices back in legacy that could be moved and merged and open that space up. The way I see it - admins are rapidly becoming elitist.
What would the problem be with more moderators anyway? I constantly see people in Miscellaneous Android offering to moderate the (nonexistent)forum for their device if that's the issue.
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I truly think the system is fine but the moderators seem to not take the time to view the devices thats being requested and see if the device deserves a forum. E.x. samsung galaxy s3 mini, you never see people carrying that device but it automatically gets a forum. The pantech burst is att's first LTE phone and it is still being sold for $1 USD and for $120-150 on ebay, maybe even more. All what i ask for the moderators is to look through that forum. If they cannot add that certain device, state a reason why
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I realize for the devices that arn't as popular theres no way xda can create a full forum for each one and moderate it without an insane load on the existing mods. I just wish for the less popular that there might be maybe a manufacturer specific forum that way it can hold multiple devices, only a handful of new forums would be created if that, etc.. like Asus / Pantech / Acer / Motorola
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Thus the part about letting the developers take responsibility for moderating their own device(s). Apart from hosting and storage limitations I wouldn't have a problem with each device having a forum, but honestly at this point there are probably 20 devices back in legacy that could be moved and merged and open that space up. The way I see it - admins are rapidly becoming elitist.
What would the problem be with more moderators anyway? I constantly see people in Miscellaneous Android offering to moderate the (nonexistent)forum for their device if that's the issue.
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You really think the moderator committee would let someone be a moderator just because they've asked for it?
The MC have to be sure that the person is ready to be a mod and that process takes too much time for something that isn't needed.
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I truly think the system is fine but the moderators seem to not take the time to view the devices thats being requested and see if the device deserves a forum. E.x. samsung galaxy s3 mini, you never see people carrying that device but it automatically gets a forum. The pantech burst is att's first LTE phone and it is still being sold for $1 USD and for $120-150 on ebay, maybe even more. All what i ask for the moderators is to look through that forum. If they cannot add that certain device, state a reason why
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Using the basis "you never see people carrying that device", all I'd expect to see on XDA is a load of blackberry's and iPhones mainly.
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I realize for the devices that arn't as popular theres no way xda can create a full forum for each one and moderate it without an insane load on the existing mods. I just wish for the less popular that there might be maybe a manufacturer specific forum that way it can hold multiple devices, only a handful of new forums would be created if that, etc.. like Asus / Pantech / Acer / Motorola
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Then the people of XDA would be complaining even more about bricked devices because noobs don't read and would therefore make more mistakes.
There seems to be a chicken and egg problem here. Phone has little organized development, it doesn't get a forum. Phone has no forum, development goes slower and less organized.
And then sometimes it feels a bit arbitrary. The Relay 4G has had more development done on it so far than the Sidekick 4G had in its entire lifetime, yet the Sidekick has a forum and the Relay doesn't.
Hi,
It would be a waste of time to add a forum for a device with a user base of ~10 people that aren't going to be going any development. It would add unnecessary clutter to the xda forum page, especially if its going too be added to legacy devices within a few weeks anyway
How about making a wiki for it? At least you can organize things that way.
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How about making a wiki for it? At least you can organize things that way.
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There already is an XDA wiki but it's vastly under-utilized.
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No not that. I just find it outrageous that no matter how many times you post in the new device request forum, they will not listen. Many people in that thread requested for the asus padfone 2 and im pretty sure there is plenty of dev support for the device. If there is some dev support like the burst i think it deserves its own device thread. I mean really, we are so very close on cm10 and yet no forum. The only thing not working is the data and wifi.
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You are frustrated and it is understandable. You need to read ans absorb what KidCarter93 is trying to explain.
The bottom line is, Yes the Mods see the requests but two things need to be considered.
1) this is a FREE development site people do not work/develop for $$$
2) unless you and a "bunch" of others want development, you need seek out a developer and try and work something out. Maybe a loaner device or simply offer a device for development. YOU CAN NOT PAY somebody to develop on XDA for development. A search on Google will help you find places that will do this.
Every device has started out as yours has. When the SGS3 started (one of the highest developed devices to date). It was a combined thread, every version was under one thread (there are many versions of this phone) so people were bricking there phones because everybody was attempting to use development for the European version which is different from the North American version. It took a month for the devices to form there own threads.
Sadly there are many devices that never receive development. I have owned a ASUS TF300 tablet and while it took development time to start, it now exists,. however in a short period it has slowed due to ASUS creating ewer /better devices. Development has now moved to the new iteration of the device.
Mods/XDA cannot force nor allocate Developers to work on specific devices. Everything done here is voluntary.
Your other choice is to learn development and create your own work:good:
I hope this helps understand XDA and the community a little better.
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There already is an XDA wiki but it's vastly under-utilized.
