I have a 150GB GoDaddy server itching for ROMs, kernels, themes, etc. Email me at [email protected] and I'll create an FTP account for you. Your path will be something like http://www.heylisten.org/ROM/android/your-xda-username unless you request something different. All that I request in return is that you try to recommend users to my index site, http://www.heylisten.org/ROM, when appropriate. Your ROMs can be included in said index if you tell me where to find them and how to list them (phone name, base). The Inc section is the only one that works right now, but I'm working on expanding the site.
Thanks!
Yeah Im tired of mediafire and rapidshare bull aswell, I have 4 servers 2 home and 2 on godaddy. I can mirror if anyone cares ([email protected])
i offered up space on my webdomain.. it went unheard .. devs like the media sites cause they can monitor clicks.. i monkeywrench em and download files multiple times .. your counts arent true!!!!!
To devs: with a normal FTP server, you can use ROM Manager and QR code downloads, as well as the RM web link thing. C'mon, I didn't get the 150GB plan for nothing, did I?
Mobileunderground offered free ftp space for rom chefs as long as they just mirrored their threads there aswell.
I know alot of rom chefs use it to track their downloads, or to earn some extra cash by using the sharing sites (or extra bandwith to dl other things online).
There have been tons of sites that have mirrored roms and other items, but in the long run, they end up getting shut down either by htc, google, microsoft, or the webhost's request them to go down for using them to host files when it says not to in the TOS...
read the TOS, 99.9% of webhosts will have that in there, once you start getting into tens of gigs of data, they will tell you to remove the file within 2-3days....I know, it happened to MobileUnderground multiple times since I have been a mod over there...
codybear said:
Mobileunderground offered free ftp space for rom chefs as long as they just mirrored their threads there aswell.
I know alot of rom chefs use it to track their downloads, or to earn some extra cash by using the sharing sites (or extra bandwith to dl other things online).
There have been tons of sites that have mirrored roms and other items, but in the long run, they end up getting shut down either by htc, google, microsoft, or the webhost's request them to go down for using them to host files when it says not to in the TOS...
read the TOS, 99.9% of webhosts will have that in there, once you start getting into tens of gigs of data, they will tell you to remove the file within 2-3days....I know, it happened to MobileUnderground multiple times since I have been a mod over there...
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exactly my reason for staying with multiupload.... i have a godaddy account but they have required me to pull my files more than once... its too much of a pain to redo all of that
I have about 3TB of traffic weekly. Been running solid for about 5 months.
I looked over the ToS. As long as I don't go over 150GB I'm good, because I have unlimited bandwith.
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I looked over the ToS. As long as I don't go over 150GB I'm good, because I have unlimited bandwith.
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The tens of gigs statement was only used because that's when they notice that you are using it to distribute or backup files without paying for a package that allows this. It has happened to TONS of chefs/websites that hold ROMs and other items.
It's been proven time and time again that it does not work...
Maybe if you had a dedicated server, things might be different...But the traffic to the sites that host such roms are retardedly high and the webhosts see that and shut you down....
It does not take very long.
Trust me, I've had to backup the entire ftp of MobileUnderground onto my 2tb external only to upload it to the new server and have the same thing happen to us in about a two month span with three or so webhosts.
Stick around for about 2 years and you'll see it happen to plenty of people.
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I looked over the ToS. As long as I don't go over 150GB I'm good, because I have unlimited bandwith.
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No, you did not read the TOS closely enough.
DesireC said:
To devs: with a normal FTP server, you can use ROM Manager and QR code downloads, as well as the RM web link thing. C'mon, I didn't get the 150GB plan for nothing, did I?
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Yes, you did.
codybear said:
Mobileunderground offered free ftp space for rom chefs as long as they just mirrored their threads there aswell.
I know alot of rom chefs use it to track their downloads, or to earn some extra cash by using the sharing sites (or extra bandwith to dl other things online).
