@ShyGuy Looks like that should be edited into the Question as an Update? He's a new user, and new people often think this works like a discussion forum where you put new posts and info in a post below the last person
@ShyGuy Hah, didn't realise people under 5k had been given access to the review queues now, wonder when that was changed. I'm going to go and do some reviewing on some of the other sites now!
@ShyGuy And if you're trawling the First Post review queues that explains why you've always got a full set of edits in the queue when I log in every morning!
So do I. And another side effect: People (here: the ones who build and sell the hardware) are more likely to listen to you. So I may influence the "factory customizing"
What would you say if there was a device with special software features, like e.g. offering Dalvik cache wipe from the stock recovery?
Well, they do listen to their community. But how far do they trust the opinion of a standard user -- and how much weight does the opinion of someone who actually published on the topic have?
But I suppose there are reasons why they do not do that. Bottomline: More money for companies if they keep making new models, but without all the features.
All a question of arguments. Taking my example: If a user can do a Dalvik wipe, there come situations where they don't need to do a factory reset (and losing their data). so it's a) more user-friendly, and b) less likely returns for service.
Plus: They can offer something users want -- and nobody else offers!
Which means: users may tend more to decide for their product when considering a purchase.
They're currently evaluating my suggestions. I'm very curious of the results -- how much they will take, and what I'll see with the next updates. I also offered them to test new devices/versions -- which is what I get the additional devices for.
The Dalvik wipe was just a single example -- they've got a longer list from me :D
Shall I rather wait until we see the outcome of the current changes? Including myself having tested a few more devices? The company has more than one model on sale (different sizes, different configurations, etc.)
Yeah, good idea. I get more money from my eBooks on Amazon currently -- they sell better than the eBooks of my publisher LOL
(no kidding -- that's a fact. I have my eBooks on Amazon for more than a year now)
@CrazyBuddy mostly, yes. At least logged-in -- though not necessarily having the chat in front of my nose 24/7 :) But this way I notice when something's going on.
And yes, it is used by a lot of apps for speech output: Reading your SMS to you, reading books (Moon+ can do that -- though I hate that for books, it's no fun :D
@CrazyBuddy And yes: As I said, I'm not permanently looking at the chat -- but I see when something happens, and, if time permits, check it :D
I use it only in one app: AlarmDroid. There it makes sense to me: "Good morning, Izzy! Time is 7:15. Weather: cloudy, some snow. Temperature: 2 degrees, maximum of 5 degrees expected. Have a nice day!"
Not that I know of. There are a couple of prints available at Amazon, also Kindle eBooks for sale -- and I offer some of them under CreativeCommons for free download on my book server.
But all in German. I could write them in English as well -- but I lack the time...
@CrazyBuddy Yeah, that's the first one. The second is less popular, as it specializes on travel stuff ("Mit Android auf Reisen"). The 3rd book again is a more popular one, "Android Toolbox" -- that's the corresponding one to the "system guide" which was just printed a quarter ago.
And yes, I wrote the books (where my name is on), and I wrote the book server software (so it suites my needs -- and when I need something, I can just add it). I just didn't write the web server (apache) and OS (Linux) :D
Ah, IVONA. That's just one virtual assistant AFAIK (like Siri on iOS).
And you can check my questions (at my profile) -- I only asked all of them for educational purposes, so this might prove interesting to you as well: hard facts for everybody to use.
I try. I like SE, the principle it works, the folks around here. Learned a lot by answering the questions even, and of course by answers (and corrections to mine) of my fellows here.
@LiamW Fighting for rep again, huh? :) Nothing personal (and don't take it as an attack on you, mind you!) -- but my answer on Why is rooting required for a custom ROMIS technically correct. So please, before stating something like its being incorrect, do some research -- will you?
@LiamW I can recommend you some good readings ;)
@Flow Never mind, I know exactly what you mean :)
Just was busy myself (see my requests at Liam). Would you mind cross-checking what he might mean by "technically incorrect"?
I know he sometimes gets annoyed when it comes to rep going away from him (no offense meant) -- but well, if he asks I better read my answer a second time :)
@Izzy It is wrong. You don't need root to flash a boot.img, system.img or recovery.img if you have fastboot, you just flash them with fastboot, then flash the custom ROM (which will end up being rooted anyway).
