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[request]XDA-DEV Thread Button Link

Hi xda-dev,
I just thought if we could have us thread owners to have a standard button design for a specific thread that we can use/link in our blog post or websites?
Just a thought ..

And, while on the subject: Is an RSS feed going to be made avail in new version ?
Nullstring said:
Hi xda-dev,
I just thought if we could have us thread owners to have a standard button design for a specific thread that we can use/link in our blog post or websites?
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I think that's a great idea. But could you clarify: Are you speaking of the same basic concept on news sites where various social-media icons are avail to auto-repost? (twitter, digg, etc)... Or do you mean a button that performs the action of copying the thread's link & title to the clipboard, then being able to paste it anywhere on your own site, manually, into a blog post etc?

Button preview
http://www.twitpic.com/zxspe

quicksite said:
Or do you mean a button that performs the action of copying the thread's link & title to the clipboard, then being able to paste it anywhere on your own site, manually, into a blog post etc?
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that's what I meant. Just a simple idea, thought it would be nice .. but if you could think of better implementation, then it'll be great!

Nullstring said:
Button preview
http://www.twitpic.com/zxspe
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Hey that's a cool graphic, I like that.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
SLIGHTLY OFF-TOPIC:
I'm WAY behind the curve in using twitter, and how it integrates with what seems like 1000 different twitter-based apps... And twitpics, i'm even less clear on how and WHEN to use it, and if it's used WITH twitter, or a parallel service to twitter for just sharing photos in real time.
ON-TOPIC
So I'm not clear if your posting that image on twitpic is literally an example what you want to be able to do, or are you saying there are apps for either phone or desktop computer that will generate a template graphic as well a specific thread title linked? So, in your picture, is the thread title generated as part of the graphic itself? Or is the thread title displayed in HTML on top of the template graphic?
I am really confused but I like the way it looks! please explain further...

Okay, so now I see this, in your prior sig file.. and I see that it is a graphic that gets generated with the title of the thread rendered as part of the image... so i just have never seen these used -- but I love the idea...
So for this example here:
tell me how that gets generated -- at http://www.twitstamp.com ? and then when you apply that generated graphic, how do you also code the link to the thread, in this example?
even more confused and feeling so behind the times !

well whaddayaknow -- this looks like a pretty cool web app ! ---
so are you speaking of ...
(1) You're here at XDA-devs, and you're on, for example, this very thread...
(2) You'd like to see a simple small graphical button, as part of "thread tools" or somewhere within the thread page layout, that when you click on it, it grabs the Title of the thread, and the link, copies it to pasteboard...
(3) then you go to a site like, for example, TwitStamp.com, and insert what's on the pasteboard into the "input box" at Twitstamp...
(4)... thereby generating a graphic with link that can be embedded anywhere on a webpage etc, exactly as you would grab embed code from a YouTube video, or from a photo at photobucket.com, stuff like that?
(5) Is this kind of small-file-size "picture status" thing being rapidly used as a way to post updates, but using twitpics? So that after you generate the graphic, you post it to twitpics? And those who subscribe to your feeds can see "oh cool, that sounds like an interesting thread, i want that for my phone"... and so they would click on it and link to the thread here at XDA?
even more confused by all the permutations of pasting what where... hah hah.
Is this what you mean exactly, or is it close, or is this just one of many examples of what you are envisioning?
sounds & looks interesting....

sounds & looks interesting....
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behind those words says something.
am not trying to insist the idea or any way of enforcing it to make it like a xda-dev standards.
if you don't like my request then that's fine.. I accept it with a smile.
Sorry for wasting your time.
Thanks anyways and please Senior Member.. delete this thread too..
or just let me ask the Admin.

