[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
I edited the first post, adding the second half to it starting with the quote below:

As evidenced by my original posting, being concise is not my strong suit.

I posted that from the doubleshot while I was sitting somewhere waiting for people, and so it was a little all over the place even for me. Hope this post and the edits above clarify the intentions of this thread better?

Can someone explain how to break down the nb0 files and find tools to do it properly? See if you can sit down and crack one open and see what's inside.

See how many of the questions can be answered from above, and what other ones we don't know enough to ask are/their answer(s) are?

The doubleshot community benefits from it's developers having how-to references on the things we need to do, and pretty much everything we need to know is scattered all over XDA.

It takes time to funnel, qualify, and share that information here so we can use it.

Many more people will be able to dev for this device if they can come here and learn how to do it, and not have to resort to the XDA scavenger hunt that every other dev who started here had to go through.

If other people can see the value of and want to help out in searching out how to do things and get it here for us to use, the honest truth is that's a resource built by the developers here or not at all.

Learning how to do things and going through that experience and what the pitfalls are and finding where to get what you need to do it is basically development.

Sharing those experiences with XDA is what makes this community a resource.

Bringing it here gives people who want to dev and don't know where to start a learning project that can benefit everyone working here.

Something like this is a good trial for posing this question - there are a lot of things that we would benefit from having here and not just on XDA at large. If someone or people want to get together and solve this mystery because they were looking for a problem to solve, then here is the best way to turn that learning experience into a guide for the rest of us.

...and we can check that off our list of things we need to learn how to do.

I can make a post at some point with a concise listing of things we need to know about, with a link to a summary of what we know about each, and then we could use it as a checklist to start systematically solving our problems and making the device do what we need to do.

The strength of XDA is the community itself and the knowledge it contains. If we want to truly leverage it here in the doubleshot forums, this is how it can be utilized the best.

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So, when someone gets so energized by this as many of us have felt at some point - that overwhelming desire to help but complete confusion on where to start?

Go learn something we don't know and share how to do it or what it is here. We all benefit and people already here working on other things can just add how to do whatever that is to their methods.

Please don't think this is a case of me sitting here saying "i'm too lazy to learn how to do this, someone teach me" ...

...this is a case of "does anyone out there want to help explain what this is and how to use it? Here's a project if anyone wants it" ...

...i've written quite a few guides here as i've learned how to do things, and wouldn't pose this kind of question without having contributed first. So just offering a starting point to anyone else willing to do that too.

If there is interest in people taking the project on, I can make a checklist of what we need to know and we can have a point of reference on how to spend our time when looking for projects to do.

If no one's interested in learning this and sharing it here then I won't waste the time it would take to put such a list together and source everything. Eventually i'll figure this out and share it here if no one does, but we would grow as a community for others to do it. Just looking for ways to make everything work more smoothly here.

This place is whatever we make it to be, so do we want this?