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the need for a FAQ

Hi all,
i just bought my self a second hand MDA, and i want to use it as phone, but also play with it, and modify the OS. I've been reading these forums all night, and i was wondering if there isn't a FAQ for all this stuff.
Reading all the threads confused my about how to backup, how to upgrade to wm2003 .. what's the difference between O2 and T-Mobile ...
Maybe it should be better to include all frequently asked questions in a document. I'm willing to help to set this up ...
I also checked the #xda-developers on ircnet, but it was an empty channel, does anyone know where the channel is?
thx

If you want to help create FAQ documents, you're most definitely welcome to. We'll certainly give such documents a prominent spot on the site.
Be advised that ROM manipulation on these devices is a hairy and complex subject though.

Help wanted: the FAQ system

The wiki ( http://wiki.xda-developers.com ) contains a tiny start of what could become a very nice FAQ. I do not have time over the next weeks to expand what's there, and appeal to any and all with some time on their hands to please see if they can add structure, or just questions and their answers. Feel free to change it until it's good, that's what wikis are for.

Nice post peter
Question for you
How would you feel if you had spent over 2 months building a wiki for the blueangel, posting the files to the ftp site, to find that they got deleted on the 16 .
Pm 2 admins, one picking up the pm but not repliying, the orher not picking up the pm.
Rebuilding the trashed ftp site, re linking the wiki links, Posting to the ftp non public thread, reading that it will happen soon, watching the ftp site getting trashed again (today) and then reading your reqest?
Ps you have a pm from me datedted 16 march, feel like picking it up?

Why this beautifull FAQ (http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Blueangel) is not visible for ordinary people? I found it by accident.

But it is!
Top of screen to the right is the link wiki.xda-developers.com
On that page under HTC Device you will find Blueangel
The Blueangel Link gets you to that page

Never thought that behind these WiKi activities this FAQ is hidden - put another link under this WiKi.XDA-devloppers.com link with something like "How Blue Angel works" or "Blue Angel FAQ" or "Knowledgebase". So a person who visits for the first time immediatly sees this fine product of hard labor.

What happen to the Magician section ? Are we being ignore ???
Well, I really love your job, however, my device is being left out !!

Wiki like the forum is user driven. In short if no user feels the need or want to update wiki then it just does not happen.
You dont need to be a moderator to add pages in wiki, you dont even need to be good in english for somebody down the line will add or correct your page.

I have to say - that's a real shame.
There's a lot of information requested on these forums that has been requested before - but often it's buried deep in a confusing thread (most recently the splash image tweaks for the HTC Wizard - I have no idea what util tweaks what splash).
I just created a Wiki page (search for my username, I guess - it's not really linked from anything much yet), and I plan to create more related to the Wizard as time becomes available.
Wikis are inherently much better at giving concise information than an open-discussion forum... wish people would use it.

Help with the SiteManagement Project
Please see the following forum topic to see how you can further help with the FAQ Wiki Project:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?p=226744#226744
We need as much help as possible to create a sustainable platform in order to further create a workable and informative website, so please check out this topic and see what you can do to help!

Hi guys, is it possible to have access to google-analytics results? Since we need to know for what the users are looking for - the most common search, how they act in site (in wiki! and so on)
Then we can make THE wiki.

Posting to the ftp non public thread, reading that it will happen soon

how change the nick?

numaverick said:
how change the nick?
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Ask a Mod or Admin, only they can make that.

orb3000 said:
Ask a Mod or Admin, only they can make that.
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Only the admin (Flar) can change them.
Please send a PM request it.
Ta
Dave

Forum Layout

Hi,
I've recently got a Touch Diamond and have found certain aspects of this forum helpful however I can't help but feel that this place has an appauling forum layout.
Are you afraid of creating some sub-sections or something? I mean seriously, what's the point of all the square bracket tags on the start of topic titles?
They don't make it easier to find because the topics are still jumbled up with all the others anyway and a good topic title should let you know what it is related to in the first place. I thought that maybe at least a search for a certain tag would reveal all of those topics but alas no, the search gave me no results at all even though I can see them on the screen in the forum listing it still doesn't find them.
Take the Diamond themes, apps & s/w section for example...
Why not simply create a sub-section for related topics such as Themes and hence have all theme topics together and do away with the need for tagging the titles.
Sorry to criticise your forum but I just don't see the logic in the current system as it makes things very difficult to find, especially when the search tells me there are no results containing [THM] or 1.93 etc. :lol:

Thanks for the reply regarding the search, hopefully I'll be able to find a little more of what I'm looking for now.
I've come across plenty of forums that don't allow searches for less than 4 characters but surely [THM] is 5 characters
Anyway, that's not my main point, I just think that the forum ingeneral would be friendlier to browse and need less searching if it was better organised to begin with.

