This is completely irrelevant to everything but why are we one of the only forums that doesn't have a Q & A sub-forum?
I think that falls under general.
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There are specific requirements for a Q & A subforum, I'll look them up.
But, philosophically, I've never seen the point: if users don't search in general, why would they search in Q & A?
mrkite38 said:
But, philosophically, I've never seen the point: if users don't search in general, why would they search in Q & A?
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Agreed, its pretty ridiculous when people post a question that has been answered in posts even on the same page they posted on. Users need to do little more research before they jump in blind and just ask for help. We may be a forum to help others, but come on, if u can't take the time to read and learn u shouldn't be screwing around with a six hundred dollar phone....
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Having been here a long time I completely agree with you guys about people searching. I just found it odd that there were certain devices with Q&A but we didn't have one
I have found a generic Google search to be far more effective than the XDA app search.
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I have found a generic Google search to be far more effective than the XDA app search.
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I can't say I have EVER found something using search on xda. If I am searching for something I will always use google
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I have found a generic Google search to be far more effective than the XDA app search.
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I agree. Google will bring up all the forum posts. I spend most of my time on dxf and I find the search functions to be unuseful unless you have an exact phrase match.
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Not sure what happened to my last thread, but I was given really detailed info on how to fix my camera and it was gone before I had the time to take advantage of it Nothing like wasting the time of those willing to help you. Hopefully I just couldn't find it, but I checked my subscribed threads and nothing was there.
If you have recovery installed, you can install one of the kernels in the development forum. They have the camera fixes built in.
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If you have recovery installed, you can install one of the kernels in the development forum. They have the camera fixes built in.
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I don't know squat about any of this, which is why I didn't just use the instructions people had already given in other threads. They use terminology I don't understand and assume you know what they are talking about when they say use this kernel or that one (or whatever). I just checked and somehow I'm not subscribed to this thread as well. Maybe the other one is still here... I have never been on a forum where you weren't automatically subscribed to your own threads.
Ah.. well I found your thread lol. I'm using xda app so don't know if it'll link right, if not just copy and paste.
your thread
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I have had 3 evos since they 1st came out and was wondering could I root with the new update that the evos have...
I'm hearing multiple things about I can't root and/or I can root...
Im a noob at the rooting stuff and with this new update made things more of a head ache...
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The answer is no. this has been asked and answered in multiple threads.
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Ridonkulous!
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mikel719 said:
The answer is no. this has been asked and answered in multiple threads.
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I'm pretty sure we are up to at least 30 threads with people asking this same damn question.
sitlet said:
I'm pretty sure we are up to at least 30 threads with people asking this same damn question.
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Because people dont search anymore!
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I don't understand why people aren't being reamed more for this! The first time this happened when 2.2 dropped, people were getting flamed hard for starting new threads. We know that they know the answer... but they still want to pester and ask the question... as if it will bring the solution sooner.
Just do the pre-order for the 3D and get that phone. It will be permanently S-OFF out of the box!
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I don't understand why people aren't being reamed more for this! The first time this happened when 2.2 dropped, people were getting flamed hard for starting new threads. We know that they know the answer... but they still want to pester and ask the question... as if it will bring the solution sooner.
Just do the pre-order for the 3D and get that phone. It will be permanently S-OFF out of the box!
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This is not necessarily true. The final release was leaked on the EVO3D forum and shows s-on.
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Because people dont search anymore!
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They don't even have to search, they are just 3-4 threads down from this
They really need to enforce those new rules they where talking about a while back. The basics of xda!
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Well sorry it was a repost...
Even when I said I was a noob at all this, I still get flamed?
Forums are to help, not dog...
Again sorry for your waste of time when you click my post...
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Well sorry it was a repost...
Even when I said I was a noob at all this, I still get flamed?
Forums are to help, not dog...
Again sorry for your waste of time when you click my post...
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Ignore some of the people on here. It is okay if you are noob, but be sure just to search next time. And if you manage to not find an answer when searching, don't be afraid to post a question. There are a lot of good people on here that will help you.
Don't be sorry my friend.
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Well sorry it was a repost...
Even when I said I was a noob at all this, I still get flamed?
Forums are to help, not dog...
Again sorry for your waste of time when you click my post...
