I'm having an issue with torrent apps not working properly. I can't add new torrents at all, and I've tried Torrent Buddy and Torrent Remote. (I've also tried using ucontroller, but the setup instructions are unclear so I can't get it to work at all)
Both Torrent Buddy and Torrent Remote work in every way except for adding new torrents. They go through the motions but the torrents never actually get added. I can log in, view my torrents, change status, change file priority, etc with no issues whatsoever.
I've contacted the devs but so far haven't heard back. I think the issue is probably related to either my phone or maybe my network setup (though I can add torrents over the 'net via the utorrent web UI from a PC).
Until a few weeks ago I could add torrents with Torrent Buddy. I don't think I changed anything that might have stopped it working.
Any ideas? I've scoured my phone settings and can't find anything that looks relevant. There is plenty of free space on my phone. I've tried rebooting the phone.
Phone is Samsung Omnia 7 (now on new firmware, but I started having the issue on the original firmware).
EDIT: I should probably add that I am using the paid versions of these apps, not the free demos. I know that Torrent Buddy doesn't allow new torrents in the demo version.
What's unclear about the setup instuctions for uController? If you can open a port for external access to uTorrent, you can do the same for uController.
If you detail exactly where you feel the setup instructions are lacking, I might be able to improve them for you.
I have the same problem, but I think it lies with my private tracker blocking 'mobile' grabbing of torrents.
I see on my PC the 'cookie' for the site and it is very long and have tried adding to the 'cookie' window on my WP7 trophy without success.
Possibly the site can detect mobiles like they can with a hack attack?
tracker im using is galacticcentral.org
rixlumb said:
I have the same problem, but I think it lies with my private tracker blocking 'mobile' grabbing of torrents.
I see on my PC the 'cookie' for the site and it is very long and have tried adding to the 'cookie' window on my WP7 trophy without success.
Possibly the site can detect mobiles like they can with a hack attack?
tracker im using is galacticcentral.org
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If that were to be the problem you would overcome it by using uController as the actual addition is handled PC-side using that app. Also has a live-tile which is nice.
Whenever I try and download anything directly (other than *.torrent files) they always seem to be corrupt. Browser seems to download around 8 bytes, then say downloaded. I have tried Astro, etc but to no avail. Working away from home atm, until things get sorted out with the xooms updates, browsing xda devs is a bit tough. Any help at all?
I had a similar issue, everything I downloaded went to about 95% complete and then said 'Download Unsuccessful'
Just a simple reboot fixed my issue. Hopefully it can fix yours as well.
Did you check non-market download?
Sent from my Xoom using XDA Premium App
Yes to both.
It's neither though.
Basically, if you go to a web page, and try and download anything. IE i go to my web page and try to download fixturelist.rar, I get 8 bytes of it, then the xoom say downloaded....It always says, its a successful download. Obviously when I go to the file in downloads it is reported as corrupt.. This is the same for any file on any site other than *.torrent files.
Why not install Opera mobile browser, and see if the file will download OK? It could be a problem with the stock browser.
download alogcat from the market... if you can... and then while it is running try a download from the inetz and once it errors out, open alogcat and pause it... you mayfind your answer there. that happened on my evo once and for some reason my download folder dissapeared so once I remade it, downloads were sucessful
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Whenever I try and download anything directly (other than *.torrent files) they always seem to be corrupt. Browser seems to download around 8 bytes, then say downloaded. I have tried Astro, etc but to no avail. Working away from home atm, until things get sorted out with the xooms updates, browsing xda devs is a bit tough. Any help at all?
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I have the same issue. Have you found a solution?
Mostly. if I use Opera browser, then the downloads work. sadly, flash on some sites fails. I have 10.2, and have tried all the integration setting in opera (apart from off of course).
I have used dolphin hd since the day is was released on my other devices without fail It just seems to really dislike the xoom (for me anyway).
The stock browser gives the same fault.
On a plus side xda-dev forum works perfectly with opera. nice and smooth, as do all of the other forums I use. Dolphin (for me) was just awful on this forum.
