Takes forever to download with no progress

[Yai]

Hi,

I recently purchased the wikipedia encyclopedia which says I needed to
connect to wifi to start downloading the 2gb worth of data onto my
iphone.

Observed that there are no progress to the downloading and it has been
about 3 hrs, progress is still minimal. What is your advice?

Thanks.
Jason

[Jason]

Hi Yai

I noticed that when downloading the dump mine sometimes stopped as
well.

My workaround was that when I saw it had stopped (when the KB/sec
stopped changing) I just exited the application by hitting the home
button and opened it up again and then clicked "Resume Download" then
it kicked off again from where I had left off.



Hope it works for you : )



Cheers

Jason

[Yai]

Hi,

Did that several times over the past 5 hours. Still the same. The KB/
sec changes for a while but stopped.

Wonder if there is an easier way to DL it.

Thanks.

[Jason]

Hi again

Sorry that didn't work for you.

I've already posted a question about alternative methods for
downloading/storing the dump a few weeks ago but haven't got a
response yet (http://groups.google.com/group/wikipedia-iphone/
browse_thread/thread/da7bfb4ae40d7b6)

I don't mind downloading the 2GB so much, it's the fact that iTunes
doesn't seem to back it up that gets me. My iPhone threw a bit of a
wobbler a few weeks ago and needed to be restored and although the
wiki app restored successfully I still had to download the dump again.

Also, I assume once I upgrade to iPhone OS 3.0 in the next few weeks
I'll have to download it again *sigh*

[Patrick Collison]

For what it's worth, the URLs for the files that the app uses are:

http://changefeed.com/zrocessed
http://changefeed.com/locate.db
http://changefeed.com/locate.prefixdb
http://changefeed.com/blocks.db

If you download all four of those and (somehow -- will probably
require a jailbreak) put them in the Documents directory of the
Wikipedia.app bundle on your iPhone, you won't need to download
anything on the device.

Hope this helps.

[Jason]

Hey Patrick

Thanks for that, sorry I keep fussing! hahaa

Problem is my phones still under warranty and I really don't want to
Jailbreak it if it can be avoided. I see there are a few apps out
there that allow you FTP access to transfer files between iPhone and
PC on the app store. Is it possible to include some function like
that? Like I mentioned in my other post I'm more than willing to pay
extra!!!


Cheers

Jason

On May 26, 9:59 pm, Patrick Collison <patr...@collison.ie> wrote:
> For what it's worth, the URLs for the files that the app uses are:
>

> http://changefeed.com/zrocessedhttp://changefeed.com/locate.dbhttp://changefeed.com/locate.prefixdbhttp://changefeed.com/blocks.db