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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RainMotorsports:
Before I start sfhub's mirror is in no danger of going anywhere and I am pretty sure after the ICS OTA drops traffic will return to normal. But just in case I want to sample the community.

These questions go mainly to those that benefit from the speed (ie people with high speed internet 30 to 135 Mbps):

1 - Would you donate to keep something like sfhub's second mirror available, increase capacity?

2 - Would anyone want to donate to add your favorite developer, etc to the server (this is kind of broad, not sure it would be doable).

3 - Would these minor donations effect your donating to the developers you already support? (I would not really want this).

Sites like Dev Host which supports XDA greatly at this point and other sites have their place. These types of sites use a network spanning countries, the globe and deliver content on a massive scale. But under load the wait to get your firmware and be on with your day can be massive. But even under some of the faster slow speeds its pretty livable. I mean who doesn't have a few minutes? But in the small scope I cover people can grab full tars in a matter of seconds to a minute if they have a fast enough internet connection. My current limit is in how much data we can move not how fast we can move it.

I am not here to get into business with this. I pay for the server out of my own pocket and am happy to do so at the level I am now. But traffic is UP while the server and the carrier line have the capacity, the funding for additional transfer is not there. 1 Gbps this cheap just does not come unmetered that I know of.

I am looking at having to drop BriefMobile or get their beneficiaries to donate just to cover their end of this. BriefMobile knew what they were getting into when I brought them on and thats a matter not really applying to this.

Sfhub's users are currently at double the previous peaks and the average usage is now right at the limit to keep usage in check. I think once the OTA drops and everyones switched over traffic will probably dive even with more and more people using my mirror.

How much?

Were talking a dollar here and there from a few people every month. Seriously 20 bucks a month would handle the additional usage we encounter now (per client) or add another person on.

The current usage graph for the moment is below as well as a look at overall usage so far. The first graph is on a 30 second sample of average traffic. Well below the 1 Gbps mark on a 30 second average but this amount of traffic eats up GB quick adds up to a couple Terabytes in no time:

This is an idea of the usage over time. We went up a little on FD24/26 and then realy started rocketing up:

Each "pixel column" is an average over 2 hours time so the numbers of course are small.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jamesey:
Is there a reason the community doesn't use torrents? I'm sure we'd have plenty of seeders.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RainMotorsports:
No clue, I personally dont use them for anything I dont have to. Last time someone posted a torrent of something it took forever to download. Once I had it on the server I of course on my slow 25 Mbps home internet could grab it in just over a minute. I mean to serve up a torrent from people with say 5 Mbps up which is average for many high for some low for others. It would take 5 seeders raping their own connection for me to max out my home internet. 20 to match some of the people I see downloading from my server.

Do you usually max out your download speed from torrents of small ticket stuff like we download here? I mean when you only have 1000 people interested in downloading total versus 1 million for something else its hard to have many seeders. I game on this connection I would never seed a damn thing and let my Latency get screwed.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tkemack:
I don't have a problem donating for this at all. Downloading from a direct link (and quickly) , not having to click through 5 pages only to get a timer then a snail's pace DL is a godsend.

I'll donate if you and sfhub follow me phone to phone ;)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RainMotorsports:
I actually wonder day to day, which phone is he going to next lol. Without donations in 2013 I am likely not to be here as a host for 2013. If all goes well in my life I will need to cut spending for a little while.

But I do want to continue to support him if he went to another phone, and if that happens to be a phone I like well, you know.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sfhub:
In case it helps your capacity planning, I will probably be out and unavailable for a while starting next month so won't be around here that much.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RainMotorsports:
Yeah either way I assume the traffic would still drop with you here its just a matter of the OTA dropping, everyone eating it up and the leaks slowing to a crawl. Traffic would be mostly EL29, The Final ICS and maybe an occasional leak. But its getting thick and I figured it was time to get an idea if there was any support. I support you first and the capacity is there I just need to make plans for reducing elsewhere if I have to.

