Mod discretion re: GDR3 news?

[psiu_glen]

Hey all,

popping up from the 928 forum here. I can understand you all wanting to keep (dev-only, not final, preview, etc) GDR3 news and posts in one place, but do you think it would be possible to have a bit of discretion available to the mods? The first day, someone started a thread regarding it for the 928, and individual devices can always have their own quirks. Instead I ended up trawling a gigantic thread (in the GDR3 forum) to find anyone who had successfully installed it on their 928.

Another thread was started in the 928 forum, regarding call blocking working successfully with GDR3. This was a GDR2 feature (actually, it might even be a Nokia Amber feature) that was broken on the 928 when running on VZW's network, though there were reports of it working when running the 928 on GSM networks. If it is "unbroken" when working on one phone running on one specific network, that's not really GDR3 news or a GDR3 feature, you think?

Now, I can totally understand when someone creates a "who plans to install GDR3??" or "what features are in GDR3??" or "did you know GDR3 can be installed?" thread in each phone sub-forum it should be closed and referred over to the main GDR3 forum.

Anyway, just a thought, thanks.

-glen

 

[Dave Blake]

Thanks for taking the time to make a thread and ask the question. I will try to answer your question.

We created a forum in the developers area just to discuss this update. As you have stated here this is a developers release. What we are doing now is trying to keep discussions about GDR3 from getting into the device forums. We don't want people, non enthuses to get confused when looking for answers. The main device forums are for discussion about the devices that are factory original with only carrier updates. We have to keep the information separate to avoid confusion.

This is an operating system update it does not affect the firmware so the carrier upgrades and things like amber on Nokia devices should be intact. That said if there are device specific API's that are being affected by the OS update and you want to start a thread about this API issue please do.

To have a GDR3 thread for each device. A non specific GDR3 thread. That would water down the information trail and make it impossible to keep OS update specific question and answers together for developer use. If you have device specific questions like who got the update to install on the Lumia 920 for example, that will be a fine thread to have but the thread needs to stay on that topic and not stray into OS issues and solutions.

I hope you understand we are just doing our best to keep information together for the greater good.