yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] Imariano:
I have installed Root Booster, It's a great app for perfomance and battery. You can try it man!:)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SausageJet:
So i have bought this phone couple days ago

when i started using it i firstly noticed that colors flicker bit they dont change colors or anything just getting darker and brighter... and yes i have disabled auto brightness

im not sure if its the screen or the OS or app

the os is lollipop Android 5.1

anyone else with other phones or same phones same problems?

i have noticed also that some apps dont flicker like that probably the darker colors they use i guess?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tje1991:
Same problem here as you have I think does it on brighter colours and mostly grey? Also how long does your k4000 pro take to charge mine takes over 9 hours from empty.
[Galaxy Note 3 Neo Android Development] shaktishekhar:
Screenshots TWRP-Materialised?3.0.0?

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[Galaxy Note 3 Neo Android Development] Omer89:
Perfect ?
[Galaxy Note 3 Neo Android Development] FireLord:
[MENTION=4588282]sgatechwork[/MENTION] you can take screen shot in twrp by pressing power + volume down :)
[Galaxy Note 3 Neo Android Development] shaktishekhar:
oh thank you.. i was thinking that there must b some key tn i am so lazy 2 find that i tried adb bt adb is not working as mtp is nt working due to lack of src so i clicked wid cam but :D thanks next time JAY HO!!!!

[MENTION=6257538]FireLord[/MENTION] done :D
[Galaxy Note 3 Neo Android Development] xxabdaxx:
this not move to themes and apps forums?
[Galaxy Note 3 Neo Android Development] boydee:
Perfect work! wow wow wow wow wowww!!!!!!

It makes my recovery feel like an app :)

Anybody know where can I get themes for this? Thanks in advance :)
[Galaxy Note 3 Neo Android Development] 359bulgarian:
Hi there. The recovery looks like a real OS but the link doesn't work :*(
[Galaxy Note 3 Neo Android Development] golalmo:
look very nice. i have the same design in my n9005. could you please upload again so i can have this in my n7505 also? thanks.
[Pixel C Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] randomblame:
Just got my pixel c and while i wait on usb type c cables to arrive in the mail - cheap **stards - Can someone write up a quick tutorial on boot.img extraction and repacking for this Frankenstein coreboot creation? I would greatly appreciate it!
[Pixel C Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Samt434:
unpack/repack boot.img

I'm a developper and these informations are very important to understand and mod Pixel C.

I will be very interested too to have some info about how to unpack/repack boot.img for pixel c (as it's a chromeos boot image)

Thanks a lot in advance,

Mathieu
[Pixel C Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Samt434:
See http://xdaforums.com/pixel-c/help/unpack-repack-boot-img-info-to-build-t3367835 for some details.

I could extract the kernel + the ramdisk.

Keep working on understanding the header of the image, any help will be very appreciated.

Mathieu
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ficicaaa:
what is best option for non rooted n5x ?

wich player or eq ?
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ficicaaa:
anyone ?
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orbter:
I use Fusion player. It's the closest to classic player from previous Android phones and without commercial banners.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k.s.deviate:
questions are to be posted in this section.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] Cr4z33:
I found this in a US S7 Edge discussion and I was very happy to know that it actually works (brilliantly) in stock devices too! :good:

What's more it dosn't suffer (so far) from the known AdBlock Plus issues with unrooted phones (Internet stops working, apps crash from time to time, bank/eBay apps don't work properly, etc.).

https://block-this.com/
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] alexkaye:
But you're routing through their DNS - which isn't a very privacy-friendly or safe option - you're putting your entire mobile internet activity in their hands...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] jsminor:
Just use Netguard and import adaway hosts file. Ive done this since day one with edge and it uses very little battery.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] chippyuk:
Whoa! No thanks!!!

Surely you have to ask yourself what is in it for them right? Free Ad cleansing and free bandwidth through their DNS? Oh come on, they must be getting something out of it or maybe I have just jumped on the conspiracy bandwagon :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] babylordx:
You should ping Block It! Dns before dismissing it. Its a dummy DNS that collects no precious data of yours.

