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[Hero, G2 Touch General] troybuilt:
adfree works great, but I found a few apps still have ads like youmail and the weather channel. I've done step by step but these are still the only 2 apps with ads on them.

I followed the instructions, but still nothing has worked with these 2 apps.

Any ideas?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] hooddy:
It is possible to block Ad on new ICQ? As i knew ICQ translate Ad on Russian IPs only and it's suxx.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Marsou77:
I can't open XDA-app with this .... can you do anything ?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] MomirPeh:
Works great, thanks a lot!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Mulen:
I just installed ad free and when I'm trying to update host names my Legends crashs. Do you need to run the adb commands before you try to update host names from the app?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] otte89:
Was waiting for this :) Great job!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ScottDavenport:
Does anyone know if there is a limit on the number of host file entries that can be used on an android phone? I have a 200k host file list on my pc and it would be nice to just use that.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] jorgen2009:
no problem with that here...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] denshigomi:
Glad you got it working. For future reference, I think the cat command is always available. And I think busybox commands must be accessed as parameters of the busybox program (i.e. "busybox cp source destination").

There isn't a hard limit (outside of the filesystem's limitations), but I believe the hosts file is searched linearly with every web request, so making the hosts file arbitrarily large probably isn't a good idea. Feel free to try out your computer's hosts file and see if it feels good to you.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ScottDavenport:
I tried pushin my list and it didn't seem to work at all. I'm guessing a 6mb list is too much
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Fat Fred:
Since AdFree stopped working I tried this script but am having similar problems on my Desire with Cyanogenmod 7 RC1 as a couple of peeps above:

Any ideas? I was on LeeDroid 2.3d prior to this rom change, which worked fine with AdFree...

Oh, and no, I can't "cd hosts" either!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Fat Fred:
Slightly disappointed as I thought I'd nailed this problem with:

Unfortunately though it appeared to copy the file over it's made no difference...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] freedom74:
fancy widget

I have noticed that Fancy Widget beside normal internet activity contacts

from time to time

data.flurry.com/aar.do

which colects some userdata.

flurry.com

So I wanted to block this connection and manually add

line into /etc/hosts file.

From that point connection to the mentioned site are blocked but...

When I rebooted phone, I found line that shows that site is contacted during boot process so my question is

when /etc/hosts file gain his function and is it possible to activate hosts blocking earlier?

:confused:
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Fat Fred:
Finally sorted out getting this working again on my Desire:

Enter "recovery"

Select option "mounts and storage" --> then "mount /system/"

Using adb type "adb shell"

At the hash prompt type "mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system"

At the hash prompt type "exit"

Again using adb type "adb push hosts.for.mobile.txt /system/etc/hosts"

Using adb type "adb shell"

At the hash prompt type "mount -o ro,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system"

At the hash prompt type "exit"

Using adb type "adb reboot"

Using the 600Kb hosts file earlier in this thread I now have my ads removed once more! :D
[Hero, G2 Touch General] killall-q:
Hello, since this is the top search result for this topic on Google I'd thought I'd share an update. This is a simple method:

1. Boot into clockworkmod recovery

2. partitions > mount /system

3. adb push hosts /system/etc/hosts

4. adb reboot

No need to play with remount and permissions in recovery. Working on CM7 RC2 on HTC Aria. I have updated the hosts file using the sources in the comments as of March 8, 2011.

Edit: Put mobile advertisers from original list back in and removed duplicates.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] denshigomi:
Not easily, no.

If you like, you could boot your phone in airplane mode and then enable the radio after it boots.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Fat Fred:
Don't know why the Desire differs from the Aria, but I HAD to remount etc..., otherwise it simply didn't work.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] rogershroed1991:
is this to block website ads or app ads?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] denshigomi:
Both.

This will prevent any outbound connection to the associated domains, regardless of what method the request is made from.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] dkmurphys:
I've been using Ad-Free on my Desire Z since I've rooted it and have really enjoyed the application and I appreciate it a lot.

