Forum organization suggestion: I9300 vs I9305 - Galaxy S III General

Right now, forums specific to the I9300 and forums shared by both models have the same naming pattern. Only I9305-specific forums are named differently.
This can confuse some people, especially newcomers, who might think e.g. that S3 General is for I9300 only.
To avoid this confusion, I suggest putting "I9300" in the title of forums specific to that model.
Also, it seems the Original development section is I9300-only, so there is no place to post I9305 originals.
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Suggest you contact the moderators .
it seems the Original development section is I9300-only
No
9305 development has both Original and Samsung as the index says .
jje

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Separate S2 Development Category to i1900G and i9100

I find it difficult to view thread separating i9100G and i9100 Model .. Im not sure where to ask about this .. Hopefully Moderator can divide the Category for S2 to 2 part for easier surfing .. Thanks ..
Try search already posted and posted .
jje
I posted the same thing and was just met with sarcasm and a thread lock down..
Its been answered numerous times.
Has been passed on to admin duplicate posts only end to clutter....
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Separate S2 forum Category for I1900G and I9100

Hi All,
just wanted to ask if it is possible to open new forum for I9100G users?
the number of these users are increasing and all the I9100 ROMs don't work with I9100G!
I think it is good idea to open new forum to eliminate the confusion and to align the effort of building a good ROM for I9100G users.
what do you think?
What's the difference between the two?
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This is the 3rd or 4th thread asking for this.
The Administrators have been made aware of the user's request.
Closed.

Galaxy S3 forums are a mess

Now we have multiple development forums for each carrier but for some reason we cannot manage to have discussion forums based on the carrier? Why not? This does not make any sense at all.
Trying to sort through all the info is a real pain in the neck. I am the type that tries to read everything I can to avoid stupid questions that can be easily researched, but the current format seems dysfunctional to me.
Most posters do not tell us what carrier they are on when asking questions or providing information, so much of the info is a waste.
No offense intended toward the mods, but I believe there is a better way to handle this phone.
I have had multiple phones and have never seen so many issues on an XDA forum before.
PS. can we unsticky the pre-order discussions yet? I find it annoying when viewing the forums on my phone to have to scroll past useless threads.
Sorry for the mini rant...
Hope everyone has a great day!
What's your suggestion?
Agree, there needs to be an entire section for each carrier. General, development , QnA, and themes.
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I agree that things could be cleaned up a bit. I think it would be better if the "Original Development" forums were subforums of each of the Development forums. I like that the development forums are separated by carrier and that all the other forums are not, but there's no reason to have two completely separate development boards for each carrier. I also think some of the stickies in general discussion could be taken down.
jcbofkc said:
Now we have multiple development forums for each carrier but for some reason we cannot manage to have discussion forums based on the carrier? Why not? This does not make any sense at all.
Trying to sort through all the info is a real pain in the neck. I am the type that tries to read everything I can to avoid stupid questions that can be easily researched, but the current format seems dysfunctional to me.
Most posters do not tell us what carrier they are on when asking questions or providing information, so much of the info is a waste.
No offense intended toward the mods, but I believe there is a better way to handle this phone.
I have had multiple phones and have never seen so many issues on an XDA forum before.
PS. can we unsticky the pre-order discussions yet? I find it annoying when viewing the forums on my phone to have to scroll past useless threads.
Sorry for the mini rant...
Hope everyone has a great day!
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I agree that it is a mess. The new "Original" development section does not make sense. We do not need it and we did fine without having it in the Nexus One forums.
Can we make a development forum that pertains to all devices and then have a separate one that only works for the individual devices. E.g.: Kernels would go in device specific development, and then ROMs/scripts that work for all devices would go in the general development forum.
The last thing I need to do is scour the ATT, Verizon, and Sprint development + their Original Development Forums to see if I can use any of their ROMs/Scripts, etc... 9 different development forums are too many!!
Why does each carrier have two separate development forums anyway? The ones on the bottom don't even have anything in them really? I thought this was some type of error.
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Sorry. I should have provided the solution.
Go back to the original format when the forums were based by carrier. I know it would help new folks. As the popularity of this phone increases the problems will also multiply. I would hate for someone to mess up their phone by taking advice from a person on a different system.
Anyway that is my 2cents on the topic.
Markdental said:
I agree that it is a mess. The new "Original" development section does not make sense. We do not need it and we did fine without having it in the Nexus One forums.
Can we make a development forum that pertains to all devices and then have a separate one that only works for the individual devices. E.g.: Kernels would go in device specific development, and then ROMs/scripts that work for all devices would go in the general development forum.
The last thing I need to do is scour the ATT, Verizon, and Sprint development + their Original Development Forums to see if I can use any of their ROMs/Scripts, etc... 9 different development forums are too many!!
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Agree, I have no f-ing idea what the "Original Development" forums are even supposed to be... the description confused the hell out of me. As far as I'm concerned. A ROM is a ROM. Why do we need 2 threads for vaguely different types of ROM. Who the F cares? This is the first forum I've seen that makes this stupid distinction.
I agree with the other guy that this unnecessary forum should at least be made a subforum of the development forum... or at best deleted entirely.
I don't mind the combined discussion threads, though.
I agree with separating the carriers, but the two separate development sections for each carrier has been around for months. It was that way with the SGS2 and works fine. So, yeah, the only change i would like to see is to separate carriers.
i agree, we need a cleanup on aisle S3
If enough people post in this thread, maybe the mods will reconsider the overall setup of the forums for the GS3.
x_SCOS_x_ELITE said:
i agree, we need a cleanup on aisle S3
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Dude, that signature is bananas... it's taking up half the screen (which looks even crazier compared to your 1-line comment). Just sayin' :silly:
My suggestion that I brought up before to a mod.
"I have an idea that would help both mods and us xda user when it come to SGs3 forum. General and accesories can be left without carrier specific names. Then sprint, verizon, att&t, and t-mobile can have their own sub-forums with development, Q&A, and themes & apps.
Ex.
[Sprint]Gs3
- Dev
-Q&A
-Themes & Apps
And last the title of the Gs3 forum title should be changed to
"U.S Samsung Galaxy S3 variants ( Sprint, T-mobile, Verizon, & ATT&T)
With this two sub forums can be deleted that are present now since they'll be apart of the carrier variant sub forum."
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masaidjet said:
My suggestion that I brought up before to a mod.
"I have an idea that would help both mods and us xda user when it come to SGs3 forum. General and accesories can be left without carrier specific names. Then sprint, verizon, att&t, and t-mobile can have their own sub-forums with development, Q&A, and themes & apps.
Ex.
[Sprint]Gs3
- Dev
-Q&A
-Themes & Apps
And last the title of the Gs3 forum title should be changed to
"U.S Samsung Galaxy S3 variants ( Sprint, T-mobile, Verizon, & ATT&T)
With this two sub forums can be deleted that are present now since they'll be apart of the carrier variant sub forum."
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Seems like a reasonable plan. I hope the mods consider it.
Sooo...
General Discussion
General Q&A
AT&T
Q&A
Development
Themes​
Sprint
Q&A
Development
Themes​
T-Mobile
Q&A
Development
Themes​
Verizon
Q&A
Development
Themes​
deserted1 said:
Sooo...
General Discussion
General Q&A
AT&T
Q&A
Development
Themes​
Sprint
Q&A
Development
Themes​
T-Mobile
Q&A
Development
Themes​
Verizon
Q&A
Development
Themes​
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Might as well just make entire different sections like they used to. Including their respective general sections.
I agree with the idea what the original dev forums should be subforums on the dev forums, but I totally understand what the mod's were going for in regards to having a general section for all carriers. I'm assuming the idea was that it would create more of a community if we were lumped into one general forum, versus all being isolated by carrier. I wonder, if it was split up by carrier, if we would have gotten as much help from non VZW dev's who have come over to show us support. There might be a better way to organize things, but I also like the idea of a more connected community of SGS3 users across carriers
The other solution is to keep the QA, Dev, etc forums, but instead have subforums for each carrier. This way solutions that worked for all carriers could be posted in the main forum for each section, with carrier specific solutions in the subforums.
Galaxy S III Development
T-Mobile Development
AT&T Development
Sprint Development
Verizon Development
[Below all these would be a forum for development that crossed over between carriers, not necessarily for ALL carriers, but if there's any crossover]​
deserted1 said:
Sooo...
General Discussion
General Q&A
AT&T
Q&A
Development
Themes​
Sprint
Q&A
Development
Themes​
T-Mobile
Q&A
Development
Themes​
Verizon
Q&A
Development
Themes​
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Yea basically that's what I meant
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Why is the [India] users thread being repeatedly closed??!!

