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[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jaymojones:
I totally Agree

I totally agree with you guys. It's sad to see how things have turned out lately. I have been to this site off and on for a few years now (just reading actually), and loved everything that I read. Now in a sense I can be called a noob (I joined in 2/07), but technically I am not. I am coming from the symbian os (Nokia N93) and the minute that I got my windows mobile phone (February of this year - 8525), I joined this site. I read and read and read, never really felt the need to post, because you can find everything you need either by the wiki or just plain clicking on the search button, but I guess most people don't see that button :confused:

Anyway, I agree that something should be done to stop what has been happening in the last month, but I don't think that saying we should have a senior member forum only or you have to have this amount of post to get it, will work. Because if you look at JJ's, Kyphurs, LVSW threads, you will see that there were people who had a lot post and even a few junior and senior members who complained and questioned. There are a lot of people who come on and actually read and never post, because they search and figure things out without having to question these great chefs. I personally don't want to have to come on here and began to post everyday to get to junior and/or senior status. I never once complained since being here and believe me, since the release of these WM6 roms (Kyphur's first), I have been flashing 2-3 times per week. So much, my wife has gotten sick of it.

I think, you should continue to let people join and continue to flash, with the understanding that, they are doing everything at their own risk. What I think should be done is, people who have been a member for 3-6 months or less would have to have there post/threads approved by the mod's before it could be posted. Sought of like on myspace when you post your initial pic, they tell you that it is pending approval and that it if approved, it should be posted within 24 hours. They even have a function where you can have it set on your page, that if a person leaves you a comment, it will not post until it has been approved by you. You can either delete or post it. That's how I have my page set up. It would be a lot more work on the mod's, (I don't even know if that is capable), but it would cut back a lot of stress on all of the chefs and even the people who really sit and read/search and get the answers that they need.

What do yo think?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] y2whisper:
True, this would be much more easier to contain if M$ didn't shut down the ability to put roms on the FTP. People could earn their way in, maybe give access to certain users could be a lot of admin work entering all the compliant users, I would be willing to help with something to that degree, giving time to those that spend countless hours helping out people like me.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] rabdo:
Idea sounds good but the noobs do tend to post a lot....

Most of it rubbish or repeated requests over and over and over...........

Another problem is that some of us (like me) have not been on the forums long but are far from noobs because we have only just switched to a hermes from another PDA

Suggest big sign on front page:

THIS IS NOT A SUPPORT SITE
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] crazyC:
Perhaps longer than thirty days? If you are serious about this stuff then there is sooooo much to read and understand, and then read again. This would hopefully avoid all the

"I just bricked my phone! - HELP ME"

or

"I want Crossbow - where can I download it"

where people do not read first.

Postcount limits might encourage lots of one line no purpose posts, and to sort the good from the bad requires a lot of time and effort from mods.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] nforsans:
self inflicted problem?

one of the problems is that most *interesting* posts (new releases, etc) are 10+ pages long and full of pointless posts and cr*p ("can't wait", "downloading now", etc.). reading these posts have become more and more difficult. Doing a search also leads to loads of crappy posts.​

The problem is that the higher your rating / grade / status, the more likely you are to have innondated the forum earlier with pointless posts. A senior member-only forum (or similar) will create more incentives for people to post crappy things until their postcount is high enough... don't think this is the way forward.​

As for removing the link to WMBlackEd2.0 and stop releasing public updates: although i fully respect jasjamming's stand on this, I think it goes against the spirit of this great place. there is a difference between "decommissioning" something, and not "supporting it" anymore. I feel the link to the download should be there for people to install the rom and try it, and future releases made public (if thats what he intended to do in the first place) but the thread should be a closed one: people, download it and support it yourself or don't download it at all if you don't know what you're doing.​

maybe this will deter enough neebies from the site and help make this place the great place it used to be.​

the wiki should be used as front page for the site, with all resources there. I am sure not everyone knows about the wiki, as it is somewhat hidden from the main xda-developer page.​

just my thoughts...​

by the way, I have not posted for a while as i upgraded / downgraded / sorted out issues all by myself after doing loads of reading and searching... but I must admit that only 10% of the posts on the whole site are helpful/meaningful - the rest is an attempt by people to increase their postcount.... and this really puts me off.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] JuniorPhatFarm:
Combination of post counts and time limits, could be a great approach to these issues.

50 posts, or higher, and or a combination of 3- 6 months before you can DL a ROM? 30 to 45 days before you can post... That would weed out the people who just want to DL quickly without reading.

MODS, your thoughts???
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] hanmin:
X days before you can post: How would you determine X. I've got my first phone flash with the help from this site, in less than a week (still a newbie then). Consider the possibility that others non-noob that may be coming from other forums?

