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Best ad blocker app?

Any idea on which ad blocker app to sideload to block ads that are in apps? If you were to sideload it, Im going to assume its like on a cell phone where it injects or loads SCRIPTS?

Adblocking is mostly done done via entries within the hosts file:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)
But therefore you need to be rooted which isn´t possible with the latest firmware.
On rooted devices I do personally use AdAway:
https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=adaway&fdid=org.adaway
Can be sideloaded or installed via F-Droid catalogue:
https://f-droid.org/

If you disabled the dcp with root access or are stuck without root on a later firmware,I recommend WiFi AdBlocker.

I'm rooted

mroneeyedboh said:
Any idea on which ad blocker app to sideload to block ads that are in apps? If you were to sideload it, Im going to assume its like on a cell phone where it injects or loads SCRIPTS?
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Best solution I've found is Lucky Patcher. Google it, download any version from a source you trust, then let it sit after you run it for a moment, and it will pop up saying it can be updated. Update it and run it.
At the bottom is an option, Block Advertisements. Click on it, it writes to the host file.
Might need to use a mouse to click on it, not sure if the remote will get you down there or not.

Ive sene lucky patcher..Seems a bit shady to me.

AdAway hands down as was previously mentioned by Calibaan. I personally use the "unofficial" build from xda-dev because I don't want to install yet another app store. I have this installed on my AFTV and I can confirm it works like a charm.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2190753

HTC 10 APK Assistance required

I need a little help here, I have the unlocked variant of the phone that I'm using on T-Mobile. I use the my account app to keep track of my data usage and other things, the thing is that the latest version does not work properly. So I decided to go back to an older version of the application that works absolutely fine. Here's my question, is there any way that I can slightly modify the app so that it will not keep popping up in the play store letting me know that there is an update available? I know that I can disable auto updating of the application which I already have done but I would like to figure out if there's a way that I can get it to disappear from my apps list in Google play.
Any help with this would be tremendously appreciated

Titanium backup has a remove/detach from market option but that requires root.
the other option would be to resign the apk with a different key compile then then install it, it will still show the updates available on the play store but installing the update will fail

Diz said:
Titanium backup has a remove/detach from market option but that requires root.
the other option would be to resign the apk with a different key compile then then install it, it will still show the updates available on the play store but installing the update will fail
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I'd do that the last time I did stuff like that was with kitkat, any guides for doing it with marshmallow?

I'm going to install LineageOS on my Nexus 5x. What are some apps I might like to use

So, this is what I know:
There are at least 2 apps that must be flashed just after LineageOS is flashed, before the first boot, otherwise I won't be able to install them and have them working correctly.
1 .addonsu for root access
2. gapps for google apps and play store access.
However, I cannot seem to find if there is anything else that I must install at flash time if I intend to use it.
In addition to that concern, which applications in-general should I install after booting into lineageOS?
I mean, I definitely want to know all of the network and internet activity my phone is engaged in. After all, my main reason for changing from Android to this is so that google can't track everything I'm doing and listen-in on my microphone. (They admitted to this, by the way, regarding their in-home devices. Is it really a stretch to think they aren't doing it to anything they control that has a microphone?) Is there perhaps a good LineageOS app that will report to me all of the network and internet activity going on with my phone?
Does anyone have some sort of list in their mind or maybe linked somewhere that is a good general list for a beginning user to lineageOS?
Is there some kind of LineageOS app store with it's own app that I could flash?
I'll be installing to my Nexus 5x bullhead, so that means Lineage 15.1, since that's the supported one for that phone. I'll probably try to upgrade to 16 once I get 15 installed with the apps I want. -- Oh wait, I guess I can't until someone comes out with a nightly 16 build for bullhead.
And of course, thank you for taking the time.

