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[About XDA developers] ryanbg:
I've been a member of XDA since January of 2008, before 99% of the moderators had even heard of it, and before Android was released. Since then, the community has literally tumbled down to such a disappointing low. There's absolutely no incentive for developers to stick around anymore, and some of the members show such blatant disrespect for those who try to help them. Absolutely no one tries to learn how to do something as simple as learning how to use ADB. Another gripe I have with XDA is titles such as Recognized Contributor. Requiring a minimum post amount is quite a poor metric for contributions to the community. We should be judged based on content rather than quantity of low-quality/redundant posts.

For example, I applied for Recognized Contributor just because, with no real intention of actually getting it, after releasing a bootloader unlock for three Samsung devices along with another well-recognized and skilled developer, in addition to supporting the users who chose to utilize it. Before that, 95% of my posts are simply assisting members with accurate/relevant information or explaining various aspects of Android and hardware. I was denied because of post count.

This community used to be about learning and teaching, but the attitude and general reception of that ideology is long since past. The general attitude now is to self-serve and receive instant gratification. Look at people like Dan Rosenberg [MENTION=4229979]djrbliss[/MENTION] and ask them why they left. Incredibly talented developers and researchers used to thrive in this community and now are expected to spoon-feed everyone. There has definitely been a paradigm shift and it's definitely sad to see. I miss the early days of Android and even back when this site was dedicated to WM5/6 on XDA devices. Competent users no longer contribute to this community and I really don't blame them. It's all about scripts and one-click tools and completely missing the point of XDA-DEVELOPERS

I know [MENTION=4939386]Surge1223[/MENTION] would echo this sentiment, but to be honest, I highly doubt any change in the foreseeable future. In a couple years, I envision XDA as a wasteland of Root Bounty threads and people complaining about Xposed not working.
[About XDA developers] Surge1223:
Agree with this 100 percent. Also IMHO the post rule should be raised to 100 posts before posts in development. If they can contribute have them message the OP and if the OP thinks they can contribute then lift the limit for said user on said thread. I cannot tell you how many threads I just don't even bother reading after seeing a couple posts than are just as easily answered by googling questions.

Often even new R&D threads are just placeholders where people hope a "dev" will come chime in and then they can piggy back off of that. The whole culture has changed and its horrible and sad to see this. Also there is very little structure or general polling of those that drive the ideas and development this site thrives on. I definitely get the feeling the site is moving more towards generating traffic and less towards being a content driven site.

Sadly I think a lot of people are on board with the change.
[About XDA developers] kuzibri:
Hi,

I understand your disappointment and frustration. Since we both joined XDA in 2008, XDA has grown to such a very large community that it needs very clear rules to be maintaned/managed as best as possible. Therefore it is for XDA not possible anymore to keep every member satisfied. Of course a lot has changed, sometimes leading to better results and sometimes not, but that's the reality. Besides that, the amount of different devices has grown enourmously, making the work of Mods, Admins and even higher not easier. I still see and know a lot of competent users who are willing to contribute to this community. I also know a lot of Mods and Admins with the best intentions to make XDA better. In summary: the purpose of this thread is to get/receive new ideas how to make XDA better organized in the future and/or add features to XDA that are now missing. That's my mission.

kindest regards, kuzibri
[About XDA developers] ryanbg:
In this case, limit posting in Development forums to users with a minimum of 50-100 posts, immediately reprimand members not reading rules/instructions/directions and asking senseless questions, and ban users who continue to violate the community rules or ethos. In addition, moderators should start deleting posts from members who continue to clutter threads that have no contribution and even take away posting ability. I understand this is a large initiative, but we've got to start somewhere. I think we need to significantly increase enforcement of rules, and begin to respect the wishes of developers by ensuring any questions asked that are covered in an OP are reprimanded.

