yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Vibrant General] DangerousDave:
I agree with you 100% in partucular regarding the users.

I came to this forum looking for support, trying to get the GPS working on my Vibrant.

Before I posted or did anything I read many threads and researched what it meant to use Odin and to root the phone and flash a rom and to recover from a problem before I even started anything. When I did I was fully aware that I and I alone, was responsible for anything that happened to my phone. I am continually amazed at how some people jump in, without a clue as to what they are doing, then seem to try to blame the developers for their problems. Then you have the group who complain about colors or a boot animation or a "missing" app on a rom they got for free. Simply amazing the entitlement people have over something that someone puts out there for them to try to improve their phone for free.

I can understand how the devs could get fed up with these sorts of actions. It can take a pretty thick skin to deal with all the stuff I see going on here.
[Vibrant General] TheSneakerWhore:
It is like a preschool in here...just get used to it.

Life will go on, and someone will always be making roms--herds are pathetic, individuals are lost inside said herds. Keep your ears open and your mouth shut.

My $0.02
[Vibrant General] ScooterG:
No one but the Dev can pull their ROMs and leave. We all take criticism in life. Some run, some brush it off.
[Vibrant General] Drewstein:
I agree to a point, just if anyone runs off Master I'm forming a mob with pitchforks and torches...
[Vibrant General] down8:
I have plenty of respect for the few guys who make a few useful programs, and I don't think I've ever bashed a dev's work openly. But:

/Twerd.

Gotta give respect to receive, and some devs just think they are God's gift to Captain Taco. It's the Internet - no one gets respect on the 'tubes. Who gives a ****. The growing up really neds to happen on the part of most of these "I'm pouty b/c someone said something crass about some weekend work I did" "developers."

McMaster should shrink his huge sig. It's a symptom of my point: get over your self importance. There are (good) forums on the 'Net that enforce a 5-line or 100px tall rule (vs. his 300px +).

Again, not bashing the work, just the attitude, as presented.

-bZj
[Vibrant General] oka1:
Agree ...........great post clear concise and to the point. Funny, that a 16 year old can articulate the basics of good behavior that most in here do not practice. I do not blame a lot of the devs leaving, people rag on their work give nothing but complaints..... as if they have the skill (yeah right).People will eagerly wait 10 min in a Starbucks line, pay 5.00 for a coffee and never donate to the dev, XDA or anything........then complain when the custom rom they got for free doesn't work the WAY they like or want......... talk about selfish irony...........

Great post !! kevipapo1 (from a guy old enough to be your grandpa :))
[Vibrant General] XiaoSiuMai:
i agree with it. people need to remember that without dev. we would all be running stock
[Vibrant General] xriderx66:
If master leaves I'll suicide.

I hope ur reading this, master
[Vibrant General] All~G1:
Unfortunately this is the interwebz and this is has its been in any android forum I've ventured through. As you are young, but yet seem to be fairly wise, I say to you "welcome to the world my friend!"
[Vibrant General] couped:
Very good post.

Most criticism is from lack of knowledge/education. People don't understand how difficult it is to develop a ROM. So they criticise what they don't understand because it inconveniences them.

However, I will disagree somewhat with developer criticism. Although, I don't agree with the way Master handled the situation, I can relate.

I believe it is very important for us to realize that ROM developers are not public figures. They have the freedom to stop and start as they please. Their passion is development, after all, not public relations.

Kudos OP. Excellent post!
[Vibrant General] gdavis2570:
I just want to say thanks to all Developers here at XDA. Without you and your ROMS or tweaks i wouldn't have the great phone i have today that i spent my hard earned money on, and to the immature people if something doesn't work right on a ROM insted of being an ASS!!! and saying how crappy it is say whats wrong and they will fix it they have for me.

Again thanks to all who have helped you don't even know me but you all are ready to help at anytime day or night.

GARY:D
[Vibrant General] VeryCoolAlan:
I personally am 15 and have been in xda since 13

I appreciate the devs for all their work if it wasn't for them i would have killed myself with many frustrations of a stock vibrant

I hate that some are immature and that some get really irritating i understand that some are new but some just get on nerves.

