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[Galaxy Note 3 General] NeoHiPPy1980:
I've been visiting xda, as a lurker, for years (since about '07-'08) and only created an account a couple of years ago. (Hence the low/non-existant post count.) I may not have ever released any of my own fiddlings for my phone(s), but I have borrowed some of the knowledge from the fine developers and learned more about my phone(s). It also annoys the hell outta me to see so many people refusing to learn about the equipment they use everyday and expect to have people, busting their asses (on their own time & dime), just bow down and cater to the weak-minded and lazy masses. It's sad... If someone's too lazy to do the homework before they go flash happy, then I feel they deserve the bricks. I have nothing but mad respect for the devs who put their work out there, regardless of quality! To play off of what Morningstar said, I think it's great that there's a bit of a slap on the hand, from the devs, of the disrespectful, over-eager ones who get too grabby-- command respect wherever you can! HAHAHA!
[Galaxy Note 3 General] biggary:
[MENTION=4097982]DSA[/MENTION] thats a great name from the past! I used to love your Blackbox roms from a couple years back, remember it used to amazing, and can remember too, that you closed your thread due to the same sort of thing.....people posting non development stuff.......I managed to sell a old s4 about 8 months back that had your rom on it (the bloke preferred a 4.4.2 rom)
[Galaxy Note 3 General] emuandco:
DEV section should be for DEVs ONLY. There should be a category in which you have to be invited to be able to post there. Rest must go to Q/A section IMO. I am mod myself, not of a such big forum like XDA, but from ReactOS forums. Even there you have stupid children starting a rant with their first post or more often just post a stupid question answered two posts above! Same like here, just not that many ppl flooding you ^^ I started to give away free warnings and bans to minimize the negative impact we have there after any public booth we had somewhere etc. Telling ppl not to do X and Y and what are they doing? X AND Y OF COURSE! You write it in the first post in RED AND CAPS LOCK and ppl still don't read it. Then they show up to rant that their PC is dead, hamster is pregnant, phone fell into the fish tank and whatever else you might be the evil guy for. I completely second AND support that opinion of the OP.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] pacc:
In my opinion only Devs, Mods and Senior Members (maybe with some criteria, ex. by registration date and/or by number thanks) should be able to post on the Development section.

I would assume that most Senior Members with several years of registration, and with at least 50 thanks would know the forum rules.

Closing the Dev section only to Devs would bring very little input and feedback.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] emuandco:
Thats what the Q/A is for.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] pacc:
You're right, but many senior members know programming and their contribution to development would be lost in the extensive list of Q/A.

Hopefully XDA will figure something out.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] defroster:
I am of the opposite opinion.

Ten years ago you asked a question you got a reply. Simple and practical.

Now you have to put up with a stream of people moaning and lamenting the nerve of someone daring to ask a question that has been asked before, usually because the op has not been updated or has such useful instructions as:

Installation instructions:

1. Install

So now instead of having a simple question and answer we just have the questions and the moaners; people who conveniently forget that they had their own questions earlier and act instead as guardians of some sacred knowledge which you must trawl through a several thousand page long thread (or three or four separate threads) before being worthy to dare ask a question.

My two cents.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] istperson:
1. That's what the search function is for. There's a rule, search first, ask questions later. I mean if not found.

2. There's also the attitude problem with people being entitled to anything, as if they are doing a favor for using the roms. No doubt, bugs can only be found if enough people are using it, and they are beta testing it this way for the developers, but still the work here is done by the developers.

3. But this is true until a developer starts accepting donations. I believe while somebody is doing in his free time, on his own dime, he/she can decide what questions to address. But after receiving the first donation at least the real documented bugs should all be answered at least with an "I'm looking into it".

4. OP should grant moderator rights for his/her topic, and purge irrelevant stuff.

My 2c.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Bubba:
I wholeheartedly agree with your numbers 1,2, and 4. I take exception with number 3 though. The donation is a thank you for what the person has done. Like tipping a waiter at a restaurant ... better job done .. better tip. But that is done at the end. Appreciation for a job well done. Maybe next trip you get really good service ... maybe you get someone else. My point is that making the donation doesn't give anyone the right to "expect" more. Most donations are minimal .. very nice to receive ... but normally small. So if you send someone $5 and expect more, you are putting a very small value on their time.

The majority of crap that clogs the threads is people not searching as stated previously. It's obvious that some people are just too lazy or have come to expect to be hand fed the information. They even state in the post thing like "too many post to look at" and "just don't have the time to look" ( for themselves). If I search and find the answer for them, I usually put in my post a link to the post with the answer as well as the amount of time I spent searching (usually less than a minute). This normally brings out the hatred in people, but I really don't care.

