DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK! It’s not my fault if you’re abducted by s.
I was doing the following on FP1, I tried it on FP2, but calling “su” on step 5 did not work. So I just added one initial step to root the phone. The rest of the procedure is stricly identical:
I just updated the tutorial, adding one required initial step to root the FP2.
As @paulakreuzer mentioned, I used Kingroot and so far it worked perfectly.
Oh yes, @paulakreuzer, you are right. Maybe @Antoinet can add the disadvantages of KingRoot to his post? (NOT open-source (you don’t know what it’s doing exactly), using security vulnerabilities for rooting, IMEI (and propably other sensitive data) is transmitted to developer (in China))
There could be (maybe) a non-root alternative using a local fake VPN (only supported over Lollipop, I think).
NetGuard is an example. It’s main use is to block network traffic for particular apps (or all), but latest version (0.83 as today) has the ability to use a host file downloaded from an URL (I’m currently using the AdAway one) and a strangely disabled option for upload a local hosts file (maybe an upcoming feature?).
@Roboe Interesting, but I still prefer using the hosts file since I spend too much time on news websites, and blocking it from the host file is actually the best way I found to fight procrastination!!!
@paulakreuzer Thanks for the (much) safer alternative, and not that difficult!
I wanted to update step 7 to:
mount -o rw,remount /system
But it seems that I can’t edit the post anymore, could you do it for me?