TP2 Owners Please Read...

[bobturismo]

Originally Posted by boredandtattooed

ahh, i remember when i thought i could make a difference.... sorry OP but your fighting a losing battle... you can tell people to search till your blue in the face... theres still gonna be multiple posts daily about thing already discussed to death... thats what half the stickies in most forums are,one thread made for a question that gets repeatedly asked...then guess what, people still ask even when theres a sticky on top of that page....

although ur intentions were good, was a little dissappointed that i felt compelled to come read by the title, then its an adress to newbies....good luck with that... if u wanna help,help...if you dont, dont... its your choice to read or not read.... yes, its annoying agreed... but you gotta just deal with it and if u wanna give them the answer u do, otherwise u just go on to the next thing.. making something like is isnt gonna do a thing, especially 3 days from now when u find it buried on page 10.... nice try though..

Yeah, unfortunately I think in this case, because of how bad *** this phone is and how much it "isn't" like the similar phones before it, people are just excited to have it and excited to customize them.

I think once the HSPL comes out and everyone doesn't need to install a bunch of cabs ot get everything going, more attention will be directed to that area instead of all over the place here.

[eman]

Originally Posted by bobturismo

Yeah, unfortunately I think in this case, because of how bad *** this phone is and how much it "isn't" like the similar phones before it, people are just excited to have it and excited to customize them.

I think once the HSPL comes out and everyone doesn't need to install a bunch of cabs ot get everything going, more attention will be directed to that area instead of all over the place here.

I have to disagree here. It is very similar to past phones as it is still running WM 6.1 and lots of the same programs as prior phones with a different resolution. You will always get people new to a device when it is released and when you have that it is something you just need to deal with.

I also think when the device gets unlocked, that is going to open up a whole new can of worms for newbies. I am okay with that as I was once that person and I have no problem when people ask repeated questions. They are anxious and sometimes searching brings up so many different answers they don't even know what they are looking at.

It is our choice if we want to help or not. I think if we didn't have all these questions being asked over and over, we would get bored here and the traffic would be cut in half. So I am all for keeping this community active, even if it means repeated questions.

Steer that person in the right direction and you could make them the happiest person ever!

[BenC]

I found when I was using the 800W that storing CAB files on the card was much easier than having to move them there from the PC and the backups. More than one time I have had to execute a hard reset and start over from the lazies. So I now backup before any playiing.

[GoodThings2Life]

Sage advice on acquainting yourself with the device before attempting mods. For those ready to make changes, that's exactly why I've compiled the most common improvements into a single package in lieu of custom ROMs being available. Kudos to your for making the effort to better educate users.

[rorytmeadows]

For every cab/tweak, there SHOULD be known side effects (KSE) noted.

[Exil3d]

I think no one searches anything. Plus.. the search on this site is horrible. Everytime I search for something, it comes back empty.

[Dragon2]

Originally Posted by Exil3d

I think no one searches anything. Plus.. the search on this site is horrible. Everytime I search for something, it comes back empty.

+1, ive been a member alot longer than my join date says, and searched many times and came up emty as a Beer thats been set in front of me.

new search engine would rock....

[Big Calhoun]

Personally, my biggest piece of advice to newbies would be just to be patient and expect imperfection.

What I've noticed from helping non-techies with their WinMo phones is that a lot of them expect the same experience from 'Windows'...Windows Mobile and Windows XP/Vista means nothing to them...it's all 'Windows' and everything should just work, the way they want it to, the first time.

[zeuswsu]

Originally Posted by Dragon2

+1, ive been a member alot longer than my join date says, and searched many times and came up emty as a Beer thats been set in front of me.

new search engine would rock....

As one of the "new members" the OP is talking about, I have to say I agree with you. I know a couple of times I have had problems that I've read solutions about in the past, but when I go to find those solutions I come up empty...

[rorytmeadows]

Originally Posted by zeuswsu

As one of the "new members" the OP is talking about, I have to say I agree with you. I know a couple of times I have had problems that I've read solutions about in the past, but when I go to find those solutions I come up empty...

A website like pocketpcfreeware, that just gives you cabs with effects and side effects, for all of this stuff would be great. ppcgeeks and xda-dev are great websites, but searching through forums for solutions and tweaks has never been easy

think about how great it would be if you could just go to a website, click downloads, then click touchflo, then click slider bar and find all the different slider bar tweaks...