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Amen to that! I'm a huge proponent of people learning what's going on under the hood. After they're comfortable, then by all means, use a toolkit to save time, but to come to the forums, crying about a bricked device after only using a toolkit... That's just asking to be trolled. I'll never understand why people do that to themselves. I know the last think I want is an $800 paperweight, so I learn how to do things the right way.
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@Cybojenix,oh ,no doubt about that. Xda is a dumpster fire to navigate and always has been. That said, every development section has a sticky page with virtually all the information a new user could want. And of course there's Google. These people, rushing into the forums with bricked or bootlooping devices have no excuse for their laziness. It's just mind-boggling sometimes.
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@jjhiza, "hur dur, I'm a spoilt brat. Do everything for me!"
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@Cybojenix, lol, I don't know how you guys at Slim, have put up with it all these years. I was on the ADA team for a while and we had to field those kinds of questions constantly. It was enough to dissuade me from releasing my ROM and kernel (back in the GNex and Nexus 5 days) on XDA, and instead, stick to a private group on G+. I really can't fathom what you guys, and people like rascarlo, morfic, the dirty unicorns team, etc have to sift through on a daily basis. I'd shudder every time I posted a changelog, that I'd come back to the thread with 3 worthwhile comments in a new 10 page sea of bullshit.
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@jjhiza, everyone maintains their own area. Some are worse than others. But there are places to vent. I think having that closed off area for like minded people to talk helps them through (we use slack internally).
The bigger devices, RC's help with the more repetitive questions. They do that off their own back, so hats off to them.
As for me personally, I act as team support behind the scenes. Got out of the public nearly 2 years ago. But there are certain things that are rage inducing (repetition, attitudes to security [cough, Substratum/Lineage]) -
@StefanH ...or it runs faster and more stable because the manufacturer hired monkeys as QA.
Back then Samsung said they won't update their Galaxy S1 from Android 2.3 because it doesn't have sufficient Ram.
But with CM it ran Android 4.0 without any issues and with a more responsive UI.
I don't know when these guys will finally understand that nobody wants preinstalled crap which is inferior to anything on the app store. -
@veruz, I completely agree. I waited 4 months before I decided to root my OG Droid. I was so paranoid that I'd brick the phone that I did nothing but lurk on XDA and Droidforums, and read every article I could, so I could educate myself and get comfortable with the process. Obviously, four months is a pretty ridiculous amount of time, but during that time, I learned a lot and was better off for it.
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It all makes sense now...
Typical interaction in any XDA development thread:
User: How do I put these ROMs on my phone? Plz halp!
Me: ROOT -> flash RECOVERY -> enter recovery -> flash ROM -> flash Gapps -> profit.
User: How to get the roots? Can halp me?
Me: You're in a Nexus forum. There are directions on how to root everywhere.
User: I can't find. Plz halp.
Me: Fastboot oem unlock, fastboot flash recovery.img, flash SuperSU, flash ROM...
User: Where I can get fastboot?
Me: *link to Google developer's page*
User: Can you just tell me?
Me: No, you need to figure it out, so you know what you're doing.
*2 hours later*
User: HALP! I use toolkit for to get roots, and now phone won't come on! How to fix?! Halp, halp, halp!
*5 minutes later*
User: bump
Me: Looooooool
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