Is there a problem with the forum search at the moment? I am searching for info on setting up a VPN and i've seen a few posts by browsing. But when I do a search nothing comes up???
I use google go to google.com and enter your search terms then the word site:xda-developers.com
example: "Diamond VPN Setup site:xda-developers.com"
I would try to look into this sections:
General
Development and Hacking
Networking
And there use the search, sure you get more than a few ones
Hello my friends!!!
I have decided to share my new search engine with my fellow geekers!!
I have created a new search engine that will search PPCGEEKS and XDA developers websites ONLY.
This is a very helpful tool when you are looking for your PPC related answers!!
So instead of jumping back and fourth between sites or weeding through Googles results, you can get it from one spot!!.
This may also help cut down on duplicate threads.
More sites will be added soon.
I am open to adding any relevant sites to this search engine, so if you have any suggestions let me know.
You may bookmark the link below:
http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=017695416373862181485:gvgyyqz72fk&hl=en
I got another one here:
XDA Google Custom Search
In this one, it will first search these four sites: xda-developers.com, ppcgeeks.com, msdn.com & pda4x.com. After that it will also list search result from other website, but concentrate on those four first.
You can just bookmark it for future use. Or if you want to create your own custom search engine, check here.
You can get offline google maps working by using Mobile Atlas Creator (Trekbuddy) to output a BigPlanet SQLLite db and then plopping that in /sdcard/rmaps/maps, then selecting it in RMaps Settings User defined maps.
As explained here:
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=651624
The whole process is a confusing mess. If anyone knows the crazy Russian developer of RMaps, tell him USABILITY is important!!!
Mobile Atlas Creator and RMaps have nearly unusable UIs. If you're reading these forums, you'll understand the developers' "figure it out yourself" mentality.
If I have more time this weekend I'll come back and post more newbie friendly HOWTO instructions.
sirl said:
You can get offline google maps working by using Mobile Atlas Creator (Trekbuddy) to output a BigPlanet SQLLite db and then plopping that in /sdcard/rmaps/maps, then selecting it in RMaps Settings User defined maps.
As explained here:
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=651624
The whole process is a confusing mess. If anyone knows the crazy Russian developer of RMaps, tell him USABILITY is important!!!
Mobile Atlas Creator and RMaps have nearly unusable UIs. If you're reading these forums, you'll understand the developers' "figure it out yourself" mentality.
If I have more time this weekend I'll come back and post more newbie friendly HOWTO instructions.
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i downloaded rmaps and Mobile Atlas Creator, it took me 30 mins to create a map for rmaps and test it on my nexus one
in my opinion its fairly simple...anyways, if i will have some extra time this weekend i will try to come up with a simple step by step instructions to create custom maps
if you have any questions, i may be able to help you
Simple step by step instructions would be brilliant.
I found a nice step-by-step writeup of this but unfortunately since I'm a "new user" this forum won't let me post the link.
Just paste it here without the protocol designator in the URL
I managed to get this done directly on my device. I just had to install OruxMaps (available on Market)
It does the whole bloody lot (browse online maps from various sources, save them for offline use, and a ton of other things)
Brilliant app.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
is search disabled for new members?
because it seems kind of counter-productive to disable search when you expect users to search before posting.
I am searching using advanced search button (can't find in-thread search button/area) on a PC.
It's a site problem at moment, see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1529414
same problem here...
arghhhhhhhhh when i need the search function!!!
sorry..hope it fixes soon.
People here love to use [Brackets] in their thread titles as described here. That's a great way to identify what the thread is about.
HOWEVER...
I have yet to find a way to search this site and limit my results based on those identifiers. I must be missing something obvious.
In other words, if I want to search a forum for an unroot guide, searching for "unroot guide" will return a gazillion results. I'd rather search for "[Guide] unroot". But the search engine discards the brackets.
Any help?
roachkv said:
People here love to use [Brackets] in their thread titles as described here. That's a great way to identify what the thread is about.
HOWEVER...
I have yet to find a way to search this site and limit my results based on those identifiers. I must be missing something obvious.
In other words, if I want to search a forum for an unroot guide, searching for "unroot guide" will return a gazillion results. I'd rather search for "[Guide] unroot". But the search engine discards the brackets.
Any help?
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If you want to search for a particular type of guide for a particular device is what you can do is navigate to that devices section, then go to the devices General section (Where most guides will be posted) or Development section (If the guides are particularly development related guides, I.E compiling a kernel from source, or building a ROM from source for a particular device), and then in the upper right hand corner is a "Search this forum" search box that you can then search for what your looking for. For example building on your example say I wanted to unroot my Nexus 10, I would navigate to the Nexus 10 General section and then using the "Search this forum" search box I would search "[GUIDE] Unroot Nexus 10" or similar search terms and I should be able to more easily find what I'm looking for. For other topics try narrowing your search range by visiting a particular forum section then using the forum specific search box. Another example might be say I wanted to learn more about ROM development I might navigate to the Android Chef Central forum and then using the "Search this forum" search "[GUIDE] Build your own ROM" or similar search time. Overall I would recommend trying to search in a particular forum section to get more accurate search results. Also you can try using Google search for example and including specific keywords like "xda unroot Nexus 10 guide" which would return a guide for unrooting the Nexus 10, while as you mentioned just searching "xda unroot guide" will return many results. Let me know if you still have questions.
Thanks for your reply!
shimp208 said:
using the "Search this forum" search box I would search "[GUIDE] Unroot Nexus 10"
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I've tried doing what you've suggested. My problem, however, that the brackets, [], get discarded in the search, such that the results return anything with "guide" (be it a title or message body search). This occurs whether I search from the site or from Google.
I was hoping to limit my searches, for instance, to only threads that specifically have [Guide] in the title, rather that every thread with "guide" in it.
roachkv said:
Thanks for your reply!
I've tried doing what you've suggested. My problem, however, that the brackets, [], get discarded in the search, such that the results return anything with "guide" (be it a title or message body search). This occurs whether I search from the site or from Google.
I was hoping to limit my searches, for instance, to only threads that specifically have [Guide] in the title, rather that every thread with "guide" in it.
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Another suggestion would be click on the search button in the upper right hand corner and then you should be presented with advanced search options. A couple options you could try is the search keywords section selecting the search titles only option, or the search by tag option searching for the guide tag.
Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda premium
Use the search plug in for XDA built for Firefox or IE
Wayne Tech Nexus
zelendel said:
Use the search plug in for XDA built for Firefox or IE
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this still discards the brackets
shimp208 said:
Another suggestion would be...advanced search options...search by tag option searching for the guide tag.
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It appears "tags" are not the same as the [notations]. In other words, if I go into a particular thread and do an advanced search putting "guide" or "[guide]" in the tags section, I will not get a list of all threads with "[guide]" in the title
roachkv said:
this still discards the brackets
It appears "tags" are not the same as the [notations]. In other words, if I go into a particular thread and do an advanced search putting "guide" or "[guide]" in the tags section, I will not get a list of all threads with "[guide]" in the title
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Did you try searching the thread title only in advanced search options for the "guide" keyword?
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shimp208 said:
Did you try searching the thread title only in advanced search options for the "guide" keyword?
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Yes
Anybody?
No search gurus with existential wisdom to spare?
roachkv said:
Anybody?
No search gurus with existential wisdom to spare?
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Don't use the XDA search engine. Use El Goog and in the search box put;-
site:forum.xda-developers.com [GUIDE]
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as well as the keywords you want.
Not perfect, but more likely to return results for you.