Being a Flash addict, it dismayed me greatly after I am posted to China.
For a long time, I have been begging for mirrors etc (and there are really good people here in XDA) so that I can slurp up these cooked ROMS, KERNALS instead of just drooling.
Here in communist China.. Many stuff are filtered, including Facebook, Twitter, many file host sites.. and thanks to many helpful people, I have found U.L.T.R.A.S.U.R.F (dots to prevent Great Firewall of China to censor this forum too!)
This is malware and virus free and a standalone exe. Fireup when you need to access blocked sites. Latest version is 10.06 and it will dump the update on your desktop if there is a new version availble.
Happy surfing and downloading
buyaoxiao said:
This is malware and virus free and a standalone exe.
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I have a feeling that you mis-wrote the sentence above.
More importantly, is it VPN or one of those auto-updating proxy software? In any case, I generally think its just better to get a VPN. I use Strongvpn.com. Its about $6/month.
or you can use mine, which is free at the moment, for sgs devices.
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Dearest Trinity users,
I've taken the liberty of uploading all the current ROMs onto RapidShare for our downloading pleasure. I've also updated the wiki with links to all the new locations so that when the files are removed from the XDA hosted FTP we'll still have a place to get a hold of the files. I believe this will be the easiest, quickest method as opposed to using Torrents. That way we don't need any extra software to download the files and no seeders will be needed, either. If the links to these files will ever be required to be removed from the wiki along with the FTP files, I still have the full list of download locations so we can move the info onto any page we would need in the future.
Thanks
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Dearest Trinity users,
I've taken the liberty of uploading all the current ROMs onto RapidShare for our downloading pleasure. I've also updated the wiki with links to all the new locations so that when the files are removed from the XDA hosted FTP we'll still have a place to get a hold of the files. I believe this will be the easiest, quickest method as opposed to using Torrents. That way we don't need any extra software to download the files and no seeders will be needed, either. If the links to these files will ever be required to be removed from the wiki along with the FTP files, I still have the full list of download locations so we can move the info onto any page we would need in the future.
Thanks
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Seems like a good idea
Good idea. And actually a great counterblow against the Microsoft's hostile plans to limit the availability of ROMs.
Maybe they will next to try close whole internet because there _MAY_BE_ some software available that hurts Microsoft's business..
jantsuh said:
Maybe they will next to try close whole internet because there _MAY_BE_ some software available that hurts Microsoft's business..
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But that would be perfectly reasonable. The thing is that no-one is hurting Microsoft's business making those ROMs available. Quite the opposite: this site and those unofficial ROMs have contributed to the success of Windows Mobile.
But to be honest in this case I think that Microsoft is acting to please the companies that license Windows Mobile (i.e. the network operators) more than themselves. The network operators don't like sites where you can learn how to unlock phones and replace their branded software and it's easy to understand why.
Great!!
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But that would be perfectly reasonable. The thing is that no-one is hurting Microsoft's business making those ROMs available. Quite the opposite: this site and those unofficial ROMs have contributed to the success of Windows Mobile.
But to be honest in this case I think that Microsoft is acting to please the companies that license Windows Mobile (i.e. the network operators) more than themselves. The network operators don't like sites where you can learn how to unlock phones and replace their branded software and it's easy to understand why.
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Very well thought out and well spoken.
But no worries, just means we have a couple more hoops to jump through.
Why not share them in a filesharing network (emule, torrent, etc)?
Then, it would be a real "community project" and it would be not so easy to bring them down...
All files should contain "xda-dev" so they could be easy to find.
Just my 2 cents
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Why not share them in a filesharing network (emule, torrent, etc)?
Then, it would be a real "community project" and it would be not so easy to bring them down...
All files should contain "xda-dev" so they could be easy to find.
Just my 2 cents
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Yep that's true also. I'm open for plenty of other options besides RapidShare. I'm thinking of RapidShare as more of a temporary solution while XDA is forced to start deleting all the ROMs from their FTP server.
Hello Fellow XDA Brothers....
I am a hardcore XDA Fan and I can see many users have started posting their download link to other forums.
This is re-directing all the traffic of Xda.... as slowly XDA fans would stop logging on here and go on these sites.
We should take some steps to avoid this....
Wanted your views...
Even for normal users its really irritating to click on the link register then download ? how many clicks are we adding for one download ?
sometimes it is required so that you can download peoples work that directly conflicts in xda's rules, but they can't say anything about it since it is just a link to another site if you get the download from that site, but if you were to grab it directly off of xda then it would go against one of the rules.
or the person doesn't want their work on xda because of the attitudes that a lot of the newer users have that they are entitled to every little thing, and that is the only way you can access their work.
Simple answer, it's because it requires so much bandwidth, which costs money. Each ROM is 30-90mb, and that's only for Android, WinMo coud be bigger, I don't know. The site is kinda slow as it is (I'm not complaining, just saying) so I highly doubt large uploads will be enabled any time soon (current limit is 8mb for zip).
Humm...
