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[Journal] My Road to Becoming a Great Developer

My Road to Becoming a Great Developer
Intro
Hello I am Kifno. I have had my HTC Hero CDMA for a short period of time and I've fallen in love with it and everything about it. I love testing out other developer's apps, tweaks, mods, themes, roms, kernels, etc. I also have recently gotten into the modding and tweaking aspect of our hero's too. Some of you may know me from my tweaked build.prop's. But I have decided that I want to be known as a great developer for the HTC Hero CDMA. I am going to keep this thread as a journal during my journey to becoming a great developer, posting what I have learned, accomplished, created, modded, tweaked, etc. that is making me one step closer to reaching that goal. Hopefully during my journey you all will appreciate some of my work for our HTC hero CDMA devices.
1/22/11
- Working on v0.7 of my tweaked build.prop's
- reading the c programming language (chapter 1)
My Work So Far
Kifno's[Tweaked] Build.prop v0.6​

reserved for future use

reserved for future use #2

reserved for future use #3

last reserved post i think that'll be all i need

Developer for editing a text file values? Right, I wonder what programming that is? By the way, does Aosp know your editing his builds and redistributing them?

thats a lot of reservations!

I'M ON A JOURNEY TO BE THE GREATEST DEV FOR THE HTC HERO CDMA
good luck, we already have the best dev's for it.

SimranSingh said:
Developer for editing a text file values? Right, I wonder what programming that is? By the way, does Aosp know your editing his builds and redistributing them?
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I'm new to becoming a developer. My first piece of work is simple, editing the build.prop from other developer's roms. And I'm learning how to program and learn the c language and learning java so I can do bigger and better things for the HTC Hero CDMA. And as a matter of fact not only did I make a editing build.prop for aosp but aosp as of last 2 updates to his new gingerbread rom has implemented my editing build.prop into his gingerbread rom by default so I'm pretty sure aosp know's i'm editing the build.prop to make the hero better for the community. That is why aosp is keeping it implemented into his rom by default. Please be positive here I'm on a journey to become a great dev and all great dev's started small okay. Remember I'm NEW to becoming a dev.
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thats a lot of reservations!
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Yeah I plan on sticking with the HTC Hero CDMA for a WHILE!

No need to be negative guys. At least he's going out and working for it. That's a lot more than 90% of people here can say. Most are too lazy to learn and want others to do it for them. Really can't believe that on xda we have at least two guys who who would actually try and discourage someone from developing. I think you guys need to check yourselves. Pathetic.
To kifno, goodluck friend and best wishes! I can't wait to see what you do!
Sent from my 2.2 Hero

Wow lets watch the negative.. Glad there are still people who want to progress the hero.. And he isn't taking claim of anyones rom he is editing the build.prop giving people some extra tweaks to make our phones quicker.. Kudos on your hard work kifno and there are some big shoes to fill around here and someone needs to do it.. I plan on trying but its hard to make time with life right now for me, so thank you for giving it a shot..
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Darch was the greatest and I believe he retired the cdma hero lol
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dirkyd3rk said:
Darch was the greatest and I believe he retired the cdma hero lol
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Unfortunately for the hero I believe you are right..
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pstevep said:
Unfortunately for the hero I believe you are right..
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Fortunately aosp still has one.

MrDowntown12 said:
No need to be negative guys.
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I think you guys need to check yourselves. Pathetic.
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No need to be negative.

stayclean said:
Fortunately aosp still has one.
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amen to that
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I agree.... Good luck cant wait to see some more of ur work....

androidnoob111 said:
I agree.... Good luck cant wait to see some more of ur work....
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By the time he becomes a "great dev " he will be the only person owning a cdma heroc, 3ghz processors will be out lmfao
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not that i'm going to stop learning how to develope things for the hero but why does everyone have to just be so negative......i just want to help everyone
but i'm going to continue learning regardless of what others say

kifno said:
not that i'm going to stop learning how to develope things for the hero but why does everyone have to just be so negative......i just want to help everyone
but i'm going to continue learning regardless of what others say
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We aren't trying to be negative. Our point is that you haven't developed anything in reality. Just editing a properties in a file isn't developing, but it does take some knowledge to know what you are going to edit . Nonetheless, you are trying to become the greatest developer, but really you are in the 1st chapter of your C Programming book. It's going to take you maybe another 3 - 5 books to actually understand what's happening. Instead of striving to become the "Greatest" developer, why not focus on just becoming a developer at first

For noobs

I think somebody should post all the roms and new updates on one thread that way it would make it easier for noobs to get the things they need and that would prevent all these how to root topics
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Kingali1997 said:
I think somebody should post all the roms and new updates on one thread that way it would make it easier for noobs to get the things they need and that would prevent all these how to root topics
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Then take some initiative and put it together.
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peckjh said:
Then take some initiative and put it together.
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This post is so much WIN. I agree 100%.

