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The Problem with the ROMs is YOU.

You as in me. Me as in us. Us as in everyone here.
In my time here I've begun to notice a trend we all tend to follow. We as a community of Evo 4G owners are already committed to the bleeding edge. By contributing additional time and effort to rooting, romming, and pushing our hardware, we gleefully fling ourselves over that bleeding edge into the dark abyss below.
I've reformatted and wiped my phone completely somewhere north of 200 times. Now I'm to the point where I just want something that works while I focus on other projects. In an effort to find the Holy Grail of "perfect" implementations, I've noticed that it is my own finagling with the distributions that causes instability and poor battery life.
The devs are pretty clear about what the goals of their distributions are, what you can expect, and what happens if you don't read directions. If a rom isn't living up to YOUR expectations, then either you should take inventory of what you expect from a voluntary effort or take up the mantle of cooking your own.
So next time you complain that you are on an AOSP that can't use Sense widgets, a ROM that doesn't have HDMI (and clearly states it in prior to installation) for the 1% of people who think their phone is a VCR, or doesn't get the same battery life as a nuclear submarine; you might want to take these facts into consideration.
Honestly, I know this rant is wasted on those that complain in the rom threads over and over and over again. They've already demonstrated they can't read anyway.
Be kind to our Devs. The last thing any of us needs is them to feel suffocated by our insane demands and to run off screaming into the night. Without them, you'd still all be stuck on an unrooted phone pushing 30 frames per second and getting 14 minutes of talk time before it exploded in your hands.

Well said!

well said indeed.
though i think some feedback is always need as it helps the devs in some ways. I to have noticed a lot of people have moved from feedback to demands. (the damage control rom is a good example of this. they havent put an update out in while. All yuo see when your ead the thread now is hey why isnt there an update we need an update. but when these people are asked what they think needs fixed or what they need in the update ... most just cant tell you. I'm not saying damage control is perfect as is because it isnt. there are new tweaks i am sure they could put in to adjust this or that a little. I just think it is funny how so many are demanding an update for an updates sake in that instance and because there hasnt been one refer to the rom as being dead.)
seems like a lot dont read the op for the rom either and complain. anther example is in evio 1.2 calk switched the home and back buttons function purposely. it says he did in the op and says he feels it works better and provides a zip to revert that change if you dont like it. still tons of posts of people complaining and demanding a fix yet ... its already done and explained its a feature.
sorry thought i would join your rant lol.

Until someone makes a rom with the gbs and the wifis, I reserve the right to complain like a little school girl whose shoes are too tight.

rugedraw said:
Until someone makes a rom with the gbs and the wifis, I reserve the right to complain like a little school girl whose shoes are too tight.
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i want the one with more gbs kthx.

also please remember that its a phone

oh it's always nice to get that rom that "works". but sometimes it's fun to try out a new feature. if you are a constant flasher, time reinstalling is the price you pay. if a person finds themselves constantly flashing, they should make sure they use backup programs to make the process take less time. there are also OTA rom updates now, which were hinted at on WM, but since it's current iteration (6.5.x) is about to be "legacy" soon, i don't think it was made a reality. the demands vs. request thing can get annoying though. maybe an update to the forum rules where such behavior and be reported might be an option. lastly, yes, we understand that some of you paid good money for your phone and don't have a ton of cash, but there are people doing stuff for free that they could keep to themselves. skip a lunch out or a combo meal ONE time, and donate that to someone whose roms you use on a regular basis or a really cool app. if you wrap your head around it, it is reciprocation for the unselfish act these devs are doing.

This thread-full-of-win calls for a toast, a toast with awesome sauce
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hold it...you mean we're supposed to read the whole OP? that's a lot of reading to ask of some folks.

tl;dr
well put

Very well put.
I'll be linking your post in every new "THIS ROM SUCKS / NEEDS THIS / DOESN'T HAVE THIS" thread I see.

DraginMagik said:
hold it...you mean we're supposed to read the whole OP? that's a lot of reading to ask of some folks.
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Reading???!!! There's an app for that.....