Hey thanks for sharing your thoughts....
I have never posted a ROM or Apps... was nt having idea of rules
Still I could see that files were uploaded on servers like mediafire, rapidshare etc..
But now each member posts on different forums... which i did not like frankly...
So many devs come here on XDA and thats the reason why so many things are happening....
United we stand divided we fall.....
XDA Owners should think on this so everyone stays here...
i remember when i used to have to google to find things for phones, and make all sorts of account for different sites, and then i found XDA and thats all i needed.
recently, for some reason- a good amount of stuff is turning into links to multiple other website- wouldn't it be easier if everything was hosted here again? so we could get expert help from the community and download files directly instead of logging into yet another site.
sorry if this seems like venting, but i just don't want to see XDA change
IIRC - XDA received a Cease and Desist order from Microsoft regarding hosting ROMs.
Vent away regardless - just aim it in the right direction.
-Daniel
dweidman said:
IIRC - XDA received a Cease and Desist order from Microsoft regarding hosting ROMs.
Vent away regardless - just aim it in the right direction.
-Daniel
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I was always under the impression that small cabs and what not were acceptable, but that ROMs should be hosted off-site due to their size and the load it place on XDA servers. Never really read that anywhere, just kinda made that assumption, as ROMs have always been off-site as far back as I can remember.
Anyway, that's besides the point. I don't think he means ROMs, but a lot of the cabs, tweaks, programs, etc that are being hosted more and more off-site. Personally, I hate logging into other sites just to download something, and agree that it would be nicer if more were hosted here. That said, I hate the slow servers and waiting forever for a page to load. Let that **** happen somewhere else, I say.
OP, I hear what you're saying. The more is hosted here, the worse the server loads will be, the slower pages will load, the more likely you'll end up at another site looking for the answer. Personally, I'm grateful to guys that put up their own site just to have files readily available (TPC did this for a minute, not sure if he got his site back up). Unfortunately, disk space and bandwidth isn't unlimited, nor is it free!
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IIRC - XDA received a Cease and Desist order from Microsoft regarding hosting ROMs.
Vent away regardless - just aim it in the right direction.
-Daniel
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when did this happen? i've not been on in a couple weeks, have to get caught back up on things.
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when did this happen? i've not been on in a couple weeks, have to get caught back up on things.
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That happened back in '07. You can find the original thread concerning that here, if you're interested.
sorry, i mispoke- i meant that ROMs used to be directly linked from here to free no username sites such as megaupload, rapidshare, and my favorite 4shared
nowayadays i have to log into other forums like htcpedia and go through their threads for links to uploads or download straight from that server- i love xda, and i don't want it to start filling up with links to other forums and eventually have to switch just to avoid all the hassle(i would never consider it by the way, this place rocks)
Hi, i want to provide a site (with enough of space and traffic to all developers around mobile devices. I dont like hotfile, rapidshare, multistaff.... etc. So i want to do something good i think for us all (as a developer i just start to learning so i want to help in this other way)
I need some advice about what soft i can use what will be best i was thinking about simple wordpress page with file upload plugin, maybe somebody know a specific soft i can use on it and will be better for developers?
I really think this area is already saturated and there are so many options out there now that it's not needed. Some just choose the wrong provider for the file. You would also experience huge bandwidth issues and probably incur a lot of overages. Many hosting companies ban sites that share files at that level because of so much bandwidth being used. You would need a dedicated server for this. Wordpress would not be a good idea just for security purposes, you would be better off writing your own PHP script to handle it or use one that already exist. just my 2 cents
I have a dedicated server and im able to carry one bandwidth and storage... But problem is with a software now im checking 3 paid scripts for software repository working like a download.com or simillar. But I will be happy if someone give me some suggestions or advices.
Thansks
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Cool idea. But since there its so many already what will you bring to the table?
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I see alot of developers uploading their roms to free sites like hotfile, megashare and depositfiles. The problem is that these sites wont give users a pleasent download if the user is not a premium member.
Therefor; I would like to offer free webhosting for rom developers. I am planning that it should be ad free and with direct links. But i need your help.
I would like to host a system, so that I can create users on my site, so they can login, upload files and retrieve download links. note that many developers would like to have statistics on their downloads, so that should be possible too.
I dont know what system I should use, also, it's not that hard to make one from scratch, I just dont have the time.
I can provide mysql databases too if necessary.
Also, lets vote for a domain name :highfive:
I think there are already some platforms where you can upload and share your roms.
e.g. http://goo.im/ or google project hosting...
Also you did not mention what you would like to call your hosting service
rom-service.com
rom-service.org
rom-download.org
or something like that
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I think there are already some platforms where you can upload and share your roms.
e.g. http://goo.im/ or google project hosting...
Also you did not mention what you would like to call your hosting service
rom-service.com
rom-service.org
rom-download.org
or something like that
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Actually it's not just for roms, devs can upload whatever they like.
I have 750gb storage and 750gb bandwith. I am not even using 10gb ea. It's a shame to not put it in good use.