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LOL, I meant for the Pantech Burst ( which there is none ), not a XDA wiki section entirely. I guess I could have been a bit more clear.
We all have to realize, and believe me that I know the frustrations from searching from post to post, thread to thread, which is why I decided to get the Fuhu Nabi ( tablet ) section going in the XDA wiki for members to edit and contribute to as it's becoming very popular as well. If one reads the very first post here, we are not gauranteed a section. Just have to make the most of it and collect all the info where one can for members to have a start from. I am just glad we have a place like this where we can come to for help and not get litterally flamed for asking or the very least ridiculed for trying to help.
Been here since before 06 when it all started with the Windows Mobile Phones and those were fun times but never signed up until 06.
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LOL, I meant for the Pantech Burst ( which there is none ), not a XDA wiki section entirely. I guess I could have been a bit more clear.
We all have to realize, and believe me that I know the frustrations from searching from post to post, thread to thread, which is why I decided to get the Fuhu Nabi ( tablet ) section going in the XDA wiki for members to edit and contribute to as it's becoming very popular as well. If one reads the very first post, we are not gauranteed a section. Just have to make the most of it and collect all the info where one can for members to have a start from. I am just glad we have a place like this where we can come to for help and not get litterally flamed for asking or the very least ridiculed for trying to help.
Been here since before 06 when it all started with the Windows Mobile Phones and those were fun times but never signed up until 06.
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Collecting it in the wiki is a good way to get started. We take many different factors into consideration when adding new devices. One of these is how many existing developers have it already. Unfortunately we cannot add forums for every device,but you are more than welcome to use the wiki.
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Collecting it in the wiki is a good way to get started. We take many different factors into consideration when adding new devices. One of these is how many existing developers have it already. Unfortunately we cannot add forums for every device,but you are more than welcome to use the wiki.
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Well I just made a wiki for the device. It is a very good phone. It outperforms the Galaxy Nexus using Antutu.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Pantech_Burst
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You really think the moderator committee would let someone be a moderator just because they've asked for it?
The MC have to be sure that the person is ready to be a mod and that process takes too much time for something that isn't needed.
Using the basis "you never see people carrying that device", all I'd expect to see on XDA is a load of blackberry's and iPhones mainly.
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Then the people of XDA would be complaining even more about bricked devices because noobs don't read and would therefore make more mistakes.
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What he said ^^
XDA simply cant have a forum for each device, and in the case of devices that do not have the backing im sure there are plenty of other forums out there where these devs would meet.
You can also of cause use the Miscellaneous Android Development section if a developer wanted to release stuff for a device that was not listed.
It has been and always will be a developer site and thus the devices with lots of developers will get a section, the request thread is looked at and often devices from it do get sections, but alot of work has to go into deciding which do and dont get sections, and some will always miss out.
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Thus the part about letting the developers take responsibility for moderating their own device(s). Apart from hosting and storage limitations I wouldn't have a problem with each device having a forum, but honestly at this point there are probably 20 devices back in legacy that could be moved and merged and open that space up. The way I see it - admins are rapidly becoming elitist.
What would the problem be with more moderators anyway? I constantly see people in Miscellaneous Android offering to moderate the (nonexistent)forum for their device if that's the issue.
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We have high expectations of conduct of moderators. You can't just become one by asking. And that will NEVER change. We owe it to our users to ensure staff are up to the standard they expect and deserve.
We're not becoming "elitist", but we do expect to see development potential from developers on a device. There's a "rough formula" you can use to tell if a device will appear on XDA lately - it's not formal or anything, it's just common sense.
It is very hard to find anything here. For example in SGS2 forum there are sections:
Galaxy S II General
Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
Galaxy S II Accessories
Galaxy S II Original Android Development
Galaxy S II Android Development
It could be much easier to find anything if there will be sections:
User Guides / How to
Developer Guides / How to
Q&A
Accesories
CustomROMs
MODs
Themes
Thanks for the recommendation, you can also post suggestions here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1987254
Everyone will have their own idea about what constitutes "messy" and what would work best, ultimately we have to decide based on the experience of the users and staff and developers and come up with a workable system that evolves over time.
I can see some merit in your suggestion, but realize that for some users the current system would be more agreeable.
Be that as it may, you can always make suggestions to the site in the thread I linked
Thanks for reply. I will write a post there.
No problem,
and keep in mind that just because your personal idea is not adopted, it is still taken into consideration and may be phased into the current system in some fashion, so don't get discouraged or feel ignored if the things you suggest are not necessarily put into action.
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It is very hard to find anything here. For example in SGS2 forum there are sections:
Galaxy S II General
Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
Galaxy S II Accessories
Galaxy S II Original Android Development
Galaxy S II Android Development
It could be much easier to find anything if there will be sections:
User Guides / How to
Developer Guides / How to
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CustomROMs
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It doesnt help that a lot of people make new threads for a lot of the same things too
It would be great if phones had section manufacturer wise rather than have a huge photo for each phone.