These things make phone calls
I learn something new everyday, now if I could just find a ROM that'll let me do that.

VSack said:
for the 1% of people who think their phone is a VCR
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The reference to a VCR made me laugh hard enough that my wife looked at me like I was crazy.
Good post though. I agree with you. I'm still very new to Android, but I think some people take these things way too far.
I appreciate all of those who put so much time into helping others here, whether they be finding new root exploits, cooking roms, putting together new kernels, or designing new themes, apps, boot animations, etc.
The thing those people need to keep in mind is that the devs aren't doing it for a paycheck. They're doing it because they enjoy it. They just happen to be nice enough to share, so we can enjoy it too.
Sent from my Burnt EVO via the XDA app.

your post is to hard to read. what are you talking about.. will you update with new info. oh and then spoon feed it to me cause my browser magically is missing the search button and Google FC's everytime I try to use it.
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[PORT] CyanogenMod, everybody please help!

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I was looking in official cyanogenmod forum and i saw a thread for our phone.
Lets all start posting that we would like to see cyanogenmod for our phone!
Register here => http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?app=core&module=global&section=register
Post here => http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/6711-samsung-galaxy-3-gt-i5800/
Everybody help! It wont take more than 10 minutes to register and post!
And post whatever you want. Do your best to convince them to port cyanogenmod for our phone

Woah kyrillos13.
I never thought I'd see you post in the wrong section

The Dark Lestat said:
Woah kyrillos13.
I never thought I'd see you post in the wrong section
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hahaha.
Its development related (port). Why wrong section?
P.S: And it is the only thing we can do for asking to port cyanogenmod...

kyrillos13 said:
hahaha.
Its development related (port). Why wrong section?
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Nothing changes on our phone with this (yet)!
General section maybe?

Dude if they had to support our phone they would have (long back),
But why post here..
It should be in general section.

k. I will tell haree to move it GRR..

kyrillos13 said:
k. I will tell haree to move it GRR..
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dude to get this actually work.
post a link to this thread in your rom page, i'm sure many will give attention then

That's not really fair. :L I'm British and I have a Galaxy 3 and so do many other people in non-third world countrys.

Anyway, if we don't port cyanogen mod, nobody will do it. We'd actually have to port it ourselves like all other phone comunitys did. There is a page somewhere on how to port it, where to start and all that stuff. A port request there is worth nothing.

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I meant generally, not exclusively. You probably have the respin of SG3 aka GT-i5801 Apollo for Orange network. GB is not the "Wild West" I was referring to (although it's not "The third world" either). But this is generally the case, and this is most probably the reason there is no CM for SG3.
I have a really good idea> Why don't we join our forces and make a custom rom. All brilliant engineering is wasted on customizing those stock ROMs, and there are too many just for one phone. Why don't Kyrillos, Apocalypse, Greenmod and Lestatious merge into one developing team, why don't we get Gingerbread source and compile it for Galaxy 3? Merge all those themes together, and make a professionally sound, clean and solid ROM?
I'm avoiding these so called custom ROMs just because they are overbloated with unreliable tweaks, sure they work faster, but I need my phone to be reliable and functional, not to post Quadrant benchmarks all over the net.
Just my 2 cents...
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I'm using a custom ROM and it is fully functoinal,about this idea i think it will very hard to reach the "light" even the official cyanogaenmod's rom are not that stable and some bugs correct me if i'm wrong

kyrillos13 said:
I was looking in official cyanogenmod forum and i saw a thread for our phone.
Lets all start posting that we would like to see cyanogenmod for our phone!
Register here => http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?app=core&module=global&section=register
Post here => http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/6711-samsung-galaxy-3-gt-i5800/
Everybody help! It wont take more than 10 minutes to register and post!
And post whatever you want. Do your best to convince them to port cyanogenmod for our phone
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Did it, already, I hope they release it!

