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Announcement

Hi guys,
From now all my work will be on h_t_c_p_e_d_i_a, announcement of new roms or any other work from me will be on h_t_c_p_e_d_i_a.
So to be informed follow that thread.
Regards,

htcpedia? Why?
Just curious btw.

Maybe cause it's a bit less hard to keep track of things there.
Here you have to skim through roughly 40 new pages on the Villain Rom alone each day (I know that's not Lox's work but it's the best example), most of which is incredibly useless bull**** like "flashing right now", "uh my download speed sucks so much" or the 10th billion question about whether or not goddamn live wallpapers are working or not..
Of course these problems persist on htcpedia too, as they do in any forum, but not that bad. Probably just because fewer people use it.
To be honest, at the moment htcpedia seems pretty dead, not many active people there, and no or few discussion about recent roms.
Of what is too much here is too few there.
So let's either get the crap over there or the good stuff, so that at least one of these two forums gets really useable and enjoyable..

meh announcements should be done by twitter, faster and easier, and you dont have to read others' spam.

This comment is exactly what I meant..

You nailed it.

[Idea] Combing Posts

Please hear me out, Ill try to be as short as I can. Im just detailed, sorry .
We have people from all over posting on here, from every dialect. Some have trouble finding what they should have found in the thread, but almost 75% of the time they 'miss' it. Everyone barks -> READ!. Ok obviously I understand, if they cannot READ, then what are they doing here? First, does this site have translations? On a quick note, I cant seem to see it maybe under user cp? Anyway, if not [hypothetically] thats much harder for them as well [visitors]. If there is, okay that definitely helps.
The awesome devs are posting ridiculous sensitive builds out there and require EXACT specifications, require exact rules to follow. You have the following problems:
1. 'Visitor' cannot read so well so they miss the bugs people are posting in the threads (after lots of pages even me speaking english all the time gets a bit tired after 3 or 4 pages, for them its got to be worse).
2. So now they just POST, now we get another random question/bug that has been posted 30xs before (some related to not reading first post either-somehow).
3. Now the threads 5xs larger than it should be, because of all these dups.
4. Hard to weed out the 'real' bugs.
This is not so much a laid back "hey I did this cool stuff today" forum anymore (or maybe never really was ) its a central ROM submitting place with bug reports, disastrous ones. Its working but not anywhere near as efficient as it could.
IDEA
Find a MOD for vB, im sure there has to be one. If not, get one made it cant cost much, it will be awesome. Hire a team of 'post mods', people that say they browse the forums/topics every minute, and read everything. I think you will find them, its what we all real testers do, we read those pages . Then allow them to 'combine' the common topics, into say various categories, or somehow just fit a real list of common real bug problems on the first page, that everyones posted about. That way, we solve all 4 of those last problems . Then, maybe devs will be able to sort the 'real' problems?
Also this should be possible with vb, you should make a posting template, where everyone is required to post their phone info, and/or like what variation of phone they have (ie. my HD2 has t-mobile version AND a euro version that is quite different and required a different ROM version too-sure we arent the only ones), or like the rom version their talking about, maybe a step by step of what they did. Because some people will say only a few words, someone else will say what did you do exactly then they say. Could have saved two posts, 1 for the answer to his problem. I dont know, just an idea.
I am not going to say more, just see what you think. Its just an idea, I just think this forum is growing immensely every minute, and its a REALLY great place, but lots of bug squashing goes on here and I think this could help . (PS. Its also not 'deleting' threads so please dont say that, its simply moving them and combine like you can a whole topic, just posts instead [like a real bug tracker?])
Sorry if I wasted your time, I never intended too.

Bad idea I guess? Or there is 0 ambition

We can combine posts, but with 10k members active at any moment, it's just too much work.

There are people in each forum that are constantly watching every topic. I agree, too much for mods alone, so see if you can hire up some post combiners or something, where thats all they can do.
Its a snow ball effect only going to get worse, but I understand its no small feat. just something that needs to be broken down into smaller coordination (not simply 2 mods each forum and leave it at that).
With 10k members always active, you would think your staff would be pretty large, its a bad idea to leave it to only a few, its too much work for one person, for it to be efficient. As I said, its growing, and growing very quickly.

suggestions?

hi all!
iam getting this phone along with my friend next week.. switching from metro pcs finally and had a few questions..
1. Overall reviews from people of MAJOR Pro's/Cons with this phone?
2. Performance upgrades/mods etc that will improve significantly the function and process of the phone?
3. Any additional info tips, etc that anyone would like to share or consider important?