Y number of posts before you can download: From what I've seen so far, any similar rules will only get these people posting rubbish all across the place.

I'm not sure about you, but I kinda got trained to avoid noobs threads/posts.

Anyway, having said that, it seems that the noobs just need their own forum from avoid pissing you non-noobs. E.g. forum section for noobs? like.. Wizard-Noobs, Hermes-Noobs, which you need X posts + Y days before you can post on the non-noobs section?

Join the club ----> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=272524
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jaymojones:
Does it really take 50 post or being on here for 3-6 months to read what you need to do in order to download? I mean honestly, how long was it after you joined the site, that you did your first flash?

I joined and read for almost a week before my first flash.

And really, downloading has nothing to do with how many post you have or how long you have been here. Because just like noobs, there were people with 50+ posts and who have been for longer than 3-6 months that experienced problems. The problem is people posting dumb questions and not researching. Hell, let them download if they want. If they don't/didn't take the time to read, that's there fault. There has to be a way to control post. I know it can be done. Again, I have been here all of 2 months and have flashed every Kyphur, lvsw, and black edition roms with no problems. Because I took the time to read and it didn't take me 50 post or 3-6 months to do it.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] JuniorPhatFarm:
Sensitive people here... I was just throwing random numbers out people. Notice I haven't even fulfilled the 50 posts, nor 6 months that I suggested. Just throwing an idea out for the Mods and other people to work off. I've flashed, and SuperCid my phone as well, and have not met those requirements either. I just took the time to read.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] kipe:
..& because of this m$ could have won hands down & smiling all the way to the bank.. need to keep up that "XDA Live" spirit ..remember that only few weeks ago they have threatened the admin to remove all ROM image archive herein..

despite all this, an internet forum is still a forum & it needs members (old & new) to keep it alive..

as what is featured in the welcome page here:

Welcome to xda-developers.com

This site is about certain PDA-phones, made by a secretive firm called HTC in Taiwan. Their makers named them 'Wallaby', 'Himalaya', 'Blue Angel', 'Wizard' and 'TyTN', but almost nobody knows them by those names. The mobile provider O2 sells them under the brand-name 'XDA', and that's what we had in our hands first. They're also known as Qtek, MDA, SX-56, Hermes and many, many other names.

Since we develop software for it, we need information, and nobody seemed eager or ready to give us what we needed. So we 'reverse-engineered' the devices, found a lot of information, and shared it with the world. But as our site grew we realised that lots of ordinary users were also suffering from a lack of support. They started using the xda-developers forum to communicate and before long the forum was as much a user forum as it was a developer forum.

We hope that you will enjoy this site and find it as useful as we do. We encourage you to donate or otherwise support this site. Of course absolutely all proceeds from donations will benefit this community.

& the need for it to survive, as what is advertised here (just beneath the welcome message)

the need to balance the action to be taken must be there, in order for this forum to still be "cream de la cream" of all forum..

the forum need the chefs, no doubt! ...but the forum still need its followers, be it the senior or junior members...

just my 2cents.. :)

p/s: jasjamming... please cook some more... we need your fix ;)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Yagi:
Talk about Redundancy

Let me first say I share the same sentiment and thoughts as everyone else here about Noobs, but let's have a talk about redundancy shall we? We have a post by Shogunmark about Noobs, we have this post about Noobs, and we have JJ's release page now all about Noobs. And I'm sure a few other members are going to start their own threads about Noobs as well. How many different threads do we need to complain about Noobs?

If there's one thing that drives me nutz more than stupid questions from stupid people, it's people who are all talk and no action. If you're tired of Noobs start and enforce a policy. Quit talking about it and do it. The forums Gods should come together, come up with their plan, and just do it. There's no need to consult all of us, just do it. You need more man power to help moderate? Then get people! I'm sure there are a lot of people who come here more than 5x a day and post inciteful things and wouldn't mind policing a little.

All I'm saying is all talk and no action gets us nowhere, we're are we going? Nowhere! (Boondock Saints refernce, had to)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] nforsans:
what about getting rid off the forum and concentrating on developing wikis, how-to-guides and other useful resources and applications?

OR

keeping the forum, but giving senior members and mods the ability to remove pointless threads with no arguing / justifying? This should be enough to deter most authors of crappy posts...
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] nforsans:
could not agree more.

