uTorrent Possibilities - Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)

As some of you may know uTorrent finally go around to releasing an app for android. It can be found on Play or here is the direct link for the googley challenged:
uTorrent
The release of this app got me to thinking about using torrents as a means to keep ROMs on a personal servers instead of relying on Goo or Sourceforge or GFX.Myst for that matter. By my logic it seems that having them upped as torrents will keep them alive for a very long time as well as providing faster access to them. This idea has been mentioned on various forums in the past but never seems to get past the idea stage. So I'd like to hear others thoughts on the subject. Discuss.

It seems to me that the seeding wouldn't go on for too long. I can seed my own torrents for a while since I'm running a raspberry pi with transmission on it so I'd be able to share the roms that way except that my upload speed is only ~60kB/s. We'd have to wait for people to get a copy of the roms which might take an hour before the 3rd, 4th, etc people get good speeds, assuming people continue seeding them.

25 mbps upload speed could come in handy
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I thought about the lack of seeds as well. Seems that there might be enough people to keep ROMs on seedboxes? It's really hard to say whether it will be better or not. I think for popular ROMs it wouldn't be an issue. Some of the more dated ROMs might suffer. How many DL's of you guys had for CM9 or AOKP? I'd imagine a lot. If even 5% of those people kept the torrent up seeding wouldn't be an issue.

This is real handy for popular roms. But once a phone/rom goes stagnant you need a dedicated seed box. I read a thread on reddit about this. Couple of CM people chimed in and said the same thing. Its not a viable option once the rom is not being updated daily. I think CM uses this for nightly's but once a rom is final its better to have a static host.
I would bet if people look at download stats the first few days after a rom is released the download rate is crazy high then it will almost fall to a couple downloads a day. What gets me is places like sourceforge will keep a file hosted but if no activity in say two weeks the dl speeds are so horrendous you want to say screw it. I downloaded bhundvens stock kj6 one click yesterday. It took right at 88 minutes to download. However I could download stuff from mediafire that was slightly larger in less than five minutes.

Yeah I'll do a torrent only release next time as a test. It'll probably only have hefe kod and the latest aroma installer so it wouldn't be a major release

I'll dl it and help seed.
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So I'd like to hear others thoughts on the subject. Discuss.
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I would LOVE to see this happen, and I'm willing to host things as well. In fact, I will likely seed everything from my Amazon S3 storage unless it gets too expensive.

I'm not an important member of the sgs4g community but in any case I do not use torrents at all. I won't begin to either. I'm sure there are others who feel the sane way. I've yet to run in to problems with the hosting sites being used. Some might be slow once in a while but I'm patient enough. If you do go the torrent route it'd be nice to have an alt dl.
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I would be interested in having links to torrents on major trackers, I would leave them seeding nearly 24/7/365

I second this, I would love to be a seeder and have it running 24/7/366!
BOO YA!
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Erikmm gave me the green light to start a torrent of his roms.
Stay tuned....
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johnadelic said:
Erikmm gave me the green light to start a torrent of his roms.
Stay tuned....
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Sweet. I saw the posts you made in Eriks threads. I'm still curious to see how this works. One thing I would suggest is to start a thread in General. List the ROMs and there respective torrent links. That way the posts won't get buried and forgotten. If it works well you should ask Erik to add the torrent link in the OP's as well.

Good point.
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Maybe it's just me...

