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I am running into an issue - curious if anyone else has had/seen the issue and knows of a fix. I have been using AdBlock on my phones for a long time. AdBlockPlus now on my Nexus 5, regardless of which list I select, any configuration and whether on WiFi or mobile data - doesn't matter, if I have AdBlock running, I cannot send or recieve MMS on my device. I have tried 5 different messaging apps including Hangouts and non of them work. I have this same problem running CM11 or KitKat, ROM doesn't seem to matter.
Anyone seen this?
FourPointedFreak said:
I am running into an issue - curious if anyone else has had/seen the issue and knows of a fix. I have been using AdBlock on my phones for a long time. AdBlockPlus now on my Nexus 5, regardless of which list I select, any configuration and whether on WiFi or mobile data - doesn't matter, if I have AdBlock running, I cannot send or recieve MMS on my device. I have tried 5 different messaging apps including Hangouts and non of them work. I have this same problem running CM11 or KitKat, ROM doesn't seem to matter.
Anyone seen this?
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Never tried ABP on my Android devices, so sorry, can't confirm. But if you are rooted, you could try adaway instead - I now that it doesn't cause any issues with sending/receiving MMS or any other issue (none that I can tell anyway)
jj14 said:
Never tried ABP on my Android devices, so sorry, can't confirm. But if you are rooted, you could try adaway instead - I now that it doesn't cause any issues with sending/receiving MMS or any other issue (none that I can tell anyway)
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+1 for Adaway. Never have any issues with that on my N5.
charesa39 said:
+1 for Adaway. Never have any issues with that on my N5.
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jj14 said:
Never tried ABP on my Android devices, so sorry, can't confirm. But if you are rooted, you could try adaway instead - I now that it doesn't cause any issues with sending/receiving MMS or any other issue (none that I can tell anyway)
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I guess I will have to try AdAway, it hasn't worked as well for me in the past but with this issue ABP is having, I'll have to settle. I have never had issues with ABP, especially it affecting something like MMS.
Thanks for the advice.
FourPointedFreak said:
I guess I will have to try AdAway, it hasn't worked as well for me in the past but with this issue ABP is having, I'll have to settle. I have never had issues with ABP, especially it affecting something like MMS.
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Assuming you are rooted, it is fairly straightforward. I've had an error in applying the updated lists once - but a reboot fixed that. Other than that, it works fine. No issues with ad blocking.
I did have to put in a whilelist of several redirect sites - when I click on a link at SD or FW, they redirect to the destination thru' an intermediary site (for revenue I think). AdAway blocks those redirects, so had to add those sites to the whitelist tab in adaway.
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Assuming you are rooted, it is fairly straightforward. I've had an error in applying the updated lists once - but a reboot fixed that. Other than that, it works fine. No issues with ad blocking.
I did have to put in a whilelist of several redirect sites - when I click on a link at SD or FW, they redirect to the destination thru' an intermediary site (for revenue I think). AdAway blocks those redirects, so had to add those sites to the whitelist tab in adaway.
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The issue isn't with ad blocking, it's with MMS also being blocked. That's the deal - no matter what I do to prevent it, AdBlockPlus still blocks it. A few emails exchanged and apparently it's a reoccuring issue with their most recent update. The developer for ABP says they've got a bug logged and working on fixing it.
I can confirm that"AdAway" works with no issues
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I'm so glad I found this thread, thank you! I couldn't figure out why, for the last few weeks I was having one helluva time with my picture messages! Removed adblock and they're back to working.
Adblock doesn't work with anything newer than and including Android 4.2.2 anyways.
There's an inofficial Adaway thread here in the forums with a modified version of Adaway which handles installing any updates better.
The reason MMS is being blocked is because in your APN settings MMS is set to port 80.
Changing the MMS port from 80 to 8080 resolves this issue.
I was thinking about purchasing it but was wondering what the experience is like with custom ROMs and/or just stock with root. Since it's an antivirus app and is kind of expensive, I thought it might be beneficial to find out if anyone has had issues with it in those circumstances and specifically with the Moto X. Do you have Eset and a custom ROM or a rooted phone?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eset.ems2.gp
Why would you even consider an antivirus app? Stick to officially recognized app distribution channels and there's nothing to worry about.
nhizzat said:
Why would you even consider an antivirus app? Stick to officially recognized app distribution channels and there's nothing to worry about.
