I know other people have said this before but recently there has been a lot of misuse of dev threads and some annoyed developers and mods.
So I just wanted to thank these guys for doing what they do and spending the time they do making our phones great.
To all of us that aren't developers or are budding developers, be PATIENT and read the threads before you ask a question and post in the correct thread.
THANKS again to all the developers
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After reading the threads last few days,more and more people started to hurt each others feelings.everyone is scared of asking questions as they call it (noob) questions.everyone on this forum trying to learn something from each other.No member has right to tell other member off.
There is lots of intelligent members are here,i am sure they can easily share their ideas and findings with the other members.
This is best forum there is, so everyone is interested of becoming member.so lets try to live and respect each other.
Please try to avoid asking off-topic questions on the SD/RAM/NAND threads, because it only makes unnecessary traffic and makes harder for the other members to follow the thread.And also make a search on the forum and google before you post anything.
Please ask your questions regarding hd2 phones here,so we can help each other.
I hope everyone will join and help.
I've read a few threads here lately where someone asks as question and thereafter gets berated by the members who consider themselves developers for posting a question here. I can totally see their side of the argument since this is a development forum and it makes sense to keep the threads like "Help with my app code" separate from "OMGWFTBBQ!! How do I unbrick my XOOM???". Those people often refer to THE RULES saying it's against them to post questions here and to post in the General section.
I actually don't see that in the rules.
But maybe it should be. I am 'guilty' of posting a question or two here, and I even read the rules first to make sure it was the right place to post. I didn't see anything telling me not to, so I posted here, simply because I feel that the General forum section is for basic questions. In that context, I can see why people do post questions here.
So, I'd like to propose a solution that I think would make everyone happy, and would help clean up this section.
A "XOOM Hacking Help and Advanced XOOM Topics" subforum.
This would be a forum where people could ask all the questions and topics that aren't directly related to the actual development and coding process, but are more advance than most of the topics in the General XOOM subforum.
Would anyone else find this useful?
Also, devs, if there was a forum like this, would you be willing to drop in to answer questions? I know everyone here who is not a developer values your knowledge and helpful insight, which is why people ask questions here in the first place.
Thoughts?
Ive felt a bit of negativity too here. One issue is we don't have a q and a section yet. We are so early in the development cycle for the Xoom. We are building kernels and we don't even have SD slot drivers yet! This is the time for folks to kick back, relax, and enjoy their new toy. I freaking love my xoom! I am so excited for the future of this device. All the fun will come in due time. Relax guys!
I agree. I'm enjoying my XOOM a ton, and I actually visit this section more than any other because I love to see what the great minds here are cooking up for the community. But, I can understand their frustration. They're trying to get their bearings on a new device, but are also getting bombarded with questions that bury topics that are actually related to development. I also agree that some of them go overboard and should take a chill pill. It's not good to have someone get turned off from this forum and its benefits because a dev snapped at them for invading their domain and asking for help.
I voted NO. When there are enough Devs to populate this section, then it will be useful, until then you are only fragmenting the people that make up the community. Until then I would think it best that questions To the devs as well as by devs would be at home here. Many devices never even make it past this point.
I wonder how many people that have developed or are actually developing someting for the Xoom right now, have been the ones to try to enforce said non existent rules.
Yes if your willing to manage moving threads around, because for sure thats whats gonna happen
Generally NO though, In other XDA Development sub forums there are plenty of "OMG I bricked my ..." and plenty of useful developer help... since said bricking, etc usually comes along with installing someone bleeding edge hack.
I understand the want for purity but it will take strict enforcement!
No.
Having a Q&A forum would be nice though to separate all the little questions, especially those that get asked over and over and over..
Wow. Split poll data. lol.
So, I guess the 'devs' should just be nice. Fair enough. Maybe the rules should be updated to reflect what exactly is allowed and/or welcome in this forum.
"Doesn't sound like development to me."
I just wanted to post a thread showing my gratitude to the devs that this phone and the android community in general have. I greatly appreciate the things that you talented group of people can do. I am looking into and starting to learn some of the basics on building a ROM but I am not any kind of dev.
The real talent here are the ones that have been building ROMs for us because they enjoy doing it. So to anyone that considers themself a dev... THANK YOU!
Hello everyone,
I just wanted to make a note of how this category thread compares to the rest. I have had plenty of android phones in the past, all being HTC. This is my first Motorola handset, and it is by far my favorite. The developers for this phone are gods among men! And yet I see more disrespect day-to-day in these threads than I do helpful comments regarding the development projects! XDA has long been my number one site for all development collaboration and needed help for the android platform, and never have I encountered so much flaming as in the Motorola ATRIX forums. I do not know if this is turning to be the century of the trolls, but I feel bad for the developers and programmers that have to deal with these put downs, even though they are putting out so much VOLUNTARY work for the community.
So, if you are reading this, let's try and think twice before posting on development threads. It is not the place for harassment, flaming, disrespect, or any hurtful suggestion, as is any other place.
Thanks.
Yes! So much flaming on xda, no wonder devs put their work on other sites
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TO DEVELOPERS,
WE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF SAMSUNG'S STOCK ROM! CAN SOMEONE PLEASE DEVOTE SOME TIME TO OUR DEVICE AND CREATE A NEW CUSTOM ROM?
Sincerely yours,
Waseem Alkurdi
A themes that's sick of Samsung ROMs.
but I think should be no request thread in development section, right @MikeChannon?
CMIIW
We need cyanogenmod for our device....I agree there is not much rom development for our device...Devs please spare sometime for grand 2
cakdavid said:
but I think should be no request thread in development section, right @MikeChannon?
CMIIW
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Indeed, I understand the OP wants to see if any developers would like to work on this, but such a request isn't itself development, so I've moved this to the device General Forum. Hopefully some Devs will see the request here, but of course, what a Developer works on is entirely up to them. I'm sure there are many requests for Devs, but we can't let the development forums fill up with requests.
Mike
MikeChannon said:
Indeed, I understand the OP wants to see if any developers would like to work on this, but such a request isn't itself development, so I've moved this to the device General Forum. Hopefully some Devs will see the request here, but of course, what a Developer works on is entirely up to them. I'm sure there are many requests for Devs, but we can't let the development forums fill up with requests.
Mike
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Thanks. I posted it there to grab dev attention (purposely, but not knowing it wasn't allowed).