Also, batch scripts, development unrelated to a device, and other junk is immediately removed and deleted from Development forums.
[About XDA developers] kuzibri:
Thanks for your positive contribution. I will have a serious look in what I can achieve or not, I'm only an RC. Regarding reprimanding and/or banning "wrong" members, there are also created a few initiatives/ideas to accomplish that. Unfortunately they are not yet approved or supported by XDA, but seen as personal projects. One of these ideas is this one: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2202178 and later this one: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2474979. With this project we created a lot of threads with the purpose of freeing Dev's threads from OT posts. I personally have removed a lot of these OT posts to the conjoining created Q&A/T thread and also got some members banned. Therefore I needed a friendly Mod or Admin, otherwise nothing happened. All in all, I keep on fighting to get this project accepted an supported by XDA as an effective way to accomplish what we want with this project. This meets your ideas as far as possible. For our project to succeed, we need the approval of the Dev's and that's just the major problem unfortunately. But, I will never give up.

kindest regards, kuzibri
[About XDA developers] iamsubhranil:
Hi. First of all nice to let us have a mouth to say. XDA is growing up rapidly, with a ton of features inside, probably much more than most of us know. But the things I think it needs polishing is :

1) Its mobile version needs to be more organised as just basic html shows up sometime on some popular browsers like UC and all.

2) Things need a bit more organised. XDA contains much more useful threads than our needs. But a large number of threads stays hidden just because not being in the forum I'm in or I'm currently browsing. What about implementing a more intelligent suggestion algorithm which will show thread suggestions based on user interaction in different types of threads?

3) The overall UI is a bit unprofessional. Needs a more compact look.

4) There should be a constant place to feed the admins with our idea, so they can handpick the most useful ones to make XDA more beautiful.
[About XDA developers] kuzibri:
Hi,

First of all, many thanks for your suggestions/ideas.

Regarding your first point: Which mobile version are you using? XDA Premium or XDA Labs? The latter is IMPO very good, fast and easy to use.

Regarding your second point: Any suggestions?

Regarding the UI: It's a known issue and they are working hard on that

Regarding your last point: As a start you all could use this thread for feeding Admins. I know a few and can forward/PM them when a useful idea/suggestion comes by. Once there enough of these posts in this thread , I can ask the Admins to start their own : "What is missing on XDA", open to all members of this community" . I do not know if this feasablefor the Admins as they are all very busy people, but we can always give it a try.

kindest regards, kuzibri
[About XDA developers] iamsubhranil:
1) No I'm talking about the mobile browser view.

2) XDA can keep track of users activities like where are they browsing,what type of contents they're seeing or spending most of the time with, which type of thread they have the highest activities and finally juice all of them up to get a clear taste of users knowledge. As per my personal experience, I can tell that the suggestions of some device specific materials like ROMs and kernels are only useful to me for the device I have, or as per XDA, the devices I listed as I have. Most of the time and for most of the users, the heads up for other device materials are just useless. It can be optional. Like "Would you like us to give you suggestions for some device specific materials beyond the device/s you have?". And most of the users will uncheck it. In that place, a bit of users taste can be punched inside. I personally like mods and apps. So XDA can search through my browsing history to give me suggestions of more new mods and apps. The suggestions below should have a "View more" button, which can be operated within the same page. In XDA terms, it can allocate tags of my most visited and most active threads and search for other threads containing that tags. It will be a lot more useful in users side and devs also will get a lot more users of their creations, which is obviously a form of art I think. And what's art without huge audience?

Thanks.
[About XDA developers] kuzibri:
Thanks for your fast answer. Regarding point no 2: XDA keeps already track of your activities, for this you have to click on your XDA profile name and choose "view profile" and choose "statistics". For the rest of your suggestions, I do not know whether this is possible for XDA as there are more than 7 million members, but I will PM a befriended Admin about your suggestion and keep you informed by his answer via PM or, if it's an important answer for other users too, here in this thread.

kindest regards, kuzibri

EDIT: BTW, could you be so kind to explain what you exactly mean by the mobile browser view? And do you mean XDA Premium or XDA Labs?

Or do you use your mobile browser to view XDA? If yes, I understand your complaint and would install asap XDA Labs as a seperate app to view XDA on your mobile.
[About XDA developers] KidCarter93:
1) Agreed to an extent but the last I knew, a proper mobile forum skin was being worked on. One which could be selected in the Style Chooser and wouldn't just be the default if you're on a mobile device. Whether that idea still continued to be worked on afterwards, I have no idea. As [MENTION=1303867]kuzibri[/MENTION] mentioned though, using XDA Labs would be a much better idea.