There have been tons of sites that have mirrored roms and other items, but in the long run, they end up getting shut down either by htc, google, microsoft, or the webhost's request them to go down for using them to host files when it says not to in the TOS...
read the TOS, 99.9% of webhosts will have that in there, once you start getting into tens of gigs of data, they will tell you to remove the file within 2-3days....I know, it happened to MobileUnderground multiple times since I have been a mod over there...
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Yup.
savoxis said:
I have about 3TB of traffic weekly. Been running solid for about 5 months.
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You've just slipped under their radar so far.
codybear said:
The tens of gigs statement was only used because that's when they notice that you are using it to distribute or backup files without paying for a package that allows this. It has happened to TONS of chefs/websites that hold ROMs and other items.
It's been proven time and time again that it does not work...
Maybe if you had a dedicated server, things might be different...But the traffic to the sites that host such roms are retardedly high and the webhosts see that and shut you down....
It does not take very long.
Trust me, I've had to backup the entire ftp of MobileUnderground onto my 2tb external only to upload it to the new server and have the same thing happen to us in about a two month span with three or so webhosts.
Stick around for about 2 years and you'll see it happen to plenty of people.
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Here's the email I got from GoDaddy when we were hosted by them months ago:
Dear Sir/Madam,
It appears as though your mobileunderground.info hosting account is being used as a file repository. You may review the Storage and Security section of our Hosting Service Agreement for further clarification. If you are interested in keeping file backups, you will need to purchase the Online File Folder, a Virtual Dedicated Server, or a Dedicated Server.
Specifically, the following currently appear to be in violation:
/_db_backups 4.12 GB
/captainback 10.93 GB
/omj09 4.76 GB
/indagroove
25.31 GB
/tmartin09 3.34 GB
/sohkis 2.02 GB
/asusmobile 1.95
GB
/ai6908 2.14 GB
/smiznith 5.91 GB
/ericwgarza1 3.32 GB
/formula84
1.73 GB
/rbolen70 1.15 GB
Please remove all files not being referenced to a website and/or explain how they are being used by the web site by July 15, 2010 at 7:00 AM MST.
We will review the mobileunderground.info hosting account again at that time. If we do not receive a reply to this notice, or the content in question is not removed, access to that content will be disabled.
Please call us at 480-505-8871 or reply to this email with the necessary information so that we can review this issue further. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation in this matter.
Sincerely,
Wayne C.
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All this rapid share, yadda yadda is really getting old quick. If at least a few ROM Cookers are interested. I'll setup a space on my server to allow uploads that point back to an HTTP download section. You would be responsible for uploading the file, then posting a link here on XDA that would be a direct download link. The uploads would be handled by a passworded FTP account. I have about 400gig of download to spare per month, which should be more than enough for a bunch of Roms. Either reply here or send me a PM and we can talk.
I can also set it up, so that people can go to a root folder and find all the Roms and just pick the ones they want. Heck I can even store older Roms on the server so if someone wants an old one it will be up there.
1st point, there will be no warez posted.
2nd point, you must be a recognized cooker.
Well Cookers, drop a line and let me know.
It would end up being something like this, with each cooker having his own folder.
http://captfiero.com/videos
This has been done, before, twice.
And both times, the file disappeared, or the person did, within 4 days.
Well, not Jannaa's!!!! I use it aplace4u.biz and it's AMAZING!!
veyka said:
This has been done, before, twice.
And both times, the file disappeared, or the person did, within 4 days.
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The only reason I could see a person leaving is if Microsoft sent a letter saying they did not like people cooking the roms and throwing a hissy fit. I have went ahead and created the folder on my remote server and am uploading stuff right now. I have not made the ftp account for uploading, however I should be able to allow open access to what I have on there in about 2hrs.
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The only reason I could see a person leaving is if Microsoft sent a letter saying they did not like people cooking the roms and throwing a hissy fit. I have went ahead and created the folder on my remote server and am uploading stuff right now. I have not made the ftp account for uploading, however I should be able to allow open access to what I have on there in about 2hrs.
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I hate rapidshare as much as the next non premium person, so i hope this gets off the ground. people don't even use aspupload, or whatever its called..