Posted too...

clarkkov said:
I have a really good idea> Why don't we join our forces and make a custom rom. All brilliant engineering is wasted on customizing those stock ROMs, and there are too many just for one phone. Why don't Kyrillos, Apocalypse, Greenmod and Lestatious merge into one developing team, why don't we get Gingerbread source and compile it for Galaxy 3? Merge all those themes together, and make a professionally sound, clean and solid ROM? .
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Working togheter is not as easy as you think!
Armv team has done a rom after a month that is far more unstable than a lestatious, an indroid or a kyrillos, that are put togheter by one single individual! Probably with time things can be done, but mixing up individuals is not the way to go...
If our SGS3 developers wanna team up by themselves they will, as they've done already.
One more thing, 90% of non-beta ROM releases are very stable and reccomended for daily use, with near-to-zero bugs (remember samsung firmwares are full of bugs as well!!), not just for "post quadrant scores" as you're telling.
Sent from my GT-I5800 using Tapatalk

mr IT "manager"..a nokia phone might be ur appropriate choice ...Coz you are missing out on the android experience by not trying out custom romsss.......

clarkkov said:
Why the quotes? That is actually my title...oh I get it, you are being sarcastic, good for you
I have tried custom ROM on my colleague's SG3, he is running Kyrillos 3.0 I believe. While I'm still on my first battery charge (80%), he already had to recharge his battery and is now on about 60% and he has small FC issues with some apps that run flawlessly on my hone.
No need for hostility, I'm just debating and using valid arguments in this debate, I thought that's what the forums are for. If I'm wrong or misinformed, I would like to hear it. I appreciate the hard work of Android developers and naturally, want even more. Custom ROMs are great, but lack that final touch I'm talking about.
BTW, SGS got it's official Gingerbread update in Europe! Maybe someone knows how to port it to SG3?
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The reason for the battery problems may be because of extra tasks he's running.. it's not just the ROM's fault. On my Kyrillos 3.0 I started to have battery problems, but I downloaded the Battery Calibration app which fixed any battery burning issues
I would say the complete opposite to you when you say that they "lack the final touch". A stock firmware is just so... basic? Custom ROM's have everything the stock firmware's have, and more. I have had NO problems at all with Kyrillos 3.0, that's why I havn't bothered to update to any later versions. Everything runs perfectly for this amazingly cheap phone.

I haven't tried the XWJPD stock but, as i'm reading on this very forum there are threads names "Multiple problems after official froyo update", nothing is perfect in this world ;-) nonetheless Samsung devs are!
Scouting the dev forum you will find a TON of fixes that have no drawbacks and are just PROs against the stock ROM (examples: sd card speed fix, audio fix published today, JIT enabled).
Yeah, surely, those "fixes" are not needed to USE the phone, but if you don't wanna optimize your phone why are you on XDA at all?
Anyway i'm not meant to be attacking you, it's just.. i don't understand your point of view; regarding ROMS, with time they will become better and better, so it's just about patience, Samsung has hundred of developers and imho their work is just above decent!

clarkkov said:
I'm avoiding these so called custom ROMs just because they are overbloated with unreliable tweaks, sure they work faster, but I need my phone to be reliable and functional, not to post Quadrant benchmarks all over the net.
Just my 2 cents...
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Not all custom roms are unstable. You can check which ones have overbloated tweaks and which dont and choose for yourself. I dont know about kyrillos 3.0, but indroid 3.0 no lagfix version worked great for me, and with apocalypse 1.3beta I haven't had stability problems (some bugs, but nothing major and no stability bugs) on a proper flash
Mr.Gamer said:
Working togheter is not as easy as you think!
Armv team has done a rom after a month that is far more unstable than a lestatious, an indroid or a kyrillos, that are put togheter by one single individual! Probably with time things can be done, but mixing up individuals is not the way to go...
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You should really understand a bit more of what each team has done and is doing and how they go about it. Yeah, the individuals did great stuff, but you have to realize that they also combined a lot of other peoples work into their roms and had help (not trying to reduce earned props from the rom makers). Just take a look at their credits/changelog pages.