What are you talking about?
Everything I have written has been enthusiastically positive about what you're saying. I'm just trying to understand if I'm following what you are thinking. You took all of those posts the wrong way, I think.
I really am interested in learning about how people are using these kind of twitstamps... I went and registered. I don't know what else to say, I like this idea -- and I really would like for you to answer my questions, all of them, because if I "getting" it correctly, I like it. But I may not be understanding AT ALL the way *you* are seeing your idea. So please, explain some more! I'm just another member like you, that's all. We're just talking about your idea.
Nullstring said:
behind those words says something.
am not trying to insist the idea or any way of enforcing it to make it like a xda-dev standards.
if you don't like my request then that's fine.. I accept it with a smile.
Sorry for wasting your time.
Thanks anyways and please Senior Member.. delete this thread too..
or just let me ask the Admin.
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[REQ] Rate posts and filter by rating, so you can filter out off-topic posts

Dear admins/website developers,
It would be a really nice feature to be able to rate a post.
-1 off topic/offensive
0 off topic/irrelevant
+1 on topic
+2 on topic/informative
+3 on topic/must read
Something like that. They use it on the dutch website tweakers.net and it's really handy.
By filtering out the off topic posts. You have a much cleaner view of the thread.
The user is free to choose the level of rating. For example I wan't to read the "thank you's".
I set the viewing level to 0 offtop/irrelevant.
But if I would be a developer I would set it to +1 or +2, so I could easily read up on new developements users have made or requested.
Ofcourse the rating of the posts has to be done by users themselves.
And they themself have to be rated as well (their credibilty).
If one user A rates a post -1, but five other users rate that post +1. The credibilty of user A goes down.
I think this is a really nice way to clean up a thread.
Popular rom threads get spammed so fast with "thank you's" and/or questions, that there's hardly keeping up with the actual developing discussion, bug reports, fixes, etc.
Cheers,
Daan

If a post needs to be removed, report it. Mods are generally very quick to fix those things.

cajunflavoredbob said:
If a post needs to be removed, report it. Mods are generally very quick to fix those things.
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I know but I don't think it's appropriate to report a "thank you" post
What I meant was, viewing a thread on different levels.
Normal, informative and developement. Or somethng like that.
Now that I think about it you could indeed skip the -1 and just report offensive posts to the mods.
Mods will still have to remove it. Not a big deal ofcourse, probably takes 2 minutes.
But with the system above that is no longer necessary. Users become the mods in a way.
Cheers,
Daan

DaanJordaan said:
I know but I don't think it's appropriate to report a "thank you" post
What I meant was, viewing a thread on different levels.
Normal, informative and developement. Or somethng like that.
Now that I think about it you could indeed skip the -1 and just report offensive posts to the mods.
Mods will still have to remove it. Not a big deal ofcourse, probably takes 2 minutes.
But with the system above that is no longer necessary. Users become the mods in a way.
Cheers,
Daan
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Nothing wrong with reporting "Thanks" posts in my opinion. I do it all the time. Dev threads get cluttered up enough without having newbies clutter it up with "Thanks" or "ETA?".

cajunflavoredbob said:
Dev threads get cluttered up enough without having newbies clutter it up with "Thanks" or "ETA?".
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That's exactly what I mean.
Wouldn't it be nice if you, the user, could mod the post.
That way you won't have those annoying cluttered up threads anymore.
The posts are still there, but you filter them out to your own needs.

I think the biggest issue with your idea (which I like, btw) is the server overheads. You're basically asking for every single thread to have its own dedicated view. I've seen similar types of features in sites like Stack (I use Stack Overflow quite a lot) and it works very well for them, but they're not forums - they're purely Q&A sites and they discourage discussion. While that difference is not particularly pertinent to your suggestion I do think you're thinking of this site more along their terms.
The mods are there for a reason, and as tedious as it may be, cleaning threads is one of their tasks. Just report things that are out of place.

DaanJordaan said:
That's exactly what I mean.
Wouldn't it be nice if you, the user, could mod the post.
That way you won't have those annoying cluttered up threads anymore.
The posts are still there, but you filter them out to your own needs.
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A quick fix would be to use the XDA Toolbar for Chrome. You can collapse posts, sigs, and images. It's probably going to be more to your liking than us telling you that XDA isn't going to implement this feature.
[20-Dec-11] XDA Toolbar for Chrome v1.7

I agree with the report button... Cause a mod can review it to see if it needs to be removed.. If they did it the way your talkin about.. Things could get messy since some new guys or someone wanted to be not a nice person could just down rate your thread for no reason at all... Which does happen from time to time.. I have no idea why when a bunch of others love it.

