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You ask a question or need help and we try to help out. :highfive:
Anything is welcome, let's talk.
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Hey. This is an open ended question to prompt discussion here. Not to flame / attack anyone.
Firstly thankyou for the q+a section - invaluable resourse.
My question is this. On several occasions I have seen threads deleted / moved / closed with the explanation of "wrong sub forum". That's it. I realise that modding is difficult. But surely to learn we need to know what's wrong with where we post not just that it is wrong.
One recent example is a thread asking about developing a piece of software to simplify sdcard splitting.
I would have thought development was the right place but the thread was closed and told that it was the wrong place. So, what defines development from q+a? If I have a question about development then should I post in both forums as it is development and a question?
Development is just that - DEVELOPMENT. Questions should NOT be asked there. Questions are to be asked here. No matter what kind of questions they are.
ok, that sounds sensible
milestone.it said:
ok, that sounds sensible
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Lol yesterday the entire front page of the development section was locked because ignorant people were posting questions when there is CLEARLY a Q&A section. Some of us camp out here to help people...Who ever said you're never going to get help in this section.
I would like to say thanks to all those involved who got us our own development forum. This will most definitely help lessen the amount of people who will brick their devices by flashing stuff from the P7XXX series 8.9 tabs and vice versa.
My question now is: Is the new i957 forum only for development, or for all things concerning the i-957 specifically?
Thanks again!
Sticky in new forum
original_ganjaman said:
Hi to all
This is just to remind you this is for development only.
Please do not start Question or request threads. These threads go in the general section. I will usually close these threads if posted here.
Do not ask for ETAs on Roms, it just clutters up the thread and annoys the developer.
Anything i condone as spam will be instantly deleted.
Please do not post thank you. That is what the thanks button is for.
If anybody feels a post should be a sticky, please PM me with the reasoning.
Please report any posts that are out of place, or contain questionable content. They will be dealt with quickly!
So basically please only post ROM Development, Hacks, Mods, Fixes and Tutorials in this section.
Thank you for your attention, if you have any further questions. Please feel free to PM me
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thats in all dev forums
question answered: only for dev.
Now we just need to fill it up with some dev'ing goodness...
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Hii all I am to this forum. I feel like kinda lost
So can anyone plz guide me.
Hi!
There's a welcome thread here, to say hello in. https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=961655
And here's a newcomers guide, https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1699450
And this is helpful too, https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2232085
And for general questions about phone related issues (though many devices have their own sections, a search will find yours if there is one) https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2257421
Good luck! And I'll close this thread here. :good: