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Sharing files via torrents

We have all had to sit and wait for ungodly download speeds for some of these roms and other things. Sometimes the download links are broken. And no one likes dealing with those download sites like mega upload.
Why don't we, as a community, run torrents for all of these things?
I almost always have a computer running torrents, and I have a seedbox at work. I would be more than happy to run torrents for the different files we have around here - Roms, kernels, themes, other patches, etc.
I searched around and couldn't find anything about using torrents as a community, but I think it would be a good addition. Are there any drawbacks that I'm just not aware of?

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Thanks, greenboy.
I'll get some of the roms up on torrents tonight, and maybe we can get this going!

Chino9656 said:
Thanks, greenboy.
I'll get some of the roms up on torrents tonight, and maybe we can get this going!
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Sign me up, I'll offer to seed indefinitely, laptop runs 24/7, normally run an upload limit of 500kb/s on uTorrent in background.
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thederekjay said:
Please respect my work and don't mirror without my permission..
Why can't you download?
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I seeded a couple in the past in the Thunderbolt forum and only like 2 people even used them. I would ask the devs first that way they can link your torrent file in their threads.

That is probably a good idea. Those files will be paused until I get permission from the devs.

please do not host/mirror any of those files without the DEV consent
and even if you do get the DEV consent, the DEV him/herself should seed their own files only, using any of the publicly available torrent sites

AllGamer said:
please do not host/mirror any of those files without the DEV consent
and even if you do get the DEV consent, the DEV him/herself should seed their own files only, using any of the publicly available torrent sites
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Let me first say i am NOT trying to ruffle any feathers, just an honest question.
Why would it matter who ends up seeding them if given developer consent?

it's just the way how things are run in XDA, DEVs wants to have control over their own files, in case of crap happens
we do however allow recognize DEV's little helper if he/she publicly announces one

AllGamer said:
it's just the way how things are run in XDA, DEVs wants to have control over their own files, in case of crap happens
we do however allow recognize DEV's little helper if he/she publicly announces one
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I suppose this could be the problem with torrents, once it's seeded by one and spread it always has potential to be seeding by anyone. Suppose 'Jon' links 'Tom' the torrent, Tom isnt too familiar so Jon installs the ROM for him but Tom never stops seeding. It's out of anyones control at that point.
Regardless, I understand you're point.

One word: malware
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One word: malware
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If it's originally hosted by the dev then just seeded by others this isn't a concern, the only concern would be hosted by nonames.

Xhyperion said:
One word: malware
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Correct me if I'm wrong but is that not the point of the md5sum?
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markusf21 said:
Correct me if I'm wrong but is that not the point of the md5sum?
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Exactly. If the dev originally seeds it, malware is not a concern.

I'd be ailing to build a torrent hosting site. You guys down?
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I know some internet service providers frown upon the using and downloading of torrents, I do not know about you guys but I downloaded a movie once and this was last yr and got a warning......

blazin6969 said:
I know some internet service providers frown upon the using and downloading of torrents, I do not know about you guys but I downloaded a movie once and this was last yr and got a warning......
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That's definitely not the norm. Sounds like you just got extremely unlucky.
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ive been doing this with skyrocket roms, i run it by the devs, the say ok, i host them.

File hosts - Why not torrents?

As a new user I just have to ask; why is the use of file hosts so common for things like RUUs?
It seems that in a community as large as this there would be plenty of people willing to seed torrents and it would make for far quicker downloads.
Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like torrents are perfectly suited to the task.

All I know is that torrents are riddled with viruses. That's why I'll never use a torrent these days.
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What makes you think that your downloads aren't also riddled with viruses? If it comes from a XDA recognized user, a torrent is just as safe.
If you're talking about a file that you get off of a random search engine, then I agree with you!
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All I know is that torrents are riddled with viruses. That's why I'll never use a torrent these days.
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Anyone can set up an torrent and mark it under a recognized user.
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bitpushr said:
What makes you think that your downloads aren't also riddled with viruses? If it comes from a XDA recognized user, a torrent is just as safe.
If you're talking about a file that you get off of a random search engine, then I agree with you!
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I know that downloads I do can indeed be riddled with them aswell, but in my experience, I've found that torrents have had more viruses and more damaging viruses detected, at that.
I'm not saying they're all the same though.
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KidCarter93 said:
I know that downloads I do can indeed be riddled with them aswell, but in my experience, I've found that torrents have had more viruses and more damaging viruses detected, at that.
I'm not saying they're all the same though.
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Maybe you should stop downloading dodgy torrents?
I have in the past maintained torrent threads for downloads and people love them. The threads are now being mangered by other users and many people still use them.
Torrents are a very good option and i think more people should embrace them.
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I think they should move to torrents more too. Faster downloads and no waiting for a hosting site. Torrents have been improperly labeled as a surefire way to get infected when the exact opposite is true. You can see what files are included in the torrent you are downloading before you start. Torrents were also originally made to distribute Linux distros faster and without the hosting. Torrents are amazing and should be utilized more often.
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Anyone can set up an torrent and mark it under a recognized user.
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But people will only download a torrent if it is featured in the OP. Nobody is dumb enough to download something that has the power to make their phone unusable without doing some research.
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I'm totally here for this, and I have an idea to make it effective: or a developper should first upload to a host, then build a userbase to download the updates via torrent. Since any new rom won't get immediate user support, the updates should get people going seeding since a more stable release equals more users (thus more seeds).