I wish eugene came back because he was.one of the first devs here
[Vibrant General] garywojdan81:
This is a great post & I echo the op's sentiments. This forum and the devs that contribute to it are a phenomenal resource to all of us and deserve to be treated with respect as we all do. The real shame is that a 16 yr old realizes this more than most of us adults (some of which are in name only). I've been in these forums for only a short time and the amount of immaturity, cynacism and deconstructive criticism I have seen is truly apalling and frankly I'm suprised more haven't bailed. I guess the Golden Rule isn't important when you've got the anonymity of the internet.
[Vibrant General] tjhart85:
Just because someone is childish does NOT mean that they are a child.

I've seen many adults that throw a tantrum worse than a 5 year old and many 5 year olds who act like they're going on 30.

Likely their age has nothing to do with it & its just a reflection of their random genetics and/or crappy parenting.

If its an issue, then xda should make a max image/sig size (like you mentioned other sites do). That simple.

Most of his signature tells you to search & read the XDA rules before posting, not really bad advice & since he has to answer questions from many people who don't do either, I can't really blame him.

It would be a LOT more aesthetically pleasing if it were text only, but since XDA allows it, I don't really have a problem with it.

Most of the devs have developed a bit of an attitude (I've seen it from Eugene, SomBionix, Master, and a few others) because of the crap they have to deal with & XDA not enforcing their own rules (this is supposed to have changed after the town hall meeting).
[Vibrant General] jokersax11:
i have been on xda since 2005, left came back etc etc, i do minor edits and coding here and there for myself because i dont have the time like these other people. but honestly most people need to get over themselves. this is a strong community and will live on without you. that said this community has made some people millionaires and others just brats who want the limelight. the idea behind this site is to take the software into our own hands. its us vs. corporations. if devs want to leave cool stfu about it and go but keep in mind that unless you have a contributed to the community dont complain about someones work. devs know what come when you start producing products. its the same that companys deal with. most leave because they get their feelings hurt. its not like people are stalking you and breaking your kneecaps because angry birds wouldnt play during their lunchbreak. ignore the negative and stay or wine and leave. but this place or any place wont change. the more successful you get the harder your skin must be
[Vibrant General] jellette:
About me and why it all got under my skin.

James / jellette / Heathen

39 year old, married, father of 3

<Edited out line, too personal>

I look around and see Darky, Doc, Jim, Eugene, TW and everyone else doing Gingerbread clones - and they aren't called "Copy Cat" - but when I do it I am. That makes a guy pretty darn mad.

I set out to do the latest Rom 100% from scratch without drawing from the work of any existing Rom specifically because of my relationship with TW. The takers out there have no idea how much work goes into doing that.

Here was and continues to be the process with PepperKake.

1. Download the JL5 Rom from samfirmware.com

2. Odin to get a feel for the new firmware.

3. Rip the files from factoryfs.rfs

4. Release the first flashable Odexed recovery safe JL5 by 30 minutes

5. Deodex the apps and jars - on this build I was unsuccessful deodexing swype and I used krylon360's swype and credited him for that.

6. Download the Nexus S dump

7. Pull all of the images I needed out of framework-res.apk and SystemUi.apk and the original bootanimation.zip and the icon out of every matching Gingerbread app

8. Carefully build the theme, re-mod the Gingerbread Launcher and create the faux crt shutdown sequence.

9. Rip the gps files from the Nexus S dump including permissions for gps and maps and restructure JL5 to call these files

10. Replace with 3E recovery, ensure the sdcard mounts, etc..

11. Flash and fix 219 times until it is 99% bug free and ready for an Alpha release.

As you can see, this is not a weekend cooked rom as put earlier in the thread.

I update my roms usually once a day until it is complete, I fulfill requests for kernel flash packs for the rom, etc..

I did get pretty angry and pulled my roms - I later replaced the most recent rom. I also set up my website as a backup, which is quickly becoming my primary release source. I will stay around xda though like it or not.

On those who have followed me to the new site in support: Thank you.

Finally, a very short word on TW.

