You can find the latest version of this app on the slideme app store.
http://slideme.org/application/adfree
This is the old thread, I started a new thread in the general section => http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40759351
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Spoiled by ad free browsing on my normal desktop computer it became increasingly annoying seeing all the ads on my phone. However it's really easy to make them disappear, although you most likely will need root on the phone.
Download the hosts.txt file from http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt, you may need to run dos2unix over the file to remote \r characters, rename the file hosts and copy it to /system/etc on your phone and say goodbye to most ads.
You may find the list to be imperfect, for example some feedburner URLs are "blocked" as a result which can screw with RSS feeds, although it's annoying giving too much info to Google but like everything else in life some things are a trade off.
If you want to root your phone, try this article.
Thanks for this!
As soon as I read the topic title I realised what you were doing and I never thought of it myself.
My hosts file was /etc/hosts though, not /system/etc/hosts
Dark X Dragon said:
As soon as I read the topic title I realised what you were doing and I never thought of it myself.
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I've been using this technique for a bit, just didn't think to post about it before did a quick search and noticed no one else had so thought I might as well
My hosts file was /etc/hosts though, not /system/etc/hosts
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Doesn't seem to matter, I just checked the /etc dir and it has the same hosts file.
Actually, /etc is a symbolic link to /system/etc, so your hosts file is really at /system/etc -- however, accessing the file through either path is equivalent.
Ha ha hosts exists on android!? I had no idea. I'm also a spoiled ad-less pc user. This is great. Thanks.
If you can't download the file above (it appears as text in browser), replace .txt with .zip at the end of the url. This will download the zip file which u can later unzip with an unzip app in the market.
Ok. I can't paste over the original hosts file using the phone? Astro and lynda file managers don't do it for me. And yes I am rooted, running 1.5 dudes build. Can this be done only from a PC?
ShatBag1105 said:
Ok. I can't paste over the original hosts file using the phone? Astro and lynda file managers don't do it for me. And yes I am rooted, running 1.5 dudes build. Can this be done only from a PC?
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You have a couple of options, you can download the terminal app from the market and use it, or you can use ADB to shell into the phone, or wait for someone to code an app to do it all for you.
For the time being go with installing terminal, then type 'su' to become root. That is unless you have a copy of adb handy, if you can 'adb shell' the following commands are the same, except you can copy and paste.
Then remount the system partition read-write.
Code:
mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
Then you go into the etc dir
Code:
cd /system/etc
Then you can rm the hosts file
Code:
rm hosts
Then grab the hosts.txt file
Code:
wget http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt -O hosts
Always more than one way to skin a cat, but the above works for me(tm)
lbcoder said:
Actually, /etc is a symbolic link to /system/etc, so your hosts file is really at /system/etc -- however, accessing the file through either path is equivalent.
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Ugghh, I read that ages ago but really didn't commit it to memory. It is now. =)
There's a fair chance I won't get around to it but I'm tempted to take this ad blocking further. Namely an automatic app but there might be more to add to it.
Thanks for the help delta. I figured it had to be done in terminal. And you know, this would definitely become very popular as an app.
I'm a dummy its etc not ect
delta_foxtrot2 said:
Then grab the hosts.txt file
Code:
wget http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt -O hosts
Always more than one way to skin a cat, but the above works for me(tm)
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(I am using the terminal program on the phone)
Until the above step, no problems
After typing in the above I get the following message:
"bad address "www.mvps.org"
I checked for typing errors, tried it 3 times but get the same error message
Any suggestions please?
thanks
nyayo99 said:
(I am using the terminal program on the phone)
Until the above step, no problems
After typing in the above I get the following message:
"bad address "www.mvps.org"
I checked for typing errors, tried it 3 times but get the same error message
Any suggestions please?
thanks
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Try it without the http://www. It might work like that. This is a lot harder than it should be lol. The g1 is putting up a fight!
ShatBag1105 said:
Try it without the http://www. It might work like that. This is a lot harder than it should be lol. The g1 is putting up a fight!