One problem that showed up was when I downloaded "Words Free" for my Desire Z. When I open the app I believe AdFree blocks the application's ad but then the application produces an error with a link to what appears to be an ad but it is broken. This is the overlay I get with an error while on the main screen of the game:

Any help would be appreciated and I'm sorry if this is not an error caused by AdFree.

I'm using killall-q's host file from above.

HTC Desire Z (G2/Vision)

CM7 Nightly Build #17

Kernel: Latest Pershoot

Radio: Latest

Work around from here. That way Words with Friends still has ads but AdFree still runs elsewhere.

su root
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
vi /system/etc/hosts
?androidsdk.ads
dd
?mydas.mobi
dd
:wq
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Kukussi:
I know absolutely nothing about rooting, radio's and flashing ROM's... But I feel compelled to root my phone an run a custom ROM. I'm a bit (a lot) afraid to screw up my phone like I've read a few places that people didn't have signal cuz of the radio they installed!

I know that there's no Telus official ROM and whatever RUU is, available so what can I do to unroot and go back to what I use now as rom and everything else???

Anyways, what's the worst that can happen once rooted???

HTC HERO

Firmware 1.5

baseband version 63.18.55.06

Kernel 2.6.27

builld # 2.73.661.46
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Kukussi:
Ok I downgrade my phone, now on RUU 2.73.405.5 but I can't connect to the internet using my network??? what do to?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Thiesen:
The worst that can happen is that you get a very expensive brick...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] craig0r:
You've probably lost your APN settings. Two things you can do here.

1) Search for the APN settings for your carrier, or post your carrier in the forums and someone will post them for you. (Although, I'm assuming you're on Telus... give me a few minutes and I'll find a thread with the Telus APN settings.)

or 2) Now, install a custom Recovery Image (Amon's Recovery 1.6.2 can be found in the Hero Android Development forum), then flash a custom ROM which includes a large APN list. Although, AFAIK, Telus isn't included in any of the custom ROMs... so you're back at step 1.

EDIT: Here are the Telus APN settings: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=4897152&postcount=14

You can edit them from Home -> Settings -> Wireless & Networks -> Mobile Networks -> Access Point Names

(At least that's how you do it in an Eclair ROM... I forget the exact menu items for a Cupcake ROM.)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] kriEv:
You know what, after all the custom ROMs i installed, i never had the APN re-configured, however, with the last 2 i installed (BeHero and Villain5.2) after the initial setup, i power cycled the phone (pulled out battery for 2mins) and the APN got pushed back to the phone.

Anyways, its always handy to have that APN written down but im starting to think after the phone gets registered, upon a reboot it gets pushed to the phone!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] kriEv:
And about if you ever want to unroot, just install an official RUU. Telus will release an official one when they release 2.1

I wouldnt do it, because we don't know how hard/complicated its going to be to root a device using 2.1 yet. Once the official rom is released, its gonna be a question of hours before a Dev will release a new build with the ''official'' base software to make it a fully functioning rom
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Kukussi:
Thanks for all the help guys, I really appreciated... It's all done now, I rooted my hero without any problem. I've also completed a Nan Droid backup and saved it to my computer cuz I know I'll screw something up soon! LOL Now I'm just all confused cuz I'm a retard when it comes to flashing custom ROM's ( meaning I have no clue which one to flash) any advices?

It just need to be stable, better then Telus 1.5 and not to complicated.

Cheers

kukussi
[Hero, G2 Touch General] kriEv:
Get VillainRom 5.2. It's running 2.1 with Sense. So far it's the best 2.1 rom out there. It will get laggy at some times, bear with it, they all do. Because the current 2.1 rom don't have the correct kernel and that will come with the official release.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=654030

And once the official release is out, wait a few hours for them to release a better version
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Kukussi:
I've PM you there KriEv. just need a few pointers again... lol
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Kukussi:
SD Card

Hey guys one more question. I"ve loaded Vilain ROM 5.2 and I love it.. My question is can I put another SD card in my phone or I have to keep the one I created a gold card with? Or can I create another GoldCard and put that one in, I used the 2gb one that Telus gave me with the phone but I want to use a 8gb...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] maxisma:
You can exchange it ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Neo Cortex:
What's the worst that can happen?