2) Not something which too many people would be interested in, I don't think, but could be a decent idea. It should certainly be passed onto the higher ups.

3) I think the UI looks a hell of a lot better than it did for a long time. Changes are always going to be considered and implemented though so it could drastically change again at some point.

4) The best place to open a dialogue with the moderators and admins about any potential ideas would be in the [URL="http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1987254&page=279]Feedback/Recommendation for XDA[/URL]. A bunch of XDA staff from all levels actively scour that thread and will discuss good ideas that get posted in there
[About XDA developers] iamsubhranil:
Yes I do use mobile browser and gonna try XDA Labs very soon. Thanx for the suggestion.

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Can you please check post #25? I have given a more detailed idea about my suggestion on "suggestions".
[About XDA developers] KidCarter93:
Yeah I know, I already read that post before replying so as not to relay something which you may have already noticed.

As I mentioned though, the thread I linked to in my previous post is the best place for such a suggestion to go so that it can be easily seen by those who make the decisions.

It may easily be missed in this thread as the admins aren't looking through all threads to see potential new ideas.
[About XDA developers] iamsubhranil:
Asked on that. Thanx for your advice.
[About XDA developers] kuzibri:
Hi,

as I told you, I would PM an Admin with your suggestions and this is, in short, his answer:

"Well the more user specific any of those suggested stories and threads can be the better of course.

As I think the huge number of members and the cross referencing with tags or the users specified devices, might make this very burdensome serverwise." But your message has the attention now cause I know this Admin very well and know that he is thinking about it and maybe planning to do something with you suggestion(s).

kindest regards, kuzibri

BTW, I posted that also on the forum "Feedback/Recommendation for XDA" my dear friend KidCarter93 mentioned.
[About XDA developers] kuzibri:
Hi, You will going to love XDA Labs:highfive:

kindest regards, kuzibri
[About XDA developers] ankurR:
Nice

Thanks for the info
[About XDA developers] I_did_it_just_tmrrow:
I think a kind of xda-founding would be a nice feature.

My problem is that the guys who had the ability to code the nice app's, Kernel modules, patches, fixes, exploits and so on, getting mostly a good payment by there companys :D

Money rules the world and the users paying less and less for good software.

Perhaps we can turn that fact into a new way. If xda can bring people together who give some money for dev working time the devs had a reason more to spent time for xda.

This is my idea.

Greetings by Idijt
[About XDA developers] :
Xda is not about money, at all. It's about learning, sharing, helping, etc. People don't create roms and kernels for money, they do it as a hobby and challenge. :good:

No, xda will not be playing a part in anyone earning money for roms and kernels specifically. That flies in the face of the xda and Android spirit.

Apps and themes, that's slightly different, but payment for such things is still not the focus on xda. Never has been. :)

Edit: Most members have a way set up to donate to them if you appreciate their work. That's a good way to say thanks, but not mandatory.
[About XDA developers] crashpsycho:
What I miss I not having so many redirective links and side threads along the side of the website. If we could either rid of it or atleast contain it to the main subject but when in individual threads eliminate them would be nice
[XDA Assist] Capitah Knight:
Who's to say, when someone monitors their live cams, he or she is neglected as to variability of informent implementation. (by means of checking on security cams).

Ultimately, my inquisition would be to put a live link broadcast url via home background. In Andriod, by the off chance, is this at all plausible to make an app .... or .apk with .sdk?
[XDA Assist] Droidriven:
Hello,

Welcome to XDA.

I don't think that is possible but you can try posting your question in the forum linked below.

http://xdaforums.com/android/help

The experts there may be able to help. Good luck.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] S3Killer:
How do I reinstall the S Planner? I installed the apk but opening, says the S Planner stopped
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nine5raptor:
Phone model?

