Hi folks. As many of the ROMs and related files linked from various mod tutorials in this forum used to be hosted on goo.im, and the service is now shut down, is there any way the OPs of the various mod threads could please update us as to any new hosting locations? None of the linked files on goo.im are reachable anymore.
Unfortunately, as of this time, the main portions of goo.im have been disabled. Due to a finance issue, our CDN account has been suspended, and all files stored on it are effectively non-accessible. Due to some RL issues on my(Alexander)'s part, once goo started actively losing money 6 months ago, I had changed jobs a bit to help support goo. Unfortunately, this wasn't enough combined with some other issues that crept up on me. Due to this, I'm formally shutting down Goo. There is an offer in to take over the files and hosting from a generous sponsor, however, until the financial issues are sorted out, they are unable to adsorb Goo. It's been my pleasure to serve files for you all for the past couple of years, and I wish everyone good luck into the future.
-- Snipa/Alexander Blair
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EDIT: sorry mods, I missed the 'no questions' topic and I don't know how to move this to the Q&A forum.
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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
prsnow said:
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
ReflexNPG said:
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.
Well I'm trying to set this Mediawiki site up as a sort of android compliment to XDA-Devs (encouraging people to port android to different devices)
I haven't exactly started it as various family issues arose, I did, however provide a direct link in my signature as being a wiki, anyone could add to it. In theory, the website could take off without me (of course I don't plan on that)...
I came back just a few days later and BAM! Spam...
Multiple Ip's (in the process of blocking) and just random links to various sites which in all honesty are not the sort of things I expect spambots to link to...
Considering this is my first time really managing a website (Another XDA friend hosts it), then would anybody consider helping me out? Advising me of addons or other measures I can employ to stop things like this from happening again?
The link is in my signature www.androidevolution.com also points there.
Thanks in advance.
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!
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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when did this happen? i've not been on in a couple weeks, have to get caught back up on things.
msd24200 said:
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)
I assume the primary initiators of this rom have had this discussion but one thing I'd like to see is "this is the place where we talk about things."
Taking cues from other major rom projects you'll get a decent user base in using several forums or social services and some places get overwhelming or spread to thin.
Examples: a rom site having their own forum which doesn't get laid out properly and never gets used anyways. then an xda subforum along with a device-specific thread in each device's subforum. Then an omnirom wiki, an xda wiki, an irc channel, Google+/Twitter/Facebook trifecta, androidcentral,rootzwiki and a few others, jira, gerritt, mailing list, hangout...
You get the idea.
Social media sites aren't going away- personally Twitter and Facebook for a rom seem frivolous.
Mailing lists and irc are antiquated unless developers want a quiet place to talk. The many forum thing just seems onerous and duplicated. I dunno. I like a wiki, this subforum but broken down as necessary, jira, gerritt, and whoever wants to tackle the social trifecta can do that.
Basically, you can see what things I'm saying could get dropped or consolidated. I think this rom has that in mind and I could see it growing fastest knowing where to go.
And, personally, after using Arch Linux, their wiki is freakin' impressive. I've rarely had to turn anywhere else.
If omnirom broke the mold and had an awesome wiki that developers and active users maintained for device specific statuses, feature descriptions and statuses, etc. it would eliminate clutter.
Just my thoughts but it needs support. I guess you'd have to use Arch Linux to even know how impressive it is. Cyanogenmod did a pretty good job starting their wiki but it sort of slowed down. I think their wiki actually helped them get to being the most popular rom because of the wiki because of how much it offered for the new tinkerer.
So ultimately you are suggesting a solid wiki. Great. Help us do so by contributing to docs.omnirom.org
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As a general Linux user the Arch wiki is still incredibly useful. I agree that wiki format is probably the best for conveying information about a ROM, the hard part is just getting people to keep it up to date and accurate. It'll be good if for instance each device had a wiki page that is kept up to date with known issues and workarounds. I feel though that the forum/discussion needs to be integrated with the wiki somehow for maximum effectiveness, because otherwise you often get a situation here on xda where a thread OP is filled with all sorts of useful, even up to date information, and yet people ignore it and ask questions that are covered there. So it's partly a social problem and partly a UI problem IMO. Anyway, just my random additional thoughts, agreed on the importance of a good wiki.