Something like nitsuj17's theme list, which i might add, is updated as soon as a new theme comes along.

I will try my best I just would lije help please
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If you start the thread people will comment on what you put in giving you all of the help you need. They just wont do it for you.
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Not to be a ****...but in my humble opinion, I like things the way they are. Gives noobs initiative to research first and to clarify issues. Throwing a ****load of roms (that are required to change their title already when updated) in one thread is gonna lead to alot of headaches unless you break down specifically the requirements of each one. I can see it now..."oh wow, I just bought this and look at all these roms. Ima load superclean 2.9 since it's the newest on my Ea28 fascinate!". **** noobs still come in here to ask how to fix there phones after flashing another phones rom...everyday. There should be a quiz that pops up asking you a series of questions about what you're about to do. Like a fail noob proof capcha. If you fail...a note pops up and says "read some more dumbass!"

Odining builds character.
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jenisiz said:
Not to be a ****...but in my humble opinion, I like things the way they are. Gives noobs initiative to research first and to clarify issues. Throwing a ****load of roms (that are required to change their title already when updated) in one thread is gonna lead to alot of headaches unless you break down specifically the requirements of each one. I can see it now..."oh wow, I just bought this and look at all these roms. Ima load superclean 2.9 since it's the newest on my Ea28 fascinate!". **** noobs still come in here to ask how to fix there phones after flashing another phones rom...everyday. There should be a quiz that pops up asking you a series of questions about what you're about to do. Like a fail noob proof capcha. If you fail...a note pops up and says "read some more dumbass!"
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lmao wow by far one of the best ideas I have seen here in the forums.

not that i don't entirely agree with some of the sentiments of the more senior members, but i was a complete noob w/ my 1st smartphone not too long ago so I can see how someone coming into this now after all of the DL09/EB01/EB16 releases can be overwhelmed...
so here's a link to a thread on android central with exactly what you are looking for
http://forum.androidcentral.com/ver...ks-roms-themes-kernels-updated-3-17-11-a.html
... a LOT friendlier with a handful of senior members that seem to be on always to walk noobs through
you won't get as many comments that, although may be true and one should take note of, doesn't contribute at all to what you asked.
Again, everyone is entitled to their opinions on a forum, so I'm not making any attacks toward anyone, but I feel like you know when your comment doesn't help the OP and only helps you feel better about walking into a post that annoys you... and maybe consider that there are people of all different ages and lives that may not allow for hours upon hours of catch up reading

jenisiz said:
Not to be a ****...but in my humble opinion, I like things the way they are. Gives noobs initiative to research first and to clarify issues. Throwing a ****load of roms (that are required to change their title already when updated) in one thread is gonna lead to alot of headaches unless you break down specifically the requirements of each one. I can see it now..."oh wow, I just bought this and look at all these roms. Ima load superclean 2.9 since it's the newest on my Ea28 fascinate!". **** noobs still come in here to ask how to fix there phones after flashing another phones rom...everyday. There should be a quiz that pops up asking you a series of questions about what you're about to do. Like a fail noob proof capcha. If you fail...a note pops up and says "read some more dumbass!"
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this is great!!!!

jenisiz said:
Not to be a ****...but in my humble opinion, I like things the way they are. Gives noobs initiative to research first and to clarify issues. Throwing a ****load of roms (that are required to change their title already when updated) in one thread is gonna lead to alot of headaches unless you break down specifically the requirements of each one. I can see it now..."oh wow, I just bought this and look at all these roms. Ima load superclean 2.9 since it's the newest on my Ea28 fascinate!". **** noobs still come in here to ask how to fix there phones after flashing another phones rom...everyday. There should be a quiz that pops up asking you a series of questions about what you're about to do. Like a fail noob proof capcha. If you fail...a note pops up and says "read some more dumbass!"
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hahaha lmfao read some more dumbass. That what be constructive yet funny as hell
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While I agree that if such a form existed... at the end of the day it most really be useless.
People will still have the same questions about this and that rom, and term, and version of phone.. etc... and if you combine ALL those answers into one form, well I would maybe make it too the third or fourth page before I give up and move on. Like a lot of forums now, some are a thousand pages.
I'm sure many people will agree the next scenario, which I find myself in a fair bit. You just soft soft bricked your phone, or something new is released... 20 min later you're sitting down with 5 or 6 browser windows open, each one has 20 tabs, and you have 30 new bookmarks made just case there something you might need later from one those pages.
lol... i tell you guys, its awful messy sometimes.. Especially when a friend gives me a phone he bricked and I've never used the phone before.
Maniac
P.S. Every expert was once a beginner... and knowledge is power.