I`d like to have gingerbread on the galaxy 3
The mad team has ported 2.3 on the galaxy 5 then it is possible on the galaxy 3 too
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do you think they port CM for our G3???

would love CM too!

Great launcher idea!

Just had a great idea for a new launcher that I think would work really well on the Android platform (well, what doesn't? [don't answer that]). Going to post a mock up pretty soon so watch this space, hopefully if people like it then maybe someone could build it?
I wouldn't have the first clue where to start to actually build one, but would really like to learn how.

Tell us something about it or maybe someone will help you with it.
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Will do, I just made the post so I can add to it as I go along designing things
Here is the first mock up of the messages and how it would look:
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The idea is that the dock has all of the apps in it, and you scroll through them easily, and if you want to view say, the messages for instance, you scroll through to the messages tab (would have to be a nice smooth fast action, not scrolling through pages) and then drag up on the icon to reveal the messages.
To close the app you would then have to simple drag down from the top bar and it would slide away into the dock at the bottom.
I feel if someone could help me make this that it has a lot of potential, the only problem is that standard apps would have to appear within the constraints of the bubble, which may be a problem, but hey, it's day one so I'm open to suggestions.
Please let me know what you think, I'm going to making previews for as many apps as possible if I can today, but I have other stuff to do, so watch this space!

Obviously some apps won't be all lovely and transparent like the mock up here, but if they could just appear within the bubble that would be pretty awesome I think. It's a much more swipe friendly design that some of the launchers out there at the moment, that I feel are constrained by what is already on the market or what others have already seen.

siravarice said:
Obviously some apps won't be all lovely and transparent like the mock up here, but if they could just appear within the bubble that would be pretty awesome I think. It's a much more swipe friendly design that some of the launchers out there at the moment, that I feel are constrained by what is already on the market or what others have already seen.
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It looks very very promising, altough it looks complex and hard. I hope you can find the way to do it, because you can go really far with this.
Good luck, I will definitely have an eye on this.

Mock up of an actual message being written. If I could create a transparent keyboard I would do! Don't have the time at the moment.

Forgot to add the back button at the top, oops :|

So basically a webos like "card" system but not as good
From something awesome

killersnowman said:
So basically a webos like "card" system but not as good
From something awesome
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This does not help me at all, but thanks for the demeaning comment.

Not wanting to pour water on your fire. I can tell you are all 'fired up' about this launcher, but why waste your time making these lovely screenshots and 'hoping' that some dev will come along and make the launcher for you.
You are obviously talented, why not do some reading on the forums and have a go at making your own launcher. Once you have a basic one running, I'm sure there will be plenty of members of the community willing to help you.
Just a thought

That's what I'm trying to do, i just don't know where to start!
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killersnowman said:
So basically a webos like "card" system but not as good
From something awesome
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He might have meant it as a poke to investigate webos for inspiration... not all comments are based on emotions you know

siravarice said:
That's what I'm trying to do, i just don't know where to start!
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+1
I am also willing to develope launcher, lockscreen, etc, but never know where to start.
Lots of concepts and no development at all.
P.S. I know abit of android programming.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

Maybe we can help each other? I'm completely starting from scratch but would really love to get stuck into it and start building my own apps.

I would love to contribute as well
BUT
I have absolutely no experience in programming at all......so yea.....
I'm just reading a bunch of stickies and googling to see if I can find anything that breaks everything down nice and simple instead of the FAQ on android.com

siravarice said:
Maybe we can help each other? I'm completely starting from scratch but would really love to get stuck into it and start building my own apps.
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Sure! If I can help. XP
On summer holiday so have plenty of time.
Will be in camp for next few days and will TRY to make something after it.
Hope that your design will become true!
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Me too! Yeah the Guide on the Android Dev website is a bit convoluted to say the least!