KidCarter93 said:
I know that downloads I do can indeed be riddled with them aswell, but in my experience, I've found that torrents have had more viruses and more damaging viruses detected, at that.
I'm not saying they're all the same though.
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I have never gotten a virus from a download or torrent or even downloaded one. The best defense is to only download something you are sure is from a reputable source which would be the case if most developers posted a torrent link in their OP. I don't think there is any increased danger between using a torrent over a file sharing site in fact it could even be much safer.

Torrents FTW!
I've come across a few who provide torrent downloads, guess it's a personal choice.

Quite frankly I agree. A lot of so called file hosts I have seen being used (like when I downloaded a Jellybean ROM for my Samsung Infuse) have been either painfully slow (one host was so slow it was measured in BYTES per second!), or the download limits of the host were insane. If torrents were used, it would make downloading so much easier.

Don't forget that some people are on networks that disallow use of ANY "file sharing" networks. I got kicked off my college network for a few days and had to promise never to use bittorrent again after i connected to the campus network with my laptop downloading a Linux distro in the background.
Torrents are great, but if you want to get useful, meaningful feedback on your work, you need to get it to the widest audience.
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Duckman5 said:
Don't forget that some people are on networks that disallow use of ANY "file sharing" networks. I got kicked off my college network for a few days and had to promise never to use bittorrent again after i connected to the campus network with my laptop downloading a Linux distro in the background.
Torrents are great, but if you want to get useful, meaningful feedback on your work, you need to get it to the widest audience.
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Your point is definitely a valid one. I am in college myself, which has such policies. Torrents could be used alongside HTTP-based downloads to cover that issue. This is what many Linux distributions do.

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Your point is definitely a valid one. I am in college myself, which has such policies. Torrents could be used alongside HTTP-based downloads to cover that issue. This is what many Linux distributions do.
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And there are services that let you download a torrent to there server and then download it normally from there.
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Download links supplied here on Xda?

Ok so each time I'm searching for anything on xda the links provided always go to some download service. Why is this? Why can't I just download the zip or roms that I want directly instead of having good to download some other service? Aren't most of those services spyware/malware?
Explanation please.
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From my knowledge none of these have any malware, or so years and I think only Dropbox links work directly
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Ok good to know, it's too bad not everyone uses Dropbox.
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People here commonly use a bunch of sites like mediafire, goo.im, dev host; which are usually reliable...
Dropbox provides limited bandwidth for free, and these are no good if you get 200 downloads a week...
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Escofosho said:
Ok good to know, it's too bad not everyone uses Dropbox.
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Dropbox is the best. Makes me wonder how we did anything on the internet a few years ago.

smartphonesanonymous said:
Dropbox is the best. Makes me wonder how we did anything on the internet a few years ago.
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well, try hosting a rom file in your account.. and if it gets good traffic then your account will be disabled by dropbox.. its not the best.. but its good choice if you have some thing to share with few people..

nitubhaskar said:
well, try hosting a rom file in your account.. and if it gets good traffic then your account will be disabled by dropbox.. its not the best.. but its good choice if you have some thing to share with few people..
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Indeed its hardly practical.
If its a open source ROM I think source forge is always good. Or (and more devs needs to do this) use good old torrents!
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zacthespack said:
Indeed its hardly practical.
If its a open source ROM I think source forge is always good. Or (and more devs needs to do this) use good old torrents!
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aah.. torrents.. but that would take up our bandwidth.. if you are living in a country like mine (india).. we dont have luxury of very good speeds affordable for common people.. so, file sharing sites are best according to my experience.. host it once and be done with it..
source forge is good.. but as you said if its OS... well , github serves this purpose too.. i prefer dev-host , mediafire.. they are currently more reliable for fast downloads and traffic doesnt matter AFAIK..