Well a couple of days ago this guy in Iceland was trying to root his Hero when it started smoking. Now there's an enormous cloud over much of Europe which is stopping 1000's of flights. Be very careful.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] DaanJordaan:
hmmmmmm bricks:)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Kukussi:
?

I exchanged my card but had trouble mounting it on my computer, it appears to work for now! Since I'm new to this any files I should keep on my SD card in case something wrong happens? I've kept my NanDroid backup but nothing else.

What would be the steps to take if I wanted to go back to the ROM I had before loading VillainROM 5.2
[Hero, G2 Touch General] nicknyhk:
just run the nandroid back up...it will put whichever rom u backed up....
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Kukussi:
thx

thx guys, any other suggestion for a 2.0 or 2.1 ROM that doesn't have Sense that wouldn't drain my battery in half a day? lol

cheers

HTC Hero, running VillainROM 5.2
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Orionscrest:
I'd suggest giving this one a go, was good to me but I missed the SenseUI too much lol

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=662476
[Nexus One General] tchan012:
I have a AT&T Nexus one (rooted) which developed trackball issues. The trackball got stuck and would keep throwing me into fastboot upon reboot. I could plug it in and fastboot reboot via PC, but then it would only boot into safe mode.

So I called it in, asked for a device exchange....did not discuss bootloader status (was not asked, did not volunteer). Got my replacement the next day! (awesome). Put stock recovery and ROM and Shipped back the old one - checked status on service site - it was initially set to we have received it, to now it says

Status:	We have completed your case. If you can help us improve our service, or would like to comment, please contact HTC customer service representatives.

Service Type:	Repair

Service Model:	C4-On site exchange

Failure Description:	cx track ball isnot working properly.

So looks like HTC honored the warranty. the whole process was extremely painless. A+ customer service, if you ask me!

Anyway, thought I would paste it here for people who are a) in a dilemma to unlock the bootloader or not or b) are in the same boat I was in.
[Nexus One General] x986123:
Just rooted my AT&T Nexus one, and I hope that if anything does happen, I can have it replaced as seamless as yours!
[Nexus One General] krabman:
I have yet to see a single person on any website with a legitimate hardware issue fail to get warranty coverage. Not saying it hasnt happened but I have been heavily searching these forums and others recently as I made up my mind to buy in and I have not seen it. Some have had to revert to Google but overall it seems to me Google should get kudos for what appears to be a reasonable and fair look at the problems and acting accordingly.
[Nexus One General] h2opoloplyr_11:
And that makes sense, rooting your phone wont cause your trackball to get stuck.

Again, you did agree to voiding the warranty when unlocking the phone. But im glad google/HTC are reasonable enough to honor hardware failures like that even if its rooted. Thanks for the FYI.
[Nexus One General] norman505:
how do you check for the status? i can't find the website any where
[Nexus One General] tchan012:
the link was in the email they sent confirming the receipt of the old phone.

you need an HTC ticket no and can check it here

http://tracking.e2e.asia.htc.com/ViewTicket.aspx
[Nexus One General] irishrally:
HTC denied me warranty service at first due to the unlocked bootloader. A forum member that works for the Google sales team helped me out and got them to reverse the $196 charge for excessively dusty screen.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xarvox:
I would love to be able to use my phone as a bluetooth keyboard and mouse for my media center (ps3, xbox media center), but cannot find any info about this..

I guess it would be up to the bluetooth drivers, and to my understanding, that was the big issue with bluetooth file transfer on pre 2.x android roms.

So i wonder, is this at all possible?

I am no programmer, so i couldnt possibly do this myself, so the question is merely hypothetical.

It would be nice to use the hero screen as a multitouch trackpad for my htpc with two finger rightclick and scroll as on my macbook but that would probably be asking for too much ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] craig0r:
I'd say it's possible, but I doubt that those BT profiles are included in the SDK, so it wouldn't be easy at all. It might only be possible on rooted phones.