This thread has surprised me in that it hasn't turned into a battleground yet. Nice that opinions can flow and discussions can happen without the need for a mod to calm the situation. We all know it won't change anything on xda .. it is what it is. It has changed a lot since I started a few years ago. I just tend to stay in threads that are suited to my nature and with people with sense of humor like mine. The others that I follow that are not like that, I tend to remain silent(ish).

Some things like total disrespect for someones work really set me off. I have seen people tell other themers that their work is ugly or tell them how it should look. I look at their profile and they have produced nothing here. Multiple threads started about help me this and that, and request for things to be done. It just chaps my ass. But it is what it is. Anyway ... Rant over ... thanks OP for the thread. :D
[Galaxy Note 3 General] istperson:
No you're right, I agree, it's not the value of the work just saying it's appreciated.

What I was trying to say was that if being correct only those will accept donations who are really determined to have a relatively complete rom made, and by complete I mean compared to what is announced in the OP. And if people appreciate it then at least every well documented bug report would be nice if it was acknowledged. Just to show that this is really a contribution to the development if someone gives links to logcats, and gives steps to reproduction. And by no means what is very frequent here: "This sucks, fix it!!!!!!!111111One"
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Morningstar:
Your last post cleared things up a bit, and I think I get your point, but I still completely disagree with this statement.

Every developer I know here (including myself), has a 'real' job, and does development work solely as a hobby in their spare time. A donation is just that. it's not solicited or expected, it's simply a way of showing appreciation and thanking a dev for the work that they've done.

Personally, the things that I've shared here publicly and/or are included in others' releases are the product of several hundred hours (and probably more than that) of work. I've received a few donations, but the total sum doesn't even amount to one full day's pay at my 'real' job, so I would say everything I do is on 'my time' and 'my dime'.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Bubba:
100 percent agreed. I have spent thousands of hours on my personal theme for alliance that i freely share. Same for apps that I also share. I have received only a couple of donations. Not that I care. But they are nice. I appreciate the thanks clicked just as much.

But again the point is ... It's a thank you ... not a purchase with a promise. Knowing the people that [MENTION=293887]Morningstar[/MENTION] and myself know through this hobby is (to me) humbling. The average user could never begin to comprehend the time and effort ... and dedication ... maybe even some OCDC ... that goes into building or theming a rom or app.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] smegg:
It IS hard work and I am always grateful to the amazing helpful members who make coming here enjoyable and who vastly outnumber the vocal whiny minority of spoiled douches.

My 2c ?
[Galaxy Note 3 General] kwhelan12:
Welcome to the new world,Facebook and the deliberate dumbing down of the masses.. Its no accident that the general public aren't as bright as they were,ask any teacher how new age teaching just isn't as good as the old ways.

I can see and share your frustrations but there a lot of factors

young people have more disposable income I see 12yr olds with S6s and other high end phones

young people have been spoilt and are treated like little prince/princesses because the parents are so busy earning a living they can't give them time so spoil them or try to buy their love creating needy lazy demanding kids

the general assumption is that young people are internet savvy but this is far from the truth, I see classes of kids every day in the high school years who still don't realise that you can type an address into a web browser they do a search for the same site every day and then click the link. If google was shut down the world would end for a lot of people

samsung have released so many different models and variants which wasn't the case in the past so people have a lot more issues world wide

upgrading custom roms were probably less buggy than ported roms which are released now as betas, maybe they shouldn't be? it seems to be a bit much too ask for many to comprehend

xda's popularity and some people over eagerness to help beginners encourages too many people without enough skills to attempt highly risky things

there are a lot more postings of high end roms and later versions of android onto older hardware so many more issues than in the past where it was more cosmetic adjustments and feature add ons

there are a lot more asian developers so there are a lot of roms that are released and have to be made international (more issues)

a lot of the roms threads are terrible now possibly due to different cultures again

compare note2 threads with note3 threads,note 2 were usually logical with all files in OP are now a lot of note 3 threads are a mess with sometimes note3 base note4 base s6 base and note 5 in same thread and questions and fixes are just donated randomly all through the thread by anyone rather than dev only.

I would consider myself an experienced xda lurker but following just a note 3 means trying to keep on top of many different threads to just make sense out of peoples cross thread posts its very time consuming

a lot of thread starters need to be a lot more organised in the OP and control their threads more, removing comments that are about other roms etc,I think because they know and follow all the other threads as well as there own they assume everyone reading is doing the same. I do feel sorry for someone blindly trying to get started now but a well controlled thread would make huge difference,list known bugs themselves in the OP,

Some developers might be better to hand their thread over to someone enthusiastic to control the thread on their behalf to get back to the great examples set by omega,bobcat ,phoenix ,resurrection dr keten

there are some fantastically helpful and nice people on these forums and some incredibly bright ones but society is what it is

personally I blame Facebook
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Luefox:
Pretty much what the title says. My Samsung S6 is set up to use the Google keyboard and the Google Now launcher.

