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Q & A??????

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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Nate2 said:
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

Nate2 said:
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.

XDA App

Can't seem to find the XDA app in google play.

Mine too, thought it was just me, anyone else have the apk?

Till its back u can use tapatalk app.
They are the dev for the xda app.
Its better than xda app
Also someone has posted a beta version of taptalk 2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1551181

So what happened to the XDA app anyway?

Use search before opening a new thread!
From:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=841646
the_scotsman said:
We had to remove all XDA apps from Google Market until we fix a problem with Google Checkout. Will be back soon hopefully!
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Is it so difficult to use search?

Thread Closed​
Please search before posting. A quick search would of pulled this up​

ill ask again since being deleted what happened to forum search

What happened to forum search .. how are we supposed to find stuff without forum and thread search?

lgkahn said:
What happened to forum search .. how are we supposed to find stuff without forum and thread search?
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The mobile app works fine for it.. I have no clue what is going on...

I was wondering the same ****!!
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lgkahn said:
What happened to forum search .. how are we supposed to find stuff without forum and thread search?
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+1

Use Google. Just search for 'xda forum' then key words till we get website bug fuxed

Just maintenance being done. Sites with 4.5 million users do need that from time to time. It will be up again.
---Jay--- From the Nexus

i thought i was tripping!!!

So THAT was what was missing when I was on my computer this morning?!?!?!?!? I was like there is something missing here but couldn't figure it out...lol...I am pretty bright...NOT!
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Can we please call this phone the HTC1 or M7 in created topics.

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...?

mang0 said:
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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edub186 said:
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...

mang0 said:
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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DJGurth said:
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.

DJGurth said:
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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edub186 said:
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

finalhit said:
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 . . .

[Q] Google Edition 4.2.2 Battery Percentage Mod

Hello All,
I have been using an old release of the Google Edition Port for my sprint s4. All has been mostly great.
I wanted to flash a mod to show my battery percentage but cant seem to find it.
I have been looking endlessly for a mod to get the CM10.1 battery percentage icon, someone posted it on the Google Port thread, but I cant find it on my own.
Does anyone know?
Thanks

okaybn said:
Hello All,
I have been using an old release of the Google Edition Port for my sprint s4. All has been mostly great.
I wanted to flash a mod to show my battery percentage but cant seem to find it.
I have been looking endlessly for a mod to get the CM10.1 battery percentage icon, someone posted it on the Google Port thread, but I cant find it on my own.
Does anyone know?
Thanks
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I don't mean to be a jerk or anything, but you should really post this on the google edition thread rather than making a whole new thread for it.
Also, there's a search bar in every thread. Try and search for it in the thread rather than using the general search bar.

Salil999 said:
I don't mean to be a jerk or anything, but you should really post this on the google edition thread rather than making a whole new thread for it.
Also, there's a search bar in every thread. Try and search for it in the thread rather than using the general search bar.
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You're not being a jerk I was thinking the same thing. Just didn't want to write it all out when I saw this thread earlier.
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Sorry guys
New to the forums. Tried posting on the actual Google edition thread but said I wasn't authorized because Im a new user and it stated that I can only post in q and a section.
Also used the search function on a ton of threads and didn't find what I was looking for. Which lead me here.
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okaybn said:
Sorry guys
New to the forums. Tried posting on the actual Google edition thread but said I wasn't authorized because Im a new user and it stated that I can only post in q and a section.
Also used the search function on a ton of threads and didn't find what I was looking for. Which lead me here.
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Ah well you did the right thing then . there is a thread I came across that had mods for the Google edition . let me see if I can come across it again.
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