[HTC Inspire 4G] symonc:
A note about sharing finds and tips

This is also duped and posted in MrGarak's thread for the Desire HD:

Which brings up another point I wanted to make this morning, but had to get on a plane - of which I am now waiting on another but it will be a while for that one.

I will speak only to my thread - but since I support quite a bit in here as well, I thought I would share the thought here also.

Things as serious as flashing RIL's and editing build.prop files and so on -- should truly be left to the developers to reveal or suggest. There are people who have a tremendous amount of knowledge who aren't the actual developers in this thread and those people know who they are (andy, cattleprod, and others). Those people offer a tremendous amount of help and suggestion to support others, but they do so after testing and/or verifying on their own that said help does indeed work and won't cause issues for many people before they spew it out there for the masses to give a try and so forth.

Let's take the RIL situation as an example: This situation has happened several times in my thread as well. 3-4 pages (30-40 posts) - then there's the edit build.prop suggestions which have taken up the same or more number of pages/posts -- APN discussions, same thing... and a myriad of "tweak this - tweak that - it worked for me... blah blah blah" that take up countless thread real estate.

When someone posts a "I found this and it worked for me..." well maybe it did. did you test it on different continents? Did you state regionally where you are and how or why it actually worked for you? Did you verify with even one single other person that it worked for them before posting it?

My point being that I and others completely understand that the intention is to help and there isn't any malicious intent in anyone's doing so whatsoever. The problem that arises is what we see evident all too much - in that more times than not it creates problems for some people - which creates support issues in thread - which takes up space and time, et al - etc - ad infinitum...

Case in point was the release of 1.4.29 and English pack from miuiandroid. All the flash happy impatient Red Bull induced maniacs who kept hitting refresh on the Rom page of miui android all ended up with "Emergency Calls Only" network recognition connection issues.

While that was going on: MrGarak, myself and others were testing the build - found that problem - were searching for a solution - and notifying Mark at miuiandroid of the issue which has happened before. Consequentially we solved this issue through a joint effort and released a ROM in thread - and corrected the problem on miuiandroid's download area.

There is a method to our madness - and a deliberate whole hearted effort of diligence to provide the best possible ROM for success before it is released. Patience by the user is paramount in the effort to keep support issues at a minimum.

If you discover some other thread - or find some tweak - I would much rather it be pm'd to me or MrGarak - or if kernel related to cattleprod: so that it can be looked into and tested before a link or download is flippantly placed in thread for anyone and everyone to "try". There aren't a lot of people capable of solving their own issues should the "try this" portion of the experiment fail. This creates a whole mess of support issues and takes away from the time a given developer or main supporter of a given ROM has to actually provide the community.