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Always Include Thread Title

Just a reminder to everyone creating a new thread in the Q&A section. Please always include a relevant and descriptive title!

I want to bring your attention to some of the forum rules. They are done to improve XDA-developers.com and for you to get the best of this great community. Not following this rules you show disrespect to any other member.
1. Search before posting.
Use one of our search functions before posting, whether you have a question or something new to share, it's very likely someone already asked that question or shared that news.
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3. Post only using a clear subject and message.
You're most likely to receive a helpful answer to your question if you use a short subject title that describes your problem and a message that explains in detail what your problem is and what you've tried to solve it.
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5. Post a message only once.
As a large forum we don't need unnecessary clutter, You're free to edit your message as you like, so if you do not receive an answer revisit your message and see if you can describe your problem better. Not everyone is online at the same time, it might take a while before you receive an answer.
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16. Bumping Threads (posting simply to force a thread to the top of the thread queue)
Do not "bump" a thread more than once per 24 hours.
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2.6 All members are expected to read and adhere to the XDA rules.
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General - Question & Answer section is not a place where everyone can open a new thread with the own question. It is needed to search before, read the sticky threads, read the wikis, read and read once again, and post in an existing thread, if necessary. Repetitive topics will be deleted/closed without previous notice. Topics like 'urgent help' or 'do I brick my phone?' and so will be deleted/closed. Infractions issued to reiterative members. Remember XDA-Developers.com is about development. That includes Q&A section! Thanks for your cooperation. Best regards,

For all members(junior/senior)

This thread is for all normal members(junior members) and especially senior members.
I seldom post something unless I feel that it is necessary and is useful for others.
So, everyday I just come here and watch silently.
Today, I want to post all the problems I saw as I think you all should be aware of it.
As you all know especially senior members, anything not related to development should be post in the general section or in the particular discussion thread right?
While some members still wrongly post it in the dev thread.
When this happens, some senior members(I don't want to mention the name here) still replying to that thread saying that:
"XXX members, you are wrongly post in this thread, you should post in XXX section." or
"you know you are polluting the thread with some unrelated thing or etc." or
"do you know there is a discussion thread?
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When you are posting this kind of thread, do you aware that your action is nothing different with the members who wrongly post in that particular thread?
You are still polluting the thread, you are still posting irrelevant things in the thread.
Why don't you just ignore it or just report it?
Next, I found that some members are quite stubborn, doesn't want to follow the rules and always cleverly "decorate" the ETA post so that it looks like not ETA post.
We are not fools, mod are not fools, no matter how you rephrase it, we still know.
1. how is the progress?
2. when will you release it?
3. any problem you faced? any news?
4. etc.
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This are all "categorized" as ETA post.
I'm sick of this kind of post where half of them post by the same member.
Next, I also found that some members always think "negatively" about something.
We can't control what you want to think but please don't affect other members with all your negativity?
Sometimes, things just might not go well as we predict but hope is better than despair.
So, don't post something "negative" especially you are not sure about it.
You don't want the devs to give up or abandon their works/efforts right?
Next, this is for junior member. If you want to ask something, please use search function provided in this forum.
Or, you can use google to search xda, eg. type in "forum xda i9003 battery life" to search for anything related on i9003 battery life in xda.
P.S. the bold text can be replace by anything you are looking for.
And before reporting some bugs, please check whether it has been reported by other members and report with sufficient helpful documents(logs/logcat/ways to replicate the issue).
Last, an advise to all members, if you are not helping the devs(reporting bugs/discuss coding related issue), please don't post anything in the devs thread.
Any other questions should be in general section or that particular discussion thread.
If you don't know what to post, just keep your mouse away from "new thread" and "post reply" buttons.
I know some ppl will always try to defend their action/behavior with any excuses "available", this thread is not asking your opinion or comment.
Just think in your head whether what I wrote here is correct or not.
PLEASE DON'T REPLY YOUR OPINIONS/COMMENTS.
FOR THOSE WHO THINK THIS THREAD IS HELPFUL, JUST CLICK THE "THANKS" BUTTON IS ENOUGH. KEEP THIS AS A GOOD CULTURE IN THIS FORUM.
I hope this thread can help the forum to be better.

