[Android Head-Units] KID52:
I haven't been on here as much as I would have liked recently, and part of that is due to some of things addressed in this post. So I thought I would poke my head out of the sand for a bit to give my input...

When I started looking into an Android headunit I found the OUKU thread and read many of the beginning pages, but I didn't read every page as it became apparent that the same stuff was just being recycled over and over again, and new useful content was not very common. Now, I'm not trying to say that the content wasn't useful, just that the newer posts seemed to be repeats of older ones.

Being quite fond of visual information rather than reading for hours and hours, I did spend some time watching video reviews. Having decided on purchasing the new 4.1 unit that no one else appeared to have, I wanted to make a thread on XDA that was maintained with relevant information, and an informative video review. This is because if I were looking to purchase the unit, they would be exactly the things I were after. Whilst reading through the other thread and doing my own research, I basically noted down any questions I may of had as a potential buyer, including issues with the older unit that could be present in the new one, and other things. I tried to include all of this information in my video, hence why it is nearly 20 minutes long after editing!

Unfortunately a few things became apparent after opening this thread.

It is near impossible to update the main post with all questions and all unique bits of information. It would be just ridiculous - hence why the Wiki is an excellent idea.

Even after a few pages, it seemed people were putting very little effort into reading anything, or watching the video review.

What I don't understand is the second point, I just don't get why. If you are seriously looking at purchasing this kind of device, taking a few hours to do a bit of research really doesn't seem unfair. At least read the main post and take a look at the video! And if you are that lazy you can't be arsed to do a few quick searches, or read a few posts, are you really going to bother even using the Android functionality of this sort of device?

Now, not trying to generalize too much here, but a large number of posts in this thread and from people who seem to post one or two questions then never respond, and I can understand how infuriating this is for contributors who seem to answer the same five questions day in day out.

The amount of times I have seen [MENTION=5389783]donaldta[/MENTION] simply reply with a timestamp from the video (I think he knows more about the video than I do!), or a post number is unbelievable. Now, I appreciate he may have a better understanding of the search term to use to get that bit of information, but really, at least make some effort, please.

Unfortunately, as mentioned above, the people these posts relate to are not going to read or care about them.

Now, questions in general are great, that is how we find new features out, fix issues, and create new features. But the same questions, posted over and over again, simply take time away from the great contributors in this thread, which is completely unfair.

And, [MENTION=3081576]sciallo[/MENTION] I am sorry, I still have not updated the main thread with the new Wiki link, nor have I made any suggestions for it.

I think one of the things that would be useful, although perhaps not practical, is to create almost like an FAQ, so that every question, including the relevant answer, can be put in the wiki, that way if you do a search on the Wiki page, you get pure useful information, rather than some of the fluff you get when searching this thread. Again, not sure how practical this actually is, and to be honest, if people are bothering to read the first page or do a search of the thread, they sure as hell aren't going to click the Wiki page and search on there! Which really is a shame when so much time and effort has been taken to create these things.