[HTC One X] Tronar:
First of all thanks to Team Venom for the great ROM!

I upgraded from my Desire Z to the One X and was a little desperate having to look for a new Sense based - not too far away from stock - ROM. The OTA feature was one of the big pros for choosing ViperX, since I don't like being forced to make a FULL WIPE install and then deal with getting my apps & settings back onto the phone again. So the OTA is a big time saver!

Thanks for that and of course I donated/registered.

I also agree that this thread has become more and more difficult to follow. You have to read 30 pages to get one simple question answered and even the search function is only semi-helpful.

I know that this is mostly the result of people posting their bug-reports and asking the same questions over and over again.

But in their defense posting your questions and other ROM related issues and reports just into this forum is by far the easiest, fastest and most attractive option. Messing it up for all of us in the long run.

A simple example: I was looking for a fix for the missing Celsius/Fahrenheit symbol in the Clock widget. Using the search button I stumbled over several links to a download for fix htc_clock_celcius.zip. The zip contained a huge amount of files and no instructions, so I was left only confused what to do with it? Unzip it and push the .apk onto my phone? Install it using some adb or fastboot commands? Pushing it on the phone as a whole and then install in the recovery mode? I am definitely not a computer idiot, but for non-Android-developers this is unknown terrain and what seems obvious for you isn't obvious at all for the majority.

To make things worse, I found another post listing all the bugs found in 3.3.2 (including the degree bug) with a comment by someone else that MOST(!) of them were known and fixed in the upcoming 3.3.3. So I was left wondering if the degree fix for the clock widget would be a part of 3.3.3 or not. Luckily I decided to not mess with anything and just wait and despite my One X not showing me a new OTA I finally encountered today the announcement on the first page of this thread that 3.3.3 is out and includes this bugfix.

That search cost me a lot of time and so I understand why many people just submit another "Uh, my degree is missing in the clock, how can I fix it?" post into this thread thus further adding to the chaos.

Maybe the following suggestions could help making it easier for everybody:

Why don't you just put certain information on the first page of this thread. So that everybody has ONE place to look for information (thus being saved from the cumbersome and time-eating digging through hundreds of potentially related search results) and the majority can stop asking the same questions over and over again. Maybe there should be even a rigid moderator kicking out any unrelated post and moving it into a separate thread dealing with all the bugs and problems and questions, so that this thread stays completely clean.

The first page should (in addition to its current content) include:

1. an updated FAQ including answers to specific version related questions like "why doesn't the clock widget show the degree anymore?"

BEFORE the update is released. Now it is displayed on the first page, but only after the release of 3.3.3

But the majority of reports and questions came in before that release.

2. a list of all currently reported bugs for the latest version (and maybe if they were acknowlegded by the developers and if they can and when they will be fixed). So if another person reports that same bug in this forum, send him to the first page and consequently move his post to "the other" thread.

This list might also prevent some people from upgrading to a ROM release containing "intolerable" bugs for them. So they won't waste their time looking for quick-fixes afterwards but can wait and sit out the solution with the next release.

3. please also always include a little "how-to" to any downloads offered. I understand that posting a full 20-step process every time is too much to ask. But at least a one-liner stating "flash this in recovery mode. You can get into recovery mode by following the instructions

here

" or "unzip and push the .apk to your phone 'using adb install xyz.apk'. For more details how to do that read this thread/manual/instructions posted

here

"

4. Post a link to the bug reporting thread and the QA-thread prominently on the first page of this thread and explain in a few words, why it is important to NOT contaminate this thread with questions and reports, but instead use the other threads. Again if somebody doesn't follow that rule, move his post to the correct place.

Just my ideas of making all our lives easier. The last thing I want to see is the developers (legitimately) freaking out over this 500 pages thread. I love my new smartphone and I love even more the Venom ViperX ROM. But obviously the current system isn't working smoothly making it harder than necessary for everybody and causing even more problems as a result of that.

Many people want their phone just to work and don't have the time to dig through hundreds of search results in the small hope of finding the perfectly working answer to their specific problem. So they just post instead. But if at least the typical issues are all covered on the front page, many things will be settled even faster than writing a "Help, my XYZ isn't working. I did this and that..." post.

I know doing that takes time, but hopefully less time than answering the same questions over and over again and having to deal with an even more gigantic thread in the long run.