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[Q] How many of you are constantly refreshing the forum for an Official Froyo Release

'cause i know i've been refreshing the whole day now. lol. I'M FROYO-HUNGRY.
~8 hours before it's 24th of September on average in Europe. (if the rumors for 23rd holds true)
lmao.

First vote, first reply. I guess I'm refreshing - LOL

i am not only refreshing, i am also looking at various phone-sites to see if there is news hehehe

I'm not, because the rumors weren't that reliable in the first place anyway..

andrewluecke said:
I'm not, because the rumors weren't that reliable in the first place anyway..
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one can hope my friend... one can hope...

Keep refreshing until christmas..
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NO to forum
but YES to KiES
i constantly refresh KIES for the official update

aren't you lucky. the damned thing is not reading my phone again lol. ah well i don't believe in the rumors but we sure will all be stoked if it's released
...that is, if it's stable.

I'm guilty of this lol
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nope thats not why I refreshing.
I´m just bored

[Q] Can we agree on a universal date format?

Okay. Heads up. This is going to be a rant... and probably a ridiculous one.
CAN WE ALL AGREE ON A UNIVERSAL DATE FORMAT FOR ALL OF XDA TO USE?
This morning I was scrolling through the dev section trying to see what all was new and old, and realized I had to stop and carefully read each and every date to be sure of when it was actually updated. I mean, I know that today is Tuesday, March 20, 2012; but is that supposed to be 3/20/12, 20/3/12, 12/3/20, 12/20/3, 20/12/3, 3/12/20 or what!? IT'S REALLY ****ING CONFUSING!
Okay. I've said my piece. I'm calm now.
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Mister_Mxyzptlk said:
Okay. Heads up. This is going to be a rant... and probably a ridiculous one.
CAN WE ALL AGREE ON A UNIVERSAL DATE FORMAT FOR ALL OF XDA TO USE?
This morning I was scrolling through the dev section trying to see what all was new and old, and realized I had to stop and carefully read each and every date to be sure of when it was actually updated. I mean, I know that today is Tuesday, March 20, 2012; but is that supposed to be 3/20/12, 20/3/12, 12/3/20, 12/20/3, 20/12/3, 3/12/20 or what!? IT'S REALLY ****ING CONFUSING!
Okay. I've said my piece. I'm calm now.
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until the issue is solved, I'd suggest checking authors country of origin, afaik most of the world uses either dd/mm/yy or yy/mm/dd... while some other countries prefer the annoyingly illogical "mm/dd/yy" system

p107r0 said:
until the issue is solved, I'd suggest checking authors country of origin, afaik most of the world uses either dd/mm/yy or yy/mm/dd... while some other countries prefer the annoyingly illogical "mm/dd/yy" system
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Actually, it is pretty much ONLY the US who insist on the annoyingly illogical "mm/dd/yy".
Canada, Saudi Arabia and the Philippines do use it occasionally, but not exclusively like the US.
So all we have to do is educate the Americans, and we are good ....

I'm American, and I don't have any problem with using another date format. But aside from the U.S. MM/DD/YY, I've also seen DD/MM/YY and YY/MM/DD. And the U.S. format isn't illogical, it's just different. We use MM/DD/YY because it matches the standard written date format; March 20, 2012.
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Mister_Mxyzptlk said:
And the U.S. format isn't illogical, it's just different. We use MM/DD/YY because it matches the standard written date format; March 20, 2012.
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The great thing about standards is there so many to choose from! I write dates as 21 March 2012. Every single letter on my desk at the moment where the date (month, anyway) is written out is in the same format.
I guess people think it is illogical because you cannot 'order' it well, digitally or mentally. In that regard, the best format, and indeed the one I use for digital files to preserve sorting, is 2012 03 21. I wish it were an adopted standard, but I cannot see it ever happening.

I'll tell you what is illogical; we still use the imperial measurement system. Now that's illogical!
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Hey, I'm one of those Americans...don't have to bother with me. I use the dd/mm/yy...not only that, I don't use that stupid am/pm crap either. 24 hr clock for me. Now if we can get everyone to use UTC time, it would make like easier too. Not only that, I prefer the metric system most of the time...easier than screwing around with fractions.
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Actually, it is pretty much ONLY the US who insist on the annoyingly illogical "mm/dd/yy".
Canada, Saudi Arabia and the Philippines do use it occasionally, but not exclusively like the US.
So all we have to do is educate the Americans, and we are good ....
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lemme join in the foray a bit...
from where i am from (a old brit colony) we write it as dd/mm/yyyy....no issue with that.
when reading documents (esp. invoices) from usa where they write mm/dd/yyyy confusion starts when dd/mm are single digits ranging from 1 to 12...any issues with that??......no not really,u jus have to turn your mind around a bit and adapt.
things,processes are dead...the living human mind is not....jus turn around and bend over a lil'...wun kill you...
that being said,i think the universal thing we should agree on is the universal downgrade,rooting and upgrading of roms.
coz we have too many versions of roms being rootable and too many version to use to root and upgrade....too much confusion for noobs...we dun see that happening in the HTC phones...jus samsung's....