why are we not sharing files via .torrent
the multiload/rapidshare thing is crap!
I'd be more than happy to start a few files, I think there is enough traffic here to justify, and files would fly! I can support an FTP server for uploads.
Just sayin'...
Not everyone is going to seed, not everyone knows what a torrent is, etc. It is much quicker doing it with multiple mirrors. If one is too slow, you can just download from another. I haven't had any problems with the multiple mirrors. Why is it crap to you?
Think about it, people here have trouble flashing .zips. Now you want to ask them to download a program and set it up just so they can download a file, instead of just clicking 2 buttons and entering a capcha. Their heads will explode.
I guess I think it's crap because I've just spent 45min to D/L 230mb in files and now have to wait 51min to start the third... and if I miss the window, I have to start all over again! Not all the files are this bad, but not all have a choice of mirrors. I understand your point, but these files are small, and just a few seeders, the root of .torrents anyway, would easily keep things flowing. I would seed... it's the "rule"
I'm with andybolt on this one. I understand that people can be clueless and unwilling to learn so lets compromise and have multiload/rapidshare links and torrent links. There are even torrent clients that run through the browser and you can create a link that sends them to the site and starts a specified torrent for them. Don't even have to click on a link. I'd be happy to seed, it'd be a simple way to contribute, and I know some of us would love to contribute in some way, along with beer money of course.
I'm all for torrent files, that would be better.
I'd like to see this too. I'll write up a quick tutorial on how to download torrents if a mod will sticky it. Then we can answer any torrent related questions in that thread.
The only disadvantage I see is that I often download them on my phone.
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eallan said:
The only disadvantage I see is that I often download them on my phone.
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Use ttorrent, I download torrents on my thunderbolt. I would be more than happy to leave stuff seeding on my box at home though. I have stuff years old still seeding. Also transdroid to control my transmission client on my ubuntu box.
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Use ttorrent, I download torrents on my thunderbolt. I would be more than happy to leave stuff seeding on my box at home though. I have stuff years old still seeding. Also transdroid to control my transmission client on my ubuntu box.
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Thanks for the ttorrent app recommendation. 4g torrents at work now yay
Thunderbolt «» das BAMF Remix
Yeah I think is crappy too. I wish it would be easy. Although the direct download one is good
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Nice... I didn't get flamed on this one. So, what are we interested in starting with? I've sported a dozen roms, and am currently running Bamf 1.5 Remix, with a few of extra's. If anyone knows how to get started sharing, I have some space to offer. I seed all I "leech" but have not messed with uploading aTorrent, and does a tracker need to be involved?
I support releasing it via torrent as well. I have a 30/5 package at home and that 5 portion of it hasn't been doing much lately. I will leave stuff seeding until it's no longer needed.
I'm all for dling through torrent, as I have a habit of leaving them up until I realize my connection goes to crap, which is usually a week or so.
meh for being a long-time lurker, I'm not sure if this would be a good or bad idea.....I guess the only way to tell is to try it out right? Lets hope a dev picks up on the idea and gives it as an option for us to download.
I have an idea. How about someone start seeding for the devs and send us info to add it as a mirror?
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I have an idea. How about someone start seeding for the devs and send us info to add it as a mirror?
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I'll seed the BAMFS as soon as I get to the house.
Just a comment: I often download these files at work and there's no way I'm running a bittorrent at work. So I, for one, very much prefer that we keep them hosted via http. Secondly, there have been many people with fat pipes who offer to host things for free. If somebody hosts via multiupload or some other site like that, they're just not looking hard enough for free hosting. But that said, multiupload is more preferable to torrent for me.
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Just a comment: I often download these files at work and there's no way I'm running a bittorrent at work. So I, for one, very much prefer that we keep them hosted via http. Secondly, there have been many people with fat pipes who offer to host things for free. If somebody hosts via multiupload or some other site like that, they're just not looking hard enough for free hosting. But that said, multiupload is more preferable to torrent for me.
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It never hurts to have more options.