You are always on the go!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jamesey:
I see your point. No doubt it would be slower, but if 5% of the 1,000 users seeded the swarm speed wouldn't be that terrible having 50 seeds and constant leechers popping in and contributing to the swarm.

Come to think about it.... These threads would be blasted with torrent questions, so forget it!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RainMotorsports:
There are people who use them and I am sure if a developer wanted to start a torrent for their work they would so no harm in talking about it. Something like the El29 one click would build up enough seeders but each leak would be dismal on the first day.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sfhub:
I think Oscar created torrents and seeded the earlier releases.

If you like to create a torrent and seed, send me the link and I will add it.

EL29 already has a torrent, though I haven't check on the health recently.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jamesey:
The problem is it would only work if it was the only source. Otherwise, there would definitely be a shortage of seeders.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jamesey:
Yeah, would definitely be a bummer in the beginning!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RainMotorsports:
Well... and unless... and correct me if I am wrong. For those of you that like torrents for no particular reason Lp

What if my server was a seeder? What do I need to do to create a torrent file? Ive only sourced downloads never started one. Not saying I will because it means I have to get hands on every leak which is something we are moving away from.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jamesey:
Ahh that's an idea...if you were one of the seeders it would download fast. Maybe if you seeded day 1 of release and saved bandwidth by letting the rest download off the other seeds for the rest of that build.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jamesey:
I never started one either. I can't imagine it being that difficult.

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091002025719AACQKGV
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RainMotorsports:
Yeah what I would have to do is throttle torrent traffic to the point where it would benefit from multiple sources and overall this would lessen traffic for those who would rather torrent it. Though if I was on 50 Mbps to 100 Mbps fiber I would never torrent something I could download in 1 minute from a direct link!

I am shopping some data centers at the moment. Everything for the price I am about to be paying if I increase transfer does NOT have a 1 Gbps connection and thats just a deal breaker.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] MeWarning:
Whatever you did I would help donate and it wouldn't affect me donating to the developers.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cnstarz:
a more practical solution than torrenting is to find some sort of php/sql script that will provide syncing/replication between a network of websites running said script. ampache (a popular php music/audio file manager and player) can replicate entire databases between multiple websites running the software so that each site mirrors eachother. you can set it run once a day, a few times/day/hour/etc etc. if we could find something like this for just regular files, and would also provide load-balancing between the sites then that would be perfect. i have unlimited webhosting to offer myself.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RainMotorsports:
Well it just points to why I don't need to get involved with torrenting. For me to run multiple servers just means plain increased cost. I would be getting into business just like every file sharing site out there. Speed is not really an issue.

The current setup has no issue with delivering content to 90% of the users at up to 100 Mbps. I have actually only heard a single person complain but I have to assume there are bad connections to Chicago out there. At this point I can deliver 4 times what were pushing per second right now, the problem is the line is not unmetered

Unlike someone setup on a 100 Mbps uplink which can only delivery up to 12.5 MB/s simultaneously being on 1 Gbps uplink in theory you can deliver up to 125 MB/s simultaneously spread across various parts of the US. Since 80% of the people downloading have connections only 10 to 40 Mbps and only a few hitting 50, 75, rarely 100 Mbps for a single actual user not combined throughput I have never even touched 200 Mbps uplink outside of my personal use of the server.

The problem is a metered line comes with a particular amount of transfer and additional is additional cost. I would rather have a slower unmetered mirror ahead of mine, like mavd's and then have a faster secondary mirror helping those few who can benefit from it. Its my personal web server so changing to something else has to be for my benifit as well. All I do on top of that is increase the capacity needed for the contributors.

Trust me if I ever even tap 1/4 of the potential of my uplink on a regular basis id be in serious trouble :p We would be talking TB per day rather than how many hundred GB.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cnstarz:
no no, you misunderstand. the script syncs between different webhosts/sites running the script. you and i could install the script on our servers and the two servers will communicate and sync across the interwebs magically.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RainMotorsports:
Already in place, not currently activated because it is still in development. Pretty soon I won't have to be awake for releases. But that only benefits me and sfhub. But as you said load balancing. Normally running a file sharing solution though we also implement load based server selection. But there is no way in hell I am putting my name on a shared host or a slow connection. The other servers are also not mine and I have no involvement with those hosts at this point.