Could mods start recruiting mods for each section of the forum. All mods would then be in charge of removing the crap on a daily basis.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] nforsans:
could also do with more effective moderation -no offense to anyone. for example, what does the thread on opera beta do in the hermes WM6 forum???

just because this is where most people tend to hang these days does not justify making this place very untidy
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] kipe:
yes.. this is the kind of action needed to balance all that nonsense questions/whinning..

some extra policing will do good for the forum.. just hard deleted all this crappy questions.. everybody will be happy..
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] crazyC:
As with everything, any controls will inconvenience some of those who do not deserve to be blocked. It would however only be a temporary matter, and worth it to deter those who are causing the problems. The exact timescales would be down to whatever the mods thought of course.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] shogunmark:
your right, this is a redundant post.. if anyone has CREATIVE suggestions then post it in my sticky.. The mods are doing the best we can, we used to have plenty and since WM6 we have been bombarded with tons new members... it has all gotten a little out of hand and we are working on it.. so since there is already a sticky i am locking this thread!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] faria:
the mods have solution to all this....the microsoft way....

shut the site down...would this solve all the problems here ? hell yes!

just kiding:D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pyro42:
[Q] "Simple" bluetooth question: Disable Automatic Connection or workaround?

I am looking for some way to prevent every phone in the house from trying to connect to a bluetooth speaker or receiver when it's turned on.

the devices in question all run Android 4.4.4 stock unrooted Motorola roms. I have access to Tasker, Locale, Llama, etc etc and would not mind paying for additional plug-ins if that's what it takes.

Turning Bluetooth Off is not an option as we have other devices that sync over bluetooth and I would like to take advantage of Trusted Devices.

If there is no way to disable auto connect, then the next best thing would be a way to remove the device/unpair. I'm under the basic assumption that unpairing a device is something that could be done with a shell command in Tasker, but i've trollled the web high and low today and cannot find any kind of current commands for controlling bluetooth. I've tried a handful of bluetooth plugins for tasker, and while some of them give me the triggers I'd need to run such a command, they don't seem to have the ability to delete the device pairing.

I could even work with a command that cleared ALL bluetooth pairings if such a thing is possible
[G 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Seadra:
It's completely blank. I am shocked right now. I have tried everything. The phone is stock unrooted. and locked.

Anyone help me asap!

I have tried factory reset by fastboot mode. But when pressed volume up after selecting recovery or factory option, the phone still powers ON normally :/
[G 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BRAiNCHiLD95:
Is your bootloader unlocked?? and have you rooted the device?? If Yes, then -

It seems you have no recovery installed...:confused::confused:

Try PhilZ Touch Recovery from here OR here. [There's 2 versions, i have tried only the 1st one till now]...

Or else get TWRP from here :

If you haven't rooted or unlocked... i guess you need to goto the service center...or try flashing stock...if flashing doesn't work..you WILL have to goto service center... :confused::confused:

PS: Hope this helped you! :):fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FARSHOOD:
Hi dear sirs i have flashed many roms from htc hd2 until note4 and anticipated with many bugs and problems ,

really is it many advantages of custom roms over official roms i think rooted official roms are stable and fast with no problem. what do you think?
[Redmi Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] haoyangw:
Does anyone know how to determine which files are important proprietary bits and should be included in proprietary-files.txt? I wish to port CyanogenMod 12 to this device, and since kernel source will be available soon(31st Jan, YAY) I wanted to start now. I'm new to ROM porting, so any guidance is greatly appreciated! Thanks!
[XDA Assist] XDA Visitor:
Don't exist

It's real

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 duos SM N910FD

When

Middle East ?
[XDA Assist] It_ler:
Maybe you want to check this thread: Galaxy Note 4 Middle East users thread.

I have no insider information about Smasung devices.

So we have to search the net for published information.
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toricred:
Is it possible to take my XT1096 with me to T Mobile and just replace the SIM?
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d11dog11:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3010369
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Q&A, Help & Troubl] wojo797:
OK I bought a note 10.1 2014 off Craigslist. .. the thing is pristine. I can not get it to connect to my pc. I installed the drivers, I even tried my Mac. Both jodin and the computer didn't recognize it. I am out of answers, I am worried is a hardware issue. Any suggestions?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Q&A, Help & Troubl] luvmygadgetz:
did you download Kies 2 on your PC?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Q&A, Help & Troubl] wojo797:
Nope I only used Odin
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shabuboy:
Hello,

My nexus 6 was rooted and with TWRP. However, while trying to update to 5.0.2 using this ROM (http://xdaforums.com/nexus-6/development/rom-pure-shamu-beta-2-0-t2952604), I ended up with no OS on it. I can boot into TWRP just fine.

So I am trying to sideload the ROM and rest of the files, however, my Win 8.1 shows "device not found". The command "adb devices" show no devices as well.

Win 8.1 device manager shows the phone as "Google Nexus ADB Interface" with driver ClockworkMod 8/27/12 7.0.0.4.