Suggestion Using Torrents for Rom/Radio downloads

Just wondered if anyone had considered creating torrents for things instead of posting links to upload sites or having to worry about having to host things on a private server. This could solve a lot of problems and make downloads much faster for everyone. Linux users probably already know that many of the linux distro sites offer torrents just for that reason.
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Just wondered if anyone had considered creating torrents for things instead of posting links to upload sites or having to worry about having to host things on a private server. This could solve a lot of problems and make downloads much faster for everyone. Linux users probably already know that many of the linux distro sites offer torrents just for that reason.
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I think they like to track the # of downloads, I don't know if you can do that with Torrents.
Another reason is, such as with the bamf previews, they can take them down. On a torrent they do not have that option.
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This was suggested a couple months ago. I seeded BAMF and BAMF Remix 1.6.3 or something for a couple weeks and posted it in the BAMF thread because people asked but no one used it.
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Another reason is, such as with the bamf previews, they can take them down. On a torrent they do not have that option.
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Why should they really care if they can take them down or not? If there is a problem with the ROM and it is bricking everyone's phone, just make a new sticky that says "Don't install this". This whole recurring theme about "don't re-post the ROM cause you might piss off the devs" is kind of silly.
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Why should they really care if they can take them down or not? If there is a problem with the ROM and it is bricking everyone's phone, just make a new sticky that says "Don't install this". This whole recurring theme about "don't re-post the ROM cause you might piss off the devs" is kind of silly.
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Because they were strictly previews, and it was stated as such that they would only be available for a short time. And honestly if a dev wants control over their Rom and where it's located, well more power to them.
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Because they were strictly previews, and it was stated as such that they would only be available for a short time. And honestly if a dev wants control over their Rom and where it's located, well more power to them.
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So we are rooting our phones against the wishes of our carrier and manufacturer but don't want to upset a dev by posting their rom where folks can download it faster? We do the same thing with most all other applications on the internet without regard to the original developers. Firefox has retired Firefox 4 but you can still find plenty of places on the net to download it.
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So we are rooting our phones against the wishes of our carrier and manufacturer but don't want to upset a dev by posting their rom where folks can download it faster? We do the same thing with most all other applications on the internet without regard to the original developers. Firefox has retired Firefox 4 but you can still find plenty of places on the net to download it.
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Way I see it, the devs have the right to request that no one mirror their roms for what ever reason, be it tracking downloads, ability to take them down (again for what ever reason) or just plain being a ass. If people dont agree with that request, they can and should feel free to download a different rom.
Also with torrents, can you really be sure you are getting the correct file? how many people actually check the md5 before trying to flash the rom? Keeping it in the control of the dev insures, at least partially, that the download is correct.
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Way I see it, the devs have the right to request that no one mirror their roms for what ever reason, be it tracking downloads, ability to take them down (again for what ever reason) or just plain being a ass. If people dont agree with that request, they can and should feel free to download a different rom.
Also with torrents, can you really be sure you are getting the correct file? how many people actually check the md5 before trying to flash the rom? Keeping it in the control of the dev insures, at least partially, that the download is correct.
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Or we can continue with the spirit that makes the internet great including things like custom ROMs, and do whatever the hell we want to do.
This code is owned by Android / HTC. Did the devs get their permission before they modified it and posted their custom ROM?
Please, this whole "lets don't upset the devs" is getting really old. XDA is full of a bunch of dev ass kissers and smart ass devs.
If someone is too dumb to generate a MD5 then that is their fault.
As stated above, torrents are a bad idea when it comes to flashing a Rom. Also if you do ever upload a Rom anywhere make sure you ask the developer first no matter whether you think you should or not
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Or we can continue with the spirit that makes the internet great including things like custom ROMs, and do whatever the hell we want to do.
This code is owned by Android / HTC. Did the devs get their permission before they modified it and posted their custom ROM?
Please, this whole "lets don't upset the devs" is getting really old. XDA is full of a bunch of dev ass kissers and smart ass devs.
If someone is too dumb to generate a MD5 then that is their fault.
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If XDA is so bad, why are you here? Honestly? There are other sites, go find one
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If XDA is so bad, why are you here? Honestly? There are other sites, go find one
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Nah, I'll just stay here and try to make it better
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Nah, I'll just stay here and try to make it better
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Well you're doing a fine job right now...