Ok the Basic is up, http://www.captfiero.com/romsYou will have to mouse over the file name if it is too long to show up, and then just look at your tool bar to see the entire name.
If anyone see's a file that should not be there. (copyrighted) Please let me know and I will remove it.
Also if a file is something "YOU" made or prefer me not to have up, let me know and I will remove it.
I will not make the upload address public so if you want files uploaded, you can send me a PM and I will upload it, or if you are an established cooker, I will give you direct upload settings.
hmm
I am sure my chef would love this feature, his connection sucks back home though, so if this is genuine I will start mirroring his stuff here too ... I guess the more mirrors the better, I been mirroring to 4shared and mediafire all this time... seems to work well
Just FYI tho, CRCinAU has at least around 100GB of traffic a day (may be he can correct me on this) ...
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I am sure my chef would love this feature, his connection sucks back home though, so if this is genuine I will start mirroring his stuff here too ... I guess the more mirrors the better, I been mirroring to 4shared and mediafire all this time... seems to work well
Just FYI tho, CRCinAU has at least around 100GB of traffic a day (may be he can correct me on this) ...
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He said something like that somewhere.. If you think, most rom topics get 1k+ hits per day.. and say 100 download.. a 50 meg file, that's 5gig from nowhere..
And when a new rom is out..
Well I have 1200gig total traffic allowed, I use about 400gig a month for Videos and I want to keep about 400gig aside for spikes. That leaves me about 400gig to play with. I can't mirror the entire PPC world, but the latest roms and a few add ons would be fine.
heh - where abouts is this mirror located?
At the moment, my mirroring system is handling the load quite well - I have a total of 5 mirrors around the globe (1 x EU, 3 x US, 1 x AU) and the amount of traffic is much lower than it was a month ago on the one AU server because of the way things are spread out now.
The mirroring scripts will auto-detect where the user is and send them to the nearest server (or if we don't have a server near you, we randomly pick one to share the load).
You'll notice this is why I don't have direct links to anything anymore - it's all to my download script.
Even DeviceUpdate uses this script to custom-generate it's index based on where you are
That being said, as of my typing this, since 28th August, I've served:
Release 12.11 ROMs: 270 @ 40Mb each (10.8Gb)
Release 11.2 ROMs: 38 @ 41Mb each (1.55Gb)
Device Update Sessions: 1,235 (unknown download amount)
That's pretty good for less than 4 days
Some more mirrors would be nice - although mirrors in the US are probably not as helpful as the rest of the world... There's ~1Gb of content to be mirrored and count on ~100Gb per month of traffic in a lazy month.
FYI: Developers thread options: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=388819
To my knowledge it is a US based server. I am personally in Canada however it seems that US hosts are far cheaper. I'll send ya a PM with the details.
I have been "leeching" from XDA for a while now and I want to give something back to XDA.
I have a webhosting business. I am not really doing anything with it at this time. I was thinking about opening it up for XDA members for file hosting.
I HATE RapidShare and other "free" sites like it... I wouldnt do anything more than some banner ads on the site, maybe some GoogleAdSense... Nothing intrusive... I promise...
Would anyone use this COMPLETELY FREE SERVICE?
Im setting it up now, 100MB for RAR and ZIP, 50MB for CABS
www.FarBeyondHosting.com
That is a very nice idea! It would be great for this great site.
I join ya! - I absoluty HATE Rapidshare too, most of the time it's busy or I'll keep on countin' the seconds
The adds are no problem, when there aren't a lot - that is...
Most of the rom's are above 100mb though...
WC
Yep file limits may not be the best but its a great idea... thanks for sharing
I have to admit, I dont know what kind of files sizes are needed for the ROMS.
I have used the roms for the 8525, and the tilt, and now the Raphael/Fuze... And those are generally less than 100MB...
What would a good size be? 200? I have unlimited space on that server...
Thanks a lot
I think this is a good idea!
btw has anybody thought how many roms there are published here?
Lol, I was just coming to post the same topic, I have unlimited space and bandwidth if I need it, do you have any bandwidth limits?