How the hell is MM/DD/YYYY illogical? It's the most logical of them all. Why would you put the day before the month? Shouldn't you know what month you're in, before you read the day? Oi!

smalmagal said:
How the hell is MM/DD/YYYY illogical? It's the most logical of them all. Why would you put the day before the month? Shouldn't you know what month you're in, before you read the day? Oi!
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Absolutely not. Should it happen to me, I'd need to know the location first. Then we can talk dates.

I myself prefer military time, metric system, Italian coffee, British tea, Swedish snus, the Galaxy Note...but I am absolutely, stubbornly dead set on MM/DD/YYYY.

screw it, let's all switch to star date, the current time and date is: -310781.2291919652

smalmagal said:
I myself prefer military time, metric system, Italian coffee, British tea, Swedish snus, the Galaxy Note...but I am absolutely, stubbornly dead set on MM/DD/YYYY.
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... and speed measured in furlongs per fortnight ?
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smalmagal said:
How the hell is MM/DD/YYYY illogical? It's the most logical of them all. Why would you put the day before the month? Shouldn't you know what month you're in, before you read the day? Oi!
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Going "that" logic you should put the year first.
There is no logic with convention

GoodBye LGO2X,Goodbye community!

Today is the worst day of my life .
I was playing on my university ground playing cricket . I had tight pant so i decided to keep my O2X on my friends Bag . after 2 hours of playing when i come back to take my O2X, it wasn't here! i searched everywhere , every people for my phone but i didn't find it . it was stolen.:crying: This happened before 2 hours of my posting . I am in very frustration right now , it was my favorite phone . I can't hold my tears right now.:crying:
now i don't have optimus 2x , so i don't belong here guys.i am leaving this community . No need ICS right now hah!.(i hope you will get it soon)Hope to buy a good smartphone later but it will be tough cause i am a part timer and have very low income. but i will make sure that it won't be Nvidia.pray for me.
thanks to all dev and lovely members.
love you all.

Please, post your crying elsewhere.

Egan said:
Please, post your crying elsewhere.
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Please waste your time elsewhere.

Custom40 said:
Please waste your time elsewhere.
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No, I would rather spend my time here to stay up-to-date about anything device related. Which for me does not include filtering threads with someone crying over his stolen phone. I waste my time better than that.

Egan said:
No, I would rather spend my time here to stay up-to-date about anything device related. Which for me does not include filtering threads with someone crying over his stolen phone. I waste my time better than that.
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Uhh, what did you expect to find from a goodbye thread? Link where you can download official ICS? ICS source code? LG apologizing? Go away troll, nobody needs you here.
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Egan said:
Please, post your crying elsewhere.
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The world doesn't revolve around you, you unsympathetic kid.
There's other people on Earth, you know. What, I'm not the only person!?
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GeneralCrocket said:
The world doesn't revolve around you, you unsympathetic kid.
There's other people on Earth, you know. What, I'm not the only person!?
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nice signature

Egan said:
No, I would rather spend my time here to stay up-to-date about anything device related. Which for me does not include filtering threads with someone crying over his stolen phone. I waste my time better than that.
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This is the general section of the o2x thought you could post general type stuff
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Don't worry...happens. I'm sure youre next phone will be much better than o2x!

Im sorry for it, bro
Bye

Drop by our sticky ics thread, im sure you can buy your self a new phone pretty cheap
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arcee: the star, the galaxy R, and the grand X are completely different devices. different components, different resolutions, different radios, different audio amps,different panel manufacturers, different almost everything. The designs have nothing in common other than being T2
tonyp: so it's either LG or nothing?
arcee: yes

nVidia no more.
I don't know about LG... probably will avoid them if possible.

I know how you feel, still miss my Galaxy S... Took me some time to get the money for it as I'm also a part timer with a low income.
People are idiots sometimes.

Now, if the O2x or G2x had accurate GPS, you could've tracked your phone.

Now we will cry when every someone's O2X disappear, and its life?
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Rayman96 said:
Now we will cry when every someone's O2X disappear, and its life?
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Being sympathetic does not necessarily mean crying. That poor chap lost his phone and is short of money to buy a new one. May you share the same sorrow. May be then you would come to terms with the feeling of loss and the grief associated with it. Might be a petty thing for many of us, but for me, I could just say, don't worry mate, God has better things in store for you.