@LiamW I will verify that again to make sure (I never used fastboot myself, so I will not claim all the wisdom to me). But as I wrote: All the devices I had access to would not let me flash any custom stuff unless I rooted first. And I checked a lot.
But granted, my list of devices might be as limited as yours -- and it well might be we have no device in common. Only thing I know is what you wrote is 100% true for Samsung devices. I never had a Samsung phone/tablet, so I could not even arguing about those.
So we're back with the chicken and egg, if the device has not 4.x installed? You need root to make a full backup, as unlock will make a wipe?
Listen: Here is how to install a custom rom without rooting on a fastboot enabled devive: Unlock bootloader. Use fastboot to flash recovery. Use recovery to flash custom ROM.
@LiamW DO NOT BE ANGRY! I'm in no way intend to attack you. I'm just asking. As I wrote before: It might very well we are both right, or we are both missing some point. So we can learn from each other -- as I do just now, learning from you about RZ. Good hint: RaidZero. Need to note this to check it out -- THANKS!
And something more on the horizont (scroll up a few pages to my chat with Crazy if you're curious).
My books are in German -- I lack the time to keep them up-to-date in multiple languages, or I would have done so (English wouldn't be the big problem I guess).
LOL Thanks -- am I really that bad with English that it looks like Google Translate?
kidding ^^
Maybe translating to English doesn't look that strange as the other way round. Translating from English to German with GTrans is just... well... I miss the words...
For someone not capable of English, it's helpful XD
@MatthewRead We two had a little trouble with each other before. But we always made peace. And then went to the cleanup-party <- @LiamW that part we almost forgot about this time! =:-0
@LiamW I APOLOGIZE! And correct: I forgot, you remembered ;)
OK, 2nd parse, if I need to remove some of mine. Didn't look like that at a first glance -- but I'm no Saint either XD
Looks fine -- OK.
@LiamW You should know by now that I'm not attacking you, or eating your rep, or whatever. As Matthew wrote, there must be a way to "keep the ball low". If I can help somehow, let me know!
OK, but now I really have to leave the office -- before they lock me in =:-0
@LiamW Want to check my updated answer on WHY? :) Really looks like a compromise. The point we got it wrong is interpreting the question: "Why is it required" to me implicates "there is something where it is required" -- so my pre-text was: "If it is required, these are the reasons".
There ARE devices where it is required (e.g. Iconia A100) -- so my answer is correct.
There ARE devices where root is not required -- so your answer is true as well.
For those devices where root is not required, my answer is still correct, as ex falso quodlibet sequitur -- "from false can follow anything" :)
@LiamW Is this satisfying to you -- or need I to dig deeper? ;)
@LiamW our common problem that some downvoters never give reason. My assumption was a "mistaken newcomer", who thought he need to remove his upvote from my answer to put it on yours (I never assumed it was you!)
But hey, it earned me 63 rep -- f**k the two from the downvote :D
Would make no sense to take the goods of it via an indirect quote into mine otherwise ;)
And yes, I also suggested that downvote should require a comment... At least from everybody below 10k (until one reached 10k one knows to do so, so no force needed anymore ;)
Ah, that one -- I knew it must be somthing SE related. Just was not sure which one -- messed up with t0mm13b's newcomer. Sure, you've been talking about that one before! /me is crossing fingers for Liam
@LiamW I'm very curious for the re-phrasing of that "which device" question. I doubt he can rephrase it in a way it becomes on-topic -- no idea how that could be achieved.
Is it possible, that when asking a question, a kind of a check to say something like
Tick here, and Yes, I have read the FAQ and acknowledge that the question fits the criteria in order to enforce the user to read the darn thing prior to posting.
All too often OPs are not actually reading the...
I have noticed that sometimes I can edit my own messages on chat, but when I view older messages I can't edit them. Is there some sort of time-limit for editing your own message? How long is this limit?
Is it possible, that when asking a question, a kind of a check to say something like
Tick here, and Yes, I have read the FAQ and acknowledge that the question fits the criteria in order to enforce the user to read the darn thing prior to posting.
All too often OPs are not actually reading the...
I have noticed that sometimes I can edit my own messages on chat, but when I view older messages I can't edit them. Is there some sort of time-limit for editing your own message? How long is this limit?
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