[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] poolphreak:
If you think the comments here at xda are "harsh", then you need to spend some time in forums with no moderators. That would toughen you up so the first time someone said "What part of read don't you understand", you could laugh instead of getting your feelings hurt.

No one here is asking anyone to read every thread before asking a question. What would be respectful to this forum, would be to do some legwork on your own for several weeks, before even rooting your phone. I have no sympathy for anyone that gets a phone and hours later they're rooted. What happens then, is this person has 2000 questions. This is where all the "Just got my phone today and rooted it, now it doesn't work, what's wrong" posts come from.

Rooting a phone can render it useless. As it doesn't work, at all. So knowing that, why would anyone with a ounce of common sense, not go on a exhaustive mission to learn everything they could about rooting, BEFORE they root their phone? Myself, I don't have $200 laying around to just blindly start running programs on my phone to see if roots or bricks. Maybe some here do, great for them.

It's not that hard to figure the basics out, by reading and reading and reading. The whole problem with that, is that people these days don't want to put any effort into doing anything themselves. It's all about INSTANT GRATIFICATION. If there is one thing I have learned from daily use of the Internet for over 20 years, is that the large majority of people, want whatever it is they want...... 1. Instantly 2. with no effort on their part 3. stuff that they won't even use, they just want it because someone else has it and having it makes them "cool".

If any of those 3 things aren't met with no resistance, then they are OFFENDED.

I haven't asked one question here and I've never had a Android device in my life until a month or so ago, never rooted a Android device in my life, but I have a rooted phone and try out different roms all the time. If I have a issue or a question, I go here to find the answer.... on my own. It doesn't mean I won't ask a question, but I will put effort into answering it myself first.

Why you ask... do I find the answers on my own, instead of spending 1 minute to type up a question and post it, so someone else can answer it for me?

Several reasons, thanks for asking:D

1. I was not raised in the Instant Gratification period (last 20 years)

2. I have respect for this forum, because of all the great devs and posters here, that spend a enormous amount of time, developing cool stuff for all the rest of us. They have their own reasons for why they do it, but the end result, is we benefit from all of it and we should show some respect for it.

3. If I answer my questions on my own, I actually learn something. When you search for answers to your own questions, you actually learn a crapload of info about your original question, but you also learn a ton of other info about a variety of other things, as well. With some time put in, eventually it all comes together and you know quite a bit about a whole bunch of things, because you were able to have all the pieces of the puzzle come together.

But if people just ignore the threads, how is that helping the problem?

The guy posted a thread in the Development area of this forum. Just doing that is hard to understand on it's own. He has to see there is several forums for the Evo... a General, Q & A, Development and Themes. Looking in the Development forum, it seems to be mostly about people DEVELOPING things... roms, hacks. Whereas, the Q &A forum seems to be a whole bunch of QUESTIONS or COMMENTS. His post has some COMMENTS and has some QUESTIONS, but nowhere does it have anything that he is developing.

He also says that he has done "a lot of reading" but yet he says he's not familiar with ROMS or Kernals and that he does not want to wipe his phone. He also states he's using a Custom ROM.

So SOMEONE should point out to him, that he should NOT post his kind of post in a Development forum. They also should point out to him that if he has done "a lot of reading" and is not familiar with ROMS or Kernals, then he needs to go back and do some more reading until he is. In all of his reading, he should have picked up on the fact that in almost every thread about a ROM or problem with a ROM, there is always talk about WIPING... caches, data... WIPING... there is also talk about backing up programs and data.

For someone that has done "a lot of reading", maybe answering him with a more scathing tone will get thru to him. Because after doing "all this reading" and creating a post in the development section, for just that ... he should have to digest his EVO and wait for it to come out the other end. Then he might learn about "Backing Up" and "why it might be good to ROOT" and he'll be glad to "do a Wipe":eek::)