I think what you want is already done.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1013312

Kingali1997 said:
hahaha lmfao read some more dumbass. That what be constructive yet funny as hell
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You really bumped your own 5 month long dead thread to incoherently flame somebody? God xda sucks.
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jt1134 said:
You really bumped your own 5 month long dead thread to incoherently flame somebody? God xda sucks.
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haha, I don't think he was even flaming him, just giving him props... or something...
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I love u jt
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jt1134 said:
You really bumped your own 5 month long dead thread to incoherently flame somebody? God xda sucks.
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He has been bumping dead threads for the past couple days and judging by his name "1997" that is prob the year he was born.....need i say more.

Wondering if anyone knows if it's possible to unlock OEM for the Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G model G988U1 (z3q) and flash a custom ROM to it. I'm aware that certain models don't allow this and I'm hesitant to test it out from the posts that I've seen describing how to do it. I saw the same thing for my model of the Note 9 and soon after found out that it's not possible for my model of it. If anyone can confirm whether or not I can and provide a link to a thread that includes the sources to what I need or links directly to the things I need it'd be much appreciated.

X8 development - there is none

Sorry I do understand the devs are working hard but progress is slow

Okay, no offence...... But clearly you can't read, have you not seen the many threads to bypass the locked bootloaders. These threads have hard working devs attempting to make custom rons even with the difficulties at hand. I understand that progression is slow due to the lack of.devs but we are truly blessed to have devs like racht, jerpelea, doixnah, povanovn, artoseven (sorry if i missed anyone out, you devs are all included). The effort these devs have put in to make this phone a little better is amazing and i definately believe they deserve a round of applause. Not only are there workaround custom roms but there are modules which are made to help OC and add more features to our phone than Sony would have provided us. Furthermore devs are slowly finishing tweaks on cracking the x8 bootloader. These devs and everyone who has ever provided something to improve this phone deserve a round of applause and i think you should apologise for your gurtful comment, cos at the end of the day the devs are helping us
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vr06vr said:
People admit it we are not making any progress
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well then just go back to your stock rom without root and without xrecovery
what the hell are you talking about?
and why "WE"
you're not making any progress but the devs are give them their time and just wait
is it so hard?
did your mom not learned you you have to wait for nice things

vr06vr said:
People admit it we are not making any progress
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hah.. man if you say so, go and try some work. maybe you will be our hero who crack bootloader, oc cpu to 1ghz and make honeycomb fully running on our x8s?
stop moaning and be patient or help our devs.

I'll be the first to admit you're not making any progress. I can tell by looking at you posting non-productive posts in the dev-forum.

vr06vr said:
People admit it we are not making any progress
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i am, coz i'm not a devs. but if you read every devs post here, how you can say like that? or maybe you build some that better. i wait for it. i think you are not too smart to do like people here.

vr06vr said:
People admit it we are not making any progress
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why don't you stop complaining, and start developing. we need a hero like you who can make the "progress".
stop crying ! the devs are working hard ! real life goes first tho'

Gosh...WTF...are they blind???look overall the threads..developing isn't easy work and need much time for it.i ever try to build rom but it's failed and now still learning and learning...the Devs is a human being and their time is not just to build/porting a rom

vr06vr said:
People admit it we are not making any progress
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Are you a Dev? Because i can't seem to remember seeing your name anywhere near a ROM upload.
@Administrator. I humbly request this thread be deleted or moved to the General section since it has nothing to do with development.

up :===> 100% agree

I think he means the lack of progress lately, which is somewhat true. I haven't seen ratch update his ROM in a while, and the 'SD card is safe to remove' still exists, and it's been around since the creation of custom ROMs.
Please note I'm not agreeing with the OP, just putting this out there.

