What is GSM radio?
I did a google search & here's one of the many hits:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM
You can also read this wiki page that contains many terms used here on the forums.
They're really useful, I learned a lot from it.
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OK ive been on this forum for some time. i dont have the many hours that lots of you appear to have to spend modding and adjusting the various XDA type devices covered on here.
My back ground is in electronics and not programing. I like to play with making things like adapters and connection devices. I get frustrated with my in ability to get the electronics to do what i want because it requires the programming side.
I have spent as much time as i can searching and following cross linked threads to find out the things i want to. it is also compounded by the various names and obvious differences between the same models and regions.
I have read the many posts by new people or people like myself who know what they want but dont always get the wording or the area that it is posted in correct. Many of the established members post the usual 'try searching before you post a question' well thats fine but if you dont know what you are looking for then how can you??
So the board has an FAQ section, to be honest that would be the first place i would look for information, there isnt much there to help people, its more about how to post stuff on the board and not FAQ on devices.
Im sure a lot of the new posts would be avoided if the established members/mods set up a list of the FAQ that people ask in there. The obvious ones like what the various terms are, A2DP etc... A list of various patches and what they do, a dload section for drivers, reg editors etc.
Now im wanting to get my XDA2i and Mini s to do what i want, i need to know this info.
Many people will just apply patches etc... i would like to see possibly an area that explains how and why things do what they do to help me understand more so i dont ask those anoying questions that the established members know the answers to.
So how about it MODS/Established members??
The FAQ link is there since we changed the forum to vBulletin, but it's a "default" vBulletin FAQ, not customized to xda-developers in any way.
The place to search for information is the wiki, there you'll find a lot of information on all the devices, and you have the possibility to edit it if you feel there's something missing.
I try to mantain the Hermes wiki up to date, it has a Hermes for Beginners section, a Hermes FAQs section, and a upgrading specific FAQ section.
But even with all the info on the wiki, and sticky posts in all the 3 hermes forums telling people to read the wiki before posting, we are getting the same questions again and again...
I have been recently going through the enormous amounts of information on this site, and everything seems to be very useful, but things are hard to find.
I remember looking for modchips for my old xbox and came across a site that had a tabulated format for the different chips that are out there. I would it very very useful. May be someone with could create a thread in the Wizard section and sticky it to the main page.
This was the site I was talking about. http://www.xbox-scene.com/modchips4_table.htm
since there are the many excellent ROMs like:
5.2.1413 mUn Base - Pandora 02.x2 ROM Beta
FARIA-HTC WIZARD FINAL ROM WITH Pro Rom Kitchen...build the ROM as you like!
Crossbow Reloaded 1.7
If we could have one central location with the comparisons of the utilities in each ROM and the Registry fixes, many might find this info useful.
I could help if possibly
Thanks
this is covered in this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=311605
Willing to help
Both initiatives are great and don´t fight eachother, this one complements yours sandrobber, perhaps it can be added another row for this one to your poll?
I would suggest (with formatting and all) that you use the WiKi for something like this. You can have a thread here that then takes you to the WiKi page(s). Heck, even a seperate WiKi page for each rom that is maintained by the ROM cookers and their "fans" might be worthwhile (I've thought about setting up a Wiki page for my roms in the past, but just never did follow through with it. I think Faria's AKU 3.3 has a Wiki page where it lists known issues and fixes.)
One of the benefits with using the Wiki is that anyone can maintain it (unlike the first posts in the forums which can only be maintained by the OP).
Use the right tool
tyty180 said:
I have been recently going through the enormous amounts of information on this site, and everything seems to be very useful, but things are hard to find.
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Exactly. A forum is great for Q&A, but terrible for finding information.
You can create ROM comparison tables using a specialized comparison table web app. Here's one I used to compare Galaxy S5 ROMs.
Hey guys, i've been following this forum for the last few weeks and i always find more and more terms that i need to investigate
terms like
fastboot
nandroid
recovery image
etc...
now don't get me wrong, i can google like the best of them, but i was wondering - is there some kind of wiki or central repository we (as first time readers) can look at whenever we are lost?
just a thought...
Every phone family on xda-developers forums has a corresponding wiki entry. Some phones do have a listing of common abbreviations, acronyms, and terms used around that phone.
Since this is probably as central a site to G1 modification as you can get, it's probably the best (only) place you'd find something like that. But it's not here (yet).
Wiki editing is open to all members. It might be a bit too much to expect those doing the bulk of the modding work to write their wiki pages as well. When you do your research and find out what the terms mean, why not try your hand at wiki editing and help out the next guy?
I have just done a search for "XFJP7" and a list came up with no reffrence to XFJP7.
The first result was: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=817703
I did a search in that thread for "XFJP7" and nothing was found.
If this site wants users to search the threads for answers then you need to fix your searching.....
You also need to make it easer to find threads users posted in......
search
hi,
Well me search bought this up :http://www.google.com/cse?q=XFJP7&s...ub-2900107662879704:fs7umqefhnf&ie=ISO-8859-1 with quite a few results.
Not being sarcastic here, but did you ever think to broaden your search field a little to get more results. for example roms, slowdowns, fixs etc?
THe information is out there, you just need to have a little patience and know how to search!
Cheers.
As a previous maemo and iOS user, there was always an organized knowledge base where everything was sorted. From developer tools to user how-tos, to hacks and exploits, everything was documented in a wiki.
Although the userbase on xda is awesome, most of the information on the site is scattered; you have to go through hoops and loops to find something, and the post you found by googling might have been outdated.
I wanted to fix that, so I started Android Wiki, an encyclopedia based on MediaWiki (the software Wikipedia uses). It runs off my own personal server, if this ever takes off, I'll move it to a dedicated server.
Right now, the wiki has only one page about the Xposed Framework (as an example in my head of what this would look like [REDACTED]).
I'd really appreciate it if users can add more info to the wiki, this might help reduce questions asked in threads, and time wasted looking for stuff.
Here's a link to the wiki:
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