For anything I need to urgently search I just search using Google. That throws the best result.
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It would be great if phones had section manufacturer wise rather than have a huge photo for each phone.
For anything I need to urgently search I just search using Google. That throws the best result.
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You can get to your device easily by typing inside "find your device" box beside "search all forum" box..
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@op - bro it takes time to get used to
U seem to b new here
Categorisation has been done perfectly
Just spend more time and u will b used to it
And u missed "apps" in ur idea
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I know that I missed it. It was only schema. I am here 1 year. Now I wanted to modify my ROM by myself and I found it pretty hard to find threads I saw earlier.
The forum supports a $hit ton of phones, can be bit hard to keep organized. The search feature shall be your friend...
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orangekid said:
Thanks for the recommendation, you can also post suggestions here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1987254
Everyone will have their own idea about what constitutes "messy" and what would work best, ultimately we have to decide based on the experience of the users and staff and developers and come up with a workable system that evolves over time.
I can see some merit in your suggestion, but realize that for some users the current system would be more agreeable.
Be that as it may, you can always make suggestions to the site in the thread I linked
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^^^^^ This
How about creating serpatre forum for NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV
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Every one here (Both original Shield Hand-held owners, and Shield Android TV owners) should post the the forum request thread (Link below).
I posted again today with a slightly stronger-worded post.
Note that the Handheld owners/users should post too -- To get us (Shield Android TV users) off your forum.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1660354
Thanks
Thank you for this forum XDA!
CTXz said:
Thank you for this forum XDA!
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This isn't a forum.
It is a repository for threads that have been tagged as related to this device. Threads posted here appear in the general forums.
biothundernxt said:
This isn't a forum.
It is a repository for threads that have been tagged as related to this device. Threads posted here appear in the general forums.
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This is still by far better than nothing. And you CAN post links to your ROM here right. Devdb would be great but you should be happy for even getting a repo like this. I agree, it still not top notch but at least there is a tiny bit organization.
CTXz said:
This is still by far better than nothing. And you CAN post links to your ROM here right. Devdb would be great but you should be happy for even getting a repo like this. I agree, it still not top notch but at least there is a tiny bit organization.
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I am by all means happy that this is here, but at the same time, I still want a real forum going.
Most of the posts that got put in here are 1 post long, and the relevant post about rooting and the more active posts did not get put in here...
Example:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nvidia-shield/general/shield-android-tv-rooted-t3123197
We now have a rom for the Shield TV and no forum.
nrage23 said:
We now have a rom for the Shield TV and no forum.
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Oh where can you get the rom?
At least now you can type in the find device box and actually find everything related to the shield tv. Not exactly a separate forum though. I'm thinking it will get sorted out soon.
I'm in favor of this... the shield tv is pretty much the most powerful android box on the market. Just because it uses an external monitor doesn't mean its not worthy of a separate forum...
The shield handheld and tablet both have their own forums,,,,
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I am getting this error trying to add 'Shield TV' to my list of gadgets...
XDA-Developers
Sorry, we encountered an error processing your request. Please go back and retry or wait a minute.
The Administrators have been notified of this error
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Actually very unusual for XDA to not set up a "proper" forum for this. Before several phone (S6 for example) were even out they had the forums made properly. It's like they do not like Nvidia for some reason.
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JJ-KwiK said:
I definitely agree. They post various explanations as to why a proper forum hasn't been made. However, when we try to open a dialog about the issue, they flat out ignore us (see HERE). They obviously don't want to open a complete forum for the device. It's too bad, because a ton of members would benefit from a proper forum with proper sub-forums in the proper section.
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They've posted a Nvidia Shield TV unboxing/review in the portal. I've added my comment there as well. Hopefully something will come of it (see HERE).
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Their current most important argument against us is "In the threads, within this section, there have been a total of 215+/- posts. Not all that many.", as you have stated this is partially because our posts are scattered of different subsections. Perhaps we can try to keep them within this section? I suppose the amount of posts will increase as the device gains users anyway. Especially when the device becomes available on my side of the pond (imported mine). So I personally still have the hope a forum will be created in the future, we just have to keep on posting about this awesome device and matters will solve themselves.
TLDR: Keep posting in this forum about the NVIDIA Shield Android TV for WIN!
i can't even subscribe to this forum b/c it's not the same as other device forums. very frustrating.
nvm figured it out. but would still be nice to have an actual forum space with sub forums like other devices.
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Just posted my request http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=62196046#post62196046
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Yet samsung s series from att and Verizon get their subforum for 2 years without any development and no root. Ghost town
Note 4 ?