I've started hosting files for the android/kaiser project but haven't moved out into the rest of the site so far.
My idea was to just register under a username (hopefully associated with your xda account) and upload your files without size limit (unless it's over 1GB?) and also provide a link for users to view all your posted files/ROMs etc.
Seeing you're already looking into this, maybe I'll still do it, maybe I won't :-D
BTW, thanks for giving back!
Well i have my own physical server in a UK datacenter. Physical as in if i wanted to i could go there and pick it up etc.
It's an intel xeon quad core server with 4gb ram and loads of space!
It's hosted on a dedicated 100mbit connection, with offsite backups located in the USA.
Those intrested ping fbdn.net we run ESXI so basically emulating OS's for better performance etc
I dont see a problem with hosting these files will check my datacenters TOS and AUP in a sec
Hi there.
Wouldn't it be nice if xda-developers ha a system for letting the users create torrents when they need to upload something? Many of the developers here use sites like rapidshare and similar to upload their stuff. I don't like those sites and would rather see that the uploaders used a torrent system.
I can create a separate torrent page for you if you like...
Great Idea
dongrif said:
Hi there.
Wouldn't it be nice if xda-developers ha a system for letting the users create torrents when they need to upload something? Many of the developers here use sites like rapidshare and similar to upload their stuff. I don't like those sites and would rather see that the uploaders used a torrent system.
I can create a separate torrent page for you if you like...
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You nailed it buddy..We need exactly the same !..I am using a 16 MBPS connection and it can't do jack since it seems the ISP is using some proxy kinda system and whenever I try and download...it says your Quota is finished.. Anyways, I hope we have such a system too..I won't mind uploading ROMS using Torrents to other users..
Niice Idea
would be pretty cool and lessen the need for mirrors
Torrents are associated with warez so I don´t think this idea will be moving forwards
We do the association with loading "sinful things" using torrents...so WE as in the general Internet Users started it..I feel that if we start using torrents for sharing ROMs etc..that perception..at least between XDA users will change..and how about Private Trackers...
Explanation as per one of the websites..Looks legit enough to me..
A private tracker is a tracker which allows only registered users to download torrents. The registered users are required to maintain a certain upload-to-download ratio and are banned if the ratio is too low. This ensures that the users don’t just leech the files but also seed them after downloading it completely, which in turn ensures that you get very fast download speeds.
bamit99 said:
We do the association with loading "sinful things" using torrents...so WE as in the general Internet Users started it..I feel that if we start using torrents for sharing ROMs etc..that perception..at least between XDA users will change..and how about Private Trackers...
Explanation as per one of the websites..Looks legit enough to me..
A private tracker is a tracker which allows only registered users to download torrents. The registered users are required to maintain a certain upload-to-download ratio and are banned if the ratio is too low. This ensures that the users don’t just leech the files but also seed them after downloading it completely, which in turn ensures that you get very fast download speeds.
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Sounds good to me
I've experimented with torrents as a distribution means, but it just doesn't work, as a huge %age of our users were in the UK, most with appalling upload speeds.
You can't expect people to seed a file to a 1:1 ratio if they are on a 30 KBps upload (absolute max), but 8 Mbps down... Bear in mind that at 30 KBps you would have your uploads saturated, so 10 KB/s is more realistic...
And XDA-Developers does not get involved in the distribution of ROMs, or their storage.
Hmm... To be fair my upload speed that I get is about 3kb/s where as download is about 200kb/s
So I won't be able to keep up that ratio
MacaronyMax said:
Hmm... To be fair my upload speed that I get is about 3kb/s where as download is about 200kb/s
So I won't be able to keep up that ratio
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No worries buddy.. I am sure out of 3 millions XDA Users, we will find a lot with a decent bandwidth Internet...
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Torrents are associated with warez so I don´t think this idea will be moving forwards
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Thats very inaccurate. Its just a means of acquiring "illegal" content. Thats like saying cars are associated with hit and runs so nobody should drive.