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Actually, the primary reason I want it is for the ability to create whitelists for texting. I'm hoping it's pretty solid in that area.
Edit: I am open to suggestions for other options that provide text whitelisting by the way. My issue is I get a lot of spam from different numbers and need to block texts for everything except about 50 numbers.
I've spent literally days and days reading through threads about various ROMs, I'm hoping someone who has more experience with OPO ROMs than me can point me in the right direction - looking for a solid ROM with these features baked in:
Good ad blocker
Privacy guard
Best or close to best battery life
Can set system font
Solid : doesn't crash or have nasty wakelocks / memory leaks - want a phone that spends most of it's time nicely SLEEPING when it's in my pocket
Most of the ROMs I've looked at seem to be missing one or more of those basic features? I was thinking CM 12S will be good, but then was reading about layers and they were saying the CM theme engine is not so good in terms of security or efficiency compared to the layers theming system?
I like CM 11S pretty well at this point, but I realy want to get behind (support/use) a great ROM that comes with something like AdAway pre-installed because I want to see good ad blockers included (built into) more ROMs and I want to support that. It's deeply discouraging to me when I can't find a great ROM with ad blocking baked in. Same with Privacy Guard - I don't think any ROM should come without Privacy Guard or equivalent baked in!!!
Thank you so much for your help/advice - believe me, I HAVE searched and read many threads, but I expect there are thousands of other people who have had their OPOs for weeks or months longer than me and can give me some solid advices!
Please resist the urge to simply tell me "Just try ROMs for yourself bro!" - I have done that before (on my Galaxy S3) I probably tried about 30 - 40 diff ROMs on that phone. At the moment, I look and read when I can, but before I flash I'd like to know if there are least a couple that at least have those basic features, and if not, I wonder why?
My best guess at this point is, I will need to stay with CM 11S and ad Xposed? I used Xposed a couple different times, but most recently it broke - the device still works, just Xposed was no longer compatible once it got an OTA update... I haven't put Xposed on my OPO yet as I didn't have much time for making backups/restoring re-flashing the phone in case it gets messed up because I have my kids over spring break for the next week and a half.
The only issues/missing features I'm currently experiencing with 11S are: haven't figured out how to set my system font (or perhaps my old type of font file is no longer compatible?), don't have adds blocked in apps yet, and I want to change the color of my clock in the status bar. I will go ahead and read through threads about putting Xposed on OPO - hopefully it can be added on 11S without causing any glitches?
Oh, and my [stock/unlocked/rooted CM11s] phone is not yet working for LTE - I have Walmart Family Mobile and I recently read that they have begun supported LTE. Sometimes it's just 3G and sometimes it's H+. I will call their support sometime over the next couple days because so far all I did was move the SIM card from my S3 to the OPO and perhaps it's not properly "provisioned(?)" for LTE yet? I say that because I watched one video on Youtube where a guy had to take his OPO to the AT&T store and put his SIM card in another LTE phone, then when he put the SIM back in the OPO, LTE started working on it.
Try Vanir-Exodus, there's a link to it in my signature. It has all those features except setting the system font (which I think you'll have a hard time finding as a stock feature in a ROM anyway), and the battery life is fantastic. Plus, it's mostly original development unlike a lot of the other ROMs out there which just cherry pick commits.
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Thank you for responding timmaaa,
timmaaa said:
Try Vanir-Exodus, there's a link to it in my signature. It has all those features except setting the system font (which I think you'll have a hard time finding as a stock feature in a ROM anyway), and the battery life is fantastic. Plus, it's mostly original development unlike a lot of the other ROMs out there which just cherry pick commits.
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I was all set to try Exodus - but then I read some users mentioning some problems, and I think there was some important feature(s?) I wanted missing, so then I thought - oh, well I'm actually mostly happy with 11s.
The only things missing from 11s for me ATM are 1)haven't found how to change the system font yet,Adaway doesn't seem to block all the in app ads, and it doesn't come with Xposed "baked in".