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Mostly. if I use Opera browser, then the downloads work. sadly, flash on some sites fails. I have 10.2, and have tried all the integration setting in opera (apart from off of course).
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Flash 10.2.156.12 did work in Opera on the Xoom. But when Flash 10.2.157.51 came out at the end of last week, Opera start to have problems with Flash contents.
Opera on my Galaxy tab also having trouble with the new version of Flash. Hopefully the next release of Opera will fix the bug.
P.S. Not sure if you have done this already, but here are steps to redirect Opera to full desktop version of websites.
This was original posted by kay_kiat88 on the Galaxy Tab forum. You will only have to do this once unlike the stock Xoom browser.
for those who still get redirected to mobile site.. do this :
1 type "opera:config" in the address bar and tap enter
2 scroll down to user preferences and tap it. You will see a long list of options.
3 scroll down to "custom user agent" and copy this (without the inverted commas) "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_7; en-us) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/530.17" into the box.
4 scroll down and tap save
5 restart opera by using task manager to close and then start opera again. You should not get redirected to mobile website.
Phone: Sensation 4G
Rom: Coredroid v4.1 ICS
Kernel: SebastionFM v1.20 (1512)
Firmware: 3.32
Radio: 11.22 with matching RIL
SuperCID (if it'll make a difference)
Using stock browser and with the "View Desktop Sites" checked, once I left the homepage, it took ke to a T-Mobile upsell for tethering plan upgrade. I called customer support to see why that was happening and they had no answers. So I had them follow up with me almost a week later to see if there was some sort of solution. During that time I did some testing myself. When you have the option to view desktop site unchecked, it doesn't matter what site you vist, you're getting through. Once you select to view desktop sites, you get redirected to this upsell page.
The only time the upsell doesn't appear with view desktop site selected is when WiFi is connected. I also need the view desktop site checked for work so now its an inconvenience. Has anyone ran into this problem yet? If you have, could you verify my theory with view desktop site selected and unselected?
The only logical reason I could come up with for being redirected to the upsell site is because I'm requesting the same site a computer would, if it was actually tethered to my phone. T-Mobile has no way of detecting whether or not I have my hotspot on or off so when they see a mobile device requesting desktop sites, it throws up a flag and then I'm automatically redirected. If so, there has to be a work around! I'd always switch back and fourth on roms as early as 2.3.4 and would have to stick it out until I could find a well running rom with a desktop site option.
To be quite frank, I almost thought about trying other roms but being as tho the CDv4.1 is amazingly smooth and sebastianfm's kernel, I'm going to just tough it out..I think its T-Mobile US related
I'm having the same troubles.
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I'm having the same troubles.
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I hate using his mobile view...with desktop sites I VERY rarely would need a pc. I need one most of the time now because of T-Mobile
Hey I have a couple of different user agent switcher extensions for both Chrome and Firefox and they all work fine for browsing the web using a hotspot. The only issue that i really have is with downloading while using a user agent to browse. None of the extensions or add ons seem to work far as downloadings concerned. Like i said, browsing and opening pages/sites is fine, but downloading doesnt work. Ive tried multiple different solutions but none of them seem to work. Whenever i download something it only downloads a fraction of the download, leaving it corrupted and unable to be opened. Could some please help me with this? I have Tmo's unlimited data plan but as many know you cant tether or hotspot with this package, therefor i have been using the user agent switches to still browse the internet, but I would love to find a way to make my downloads work as well.
thanks ahead of time
I've been enjoying a medley of roms through the XDA forums for a little over a year now. While I'm always appreciative of the hard work others do for the community, I often wonder, what is it about androidfilehost.com that makes it a popular upload location for so many people? The download speeds for me from this site (and its mirrors) are so slow compared to just about any other, which make it a bear for downloading large roms, and some uploaders go so far to upload there and request no one mirror/re-upload anywhere else.