When you connect to me you should expect the same experience you had last time. The type of load balancing that I would need is to send an indiscriminate amount of people to the slower unmetered server. While only allowing a smaller percentage to use mine. I find it crazy to send a random user that might have 100 Mbps fiber over to the slow mirror to download at 500 KB/s and then randomly send a person downloading with a cell phone to mine to download at the same speed when the first user knowing his connection allows a faster download can go straight to me.

The problem is I can only serve so many downloads per month (because of cost) as opposed to how many per minute (because of speed). When peoples connection downloading from my server is less than their ISP is giving, its not because my server is loaded (99% of the time). If I need to load balance because of speed I would use 2 identical servers either spread out or in the same data center. The only beneficial load balancing for our problem is telling people no download from here instead. We are not going to do that.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RainMotorsports:
I spent the day server shopping. There are no reputable providers that can provide me with the hardware I have, the connection I demand and the transfer we need for the same price or less than I am paying now. I can never see myself downgrading to to 100 Mbps to go unmetered and currently don't wish to see an increase in expenses.

The usage for this month is going to be fine as I bumped it up and we will just have to see how next month plays out. I have gone ahead and added my paypal donation, though I was going to hold off a bit longer. ANY and all donations go to help pay for the server which I pay out of pocket for willingly. This is primarily for supporting sfhub, feel free to put a note on it to be sure. If you want a free way to help us out, if your on a slow connection use Mirror 1, seriously if you don't need the speed it helps us!

Mad props to mavd5831 for supporting sfhub with his unmetered mirror!

Hopefully I can get some development done in the next couple of days. Get some nice clean error pages up that will help the users and myself understand and or fix an issue which should not exist. Anyways I am going to go pass out.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cnstarz:
if your problem is hitting a monthly bandwidth limit which you mentioned, then i fail to see how load balancing won't help if it's directing to users to other hosts, thus reducing the amount of monthly traffic to your servers.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kc_exactly:
Rainmotorsports, can you be specific about the cost and what service it would provide? And who would benefit? Is this just for the Epic Touch? Is ACS or SDX involved? Who would be able to use it? What kind of speeds? Is this for sprint devices only? Will there be a tiered sponsorship level? Free mug and tote bag?

I think if you answer those question and tell people what they will get for the money they would be very happy to chip in.

I wouldn't mind donating. It is what I do.

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It would be nice if XDA had a high speed server for the whole community, even if it was subscription based. That would be a massive undertaking though.

I do appreciate the service you provide to the community. When I downloaded FE10 I was definitely pleased with the speed. Faster is always better though. I got about 1-2 Meg a second last time.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tkemack:
Now the nitty gritty, if you don't mind. How much does this thing cost per month all inclusive at its current state? I'm just curious more than anything.

I will gladly take chip in to keep things running for my community
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RainMotorsports:
I want to add a couple things to that as well as reiterate some past things. But the original server info thread is in my sig but it needs an update and you tapatalk guys can't see it.

I would always rather you donate to any developer that has helped you than to help me help the people I host for.

I offered sfhub a particular portion and I will always honor that much myself. But usage is high atm. QBking77s usage is low. BriefMobile is here at their request and thats played by ear. If I can't support them and there is no funding from or for them then I have to drop them.

Initially and after more funding was available I contacted a couple of popular developers and was met with zero response. I no longer have the desire to spend any more than I am now.

I've stated before I have no plans to get into business. DevHost now directly supports XDA and is setup to do massive content delivery. There is no reason not to use them. ReactiveDisorder uses 4shared which requires signing up to DL but the speed seemed good. Beyond freemium file sharing you can look into cheap "Unlimited" shared web hosting. But too much traffic will get you cut off.

All I have to offer is a slice off what I already pay for. No ads no BS just speed for the ones who can enjoy it. I can do more at cost if there was interest.* I mean I could always switch out to a couple dedicated servers on unmetered 100Mbps and watch users at peak times crawl into the KBs range never worrying about transfer again. I am always in a hurry.* I say go fast or go home.