There are a few threads around here already that contain a lot of this stuff.
For reviews (not by XDA members however): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18392978#post18392978

mziol said:
There are a few threads around here already that contain a lot of this stuff.
For reviews (not by XDA members however): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18392978#post18392978
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i know there are tons of mods etc of stuff ppl have done ive looked on youtube as well but would like to hear some from the people on here as its more credible. as far as performance there are alot of things to look at and it is a bit overwhelming for someone thats only rooted an ascend/flashed icarus on it.. big step between that to this IMO.
hope to narrow this down

dirtyglove said:
i know there are tons of mods etc of stuff ppl have done ive looked on youtube as well but would like to hear some from the people on here as its more credible. as far as performance there are alot of things to look at and it is a bit overwhelming for someone thats only rooted an ascend/flashed icarus on it.. big step between that to this IMO.
hope to narrow this down
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There's not much you can do right now without root. If you read the various forums though I'm saying you can see some of the issues people are having and watch how the solution process is unfolding right now (being such a new forum). Of course other users might have more information to offer!

mziol said:
There's not much you can do right now without root. If you read the various forums though I'm saying you can see some of the issues people are having and watch how the solution process is unfolding right now (being such a new forum). Of course other users might have more information to offer!
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right on i will definitely give the root my first attention, ill see what i can do as far as browsing for the performance/mods etc.. that light'ning rom look siiick tooo

webos... what happened?

I remember months ago, like august of last year someone had ported a working version of webos over to the galaxy nexus and said something like there would be many more features in the coming weeks, but now I can't seem to find a single build or ROM at all. What ever happened to it? It was very interesting looking and I'd love to give it a go, but it seems to have fallen off the face of the web. Anybody know of a ROM or any progress at all on it? Thank in advance.

still looks like a long way to go sadly
http://webos-ports.org/wiki/Galaxy_Nexus_Alpha_Goals
(when i posted this the "list" link on that page is down, but a few weeks ago there were perhaps 100 different things that needed doing/fixing from little things to big things like "get sms to work" and so on)

I wish people would just think for one second before making threads.
A Google search for webos port to galaxy nexus leads immediately to the link posted right above me showing that even minor effort can find out these answers.
Nothing personal by it just pointing out how useful searching is.

063_XOBX said:
I wish people would just think for one second before making threads.
A Google search for webos port to galaxy nexus leads immediately to the link posted right above me showing that even minor effort can find out these answers.
Nothing personal by it just pointing out how useful searching is.
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I did search Google, and went through probably 10 different pages of things, non of which were updated past last year. Hence why I thought I would come here since this is where the devs are and ask directly. I am not above searching for answers, but when searching turns up only results that are months old and no updated posts, why not post and ask? Is that not the point of a q&a forum?
Edit: not to mention I believe that page us specific to the gsm nexus, whereas I am on Verizon nexus.

what happened to the old XDA

the one where it wasn't overly moderated and had fast loading pages without so many ads?
did someone new take over this site? because the old one was much better,. seems now every thread has assigned moderator or something. the old site was just fine without all the moderators and the community seems to manage just fine and there was a lot less drama.
i don't know what happened, and even though the opinion from one user might not matter, it would be nice if some nostalgia was brought back to this site, because again, it was much better before and i'm sure i'm not the only one that feels this way.

Someone typed up something similar before except it said XDA doesn't have enough moderation. Hmm...
Well, we can't please everyone.

tft said:
the one where it wasn't overly moderated and had fast loading pages without so many ads?
did someone new take over this site? because the old one was much better,. seems now every thread has assigned moderator or something. the old site was just fine without all the moderators and the community seems to manage just fine and there was a lot less drama.
i don't know what happened, and even though the opinion from one user might not matter, it would be nice if some nostalgia was brought back to this site, because again, it was much better before and i'm sure i'm not the only one that feels this way.
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We get a lot of people talking about "the good old days", and I do know where you're coming from. We've now got nearly 6,000,000 members though, and hundreds of different device forums. Also, the devices that we used to cater for were more likely to be owned by people that were already technically minded before coming here, whereas now we get a LOT of people coming here to learn. It's great that we have so many eager people joining who want to gain knowledge from the site and then hopefully start to put some back in, but we also get the moronic spoon feeding requests a lot more. Basically, more people brings more of all these things.
Things have just changed and we've all rolled along together and we are where we are. If you have any specific issues or suggestions then we're always ready to listen and discuss things.
Just try and see it as different to how it was, and hopefully you'll find the right place for you to fit into it now