[Samsung Galaxy A8 (2018) Questions & Answers] Lorne_Wolf78:
Adhel 3.1.1.254 ALONG SIDE ADGUARD = RESULTS

I found AdGuard Pro about 20 months ago. Being a tech junkie & what not, have been doing quite a bit of laughing over watching the family :eek: as they see how many tracker's/site's are blocked using just DNS simplified methods. Then when the Mrs saw her precious iPhone was just as susceptible :laugh: we got a family license. It was also a final means that maybe Android was a better choice after all.

Fast forward to Christmas of 2018/19 & she hot me an upgrade to Galaxy A8 (2018) as per my adamance about it over the "S" series or even a Pixel. She went with a Apple product that was basically dead out of the box (sales return said was their worst model to date as well!! ?)

Over the last month I was introduced to Adhel & have been doing what I could while using only the Galaxy A8. Her replacement/upgrade just arrived at the start of the week making it more imperative that I fine tune a few things.

My A8 just got it's latest Security Update day's ago while still running Oreo. Almost 48 hour's later I have it able to connect to the internet again (many post's on this site later & trying step by step troubleshooting) I notice that while I have service, it's telling my system internet is not available. With/out AdGuard VPN on! Even AdGuard say's their VPN WON'T WORK WITH A 2ND ADBLOCKER running at the same time. YET this does?! ?

No idea how, but after resetting all my Chrome Flags using the Master Reset button within, ad's ARE GONE!! AdGuard is on but not the VPN (at this moment) so I get only blank spaces now instead of white boxes. Totally turn off AdGuard & here on XDA especially can see the difference ? AdGuard alone I get the place anchors & a face similar to ? on here with my typical set up.

My wife is eager to get this on her S9 now & it seems straight forward thanks to the experience found here. Except she pointed out that our home router was configured using AdGuard DNS address & I have AdGuard VPN on my mobile, that it should have been a conflict that prevents me from getting online.... ? Then to create more mind scrambling, I realized that through AdGuard DNS I have a 2nd set of DNS servers going!!

This is all completely stock as Samsung built it! Well except for the demise ? of certain trash. I have a app called AppMgr Pro III that can freeze the junk & my launcher has a hide feature so no corpse's. But let's face it. Freezing is just ? Ad Hell may not remove the trash per sé, but knowing that battery/data leech is UNDER MY CONTROL FINALLY feels better ? (Hey Mark Z!! Spy this ??)

AdGuard has been good to me & my family. No sooner was going, I found Facebook

HAS 5 BLOATWARE APPS PREINSTALLED!!

AdGuard show's only 1. Same device. Same OS. Take a moment to think that over.... WHAT ARE YOU MISSING that is hidden from YOUR DEVICE?!

We are Canadian & for 2 PC + 2 Android = 1 year is under $60. Renewal gets another 20% off. Depending on your geographic location, it's still got to be WAY CHEAPER than the latest device!! Plus 0 root so no chances of a brick.... BOTH options work! Both may take a bit of time to configure initially but hey, what good is an Android if we are not going to customize it somehow? ?