S-Voice, which was working well on my S3 classic for months, and actually being quite useful, has now stopped. Connected via BT, I can't even get it to transcribe words when creating a text. Just tells me an error occurred, try again later.
In standalone, it does contact the "hearing" server and transcribes text, but no commands work -- can't set an alarm, send a text to a contact, make a call, anything, via voice input.
Samsung Pay stopped working at the same time. It can't be a coincidence.
Tried resetting S3 completely and re-pairing, delete the Gear app from my G8+, no joy. Only time anything worked was after resetting watch then setting it up standalone without pairing with the phone. Got ONE command to work (show reminders), but that was it. After that, just got "an error has occurred...".
Any ideas?
Try turning off your ad blocker if you're running Adguard. I had the same problem while running it.
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Try turning off your ad blocker if you're running Adguard. I had the same problem while running it.
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interesting. Maybe that's why it won't work on my watch. If I had to choose between S voice & Adguard, I'd choose Adguard. The data savings alone, blocking the garbage is worth it to me.
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Try turning off your ad blocker if you're running Adguard. I had the same problem while running it.
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Tried that, S-voice started working. You know how to leave adguard running, but exclude the S-voice/gear or whatever app so S-voice will work?
I went through the log on Adguard, cleared it, then turned it on, ran s-voice, looked at the domains filtered, whitelisted them, turned adguard back on, still didn't work.
Nevermind...in Adguard, under app management for gear s plugin, uncheck the route app traffic through adguard. NOW, it is working.
TIA
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Try turning off your ad blocker if you're running Adguard. I had the same problem while running it.
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That was it!
Same as Samsung pay… You have to take the Samsung pay gear plug-in out of the monitor and Biad guard I also took out the Samsung pay framework and the local Samsung pay app on the phone just to be safe. Samsung pays starts working again.
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I have a GS3, running 4.3 (old&slow version w/lean kernel). I have a Fios Actiontec router.
I'm having constant communication between my Chromecast and my Android phone and it's causing wakelocks on my phone (my phone won't sleep, so it's killing the battery faster).
The Plex app constantly communicating with my Chomecast and causing a wlan_rx_wake kernel wakelock.
I haven't run plex today at all and my plex server PC is off.
I ran a network traffic logger and I see 2 entries constantly.
Plex SRC 192.168.1.127 DST 239.255.255.250
Kernel SRC 192.168.1.127 DST 192.168.1.116
192.168.1.127 is my Chromecast IP and 192.168.1.116 is my phone IP.
If I force close plex, it stops temporarily, but plex soon gets loaded again and starts the communication over.
Same thing happens with the Vevo app, which is chromecast enabled as well. I've tried disabling both UPnP and IGMP Proxy, but nothing changed.
What's going on here? How can I get this to stop? It's preventing the phone from going into deep sleep.
Anyone have any ideas at all here?
I see the same thing does not happen with my HTC One S.
lexluthor said:
Anyone have any ideas at all here?
I see the same thing does not happen with my HTC One S.
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Chromecast known for draining battery on phone due to the fact that Chromecast apps are not completely closed (even they're not in use - in the back ground and not casting). Give this a try; Make sure you terminate (close them AND remove them from the background) all Chromecast apps like Songza, Avia etc... and remove Chromecast setup app. Good luck.
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Chromecast known for draining battery on phone due to the fact that Chromecast apps are not completely closed (even they're not in use - in the back ground and not casting). Give this a try; Make sure you terminate (close them AND remove them from the background) all Chromecast apps like Songza, Avia etc... and remove Chromecast setup app. Good luck.
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Don't think there's really any easy way to stop them from running. Even after a fresh reboot Vevo starts right up. If I kill it, it'll start up soon enough again.
Seems like Plex and Vevo in particular have this communication. Pandora does not.
Think it's something between the phone and the router since it doesn't happen on my HTC One S.
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Don't think there's really any easy way to stop them from running. Even after a fresh reboot Vevo starts right up. If I kill it, it'll start up soon enough again.
Seems like Plex and Vevo in particular have this communication. Pandora does not.
Think it's something between the phone and the router since it doesn't happen on my HTC One S.
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Well in this case have you try Greenify the Chromcast apps??
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Well in this case have you try Greenify the Chromcast apps??
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I'm actually playing around with that now. Neither Plex or Vevo seems like it will hibernate on it's own though. If I manually hibernate, it does block the traffic, but after I run, then exit the app, they never go back into hibernate.