Wow, this is like putting up a thread on a fishing forum about a gold fish in a bowel !! xD

vr06vr said:
Sorry I do understand the devs are working hard but progress is slow
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a-k-t-w said:
I think he means the lack of progress lately, which is somewhat true. I haven't seen ratch update his ROM in a while, and the 'SD card is safe to remove' still exists, and it's been around since the creation of custom ROMs.
Please note I'm not agreeing with the OP, just putting this out there.
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If you look around all devs are focussing on kernel building and loading and behind the scenes activity, instead of posting half baked stuff they are posting tested and stable roms
Look at minicm its almost perfect, only one main bug and tethering feature is not available.
Don't worry and have patience.
And if some mod can close or move this pointless thread it would be great.
Sent from my X8

Thread Closed.

[REQUEST DEVS] Some things to do

mirror solution
better webtop soluction
RADIO FM solution
better root solution
CM7 build
Sense Build
MIUI Build
Touch witz Build
HTC Sensation Keyboard Port for Atrix
native mvk and others good codecs support to webtop/mediacenter/phone
Modifications on MediaCenter?!(it is possible?!)
OC kernel
if anyone remember more post here

Requesting a dev to work on something without a payout is like going to a mechanic and saying, "yeah I want my car to have 800HP, but I am not paying you for it. just do it. "
If you are wanting this done fast, get about 2 grand into a paypal and be ready to drop it for someone to work. These people do this stuff for free! Stop demanding!
When something is available then it will be posted. If you arent willing to work on it yourself, stop posting. The devs know what the community wants, they are not retarded. I really wish these posts would stop popping up.
Kthnx.

stop do this =/.....I only want do a topic with all we want ...and reegroup here when its done too simplify

EclipseX said:
better root solution
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1138204

90% of those requests are terrible. Why would devs waste time putting other manafacturers skins on our phone? If you want sense so bad, why the hell didn't you buy an HTC phone?

detroitjb said:
90% of those requests are terrible. Why would devs waste time putting other manafacturers skins on our phone? If you want sense so bad, why the hell didn't you buy an HTC phone?
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Thats the idea behind eval-'s thread. If people want to pledge money to it and a developer wants to pick it up it happens.

i requested help for a kernel without thermal throttling in Q&A because we are many with phone working at 50%...
if they help us i can buy them a coffee, no problem

There is already a touchwiz launcher floating around here somewhere so yea.
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malfuncion said:
Requesting a dev to work on something without a payout is like going to a mechanic and saying, "yeah I want my car to have 800HP, but I am not paying you for it. just do it."
Kthnx.
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Not that I entirely disagree people shouldn't ask to much of devs, but that statement doesn't work
a mechanic would do work on your car, and it would only be your car. A dev makes something once and everyone can use it. Surely you see a difference?
If you went to a mechanic and asked him to figure out how to make all of a certain model of car have 800HP, and he had the same model car, its a but of a different situation.
That said, whatever devs dev I'm happy with, just felt the need to point out the mechanic analogy doesn't suit this.
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Glad to see people still posting useless threads in the dev section
Can we get this moved to general?

You want it ? Learn to do it yourself... lots of info thats all easy to access with google. Mr. Clown please Close this useless thread

Another good thing is native mvk and others good codecs support.

Ririal said:
Glad to see people still posting useless threads in the dev section
Can we get this moved to general?
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You my friend should be a mod lol they are all pointless threads

EclipseX said:
mirror solution
better webtop soluction
RADIO FM solution
better root solution
CM7 build
Sense Build
MIUI Build
Touch witz Build
HTC Sensation Keyboard Port for Atrix
OC kernel
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Just by writing ' request devs' in the title of the thread doesn't make it a dev. thread. Patience is the key. Post things like this in general section.
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firefox3 said:
You my friend should be a mod lol they are all pointless threads
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Not ALL pointless...
Atrix ~_~

ICS collab

I wish those 3 guys that building ICS can put together one rom...you know like a ICS collab ,that way we can have a full complete rom.... what do you guys think of that?

fineazbro said:
I wish those 3 guys that building ICS can put together one rom...you know like a ICS collab ,that way we can have a full complete rom.... what do you guys think of that?
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just have a look on the thread that is already there ...