A multitouch trackpad for a PC wouldn't be hard at all. I had an app like that (I can't remember what it was called, and it certainly wasn't as good as a mac's trackpad) but it worked over WiFi instead of bluetooth. I think it had keyboard as well... hmm..
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kendong2:
Gmote does this, although i can't recall whether it supported MT. and i can't get the server to start on my pcs anymore, it is throwing some java errors, but i had it working in the past, and it was kinda decent as a touchpad.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nxtwrld:
Gmote has similar features, but it does act like generic bluetooth keyboard to be hooked with any bluetooth device, that support bluetooth keyboards. You have to install the server side part, which is not possible for devices like WDTV Live, which I would like to use.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mljjlm:
If you want to control your xbox media center you could always search for xbmc-remote on the market.. I'm pretty sure it's for WiFi only though.. :/
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilovirus:
Mobile as bluetooth mouse/keyboard

As of now I could connect S60 device as mobile to laptop.

but its little bit unstable, let see how it goes with mobile as bt keyboard and mouse as well.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acey_zero:
BlueputDroid does this. It is working for me to use my Backflip as a BT keyboard for my Nook Color (though it's a little quirky for me)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Midnitte:
Just had this idea, glad to know that it works!
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rfboogaloo:
Not as standard

Just for info - it requires a rooted phone with a custom ROM like Cyanogenmod to work
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] riahc3:
Damn doesnt work on Windows 7
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrOtsKrad:
Thanks for that info, I was wondering the same thign for the NookColor :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pupetto75:
Are u looking for a mouse in phone? I did not follow the thread but if u need that u can find different app in android market such as v:mote or ' mouse in blue'

hope this help
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrewSCS:
Hey all, new here, havnt searched your entire site for this yet, found this thru the goggles so sorry if considered old thread....

Anyone have updated info on this? I want to use htc desire g7 on android 2.2. to type on xbox, anywhere on xbox, like an always on handy dandy controller...

I can only seem to dig up (and been trying for a little while now) info on tethering your xbox TO your 3g android...

or stuff kinda but not really...

thanks nd look forward to learning a ****load of stuff on this site!!

(i love first time posters, so innocent, and polite, and freakin woooorddyy)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darwinjobd:
"GENERIC bluetooth mouse/keyboard"

Note "generic" word in the initial post. That means no server applications. I suppose it should work like this: I run the app on my android device and then my pc (or whatever) should be able to detect new bluetooth mouse/keyboard. Does such app exist?

I have searched google play and found nothing. Such app would be extremely useful, I would buy it immediately!
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zildcrab:
Advanced Touchpad(Remote Mouse)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darwinjobd:
+++g e n e r a l+++

Crap - requires a server.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skitzophrenick:
I think you mean it requires a client. If you want a service without a server, you are doing it wrong.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darwinjobd:
I mean it requires custom application running on the computer. That is not generic bt, so its crap.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psychoboust:
UP

I'm also looking for such apps but can found, any update ?

Thks
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tijs14tijs:
I have rooted cyanogenmod 10.1.2 on my galaxy s, but this application does not work.

I get WARNING: BLUETOOTH STACK HAS DIFFERENT IMPLEMENTATION
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bunanson:
Thanks. That works, but with quirks :(

Go google play, download, install. Pair your BT cellphone, and connect and viola, you now have a keyboard for your tablet. My cellphone is a Kyocera Rise, has only 3 rows and a space bar. And so that is all the keys I have, no numeral or symbols. I gues, it works, depends on your cellphone's keyboard. Thanks for the good find. I really enjoy playing it with my old cellphone, in particular, it use your cellphone screen as a mouse pad, it is kind of fun. Too bad, no numerals. Otherwise it is a perfect software for this purpose

bun
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] attorianzo:
Hi all,

I want to use my android phone as a keyboard for another android phone.

Is Blueputdroid good for this? I don't have a rooted device!
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adxandroid:
You could try 'True Mouse/KB' in play store, it adds Bluetooth HID device profile to your phone.