Block It! simply supplies ads with a fake DNS and its not a VPN. It works exactly like Adaway but does not require root.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] saveferris:
anyway to get rid of the VPN key notification.......its annoying as hell.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] babylordx:
Unfortunately no options to do that =( Its alright though, it doesn't pop up, it just stays on the notification bar.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] zachchen1996:
Is it faster than adguard?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] tiskewlio:
I've just used crystal for the Samsung browser and it's been great at blocking ads with low battery drain and no annoying notification in the bar. Only works on the stock browser though. However the browser itself is very snappy and optimized on the s7e and there's even a slight performance increase to chrome IMO
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] zachchen1996:
How does it compare to block this?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] eduardmc:
Thanx man. I was so sad that i could root and use adaway but this crystal app is amazing. No ad what so ever and browser now is freaking fast. My only question is why such a great app that does what adguards does is free? Any catch i should be aware?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] peachpuff:
Tried that, ads still appear in apps. With block this they're completely gone in apps.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] Milimbar:
Block this is blocking connections to google apps, i would assume due to the heavy ad content in things like the play store.

After testing again it seems that block-this is not blocking google as I previously thought.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] Cr4z33:
What Google app?

I got them all working.

Anyway to everybody wondering what this VPN does here is the answer from the author on Google+:
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] Milimbar:
I was unable to use google now and now on tap with block-this enabled the other day.

I checked again today and all is working fine, maybe google was just having issues.

I will edit my previous post so people do not think that was a block-this issue.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] Genebaby:
Is Block This free for good? Looks like there is a premium version?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] matthieup:
i'm a bit confused now as i've found it on play store... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.savageorgiev.blockthis&hl=en
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] origitat:
It just seems too good to be true. Has anyone had any issues with this??
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] Pierre118:
It looks very attractive to use, but it changes your DNS. So, all your internet traffic will pass the DNS servers of block-this. Free of use, to good to be true.

Does anybody has the ip-address of their servers? Where are they located?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] zachchen1996:
How does crystal compare to the other 2 samsung browser ad blocking apps? (Adblock Fast & Adblock Plus)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] peachpuff:
Who said it passes through their servers? The vpn is on your end, they provide dns info on blocking ads, just like adguard and netguard.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] meyerweb:
Been working fine for me. A few ads have snuck through (mostly on Android Central, which should be called Ad-droid Central), but it's blocked almost all ads.

See post #14. Nothing goes to anyone's servers. The VPN is on your phone.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] Pierre118:
Thanks. But all your DNS requests will be handled by their servers, i pressume?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] tofu-:
Used it for a few days. Didn't like how it isn't customizable at all. Then it began blocking my amazon app

Uninstalled . Back to adguard
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] meyerweb:
No. Everything is handled locally on your phone.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] daveid:
Actually, the dns does go to their server, this is how they bypass the inability to modify the global dns settings on your phone (regardless of connection type). If this concerns you, look for another method (though root may be required). I see little difference using their dns servers vs Googles. If my understanding is correct, their server directly answers the request for advertisements while forwarding the requests (or relaying) for other addresses to Google. So you are atill getting your dns resolution via Google's servers, just known advertisement requests are pointed to a local address (127.0.0.1) by Block This' servers.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] Pierre118:
Thanks for the explanation. I think my concern by using this 'solutions' is valid. It's everybody own free choice offcourse. The chance of being directed to malware sites is present imho. Can you understand my concern?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] krneki10:
How may I remove the persistent notification from Block This, it's really annoying?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] peachpuff:
Disable it, then the icon will be gone... downside is you'll have ads now. So which is more annoying?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] r4zier:
since you establish a vpn connection i wonder how the battery life will be. i had some iOS iPhones with a permanent vpn connection and it drained my battery after a short time.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] lvnatic:
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I tried to use that hosts file for adaway but I didn't know how to get it from github. Is there any tutorial how to load the adaway hosts on net guard?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] ggsava:
Hello!

Hi Guys! I saw a low of people on this Forum are interested in my app - "Block This" for Android so I joined this forum to be able to answer all your questions. My name is Sava Georgiev and I'm its sole owner and developer. Anyway if you want to learn more about me you can do it at savageorgiev.com. Also if you have any questions you can address it to me here or at our new app forum (forum.block-this.com). I will be happy to answer all of them and it will maybe help me to better describe how the app works on the official website.