Ok you words are more precise
nvm, someone beat me to the torrent thing.
Anyway, if torrents were also web-seeded I see no reason why it wouldn't work.
AdrianK said:
nvm, someone beat me to the torrent thing.
Anyway, if torrents were also web-seeded I see no reason why it wouldn't work.
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Who would pay for the servers required for web seeding?
XDA won't get involved in distribution of ROMs, and as a server admin, I can assure you that I wouldn't want the traffic from a web seeding box on any of my servers... While it's all a lovely hypothetical idea, torrents just don't seem to be the best way to distribute ROMs. Someone ultimately has to upload the file to other peers at their broadband upload speed... Who's gonna wait an hour downloading a file from me, only to then have to seed to someone else? Starting them off would take ages
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Just wondering, never really been in the WM scene, and I was wondering how much roughlyin MB are the Roms?? For android they re 90MB on average, You could get like a stock cynageon rom only being 60mb and a full sense rom 110 ish lol
Thanks
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WM Energy ROM for Leo is about 170Mb but leaves you more free RAM than Android Froyo 2.2...
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WM Energy ROM for Leo is about 170Mb but leaves you more free RAM than Android Froyo 2.2...
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Cool thanks
Im thinking I may take this project on, If your a knowledgeable person when ity comes to roms or ideally a dev and would like to be staff on a xda releases torrent site drop me a pm.
If there is allot of interest in this I may provide the site/server/webseeds
I know this is old news but I thought I could at least put my two cents in:
I have been on other private trackers that are closer to a .8:1 ratio. To help those with severely throttled uploads, couldn't we make it more like .1:1?
I am not a coder, but love what you guys do, and I use many of your solutions. I would love to have a way to contribute back on a consistent basis. I have a 1MB upload (which I realize isn't huge) and lots of HD space, and a computer that stays on 24/7. I figure those of us that have a decent upload will help those that can't share much back.
I'd like to say that I support this fully! One more advantage that needs to be listed would the ability to resume downloads and not need to restart corrupt ones!
So I have multiple VPS's that are ready for some rom hosting or small mod hosting. Running on different servers at different data centers for reliability and to scale up or down.
I have 10 + tb's of bandwidth on the servers for hosting on which have 250 mbps and 2 1gbps ports... Used to run some servers on mine but wiped them clean as i no longer need to do what i used to do with them. I already host some of the roms for a few people. If you want a main download or a mirror just let me know and I can mirrir to my server and my redundancy one so there is always a download option. Or if you want to put your main downloads with me thats cool to.
I just thought Id throw the option out there to help out people that don't trust the reliability of hosting sites or for some reason want a more personal hosting option.
Just let me know if any of you want to use it.
Just thought I'd be able to contribute a little because I haven't been able to dev at all or even modify my own phone lately...
So I am assuming that this is the same guy b-reezy has been talking to me about that he has been using servers from, and got me an account? I will PM you in a minute.
Yea and I will set it up properly So that it can work right. I'll get a page up for downloads etc.
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Yea and I will set it up properly So that it can work right. I'll get a page up for downloads etc.
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thank you.
For those who do not know, Dropbox has a promotion going on with HTC to give an addition 23gb of space for 2 years to people who use Sense 5. EXCEPT for whatever reason people on either Verizon or AT&T are not eligible for this promotion, which essentially means everyone here on the Verizon HTC One will not be able to get the free 25GB, at least that is how Verizon wants it to be.
I say F*** Y** Verizon, even though you do not want to give me the extra space, I am going to trick you into giving it to me and whoever else wants it!!
The workaround method I discovered is all thanks to Newtoroot and the amazing roms he releases!!
To get the 23gb of Dropbox space you will need to download Newts "[ROM] NOS v1.0.2 HTCOneVZW [JB 4.2.2 & Sense 5] 9/5/2013*GSM carrier support" ~*Links are at the bottom*~. There are two versions of the rom, one is to connect with Verizon's network and the GSM one is to connect with GSM networks, to get the dropbox promotion you need to download the GSM one. Even if you are on Verizon, you still want to download the GSM rom and install it. I can assure you that you will have no problems installing Newts GSM rom, the only thing that will not work is anything that requires you to be connected to a carrier network. During the installation of the ROM you will be given a lot of options for what you want installed and what you dont, the only thing you really need to have installed is Dropbox.
