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[SUGGESTION] use torrent for rom-downloading

most of use know how to use torrents, and those who don't can learn in probably 3 minutes from youtube.
most if not all rom devs and maintainers use their own sites or file-sharing sites like rapidshare and megaupload. it would be a lot easier for everyone including the devs to torrent the file.
basically i want to encourage more torrent use. since its even possible within the android os now we have no excuse.

am not sure they allowed torrent here, thx

Mweuch said:
am not sure they allowed torrent here, thx
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Not really. From what I understand, using P2P technology is not itself disallowed, but using it to link to pirated or copyright-infringing materials is.

This comes up quite often... P2P systems exist, but many people can't use them from work, and they aren't always reliable.
Direct http downloads are the best way.

the_scotsman said:
This comes up quite often... P2P systems exist, but many people can't use them from work, and they aren't always reliable.
Direct http downloads are the best way.
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it could work as a complement to direct http download, 2 main advantages, 1 is usually much faster downloads are possible (if seeded fairly), other is that no captchas/countdowns/adverts to sit through. i'd say those alone are good enough reason to encourage use of torrents.
don't have to completely do away with direct downloads, but would be handy as an option for people who can use torrents.
also, how are torrents not reliable? they are more reliable than http downloads, thanks to checksumming! broken downloads are possible on direct download, not on torrent.

wrsg said:
it could work as a complement to direct http download, 2 main advantages, 1 is usually much faster downloads are possible (if seeded fairly), other is that no captchas/countdowns/adverts to sit through. i'd say those alone are good enough reason to encourage use of torrents.
don't have to completely do away with direct downloads, but would be handy as an option for people who can use torrents.
also, how are torrents not reliable? they are more reliable than http downloads, thanks to checksumming! broken downloads are possible on direct download, not on torrent.
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What if no one downloads from the torrent at all because of direct download ?
If there was 1 user who was downloading , the speed would suck bad .
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EmoBoiix3 said:
What if no one downloads from the torrent at all because of direct download ?
If there was 1 user who was downloading , the speed would suck bad .
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duh. use the direct download in that case. this is about giving a choice between torrent and dd, no one is forcing you.

wrsg said:
duh. use the direct download in that case. this is about giving a choice between torrent and dd, no one is forcing you.
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Sorry if I meant any hostility
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EmoBoiix3 said:
Sorry if I meant any hostility
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sorry, no offence meant.

wrsg said:
sorry, no offence meant.
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Nah , no offence taken .
Besides your idea is quite feasible , I will try it when I release my team's AOSP
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Software so you can invade someone others phone!!!!!!
get a life and post somewhere else!!!!!!!!!!

What a di**. Gth

DirkTeur Velserbroncx said:
Software so you can invade someone others phone!!!!!!
get a life and post somewhere else!!!!!!!!!!
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Dude serious.. please leave this forum and never come back.
Use this link next time:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=network+spoof

STFU!!!
GTFO!!!!

It is pretty amazing software. Have you ever tried it at a public hotspot??

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Awesome!.!! Thanks a bunch dude
Trolling has just gotten better ha ha ha

Intercepting network data not intended for you and accessing computer networks you are not authorized to are both felonies in the USA and perhaps against the law elsewhere.
XDA Rule #9 = "Don't get us in trouble"
Closed.
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crachel

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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Xhyperion said:
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.

()))_)) Crayola ))_))>=== said:
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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Latest Factory Image [TORRENT]

BitTorrent is great. If I could download everything via BitTorrent (legally I mean) then that would be much better. If then everyone else used BitTorrent that would be great. In a BitTorrent client using the protocol you automatically have checksumming to ensure that there are no errors in the download, you have a download manager with resumable downloads, queueing and so on, what's not to like?
Update: I have mirrored the latest factory images for both Toro variants Sprint/Verizon. You will find the download links on my site: http://www.rorybradford.com/p/nexus-factory-image-torrents.html

you know you can grab the factory images straight from googles site with no torrent runaround, right?

t1.8matt said:
you know you can grab the factory images straight from googles site with no torrent runaround, right?
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Yeah of course but the point of this is to provide a torrent rather than a straight download. As I explained I think that torrents have many advantages. For example there is no need to checksum the download, also the downloads are resumable at any stage so if you have a slow internet connection a bit can be downloaded at a time or if you're running a torrent client on your phone and the connection is a bit unstable you will still be able to download it fully.

I appreciate you taking the time to set this up!
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Inb4 somebody uninformed tries to say all torrents are illegal.
Thanks for this though...I too wish everybody used this protocol. So much better.
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i don't know much about torrents, so you need a program i would imagine like bittorrent to download this? i've always wondered how torrents work.

t1.8matt said:
i don't know much about torrents, so you need a program i would imagine like bittorrent to download this? i've always wondered how torrents work.
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Yeah I've always used uTorrent...small, light, fast, yet powerful.
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i think i tried that program before on my Gnex. I'll see how it does with the link in the OP. I could see it being useful then because for having FIOS internet, my internet sucks compared to Xfinity we used to have. So the thing is though, you have to find a website with torrents to download, correct? because it isn't used for just downloading anything i would imagine.

t1.8matt said:
i think i tried that program before on my Gnex. I'll see how it does with the link in the OP. I could see it being useful then because for having FIOS internet, my internet sucks compared to Xfinity we used to have. So the thing is though, you have to find a website with torrents to download, correct? because it isn't used for just downloading anything i would imagine.
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Yeah that's generally the problem, in my experience, aside from Linux distros, it's mostly used for "illegal" purposes, so it has a bad name in some circles.

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Yeah I've always used uTorrent...small, light, fast, yet powerful.
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Yeah I'd definitely recommend uTorrent for Android or Windows, or Transmission for Linux, or CTorrent (for Linux) if you're a terminal/command line kind of person.

chickenfeeder said:
Yeah I'd definitely recommend uTorrent for Android or Windows, or Transmission for Linux, or CTorrent (for Linux) if you're a terminal/command line kind of person.
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For android adownloader works great as well
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