Petition to former SGS4G developers to return to the forum

As you all know, nearly two weeks ago the long awaited source code for the Android Gingerbread software was released. This had been a joyous occasion for many of us who had been patiently awaiting its release in hopes that it would lead to working versions of Cyanogenmod and MIUI on our phones, as well as several kernel modifications that were not previously possible. The first few hours of speculation turned into days, which turned into weeks, with the promises of development yet to be fulfilled. As it turns out the fears of some of you had come true, that the few developers that were left lost interest in the Galaxy S 4G for other projects.
While people like Raver have actively stuck with us, there has been a dead silence by those who were previously the most visible on this forum. Whitehawkx who has left us for the Galaxy S2, Dsexton who had left for lack of a separate computer,and Dr Honk who God knows where he is. Krylon ive seen mention working on a kernel once but with little detail. These were some of the best we had and we need to make it overwhelmingly obvious to them that they are wanted and needed here. So I propose that we take the time to let them know that the source code they've wanted and needed is now available and ready to be worked. Youre welcome to write up your own words for a message, though heres something I threw together along with the public contact info for the devs.
Feel free to reach out to any other devs who have not been listed here or from other forums.
Update: Dev's emails were removed by site mods. If you would like to email the people below, you can readily find their email in their user profiles and in their Donate To Me links.
Whitehawkx:
[URL]http://forum.xda-developers.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=3051621[/URL]
http://forum.xda-developers.com/sendmessage.php?do=mailmember&u=3051621
Dr Honk:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=2785735
Dsexton702:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=3954931
“Hello (dev screen name),
This is (your screen name) from the Galaxy S 4G forums on XDA. If you haven’t heard, the source code for Gingerbread we have been eagerly awaiting was finally released a few weeks ago for our phones. With the source finally released, the limitations our devs had faced before in developing for the SGS4G are now gone, and the path is clear for development of CM7 and MIUI for our phones. I have noticed you have not been around the SGS4G forums recently, but I along with all the other forum members have been hopefully awaiting your return to developing for our phones with the expertise you have shown in all of your many other projects for the SGS4G. As well, the lack of devs on the forum have left many of the still poplar ROM’s unmaintained and not updated to the latest official release. Please come back to developing for the SGS4G for all of us who have spent hours testing and using your ROM’s and show us what your talents can turn these phones into.
Thank you”
I think this is good intended but i fear it wont change anything.
Dont forget soma and airfluip who has been developing for our phones recently.
Krylin said in twitter that he will begin working in a ROM based on GB for our phones. Although he said he will start it today if he doesnt its still good news. I know he can make kernels and roms. Also raver is working. Dsexton said he will get a computer soon and that he needed break. White.... I dont know he droppwd when ki3 leaked. But oh well, lets enjoy or wait.
I've been lurking these forums since this phone came out, with the occasional post here and there.
I have seen people waiting months just for root.
I remember kb5 enhanced was our only ROM for times without end, just to have that developer throw a fit at Mr.Clown for mistakingly closing his thread and leave us hanging.
I remember following Krylon on twitter for what seemed like an eternity, until we finally had cwm on our phones.
Then came the good times.
New roms coming out just about every week, themes, mods, and all the goodies we see on our forums today.
New developers popping up, the formation of teams like aerodonk and acid.
Now we are back in one of these silent periods.
It seems like all development stopped.
But one thing I've learned from these forums is that patience is a virtue.
We go from bad times to good times, to bad again, and so on.
I'm sure there is progress being done right now.
No matter how little, our how long it's taking, it will come.
And a new life cycle will start for our phones.
We just gotta hang tight, get through this metamorphose, and then our phone will come out, greater then before!
Saw on krylons twitter something about doing another rom based off of the gb update so that looks promising.
Also its not just the sgs4g. I own a sensation as well and things have really slowed there too.
I understand everybodys frustration with the length of time that it is taking for us to get new roms. But you have to understand these guys do this in their spare time. And yes, it is true that because of Samsung and t mobile taking forever to release a GB for us made some of the devs loose interest and move to other devices; however, we still have Raver and Krylon on or side, Dsexton will be coming back soon, and hopefully we can get Drhonk and Whitehawx back if not for developing but for at least guidance, tips, and support. I for one have started trying to learn how to do some of this but without a Linux machine it is a bit difficult. But there is no reason some of you can't chip in and try to learn this stuff too. Not to override the few true devs we have, but to assist them.
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Hi Thomas
Please share your knowledge source. I am willing to learn as well, though to tell you the truth, moding and theming couldn't care me less, I'm always into performance and reliability, as well as good RTL and foreign language support (like in CM and MIUI).
Other than that, I'm always on stock theme.
I'm no dev, but I'm considering to become one in the future.
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Hi Thomas
