[Galaxy S III Android Development] Journyman16:
First, thanks for all the work you're doing with your ROM and fixes. I was pretty committed to Omega but these implementations are just excellent in performance and appearance. Bloody good work!

Second, please don't produce so much so quick - if you burn out on cooking ROMs we are all the poorer for it. A side issue of that is, All You People out there, stop *****ing and start asking. Do your homework and use Google or the sitre Search functions and see what you can find. THEN, when you post here with a problem, give other posters something to work with.

Enough of the 'This doesn't work" stuff and more of the "I did this, and changed that. I have checked the site and in {This ROM Thread} they suggest THIS solution - will that work for me?" posts. Then the people who might be able to help have a starting point and they don't wind up having to spend oodles of time just finding out the basics of what you have, what you did, and what answers you've already tried.

These kind people are not being paid to be your lackey - try doing a few little extra things to help them help you. That INCLUDES reading the thread - yes there are x-hundred pages, but that just means the chances are good you will find an answer in them, or at least enough info to know what to look for.

Here's an example (my situation right now):

I have v4.0c running, I have JKay now and very impressed with it. I've DL'd and flashed Siyah as an extra so I could dual boot. I had to DL the full Siyah because the built in one didn't seem to provide support for STweaks - once I installed the DL version STweaks would run.

I have 4.0c as my primary and Omega 44.3 as secondary. Something in that process has messed with the ExtSDCard access. From Windows I can see the card, I can copy files off it, but if I try to copy Purelook 5 to the card I get a msg, "Cannot Copy Item - the device has either stopped responding or been disconnected" I can copy other files across, including Purelook 4.0a.

NOTE:

THIS gives other posters enough info that I would expect to get a recommendation to re-download the file - probably the zip is corrupted. But if I had just posted something like, "What's wrong with v4.0c; I can't copy files onto my SD Card" the people trying to help me would be forced to ask the questions that I have answered in my description.

As it turns out, it IS an invalid Zip - happens at times, the internet is 7 bit based and files are 8 bit. Sometimes the system stuffs things. I am now downloading from the mirror posted a little earlier and I presume that will fix my issue.

But FIRST, I looked at things, and used what I know or can find to check as much as possible about the situation. That way I do not waste other people's time and I'm betting, I will get a better response from them. They do this out as a service to the community; telling them how mad or upset you are because something didn't work for you, even when it is quite apparent from the thread that others are NOT having the problem, will just cause them to get pissed at us all and stop doing such great work for us.

Oh... and don't forget to add in THE LAST THING YOU DID before things broke! As an ex-Desktop Support, about 90% of problems can be resolved by honestly answering that one simple question.

/rant

EDIT: And yes, re-downloading DID fix the problem. Now I get to find out if flashing a new ROM on the Primary partition also nukes the secondary... :D