Congratulations. You are well prepared. One point, nobody told you, yet: after installing lineageOS, you can quickly and easily flash other roms and addons. So it's no problem to flash lineageOS and nothing else. So you have no Google spyware to block afterwards.
You can flash lineage4microG that has f-droid app store, which is far more trustworthy than Google play store.
You can flash addonsu or magisk at the time you recognise you really need root. Rooting is nothing you should do just for fun.
After trying various no-GApps configurations, you maybe come to the conclusion, you need GApps. In that case you best flash rom and GApps and root and and install a firewall like AFWall+ (Netzwerkdatenverkehr kontrollieren) - https://f-droid.org/app/dev.ukanth.ufirewall

kurtn said:
Congratulations. You are well prepared. One point, nobody told you, yet: after installing lineageOS, you can quickly and easily flash other roms and addons. So it's no problem to flash lineageOS and nothing else. So you have no Google spyware to block afterwards.
You can flash lineage4microG that has f-droid app store, which is far more trustworthy than Google play store.
You can flash addonsu or magisk at the time you recognise you really need root. Rooting is nothing you should do just for fun.
After trying various no-GApps configurations, you maybe come to the conclusion, you need GApps. In that case you best flash rom and GApps and root and and install a firewall like AFWall+ (Netzwerkdatenverkehr kontrollieren)
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I did. I installed TWRP. Then I sideloaded lineageos, not the microG one though. I sideloaded addonsu, and an OTA zip I found for fdroid. I also sideloaded orbot and orwall, but I think orwall prevented things from connecting to the internet. I hope orbot is sufficient. It uses TOR and sets up a VPN profile that you can then set to never allowing connections without the VPN, which I hope means that all traffic is routed through orbot's TOR connection.
I don't think I'll need google because I think that I'm more safe with privacy concerns downloading apks from an unmonitored third party site like apkmirror than putting google stuff on my phone. And I also found out about yalp, but we need a google account apparently to get the apps from the play store that way. I downloaded swiftkeys from apkmirror, and that gave me a keyboard that I could use like normal android has.

dain`112 said:
I did. I installed TWRP. Then I sideloaded lineageos, not the microG one though. I sideloaded addonsu, and an OTA zip I found for fdroid. I also sideloaded orbot and orwall, but I think orwall prevented things from connecting to the internet. I hope orbot is sufficient. It uses TOR and sets up a VPN profile that you can then set to never allowing connections without the VPN, which I hope means that all traffic is routed through orbot's TOR connection.
I don't think I'll need google because I think that I'm more safe with privacy concerns downloading apks from an unmonitored third party site like apkmirror than putting google stuff on my phone. And I also found out about yalp, but we need a google account apparently to get the apps from the play store that way. I downloaded swiftkeys from apkmirror, and that gave me a keyboard that I could use like normal android has.
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That's hard core
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[SOLVED] Is it possible to disable Play Store?

Dear All,
By any chance has any of you succeeded into disabling play store without being root?
It used to be possible on older phones I owned, but I am struggling to find a way to do so on my new RN8PRO option to disable is 'disabled'
I have read many of those threads here, might have missed the solution, please forgive me if I did, would appreciate if you could point me toward the solution.
I also used that java app to debloat phones by uninstalling/disabling what I had no use for and it worked fine with most of the apps, just not play store which was not even listed at all.
Yes I dont use play store, Apps I install I get from other means (F-Droid etc).
Thanks in advance.
Regards.

You can uninstall system apps through ADB / using fastboot.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/redmi-note-8-pro/themes/adb-fastboot-tools-debloat-safe-list-t4012255
I'm not sure though if it's safe to uninstall play store.
Sounds to me you'd be better of with xiaomi.eu ROM and debloat as much as you like.

I have the 11.0.2.0 Global without Playstore running. Just deactivate or uninstall with adb "com.android.vending".
You can also still debloat the Google Play services "com.google.android.gms" and Google services framework "com.google.android.gsf" but this can cause problems with some apps that require the services.
You can use the Xiaomi ADB Fastboot tool for this, as the previous speaker mentioned. There you can add the apps you want to disable/uninstall via App Manager -> Add apps.

