[How-To] Get the OTA download location and share it

Jerry Hildenbrand · 08-28-2010, 01:01 PM

Install aLogcat:

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When/if you see the notification that you have an update available -- stop everything and run the aLogcat app.
Send the log file to yourself via email (that's built into the app)
Look through the log file on your computer, searching for a URL
Try any URL's that you find on your computer's browser
When you find one that downloads a zip file, save the zip file to your computer
Shout from the rooftops, and share that URL
Then upload and mirror it somewhere
Email me: jerry.hildenbrand@androidcentral.com , and we will get you on the front page

I'm getting tired of looking all over the intertubes for someone who has the URL, and I don't even have a Dinc

As long as you have installed aLogcat, if you get the notification that an update is available and you're confused, holler in the forums for help!

Whatever you do, don't post up the log file you get from aLogcat on the forums -- it's got personal info in it that you don't want to share with the general public! Any AC mods or writers can help you, and I will personally vouch for each of them if you need to send your log file to someone and have nobody else you trust.

Revolutionary · 08-28-2010, 01:27 PM

Thanks for posting this, gbhill!

The more people who know how to do this, the faster we'll get this community upgraded (and the less I'll have to wait!)

Jerry Hildenbrand · 08-28-2010, 01:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Revolutionary

Thanks for posting this, gbhill!

The more people who know how to do this, the faster we'll get this community upgraded (and the less I'll have to wait!)

I promise ALL of us here at AC are just as impatient as you guys waiting for the OTA, and the staff members that use Dinc's are probably about to explode lol.

You guys have went through enough while waiting for Dinc's to get back in stock, watching other phones get their Froyo on, and feeling like nobody cares about the Dinc. It's about time one of the best smartphones in the world gets the spotlight back

netw0rks · 08-28-2010, 02:35 PM

This is awesome.. Right before i fell to sleep last night i was thinking i could run wireshark and sniff out the download location from there. This is probably alot easier to use.

There is a supposed leaked RUU of the OTA but frankly i don't trust its official. I'd rarther wait until someone sniffs out the official download location.

Shiodooru · 08-28-2010, 02:43 PM

You can also do this through adb

adb logcat > filename.txt

Revolutionary · 08-28-2010, 02:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by netw0rks

This is awesome.. Right before i fell to sleep last night i was thinking i could run wireshark and sniff out the download location from there. This is probably alot easier to use.

There is a supposed leaked RUU of the OTA but frankly i don't trust its official. I'd rarther wait until someone sniffs out the official download location.

I understand your trepidation, but it's been confirmed that the RUU from ShippedRoms loads up the same build/baseband/kernel/software number as the OTA. They are identical -- just two different methods for install.

Qazme · 08-28-2010, 04:07 PM

Yup. Hopefully someone pops up an update.zip! Almost tempted to flash back factory fresh to see if I can get it.

Revolutionary · 08-28-2010, 04:53 PM

Yeah, you know, I think that's part of the problem. The "Android capable" crowd have generally already gone the RUU or root/rom path, so they really couldn't care less about all this OTA drama, so they aren't even in the game to pull the zip file.

If I don't have the OTA or update file in my hand by tomorrow, I'll be out of the game, too as I'm going the RUU route (can't root, IT guys will tar/feather/frickasse me) -- I'm not afraid of the wipe/restore, I just don't want to bother with it (setting up my accounts again, setting all my notification preferences, linking all my 500 contacts to their facebook profiles... such a pain...)