Archer said:
I think the biggest issue with your idea is the server overheads.
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Quite true! I Didn't think of that!
I did realize it would be a lot of work implementing this system.
cajunflavoredbob said:
A quick fix would be to use the XDA Toolbar for Chrome.
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Thanks I'll try that out, I'm running Chrome anyway.
reaper24 said:
Things could get messy since some new guys or someone wanted to be not a nice person could just down rate your thread for no reason at all.
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New users should not be able to mod posts yet.
There should be a rating system for the users themselves, as stated in the first post.
If user A rates posts -1 while 5 others rate +1, then eventually user A won't be able to mod posts anymore.
Well, I guess I'll have to use the report button more often and more aggressively.
It was just an idea.
Cheers,
Daan

cajunflavoredbob said:
A quick fix would be to use the XDA Toolbar for Chrome.
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You would have thought I'd think of that, wouldn't you

Archer said:
You would have thought I'd think of that, wouldn't you
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Whahaha, I can see the connection.
Nice work on the toolbar!

kind of similar request: how about keeping it simpler, and have the ability to filter a thread so it shows only "thanked" posts? I think this would be extremely useful, and although I know very little of programming, it shouldn't be difficult? This way for example if I'm in a custom Android ROM thread, instead of searching or reading through posts, you just filter out the questions and other "less useful" posts and get straight to the answers or the more useful/interesting ones.
Sorry if this had been requested before (or if there already is the ability to do it..... ) but just saw this thread and thought I'd jump in

What's this questionmark I see at the bottomleft corner of the posts?

DaanJordaan said:
What's this questionmark I see at the bottomleft corner of the posts?
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Not sure what you're referring to...
Screenshot?

a.cid said:
Not sure what you're referring to...
Screenshot?
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{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Doesn't show up at every thread though?

DaanJordaan said:
Doesn't show up at every thread though?
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The post rating system only exists in the Galaxy Nexus forum at the moment and has been there a while now.
I'm not too sure about it though because I figured there would be buttons to click to rate the post up or down.
I couldn't understand how simply showing that message (one in screenshot) would solve anything.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium

This would be great.
Sent from my LT18i using xda app-developers app

ib.adnxs.com

Every page I go on, on XDA I get two url's in my browsed pages leading to ib.adnxs.com/if?enc=AAAAAAAAAA
Like this
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Im using IE 8
So when using XDA I'm unable to browse back using the back button in IE as the Url just reloads the same page again no matter how many times i click back
I have to click the main link on the top of the page every time I want to go back
Also we now have add's with sound! so bad!
Just a heads up very annoying

I'm getting the same thing, VERY annoying. Can't use the back button at all.
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Same here. Extremely annoying!!!
Admins please FIX!!!!

orb3000 said:
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What is the significance of a red X?
I know, I went to the page and saw the pic.
Nice reply from a mod to problems people are having with the site. Nice!
add volume.liftdna.com to the list.
One time I got five url's between the forum page and the thread page. And clicking the forum link to go back is annoying as you always return to Page 1 of the forum instead of the page you were on.

85gallon said:
What is the significance of a red X?
I know, I went to the page and saw the pic.
Nice reply from a mod to problems people are having with the site. Nice!
add volume.liftdna.com to the list.
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Is there another thread on this topic? Are the mods doing anything about it? This is a real pain in the a$$.
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jpeepers said:
Is there another thread on this topic? Are the mods doing anything about it? This is a real pain in the a$$.
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From orb's response they don't care. He suggests in an offhand way to install another browser other than internet explorer.

I'll forward this to our Server admin and if there is a problem to solve XDA will do the best to fix it as usual.
In the meantime this thread will be closed.