The sole purpose of this thread was to gauge and discuss possible interest. I just want to be clear that sfhub has asked for nothing and expects nothing. But the increasing trend had me wanting to explore options
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RainMotorsports:
Ill get back to you when i get home took forever to write what i just posted im heading home now.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RainMotorsports:
Oh wow my butthole hurts LMAO. I just checked the bandwidth graph. I think someone failed to warn me about a release or something. (edit) Yup, i727 4.0.4 leak...

That graph is exactly why I despise the thought of even 2 100 Mbps lines balance across 2 servers. Thats averaged over 30 second samples meaning the instantaneous loads at times were higher:
[HTC Wildfire S] rejectedsup:
So i have been thinking about this for quite some time. XDA should make separate dev areas on the forum for gms and cdma phone types. I think it help sort out things and make it easier for people to find what they might be looking for.

If you agree let me know and why, maybe we can make a change.
[HTC Wildfire S] MrTaco505:
I kinda agree because there are a lot of things that are for marvel and marvelc which mixes things up
[HTC Wildfire S] jimmysmart83:
i agreed.:D
[HTC Wildfire S] bingzz:
I think that's a bit much but maybe people can add [GSM] or [CDMA] tag?
[HTC Wildfire S] MrTaco505:
Yea, go look at the EVO 3D forum
[LG Optimus 2x] cloud4822:
Known important bugs:

video player not working (video codec missing), use MX Player or other from Market

Is the camera video recording in hd mode still available?

- MobileData not working

Meant that i cannot access to internet via "enable data access over mobile network?

Only thing i can use is WIFI to access internet.

Are the above bugs refer to ICS ROM instead of GB ROM? Anybody can correct me?

Thanks
[LG Optimus 2x] djjkfno:
Yes, it's ICS. All of the above work perfectly in the GB version of MIUI.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] Gary122:
Hi i recently downloaded the black notes gen 2 rom. I combined the two zip files using 7zip. I transfered the zip file into my phones internal memory. i then used CWM recovery to clear cache and factory reset. However, when i try to install the zip file, it just says installation abotted can someone help me?
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] sgilmans:
Hi Bro... read the instruction again , is not flash through CWM but restore from CWM , extract the 2 files into 1 folder , copy it into your MMC , boot into CWM , chose backup & restore>> restore from external sd .... chose the file that you copy and restore , remember to do all the wipe / reset ( read carefully the instruction ) before restore . hope this help . :D
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] Gary122:
Thanks a lot for the reply! Im gonna try as soon as i get home!
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] PangkuShllzd:
just restore with cwm brother
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] jiunks:
So how the result bro? Have you install 2nd gen?

Sent from my Wonder...
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] Gary122:
So i have to extract the zip files and transfer in my phone?? I cant find any backups in my phone
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] sgilmans:
extract the 2 zip files into 1 folder, folder name should be clockworkmod , copy the clockworkmod file into your external sd, boot into CWM and select backup & restore >>> restore from external sd and you should see a file >> 20120422... something like that... select it >>> restore and wait until it done and reboot. Dont forget to wipe wipe wipe before restore..
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] Gary122:
It worked! Thanks!
[Epic 4G Android Development] ÜBER™:
Kudos to you :D.
[Epic 4G Android Development] thadialeckt:
how do i flash my epic to cricket. my epic is not on cricket
[Epic 4G Android Development] cornaljoe:
I flashed mines using the guide at cricketusers. I don't know the rules for posting links to other forums so just google it.
[Epic 4G Android Development] thadialeckt:
For some reason I can't send mms

Any Ideas
[Epic 4G Android Development] cornaljoe:
What plan are you on?
[Epic 4G Android Development] thadialeckt:
55 android, im going to try applying the mms fix and see what that does.....what modem and prl are you using?
[Epic 4G Android Development] cornaljoe:
I'm on the $45 plan with FC09 modem and using the hybrid 49016Cricket/60683Sprint PRL. I believe if you are on the $55 Android plan the proxy info isn't needed in the APN. Just delete this like show below and you should be good to go.

