N900 Torrent App?
 

Anyone know of a good torrent app yet? ive heard of transmission but its only in beta and has trouble multitasking when downloading something? thanks in advance

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i think it is the only torrent app around right now correct me if i'm wrong :)

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There is Transmissions in the Maemo Extra Test App repo.
CAUTION: Using this repo at your own risk as the beta apps can make your phone un-stable.

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any improvement to this torrent app? is there another that doesnt eat as much ram?

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all torrent clients are resource hungry if they're downloading large amounts. you could try throttling the bandwidth and see if it helps. but i find it easiest to save the .torrent file to memory and then add them when i'm not using the phone, or leave it charging overnight and download.

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I think the biggest problem with Transmission on the N900 from what I've read is the number of connections it tries to make overwhelms the N900. Try reducing that if you have Transmission issues.

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if you install easy debian you can install via synaptic many torrent apps like azureus

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rry qtrapids...

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I repartition /home to 16 GB for storing > 4GB file and use rtorrent.

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transmission ;) is the best!!!

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yes transmission. i use it everyday, music, films etc. it does hog the phone and its pretty much unuseable untill its finished downloading but for large files i just leave it working while im asleep. but for the odd song here and there its great. like the other day on the bus i wanted to listen to a song, realised i didnt have it so downloaded it in less than 30 seconds. the latest version that got released had a ton of settings added to it so u can mess with bandwidth etc and still have control of the phone. wicked app.

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Hello,

I modified Ctorrent for N900.
I believe, my version has no multi-tasking problem because I am using special logging technique to translate random writes to sequential writes.

Check here: https://wiki.cc.gatech.edu/epl/index.php/FlashLite

Both sources and binaries are available.

I hope the same technique can be applied for Transmission also.

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Did try this however regardless of the file perms I got


-sh: ctorrent: Permission denied


Ideas?

Ok Scratch that. Got round this issue. Now problems with the tracker. Out of date client.

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Moved to Applications.

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What about Qtrapids? Anyone tried that yet??

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I did, it works great, but the UI is a lot better in Transmission.

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Dear Friends ,

I am now N900 subscriber .When i try to execute the command "apt-get install wget " in X terminal ... i am getting the below error

E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 permission denied )

E: Unable to lock the adminstration directory ( /var/lib/dpkg/ ) , are you root ?

and then prompt is coming . So please help me out to install the Enhanced Ctorrent in my N900 .

Thanks in advance

Vish

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You need to be root first.

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Thanks a lot for your quick response my dear friend . I got the below response for the command sudo gainroot

Enable RD mode if you want to break your device ..

So please do let me know how to enable RD mode ??

Thanks in advanace

Re: N900 Torrent App?
 

You need to download and install rootsh package from Extras.

Once it is installed tyou can type the above command to become root.

Thanks,

RR

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Dear Bala ,

Thanks a ton . i downloaded rootsh and then now i am able to execute the given steps .

Cheers
Vish

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Bit off topic, but I dont download torrent from my n900 (doesnt make sense) If you run linux with Gnome at home, there is setting for the Transmission client to enable web interface.

It looked like this:
http://bit.ly/hqEgfc

Enable authentication, serve it up via NAT. Now you can access it via your N900. If you have a dynamic DNS setup , it's even better.

If you set this on Bookmark, as long as you find a torrent URL that you want to download, you can load Web Transmission via bookmark, add the URL and control the download from n900 browser.

I know this deviate away from the original topic, but I though its worth sharing my setup since its a wee bit related.

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transmition sucks it crushed twice on my phone can anyone update it to be faster cuz its so slow and doesnt work well with multitasking,and is there any other torrent program or not?