85gallon said:
From orb's response they don't care. He suggests in an offhand way to install another browser other than internet explorer.
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Rest assured, we care. I use IE8 at work, and IE9 at home, so I am not of the use Opera or Chrome mindset. We are looking into the issue now.

NotATreoFan said:
Rest assured, we care. I use IE8 at work, and IE9 at home, so I am not of the use Opera or Chrome mindset. We are looking into the issue now.
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Sorry to lump you all in with the response of one. My bad.
Thanks for letting us know you are working on it.

I am not seeing the issue anymore, how about you guys?

Back-button [still] not working in xda-developers on IE
O0Brian0O said:
I am not seeing the issue anymore, how about you guys?
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1. The problem is unchanged for me; I am still seeing the issue, where (just for the sake of clarity):
"the issue" == a. hitting the back-button doesn't appear to change the displayed page when viewing any page of xda-developers.com with Internet Explorer;
b. depending on what page you are viewing, hitting the back-button might or might not change the IE history-list that you see when you click on the little blue triangle to the left of the URL entry text-box drop-down. Ditto for the IE history-list that you see in the IE history "explorer bar" that you get when you choose to "View By Order Visited Today."
I am using IE 9.0.8112.16421.
Note 1: FWIW, my browser doesn't seem to go to any pages in the domain that is the title of this thread. The unexpected pages in my history list (and there are LOTS of them) are all in one of the two following domains: statc.liftdna.com and mediaservices-d-openxenterprise.com.
Note 2: The title of this thread doesn't really help very much those people who are searching for answers to the problem that the back-button doesn't work. Since there seems to be almost a fetish on this forum about the pleasures of searching for previous posts, perhaps the title of the thread can be changed so that more people (and apparent non-people such as newbies like me) will get more satisfaction from their searches?
Note 3: there is another thread on the same topic that someone has opened up (appropriately enough) in the forum:
AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Q&A.
The thread is called "IE Back Button within forums".
Being a newbie, I can't post in such a development forum and point him to here.

[Solved] How to see participated threads on pc site

The auto-subscribe feature just isn't working...
So does anyone know how do I view my particiapted threads on the xda desktop site...?
There is already "participated threads with new posts" feature in the app, so any similar feature on the site?
Typed using a small touchscreen
Edit:
svetius said:
Tada: http://forum.xda-developers.com/index.php?tab=participated :good:
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a.cid said:
The auto-subscribe feature just isn't working...
So does anyone know how do I view my particiapted threads on the xda desktop site...?
There is already "participated threads with new posts" feature in the app, so any similar feature on the site?
Typed using a small touchscreen
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ask svetius

ronnie498 said:
ask svetius
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I'll keep that as a "last option"...
And the admins probably know about it already, since a few senior mods have also confirmed that they face this problem...
Any other solution/workaround (apart from using the app, all day) ?
Typed using a small touchscreen

a.cid said:
I'll keep that as a "last option"...
And the admins probably know about it already, since a few senior mods have also confirmed that they face this problem...
Any other solution/workaround (apart from using the app, all day) ?
Typed using a small touchscreen
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IDK of one I like that feature as well, if I find one i will pass it along

Do you mean something like this;-
http://forum.xda-developers.com/search.php?searchid=40771066

SimonTS said:
Do you mean something like this;-
http://forum.xda-developers.com/search.php?searchid=40771066
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That would have been the answer, had I not been receiving this:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
(I also get this from the desktop site)
Search also isn't working...
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That would have been the answer, had I not been receiving this: View attachment 1184145
(I also get this from the desktop site)
Search also isn't working...
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Ah - my bad. Yeah, it creates a new search each time. I had seen it and assumed (stupidly) that it was just a search by user ID.
Search has been so unreliable recently it's crazy
A possible workaround, although it's not exactly ideal, is to type the following into Google
site:http://forum.xda-developers.com "a.cid"
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If you have some idea of the thread title then you could put that in there as well and narrow it down a little?

You can do this by going to the forum home, choosing Advanced Search, typing in your username, making sure the "Search All Open Forums" and "Show Results as Threads" selections are highlighted. The default sort order of the results is last threads with a post are at the top.

