[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Hah hah! That is pretty funny. :laugh:

They explain it better here:

Introducing the “Thanks” Button on XDA

It is a pretty good idea if it works.

This stuff you probably already know, but I will include it for the newbies. :D

This is all Internet History so most members here will not really want to read all this. Feel free to skip this post, as usual, ohmster is "writing novels" again. :D

I have been on the internet pretty much *forever*. Back in the days of Usenet, you could get help, really serious and detailed help, on just about anything with as many as 100,000 or more different Usenet groups. But everyone was deadly serious about "Netiquette", more or less being polite, no shouting (All caps), thanking the person that helped you, cooperating with requested tests, and for sure coming back to report that the help did indeed work and any comments or feedback about it to help others who will have the same issue. These "rules" were pretty much self imposed. No "Internet Committee" or anything like that made these rules. If you did not abide by the rules or were rude, you were branded as a "Troll" and got put on ignore lists or nobody would talk to you. They would say "Do not feed the Trolls!" if you got into it with a troll. Anytime you signed up for an internet account, you would always get an NNTP server so you could connect to Usenet.

With all of the web forums we have these days, Usenet has not gone away and is a really happening place if you pay for a good NNTP server. You can get all the yak on any subject you can imagine, download almost anything binary like pictures, software, more porn than you could ever imagine, movies, videos, music, you name it! Because of so many easy to use web forums out there, the ISPs no longer provide NNTP servers. You have to pay for it and if you are an internet junkie, it is worth the few dollars a month to pay.

The XDA Thanks button is a way for a newbie or someone who needs assistance to give a tiny "reward" to the helpful individual that does not cost anything, other than take a moment to tap Thanks. It is supposed to encourage the helpers to give more help and allow the ones in need to officially thank those that do the helping. This does increase your XDA ranking so to speak, those with very high Thanks ratings are usually developers, recognized contributors, moderators, or anyone who spends a lot of time helping other people. Good Thanks ranking is good for promotion if one is so inclined to become a moderator or administrator at XDA. You are limited in number of Thanks tokens each day because it is not supposed to be a game where you and your friends just dump tons of Thanks on each other to gain rank. You are supposed to give them to anyone who helps you or posts anything you would consider, well, "helpful" as a reward and incentive to keep being helpful. I think it is a pretty good idea, I got a lot of Thanks during the cm11 development because I took a LOT of time to help other people who had questions, issues, or problems that I already knew about.

You do get a small "good feeling" if you post something valuable enough that you gain many Thanks for the post. Even a single Thanks from someone who benefited from your post is reason enough to feel good about it and do it again when you can.

Usenet still exists and I miss it a LOT, I just do not have the monthly cash to play there anymore. IRC is another internet dinosaur that is still around. The mother of all chat rooms is IRC or "Internet Relay Chat". It was difficult to do, you had to remember a lot of commands to type in to really do stuff, but some software made it a lot easier to use such as mIRC for Windows. My favorite IRC program for Linux is still *****-X and I still use it from time to time. It is a good place to get help for something like Linux, but a LOT of the chat rooms or "channels" are really cliquey and the people are not friendly unless you are "one of them". #hottub is an IRC channel that generally welcomes newbies and you can almost always fine someone to talk to in that channel.

Man, this really takes me down memory lane, a lot of what were very important internet programs and protocols are now extinct or not in use except for extreme geeks but is still a lot of fun. Things like "Archie" to find what you want on an FTP server are simply not required anymore, Google pretty much put that one to bed and FTP has been mostly replaced by website downloads.

Okay, this was fun, for me, anyways. 'night guys and thanks a lot for all of the very valuable Lollipop and Moto-X help you guys are dishing out. :D

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Yeah, for some reason I always get dyslexia on AOKP, probably because I do not use the word or acronym very much. That and ASOP or "Android Open Source Project". I do remember the name for it but a good reminder, thanks.

I did not think a launcher would "break anything" but I did go at this new phone a bit too fast and ran into problems because of it. No harm in double checking with others. ;)

The Lollipop lock screen is actually pretty good for notifications but is no replacement for the LED. I am with you, nothing beats being able to glance at the phone across the room and know you got an email from your kid or have a voicemail waiting. And I had a heck of a time turning off that voice notification after I turned it on. There is no real way that I can find to "turn it off". So I use the clear data option on the Moto apps. That got rid of it alright but I had to do the voice training all over again to start it back up. The Moto Assist is pretty darned good so far. Maybe it is the novelty of having voice control that actually works. Not sure if I will want to use it all the time in a month, but a lot of fun, so far.

I really want the LED back but I bet that Lollipop gives manufacturers a reason to dump the LED altogether. So sad. This new phone has 3 flash LEDs, one front facing and two for the main cam. You *thinkI they would be generous and give you a Notification LED, right?

[MENTION=838017]sherri[/MENTION], you have a very good reason to not only want but need the Notification LED all the time. YOU were the very first thing I thought about when I found out I didn't have one anymore. You got it exactly right, the LED would give you such valuable information at a glance and it is well, "private". Having every phone call and text message announced out loud very quickly became a very bad idea. Glad I got it shut off. :o

You are right, some of these excessive notifications are not useful and can be distracting and annoying. Especially every single event that happens on things like Facebook! I am not a FB junkie and when I want Facebook, I will go there. The LED in CM11 was really cool because you could customize the heck out it. Bad for people with docks because it won't light with the screen on. It is nearly impossible to find a rom or app that will work the LED with the screen on anymore. Too bad. It is because there are not enough "Sherris" in the world that we do not have this feature. ;)

'night Sherri. It is really good to hear from you again! <nod and tip hat> :cowboy:

Unrelated but very interesting:

You guys remember talk of having a voice recorder for phone calls in CM11 that never happened? I do and I really wanted to be able to record calls at will. You never know when you will need such a feature until it is too late. Someone makes threats, someone is talking smack behind your friend's back, there are a million reasons to want to record a call. I found a free recorder on Major Geeks website that really works!

Call Recorder

This app puts a button on your call screen you can move out of the way if you wish. If you press this button any time while in a call, the call is recorded. There is a pay, pro version but all that does is allow for automatic recording. I tried this and it really, really works! It saves the file, you can play it back, save it, delete it, or send it almost anywhere. The default format is wav, and wav eats up a LOT of space, especially long calls. I changed mine to mp4 to try and keep smaller files. Because of privacy, this is an app that I hope never to have to use. But if I need it, it is there and always available. Just a heads up to the group because I did not think you could get apps like this in the US. The Federal and State laws vary all over the place about recording a call, legally I think you have to notify the other party and/or play a beep every so many seconds. Just to be safe about this, there is a legal page that explains it here:

U.S. and International Call Recording and Notification Laws

CM could never get past the legalities of call recording, they were going to use a pop up disclaimer but ditched it anyway. Still, there are plenty of reasons to need this and I need not go into it here. I did check the app in settings and it is a running app, consumes 4.7 Mb of memory.