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Thanks, but this didn't work either.
Some googling indicated a possible DNS issue.
So I looked up the IP address (209.68.48.119), substituted that into your instructions and presto, everything worked!
Many thanks for the ad killer option for the G1
Aah beautiful work. Just to clarify for newbs like me. The last line is (# wget http://209.68.48.119/winhelp2002/hosts.txt -O hosts). Make sure that -O hosts is a captialized O.
ShatBag1105 said:
Aah beautiful work. Just to clarify for newbs like me. The last line is (# wget http://209.68.48.119/winhelp2002/hosts.txt -O hosts). Make sure that -O hosts is a captialized O.
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Yes, capital letter o, lower case o stores the output of wget into the file which isn't the desired outcome
I plan on suggesting the following URLs to the hosts.txt guy to block admob ads in apps
p.admob.com
analytics.admob.com
r.admob.com
In the mean time you can manually add it to the hosts file yourself, just copy and past from another line.
After updating the hosts file you may need to reboot or wait for the hostname to expire from the internal lookup cache, unless someone knows a quick way to flush the cache to speed up the process that is.
Thanks for this. Worked great for me. Very helpful tutorial.
Just uploaded "AdFree" to android market, this does all the steps I laid out manually at the touch of a button.
Its funny how
127.0.0.1 localhost
is the only thing blocked in the /system/etc/hosts file. lol.
andonnguyen said:
Its funny how
127.0.0.1 localhost
is the only thing blocked in the /system/etc/hosts file. lol.
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That isn't "blocked" and in fact nothing gets blocked by the hosts file it just points hostnames to the local system, which usually has no web server running so the connection fails immediately.
However you MUST have localhost listed or various things will fail and cause all sorts of issues.
New version of AdFree is now up, I have the app adding the admob hostnames to the bottom of the list.
Related
I looked and searched and looked again, I cant find that dang Myfaves thread with the .apk and how to install and uninstall it.
I jumped on the unlimited minute plan and need to delete the Faves app. Im doing the typical uninstall commands but it says its a read-only file.
Is that thread still around? Or can someone give me the correct code to take it off my phone
phatmanxxl said:
I looked and searched and looked again, I cant find that dang Myfaves thread with the .apk and how to install and uninstall it.
I jumped on the unlimited minute plan and need to delete the Faves app. Im doing the typical uninstall commands but it says its a read-only file.
Is that thread still around? Or can someone give me the correct code to take it off my phone
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its read-only soooo switch to read-write
Code:
adb remount
and then just remove like normal
I use SUFBS, and you can make files rw from there without using commands. It makes things easier.
can you give the whole code to enter in the terminal?
phatmanxxl said:
can you give the whole code to enter in the terminal?
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in the recovery console (it saves a long command)
Code:
mount system
rm /system/app/appname.apk (or whatever the directory the file is stored in)
reboot
Who knows if this is the right sections but, I need some quick help on a shell script to run on my phone. Two questions:
How do I change the following script to search recursively through folders for *.lm and chmod them?
Code:
#!/sbin/sh
for file in /data/app/*.lm ; do
chmod 0644 $file
done
I can't find a switch to search recursively... did I look hard enough?
Second, is there any way that I could find all files in a specified directory (e.g. /test/*.jpg) that were created in timeframe relative to now (e.g. in the last 10 mins)? I want to chmod those too so would need to be able to pass $file.
Now I know the first one's easy so am crossing fingers for a quick reply, thanks in anticipation.
You're trying to make that way harder than necessary.
chmod 0644 /data/app/*.lm
GldRush98 said:
You're trying to make that way harder than necessary.
chmod 0644 /data/app/*.lm
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I did a poor job of shortening my example above really, it looks stupid upon reflection (I didn't notice that when I first posted it ) chmod is originally part of a larger process that I run on each file in a directory (and want to include subs), I need/want to complete one before I start the next.
The recursive thing is hurting me at the moment though.