I have nothing but respect for these guys. I learned everything from them.

And that is my word on this.
[Vibrant General] johnny13oi:
I still do not understand to this day why people will pay $5 for a cup of coffee or cappuccino. Starbucks is so overpriced. And as for developers leaving I am sure they do so because people are saying bad things about their work. Either they can just ignore it and continue or just quit. I would ignore it myself but others wouldn't do the same. The sad truth is that whether they choose to withdraw their roms or not this community will still continue to thrive and they will simply be replaced by others out there. Sure others may not be as good but in time they will learn and the quality will still be approximately the same.
[Vibrant General] Whitehawkx:
Can you imagine what would happen if everyone threw in the towell because of ppl making negative comments about their work? We'd have no more electronics, Xbox's, movie actors, musicians, even the President. I think the devs just need to accept that you can't have appreciative ppl without unappreciative ppl. You can't have the good without the bad. Its a fact of life and I'm willing to bet all these devs will claim they're adults yet cant handle ppl "picking on them?" LOL! What is this high school? Yea maybe the trolls do act childish and need to grow up, but from where I'm sitting a lot of these "devs" aren't that far off either. Imo it looks even worse when they lolragequit and then come back a few hours later or periodically check in to update information about their roms or whatever in threads created by users. Quit or dont quit and stop crying about getting picked on. Go play some Call of Duty on xbox and get some practice dealing with the **** talkers if you are so sensitive. Ok I'm done. [/endrant]
[Vibrant General] meorah:
While I agree with the quitting and unquitting back and forth, people with talent don't worry about facts of life. That typically means that they aren't willing to deal with the hassle because they can go do whatever they want elsewhere with their life.

In other words, its not about being fair, because the devs are in an inherently unfair situation by providing lots of work for free. If you screw with them, they'll quit. Hell, I'll quit if people screw with me and I get paid to do my job. There are plenty of opportunities out there and I don't need or want the drama/hassle. I'll take my services elsewhere.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] fykick:
***Updated***

This is a port of the BlackFroyo theme you can find at the following link for CM7. I have fixed all the original issues I was having and now everything is in working order. For a better explanation of the port you can visit the following link or just take a look at the following screenshots I have posted below. If you want the matching apps you can find them in the original authors thread. I didn't make an effort to port them because the stock gingerbread apps are black enough for me, I just wanted this theme as it adds a little more black and white to the Nexus S.

I am working on squeezing this into an update zip that doesn't require the rest of the rom...just the device seems a bit finicky about wanting to accept certain zips. So hang tight in the meantime.

ALL CREDIT GOES TO THE ORIGINAL AUTHOR HERE:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=845530

If you are interested in flashing this you can download at the following:

http://www.multiupload.com/8P80KUUJOF

This will flash right over your previous CM7 installation with no problems and will retain all the original apps youve installed...you will just need to reinstall gapps and everything will be back to normal after you resign into your gmail account.

**All the normal disclaimers...Flash at your own risk, not responsible for any flaws or errors you make in flashing**

Also if you don't like megaupload...I'm in the process of uploading to multiupload.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] ranxoren:
Screenshots ? Im definitely down to help! Will flash and send some feedback your way tonight or tomorrow morning depending on when I can do it.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] jerrycycle:
Installed without any issues. Looks nice with the Black mms and Gmail.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] PlankLongBeard:
No Problems So Far... Installed Without a hitch :-)

Thank You for the Port. The black's look amazing on the SAMOLED :-)

Sent From a Crop Circle... with a Nexus S :-)
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] brian6685:
Looks pretty cool I will try when I get home tonight, the files aren't downloading to my phone for some reason. Thanks
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] brian6685:
Running great, love the dark colors.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] chris6278:
Just flashed this an looks great. Thanx
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] ranxoren:
Using it too looks nice. Feedback for you tho, if you go into Settings, Applications, Manage Applications, the options that are not available (supposed to be grayed out) are blacked out and therefore you cant even see what they are supposed to say
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] chris6278:
Yea just noticed that to but everything else looks good
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] fykick:
Alright I'm pretty sure I know which PNG that is, so ill check it as soon as I can get home to my computer. Thanks!
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] ranxoren:
sweet let me know and ill try it out for you if you want.
[Windows Phone 7 General] deadwrong03:
im a big apple hater but i was buyin my gf a mp3 player and had to decide between the ipod touch or the zune hd and i came to find out the zune hd and wp7 dont share the same marketplace...what gives with that?