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.z2software.btpluginhidd
[Windows Mobile] Lechux:
Hi,

another problem from me :o I'm cooking 6.5 version (not 6.5.x) and every task manager I include is making strange bug.

If I tap on its small icon (top-right) instead of showing me some memory info the htc notifications comes up :rolleyes: Sometimes if I close the "noti" I can see the taskmgr's info, but it is not what we used to ;)

SYS build is 21896, manila 2012. Tested on X2 task manager, htc task manager 2.1 and some older htc task manager

Any advice? Thanks
[Windows Mobile] + Que PPC:
I didnt use those task managers but maybe is due to the notifications and or taskmanager versions
[Windows Mobile] Lechux:
I used

Notification_Enhancement_2_0_1919_3225

Notification_Enhancement_3_5_20113824_00

Notification_Enhancement_TEST_3_5_19222911_00

everytime same issue :o but If I didn't include HTC noti everything was working fine. Are htc notifications dependent on any other package?
[Nexus One General] hah2110:
I created an event on my "calendar" on my phone (not my touchdown exchange calendar) and have notifications set up properly, but they never fire. It has been three days and it is a recurring item that should fire daily. Any clues? I'm on enom's ROM.
[HD2 General] CDurham221:
I am looking for a TMobile account app that will work on the hd2. there was an app for windows mobile but it doesnt sync up with the hd2 just says cannot retrieve account info and theres no menu to try to set it up.

Thank you in advance
[HD2 General] RKnight1983:
here you go
[Desire General] jayshah:
Does anyone else have an issue with random things not working, a reboot fixes that but breaks something else.

- no pinch zoom in maps

- cannot purchase market apps

Now the latest one is "manage applications" is just force closing. Even my G1 was more reliable in this respect.

Any insight would be appreciated.
[Desire General] cez10:
had my phone for about 2 weeks now and apart from contacts problem which reboot fixed and a random turn off, didnt have any problems so far, guess yours could be faulty?
[Desire General] SamE:
When I change keyboards I sometimes lose pinch to zoom and have to reboot, but other than that don't have any problems.

Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Desire General] CharlieCharlie24:
The paid apps depends on what country you are in

http://market.android.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=143779
[Desire General] jayshah:
This could be it.

I'm in the UK. A reboot fixed the issue, as it always does.
[Desire General] ritdaw:
Try this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=664578
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xelasfx:
Recently I decided to update my phone from cupcake to Super D 1.10.3 and I've been getting a problem where my phone would randomly turn off mostly when I'm talking on the phone or when it uses data. I noticed that this problem never occurs when it is hooked up to power though. I also noticed that the battery level are showing strange %s all the time. It would go from like 80% then when it randomly shuts off automatically go into red, to the point where I can't reboot my phone without power. I've tried about 4-5 different roms, reinstalled the radio/SPL but still have the same issue. Hopefully somebody here can help me figure out what is wrong because I don't believe it's a battery issue as it works almost perfectly sitting idle.

Thanks !
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OG:
That kept happening to me. I decided to brick it, but it died off on it's own and never turned on so it saved me some trouble.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AroundTheWorld:
most likely a battery problem i believe. happened to me and i simply replaced the battery.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] el-zilcho:
Try wiping the battery stats and dalvick cache in recovery . Fix permissions . It may be a widget acting up .
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Binary100100:
I always blame it on the widgets.

What do you have on the screen. Most of the time when it does that it's because of a kernel panic. Too much going on at once can cause the device to crash.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xelasfx:
right now the only widgets are power control, and beautiful widgets. I'll try to get rid of power control, hopefully it works! if not i'll call tmobile for a new battery
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Binary100100:
Let's try clearing your dalvik-cache.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xelasfx:
-_-, i'm kind of a noob so i'm not sure how to do that
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AroundTheWorld:
go into recovery (assuming you have amonra's) and go to wipe, then theres an option to clear dalvik-cache.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xelasfx:
so far nothing seems to be working =\