If they did, that might be a very workable solution. I posted in the xda thread for Greenify.
Still, that's just a workaround. Wondering if there's some kernel setting on the phone or some setting on the router that would actually fix the issue.
You could combine tasker with greenify to hibernate apps when screen goes off or when you go to the home screen.
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I'm actually playing around with that now. Neither Plex or Vevo seems like it will hibernate on it's own though. If I manually hibernate, it does block the traffic, but after I run, then exit the app, they never go back into hibernate.
If they did, that might be a very workable solution. I posted in the xda thread for Greenify.
Still, that's just a workaround. Wondering if there's some kernel setting on the phone or some setting on the router that would actually fix the issue.
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Have you remove the apps in question??
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Have you remove the apps in question??
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Yes, that stops the packets immediately. But, I want to use those apps.
Since the apps don't cause the problem on my other phone, I think it's something specific to this phone/kernel.
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Yes, that stops the packets immediately. But, I want to use those apps.
Since the apps don't cause the problem on my other phone, I think it's something specific to this phone/kernel.
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I thought once you setup you don't need them apps anymore??
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I thought once you setup you don't need them apps anymore??
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No, I want to use/keep Plex and Vevo on the phone.
And as I suspected, Greenify isn't the greatest option here as if I'm watching a movie via and the screen goes off, Greenify closes Plex and then if i want to pause/stop, I have to open plex and reconnect it to the chromecast. I lose the lockscreen/notification bar controls.
Really need to figure out a way to the underlying issue here, I think.
How can I force a specific app not to use mobile data but only WIFI?
My use case is:
I like reading news through Play Newsstand, but it uses up way too much data for my plan... I would be happy to let it sync every night through WIFI and then just read the stuff from yesterday, without it constantly pulling new stuff using tens of MBs.
Any way to do that without using flight mode every time??
Thanks!
Disable background data on the app
Settings > Data > choose app then restrict background of said app.
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Disable background data on the app
Settings > Data > choose app then restrict background of said app.
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I looked at that already, but for example today I see 25MB of Foreground data and only 5MB of background data, enough to make me think that the effect of that flag would be minimal.
In fact, the most data is downloaded while I use the app rather than in background.
Anything else I could try? I am also rooted.
Hmm, Xprivacy (xposed module) may work although I have never personally used it. But from what I have read about it, it restricts app data etc. Give it a whirl and see perhaps?
The play newsstand app has it's own setting:
'Download via Wi-Fi only'
Does this not work as advertised, or am I missing something?
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The play newsstand app has it's own setting:
'Download via Wi-Fi only'
Does this not work as advertised, or am I missing something?
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It does not unfortunately
That flag only controls how data is synced in the background, but my problem is when I actually open the app to read the news. In that particular moment it starts downloading all news (and images) for the feed I open every time, and that generates tens of MB of mobile traffic.
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It does not unfortunately
That flag only controls how data is synced in the background, but my problem is when I actually open the app to read the news. In that particular moment it starts downloading all news (and images) for the feed I open every time, and that generates tens of MB of mobile traffic.
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you could get a firewall program (maybe you'll need root for it), and block it from accessing 3G (but allow through wifi)
then use tasker to turn on wifi when you are using the app. this way, the app will never use 3G
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Hmm, Xprivacy (xposed module) may work although I have never personally used it. But from what I have read about it, it restricts app data etc. Give it a whirl and see perhaps?
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you could get a firewall program (maybe you'll need root for it), and block it from accessing 3G (but allow through wifi)
then use tasker to turn on wifi when you are using the app. this way, the app will never use 3G
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Thanks for the suggestions.
I could try both, but waiting for Android 4.4.3 to install Xposed.
If any of those can do "Prevent app XYZ from using mobile data" then it's fine.
Xprivacy could be a better choice as it doesn't sound like it's going to use up as much cpu/mem/battery as a firewall.
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Thanks for the suggestions.
I could try both, but waiting for Android 4.4.3 to install Xposed.
If any of those can do "Prevent app XYZ from using mobile data" then it's fine.
Xprivacy could be a better choice as it doesn't sound like it's going to use up as much cpu/mem/battery as a firewall.
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i'm using Xprivacy... XPrivacy isn't completely foolproof either.
there's an option to block "internet".
In android, you can call "isConnected()" function to check if you are connected, and then not do anything. XPrivacy overrides that function and can return "false".
however, apps can "ignore" or not use those functions, and just force it's way to connect to the internet. it can still succeed (you can test to see if this happens)...
firewall shouldn't be using a lot of your CPU cycles...
