How To Download Torrents On Your iPod Touch
Whether you spend a good part of your computing time downloading torrents or just like to enjoy the occasional file you can’t get anywhere else, you’re gonna love to know that you can now engage in it right on your jailbroken iPod Touch.
What You Need
Apart from having your unit jailbroken, you’ll need to get the Cydia Installer on your iPod Touch. Cydia is basically an alternative to the Installer.app on your handset. We’ll probably do a more thorough feature on both installing and using Cydia if enough people need a primer on it.
Once you have Cydia in place, you’ll need to use it to download dTunes (which brings the Safari download plug-ins along with it) and Mobile Terminal.
Steps
1. Download files from Piratebay
Use Safari to surf Piratebay.org and download (yes, you can download now if the plug-ins installed correctly) the torrent files you want.
2. Run dTunes
Once downloading via Safari is done, open dTunes and click on the torrent file to get it running.
3. Start Downloading
Open Mobile Terminal and type command “./gettorrent”, minus the quotes to start the download. Speed is normally pretty good, depending of course, on your internet connection and the number of seeds.
4. Retrieve The Downloads
Once finished, the downloaded files will be in the root/var/mobile/Library/Downloads directory of your iPod Touch. You can do with them as you want.
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What is it supposed to do when you click on the torrent file? For me it doesn’t do anything.
How do u get cydia on the iPod touch
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after I download the torrent and prepare it in dtunes, I typed “./gettorrent” into the mobile terminal and hit return and it says: “-sh: ./gettorent: No such file or directory”. what do I do to make it download the torrent? I’m not very familiar with how to operate mobile terminal either so any resources u could provide would help! thanks!
Ya that same thing happened to me.I type ./gettorrent and we return and it says no such file or directory found. Pleeeeeeeeeeeeez HELP.
after the download is complete in the mobile terminal
where do i go use the app
where is the root/var/mobile/Library/Downloads directory?
please help!
everything else was great!
hey, it all worked for me, the terminal thing took some time to figure out but i’ve downloaded the file. But how do i play the song i downloaded in the iPod section of the iPhone?
Mmm, yeah I still need to get the download app…..-_-”
Pwn0nsight,
The song will be in dTunes.
You can SSH into your iPod/iPhone and find the dTunes directory (google it) and then copy the song to the iPod songs location.
Sokaroka
where do you download mobile terminal? plz help!
My mobile terminal isn’t downloading the torrent. It says connection failed, operation timed out. Whats going on?
all you gotta do is go to dark rain and download that and run its. its the easiest thing ever
after i download in the terminal (it downloaded pretty quick) then when I go to dtunes to play it says “error reading album” is that the torrent I downloaded or I didnt download correctly? When it’s finished in the terminal will it cut off by itself or how do i know when it’s done? Because I think i might have interrupted it…
Thanks
it’s not working for some people because thepiratebay.com and dtunes dont have the same trackers so it’ll say something like tracker failed, operation timed out etc etc..some alternatives are mininova.com or just search on Torrentz.com
after the download is complete, it shows me a bunch of numbers and says to “select a directory”. i press 2 and after that, it says to select a destination. i didn’t know what it meant, so i named it ‘games’. then, i went to dtunes and find a ‘games’ folder. i click on it but nothing happened.
somebody HELP!
could somebody write the entire process to me? i downloaded the torrent correctly. its just the mobile terminal process that confuses me.
thanks.
Ive searched everywhere on the net but no one seems to have a solution…how to stop a running torrent once I put the get torrent command In it begin to download but if I want yo stop that how the he’ll do I…somebody please put me out if my mystery!
Zaby:
I guess you have to send the ‘Q’ in the command window..
Witch firmwares are you guys using? I have 3.1.3 everything works fine.. but wont download,, 0 seeds are found.. the same torrent is working fine on my pc. i tried several torrents..
Get torrenT click
in dtunes go to browse tap ur ipa file it will prepare it go to
terminal type ./gettorrent it will dwnload once complete hit (Q) to stop
once downloaded I can’t play my game I knows it’s in rar liabry mobiles where is that dnt tell me to ssh can u find it on my mobile
well I got the iphone 3g (firmware 3.1.2) jailbroken with blackra1n… I installed everything (dtunes, mobile terminal, even torrentula..) None of the torrents will download.. It always get stuck at connecting to tracker… I looked last night and I saw that other people with the iphone 3g on 3.1.2 have troubles, so any solutions to this?
Edit myself… Lol while i was typing this i decide to try out using mininova.com and well the torrent selection sucks, the torrents actually started to work on my phone.. So Ali thank you.. Any other torrent sites work?