I'll receive a notification for a message, tap the notification, then hold my finger over the scanner to unlock and go directly to the app that notified me.

The phone unlocks fine, and I'm taken directly to the app (usually Facebook or SMS)

Normally, the first thing I'll want to do is reply to the message for which I was notified, so I'll tap in the text field but receive no response. It sometimes takes several seconds for the phone to respond and display the Google keyboard. This doesn't occur with the Samsung keyboard.

Has anyone else experienced this, or have a fix?
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hillbeast:
I also have this issue. I thought locking the keyboard in the memory would resolve it but nope. No idea what causes it. I managed to fix it a while back but I have no idea what I did that fixed it.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hillbeast:
Clear the app data for Google Keyboard. That seems to have fixed it for me.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Luefox:
This works for me temporarily, but it's usually within a day or two that the keyboard becomes slow to respond again.

If left alone for long enough without clearing the data, it becomes slow to respond just switching between apps too.
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Questions & Answers] Lennoard:
Hi guys

There it is the things you should know first

MIUI v6 > MiUi v7 > TWRP mod > root > Resurrection Remix

Here it goes

I've decided to install Xposed, ok, flashed and bootlooped

Normally I take off the battery and put it back to reboot in recovery through buttons

So...

So what?

NOTHING

Just a small tux at top right of the screen and it's all

And bonus: fastboot and adb comands is not working, it says device not found even with debugging on

So....

So what?

I GOT A WAY

Flashed the TWRP mod again through the batch file which comes attached and magically it bootted into recovery and I could save my phone

WHAT YOU GUYS THINK ABOUT IT?
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Questions & Answers] Lennoard:
PS:

I Will send screenshots quickly

You guys should see

I can't understand why the adb comands doesn't worked but the batch files worked

As they are the same
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Questions & Answers] satti8893:
In miui to enter recovery we used power + vol up button.

but after installing twrp we have to use power + vol up + vol down to enter into recovery.

Try it man.
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Questions & Answers] Lennoard:
Thanks buddy

Sorry if this appeared so noob

Actually I have upgraded from a very different device...

So I didn't expect that;)
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Questions & Answers] crullick:
button combo does not work for my redmi 2 with twrp 2.8.7,1 with custom rom (RR, CM... 5.5.1 based)

neiother recovery nor fasboot

i could boot to mi-revovery with miui 6 and 7

?!

the onlyt ways i could get there is rebooting from rom menu or with .bat reinstalling my twrp

:confused: :(
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Questions & Answers] ChrisNL:
I used to have this problem too. I re-flashed to a different TWRP version (2.8.6.1) using fastboot and then the power + vol up & vol down button combination magically worked.

A while after that I updated to the new TWRP (2.8.7.1) again and it still works. No clue what made the difference though.

Hope this resolves your problem.
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Questions & Answers] crullick:
thnx for the advice!

though i did change twrp, but from one 2.8.7.1 to another (themed differently)

will try your magic :fingers-crossed:

android works in misterious ways
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Questions & Answers] ChrisNL:
Hope it works, let me/us know:)
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Questions & Answers] crullick:
funny?!!

Chris you're a savior :D

flashed an earlier 2.8.6.1 then went back to .7.1 and it worked

[don't know if it's supposed to work just from the phone being completely shut down << lack of experience with redmi/twrp >> can't do it from frozen and/or while it's rebooting, but it's good enough for me]

thank you once again brother!
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Questions & Answers] ChrisNL:
Weird that it works that way :silly: but I'm glad it also worked out for you!
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Questions & Answers] robinu2606:
Use this application to boot your phone to recovery mode..... "Quick reboot"
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Questions & Answers] follettofolle:
You can also select "Advanced Reboot" from the developer options.

But if the phone was loopbooting I don't think you have a chance of doing it.:)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] starbase64:
Is there a possibility the transmitting power of the Wlan to strengthen?

I found nothing everywhere in the Internet searched however.

I am the opinion that the achievement Hermes in the range of the Wlan am not very large. I have also a Playstation portable one, this have a noticeably higher range. Can one there with a software or a Registry which make?

MfG

S64
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djdruin:
Hello,

I am looking to root my galaxy s5 from boost mobile (sm-g900p.04) running android 5.0.

Build number: LRX21T.G900PVPU3BOG1

I have not rooted a phone since like 2011 so I am way behind the times.

I can follow instructions, I just seem to find tutorials that cover other build numbers, and I would prefer to not mess up my phone. Could someone please point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance!
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Austin AnimeMan:
i need help also

ok i have samsung Galaxy s5 boost mobile at 6.0 or something, what i wanted to root it but it will not work i wanted to use odin (i know how to use it)to flash the most recent stock rom etc that will then allow me to root and have the root stable can some one help me.i cannot seem to find a rom for it.i have done this successfully on my sprint samsug galaxy s5 with only slight stability issues.

