[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] simplepinoi177:
MOD STATEMENT​

@Filip95_PL , As per Forum Rule 5 & 11 (relevant excerpts quoted below), your link to your Telegram group/channel and your statement has been removed.

We grant

only

developers the privilege to share references to their social media in their own development threads and if thorough support is provided in the thread. These conditions obviously don't apply to your posts here or this thread at all. While it is preferable that you offer support, troubleshooting, and assistance here on XDA Developers Forums to allow the whole community to benefit from it, along with the point that this is where you are finding & first reaching out to our members and then announcing this kind of help, as the rule states, "Encouraging members to participate in forum activities on other phone related sites [which Telegram is considered; along with also being considered social media] is prohibited" as it is also considered promoting "...similar / substantially similar to XDA-Developers.com...a competitor...site with purposes and aims similar to those of XDA-Developers.com" & "self-promotion is forbidden...social media...random links will be removed." What you communicate & exchange privately & directly and/or also outside of XDA, is out of our hands (unless it is reported; then it is uncovered to us) -- as long as it is not posting the link and promoting it here.

Please refrain from posting as such in the future.

If you are interested in XDA Developers Forum's stance on Telegram, it is explained in further detail in the thread/url below.

Telegram Chat Channels - Way Forward

WhatsApp/Telegram Groups and Channels - Going Forward Hello XDA family! Just notifying all members that posting certain links to Telegram and other sites like WhatsApp is now allowed on XDA. What does that mean? We will allow links to messages...

xdaforums.com

Thank you for your cooperation,

simplepinoi177 FSM

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Encouraging members to participate in forum activities on other phone related sites is prohibited.

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Self-promotion is forbidden, this includes blogs, social media and video channels etc. Random links will be removed.