Please share your knowledge source. I am willing to learn as well, though to tell you the truth, moding and theming couldn't care me less, I'm always into performance and reliability, as well as good RTL and foreign language support (like in CM and MIUI).
Other than that, I'm always on stock theme.
I'm no dev, but I'm considering to become one in the future.
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My biggest resources are picking the brain of RaverX3X and google. You can do most everything on a windows machine except mod kernels and make an Odin .tar (for those you need Linux or the ability to run Linux in a vm environment). There are quite a few tutorials out there. You just have to download the right tools to do it, have lots of spare time to devote to it and the gonads to test it.lol... Pm me later with specific questions and I can give you direct links to tutorials that might help you as well.
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i say we make a donation pool. Whoever gives us cm7 or miui first gets the money.
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i say we make a donation pool. Whoever gives us cm7 or miui first gets the money.
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Might not be such a bad idea.
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i say we make a donation pool. Whoever gives us cm7 or miui first gets the money.
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Might want to add the disclaimer it should be officially supported
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i say we make a donation pool. Whoever gives us cm7 or miui first gets the money.
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Interesting idea. The only issue I see is what if we collect money and no one steps up to the plate. Would everyone just get a refund or would the money go towards another cause?
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My biggest resources are picking the brain of RaverX3X and google. You can do most everything on a windows machine except mod kernels and make an Odin .tar (for those you need Linux or the ability to run Linux in a vm environment). There are quite a few tutorials out there. You just have to download the right tools to do it, have lots of spare time to devote to it and the gonads to test it.lol... Pm me later with specific questions and I can give you direct links to tutorials that might help you as well.
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You don't necessarily need Linux in order to make an Odin flashable tar file, I personally use Cygwin to make the modem packages.
Yes I am aware that Cygwin is Linux-like command line, but it is by no means Linux in a VM environment.
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Interesting idea. The only issue I see is what if we collect money and no one steps up to the plate. Would everyone just get a refund or would the money go towards another cause?
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I would rather set a bounty for ICS. CM9 would be a better goal in my opinion.
what happened to CM8? did i miss something?
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I would rather set a bounty for ICS. CM9 would be a better goal in my opinion.
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Well yea, a fund to get us any of the major ROMs cm9 miui or ICS etc..
And idk what we would do with the money if no one delivers.. ideas?
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I remember when i had the galaxy vibrant early this year i was so into the device cause they were a lots of roms here to choose from and thats one of my concerns now for this device now. If you go to the vibrant section there are a lots of 2.2 biulds 2.2.1, 2.3 ,2.3.3 etc etc etc. And they are all different. Including from stock to MIUI and htc Sence. As well as gingerbread and honeycomb. So my question is why the devs didnt work on some builds like those for this device. From my end i really dont care about what number of the OS is as long the build is stable, fast, bloatware free, custom ringtones, wallpapers, and other great thing that i did manage to see on my old vibrant that i no longer own :/
Yesterday my older sister got the galaxy s 2 for tmobile and its so awsome. I have envy in me now jajajajaja xD
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Well yea, a fund to get us any of the major ROMs cm9 miui or ICS etc..
And idk what we would do with the money if no one delivers.. ideas?
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I would leave it as a standing bounty like they did with the HP Touchpad. Someone will jump on it if its large enough.
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what happened to CM8? did i miss something?
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CM8 was reserved for Honeycomb so ICS will be CM9
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You don't necessarily need Linux in order to make an Odin flashable tar file, I personally use Cygwin to make the modem packages.
Yes I am aware that Cygwin is Linux-like command line, but it is by no means Linux in a VM environment.
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This is true. Which is what I am learning to use now, but I forgot to add that part... Thanks for catching my error. From my understanding, you can use it to modify a kernel as well, but i'm not having very good luck with it yet.
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This is true. Which is what I am learning to use now, but I forgot to add that part... Thanks for catching my error. From my understanding, you can use it to modify a kernel as well, but i'm not having very good luck with it yet.
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This is mere conjecture on my part, but I would assume that you can modify the kernel in Windows as long as your text editor supports Unix-type line endings (Notepad++ works nicely), and then compile it using presumably gcc in Cygwin. Again, this is merely speculation on my part, having only built a Linux kernel on Linux, for my desktop.