Samsung galaxy s5 boost mobile

model number is SM-G900P

Hardware G900P.04

software G900PVPS3CQD1

android version 6.0.1

device status original
[Redmi Note 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dundy2456:
Hi,

I know this has been covered thoroughly, but I have a particular problem that I haven't been able to find a solution for.

I have the Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 Prime, MIUI 6. I'm trying to boot into recovery mode either one of two ways: holding down volume up + power, or going through the 'Update' app options. Both times, the same thing happens: The phone starts up with the Mi logo, hangs for about 20 ish seconds, reboots as normal. It doesn't at any stage enter recovery mode. Holding down volume down + power takes me to Fastboot, but it hangs on the fastboot screen infinitely..

Any thoughts?

Chris
[Redmi Note 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pendekar7:
are you want to flash something ? try flash with updater app, rename zip file you want to flash to update.zip, and do flash with updater. its will enter recovery mode and flah zip file
[Redmi Note 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dundy2456:
I have tried that, same thing happens.

To clarify, whenever I try to enter recovery mode, the phone starts up, vibrates, Mi logo appears, hangs for about 10-15 seconds, turns off, turns on, vibrates, Mi logo appears, "Powered by Android" appears, phone starts up normal.
[Redmi Note 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pendekar7:
try quick reboot app in play store, but it required root

i'm afraid you have fake phone :eek: i hope not, try cpu z for check that
[Redmi Note 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dundy2456:
Hmm I will try to install that app. Right now the phone wont get past the boot screen, it is just hanging on the Mi logo and Powered by Android.

Thanks
[Redmi Note 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lukke04:
Try to flash the stock recovery.

Then you should be able to boot into stock recovery and wipe all data.

After that the phone should boot.

At least that worked for me
[Redmi Note 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sagaroct:
facicing same problem

same problem i am facing. Not able to boot in recovery mode using nandroid manager, mobile uncle, system updater, volume down + power.

additional info: i had rooted my phone and installed chinese miui rom.
[Redmi Note 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxx_hr:
If you have rooted phone, try to flash recovery (TWRP) over terminal, with dd.
[Redmi Note 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jajk:
You have trashed the recovery partition. Reboot in fastboot mode (Vol- + PWR) and reflash TWRP.img via fastboot on a PC.

Command:

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

Rename the twrp.img to recovery.img or change the name used in the command. There are plenty of tutorials out there on how to use fastboot.

Do not let the phone boot up after flashing!!!! You will end up back with the same problem. Hold down Vol+ to boot into Recovery mode for the first time.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XTheArrowX:
I get a bootloop evertime I try to install anything through TWRP, whether it be Xposed Framework or another rom. I really need help.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davebugyi:
I think you need to read carefully which Xposed you are flashing, not correct one causes BL. Also when flashing a different ROM you need to wipe the phone clean (except storage).
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sansari123:
I know I build an app and run it on my phone and perhaps even publish it. That is not my goal however. I want to add an executable to a rom, which I have built from source. Little bit of background: I have a build environment for Samsung Note 3. I downloaded the source code from Samsung and Google, and compiled my own image. Now I want to put an executable in the image, which I flash the phone with. So I did some research and found out I should create a project folder in /packages/app/ directory. I did that, and here is what is in the directory...

sansari@ubuntu:~/WORKING_DIRECTORY/packages/apps/use-tbt$ ls
Android.mk use-tbt.c
sansari@ubuntu:~/WORKING_DIRECTORY/packages/apps/use-tbt$ more Android.mk
LOCAL_PATH:= $(call my-dir)
include $(CLEAR_VARS)
LOCAL_MODULE := use-tbt
LOCAL_SRC_FILES:= use-tbt
LOCAL_PACKAGE_NAME := use-tbt
LOCAL_STATIC_LIBRARIES := libcutils libc
include $(BUILD_EXECUTABLE)

sansari@ubuntu:~/WORKING_DIRECTORY/packages/apps/use-tbt$ more use-tbt.c

/* Hello World program */

#include<stdio.h>

main()
{
printf("Hello World");

}

But once I compile this project, I do not see the executable on the phone. I also need help with coming up with a faster way to validate weather or not this module makes it to the final image successfully. What I mean is the only way I know of how to do that now is to build the whole thing, create an image and flash the phone, then root it, and install busy box and then do a find in the directory structure. Can anyone suggest a better way?

I am trying to learn how to create an emulator image of what I have, but I do not know how to pack and what files and directories to pack in the images which the emulator uses. I do know I need a system.img. But I do not know which directories from the build system go in the system.img. This question I believe belongs to the developer forum, but I am afraid of posting there. Majority of my posts in those groups are moved to the more general groups. It is done in a very polite and nice way; I have to say that I appreciate that. Nevertheless, I would feel better if this post was in one of those forums. Just sayin!