Try this, and if the output looks right, change "echo" to "chmod 0644"
Code:
for file in $(find /data/app -iname *.lm); do echo $file; done
fubaya said:
Try this, and if the output looks right, change "echo" to "chmod 0644"
Code:
for file in $(find /data/app -iname *.lm); do echo $file; done
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Nice, thank you I was not seeing the wood for the trees. I appreciate the fresh perspective.
Well it's not perfect. I tinkered around with it and it doesn't seem to work if you are in the /system/app directory. In fact, "find *.apk" (I used apk since I don't have any lm files) is the only thing that seems to work, and I don't know if it's recursive without testing more. It also doesn't work if you're in the /sdcard or /etc directories and probably others but I gave up testing after those two. Very annoying. I hate busybox and wish someone would port the real gnu tools to Android so we didn't have to use it.
EDIT: To be clear, while it doesn't work as it should, it works perfectly if you "cd /" then do the commands.
Anyway, "find --help" should help with the second part of your question. It looks like "find -mmin 10" may be what you want.
fubaya said:
Well it's not perfect. I tinkered around with it and it doesn't seem to work if you are in the /system/app directory. In fact, "find *.apk" (I used apk since I don't have any lm files) is the only thing that seems to work, and I don't know if it's recursive without testing more. It also doesn't work if you're in the /sdcard or /etc directories and probably others but I gave up testing after those two. Very annoying. I hate busybox and wish someone would port the real gnu tools to Android so we didn't have to use it.
EDIT: To be clear, while it doesn't work as it should, it works perfectly if you "cd /" then do the commands.
Anyway, "find --help" should help with the second part of your question. It looks like "find -mmin 10" may be what you want.
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Thanks man. I have to agree that whilst busybox is great (and necessary) it seems to have some quirks. I even got the dir wrong in my example, there should only ever be apk's in /data/app - I am searching /data/data/.
I thought I encountered the same as you above last night but I was tired and just stopped... I ran it against /system/ on a fully booted phone and it didn't seem to produce the result I expect but in recovery it did... ? (I changed the sh location as required).
Either way, you've been a great help to move me forward, thanks!
Does anyone have the correct /system/build.prop file for the Motorola droid so you can access all the apps in the market place ?
bump, anyone...?
lilhill said:
bump, anyone...?
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I'm looking at how to do this too?
I can't post a link bc I'm a new user, so Google "bgill55 market fix" and click the first result - should say something like "Leaked Version Froyo Market Fix - Team Chaos - AllDroid Public ..." The link is to an AllDroid forums thread.
If you haven't registered for those forums, do so. Then download the .zip file in the first post and flash it using SPRecover (rename to update.zip) or just use ROM Manager/Clockwork. It work for me without a hitch and now I can see all of my apps
Brand new as of this morning build.prop
this version of the file is easy to load(more or less) it will set your version and fingerprint to look like stock OTA frg01b
open a terminal window
su
mount -o remount ,rw /system
cd /system
chmod 666 build.prop
open astro and copy from the zip file to /system
return to terminal
chmod 444 build.prop
reboot
Need stock FRG22D build.prop
If anyone could post the stock OTA build.prop from FRG22D i would be greatly in your debt, either post the file here or put it up on paste bin or something please...
SCORE!!! found the finger print the rest is easy, if you have followed what i posted before and have the /system remounted as read/write edit the build numbers everywhere you see them, i used astro for the editor and change them to FRG22D once you get to the finger print the good part is the 50454 bit you will see 2 places to put that new print. happy marketing
ro.build.fingerprint=verizon/voles/sholes/sholes:2.2/FRG22D/50454:user/release-keys
adb shell, sqllite, build prop...Any other non-tech major people around here a little lost?
I'm rooted. I don't want the new update. I can follow directions but would be more comfortable if some basic instruction were written. Treat me like I'm 10.
It looks like the best way to do this is as follows:
"From this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=874871
Attached is a working sqlite3 binary.