If Exodus comes with Xposed pre-installed, then wouldn't that let me change the system font?
Basically I want to: set different system font, make the status bar clock green, and not give up Privacy Guard or Profiles - and of course not have to use a ROM with poor stability or poor battery life. My purpose is for the phone to be most enjoyable and useful to use, not to try a different ROM each week and find lots of bugs/glitches/wakelocks/missing features. I went through that with the S3...
critofur said:
Thank you for responding timmaaa,
I was all set to try Exodus - but then I read some users mentioning some problems, and I think there was some important feature(s?) I wanted missing, so then I thought - oh, well I'm actually mostly happy with 11s.
The only things missing from 11s for me ATM are 1)haven't found how to change the system font yet,Adaway doesn't seem to block all the in app ads, and it doesn't come with Xposed "baked in".
If Exodus comes with Xposed pre-installed, then wouldn't that let me change the system font?
Basically I want to: set different system font, make the status bar clock green, and not give up Privacy Guard or Profiles - and of course not have to use a ROM with poor stability or poor battery life. My purpose is for the phone to be most enjoyable and useful to use, not to try a different ROM each week and find lots of bugs/glitches/wakelocks/missing features. I went through that with the S3...
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Honestly, I haven't had a single issue on Exodus. It doesn't come with Xposed pre-installed, but I'm not sure any ROM actually does. It has Privacy Guard, and it has Profiles. Battery life is excellent and it's as stable as they get.
Blisspop, or basically any ROM with CM themes do let you change the system font (it's part of themes).
like Team Nocturnal's latest ROM. Smooth, no bugs other for me. Never tried to set the font as of yet.
Every 5.1 or higher ROM I've tried had been buggier than EVERY 5.0.2 or 4.4.4 ROM I've tried.
I'm really hoping that some 5.1.x ROM comes out soon without apps crashing, graphics glitches, or wakelock problems.
critofur said:
Every 5.1 or higher ROM I've tried had been buggier than EVERY 5.0.2 or 4.4.4 ROM I've tried.
I'm really hoping that some 5.1.x ROM comes out soon without apps crashing, graphics glitches, or wakelock problems.
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I've tried several 5.1 ROMs that are completely bug free, you might need to look at your setup.
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I've tried several 5.1 ROMs that are completely bug free, you might need to look at your setup.
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Which ROMs?
"Setup"? You're not suggesting that I should try without choosing a more reasonable DPI or give up on using the system font that I always use, or put up with ads or wakelocks, are you? Those are what I see as "basic and essential features".
I do "clean" installs and the only app I restore using Titanium Backup is "A Better Camera Unlocked". I use features such as Profiles, Users, and (hopefully) the ROM's built-in AdBlock (otherwise I use AdAway).
If a ROM requires that a third party patch be used to fix wakelock problems, then I'd consider it an "Alpha" at best?
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Which ROMs?
"Setup"? You're not suggesting that I should try without choosing a more reasonable DPI or give up on using the system font that I always use, or put up with ads or wakelocks, are you? Those are what I see as "basic and essential features".
I do "clean" installs and the only app I restore using Titanium Backup is "A Better Camera Unlocked". I use features such as Profiles, Users, and (hopefully) the ROM's built-in AdBlock (otherwise I use AdAway).
If a ROM requires that a third party patch be used to fix wakelock problems, then I'd consider it an "Alpha" at best?
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No I'm not suggesting that at all. I use a custom DPI (370). I use Adaway. I don't use a custom font though. Keep in mind that certain DPI's can and do cause major issues, so you might need to tweak that a little. As far as wakelocks go, no, I wouldn't consider them an Alpha at all. Wakelocks can be found in stock ROMs from the major OEM's, and isn't always caused by the system, quite often they can be caused by third party apps, and apps from within the gapps package.
Go to this thread in the General G4 Q&A forum. I don't want to have to update threads in multiple forums.
A US Cellular user reported that they still received an update even with LGDMSClient.apk blocked.
I've suggested more files to block to prevent updates, and posted a list of all the files I'm currently blocking in that thread. I update the lists as I find more files to block so check back occasionally.
I read the information on debloater. It claimed that it required root access so I didn't give it a shot.
Now the update forced on me today.
Jammin72 said:
I read the information on debloater. It claimed that it required root access so I didn't give it a shot.
Now the update forced on me today.
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Root required to uninstall the packages, but you can block/disable them without root. Debloater gives you access to block more packages than you can see in Settings - Apps.
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Root required to uninstall the packages, but you can block/disable them without root. Debloater gives you access to block more packages than you can see in Settings - Apps.
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Not for me. I tried using Debloater and it said that my phone did not support root or blocking and quit. Not sure what the issue is.
Which carrier/model # is your phone?
Did you install the LG United Mobile Driver?
So far so good for me , thanks for the links.
For AT&T LG G4 Drivers go here, then download and install the "LG United Mobile" driver.
I'm currently looking to see if the GNSS stuff disabled by phineous (as seen attached in his post) will have any effects on the GPS / Google Maps.
Thanks again!
Budde13 said:
I'm currently looking to see if the GNSS stuff disabled by phineous (as seen attached in his post) will have any effects on the GPS / Google Maps.
Thanks again!
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I used Google Maps and Waze all day today and didn't notice any problems or GPS location issues. This is on an AT&T H810 so other variants could have issues though.
I only blocked the LG GNSS file because it appeared in many bloatware lists for other phones and I saw it running and using a bit of memory from time to time. I do tend to block first and ask questions later!
Please post your results!
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I used Google Maps and Waze all day today and didn't notice any problems or GPS location issues. This is on an AT&T H810 so other variants could have issues though.
I only blocked the LG GNSS file because it appeared in many bloatware lists for other phones and I saw it running and using a bit of memory from time to time. I do tend to block first and ask questions later!
Please post your results!
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Oh sweet, did not know that (still a noob). BTW, used gps today with GNSS disabled, worked fine. What little problems I did notice was accountable to weather conditions.
Battery life is now vastly better! :good:
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Battery life is now vastly better! :good:
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Glad it helped! Please post if you find any problems. Let others know how to prevent updates to ensure their ability to root!
I also got the error message saying I could not remove to block, but i still seemed to be able to disable. Does anyone know what the terminology difference is between "disable" and "block" with regards to this app?
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I also got the error message saying I could not remove to block, but i still seemed to be able to disable. Does anyone know what the terminology difference is between "disable" and "block" with regards to this app?
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I think when the dev says block Debloater removes the package from the phone to a backup on the computer, but this requires root.
Disable works for non-rooted phones and seems to prevent the package from running similar to what you can do to most apps in the Apps menu.
Hi,
I search around Google and XDA and found nothing. Seems I'm the only one with the problem. Here goes...
So wanting to explore the "Start TB Web Server". I can start it and it gives me a host of ways to chat to it. In my case it is running at 192.168.1.7:8080. But when I hit that URL in my browser I get the dreaded "Titanium Backup has stopped..." and that's as far as I get.
I've tried this on multiple phone - HTC One M8 (running CM 12?) and Samsung Galaxy S7 running SupermanRom.
Everything else in TB is running fine. I can connect to both of these phones via AirDroid so I know it isn't some sort of firewall related problem.
Any advise?
Not just you
I'm experiencing the same problem.
Do you use a cracked version?
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Do you use a cracked version?
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Nope, I have the full version.
I am a Paid Pro version user as well running TBU on a SM-N900T running the TWRP recovery and LineageOS Nightly 14.1 ROM. The app crashes as soon as you attempt to connect. All other functions I have used seem to work. I would really like to transfer the backups to my PC.
How are you guys even attempting to access the web server once it's running. The links it's generating don't really look like web addresses to me, and entering them in a browser just gives an error, because they're not actual web addresses.
Hi there,
I'm seeing the same issue.
Has there been a fix for it?
Hi. Chiming in to say I experience the same issue.
Nexus 6P, LineageOS 15.1, EX Kernel, Rooted.
Same here, Galaxy S4 Mini, Linage 15.1 - has anybody found a solution yet?
Same issue here!
It's weird that this issue exists for 3 years for now and never fixed !!
I'm running Pixel 2 xl with PixelDust (Android 10).
same here
I've also seen this!
Same here. I assume that there have been some API changes made in newer versions of Android that cause it to break.