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Now, if the O2x or G2x had accurate GPS, you could've tracked your phone.
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What do you mean? I have never lost signal and it always shows my correct position..
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kaspar737 said:
What do you mean? I have never lost signal and it always shows my correct position..
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Well not when it's running CM7. It's accurate but not consistent.
But maybe we can all donate a dollar or two to help this guy get another Optimus 2x?
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But maybe we can all donate a dollar or two to help this guy get another Optimus 2x?
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Another good reason to start crying like that on a forum like this...apparently.

Man, that sucks big time OP. I know how you feel... way back in high school I was in a similar situation twice. I had a feature phone with a colour screen and no camera or other fancy stuff, but at the time it felt so cool to just talk and text from a little handheld gadget. Then one day at the library, I stupidly left it on the table I was sitting at before going to the washroom - of course it was never seen again when I got back. Plus my parents bought it for me which made me feel really angry at myself.
I immediately received a hand-me-down from my dad (this one was a little fancier, Nokia with a VGA camera) and within a few months, it ended up in the washing machine! From that point on I became super careful.
Hope you manage to acquire another phone sometime, ideally a non-LG And let this be a lesson to always keep your phone in your pocket at all times! And if the situation doesn't permit it, lock the phone securely in a locker or car glove compartment or something, or just ask a trustworthy friend to hold it for you.

Time Frame/Tell your story here on xda![Archive]

I would like to do a time frame. Where we could talk about our years here. Lets see who is the oldest and what we have gave to this forums.
Personally Ive been here since 2004-05. And basically since its started when it was hard to read the texts on my razor and this was basically Htc only.
This site has been great for me and sometimes missed the simplicity of the starting years. And I believe this forums are the true shapers on the mobile era.
Please post youre time. and a story
I have a few but ill start with loosing my first account. Dont even know how it was called!
Flashaholic Brotherhood

And another reason I would like to make a timeframe so please talk about youre device history and how its been youre experience in each thread.:thumbup:
Flashaholic Brotherhood

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I got my first android in September of last year, within a month I was on xda, and by November, I had an account cause I thought I knew enough to help some folks. I do enjoy the community, even though leeches are always making devs angry (IMO, both their faults). I haven't been around as long as OP, but I know my way around the Nexus S, and android itself!
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I got my Wildfire S at Christmas and it didn't take me long to decide to root it and I found xda and used a guide here to root my phone
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I joined when They JUST started including other windows mobile phones on the forum.
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Next time I catch you posting a ridiculously unnecessary "IB4L" post I'm going to ban you. There are more pointless posts from you around here than there are pointless threads, and that's quite an achievement.

conantroutman said:
Next time I catch you posting a ridiculously unnecessary "IB4L" post I'm going to ban you. There are more pointless posts from you around here than there are pointless threads, and that's quite an achievement.
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conantroutman said:
Next time I catch you posting a ridiculously unnecessary "IB4L" post I'm going to ban you. There are more pointless posts from you around here than there are pointless threads, and that's quite an achievement.
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well guys tell me, how was xda when you started and how is it now.
How It modified for better or worst?
For me it has been awesome. Ive been impressed since the beggining till mow. How guys seen to know more about devices than now.
when I started the threads were a little difficult to understand. and everything was in one main page. where you could find rhe .cab files. but you had to keep scrolling down to find what you were looking. Now its all organized and eye candy.
keep it going Lets make this thread an archive!
Flashaholic Brotherhood

I haven't been here long enough to see much change but it's certainly awesome
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Bro please stop that before you get banned! youre affecting the course of this thread. Im investigating abut how old is this thread and how long its been effective on the people. I think a great part that since 2003i the % of people buying smartphones has grown from a 20% to 90% has to in great part to forums like this. specially this one. people started to know about hacks and how they affect they to bennefit the costumer rather that the company.
Xda has been the pioneer when people started to know about roots and other methods of hacking the os of their devices. making them better. and having features locked by carriers. Xda has been there to keep this idea forward. and I want people to start talking about xda's evolution. and the we could take this info and make it a news letter for people to continue the tradition which we started years ago!:thumbup:
Flashaholic Brotherhood

I for one part started to love this place when I had my Razor. I started to know about firmwares and hack. and every time I searched the web I ended here. there werent the hacks I needed then. That led me to my first account. but it was good to know this was there. and to read about people doing amazing stuff.
This led me to buy my first pocketpc-smartphone. a Treo 750 which I bought from second use and I still have it running a custom wm 6.5 rom with titanium.
Then I bought an Lg incite (wm) which kept me here but most of my time on lg-incite.com
the site grew and my fasination for htc too. not to be surpriced as most of the hacks where make for this devices.... check the history of the first diamond with manila. ( what we call now Sense)
So it led me to buy a Diamond 2
this was another revolution. I was a moderator on the htc-pure forums. but kept my profile here. and was as always morw and more in love with this site as I continued to know that the hacks came from here.
Now on the Dhd I had a bittersweet relation. many forum memebers dont like to keep tradition. But this continues to grow fast. Proof of this is the compact view.
We shall continue making history!
Flashaholic Brotherhood