Well, I've taken it to heart and looking at the wiki more. Right now Last night I walked through the build instructions for the n4 but fell asleep during the repo sync. I've always wondered why projects have you download every old sdk. I guess it's in case you can't get them from Google? Seems unnecessary. I guess I can find out how to omit them from syncing. Those types of tips are interesting to me. I'm sure some things with development wouldn't seem quite as overwhelming if a repo was tiny.
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Well, I've taken it to heart and looking at the wiki more. Right now Last night I walked through the build instructions for the n4 but fell asleep during the repo sync. I've always wondered why projects have you download every old sdk. I guess it's in case you can't get them from Google? Seems unnecessary. I guess I can find out how to omit them from syncing. Those types of tips are interesting to me. I'm sure some things with development wouldn't seem quite as overwhelming if a repo was tiny.
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There is a flag for repo to only download the current branch. Might be worth using
jawz101 said:
I assume the primary initiators of this rom have had this discussion but one thing I'd like to see is "this is the place where we talk about things."
Taking cues from other major rom projects you'll get a decent user base in using several forums or social services and some places get overwhelming or spread to thin.
Examples: a rom site having their own forum which doesn't get laid out properly and never gets used anyways. then an xda subforum along with a device-specific thread in each device's subforum. Then an omnirom wiki, an xda wiki, an irc channel, Google+/Twitter/Facebook trifecta, androidcentral,rootzwiki and a few others, jira, gerritt, mailing list, hangout...
You get the idea.
Social media sites aren't going away- personally Twitter and Facebook for a rom seem frivolous.
Mailing lists and irc are antiquated unless developers want a quiet place to talk. The many forum thing just seems onerous and duplicated. I dunno. I like a wiki, this subforum but broken down as necessary, jira, gerritt, and whoever wants to tackle the social trifecta can do that.
Basically, you can see what things I'm saying could get dropped or consolidated. I think this rom has that in mind and I could see it growing fastest knowing where to go.
And, personally, after using Arch Linux, their wiki is freakin' impressive. I've rarely had to turn anywhere else.
If omnirom broke the mold and had an awesome wiki that developers and active users maintained for device specific statuses, feature descriptions and statuses, etc. it would eliminate clutter.
Just my thoughts but it needs support. I guess you'd have to use Arch Linux to even know how impressive it is. Cyanogenmod did a pretty good job starting their wiki but it sort of slowed down. I think their wiki actually helped them get to being the most popular rom because of the wiki because of how much it offered for the new tinkerer.
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It is always an interesting questions of user dynamics, as to where people go.
I, for one, refuse to really use any of the social networks for this myself, as they're really not cut out for the task. They're also generally closed platforms that want to erode your right to privacy, and simply use you as a money making tool.
Aside from that though, social networks aren't ideal for hierarchical organisation. Right now there are a few things to consider.
There must be a code review platform for reviewing and approving code submissions. This will be separate from the others and most likely be gerrit. You can't replace that with a wiki or anything else.
You also need a proper bug tracking and project management area. That's jira. As omni is about having an open direction, it's important we can have road maps visible for comment and discussion and improvement. It is also important to ensure that the bug reporting and project management area has enough functionality long term. The only feasible way to do that is with dedicated software.
In terms of irc, it is most definitely not antiquated in the open source development community. If anything it is highly active, and often better than the modern alternatives, as it is an open standard allowing you to use any client software you please. It is also pleasantly simple and allows for real time group collaboration.
The big plan for omni is proper documentation though. That's where the wiki comes in. Not just of user information, but of developer information to help new developers.
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I have been spending most of the evening trying to install TWRP on a G7102 phone. There is a lot of information available here on this site, but my biggest problem is with getting the files. As an example there is one listed as TWRP_2860.zip and the only links I can find go to a commercial website d-h.st/Rflr where I have spent over two hours not being able to get past the barrage of adverts, captchas and so on. Even changing my ip address and removing cookies doesn't help. This is a huge time waste and I would humbly suggest that such links should only be used if there is another way to get the file. Google drive is often used and there are files hosted here I believe.
Also having an md5 sum here would help as the files from other sites don't agree with the one I was trying. No idea which one is wrong.
These aren't even big files.
If developers are trying to get money this way then I would happily click on a few of their advert links, but this pit of commercial interests isn't helping with the site experience or the concentration needed for the work.
End of rant.
David
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