Copy it to /system/bin
(I transfered it to my SD, then used rootexplorer (mount R/W) to copy into /system/bin))
you will now be able to edit sqlite databases on the nook itself.
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Attached Files sqlite3.7z (11.9 KB, 56 views)
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In your terminal:
$ adb pull /data/data/com.bn.devicemanager/databases/devicemanager.db devicemanager.db
$ sqlite3 devicemanager.db
sqlite> update registry set value='manual' where name='com.bn.device.fota.mode';
sqlite> .q
$ adb push devicemanager.db /data/data/com.bn.devicemanager/databases/devicemanager.db
$ adb reboot
"
Do I unzip the attached binary and paste that into the location or the .zip as a whole? What do I use as a terminal?
I've been flashing my DROID since day one but the NC development circle has been far from entry level user-friendly. Any help would be appreciated.
you can do it on windows too.
1) pull/get/copy the.db file from your phone to your pc
2) update the database file using sqlitebrowser. I.e run the sql command "update ......". Close sqlitebrowser.
3)push/put/copy the updated .db file to the same location overwriting the original.
britoso said:
you can do it on windows too.
1) pull/get/copy the.db file from your phone to your pc
2) update the database file using sqlitebrowser. I.e run the sql command "update ......". Close sqlitebrowser.
3)push/put/copy the updated .db file to the same location overwriting the original.
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Progress. However...
I got SQLite on my PC. I found the devicemanager file on my NC, pasted it to my SD card for transfer over to my PC for editing. I trasnferred the file over to my PC for editing. I open SQLite but have no idea how to use it.
I just did this today using sqlite editor only!!! Its a GUI so it real simple to use.
1.Install the apk
2.reboot
3.go to extras and launch sqlite editor
4.allow it, give it the permision it needs
5.look for DeviceManagerService
6.click on devicemanager.db
7.click on registry
8.look for _id 7, name>>>> "com.bn.device.fota.mode"
9.scroll to the right and click and hold value field "auto", until a little pop up shows and select edit field
10. Change the value from auto to manual
11. Save
Done!!!
If you need the apk here is a link I just made
?d=LTSQDZ65 for megaupload (sure u guys can piece it together!)
Let me know if it helped anyone!
Yes, we totally need another thread on this. I must note that pushing the build.prop in my thread and my two Nook Colors have not updated. Dunno about this method or others. Caveat emptor!
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you. Very simple.
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Thanks for breaking it down for us, nookme.
Do we need to do this if we are operating from an SD bootable Froyo or CM7 ROM?
tablo said:
Thanks for breaking it down for us, nookme.
Do we need to do this if we are operating from an SD bootable Froyo or CM7 ROM?
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In theory it should work for both, whether its a soft root mod or simply a bootable sd card that emulates froyo... It's a matter of just having root access and changing a registry setting on the device itself. Hope this shines some light! happy rooting ppl
Not noobie enough for me, sigh
So, if I have followed these directions from an earlier post have I messed something up? Not blocked updates at all? I don't understand the directions in this thread. What happens if I don't block the update? There must be a lot of people like me who had the technical skills to manage the root process but don't understand all of your coded instructions. I read in another thread that I should do a Titanium backup. How does that help after an update? Will market aps that have already been downloaded still work? Will everything revert to stock? Could someone explain what we should expect? Thanks!
To disable OTA (over the air) updates:
Change the name of this file: otacerts.zip to anything else
To do this, get root explorer ($3) from the market
Run root explorer
Go to etc/security/otacerts.zip
Hit the little mount button near the top to change r/w to r/o
Rename the file otacerts.zip to otacerts.zip_DISABLED_OTA_UPDATES
Hit the little mount button again to change r/o back to r/w
Droiddict said:
So, if I have followed these directions from an earlier post have I messed something up? Not blocked updates at all? I don't understand the directions in this thread. What happens if I don't block the update? There must be a lot of people like me who had the technical skills to manage the root process but don't understand all of your coded instructions. I read in another thread that I should do a Titanium backup. How does that help after an update? Will market aps that have already been downloaded still work? Will everything revert to stock? Could someone explain what we should expect? Thanks!