Thanks for using "Block This"! :good:

Kind Regards,

ggsava
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] norti:
It won't affect battery life, I have it almost every time on (there are few cases when an app don't get internet connection, then I turn it off for that period). So no increased battery drain here.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] ggsava:
That is correct. The VPN/DNS approach consumes a lot less CPU compared to having a hosts file since all the work is done by the DNS server, making the battery usage insignificant. For example having all of that in a hosts file, means that for every request your device has to check against a huge text file and try to find whether this is blacklisted or not. Usually those hosts files have about 100 000 entries and for a single web page to load your device has to do this check between 50-100 times on average (once for each sub request).
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] Geoz:
Use NetGuard settings to download or import
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] meyerweb:
The notification comes from Android whenever you use a VPN, not from Block This. If you're using a VPN to block ads, there's no way to get rid of it.

I'm using a different VPN based ad blocker, and haven't noticed any significant change in battery life. Any battery used by an app that's going through the VPN will have it's battery use assigned to the VPN, but total usage doesn't change very much. So my web-surfing battery now shows up assigned to NetGuard, instead of to Chrome, but in total the difference is small.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] dave7802:
What safeguard is there for us?

Sorry i really dislike the idea of passing my sensitive information across a public DNS.

FYI:
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] Dark_Avenger:
The VPN is in your phone. Your information is not passed through any public server. The VPN approach is just a local workaround to change the DNS servers used by your phone without root. There is no security risk in DNS resolution. As the app stops on my phone from time to time, I'm using DNS Changer from play store with the DNS servers of Block-This.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] ggsava:
The keyword here is "Malicious". Anything you install on your phone, pc or whatever CAN be malicious. Hosts files can also contain malicious entries. In theory everything can hurt your device. Every time you connect to a WIFI - you choose to TRUST their DNS server for which you have no information at all. It is always a matter of whether you trust something or not. Yes, people do find conventional methods more trustworthy, but I think if I stand behind this app with my actual name and physical address - the chance that I will try to hijack your info or harm your phone is a lot lower.

FYI: around 1 million users have already installed the app - yes some didn't find it useful, but if it leaked any personal data I think this would be all over the forums & reddit by now.

Link to privacy policy: https://block-this.com/privacy_policy.html

Link to owner information/address: https://block-this.com/imprint.html
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] konoplya:
so does it pass through your servers or is the DNS just a fake one locally on the phone?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] ggsava:
The DNS lookups go through my servers, but not your actual Internet traffic ( does not work like a regular VPN ). It is explained more detailed on https://block-this.com (just scroll down a bit).
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] sogold123:
Use Netguard is best, uses very little battery.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] LDJ:
Been using this for a few days now. Happy to report its working fantastically well for me. No ads in any apps that I've noticed. No problems with batter life (remains superb whether this is enabled or not) and the phone performance appears unchanged. I just wish there was a way to dismiss the VPN banner. Other than that, its fantastic!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] konoplya:
thanks. I still get ads with some apps and some apps won't load at all when it's on. like Google maps, facebook messenger for example.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] SyCoREAPER:
Any Android Noobies, this is a horrible idea and I personally would advise against this. You have no idea where your data is actually going and how secure it is. If you really want to go ad-free and don't want/can't root, download something like Firefox and install the an ad-block extension like uBlock Origin or similar.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] bomil:
Great app. Try to make menu in app for info and link's to updates and stuff.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] finneginsfast:
Thanks for your work on this app, I love it. One problem lately though, i frequently have to disable Block This to access the playlstore and sometimes just to access a google search engine in a browser. Hopefully this can be fixed in the future.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] freszu:
Hi

Google Play store and YouTube not working with block this ?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] Genebaby:
Hmm, YouTube is ok for me but Play Store is randomly not accessible, I thought it was my WiFi.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] vorupp:
on my s7 edge (exynos) plastore, facebook, maps woks fine with block this on!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] ShrekOpher:
A web ad-blocker is good, but Block-This blocks ads in all applications not just web browsers.

This app works great, and is open source.

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@TEKHD [MENTION=2376614]jcase[/MENTION] either of you guys know anyone who would be interested. dev is looking to have the community continue development.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] jcase:
Did he/she opensoruce it?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] ShrekOpher:
Announced not to long ago they were planning on it. They opened this thread to get some information on goiong open source and looking for an devs interested in helping out.