Thanks again for the reply and nice little site overview
I agree that a good forum is run in a manner that keeps the members happy though it should also be as user friendly as possible. There are always people who prefer to avoid change but they will quickly get used to changes if they are for the better.
I'm a forum SuperModerator myself and my advise is that a clear layout helps a lot with finding info, where to post questions and also getting replies for those questions as topics don't get swapmed like they do in one large general section.
As for mods being unloved I would say that depends on how much of a presence they have in the forum, invisible mods are unloved because they are unknown with no personality but if your mods are active forum members they will be known and more respected as well as being someone people can go to if problems arise.
lol, sorry I didn't meant to launch into a forum moderation tutorial there

Thread-specific moderators (for ROM threads)

Hello,
first thanks for this great place! I would have smashed my Touch HD if xda wouldnt exist
I have a suggestion regarding the ROM forums and threads:
As the cookers and chefs are mostly to busy to gather information from the thread and put them in the first(second...) post, it would be really nice if a threadstarter or moderator could assign a normal user as an "thread-specific" moderator (for only the first three posts for example). So volunteers, people very interested in this ROM, could maintain a buglist, tips and hints, fixes and other helpful stuff from the thousand and more pages and make the life for everybody easier.
Its sometimes really hard to find information in the thousand pages. I think a solution like this would help everybody and reduce the senseless spam questions in the ROM forums. All 1-2 pages new users ask the same as people before, and all are getting the answer "Read through the thread, its mentioned 10 pages before" for example.
Whats your opinion about this?

7Bit said:
Hello,
first thanks for this great place! I would have smashed my Touch HD if xda wouldnt exist
I have a suggestion regarding the ROM forums and threads:
As the cookers and chefs are mostly to busy to gather information from the thread and put them in the first(second...) post, it would be really nice if a threadstarter or moderator could assign a normal user as an "thread-specific" moderator (for only the first three posts for example). So volunteers, people very interested in this ROM, could maintain a buglist, tips and hints, fixes and other helpful stuff from the thousand and more pages and make the life for everybody easier.
Its sometimes really hard to find information in the thousand pages. I think a solution like this would help everybody and reduce the senseless spam questions in the ROM forums. All 1-2 pages new users ask the same as people before, and all are getting the answer "Read through the thread, its mentioned 10 pages before" for example.
Whats your opinion about this?
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Hi,
1. I don't think this is possible with the standard vB software. And I know the webmasters are adversed to applying "patches" unless they really help.
2. There is a problem of trust. Moderators are selected on here to be trustworthy, not to carry out malicious activities and to always be fair. I've seen plenty of people on here become friends and then enimies as quick as they can. Giving many users complete control over a single thread could become problematic. If you're just speaking about allowing users to edit another users thread. I can't see that been too risky - but still Impractical with the forum software.
An alternative, If the ROM cook would like someone to help manage the thread, they should arange before hand to let someone bag a few posts on the thread when it's first started (I know its not practical to existing threads). Moderators can help add posts when needed and remove any
pesky "First" messages someone might inject in the way .
Just my thoughts
Ta
Dave

Yes you are absolutly right, good idea
It would be enough if the moderators could move a post of the "Useful thread stuff Collecter / Maintainer" at the second or third position of an existing ROM thread, or if the creator already plans it when creating the thread. That would be exact the same without editing the board software or applying hacks...