I get that if you sign up for the site you would expect better speeds, but as a free upload site for distribution, it seems pretty mediocre in terms of speed. I'm not intending to knock the site or anyone whatsoever, just looking for some additional info on why a seemingly slow site is so widely used.
I'm sitting here waiting for a ROM to finish downloading from one of the androidfilehost mirrors and I'm wondering the same thing. It looks like there's 6 mirrors hosting the file I want, and all but one of them don't seem to download any faster than ~250KBps. One starts out close to 1MB but quickly drops to 300KB. I don't get it. Is there some kind of ad revenue or incentive for the people hosting their files there?
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I'm sitting here waiting for a ROM to finish downloading from one of the androidfilehost mirrors and I'm wondering the same thing. It looks like there's 6 mirrors hosting the file I want, and all but one of them don't seem to download any faster than ~250KBps. One starts out close to 1MB but quickly drops to 300KB. I don't get it. Is there some kind of ad revenue or incentive for the people hosting their files there?
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I think the reason most use is bc its secure probably wont be shut down like some of the other hosting sites, and the amount of mirrors available in the states
I agree,
If the developers make money of the link to AFH than i understand, if not then i do not understand the uploads to AFH.
Now downloading 500mb rom wich is gonna take 2 hours to complete on a 100MBit fiberline.
Already had one disconnected download in the past,
3 hours!!!! of downloading and the last 1% it failed?
Unreal frikking slow downloads why not upload to usenet also?
I know not everyone has a payserver but it wouldt make it a whole lot easier.
standby... searching for mirrors....
I have been waiting 10 minutes for this to connect to a mirror. Haven't had any luck.
Tried:
Different browser
Different computer
Different network
Different file on AFH
Disabled Symantec
AFH is garbage!
Second that....AFH is very very slow and frustrating
I have tried downloading roms from there and now at multiple instances downloads failed after 50%. 50% of which was downloaded at speed of about 21 kbps. which is way less than any other download i do (above 300kbps).
Isnt it better to host ROMs torrents which way downloads can be better managed.
Please consider this.
Read this article:
https://www.xda-developers.com/androidfilehost-interview/
it sucks balls, but the benefit is at least the links stay alive for a loooong time. I'd prefer mega or mediafire, though
androidfilehost, sometimes I have to try for hours to download a few megabyte file, sigh
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it sucks balls, but the benefit is at least the links stay alive for a loooong time. I'd prefer mega or mediafire, though
androidfilehost, sometimes I have to try for hours to download a few megabyte file, sigh
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Nah! Mega will double the time of a download. Not worth it imo
Yeah.. I agree.. It continuously freezes, ROM downloads constantly fail with a network error, and Chrome always shows me a message of: "Your connection is reset."
I extremely hate AFH!! Mega or Google Drive would be much, much better. (Whatever, Google Drive is the best ever.)
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Yeah.. I agree.. It continuously freezes, ROM downloads constantly fail with a network error, and Chrome always shows me a message of: "Your connection is reset."
I extremely hate AFH!! Mega or Google Drive would be much, much better. (Whatever, Google Drive is the best ever.)
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Google Drive is okay, but not when you live in Iceland (i used to) anyways XDA should setup a torrent website, so they you can download files WAY faster.
TechNash said:
Google Drive is okay, but not when you live in Iceland (i used to) anyways XDA should setup a torrent website, so they you can download files WAY faster.
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Yeah.. sometimes torrent shows full download speed whereas downloading files in Chrome sometimes has speed drops, but I'm kinda worried about the negative effects of Torrent..
When I leave the seeding after the download is done, are my private files uploaded secretly to other websites?
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Yeah.. sometimes torrent shows full download speed whereas downloading files in Chrome sometimes has speed drops, but I'm kinda worried about the negative effects of Torrent..
When I leave the seeding after the download is done, are my private files uploaded secretly to other websites?
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That depends on the torrent you use.
Don't EVER use torrents that allow you to buy a pro version.
Try qbittorent which is free and recommended by many people.