the iphone and ipod touch have the same apps available between both and now with wp7 having over 4,000 apps in its marketplace i think its time for those 2 to share the same apps since theyre trying to go the same os route (lock down)

has there been any word on future versions of zune sharing the same marketplace as windows phone 7? anybody else feel like that would be key for both the zune and wp7 to gain marketshare...its all about apps these days cool ones...

and i hate apple but i bought her the ipod touch in the end it has apps for everything..but i hate itunes and the limited bluetooh functionality (no file transfer, no bluetooth file explorer on ipod touch)

i mean why wouldnt wp7 and the zune share the same marketplace?
[Windows Phone 7 General] uristic:
because iPod touch, iPhone and iPad uses the same (only a bit costumized) OS. WP7 phones and Zune HD (neither any other zune till now) don't. But it's rummored that MS is working on a new Zune wich would use a bit costumized WP7... then the matketplaces will be shared.
[Windows Phone 7 General] brummiesteven:
I would expect them to now go and release a Zune Player with Windows Phone 7 OS, without the telephone function IE Ipod Touch but Zune.
[Windows Phone 7 General] OGCF:
Yep, if MS wants to win this war they need to get into the iPod Touch's territory. I know everyone wants to see WP7 tablets, but if you go to high school or college and see just how many people have an iPod Touch just to avoid the data plan you would realize how much potential is locked away in that market.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Finalforce1111:
Trouble with Marketplace

Hey all,

I have a problem with the WP7 Marketplace, when i go with my phone into, select an app or game and want to install it, this error message comes:

"can't get this info right now, check back in awhile"

The joke is that when i try it connected with zune, then i can klick on install, i "buy" them.

Then a pop-up comes up where i am told that the program will install shortly, but in the end absolutely nothing is installed!!

Something strange is that the Space on my phone was getting more less so the programs should been transfered by zune to the phone but why they dont get installed? :confused:

I dont know if this is the right thread to post the problem, but you would really help me if you had an idea.

Thanks in advance

Chevron.cet installed

Chevron unlocked

Touch-xplorer installed

XBMOD installed

Phone is activated
[Windows Phone 7 General] The Gate Keeper:
finalforce... are you using wp7 on a hd2? if so, check the http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=802971 thread.

to be honest, we need to separate the windows phone 7 forum section from the hd2 windows phone 7 section. the reason is that many issues that get raised can get easily confused. mods can this be done?
[Windows Phone 7 General] svarsgaard:
Need help :

I'm from Malaysia... can't register for this zune under my country... i'd tried this Marketplace Enabler ; but it seems ain't working as it was created for previous version...

how can i tweak this Zune under my country selection ?
[G Tablet General] wasya152:
hey switched to vegan beta 3 from tnt lite 3.1.1. to try it out. i switched to vegan beta 3 instead of 4 because it seems to be more stable right now. from what i've been reading, beta 4 still has a few issues that still coming up. anyway, i really like the vegan rom since it's really close to my nexus s in appearance which i really love, but the market has not updated to the new one. is this because of the beta 3 rom or another reason. how can i get the new market back.

also, sometime when i open up a flash site, i get a little grey square with a green arrow before the flash loads. i believe that's a setting thing so that i can choose to run the flash. how do i get rid of that so that it does it automatically?

i'm running this flash player apk

Adobe Flash Player 10.1.120.1-fixed.apk
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Not sure if it's fixable (or you even want it to be fixable). It's basically telling you that it's ready to run, but doesn't actually load.