I have been here on xda since 11th of june 2012 thats not even six months. But this place has taught me how to do awesoome stuff with my low end phones (galaxy 5 and galaxy y ) but also taught me many more things,things which no school teaches.
I have learnt to be polite when I am angry, i have learnt to appreciate ones efforts. I have learnt to respect ones work.
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I've been here since February of this year but I've lurked since mid 2011. I have to say this is THE best forum ever!
My beloved Desire HD is my first Android phone and I'm loving every second of it
I was previously a proud owner of A Nokia N95 8GB which was one of the best and sturdiest devices ever
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Thats great. Now I see many people with budget phones. which proofs what xda stands for..... everyone should have equal oportunity to have the best phone they can.
Hacks make devices live longer and us spent less money on smartphones. But we still love them!:thumbup:
Flashaholic Brotherhood

I've known about xda since I've had a G1 in early 2009. I didn't join until I got Sparky a MyTouch 3G (3.5mm jack) in June 2010. I'm a relative newcomer compared to some....I really put what I learned here to good use when I got my Nexus One in late June 2010....and I've had tons of phones since and I learnt more with each one.
I

Well I started this January. I thought that i was just going to fix my player (it was a bootloop but i thought it was a brick )and be gone but boy I got addicted to this forum. And to this date I am still addicted. Check out my thread. Its like hilarious now that I know that stuff a bit.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1444126
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GuyInTheCorner said:
I've been here since February of this year but I've lurked since mid 2011. I have to say this is THE best forum ever!
My beloved Desire HD is my first Android phone and I'm loving every second of it
I was previously a proud owner of A Nokia N95 8GB which was one of the best and sturdiest devices ever
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Yes its been a great experience!
That's the purpose I want to share how we've come from all over the world.And reshaped business. We've made companies think a bit more about their costumers, although we still need to keep this going proving them wrong in every corner. Like for example Desire Hd and ics!

joefrank said:
Yes its been a great experience!
That's the purpose I want to share how we've come from all over the world.And reshaped business. We've made companies think a bit more about their costumers, although we still need to keep this going proving them wrong in every corner. Like for example Desire Hd and ics!
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Yeah man HTC were totally wrong about ICS and Sense. Forget ICS and Sense 3.6 (sorry Team Blackout and Pacha Nero) we have ICS and Sense 4.1 thanks to torxx!
And I agree we've made companies think twice about their products
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[SpoilerAlert] Do you think Dexter should have ended the way it did?

So, many of you geeks out there must be following Dexter T.V. show. So what do you think about the ending? I think it was a perfect end. Put your thoughts to words here!

404-Not Found said:
1st) Not all of us are Geeks
2nd) I think this SPAM
3rd) I believe there is thread for this type of stuff.
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1) It's a general notion.
2) I'll let the mods decide that.
3) Dunno.
4) Don't you watch Dexter?

They could have Mad Dexter happy with Hannah And Harrison. Doesn't need to be alone.
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I'd be interested to know what happens in the books: http://www.dexter-books.com
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I wasn't expecting a happy ending - that would have been insulting.
But, it should have been done better. It's like we've spent the last 7 years getting to know someone inside out, and then they change in the last 5 minutes of the show into something completely different. Is anyone else reminded of Anakin's 5 minute journey to The Dark Side? It was just badly portrayed.
Apparently though, the last series was meant to span over at least 2, which is where the rumours about it having another series to go came from. They did cram in too much story and that spoilt it.
The last series was rubbish for me. It pretty much killed my appreciation for what had come before.

Archer said:
I wasn't expecting a happy ending - that would have been insulting.
But, it should have been done better. It's like we've spent the last 7 years getting to know someone inside out, and then they change in the last 5 minutes of the show into something completely different. Is anyone else reminded of Anakin's 5 minute journey to The Dark Side? It was just badly portrayed.
Apparently though, the last series was meant to span over at least 2, which is where the rumours about it having another series to go came from. They did cram in too much story and that spoilt it.
The last series was rubbish for me. It pretty much killed my appreciation for what had come before.
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Maybe they crammed too much story that's why people were expecting a somewhat different ending. I feel that the reason why he succumbed into seclusion was because of his very nature. We know Dexter as the person who is known for taking decisions no one could.
But I agree to the point that they did cram too much story in last season. Though it's disappointing to see him like that but he could not have done anything else accounting to his very character.

Damn i gotta stop visiting this thread :|
Still haven't seen it :sly:

Seraz007 said:
Damn i gotta stop visiting this thread :|
Still haven't seen it :sly:
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LOL. I'll include "Spoiler alert" in title!