[Q] Would you use torrent downloads for roms?

I am thinking of setting up torrents for some of our amazing ROM's to give people another way to download which in theory could be ALOT faster than any of the direct download services Devs use at the moment.
If your a dev and think this is a great idea and want me to start a torrent for your ROM PM me or post here!
If your not sure what a torrent or torrenting is check out the good old wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_(protocol)
After all, most if not all good Linux distros offer a torrent why shouldnt android ROMS
I would love to! But i think it would only be worth it for more popular ROMs.
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I am thinking of setting up torrents for some of our amazing ROM's to give people another way to download which in theory could be ALOT faster than any of the direct download services Devs use at the moment.
If your a dev and think this is a great idea and want me to start a torrent for your ROM PM me or post here!
If your not sure what a torrent or torrenting is check out the good old wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_(protocol)
After all, most if not all good Linux distros offer a torrent why shouldnt android ROMS
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I use torrents a lot!
The beauty of torrent is the ability to verify files being downloaded. It just might end the problem of file corruption during download ....
Probably one of the best ideas for exchanging ROMs. I hope that the rest of the devs will do the same.
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I would, but only for popular ROMs which would have more seeders. Torrents can't be used for ROMs which aren't so popular as it would result in slow downloads. Besides, torrents are much faster and no need to "Wait 60 seconds or go premium" or writing Capatchas.
This can be a solution. The only problem I see is keeping the latest version of a rom. Since lots of people may not be able to read posts it can be a lot of work for the devs to keep their opening posts updated with the latest sources.
This may not be such a big problem here in the DS forum since we are not so many (sadly the DS is not one of HTCs bestsellers) - but imagine the bashing if some don't read the latest torrent written two posts before.
Nevertheless, torrents can help, but I agree only for popular roms.
Agree completely, but yes, we need seeders....
Also the attitude of the people out here, if you download, seed it back!!!!
My main concern is speed, has to be at least 100kb/s, thus seeders are going to be a concern.
Thanks for all the replys, ok then so what ROM's do you think we should do to start with?
Definitely primo and ice cold sandwich
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I agree this is a good idea but unless someone has a seedbox which can seed round the clock 24/7 I can't see it working because most people won't seed back thus another dead torrent.
DuTY09 said:
I agree this is a good idea but unless someone has a seedbox which can seed round the clock 24/7 I can't see it working because most people won't seed back thus another dead torrent.
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Well I have created the page in the dev section with the links here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1559247
And my laptop for all new torrents will be running at least solidly for a good few days, I do only have about 150kb/s upload so it will not be amazing fast to start with but will add new torrents once people have download the others etc.
SEED men SEED!!!
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What would also be awesome if it can also be uploaded to Usenet.
Also it must be a split file with par2 files.
I have dedicated seedbox and 100 Mbit FTH line. Will look at this later if there is a need.
R.
RolF2 said:
I have dedicated seedbox and 100 Mbit FTH line. Will look at this later if there is a need.
R.
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Once my seedbox sorts itself out mine will be used for this to, over the day I have had quite a few hits so it looks like people really are interested.
More seedboxs the better, check out the dev thread on it for the torrents running at the mo, once my seedbox is working I shall do many many more
Torrents might be a good idea for the latest ROMs but the older (maybe more stable once) will have lower seeds IMHO.
Anyway, my laptop (office equipment) dsnt allow me to use torrents on any network.
Personally I wouldn't. I DL ROMs directly from my phone, and I don't know how to use torrents on my PC anyway
I don't mind if the dev includes a torrent, as long as they include a regular DL aswell.
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olyloh6696 said:
Personally I wouldn't. I DL ROMs directly from my phone, and I don't know how to use torrents on my PC anyway
I don't mind if the dev includes a torrent, as long as they include a regular DL aswell.
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Well yes I think the devs should still give a normal link, but so many complain of slow downloads etc a torrent option would give them something else to use
(plus it is very easy to use torrents and there are torrent clients for android even)
zacthespack said:
Well yes I think the devs should still give a normal link, but so many complain of slow downloads etc a torrent option would give them something else to use
(plus it is very easy to use torrents and there are torrent clients for android even)
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Yeah man, don't get me wrong, your idea is great! I'm not trying to put you down or anything. I appreciate the effort you are putting into this 'project'
It's just my personal preference, I'd prefer to DL normal, regular zips
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It's a good idea with torrents.
I've already used torrents provided CM mirror network for sharing.

Hosting for files

So i've been noticing a trend with this stuff.
links go bad.
I work for an ISP.
I can host files and you wont have to worry about dead links.
plus, then I can find stuff when i need it.
somebody message me.
i need to know what kind of bandwidth something like this expects to generate.
Charge is dead. Thanks to the main developer who couldn't see things to the end.
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deafptl4ever said:
Charge is dead. Thanks to the main developer who couldn't see things to the end.
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I don't know if I would call it dead quite yet, nor do I think any one person to be responsible for it's demise.
To be honest putting some links up of things like recovery and what not is a great idea - I'm unsure there would be much traffic but there would be some, and I bet folks would be thankful for that.
I <3 you deafptl4ever - you rock! Favorite person ever I thought being redundant with posts to make a point would be silly, but it never hurts to say nice things twice right?
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chargeguy said:
So i've been noticing a trend with this stuff.
links go bad.
I work for an ISP.
I can host files and you wont have to worry about dead links.
plus, then I can find stuff when i need it.
somebody message me.
i need to know what kind of bandwidth something like this expects to generate.
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Seriously excellent idea.
I kinda had it started but on the back burner for a while.
Here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2391708
We might still need to talk if that whole bandwidth thing gets out of hand.

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