I think that is the same exact topic for the post 3 or 4 below yours. All these ICS posts are getting ridiculous. I seriously wish google would have made it harder to root android phones.
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dpeeps74 said:
I think that is the same exact topic for the post 3 or 4 below yours. All these ICS posts are getting ridiculous. I seriously wish google would have made it harder to root android phones.
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Agree.
Hard root = less noobs

Romonster said:
Agree.
Hard root = less noobs
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+1
That, or I wish one-click roots would stop existing. It robs people of valuable experience and knowledge of the platform when they can mindlessly double-click and be rooted.

I've read somewhere that Paul O'Brien has already root the Nexus Prime, so he was able to extract a dump (with Drew Garen use in his beta).
Sorry for my english

i don't get the griping about threads that are made here. this is the slowest forum of any phone i've used anyway. . .

dpeeps74 said:
I think that is the same exact topic for the post 3 or 4 below yours. All these ICS posts are getting ridiculous. I seriously wish google would have made it harder to root android phones.
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I somewhat agree with this. Getting tired of the development threads clogging up with "How do I reboot my phone?" and "Do I need to wipe my ass before flashing this rom?" questions.
People just refuse to read or research on their own anymore.
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Bradart said:
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That, or I wish one-click roots would stop existing. It robs people of valuable experience and knowledge of the platform when they can mindlessly double-click and be rooted.
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I agree with this. We get the same thing in the Shift forum. A lot of people with rooted phones that have no idea how it got there or what to do with it.
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People just refuse to read or research on their own anymore.
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This is the main problem. Having easy root methods is all fine and good if you actually research what you are doing. There's a tool on this forum called "search"... 90% of people's questions can be answered by using this tool.
Sorry for the off topic post.. ICS, blah blah blah
Sent from my Android powered Tenderloin

Yeah and I think this whole idea of telling everyone to get together and make a single ROM is completely retarded, in all honesty.
Part of what makes this phone great is its diverse selection of ROMs. All these posts about needing a single ROM show A) complete lack of patience, and B)likely little understanding of how the phone, kernel, root, filesystem, etc works at all.

I think bashing someone for asking a question or making a suggestion you disagree with is pathetic. You all act like you wiped the embryonic fluid out your mouth and started spouting code. I'd much rather be a noob than a snob. Do you not realize the more newcomers the better? Newcomers become old comers like the great devs we have today... so don't be a part of the problem by stiffening innovation and contribution. Be a part of the solution: be patient with pwople, encourage ideas, make helpful suggestions (like I believe they are having this discussion on the thread below this one)
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Braneless said:
I somewhat agree with this. Getting tired of the development threads clogging up with "How do I reboot my phone?" and "Do I need to wipe my ass before flashing this rom?" questions.
People just refuse to read or research on their own anymore.
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Wait, you have to wipe your ass before flashing a ROM? ... **** ...

the OTA will be the first fully functional and stable ics. i don't think google have better dev.
i'm sure there is real genius on xda. but google work in team...
so the ics collab is not a bad idea.
and why not one-click-root? every one wants a fancy and better phone! what's wrong with that?
but you are right. no need to ask on forum how to. "root (phone)" on google and you find two hundred answers...

I agree with you too
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the OTA will be the first fully functional and stable ics. i don't think google have better dev.
i'm sure there is real genius on xda. but google work in team...
so the ics collab is not a bad idea.
and why not one-click-root? every one wants a fancy and better phone! what's wrong with that?
but you are right. no need to ask on forum how to. "root (phone)" on google and you find two hundred answers...
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jeez im sorry for posting this on here, i didn't even know there were a thread like that already, but **** yall need to calm the f down

Well, with all due respect, suggesting or telling devs to work together is almost insulting.
Devs dont take lightly to people telling them what they should and shouldn't do. I'm not saying you're being demanding by any means, but regardless, theyll see the post, and more than likely think "Who the hell does this guy think he is, talking about how I need to work with someone else, so ICS is more complete"
Have patience.....they're working hard....on their day jobs first.

Bradart said:
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That, or I wish one-click roots would stop existing. It robs people of valuable experience and knowledge of the platform when they can mindlessly double-click and be rooted.
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Slow Down There Buddy, I Achieved Root With A 1-Click Out Of Fear That I Would Screw Something Up... We Are Not All Idiots.
To The n00b Army, Please Search The Forums/Threads Before Asking Questions That Are Allready Answered! You Make It Harder For Other n00bs To Find What They're Looking For...