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cry me a river dude. you didnt take the time to try and solve the problem yourself. a simple search would have turned up the 700 other threads on the same subject. in fact, when you start a new thread and type in the thread title it automatically loads a list of similar threads which you obviously ignored. no sympathy from me. next time, dont be lazy and search
I don't understand this attitude... If it wastes your time then don't answer. Some people use the xda app which all of you xda cops should know is not search friendly. I get it though... its easy to tell someone what they should or shouldn't do on these forums.
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cry me a river dude. you didnt take the time to try and solve the problem yourself. a simple search would have turned up the 700 other threads on the same subject. in fact, when you start a new thread and type in the thread title it automatically loads a list of similar threads which you obviously ignored. no sympathy from me. next time, dont be lazy and search
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I don't understand this attitude... If it wastes your time then don't answer. Some people use the xda app which all of you xda cops should know is not search friendly. I get it though... its easy to tell someone what they should or shouldn't do on these forums.
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Yes the app isn't search friendly but if you click on general and ignore the first 5 threads, 2 of wich where about the same thing the op was asking about then yes cry us a river.
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Devi0124 said:
I don't understand this attitude... If it wastes your time then don't answer. Some people use the xda app which all of you xda cops should know is not search friendly. I get it though... its easy to tell someone what they should or shouldn't do on these forums.
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the "attitude" was due to his woe is me post. ohhhh i said im new, ohhh why flame me.... its because you are lazy and didnt take 2 seconds to look first then get butt hurt by getting flamed for being a lazy waste of forum space.
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Doesn't look like the 'noob' is the one doing the crying here.....
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Doesn't look like the 'noob' is the one doing the crying here.....
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not crying, just annoyed.
The flubber nuggets guys! He already knows he should have searched. Don't let something like this get to you because if it does, than you may have a problem.
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Sniff sniff....
Pity
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I was fairly surprised today when I tried to search my conversation list in the stock messaging app for a particular person. I knew the thread was there but search returned zero results.
So Google the kings of search have made a messaging app that doesn't allow you to search by sender? Really? That's beyond useless.
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Legit Question
EDIT: This flaming was not deserved... Sorry for my hasty reply from a hasty read...
Absolutely sure that you are joking... I haven't had any problems searching the threads any time on my Nexus 4 when it was on Stock ROM or CyanogenMod.
If you provide more details about the phone, ROM and other things and conclusive proof of this blame, it may be believed. Till then, this is an unnecessary thread :/
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I was fairly surprised today when I tried to search my conversation list in the stock messaging app for a particular person. I knew the thread was there but search returned zero results.
So Google the kings of search have made a messaging app that doesn't allow you to search by sender? Really? That's beyond useless.
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Absolutely sure that you are joking... I haven't had any problems searching the threads any time on my Nexus 4 when it was on Stock ROM or CyanogenMod.
If you provide more details about the phone, ROM and other things and conclusive proof of this blame, it may be believed. Till then, this is an unnecessary thread :/
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I can confirm that there is no such option to search the person by name in stock ROM
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My mistake
Didn't read the term "person name"...
Jamal Ahmed said:
I can confirm that there is no such option to search the person by name in stock ROM
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Thanks Jamel. Not sure I deserved such a flaming for a legit question.
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lol I never noticed that either. I mean, I don't really get enough messages to need to search through them, but that is pretty lame that you can't search by name.
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Thanks for the edit bio. I don't search my sms a lot but when I do, it always by sender rather than content (which searches fine). Maybe Google will add this in the next update?
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Didn't want to start a topic for this. But I was searching on things for the One and kept being directed to HTC One X post. Can we please use a codename for searching sakes.
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Why don't you just search within the HTC One forum...?
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Why don't you just search within the HTC One forum...?
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So search through pages of topics to find what you're looking for? Not for just this forum. But Google as well. Search for something in particular for the One and watch how many One X threads you run into.
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So search through pages of topics to find what you're looking for? Not for just this forum. But Google as well. Search for something in particular for the One and watch how many One X threads you run into.
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I search for posts containing specific keywords within the HTC One forum. Not sure how you generally use the search function...
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I search for posts containing specific keywords within the HTC One forum. Not sure how you generally use the search function...