siravarice said:
This does not help me at all, but thanks for the demeaning comment.
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Not trying to demean you or this launcher just trying to describe this launcher using existing os ideas like those of webos. But the fact that the os isnt designed for this type of use would inherently make it not as good as webos.
And yes ill agree that the documentation on home screen replacements is rather lacking. Your best bet would be to look at the source of the Android default home screen
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All great things have to start somewhere. I think the concept is good, real nice. I also will be looking out for it. Can not help with building it (no idea how) but I can offer to help test it.....

tt0204 said:
Sure! If I can help. XP
On summer holiday so have plenty of time.
Will be in camp for next few days and will TRY to make something after it.
Hope that your design will become true!
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App
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maybe we could meet up sometime if this project ever gets kicked off, to collaborate and stuff?
siravarice said:
Me too! Yeah the Guide on the Android Dev website is a bit convoluted to say the least!
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I tend to agree.....just reading through in order for the first few pages has stumped me...but I have a very basic, basic idea now.
i'm going to the library to see if I can borrow this book which seems pretty good
http://www.amazon.com/App-Inventor-Android-Experience-Required/dp/1119991331

ROM Discussion & Suggestions HERE!

Hello Galaxy Peeps!
I am new here on this forum, this is my first post. I have been reading a lot on this site the last couple of weeks, and have found plenty of useful and essential information for my new baby! You guys (devs and members) ROCK!
On to the subject, which is the reason why I registered so that I could start the thread.
Here is where I currently stand:
SGS2 from BELL Mobility in Montreal Canada.
**Stock ROM is UGKG2. (I am aware that this matters very little)
**GINGERBREAD 2.3.3 out of the box.
I have already experienced a little bit with upgrading the firmware via Odin to a more recent official samsung build:
RUNNING ON:
XXKH3 ROM (stock)
GINGERBREAD 2.3.4
Rooted with CF-Root-SGS2_XX_OXA_KH3-v4.1-CWM4
Launcher: SPB Shell 3D (absolutely beautiful and buttery smooth!! totally worth the $15... simply the best, no doubts in my mind.)
I have never used CWM to flash an update, only used it for backing up and restoring so far. I do feel very comfortable diving in though with all that I have read here so far, and deem myself ready to try some Custom ROMS. They sound great!
The only thing holding me back is that I do not want to flash endlessly to find out which ROM is the best for me. I read up all the threads about the different ROMS, however I find it very difficult to find comparisons between them and picking the right one.
So basically I would like to start this discussion and have you guys tell us what you picked for yourself, and most importantly why you like your choice. The more details the better!
This I think would be a great help for people like me and in my situation, I know it will for sure help me tremendously.
Thanks guys, and keep informing the world about SGS2. Best device out there by far, all platforms mixed in...
Raz

Post number ten asking yet again whats the best rom????
jje

I think you are after this
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killall said:
I think you are after this
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LOL, nice pic
the modded spare parts in you sig I assume is compatible with Gingerbread

achillies400 said:
LOL, nice pic
the modded spare parts in you sig I assume is compatible with Gingerbread
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Yes, it was modded (not by me I hasten to add) to get the battery stats showing on VillainRom.

Raziel2k6 said:
A load of largely irrelevant crap...
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So you don't think that this question/invitation for discussion hasn't been asked a gazillion times already? In all the reading you say that you've done, you haven't come across other noobs posting the same things? No? Don't believe you; you clearly haven't read enough.
My advice? Don't use your 1st ever posts like this. Use them constructively. Get a shortlist of ROMs that you feel might be appropriate for your needs and if you have questions, search the relevant ROM thread. If you can't find a suitable answer, then post your question.
In my most humble opinion, this will greatly enhance your XDA experience as you won't get upset when people continuously tell you to search or flame you for being a noob. Some XDA users can be very intolerant.
In all honesty though, unless you're looking to switch to MIUI or Cyanogen, there isn't an enormous difference between the ROMs on offer. Mainly the themes and tweaks that the chef chooses to apply, but the base ROMs are essentially very similar.
I started this post with the intention of shouting at you for being imbecilic. As I wrote though, I realised that you were fairly literate and seemingly bright so I thought I'd go easy on you instead. I'm normally not this nice.