Thanks everyone!
With the search finally working, I can see my participated threads...
That solves part of my dilemma...
Thank you...
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a.cid said:
Thanks everyone!
With the search finally working, I can see my participated threads...
That solves part of my dilemma...
Thank you...
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Could you please edit the title and put [SOLVED] or something similar there? Thanks!

Thanks for this! I have to search throughout the forums for this. I really think this should be a basic feature in the desktop site option just as it is like in the app itself. Just my 2 cents

Thank you gentleman . Just made life easier on the Laptop .

Tada: http://forum.xda-developers.com/index.php?tab=participated :good:

svetius said:
Tada: http://forum.xda-developers.com/index.php?tab=participated :good:
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Yay! You're awesome man! :laugh:
Sent from my GT-S5830i using xda app-developers app

Edited OP to add svetius' latest work :cyclops:

Question where is the kernel ,rom,development area?

where is the kernel ,rom,development area? just like those in OP8P forum!

{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

It's the new xda forum.
Is there a way to do a search only in the oneplus 9 pro forum? The filter is not enough, and the xda search does not permit to do it (or I missed it).

clavelm80 said:
It's the new xda forum.
Is there a way to do a search only in the oneplus 9 pro forum? The filter is not enough, and the xda search does not permit to do it (or I missed it).
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+1

clavelm80 said:
Is there a way to do a search only in the oneplus 9 pro forum? The filter is not enough, and the xda search does not permit to do it (or I missed it).
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Did you try the "search" field and changed from "Everywhere" to "This forum"?

The new forums are ****. I don't know what the hell they were thinking. Sub categories are clearly superior by far.

Oswald Boelcke said:
Did you try the "search" field and changed from "Everywhere" to "This forum"?
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Nope, that's what I missed.
Thanks a lot

I can't stand this new forum layout. I'm just trying to see if there's any ROM's or kernels for this device and I cannot find the right section. Would have taken me less than 2 minutes on the old forums.

I never buy a day one smartphone so I don't know if it's normal or not (it's not a criticism at all) but is it normal that a month after the release there is still no TWRP and ROM development with this device?

glitchsys said:
I can't stand this new forum layout. I'm just trying to see if there's any ROM's or kernels for this device and I cannot find the right section. Would have taken me less than 2 minutes on the old forums.
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In browser click on the prefix "Development" to filter.

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In browser click on the prefix "Development" to filter.
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There's no way to do it with the XDA mobile app that I can find. I also haven't found a way to watch/follow only specific filters the way I previously followed subforums (e.g. get alerts only when someone posts a new thread in Development or Themes/Mods).
Hypnoz69 said:
I never buy a day one smartphone so I don't know if it's normal or not (it's not a criticism at all) but is it normal that a month after the release there is still no TWRP and ROM development with this device?
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I'm wondering the same thing. The last new phone I bought was the OP7P and development had already taken off before I even got my phone. At this point I'm starting to wonder if any devs are even working on anything for this phone.

terlynn4 said:
There's no way to do it with the XDA mobile app that I can find.
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I apologise I don't use the app. Maybe someone knowledgable knows in this thread:
Check out the new XDA app! Let us know what you think [App rolling out now]
The new app is just an upgrade to the current XDA app, so you should be able to just go into Play and hit "Update" https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xda.labs.play The app is rolling out now, and will take hours to get to...
forum.xda-developers.com

terlynn4 said:
There's no way to do it with the XDA mobile app that I can find. I also haven't found a way to watch/follow only specific filters the way I previously followed subforums (e.g. get alerts only when someone posts a new thread in Development or Themes/Mods).
I'm wondering the same thing. The last new phone I bought was the OP7P and development had already taken off before I even got my phone. At this point I'm starting to wonder if any devs are even working on anything for this phone.
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They are
But there are challenges. Like being the first to create a custom Linux 5.4.y kernel, etc...

Oswald Boelcke said:
Did you try the "search" field and changed from "Everywhere" to "This forum"?
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Thanks