Thanks @donkyshot & @hmarder!
Actually I am using google play services, that's google play store I have no use for.
So what I had to do simply was to Add the app ing App Manager from the Xiaomi ADB/Fastboot app "com.android.vending: Google Play Store" and disable from there (I prefer disabling those stuff to avoid dependencies problems afterward).
When I just get a new device I try to refrain myself from doing too many things I could not easily recover from, more especially If I am not 100% sure I want to keep the device or if I will return it.
That said I would have liked to have that one a bit earlier because from what I read it looks like xiaomi.eu stopped supporting this device right before I got it, and they removed links to ROMs even for stable Android Pie versions, I'll probably never be able to test those later on even If I would have probably liked to.
I'll try to find working links before they all go down....
Thx again for pointing me to the right direction.
Regards,

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Issues bypassing apps on rooted rom

Hey folks, I have a note 10+ n975f and used to root all my older phones in past for freedom and a bit of a change to customising etc... Anyhow tried using magisk to disguised my banking apps before on other phones but them and a few others still won't work, the apps crash, tried a few rooms and all do the se thing, restored phone to factory and they all work. As its been years since I used to root my phones am I missing something? I've followed as many guided here as I can but can't seem to get around this issue.

possible the apps have learnt to detect it better, security is a cat and mouse game and firms are getting better at stopping people using their stuff on devices they don't want them to, you may have to look into certain apps for specific ways to bypass the detection. but chances are a lot of apps are now designed to detect the things blocking the detection of the phone being unlocked.
sad fact is if you want to use secure stuff on your phone the only really bulletproof option is to keep the phone locked.

Yea I know what you mean. Aww I used to have oneplus 6 and it's software was amazing but love the note for its size and camera etc but software just seems so bloated and it's got double the ram like

I know what you mean, but for me personally I just disable the stuff I don't need and use Lawnchair launcher to get the phone running like a Pixel device, but on the other hand the Samsung software can often give extra features that havent gone into base Android yet.

I had apps that wouldn't work because it detected root. So I did this: Magisk/Settings/Hide Magisk Manager. My apps worked after that.

Eagle 3 said:
I had apps that wouldn't work because it detected root. So I did this: Magisk/Settings/Hide Magisk Manager. My apps worked after that.
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Thanks for the reply however not meaning to be rude, I stated I already tried Magisk in the original post. It doesn't work for some apps like banking apps etc.

cruisinbeatz said:
Thanks for the reply however not meaning to be rude, I stated I already tried Magisk in the original post. It doesn't work for some apps like banking apps etc.
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You were very unclear about what you did in Magisk. Did you use Magisk Hide or Hide Magisk Manager?

Eagle 3 said:
You were very unclear about what you did in Magisk. Did you use Magisk Hide or Hide Magisk Manager?
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I used Magisk Hide from what I recall. Opened it up, safenet etc was all green and good to go, it worked for snapchat etc but would not work on 3 of my banking apps, those are the only ones it wouldn't work on. From memory, I when I opened Magisk, I checked safety net was goo, it was. so went and hid root from each app I knew would look for safety net. The apps in question are Co-Operative Bank, Ulsterbank and Dansk (Mobile Bank in store) They will not open, they try, a quick flash on the screen and it returns back to home screen. Tried 3 different roms and they all done same thing.

cruisinbeatz said:
I used Magisk Hide from what I recall. Opened it up, safenet etc was all green and good to go, it worked for snapchat etc but would not work on 3 of my banking apps, those are the only ones it wouldn't work on. From memory, I when I opened Magisk, I checked safety net was goo, it was. so went and hid root from each app I knew would look for safety net. The apps in question are Co-Operative Bank, Ulsterbank and Dansk (Mobile Bank in store) They will not open, they try, a quick flash on the screen and it returns back to home screen. Tried 3 different roms and they all done same thing.
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As I stated in my first reply to you, you need to Hide Magisk Manager. This is different than Magisk Hide. Go to Settings and select Hide Magisk Manager. You will get a popup for new name, leave it as Manager, tap OK.
Then open Manager, you will get a message to update Magisk Manager, tap OK.
Restart the phone. Your banking apps should work now.
I had the same problem as you in that the apps didn't work by just selecting the apps in Magisk Hide. They did after Hide Magisk Manager. So you have to do both.