Well put, stickied.

Please post help and troubleshooting requests in the Q&A section

Please post help and troubleshooting requests in the Q&A section
Here are some general guidelines on where posts should be created:
- If the question involves a help or troubleshooting request that benefits the OP directly, post in Q&A.
- If the question is open-ended and intended to generate a general discussion on some topic, post in General.
There's a large grey area, but use your best common sense judgement to decide where to put the post. All misplaced posts will be moved accordingly.
Please read the forum rules. They are done to improve XDA-developers.com and for you to get the best of this great community. Not following this rules you show disrespect to any other member.
1. Search before posting.
Use one of our search functions before posting, whether you have a question or something new to share, it's very likely someone already asked that question or shared that news.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
3. Post only using a clear subject and message.
You're most likely to receive a helpful answer to your question if you use a short subject title that describes your problem and a message that explains in detail what your problem is and what you've tried to solve it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
5. Post a message only once.
As a large forum we don't need unnecessary clutter, You're free to edit your message as you like, so if you do not receive an answer revisit your message and see if you can describe your problem better. Not everyone is online at the same time, it might take a while before you receive an answer.
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2.6 All members are expected to read and adhere to the XDA rules.
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15. Keep posts/threads on-topic
Whilst a minor amount of off-topic posting may be overlooked, the general rule is your posts / threads must be relevant to the Forum / thread in which you are posting.
General Forums - For news and announcements pertaining to your device.
Q&A Forums - For all question threads / posts. If there is no Q&A forum use the device General Forum
Accessories subforum - For posts related to accessories relevant to the phone model
Development Forums (ones with the word development in the title)- For developers to post release threads e.g. ROMs, Kernels, and mods.
Themes and Apps Forums - For themers to post themes and for app announcements and discussions.
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Question & Answer section is not a place where everyone can open a new thread with the own question. It is needed to search before, read the sticky threads, read the wikis, read and read once again, and post in an existing thread, if necessary. Repetitive topics will be deleted/closed without previous notice. Topics like 'urgent help' or 'do I brick my phone?' and so will be deleted/closed. Infractions issued to reiterative members. Remember XDA-Developers.com is about development. Thanks for your cooperation. Best regards,

HELP

Why I can't write in a topic?

vitagliano said:
Why I can't write in a topic?
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Some subforums, mainly development ones, restrict posting to members with at least 10 posts. This is to cut down on spam and so new members can familiarize yourself with the forum rules and appropriate places to post, acronyms, jargon, etc. You are not, obviously, encouraged to spam to get to 10 posts. There are introduction threads, threads about what device everyone is using or wants, threads in the OT section where you can jabber about just about anything, etc. There are also "noob friendly ask-any-question" threads pinned in several sub sections where you can ask a specific question that you can't yet ask in development threads.
Welcome to XDA.

Thanks for explain

vitagliano said:
Thanks for explain
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You're welcome, and thanks for the thanks. 100!

@OP: You might want to also take a look at the XDA New User Guide - Getting Started on XDA thread.

Why so arrogant?

I just joined to this forum, and have found few insightful information
But sometimes, I found that few members are so arrogant just because they understand how to mod, root, etc
Do we need to become an android-expert first here, so other members can respect us as well?

Usually because the poster has not bothered to even read the basics and require spoon.feeding .
One could ask why you post three identical posts .

aliarroughi said:
I just joined to this forum, and have found few insightful information
But sometimes, I found that few members are so arrogant just because they understand how to mod, root, etc
Do we need to become an android-expert first here, so other members can respect us as well?
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XDA is a great place for learning and sharing informations As most members are probably humans it may happen that they act like that...
It was great if every new member would read the FORUM RULES before posting. That would avoid some of the trouble you mentioned.
A great example:
"1. Search before posting."
(I suppose 50% of my answers are generated by typing the exact same thing someone asks for into google and press search...)

This thread has been posted in a few places. Please don't make duplicate threads.
Thread closed.
Thanks,
Darth
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