Mods,
Please explain what the problem is, if we have a Indian users thread for Availability & Pricing of the Galaxy Note 2 ?? This is the 2nd such thread which has been closed in 3 days.
By asking us to post India prices & where available in the "common" thread is ridiculous !
I do see other "Price & Availability" threads in this very same Forum being allowed to run un-hindered.
I have been posting previously in the Samsung Galaxy S2 Forum and there were dedicated threads for INDIA users.
Please explain !!
+1. Its the second time it has been closed. Similar thead for other countries are untouched
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JulyDerek said:
Mods,
Please explain what the problem is, if we have a Indian users thread for Availability & Pricing of the Galaxy Note 2 ?? This is the 2nd such thread which has been closed in 3 days.
By asking us to post India prices & where available in the "common" thread is ridiculous !
I do see other "Price & Availability" threads in this very same Forum being allowed to run un-hindered.
I have been posting previously in the Samsung Galaxy S2 Forum and there were dedicated threads for INDIA users.
Please explain !!
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Yes, I agree with Derek, we are not having common discussions and the topic is specific to India. What's the logic in closing that. You would rather have people talk in Indian Rupees on common threads?
Thread Closed​
This decision has been explained by multiple moderators. Any more opening of threads on this topic will be dealt with in the form of a infraction warning for failure to cooperate with a moderator.
EDIT: We now have a universal thread for availability: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1918269​

Thread name suggestion

Hi everyone,
I recently moved from Note 1 (n7000) to s3 (i9300). On N7000 forum the community had a convention of marking TouchWiz UI based ROMs with "[TW]" and other tags like [AOSP], [PA] , [OMNI] etc. That made it really easy to skim through the forum. however here in i9300 forum I didn't notice any convention being followed, so it might be a good idea to make a rule about naming the threads.

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