[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jodpel:
Please help us help you

Look, I don't post here very often. I don't need to. I read the thread and pay attention to what E is telling me to do when he posts a new version of his awesome ROM. There are a lot of times we are getting side tracked in here like when we start talking about whether Americans are lazy or not and when we start talking about how great dirty flashing or full wipes are.

There is nothing whatsoever wrong with dirty flashes. You can dirty flash all you want. However DO NOT come in here reporting problems with the ROM if you dirty flashed! You don't know if there is a problem with the ROM because you haven't run the ROM. You are running a mixture of a brand new ROM and every setting you have ever tinkered with in every piece of software and every version of the ROM you have ever installed. There is not help that anyone here can offer about your force closes, hot reboots, or broken GPS if you are dirty flashing. It's not that no one wants to help you or that they are trying to beat you up because you didn't "flash correctly". We can't help you because your phone is a jumbled mess of possibilities. The bigger concern is that you are going to get E started chasing a rabbit down a hole that doesn't exist because he thinks there is a problem with his ROM when it could be that some stray setting from that one time when you tried CM10 is screwing up some configuration tweak he made to increase the speaker volume.

Dirty flash all you want. If it's screwed up and you dirty flashed then fix it yourself. Don't post "I'm having GPS problems after a dirty flash". What are we supposed to do with that information? How many GPS programs do you have installed. How many and what version of various ROMs did you run before you tried this one? Did you customize any GPS related configuration files in the past? Did you run a ROM that modified a configuration file that this ROM doesn't replace when you flash it? How are we going to figure this stuff out without having direct access to your phone and doing a diff on every file in it through adb?

There should be a rule that you cannot ever post a problem with the ROM unless you fully wipe your phone and flash it to the latest version of the ROM. If you've done that and you have a problem then it probably needs to be addressed.

Dirty flashing is fine. There is nothing wrong with it and when the ROM isn't terribly different from version to version then we can get by with it every time. It is wonderful to get the new features without having to reinstall and reconfigure everything. When it doesn't work then you need to clean up your own phone and make it right before you ever post in here. If you clean it up and you still can't make it right then by all means come in here and tell us what the problem is so we can help you. If everyone will follow the instructions and put a tiny bit of effort into this our thread will be so much cleaner and it will be ten times easier to find useful information in here.

E's recommendation throughout this thread has always been to full wipe, flash the ROM, and restore only your APPS through Titanium Backup which he even cooks into the ROM for us. He said to restore only your apps that weren't included with the ROM. Don't restore system items and you won't run the risk of breaking the ROM.