He (I think) posted a thread on XDa looking for some helop as well (http://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/block-looking-devs-to-help-improving-app-t3393344)

Post from the Block-this forum.

https://forum.block-this.com/topic/4/going-open-source-volunteering-developers-needed

[MENTION=7440457]ggsava[/MENTION]
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] ch3ffy:
import hosts file is greyed out/inactive.. do I need pro upgrade or root?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] Geoz:
No pro upgrade or root needed. To import/download a hosts file you need to enable IP filtering
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] ggsava:
I'm in the process of open sourcing it at the moment, just takes a bit of time to get the licensing and everything correct before I actually put it on github. And yes, I'm looking for any devs who wish to help in further development. I really think the app can turn out to be great , it just needs a bit more attention.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] finneginsfast:
Will there be a fix for the playstore, youtube and Google blocks anytime soon?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] ggsava:
As soon as I can find the cause.. atm I cannot reproduce it as all those 3 apps work just fine for me (tested on a couple of different phones).
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] finneginsfast:
I agree, it's strangely intermittent so I imagine it will be a difficult fix. I do notice though and perhaps it's coincidental, that stopping "Block This" fixes the problem.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] ggsava:
Okay, you are the first ones to know about this. Block This is now officially open source ---> https://github.com/ggsava/block-this

Will announce it later on the site and forum as well.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] DGL2033:
Hi all,

The developer took the apk. Open Source yesterday, so if anyone wants to help out, here is the link.

https://github.com/ggsava/block-this

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Hi,

The developer took the apk. Open Source yesterday. Here it is, if you want CA look at it.

https://github.com/ggsava/block-this

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The link to playstore did not work for me. Far as I know, it was pulled not long after published, just like Disconnect and Adgaurd were 2014-15 But it operates on a similar premise. Filtering.

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Works great on Tunein, even blocks the new auto play audio ads when you first play some station. I'll have to check Android Central, thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] filipesr:
Hello how can I get the icon of the status bar keys
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] ombheembush:
Playstore and Download Manager Issue:

Looks like it happens only on Android N, is there a way you could test that on Android N and see if it works for you.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] saurabh808:
thanks it works fine jus get my connection slow at time but its sure good n working
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] muneebrocks:
https://github.com/ggsava/block-this

it is open source

so do you think this is safe to use?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] infinitiwoods12:
not blocking youtube adds
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] Geoz:
Why not try adguard
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] ocd_amp:
I am using his DNS server and I have had absolutely No Issues.

I think the real Question people want to know is (but are not asking),

What incentive do you have to offer this to the General public? What they want to know is what you get out of it.

Because we live in a world where there's a catch to everything. That is what they are concerned about.

My personal view is that the dev is trustworthy. His DNS server is always up, and never had a down time so far as I've used it both on Windows and Android. I will be willing to help him in this endeavor to put an end to annoying and inappropriate advertising on our devices. What he is doing is a good thing and we should try to help him.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] midnightrider:
But isn't this true of google any time you use an Android phone? Can't they see everything on your phone, every call, etc.?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] eurorauser:
Not really, it's all encrypted. Also I trust Google (mainly because they have better things to do) more than I trust some small co
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] midnightrider:
Encrypted, so what? I have a hard time believing anybody can trust google given the amount of spying they do and the amount of info they have on everything on the net but ok for you. They have better things to do? Like what? Spying on people is what google does.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] eurorauser:
Given how much they know, isn't it odd then that they haven't done anything 'bad' with that information? They know literally everything about me, and yet all I get is great quality free product and services back from them. Seems like a fair exchange to me. And yes, I would entrust my information to them over some small startup. Google has a lot to lose if they do anything 'wrong'. You call it spying, fine, actually all they are doing is trying to show you ads and get paid for that, and I think that's a pretty fair exchange. Point me to evidence they do anything 'wrong' or 'untrustworthy', if you have that evidence...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Themes, Apps, and Mods] midnightrider:
How would you know if they did or they didn't. As far as I'm concerned just having the information is offensive. It would be illegal for governments in civilized countries to get the info but as far as you're concerned it's ok if some unaccountable faceless corporation that pays essentially no taxes in any jurisdiction where they operate and is apparently above the law knows "literally everything about you?" Who says the reason they pay no taxes and don't have to obey the law isn't because they're feeding your whole life back to your government and every other government who asks for it?

That's some serious, heavy-duty serf mentality you got there. You're willing to give up ownership of personal information just to get great quality free product and services?

Denial-of-reality... They've already been doing things wrong and they're getting away with it. Guess why? Because people like you let them and say it's ok.

Don't let me wake you up from your slumber, not that I could if I tried.

Wow, just wow.