Rom?
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] S3Killer:
Sorry,

Galaxy Note N910C

Stock Rom 5.1.1 N910CXXU1COJ5

Thank you
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nine5raptor:
OK. Was wondering if you were still on tw or another rom. I haven't tried deleting and reinstalling s planner. Maybe someone will come along who knows another method, but my only suggestion would be to reflash the firmware as it will include s planner and all the paths for it to work.

Hopefully there is an easier way.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] S3Killer:
Thanks for your help
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nine5raptor:
Sorry not much help from me.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keithross39:
If you are rooted, you can push (copy/paste) the app to system>>app, change the permissions to rw-r--r--, and reboot the device..

This should work (it has for me with other system apps)....

http://i.imgur.com/rVnFwJM.jpg
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keithross39:
Are you rooted? Will this process work for you?

http://i.imgur.com/rVnFwJM.jpg
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] S3Killer:
Yes, But when you open the settings of the S Planner, the application stops
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keithross39:
Have you followed the process exactly as I related it?

1) push app to system>>app

2) set permissions to rw-r--r--

Or....

XX-

X--

X--

.....and 3) rebooted.

http://i.imgur.com/rVnFwJM.jpg

---------- Post added at 06:42 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:38 PM ----------

http://i.imgur.com/rVnFwJM.jpg
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] S3Killer:
Yes, I had done it. I will uninstall and do it all again . Thank you
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keithross39:
One further step......

After the process I have given you, and after the re boot (but before attempting to open the app)

Go to Settings>> Applications>>S Planner and clear data......

If you are still having problems after that, the only other option will be to re flash your firmware......

http://i.imgur.com/rVnFwJM.jpg
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] S3Killer:
Unfortunately also failed. The most correct is to reinstall the ROM. Thank you very much :good:
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keithross39:
On my device, it goes in System>>App

There is also a folder called Priv-App

It *may* be that on your device, the S Planner app needs to be in that folder (if it is included)

You could try the process I mentioned again but push the app to this alternative folder. It'll only take a couple of minutes to try it, and if it doesn't work, you still have the option to flash the full firmware.....

http://i.imgur.com/rVnFwJM.jpg
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] S3Killer:
Thanks for the help, but I ended up restoring a backup I had ROM and now everything is ok.:good:
[Android Apps and Games] MrTok001:
Create your own Star Wars opening crawl with Star Text : The 4th Awakens App

Just enter Opening sentence, Title, Episode Name, Subtitle and Text ,Then Crawl in Star Wars style.

Update

- V1.2 Now you can add music to the Opening Crawl.

- V1.1 Now you can save the Opening Crawl.

- Coming soon on V2 The ability to share Opening Crawl as GIF and Viedo

Video :

[YOUTUBE]Xe2GIARsHXI[/YOUTUBE]

Screen :

[IMG="Screen 1"]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/T5T9eJUPEvmNPoNdFT-mTzACuORSw-aQBkPKNhyYA1uhEbO4BozccxfM-fAqryZoYBQ=h310-rw[/IMG]

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Download Star Text : The 4th Awakens​
[Android Apps and Games] MrTok001:
anyone :(
[Android Apps and Games] [UV]AndroidOG:
Cool!

This is a really cool app! Thank you for this! Will review on YT soon!
[Android Apps and Games] kouss77550:
Seems to be a great eoic app ! Will download !
[Android Apps and Games] MrTok001:
Thank :)
[Android Apps and Games] n78 shadow:
Wow, this really a strange idea and I love strange ideas :D
[Android Apps and Games] MrTok001:
version 1.0.1 is out now
[Android Apps and Games] MrTok001:
anyone :\
[Android Apps and Games] BatDroid:
Didn't tried yet.

but a funny name though :)
[Android Apps and Games] MrTok001:
Thank :D
[Android Apps and Games] MrTok001:
Update

- V1.1 Now you can save the Opening Crawl.

- Coming soon on V2 The ability to share Opening Crawl as GIF and Viedo

​
[Android Apps and Games] MrTok001:
anyone try the new version ?
[Android Apps and Games] bigwilly90210:
No apk link? Or is it ad supported. Its hard going full FOSS ha
[Android Apps and Games] MrTok001:
here app link:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tokapp.startext
[Android Apps and Games] MrTok001:
Update

- V1.2 Now you can add music to the Opening Crawl.