To disable OTA (over the air) updates:
Change the name of this file: otacerts.zip to anything else
To do this, get root explorer ($3) from the market
Run root explorer
Go to etc/security/otacerts.zip
Hit the little mount button near the top to change r/w to r/o
Rename the file otacerts.zip to otacerts.zip_DISABLED_OTA_UPDATES
Hit the little mount button again to change r/o back to r/w
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If you read this >> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1007551
you will see that the sqlite method is used by many and is the simplest way too, again this is a GUI, so no shell command line... How can this be difficult??
Just follow my steps... it works
I have had nothing but problems with my rooted NOOK Color due to B&N auto updates. I followed your instructions and now I hope my problems are resolved and my NOOK Color will never update again.
Thank you
I did some some searching to no avail. Does anyone have an exchange email apk that is hacked so you don't have to use a PIN? Thanks
I would also like this for the Verizon Moto X.
There's a xposed module " by pass exchange email” but I have no idea if it works
Sent on my Moto X
The xposed bypass doesn't work I have tried it.
sent from my rooted at&t moto x
I know how to crack the Email.apk but only if it has the Classes.dex file in the APK. The one for verizon does not. Is this due to it being odex'd?
corywf said:
I know how to crack the Email.apk but only if it has the Classes.dex file in the APK. The one for verizon does not. Is this due to it being odex'd?
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Haha. If I could answer that I probably wouldn't have to request the .apk. Hopefully some folks chime in.
thepolishguy said:
Haha. If I could answer that I probably wouldn't have to request the .apk. Hopefully some folks chime in.
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lol yeah that's what I was hoping too. I'd like to get rid of the pin lock.
You have to deodex the apk. I had to re-install windows and don't really feel like doing anything right now.
Make sure adb is working test using adb devices. If you see a device your good. Also make sure you have Java installed.
Create new dir in your C:\ name it what ever in this case MotoX
Create two more dir's inside the MotoX dir
Framework
Apps
So you should have;
C:\MotoX
C:\MotoX\Framework
C:\MotoX\Apps
run these two commands using adb.
Code:
adb pull /system/framework C:\MotoX\Framework
adb pull /system/apps C:\MotoX\Apps
Download these two files attached.
baksmali.jar
smali.jar
Place them in C:\MotoX so like
C:\MotoX\baksmali.jar
C:\MotoX\smali.jar
In cmd prompt run these commands.
Code:
cd C:\MotoX
baksmali.jar -a 15 -x C:\MotoX\Apps\filename.odex -d C:\MotoX\Framework
This will create a folder called "out" so you will see this
C:\MotoX\out
THIS OUTPUT IS SMALI, YOU CAN MAKE CHANGES BEFORE COMPILING TO DEX.
To make this into a dex you run this in cmd
Code:
cd C:\MotoX
smali.jar out -o classes.dex
Copy C:\MotoX\Apps\filename.apk to C:\MotoX
Open filename.apk with 7-Zip, drag and drop classes.dex into the main dir of the 7zip apk.
You have a deodex apk.
Wow!
amoamare said:
You have to deodex the apk. I had to re-install windows and don't really feel like doing anything right now.
Make sure adb is working test using adb devices. If you see a device your good. Also make sure you have Java installed.
Create new dir in your C:\ name it what ever in this case...
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Boom goes the dynamite!
corywf said:
I know how to crack the Email.apk but only if it has the Classes.dex file in the APK. The one for verizon does not. Is this due to it being odex'd?
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@corywf - Will this post help you create the hacked .apk?
amoamare said:
You have to deodex the apk. I had to re-install windows and don't really feel like doing anything right now.
Make sure adb is working test using adb devices. If you see a device your good. Also make sure you have Java installed.
Create new dir in your C:\ name it what ever in this case MotoX...
...You have a deodex apk.