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What he's saying is if you Google HTC one, xda sends you to the one x section more that this section, but there's not much you can do about that, that's what it's called
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What he's saying is if you Google HTC one, xda sends you to the one x section more that this section, but there's not much you can do about that, that's what it's called
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I'm talking about the xda forums in specific. He said "Google as well." But he's also asking for people to change the name of the One on the xda forums in specific, so Google is really a moot point, since you have an xda search function. You can't really help Google anyway (except to do things like search "HTC One -X -V -S" etc.), but there are way to search xda threads to narrow posts down to One-only posts.
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What he's saying is if you Google HTC one, xda sends you to the one x section more that this section, but there's not much you can do about that, that's what it's called
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Exactly... It would definitely help tho. HTC was pretty idiotic for the name.
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I guess no one ever went through the newbie stage. I'm not talking about changing the HTC One forum name either btw. Just the topics.
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I guess no one ever went through the newbie stage. I'm not talking about changing the HTC One forum name either btw. Just the topics.
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Neither did I. I said to use the search feature on the xda forums to search for posts in the HTC One forum in specific. You can also used the advanced features to search through posts separately instead of topics.
I'm just saying... this is not something that can or will be changed, so you just have to find ways to make the best of it.
You can do "not" searches in google also. Ex.
Htc one cases -"one x"
swyped all these spelling errors from my galaxy note 2
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You can do "not" searches in google also. Ex.
Htc one cases -"one x"
swyped all these spelling errors from my galaxy note 2
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Thanks! Never knew that
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More like HTC One Cases -"one x, one v, one s" lol
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The War Horse said:
More like HTC One Cases -"one x, one v, one s" lol
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It's exactly that bad
I found about 8 iterations of the HTC One which had to be prefixed with -
Search for "HTC One M7" That usually finds best results so the OPs suggestion is spot on.
I was going to make a similar suggestion about a month ago but expected the same negative responses so I didn't bother.
Yes HTC One M7 is how I look usually
But I kinda like HTC1 reminds me of the N1
It would have been so much better if they had stuck with M7. So much easier to find anything when searching. And M7 is cool, kind of James Bond-ish. Oh well . . .
As the title states I'm looking for a kernel that does this. I've searched these threads for quite some time but haven't found a single one that does this. Could someone here point me in the right direction.
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As the title states I'm looking for a kernel that does this. I've searched these threads for quite some time but haven't found a single one that does this. Could someone here point me in the right direction.
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You sure you searched the threads correctly? It took me 0.5 seconds to find what you want...
As FastCharge is a Yank feature - you should have based your search queries around that.
Here - http://yank555-lu.net/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=356
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You sure you searched the threads correctly? It took me 0.5 seconds to find what you want...
As FastCharge is a Yank feature - you should have based your search queries around that.
Here - http://yank555-lu.net/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=356
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Why so smug?
I'm searching xda for an xda kernel. I don't go outside xda much for obvious reasons. So why should I base my search outside xda? Your link did give me what I needed. But that required a different website all together.
A simple answer from you could of sufficed. No need for the attitude.
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dorianmayers said:
Why so smug?
I'm searching xda for an xda kernel. I don't go outside xda much for obvious reasons. So why should I base my search outside xda? Your link did give me what I needed. But that required a different website all together.
A simple answer from you could of sufficed. No need for the attitude.
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Sorry, it's not a smug attitude more of a "surviving in XDA" attitude.
That kernel is based on a very popular kernel by yank from xda, however he doesn't support mirrored links.
The kernel has been referenced a lot on XDA but he hasn't started his own thread mainly to get people to go to his forum.
There we go. Forgive me for not being here on xda long enough to realize who he is.
You don't search xda = chastised for not searching
You search xda with no results = learn to survive.
Wtf man. All I did was as a question in the general forum. Not in development or anything.
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There we go. Forgive me for not being here on xda long enough to realize who he is.
You don't search xda = chastised for not searching
You search xda with no results = learn to survive.
Wtf man. All I did was as a question in the general forum. Not in development or anything.
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I've gotten used to it. It is a public forum after all.
This is why I resort to asking my friends first rather than asking the forums if any issues or questions arise.
Apologies for being the prick in this situation - haha.
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XDA is something different. This video might help understand the world of XDA better
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It's linked on my signature banner
nicholaschum said:
You sure you searched the threads correctly? It took me 0.5 seconds to find what you want...
As FastCharge is a Yank feature - you should have based your search queries around that.
Here - http://yank555-lu.net/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=356
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So i have to register on another forum ? great
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So i have to register on another forum ? great
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Yeah