As promised here we go
Transmission is ready to hit the road.
I was trying to make a deb for the repos, but it gives me errors about not having a file that was used a view seconds before
Will have a look @ this later this week.
Here some random pics of the way better looking build :
And here comes the installer script.
This script also removes the junk from my previous work,and then installs Transmission 2.04.
2. Unzip it, and put the files (install.sh & qtrans2.04 folder) in the same folder on your N900 via usb,or use FileBox to do it direct on the N900.
I've used the download folder in MyDocs. You can create even a new folder if you like to.
3. Open Terminal and type root
!!! root can harm your N900, even brick it, if you do something wrong !!!
4. Change to the directory where you put the two files. cd /path/to/files/...
(cd /home/user/Mydocs/download, in my case)
5. Type sh install.sh and wait for the script to be done.
6. Close Terminal
If you dislike something, or find a bug, keep it coming
just wanted to let u kno tht the link to installer doesnt work anymore
I appreciate your enthusiam and devotion but it seems to me like a waste of time!
I dont think its a waste of time at all.
Ive successfully downloaded 2 to 3 files at once of about 350MB in size each.
Yes, it does make the phone less responsive but I only do this over night when not using the phone for anything else.
Reading around it seemed a memory card may be the way to get around these IO issues and N900 becoming unresponsive when downloading.
Happy to report this is true!
Bought an 8gb transcend micro sdhc, stuck it in, formatted using file manager, changed setting in transmission (2.04) to download to sd card and voila, now no issues at all and performance is as good as uTorrent on PC!!!
Now to learn how to configure the card properly and get Nitroid installed...
Top kudos Qwerty12, OptX and Epitaph for work done and helpful comments. Torrents was one of the few things I had to do on a laptop until now
MicroSD is formatted as FAT32.
It is an 8gb Transcend micro sdhc class 6 bought through Amazon.co.uk.
Formatted it through N900 builtin File Manager.
Guess I have a 4GB file size limit.
I've seen ext2/ext3 file systems mentioned, I guess these would have a higher file size limit but how would performance be compared to FAT32? I would like to be able to run Nitroid and Meego off the SD card also. Any pointers to best way to configure card would be very helpful.
I have been downloading 700MB - 1.3GB legal torrents
I have only downloaded 1 at a time at the moment.
Will test multi downloads over the weekend.
General navigation and web browsing is slightly slowed when downloads are at high download speeds, but no more than your PC is when running uTorrent. Am also able to open Transmission preferences now while downloads are running, couldn't do this without SD card.
I have 20MB Virgin Broadband.
Saw DL speeds of 800 Kb/s or KB/s (whatever the default shown is in Transmission).
Need to tweak Transmission settings now to get up to the 1.5Mb/s or 1.5MB/s DL speeds I can get on laptop with uTorrent.
I will also try QTRapids again now I have the card to see if that also no longer locks everything up.
Only real issue I have with Transmission now is adding files.
Can't get Transmission set as the default handler for torrent files.
I set it up with DBus Switchboard, but when I click a torrent file it says "Launching Transmission" then just stops and doesn't open anything.
And adding files through Transmission is not very user friendly.
Very happy otherwise
TMO rocks, one of the most helpful websites I have ever used!!
Keep up the good work all.
wow this new build sounds pretty problematic. much worse than the 1.76 i have installed for a year now. it is a resource hog but it does work for the most part