If anything, try to avoid µTorrent as this will install bloatware along with advertisements and sharing public info.
Just do research and you will be a-okay. If you don't trust me for whatever reason use a VPN or a free anti-virus/malware like Bitdefender free antivirus edition.
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That depends on the torrent you use.
Don't EVER use torrents that allow you to buy a pro version.
Try qbittorent which is free and recommended by many people.
If anything, try to avoid µTorrent as this will install bloatware along with advertisements and sharing public info.
Just do research and you will be a-okay. If you don't trust me for whatever reason use a VPN or a free anti-virus/malware like Bitdefender free antivirus edition.
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I'm currently using Qbittorrent, and it works like a charm. It keeps me an excellent, consistent and stable download speed. I already know the disadvantages of utorrent such as dropping speed and worse stability, (and ads) so I changed to Qbittorrent as I read a blog post suggesting the benefits of using Qbittorrent. But I recently saw some articles that important files have been leaked out to the web when the seeding (100%) is turned on for a long time.
Files are still being uploaded from my PC when it is on.
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I'm currently using Qbittorrent, and it works like a charm. It keeps me an excellent, consistent and stable download speed. I already know the disadvantages of utorrent such as dropping speed and worse stability, (and ads) so I changed to Qbittorrent as I read a blog post suggesting the benefits of using Qbittorrent. But I recently saw some articles that important files have been leaked out to the web when the seeding (100%) is turned on for a long time.
Files are still being uploaded from my PC when it is on.
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Ah! Well, my files have never been breached, but if you really are that paranoid, then right-click the file when it says 'seeding' and press 'delete.' A dialogue will pop up if you want to save your file make sure, 'delete file from hard disk' is not checked. (It isn't by default.)
Can't the staff apply a rule like "AndroidFileHost must not be the only download location for all your works" to all forum posts ?
It becomes insane year after year, I'm downloading around 50KB/s (I can go up to 1.3MB/s) and it even stops sometimes (and if I'm very unlucky it can completly crash too). I forgot to add that you can download... only if it finds a mirror for you (sometimes I have to refresh up to 3 times the page to get the only Québec available servers that are slow as f***).
Very ironic by the way to see in the XDA's website creator interview that he has created AFH because others were a bit slow.
iDroid27210 said:
Can't the staff apply a rule like "AndroidFileHost must not be the only download location for all your works" to all forum posts ?
It becomes insane year after year, I'm downloading around 50KB/s (I can go up to 1.3MB/s) and it even stops sometimes (and if I'm very unlucky it can completly crash too). I forgot to add that you can download... only if it finds a mirror for you (sometimes I have to refresh up to 3 times the page to get the only Québec available servers that are slow as f***).
Very ironic by the way to see in the XDA's website creator interview that he has created AFH because others were a bit slow.
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AFH and XDA are closely associated, being a Recognized Contributor, Recognized Themer or Recognized Developers here at XDA even gets you a free "developer account" with unlimited space at AFH just for being a recognized member. Obviously, the Recognized members would use that to store their developments and share their work here, just because it's convenient and free.
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Personally I think AFH as one of the biggest **** ever when it comes to download bigger files. It is not only slow but often breaks downloading. What a piece of garbage compared to the Google Drive.
Oh god, it's slower than dial up...
At this rate it'll take full 24 hours to download 1 GB, assuming it won't drop this download alltogether. There are no slower places to host a file in the whole world by now. Literally anything is better than that tarpit...
Oh yes, now it stopped completely for a whole 2 minutes without a single bit dripping from there... Great! Just great...
And it just keeps doing that.
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And now it dropped before 100MB. Again.
AFH is totally and completely useless.
What's the use of being convinient for uploaders and developers when it's totally useless for downloaders? It's like dropping your work into a black hole, /dev/null
Anyone experiencing SUPER SLOW downloads today? Trying to get a 2.4 GB File and it looks like it might take a few days!! I would be happy to pay for pro if I was guaranteed to download off a faster server but it doesn't really specify that in their Pro Version.