Yes about time we had a juvenile section for this forum .
jje

JJEgan said:
Yes about time we had a juvenile section for this forum .
jje
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XDA-Late-Developers.com?

[Suggestion] or maybe it can be done already. Being used to honeycomb on my Iconia I like the ability to move to another home screen just by touching the left or right side of the screen instead of swiping. Is this possible?
Cheers...
MJ-12

How's everyone doing?
Thanks for the replies guy, although not entirely what I was looking for... I guess to be expected with such a noob question after all I do admit to being guilty of being a noob when it come to Android and SGS, I just got my device not so long ago, coming from Samsung Omnia (WM) for a few years. Understand guys, I am not looking to get flamed here, just for a bit of advise coming from your experiences. I do understand where you guys stand, and I am sorry if I offended anyone... it was never my goal.
So far I am LOVING my new Droid!! I may not know so much when it comes to custom ROMS, but I am learning steadily when reading the posts on this site - @Major_Sarcasm yes I do read... I appreciated still the clarity and respectfulness of you reply -.
Yesterday I ended up flashing the LeoMar75 Revolution Rom and I like it up to now. It is great and is user friendly when it comes to customizations since you can use the Revolution kitchen app to download and install MOD packages. Awesome for a noob like me! I didn't even wait for any replies because I was too excited and wanted to flash ASAP on my time off, since I had already done a lot of browsing already at work. For now I think I made the right pick, and will not try to flash a different ROM, unless someone here tells me I messed up with my choice.
Finally I know many posts have been put up already for which is the best ROM out there, but if you "read" carefully my post was not entirely about that... in fact not at all!!! I stated the fact that I didn't want to try all the available ROMS out there to make a pick (too much work too little time)... that is one thing. I never anywhere in there asked what is the best ROM to use. What I was really asking is for you guys to share which you are currently using, and the reason why you like it (features, performance, etc...) or reasons why you may not like it and may want to switch back to something else. It was intended more as a discussion than a question. As you can see I already made my choice!
Again I hope I am not offending anyone, I just want to make sure I was thoroughly understood here
Hope you guys are having a great time with your babies, I sure am!
Cheers,
Raz...

Sounds good.

I think this would be a great thread if the flaming were to be non-existent.
I personally have been using Litening rom all the while, 5.0 first then 6.1 now. Satisfied with it, but I'm someone who gets bored easily so I am thinking of switching to something else. I'm also really sick of the battery life my phone offers, hopefully flashing a different rom might improve it. (I doubt so though, lol)
My main concern now is wiping - I hear its recommended to do a full wipe before flashing to other roms. So I have to do a full backup with CWM and Titanium Backup?
Deciding between LeoMar, Cognition and CyanogenMod...

Well guess what? No one has enough time to try them all out, that's why 3 of these threads pop up every day from people like you.