Name: Cricket

APN: Cricket

Proxy: not set

Port: not set

Username: XXXXXXX@mycricket.com

Password: cricket

Server: wap.mycricket.com

MMSC: http://mms.mycricket.com/servlets/mms

MMS Proxy: not set

MMS Port: 8080

MCC: 310

MNC: 016

Authentication Type: PAP or CHAP

APN type: default,mms

I can't test this so let me know if it works. If so I'll add it to the apns-config.
[Epic 4G Android Development] thadialeckt:
didnt work
[Epic 4G Android Development] cornaljoe:
Did you try using the MMS Fix.zip after you changed the APN.
[Epic 4G Android Development] classic7876:
can this be flashed over the old cricket mms cm9
[Epic 4G Android Development] cornaljoe:
Yeah just follow the directions on the CM9 blog. Its just CM9 Beta3 with some modified files.
[Epic 4G Android Development] classic7876:
it worked thanks
[Epic 4G Android Development] cornaljoe:
Good to hear! Anyone on the $55 plan get MMS working?
[Epic 4G Android Development] thadialeckt:
I got it to receive. But can't send
[Epic 4G Android Development] classic7876:
i did also im gonna try the mms fix on miui too
[Epic 4G Android Development] cornaljoe:
OK looks like we're almost there. Try switching the server address to the MMS proxy in the APN like shown below.

Name: Cricket

APN: Cricket

Proxy: not set

Port: not set

Username: XXXXXXX@mycricket.com

Password: cricket

Server: not set

MMSC: http://mms.mycricket.com/servlets/mms

MMS Proxy: wap.mycricket.com

MMS Port: 8080

MCC: 310

MNC: 016

Authentication Type: PAP or CHAP

APN type: default,mms

If that doesn't work set the MMS proxy to not set also. Remember to reboot and test the APN changes then if MMS still doesn't work flash the MMS Fix and try to send an MMS again. Do this each time you change the APN.

Once the correct settings for the $55 plan are found I will add it to the apns-config as an option.
[Epic 4G Android Development] army_one17:
mms sending and incoming working on 55 android plan

I opened the cricket apn in voice dialer and i checked the point for set and use the apn because if u check it after that u edit it the apn revert to the same info like stock.

I removed the proxy and port info, edit my number and remove the mms proxy info also, the rest i leave the same.

then i flashed in recovery the cricket mms fix,zip attached and now i have mms working pretty fine.

Im in 55 android plan.

Thanks and appreciate to everybody for the contribution to have a fully cricket samsung epic.
[Epic 4G Android Development] cornaljoe:
So the settings are as follows?

Name: Cricket

APN: Cricket

Proxy: not set

Port: not set

Username: XXXXXXX@mycricket.com

Password: cricket

Server: not set

MMSC: http://mms.mycricket.com/servlets/mms

MMS Proxy: not set

MMS Port: 8080

MCC: 310

MNC: 016

Authentication Type: PAP or CHAP

APN type: default,mms
[Epic 4G Android Development] wtogami:
Rather than an entirely different ROM, would you like to collaborate in order to make Cricket work automatically on CM9?
[Epic 4G Android Development] bthorne79:
The apn.conf I had to zip it would not let me load the file straight up as is

I know some people who love there gb for how stable it is me I love the cm10 and wife love cm9.1 which works great with the v6 fix thanks for all of your work
[Epic 4G Android Development] cornaljoe:
It wasn't as difficult as I thought. Currently done and testing it now. I'll upload it as soon as I'm done testing it.
[Epic 4G Android Development] bthorne79:
Sweet so this might work with MIUI ginger and a few others than.....
[Epic 4G Android Development] cornaljoe:
Yes, and it's working great so far. This opened up alot of possiblities for ROM choices on Cricket. The MIUI GB variates are pretty amazing. Getting sidetracked trying out new ROMs :p. I should have this up by tommorrow night.