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thepolishguy said:
@corywf - Will this post help you create the hacked .apk?
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Also I didn't really spell check any of this so make sure you manually type it out and that your dir references are correct.
amoamare said:
You have to deodex the apk. I had to re-install windows and don't really feel like doing anything right now.
Make sure adb is working test using adb devices. If you see a device your good. Also make sure you have Java installed.
Create new dir in your C:\ name it what ever in this case MotoX
Create two more dir's inside the MotoX dir
Framework
Apps
So you should have;
C:\MotoX
C:\MotoX\Framework
C:\MotoX\Apps
run these two commands using adb.
Code:
adb pull /system/framework C:\MotoX\Framework
adb pull /system/apps C:\MotoX\Apps
Download these two files attached.
baksmali.jar
smali.jar
Place them in C:\MotoX so like
C:\MotoX\baksmali.jar
C:\MotoX\smali.jar
In cmd prompt run these commands.
Code:
cd C:\MotoX
baksmali.jar -a 15 -x C:\MotoX\Apps\filename.odex -d C:\MotoX\Framework
This will create a folder called "out" so you will see this
C:\MotoX\out
THIS OUTPUT IS SMALI, YOU CAN MAKE CHANGES BEFORE COMPILING TO DEX.
To make this into a dex you run this in cmd
Code:
cd C:\MotoX
smali.jar out -o classes.dex
Copy C:\MotoX\Apps\filename.apk to C:\MotoX
Open filename.apk with 7-Zip, drag and drop classes.dex into the main dir of the 7zip apk.
You have a deodex apk.
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so I have accomplished all of this. I am currently working on the email.apk. there is also the exchange2.apk that i believe will need to be edited as well.
When I edited the email apk a couple of years ago I just went to these lines and returned true and false. These lines check to see if the policies are enabled I believe.
Code:
.method public isActive(Lcom/android/emailcommon/provider/Policy;)Z
.registers 1
.parameter "policy"
.prologue
const/4 v0, 0x1
return v0
.end method
.method public isActiveAdmin()Z
.registers 1
.prologue
const/4 v0, 0x0
return v0
.end method
I then tried to recompile it and i got an error stating that two registers were required for one of the two changes. I haven't looked at which line yet because I know I don't know enough to figure out why it needs to registers. Here is the error.
Code:
c:\MotoX>java -Xmx512M -jar smali.jar out -o classes.dex
out\com\android\email\SecurityPolicy.smali[1659,4] This method requires at least
2 registers, for the method parameters
so this is where i am and this is what im stuck on. Ill attach the entire smali file so anyone that can help can take a look at the entire code. Ill also attach the security admin smali in case that matters.
Ill also begin working on the exchange apk, but this apk didn't exist the last time i did this so I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it. Like I said, Im not good at this stuff I just really want an exchange security bypass for my Moto X.
edit: Verizon Moto X
If your exchange server only checks for pin on setup, try this:
adb shell
sqlite3 /data/system/locksettings.db
update locksettings set value=0 where name='lockscreen.password_type';
.exit
exit
That will set the lock to slide.
thepolishguy said:
I did some some searching to no avail. Does anyone have an exchange email apk that is hacked so you don't have to use a PIN? Thanks
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There's already an email apk in xda but you must be rooted
Sent from my Nexus 4 using XDA Premium HD app
icase81 said:
If your exchange server only checks for pin on setup, try this:
adb shell
sqlite3 /data/system/locksettings.db
update locksettings set value=0 where name='lockscreen.password_type';
.exit
exit
That will set the lock to slide.
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Ill try that later in the week when I have more time. I don't have the accounts set-up yet. But that workaround seems like it would still cripple some of the touchless control functionality. Appreciate the help though. It will be better than nothing when I finally decide to install these stupid exchange accounts.
paulo_cv said:
There's already an email apk in xda but you must be rooted
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which apk's are you talking about? i tried two that I found on xda. The thread had 3 apk variants for 4.1 4.2 and 4,3. I tried the 4.2 and 4.3 apk's but they both crashed immediately on boot.
steps taken:
1.renamed email.apk, email.odex, exchange2.apk, exchange2.dex with ".bk" at the end instead of deleting them so i could undo what i did as easy as possible.