​
[Xperia Z5 General] zacharias.maladroit:
Hi,

Feedback for all the Dual models (DSDS) of Xperia Z5, Xperia Z5 Premium, Xperia Z5 Compact, Xperia Z4

goes here

Thank you :)
[Xperia Z5 General] bananajoe78:
Hi,

I would be more then happy to test a CM for the Z5 Dual.

3 years ago I started to use DUAL_Sim mobiles. And there I used MediaTek and then Quallcomm

I know how to flash, restore and maintain my phones.

So, if there is something to test, please let me know.

BR
[Xperia Z5 General] Sony guy:
Thank You very much

If you want some help I'm ready :)
[Xperia Z5 General] zacharias.maladroit:
Current DSDS build:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=66709276&postcount=104
[Xperia Z5 General] Sony guy:
Thank You For Your ROM

about the dual sim detect , I have made patch file to activate it

but still not working

I put all needed files in the zip file and flash it

but not woking

if you want the file I made it to edit it tell me to upload it

Thank You :)
[Xperia Z5 General] zacharias.maladroit:
Yes, please

any idea is welcome towards to get it working :)
[Xperia Z5 General] Sony guy:
Removed :D
[Xperia Z5 General] zacharias.maladroit:
Thank you :)

Okay, please remove that attachment before others try it without knowing what it does ;)
[Xperia Z5 General] Sony guy:
this is the logcat
[Xperia Z5 General] albertobom:
Latest build still no focus working on camera.
[Xperia Z5 General] zacharias.maladroit:
Kindly read the title of the Thread:

it is ONLY for Dual SIM Feedback,

Thank you :)

Please read the (Known) Issues section of the First Post of the CM13 Thread
[Xperia Z5 General] albertobom:
Ooops! I feel kind of silly now.

Sorry dear friend.
[Xperia Z5 General] JerryLaiHMmmmmm:
Free to test it right now.

Should I flash the recovery first or Kernel first?
[Xperia Z5 General] zacharias.maladroit:
No problem mate, I also tend to overlook things and then write silly things in the wrong spots ;)

Thanks !

I hope you or the others have some time to test the latest CM13 release,

better flash TWRP first (the one dedicated to CM/AOSP-based ROMs) and then the ROM, Kernel, Gapps (+/- XPosed, if you need),

I flashed all 4 in one go and it went without problems.

Thanks !
[Xperia Z5 General] JerryLaiHMmmmmm:
Well time to report.

The ROM runs quite smooth on my E6683, but there's no SIM Detection. However there's duall sim setting.

The camera won't work, but all of the other functions are ok.

Now returning back to stock cuz to I have to use the phone function....you know, as you've mentioned, it's a phone but not a PDA.

Hope those will help.

Edit: Ahhhhhhhh I flash back to stock too quickly and I forgot to get the logs... Will get them this weekend if you want.
[Xperia Z5 General] zacharias.maladroit:
Thanks for the report JerryLaiHMmmmmm,

yes please, the logs are very important,

I got some from Sony Guy, but these were from within TWRP, thus limited in information
[Xperia Z5 General] alix_nik:
exactly same result on e6633

nice report, i exactly had the same experience on my e6633, no sim detection, and camera dont work, all others was fine as i saw,,

i flashed your last kernel (1.9.4.6) and saw same result,,

Edit: oh, i forget it: it can not detect my external sd card in both cm and twrp recovery,,

thanks bro,,
[One (M9) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Miguel st:
I have an unlocked htc m9 , just installed TWRP , delete the original backup , if anyone can help me , I occupied the backup telcel mexico . this in s -on . gracias.
[One (M9) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teddy0209:
I don't understand what you're trying to say... but if you have twrp, you can restore backup from there... if you don't have a twrp backup, you can download one compatible for your device...

Edit: look in the stickies, thread by Flippy498
[One (M9) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Miguel st:
try to be clearer , I have a htc m9 that is unlocked , but only has TWRP instalad , delete the original backup ( Mexico Telcel ), is in s -on I can not install ruu , is in semi brick