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i'm using Xprivacy... XPrivacy isn't completely foolproof either.
there's an option to block "internet".
In android, you can call "isConnected()" function to check if you are connected, and then not do anything. XPrivacy overrides that function and can return "false".
however, apps can "ignore" or not use those functions, and just force it's way to connect to the internet. it can still succeed (you can test to see if this happens)...
firewall shouldn't be using a lot of your CPU cycles...
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Thanks.
Could you suggest a firewall app in particular, considering that I don't need advanced functions at all, but merely the bit to turn mobile data off?
Gatz said:
It does not unfortunately
That flag only controls how data is synced in the background, but my problem is when I actually open the app to read the news. In that particular moment it starts downloading all news (and images) for the feed I open every time, and that generates tens of MB of mobile traffic.
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Lol 'Download via Wi-Fi only' is a misleading setting!
Another possible way, xposed and 'App Settings' module, could also prevent internet access I believe, but not sure if it can specifically block mobile only.
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Lol 'Download via Wi-Fi only' is a misleading setting!
Another possible way, xposed and 'App Settings' module, could also prevent internet access I believe, but not sure if it can specifically block mobile only.
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FYI, AFWall+ seems to work just fine!
I will also maybe try Xprivacy when 4.4.3 comes out and I will install Xposed.
So far, happy with the firewall approach, might come in handy for more apps that I want to prevent from using up data when underway.
So I finally have it and as a female it's huge. But that aside I swear I was able to answer skype messages and such on the S2. To verify this i looked online and many people were happy this worked, so thus confirmed. But on my S3 despite having turned on notifications for skype it doesn't work. Notifications for it never pop up.
I have the Frontier lte on att. BT enable cell network enabled. Can someone please help Me? I have a disabled family member who only uses skype messaging for communicating. For some reason I thought this would work especially since I can turn on the notifications and it worked on the S2.
Thank you very, very much.
Have the same problem, the available option is only check on the phone.
Any thoughts?
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I was able to get my apps working where I could respond to them by making them work even if I was using the phone. I had to set my Gear S3 where cellular was always on, and I also downloaded the android wear app. Tried to connect it to the gear s3 so it would at least be set up. Gave it notification permissions in lock screen and security settings/other settings/notification settings (Note 7, don't judge lol) check android wear. By doing this I can respond to apps without buying other apps like notification something or another...lol...I respond to Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, Letgo, Skype, or any messenger. Problem I'm having is that you cannot initiate any of those apps from watch...smdh
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I was able to get my apps working where I could respond to them by making them work even if I was using the phone. I had to set my Gear S3 where cellular was always on, and I also downloaded the android wear app. Tried to connect it to the gear s3 so it would at least be set up. Gave it notification permissions in lock screen and security settings/other settings/notification settings (Note 7, don't judge lol) check android wear. By doing this I can respond to apps without buying other apps like notification something or another...lol...I respond to Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, Letgo, Skype, or any messenger. Problem I'm having is that you cannot initiate any of those apps from watch...smdh
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Hey, how did you connect your watch to android wear app?
I installed the app on my phone selected my S3 in the pairing screen, i got as far as entering the PIN to pair the bluetooth but since then the app says "trying to connect..."
You do not need to connect your watch to the android wear app. Just install android wear app, use it in Emulator mode. Then go in and give it permissions.
So after upgrading to marshmallow Portal doesn't work. It keeps trying to download even though everything been downloaded and then says there was an error. I've uninstalled and reinstalled a few times and each time it installs it downloads the data fine and let's me play. Once I close it and reopen it it does the same download and fails. Turning off wifi makes it work but that's annoying.
Is there a way to just stop the app from accessing internet as of my wifi was off?
Hawkhell said:
Is there a way to just stop the app from accessing internet as of my wifi was off?
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Of course! Netguard. The best firewall for Android.
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Of course! Netguard. The best firewall for Android.
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I tried all those apps and it still has the download and fail crap. I spend over an hour last night using all of those apps.
Did you configure Netguard properly?
I believe so. I'm fairly sure I've tried everything with the app. I tested it on Facebook and Facebook wouldn't connect.
You should block WiFi and mobile by default. Also, show and edit system apps! Maybe the game uses a system app to go online.
Looks like it uses Google Play services.
Anyone have any luck running adhell on this phone? Was going to email the dev and see if they want to check it out.