After the install, proceed with going through the phone setup, you *HAVE TO* connect to wifi for internet because you will not be able to connect to 3g or 4g. During the phones setup when you come to accounts page with GMail, Exchange, etc etc, you should see an option for Dropbox, click that. After logging in and clicking through the screens that come up such as the Camera Upload feature. Once you get to your list of folders in your Dropbox app, you should have an additional 23 gigs. You will get an email from Dropbox confirming the addition of 23 gigs to your account for 2 years.
After you get you have confirmed you received the additional 23gigs, all that is left to do is restore a nandroid backup or re-install your favorite rom and get back to business as usual with your phone, except now you have
If you do not have a Dropbox Account, use this link to create one - Sign Up for Dropbox- using this link will give you an additional 0.5 gigs of free space. Outside of this promotion, there are other ways to get free space from Dropbox, most of those ways are permanent additions to your account. Referral for example can get you a max of 16 gigs of free space, 0.5 gigs for you and the person you refer.
Here are some links, first is the official promotion website, next is confirmation you will receive after you log in to dropbox with the GSM rom, and the third link is to Newts ROM that makes all this possible, make sure you download the GSM version and hit "Thanks".
HTC One - Dropbox Promotion Info
Dropbox Promo Confirmation Example
[ROM] NOS v1.0.2 HTCOneVZW [JB 4.2.2 & Sense 5] 9/5/2013*GSM carrier support
winston856 said:
Thanks to newt's new rom, you can download the global version of NOS 2.0 and just select the GSM network type in the options and voila! I just did that on my One with great success.
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I wonder why VZW and AT&T aren't eligible...?
My guess would be because their combined customer base is like 200+ million so a LOT of people would be getting free 25GB and that would cut into Dropbox profits.
Anyway... Awesome! Good info
josh995 said:
I wonder why VZW and AT&T aren't eligible...?
My guess would be because their combined customer base is like 200+ million so a LOT of people would be getting free 25GB and that would cut into Dropbox profits.
Anyway... Awesome! Good info
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Sent from my phone using an app
Guaranteed the workaround isn't actually this hard. My guess is that all you have to do is edit a system file to make Dropbox think the One is another phone. This system file is called the "build.prop", and is found at /system. I don't have either ROM downloaded but I'm pretty sure that if you look at the build.prop from the GSM ROM and the build.prop from the VZW ROM, there is a value that is different probably titled something like ro.product.model in that build.prop file. If you just edit the build.prop on any ROM to what it is on the GSM ROM (or for that matter, any phone that is eligible for this promotion), this workaround should still work.
Again, I haven't tried this, and all of this is me just speculating, but this is how we got access to similar promotions back when I had my Thunderbolt. If someone wants to look for the value in the build.prop for the GSM ROM and post it up here, I bet other people who are unlocked could just do it the easy way.
Thank you. It worked great!
While I have little knowledge of how android roms work, I do want to try and learn how to make something like Papasmurf's idea of editing the build.prop to allow the promotion of work. With any luck I can provide instructions that will allow more roms to receive the Dropbox Promotion. I think it some bureaucratic bull**** that only some carriers support a promotion like this. What could Verizon possibly have to lose by letting their phones be part of a Dropbox promotion?? IF anything serious change came from a promotion like this it would be people using more 3g/4g data because they have more files on Dropbox, maybe even have music, tv shows or a movie on there because 23 gigs could certainly hold and more, the usage of more data simply means people will spend more money on data plans, especially because Unlimited Data is becoming one of those "Back in my day...." myths.
I should add that a couple years ago someone released an edited version of the Dropbox.apk file to give whomever used that apk access to a HTC Sense promotion regardless of what phone was being used. Dropbox found out about this, fixed the exploit and revoked the bonus space of anyone who had gotten it from the hacked apk.