I've seen this on sites like cnn, where the video and ads are both using Flash. I actually prefer this, so that way I don't have to auto-load Flash ads. But I don't know how to turn it off.
[G Tablet General] wasya152:
hey roebeet, thanks for the reply. i really like the vegan beta 3. thanks for providing that to us. also, was the sd card delete fixed on beta 4 already or is it still doing that. that's probably the only reason i have not installed that.
[G Tablet General] wasya152:
also, how do i get the new market to show up with this beta 3 or do i need to change to beta 4 for that?
[G Tablet General] tyy10002:
If you are using the default vegan browser, just go to more, setting, enable plugins and set it to always. Actually, I like to set IP on demand since it is faster to load some pages. I also,use dolphin browser and I set it to always, so when I watch NFL, YouTube, hulu, I,will,use dolphin instead.
[G Tablet General] wasya152:
Yep. That did the trick. Now if I could only figure out how to get my market to update to new one.
[Droid X General] lennie paz:
Are there any stable ROMs that have Backup Assistant? My son just bought a Droid X and I rooted it for him. I have an Incredible and it seems like I have so many more choices as far as ROMs go. I put a couple ROMs on his X but they both had Backup Assistant removed and he really needs to have it.
[Droid X General] SysAdmin-X:
I'm not sure of any of the ROM's currently that have Backup Assistant still in it. I think most of the ROM's have taken out all/most of the Moto Blur features and a lot of the "bloatware" that verizon throws on their phones. MY guess would be that most devs are pulling this out of the phone. If you really want to add it back in, I would try this...I have never had to do this for Backup Assistant, but I have manually added Facebook back in like this...

NOTE: If you have the phone rooted, I would make sure that you have koush's bootstrap installed and make a backup of the phone in its current state in case something goes wrong. Then you have a backup you can restore.

The usual...I take no responsibility if your phone gets messed up from following this...

Open a command prompt with the phone attached using Charge only USB mode.

Type the following commands:

1) type: adb shell (press enter)

2) tyep: su (press enter)

3) type: mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system

You will need the android sdk installed, and open up ANOTHER command prompt to the sdk/tools/ folder. Paste the attached .apk and .odex files for backup assistant in the tools folder. You will need to rename the .odex.zip file to just .odex

make sure that ithe phone recognized by adb (at command prompt, type adb devices)

From command prompt at C:\<sdk location\tools\

1)type: adb push BackupAssistanceClient.apk /system/app

2)type: adb push BackupAssistanceClient.odex /system/app

switch back to the first command prompt where you typed adb shell (MAKE SURE NONE OF THIS IS MISPELLED! the slightest error can brick a phone!

1) type: cd /system/app

2) type: chmod 644 BackupAssistanceClient.apk

3) type: chmod 644 BackupAssitanceClient.odex

4) Type: exit

you may need to type exit one more time, but make sure it returns you to a normal command prompt. Then type adb remount

This will remount the /system portion of the phone back to the normal read-only state.

Then you will need to reboot the phone. When it loads up, this should have the app reloaded for you to use.
[Droid X General] milan616:
Why not pull his contacts off of Verizon's website and import them into Gmail?
[Droid X General] zanix:
Either they do not know how to do this, or they don't want their contacts with Google

I would suggest syncing with Google over using the Backup Assistant

Log into the Backup Assistant web site

Somewhere you will find export contacts

Export as a csv file

Log into GMail

Go to Contacts

Click import

Find your downloaded csv file

Import

Run the merge and clean option

And you are done
[Droid X General] Deevious88:
I BELIEVE Apex still has Backup Assistant, not 100% sure though as I've been running GummyJAR for a while now:

http://androidforums.com/droid-x-al...id-x-running-running-fast-can-12-16-10-a.html

Honestly if you just want to be able to keep track of your contacts, I would just back them up to the SD card, load up a different ROM (my personal favorite after having tried them all is GummyJAR at the moment), load the saved contact list then make sure your Google account is backing them up. It's what I do and I prefer it over relying on Verizon's software.
[Droid X General] btucker2003:
Yeah gmail.contact sync is super easy... but apex has backup assistant on it still, fyi
[Droid X General] XDRDX:
My favorite would be chevyno1's SSX 1.1 at the moment.
[Droid X General] thablackguy:
Yeah ApeX is definitely the way to go !! and it indeed does have Backup assist.