Kept giving me an RILNOTIFICATION (Radio Interface Layer Notification) after installed and even after removing. Kept causing me huge data griefs and mobile data would only work when it felt like. Would throw up error lte : ESM - 31 EMM - X as well all the time.
If you tried it and are having trouble, you HAVE to reset your mobile data with ##72786#. I found trying to reset it any other way didn't work.
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Anyone have any luck running adhell on this phone? Was going to email the dev and see if they want to check it out.
Kept giving me an RILNOTIFICATION (Radio Interface Layer Notification) after installed and even after removing. Kept causing me huge data griefs and mobile data would only work when it felt like. Would throw up error lte : ESM - 31 EMM - X as well all the time.
If you tried it and are having trouble, you HAVE to reset your mobile data with ##72786#. I found trying to reset it any other way didn't work.
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no problems here, installed, accepted the knox stuff, seems to be working. It isn't blocking the adds i get on the home screen of CM Browser though, or an add i just had in Tube Map so not sure how effective it is, i havent used it before yesterday. It is definitely blocking some ads though.
I'm running it just fine.
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Working fine here.
how are you seeing the error? I have it installed and haven't noticed any issues and seem to be working most of the time.
Got an email back from the developer, he said there does seem to be an issue with some carriers. He said he knew for sure now T-mobile appears to have trouble with it (hes getting reports of the same errors I am getting) and I have sprint and let him know.
My stuff still is acting goofy even after the reprovision. Also reset network settings and rejoined my current wifi network and completely reset up wifi calling and it will not work at all. I've never had it not work on this network. worked perfect until I installed and setup adhell.
Really wish I had never tried this stupid thing lol. Feel I'm going to be stuck with a restore....
No problems here: S8+ on Verizon.
Working fine on T-Mobile s8+ here.
I've tried adhell and disconnect pro now and both let through too many ads for my liking. on the homepage of CM Browser alone a load of ads get through every time. Never had anything like that on my S5 when I had roted and used AdFree. At this point I am thinking I need to try adguard or adblock plus (that use the vpn method) to see if they are any better as these two just arent blocking enough. The only potential issue with that is how much performance is affected by using those vpn methods, in terms of download speeds and battery life (VPN's use a lotof cpu power due to the encryption).
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Got an email back from the developer, he said there does seem to be an issue with some carriers. He said he knew for sure now T-mobile appears to have trouble with it (hes getting reports of the same errors I am getting) and I have sprint and let him know.
My stuff still is acting goofy even after the reprovision. Also reset network settings and rejoined my current wifi network and completely reset up wifi calling and it will not work at all. I've never had it not work on this network. worked perfect until I installed and setup adhell.
Really wish I had never tried this stupid thing lol. Feel I'm going to be stuck with a restore....
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im on tmo and have no issues using it.
I had it return a couple random times and a profile update would immediately fix it and make it go away for a long while.
adhell must screw with the APNs (seems that way anyway) as I was only having this trouble on one specific APN at this point and only when the phone would decide to change to it. Since I cannot edit or view the APNs, can't say what for sure. I've since done a full settings reset (tried network only and it did zilch) and it's finally stopped completely now going near 20 hours. I have been on this APN since.
Every profile update would change what APN I was using and it'd stop. Same as a reboot or airplane mode. Soon as I switched back to that APN, instant RILNOTIFICATION about no data.
Funny thing is, the data did work, just horribly.
Running on my T-Mobile S8+ with no problems at all. I hadn't used it before, but so far I like it very much.
Keep in mind that Google play music (which happens to be default music player on the s8) needs to be whitelisted in adhell. The program nails up a persistent connection when it can't connect to ad servers and will blow your battery and suck a ton of resources.
Once whitelisted, no issues.
I am very pleased with adhell. Arcitecture is great, utilizes knox f/w and is open source on top of it. I would not trust this kind if stuff to just anyone.
It does a good job paring ads way back.
It seems to work fine with my S8+. I have this app that used to be slow when loading, now it load new contents very fast. Great ad block app.
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Keep in mind that Google play music (which happens to be default music player on the s8) needs to be whitelisted in adhell. The program nails up a persistent connection when it can't connect to ad servers and will blow your battery and suck a ton of resources.
Once whitelisted, no issues.
I am very pleased with adhell. Arcitecture is great, utilizes knox f/w and is open source on top of it. I would not trust this kind if stuff to just anyone.
It does a good job paring ads way back.