I've gotten free space from Dropbox before through an HTC promotion. When I did it they gave you 50GB. HOWEVER, they will remove this extra space from your account after awhile. They don't tell you this when you get the free space (unless it's hidden in the agreement somewhere), but after 2 years was back tot eh regular old 2GB. I've since moved to Box.net that sometimes does a bonus space promotion, and the explicitly state that the extra space will not expire. Just wanted to give everyone a heads up.
Why cant you edit build.prop to fake the device ID?
123421342 said:
Why cant you edit build.prop to fake the device ID?
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are you rooted?
NOS_multi_v3.0.2_GSM_Odex can't be moved onto my phone.
Cannot copy item
The device has either stopped responding or has been disconnected
I can copy other files to and from.
I still have the 25 free gigs I got from running one of Newts Roms last year...It's nice to have that extra space...
BTW, I have always read that Dropboxes offer was for two years, so they may not make that clear when you enter into the deal, but it was pretty common knowledge...
How are you supposed to load a ROM without s-off/root ? I must be missing something.
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How are you supposed to load a ROM without s-off/root ? I must be missing something.
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I don't believe you are.. but there are plenty of folks here who have either taken up Sonic on his S-off offer or else beat Verizon to the HTC Dev site. To those people go the spoils.
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Why cant you edit build.prop to fake the device ID?
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You probably can, that's what my earlier post said.
PapaSmurf6768 said:
Guaranteed the workaround isn't actually this hard. My guess is that all you have to do is edit a system file to make Dropbox think the One is another phone. This system file is called the "build.prop", and is found at /system. I don't have either ROM downloaded but I'm pretty sure that if you look at the build.prop from the GSM ROM and the build.prop from the VZW ROM, there is a value that is different probably titled something like ro.product.model in that build.prop file. If you just edit the build.prop on any ROM to what it is on the GSM ROM (or for that matter, any phone that is eligible for this promotion), this workaround should still work.
Again, I haven't tried this, and all of this is me just speculating, but this is how we got access to similar promotions back when I had my Thunderbolt. If someone wants to look for the value in the build.prop for the GSM ROM and post it up here, I bet other people who are unlocked could just do it the easy way.
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Has anyone tried this method recently?
so can we really just edit build.prop? that would be a lot less work/worry for m than flashing a ROM not made for the phone
Why go through the hassle of getting 23GB of space for two years when you can get it for life, with 5GB per additional referral from Copy? I've been using Copy for awhile now and it beats Dropbox hands down. The UI on both the web and mobile devices are more robust (with embeddable links, per user link sharing and the like), it is just as fast if not faster, and the best thing, in my opinion is that shared folders do not fully count against your storage limit the way it does in Dropbox. For example, if there's a 750MB file shared among three people, each person's storage is reduced by only 250MB, not 750MB. The more that file is shared, the less the hit to one's storage as it is spread across the number of people sharing. Android app is awesome.
If interested, I have a referral link in my signature. I really think Copy is going to either kill Dropbox or force it to lower its absurd pricing and referral arrangement.
Sheldor1967 said:
I still have the 25 free gigs I got from running one of Newts Roms last year...It's nice to have that extra space...
BTW, I have always read that Dropboxes offer was for two years, so they may not make that clear when you enter into the deal, but it was pretty common knowledge...
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I just signed up for Copy using your referral. we'll see how this goes. always like free stuff
Check it out and tell me what you think. It really works well. I think Dropbox will have to up their game. Charging $99 for a 100GB a year is absolutely ludicrous. They were able to get away with it because alternatives like Skydrive, Google Drive and others simply didn't offer the same seamless functionality.
True competition is a good thing, and the consumer wins.
crazyg0od33 said:
I just signed up for Copy using your referral. we'll see how this goes. always like free stuff
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godhamba said:
True competition is a good thing, and the consumer wins.
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So far I think the interface kills that of dropbox. It's way smoother. I'll keep playing around but I like it a lot. Thanks