Any ideas?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shabuboy:
Reinstalling and selecting from list did the trick, the device is listed as "Android Composite ADB Interface".

However, I must be missing something too obvious that I just cannot see...

I go into TWRP

go into advanced

go into ADB sideload and enable it

on PC, "adb device" will list it "recovery"

on PC, "adb sideload filename.zip" give me "error: Protocol fault (no status)"

then found out I had to stop the process "adb", which I do now.

Now when sideloading the zip I get "error: closed"
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shabuboy:
Ok, who knows why it was not working, but ended up doing a push instead, then I just installed via TWRP the ROM, gapps and SU.

Command I used: adb push rom.zip /data/media/rom.zip
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Prod1702:
this thread sounds like what I do when my mom has a question about something. Leave her alone for awhile and she finds the answer her self. :)
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hexc0d3r:
Ok well here is my issue. While replacing the LCD assembly on my one plus one I managed to rip off the metal connectors(I believe they are called pogo sticks) on the logic board that make contact with the antenna's on the back cover. I ripped the ones that control the WiFi/Bluetooth and also the GPS one. I was trying to figure out how to fix this since when trying to soder them back on there was nothing they could be soldered to. I'm basically left with the empty spots on the PCB board where they are supposed to go. While looking at the logic board I saw that there are a couple of pigtail looking connectors on it that don't have anything particularly connected to them. I was wondering if I could use those to repair my connection issues. Or of any of you have any advice to give thank you for all your help ^_^
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Seadra:
It's completely blank. I am shocked right now. I have tried everything. The phone is stock unrooted. and locked.

Anyone help me asap!

I have tried factory reset by fastboot mode. But when pressed volume up after selecting recovery or factory option, the phone still powers ON normally :/
[Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derekthejw:
I had a similar issue. When phone booted I somehow found the brightness slider and turned it up. Then I disabled adaptive.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] billuk:
Apologies if my memory is playing tricks on me but I seem to remember last year someone in this forum saying that you could purchase a 3g sim card where it was only valid on the day of use.

As I don't have web n' walk this would be useful to keep for emergency purposes so I can use my laptop via my Hermes (without being hammered by data charges!).

While I know the answer is to move to T Mobile with web n'walk has anyone come across this or was it just a dream?!

Thanks,

Bill
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] latinoxxx:
Never heard of this, but why don't you just get a T-Mobile pay as you go card? You can access WnW for maximum of £1/day and you don't have to throw it away after use.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] boz:
I buy pay as you go cards from 3g, T-Mobile and Orange for about 1.5 Euros (1 English pound) including shipping on Ebay, and just top up with whoever has the best offers. My Tytn is on contract with O2 and they are not cheap for data connections at all, so it is a much cheaper option. :)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] billuk:
Thanks. That rings bells and may be what I was thinking of. £1 for one days use of WnW would be ideal.

Regards

Bill
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] Ch3ng:
Don't think this is limited to payg cards, if I recall if you are on contract but don't have WnW then its £1 max per day, even with HSDPA etc.
[Xperia Z2 General] Kimo377:
:)

I'm a right handed person so I prefere having the back bottom to the right instead of left of the screen. Anyway to do that? :)
[Xperia Z2 General] pec0ra:
Gravity box has the option. You will need xposed to use it.
[Xperia Z2 General] Rajeev:
U need a rooted device
[Xperia Z2 General] Captain Kimo:
What's gravity box? and what's xposed? sorry for my ignorance.
[Xperia Z2 General] Rajeev:
For both applications u need a rooted device.. Do u have a rooted device? Google about root, gravity box and Xposed framework. Google is ur friend..
[HTC One X] QA Bot:
[Q&A] [ROM][8/JAN] SkyDragon v 2.0 -4.18.401.3 -ModPack in Aroma-SDHub-Mods- LIVE SU

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Thanks for understanding and for helping to keep XDA neat and tidy! :)
[HTC One X] benknh50:
Waiting..., happy :)
[Galaxy Tab 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kayamokid:
i dont know why i cant change the values.. i already used no frills, atutu,rom toolbox, etc.

it says that i changed the freq. but its not changed. :(

how do i fix this? please tell me. my battery keeps draining even if im not using it. :(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] pre4speed:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but with a locked bootloader, we can't run AOSP right?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] talkingmonkeys:
You're correct this won't work because we don't have a kernel to run it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] oka1:
From the Moderator

This Rom Will only work if you have an unlocked Phone

(T-Mobile or International GSM) IT WILL NOT WORK ON A STOCK ATT PHONE.....

Because All the ATT Phones have a locked Bootloader) You are Warned to Be Very careful ..........

Flashing this on an Locked Phone will result in Bricking the DEVICE...... Caveat .......People ~~~ oka1