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aah.. torrents.. but that would take up our bandwidth.. if you are living in a country like mine (india).. we dont have luxury of very good speeds affordable for common people.. so, file sharing sites are best according to my experience.. host it once and be done with it..
source forge is good.. but as you said if its OS... well , github serves this purpose too.. i prefer dev-host , mediafire.. they are currently more reliable for fast downloads and traffic doesnt matter AFAIK..
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Well you could use a seedbox to share it from. I have three myself (my upload speed sucks) all 1GB lines makes sharing files much much easier to the masses
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Relocated to different country and cannot download Samsung apps

I have relocated from India to Germany and when I try to download from Samsung store it shows that I need to change the country in my Samsung account.. But there is no direct way to edit it.. Is there a way around?
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Market enabler. It fakes your phone into thinking it's a different region.
http://db.tt/eV9ioRoV
Now cue the idiot around here who says this thread isn't where it's supposed to be and to hit the report button.

USA #1 lol jk
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dnar56 said:
USA #1 lol jk
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LOL... I'm from the US too but for Samsung accounts, UK accounts are so much better. They gave out free copies of MC3 and Asphalt 7 for free. Needless to say, I made a new UK account and enabled UK region in market enabler and downloaded them for free.

jinosong said:
LOL... I'm from the US too but for Samsung accounts, UK accounts are so much better. They gave out free copies of MC3 and Asphalt 7 for free. Needless to say, I made a new UK account and enabled UK region in market enabler and downloaded them for free.
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Ooooh I see your ways
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The application asks for a root permission.. What is that? Can it be done with root explorer? Sorry for bothering with dumb questions
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Nithin.kunneparambil said:
The application asks for a root permission.. What is that? Can it be done with root explorer? Sorry for bothering with dumb questions
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You'll need to root your phone mate.

Nithin.kunneparambil said:
The application asks for a root permission.. What is that? Can it be done with root explorer? Sorry for bothering with dumb questions
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You need "root", what it is: read in the general section's stickies!

Rooting scams

Ok guys, i just wanted everyone to know there are scams going around the internet offering "rooting software" STAY AWAY!! Im hearing about people bricking their phones with this. Just a heads up.

BAleR said:
Ok guys, i just wanted everyone to know there are scams going around the internet offering "rooting software" STAY AWAY!! Im hearing about people bricking their phones with this. Just a heads up.
http://samsunghelp.weebly.com/
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Of course someone is selling root... I knew it was coming. Is there anything we can do to have pay for root sites taken down?

Are you serious!? I can't believe that. I hope no one falls for that.Thanks for the heads up though.

BAleR said:
Ok guys, i just wanted everyone to know there are scams going around the internet offering "rooting software" STAY AWAY!! Im hearing about people bricking their phones with this. Just a heads up.
http://samsunghelp.weebly.com/
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I don't know if it helps but I reported the web site to google as a possible fake/scamming site.
Plus the FB link isn't a face book link. just a dead web page. www h com
I'm not going to put in the link but that's what you get when you click on the "like us on FB banner"

g_ding84 said:
I don't know if it helps but I reported the web site to google as a possible fake/scamming site.
Plus the FB link isn't a face book link. just a dead web page. www h com
I'm not going to put in the link but that's what you get when you click on the "like us on FB banner"
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I'll do the same. I also noticed the dead fb link.
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There are phone flashing shops that charge for root and custom ROM flashing, in my opinion they are overpriced scams that target the inexperienced and those that are afraid of bricking or just do not have the time to do it themselves.
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There are phone flashing shops that charge for root and custom ROM flashing, in my opinion they are overpriced scams that target the inexperienced and those that are afraid of bricking or just do not have the time to do it themselves.
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If they do it for you, I understand charging for the service... But to sell what I am positive is software that they did not develop, was built to be free, nor do they have any rights to sell, is wrong and something should be done. This site in question is an obvious scam to get money from stupid/uninformed people.
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Well. I dunno what we can do about this but tell as many people as possible. The sad thing is, they offer such a "low" price that people cant resist. I dont even think its real software at all.

Exactly. Go look at their disclaimer. It's bull****!
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For start, you could remove the link so less people will click on it. Xda is well positioned on google and linking sth to da means higher ranking also
Nothing can be done for real. Same as tons of "we'll scan and clean your PC" sites.
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For start, you could remove the link so less people will click on it. Xda is well positioned on google and linking sth to da means higher ranking also
Nothing can be done for real. Same as tons of "we'll scan and clean your PC" sites.
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Ya but then wont they see my "scam message" also?

That's total bull crap it even says in the terms of use that it might not work
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"125 ways to make money" = find 125 suckers to pay us $4.99 for a prerooted tar file to flash in odin, and/or a oneclick. All the files came from here or sxtp forums. just the unprofessional poorly translated site should scream "STAY THE FORK AWAY!" to anyone with 1 braincell left between their ears
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BAleR said:
Ya but then wont they see my "scam message" also?
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No. What he means is you posting a link on a reputable site improves their search engine rankings. This page doesn't have to show in the process.