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THREAD CONTENT
My motive
My goals
Introduction child-boards
Child boards under my recommendation
My Motive
However XDA is a wonderful community there is still some room for improvement. XDA is great, as so are 'most' of the people around here, but however it's greatness there is still
one thing that does sometimes annoy me, is its organisation..
Let's be honest some people don't know where they should start their thread of where to find stuff, on the other hand most people who do have those problems are mostly plain stupid or are to lazy to search.
Yet I believe, that a little re-organisation will be able to address this matter and makes our lives, as the lives of users, mods or developers a little easier.
Lucky for you guys, I am not the guy that just complains, without constructing or achieving a potential solution.
I already put some hard work in it and I am fully prepared to do even more if necessarily , but before you judge me, please read and see see what I had in mind.
My Goals
Optimizing your User Experience
Creating new Levels of User Potential
Simplifying current structures and its organisations
Smoother, Faster, Clearer and Better
Introducing child-boards
I know it looks plain simple and you can believe I barely made any changes. BUT THAT IS THE KEY! That is my GOAL, keeping things as slim as possible. Still a child board can achieve an immense difference just only in your experience.
Imagine this simple user interface: Where you'll be able find to find a sub-board with ONLY ROM Releases or just everything related to it, so as for kernels.
Still I am perfectly aware that the ANDROID development goes beyond, ROM's and Kernels, YET these 2 elements in my opinion the main reason why people go to XDA, or they create kernels and ROM's or they want to flash them.
~~~ Organisational Problems ~~~​
No offense but isn't this a little weird, that so many people voted, where they'd best place their own thread?
Or is still someone able to tell, where I should fit this topic? ​
Child boards under my recommendation:
Separated Product Model Boards:
Even though people might find it lame, just know flashing the wrong firmware onto your phone, can brick your device,
accidents easily occur and even I noticed I accidently clicked onto the G development without even noticing it after 5 min and however the difference might look minor to some of you.
Why would you put 2 devices in the same area, knowing they require different systems, firmware and work on different hardware, meaning even though they are in the same range, THEY STILL DEFER
General Talk:
News​This community has a lot of potential users, that are motivated and willing to uncover the latest and hottest news for their phone or their device and I am fully aware that we do have XDA Tv.
But still I strongly believe this could be a very very useful sub-forum. Moderators or Forum Staff can sticky their posts to announce new rules or competitions
and only selected members will be able to post news concerning their galaxy s2 or their device, to decrease chances of any spam topics.
So why would we miss out on this potential, why wouldn't we publish a story that for example, AGPS, allows you to get a faster GPS lock or people invented a new script to conserve 50% more battery than usual,
does it really harm anyone, that one story wouldn't be that interesting, as this place could offer you, a pool of different stories that might catch your interest.
Nobody is forced to publish something, neither are you to read, you'll only have the Galaxy S2 knowledge library right at your disposal.
Android Developent:
Seperated ROM & Kernel Board​Wouldn't it be way easier to find all your ROM releases in one place and ONLY them?
Would we even need updated indexes anymore, when this would all be clear and accessible in one single location,
would we even be bothered to posts polls as where should I put this thread as you might have already seen above?
Wouldn't this make your user experience more simpler finding in two clicks whatever you'd like?
I'd certainly vow for this!
ROM & Kernels Separated, everything else, in the android development thread (Applications, scripts, Tweaks, ...
Interactive Search Functions
MORE QUESTIONS OR SUGGESTIONS? FEEL FREE TO COMMENT OR ASK RIGHT AWAY

I only access this Forum via the paid XDA app.
Although your ideas sound great to me (searching for a particular item/topic is currently a task at times), I need to ask. Will (if implemented) these changes also be reflected in this app?
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jebuchanan said:
I only access this Forum via the paid XDA app.
Although your ideas sound great to me (searching for a particular item/topic is currently a task at times), I need to ask. Will (if implemented) these changes also be reflected in this app?
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda premium
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I wouldn't know, but I wouldn't be certainly against it, however I doubt they will? :fingers-crossed:

Man you're faster than me, I was planning to make the same suggestion about child forums and adjusting the layout ... but you made it clearer and illustrated !!!! thank you and I hope these suggestions will be taken in consideration

I like your idea mate. You should've posted this on the general xda forum or the about xda forum, alot of senior mods are there and chances are they will spot your suggestion. Cool illustration bdw
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ephraim033 said:
I like your idea mate. You should've posted this on the general xda forum or the about xda forum, alot of senior mods are there and chances are they will spot your suggestion. Cool illustration bdw
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Alright I'll be moving it around there
@Everybody: Thanks for all your suggestions and comments ;D

Great idea mate

Super wrong forum, move it mods please

Tuner420 said:
Super wrong forum, move it mods please
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I felt like hearing some feedback first before I'd bring it up in the xda forum section

Tuner420 said:
Super wrong forum, move it mods please
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Get a life, fake XDA police!
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OP, wonderful job! Nice post!