2. moved the new Email.apk and Exchnage2.apk from sd card to system/app
3. chmodd 755 both apk's
4. rebooted
RESULT: got constant failures notifications that exchange server had failed an email had failed. the email app would not open into anything.
link to the apk's I used: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1749921
The apk's are located in the zip files so I just pulled them from there.
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jayboyyyy said:
Ill try that later in the week when I have more time. I don't have the accounts set-up yet. But that workaround seems like it would still cripple some of the touchless control functionality. Appreciate the help though. It will be better than nothing when I finally decide to install these stupid exchange accounts.
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It should have no affect on the touchless. Essentially, if you have it set to slide lock screen anyway (the default out of the box), you set up your account, set a pin/pattern/password/whatever. Once the account is setup and synching, you can run the above commands, which merely sets the value in the DB back to slide without actually turning off 'pin' in the settings. Apparently, the app only looks at the settings, not in the DB. I had to do this because I work for a certain 3 letter company (Think Watson), and we use Lotus Notes. To use them on a phone, they have ridiculous 8 character password requirements with a 30 second timeout as well as making them device administrators despite it being MY phone. I set it up, run the above commands, and its back to just being how I like it with no password to unlock. Their software thinks I'm in compliance, and I can do my job all the more easily.
icase81 said:
It should have no affect on the touchless. Essentially, if you have it set to slide lock screen anyway (the default out of the box), you set up your account, set a pin/pattern/password/whatever. Once the account is setup and synching, you can run the above commands, which merely sets the value in the DB back to slide without actually turning off 'pin' in the settings. Apparently, the app only looks at the settings, not in the DB. I had to do this because I work for a certain 3 letter company (Think Watson), and we use Lotus Notes. To use them on a phone, they have ridiculous 8 character password requirements with a 30 second timeout as well as making them device administrators despite it being MY phone. I set it up, run the above commands, and its back to just being how I like it with no password to unlock. Their software thinks I'm in compliance, and I can do my job all the more easily.
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i see what you did there. will work on it right now. I was thinking you were changing the pin lock to just a swipe unlock but the phone would still assume it was a lock (which is why i was thinking touchless controls would still think that it was locked) but the way you explained it makes clears it up. Thanks for the quick response and easy workaround. Ill be needing to ask you for the correct code once 4.3 comes out though...
This is the one I use. You must remove exchange accounts before flashing and download the appropriate one for your android version
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1749921
I've been using it for a while with different devices/ROMs
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paulo_cv said:
This is the one I use. You must remove exchange accounts before flashing and download the appropriate one for your android version
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1749921
I've been using it for a while with different devices/ROMs
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yup yup. those are the ones i tried already. Ran the 4.2 variant and the 4.3. I ran the 4.3 because the apk's are named the same as the apk's on our 4.2.2 where as the hacked 4.2 apk's are not the same name. But neither worked anyway so it didn't really matter. They wouldn't even run. It could be because "chmod 755" didn't do the correct permissions??? I didn't go in and check to see what permissions were actually given to the apk's after i moved them from the sd card to the system/app directory and ran chmod 755.
jayboyyyy said:
yup yup. those are the ones i tried already. Ran the 4.2 variant and the 4.3. I ran the 4.3 because the apk's are named the same as the apk's on our 4.2.2 where as the hacked 4.2 apk's are not the same name. But neither worked anyway so it didn't really matter. They wouldn't even run. It could be because "chmod 755" didn't do the correct permissions??? I didn't go in and check to see what permissions were actually given to the apk's after i moved them from the sd card to the system/app directory and ran chmod 755.
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If you flash them through a custom recovery the installer takes care of the permissions. I've never tried to push them manually so not sure if that works
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