How To Make your own OTAs with Dropbox - Page 2

SCrid2000 · Thread Author #16 03-24-2011, 06:09 PM

Lol, I backup all my apps in dropbox.
Here's an app to get the .jad and .cods easily, it's called OTA Downloader.
There's a version in Mobihand, this is an older version but it works better for this (the newer version makes it so you have to use the app to install stuff, the old version here creates a working jad to upload to your dropbox.

http://bb.ibnux.net/OTAdownloader/v1...loader_145.jad

Ibn la Ahad · #17 03-25-2011, 05:04 PM

Can't seem to get this working. I've got the .COD file and I've made the .JAD file, put them both in 1 folder, uploaded that folder to dropbox, made a public link and tried to download it from there.
I'm getting an error 907 Invalid COD, HTTP-error 403: Forbidden.

By the way... Where do I get the .COD files from?
I got Capture It installed and I extracted the .COD from my device.
Any help?

SCrid2000 · Thread Author #18 03-25-2011, 05:06 PM

Ok, here's what you're gonna need to do.
1. Find your cod.
2. Change the ".cod" to ".zip"
3. Extract the cod files from the .zip you just created
4. Recreate the jad for those cods.

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Ibn la Ahad · #19 03-25-2011, 05:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SCrid2000

Ok, here's what you're gonna need to do.
1. Find your cod.
2. Change the ".cod" to ".zip"
3. Extract the cod files from the .zip you just created
4. Recreate the jad for those cods.

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Lovely! BUT... If I change format from CaptureIt.cod to CaptureIt.zip, I can't open it with WinRar. It says 'No archives found'.

SCrid2000 · Thread Author #20 03-25-2011, 05:11 PM

K, in that case rename it to .cod, and try making a new .jad.

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Ibn la Ahad · #21 03-25-2011, 05:14 PM

It already has the name .cod. I've made a backup with BBSAK from my 3rd party apps and CaptureIt was already there. I just took the file, did what you described above but it didn't do the trick.

SCrid2000 · Thread Author #22 03-25-2011, 05:19 PM

Use BB Boss or Shrink-a-OS to make a jad using just the captureit.cod

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Ibn la Ahad · #23 03-25-2011, 05:28 PM

Okay, veryyyy stupid question, but where for the love of God can I make a .jad file in Shrink-a-OS or in BB Boss?
I've installed them both right now. Can't find an option to make a .jad.

EDIT: Got it!

gampus · #24 06-09-2011, 07:46 AM

Hi folks
I create .jad using BBHybrids Tools, I copy folder with jad and cods to memory card and when I try to instal app I have got error:"Invalid manifest or application description" The "Rim-cod-size" attribute is missing. I just say I work with x64 bit Windows7, any suggestion?

theperplexed · #25 02-10-2012, 10:22 AM

Was going to start a separate thread but thought I might as well just add my two cents here. If you want to refer a custom domain name to your ota backups on Dropbox it's really simple.

If you head to WebCache: Dropbox Web Hosting! you can either create your own example.80cols.com subdomain or (as I have) you can refer your www.example.com domain name to your dropbox folder.

In order for www.example.com to redirect to dropbox you need to change the CNAME record to 80cols.com but that's pretty simple in most domain management packages.

The only (very slight) downside is that you have to put the files you want to be visible in the Apps/webcache folder.

You can now use your Dropbox to host an entire static website. Sweet!

Hope that's useful.

SCrid2000 · Thread Author #26 02-10-2012, 10:47 AM

But if you have a website why not just host your downloads from there? Lol.

theperplexed · #27 02-11-2012, 02:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SCrid2000

But if you have a website why not just host your downloads from there? Lol.

domain name != website hosting

hosting costs are substantially more than domain name registration costs.

SCrid2000 · Thread Author #28 02-11-2012, 02:45 PM

X10hosting has an excellent free hosting plan. And their paid hosting starts at $3/mo, so it's really not more expensive than paying for a domain name from a lot of sites.