Guest Ernoke Posted November 9, 2010 Report Share Posted November 9, 2010 Guys, is there any way to disable/remove ads displayed when using some free applications? As far as I can see, its some android/google service, so maybe on a rooted phone with a patched library it might be possible to disable them all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest craigwn Posted November 9, 2010 Report Share Posted November 9, 2010 search for 'Adfree Android' on the market, you need to be rooted for it to work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Carbonize Posted November 9, 2010 Report Share Posted November 9, 2010 Not sure if it's related but after installing AdFree my GPS was worse than ever before. I did single fix via the GPS Test menu in the hidden menu and got a zeros for both the azimuth and altitude of the satellites :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest RottenFoxBreath Posted November 9, 2010 Report Share Posted November 9, 2010 (edited) Not sure if it's related but after installing AdFree my GPS was worse than ever before. I did single fix via the GPS Test menu in the hidden menu and got a zeros for both the azimuth and altitude of the satellites :| Just replace System/Etc/Hosts, with a hosts file of your choice, with any file explorer, like root explorer, or Astro, etc. No app needed..just unzip and replace.....its easy. I've attached the latest one from the site I use, and it can be used for both phone and pc. The site is here! for future referencehosts.zip Edited November 9, 2010 by RottenFoxBreath Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Carbonize Posted November 10, 2010 Report Share Posted November 10, 2010 I actually don't like using preset blocking lists or even things like SpyBot as they add thousands of domains to your blocked list but I've actually been bored enough to go through them one day and quite a sizeable amount were no longer active domains. What I am saying is whilst they actively add to the lists they never go back and check if any can be removed. That and a lot of the domains listed on the hosts file you have suggested are actually blocked as they try to install malware to your Windows OS and so no real need to block them on Android. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest goatee Posted November 10, 2010 Report Share Posted November 10, 2010 There are two options - firstly, pay for the applications that aren't ad supported - if you like the app, why not support the developer? If that isn't possible (like with my favourite game - 250+ solitaire), use tasker to turn off data when you run those apps. (Though if you have an aversion to paying for apps, that won't work, as you need to pay for tasker :rolleyes:). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Carbonize Posted November 10, 2010 Report Share Posted November 10, 2010 Except neither of your options would help with saving data usage when surfing the net. Ad removal does not just apply to the ads in apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ASY9650 Posted November 10, 2010 Report Share Posted November 10, 2010 Except neither of your options would help with saving data usage when surfing the net. Ad removal does not just apply to the ads in apps. This is true, but the poster asked the following, Guys, is there any way to disable/remove ads displayed when using some free applications? As far as I can see, its some android/google service, so maybe on a rooted phone with a patched library it might be possible to disable them all... No offense he was referring to removing ads with free applications :rolleyes:. So the above may in fact be a valid response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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