7Bit said:
Yes you are absolutly right, good idea
It would be enough if the moderators could move a post of the "Useful thread stuff Collecter / Maintainer" at the second or third position of an existing ROM thread, or if the creator already plans it when creating the thread. That would be exact the same without editing the board software or applying hacks...
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Well if it's not possible to arrange this beforehand by timing a the time of thread creation, you could indeed ask on of the mods to help you out there. Don't look at me yet though, haven't figured that one out yet

Mom needs help! Samsung s9 lost messages during Smart Switch. Have "Message" file.

S9 is old I know but it's what I have & I don't let my kids or anyone mess with it & it's rarely been dropped so it's still in good shape. Battery is getting weak & it's not ready for 5g but I need to help it creep along a little longer & so I did a backup without pics & copied pics over to my laptop's external hard drive & then did the factory reset using the buttons. I then did the Restore. Only thing that didn't come through in Smart Switch restore was my old text messages.
There is a file called "Message" that is rather large like 5 Gig. I'm assuming this is the file of text threads that SS should have transferred over to my phone? Assuming such, I did go ahead & transfer that big file back onto my phone in a general location like Data or something just so I'd have it handy on the phone if I needed it at the phone store.
Is there ANYONE or anywhere that can tell me where Samsung is storing the text threads in S9's? Or perhaps even better, how to get Smart Switch to recognize this file & let me restore it using Smart Switch app on my laptop? It's Windows PC. Carrier's tech guy tried to walk me through doing that today but in the app it does not recognize there is any text messaging restorable files.
I'm desperately needing help. So many old sentimental messages. My parents, my kids, & now grandkids. Friends who've passed away...just like anyone I'm sure. I'd be very grateful for any help.

sweetp1978 said:
S9 is old I know but it's what I have & I don't let my kids or anyone mess with it & it's rarely been dropped so it's still in good shape. Battery is getting weak & it's not ready for 5g but I need to help it creep along a little longer & so I did a backup without pics & copied pics over to my laptop's external hard drive & then did the factory reset using the buttons. I then did the Restore. Only thing that didn't come through in Smart Switch restore was my old text messages.
There is a file called "Message" that is rather large like 5 Gig. I'm assuming this is the file of text threads that SS should have transferred over to my phone? Assuming such, I did go ahead & transfer that big file back onto my phone in a general location like Data or something just so I'd have it handy on the phone if I needed it at the phone store.
Is there ANYONE or anywhere that can tell me where Samsung is storing the text threads in S9's? Or perhaps even better, how to get Smart Switch to recognize this file & let me restore it using Smart Switch app on my laptop? It's Windows PC. Carrier's tech guy tried to walk me through doing that today but in the app it does not recognize there is any text messaging restorable files.
I'm desperately needing help. So many old sentimental messages. My parents, my kids, & now grandkids. Friends who've passed away...just like anyone I'm sure. I'd be very grateful for any help.
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Hello and good morning, @sweetp1978
Welcome to XDA. I hope you'll always find and get the support you require.
However, prior to your next posting please read the guidances that are stuck on top of every forum like
Note: Questions go in Q&A Forum
If you are posting a Question Thread post it in the Q&A forum. Technical discussion of Android development and hacking. No noobs, please. Device-specific releases should go under the appropriate device forum...
forum.xda-developers.com
and the others. I've moved the thread to
Samsung Galaxy S9 Questions & Answers
Ask your questions about the Samsung Galaxy S9 and get answers from the community! Please be as specific as possible when posting.
forum.xda-developers.com
Thanks for your cooperation!
Regards
Oswald Boelcke
Senior Moderator

Oswald Boelcke said:
Hello and good morning, @sweetp1978
Welcome to XDA. I hope you'll always find and get the support you require.
However, prior to your next posting please read the guidances that are stuck on top of every forum like
Note: Questions go in Q&A Forum
If you are posting a Question Thread post it in the Q&A forum. Technical discussion of Android development and hacking. No noobs, please. Device-specific releases should go under the appropriate device forum...
forum.xda-developers.com
and the others. I've moved the thread to
Samsung Galaxy S9 Questions & Answers
Ask your questions about the Samsung Galaxy S9 and get answers from the community! Please be as specific as possible when posting.
forum.xda-developers.com
Thanks for your cooperation!
Regards
Oswald Boelcke
Senior Moderator
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I'm so unfamiliar with this site. I was rushing. I appreciate the kind response. And thank you for moving it to the right forum.