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Does disabling google play music stop that? I have it disabled in package disabler anyway.
Also for an open source app, it sure seems to be letting a lot of ads through. I read somewhere it lets ads through from certain providers like adchoices or seomthing. For me it seems to let all the same ads through that disconnect pro does and I see no reason why.
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Does disabling google play music stop that? I have it disabled in package disabler anyway.
Also for an open source app, it sure seems to be letting a lot of ads through. I read somewhere it lets ads through from certain providers like adchoices or seomthing. For me it seems to let all the same ads through that disconnect pro does and I see no reason why.
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You can go to github and open the .json file that contains all of the blacklisted URLs. There are something like 2000.
Re Play Music, I cant see how this activity would resume if you had the package disabled, but I cant confirm you wont either. I can tell you that if it becomes an issue you will know it. I got a warning suggesting to shut the app down a few days ago.
Disconnect Pro uses a VPN, so they proxy all of your data through their machines. I cant say a bad word about them, but this is something that I would look very hard into before doing. Also, I believe you need to pay or use only the Samsung browser which is less than ideal.
I like how adhell is dns based, and utilizes Knox for blocking. I am not suggesting that adhell is the most comprehensive blocker out there but it works well enough and I am comfortable with its architecture.
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You can go to github and open the .json file that contains all of the blacklisted URLs. There are something like 2000.
Re Play Music, I cant see how this activity would resume if you had the package disabled, but I cant confirm you wont either. I can tell you that if it becomes an issue you will know it. I got a warning suggesting to shut the app down a few days ago.
Disconnect Pro uses a VPN, so they proxy all of your data through their machines. I cant say a bad word about them, but this is something that I would look very hard into before doing. Also, I believe you need to pay or use only the Samsung browser which is less than ideal.
I like how adhell is dns based, and utilizes Knox for blocking. I am not suggesting that adhell is the most comprehensive blocker out there but it works well enough and I am comfortable with its architecture.
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disconnect pro doesn't use a VPN it uses the knox firewall to block by dns exactly the same way as adhell does, and in my limited testing it lets exactly the same ads through that adhell does too. I have heard that a lof of these companies get paid by some ad providers to let their ads through (i.e. simply not include their ads in the blocking), and the ads I have seen get through both adhell and disconnect pro have been obvious ads from obvious large ad suppliers which looks highly suspicious to me as there is no reason they aren't in their block list. These are all ads that were blocked on my rooted S5 using Adfree (or adaway i cant remember which one it was but it was a basic hosts file/dns based blocker and no such ads got through).
I looked at their site, the premium product is vpn based, the lower tiers apparently at not.
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I looked at their site, the premium product is vpn based, the lower tiers apparently at not.
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The one on the Galaxy Apps store ("Disconnect Pro Privacy and Performance") is not VPN-based. It does cost money, but it goes on crazy sales once in a while. I got it for a few bucks a year or so ago.
Although I haven't tried Adhell, Disconnect Pro has been flawless for me. No noticeable affect on battery life, zero difference in webpage loading speeds compared to using no ad blocker at all, and no annoying notification icons in the status bar. It works phone-wide, so it blocks ads in all apps. And best of all, root is not required.
I find that even the root-based ad blocking (eg: AdAway) would be a little too overzealous in its blocking and resulted in many video files on websites being blocked entirely just because they would contain an ad before the video. I don't get this problem at all with Disconnect Pro.
If Adhell works the same way that Disconnect Pro does but is free, then that's a win for everybody.
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disconnect pro doesn't use a VPN it uses the knox firewall to block by dns exactly the same way as adhell does, and in my limited testing it lets exactly the same ads through that adhell does too. I have heard that a lof of these companies get paid by some ad providers to let their ads through (i.e. simply not include their ads in the blocking), and the ads I have seen get through both adhell and disconnect pro have been obvious ads from obvious large ad suppliers which looks highly suspicious to me as there is no reason they aren't in their block list. These are all ads that were blocked on my rooted S5 using Adfree (or adaway i cant remember which one it was but it was a basic hosts file/dns based blocker and no such ads got through).
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Reminds me of when apple started letting ad blockers in the appstore for safari. First people charged for the apps, then many deleted them cause they felt bad, others would let select ads through for pay. Was a mess.
I get why websites and businesses want ads, but they are way too intrusive. Like when on youtube and you get stuck watching a min long ad you cannot skip. Those piss me off to no end. Not sure I see them as much anymore.