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Really missing root!

First phone ever that I don't have root right off the bat. Biggest thing for me is all the ads. It's driving me crazy! Anyone have a non root block ads method? I've tried adblock plus and adguard. Neither does the job.

Adguard does if your premium otherwise I believe it's only browser ad blocking
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MrWicked1 said:
Adguard does if your premium otherwise I believe it's only browser ad blocking
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Ah. Didn't know that. Looks like I'm going to have to breakdown and buy the premium

Good recommendation I had never heard of this app. Works great from what I have seen so far. Thanks again!

Yeah I use it on all my devices personally, works well
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Root is the reason I haven't bought the S7 yet. Waiting a few to see if it becomes available. If not, I'll stay with my S4. Pathetic I know lol. But I FINALLY was able to root the S4 on OF1 a couple months ago and there's no way I'm going to go back to a crippled phone.

What kind of ads are you talking about? Ads outside of a standard pop-up in the web browser?

Ads period in browser, free apps that have their ad banners etc
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Like MrWicked says. For example, if you play words with friends, yeah, I know, I'm lame, it has and ad banner as well as an ad after every move. Sometimes it's a video ad and there is no way to just exit or skip it.

There is a link from their site back to the dev link that opens an xda discussion on it's release back in 2014. It's 51 pages long, whew! I'm going to check it out as it sounds very good if it works with my antivirus and firewall, Bitdefender. They may bump heads.
Thanks for the info!

Keyboard lag

Whenever I type. The keyboard feels laggy. As if my typing is two seconds faster than what's showing on the screen. Vibration feedback is also laggy everything else feels snappy. Any idea what the problem might be guys
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Sathyakrish said:
Whenever I type. The keyboard feels laggy. As if my typing is two seconds faster than what's showing on the screen. Vibration feedback is also laggy everything else feels snappy. Any idea what the problem might be guys
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same problem here. even with swiftkey. the problem went away yesterday and now it is back

I get the same behavior. I just ignore it because what I type is usually correct. It's just annoying and throws me off sometimes.

llckll said:
I get the same behavior. I just ignore it because what I type is usually correct. It's just annoying and throws me off sometimes.
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the lag sometimes goes away, sometimes it comes back. using swiftkey. anyone can confirm that other keyboards have the same behaviour? i guess we have to contact samsung and notify them about this

In using the Minuum keyboard now and it seems to have solved the problem guys .uninstalled all the other keyboards I have been trying and also used ez package disabled
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Oh yea .and I uninstalled fb and messenger app and now using tinfoil for fb . Much data and memory and battery friendly .
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RedDevils88 said:
the lag sometimes goes away, sometimes it comes back. using swiftkey. anyone can confirm that other keyboards have the same behaviour? i guess we have to contact samsung and notify them about this
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And please do contact Samsung and tell us what they suggest as a solution. In sure this isn't a hardware issue cause this keyboard seems to have no such lag .
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Update guys I'm using the Google keyboard now and I must say it's showing no lag no matter how hard you type . please try these for yourselves s and post the update
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Sathyakrish said:
Update guys I'm using the Google keyboard now and I must say it's showing no lag no matter how hard you type . please try these for yourselves s and post the update
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don't really like other keyboards than swiftkey. damn the lag is so annoying. nobody has a solution yet?

I haven't found any solution yet .
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Maybe some experts ll come in and drop their valuable suggestions
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Sathyakrish said:
Maybe some experts ll come in and drop their valuable suggestions
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Hey, are you logged into your SwiftKey account? I think the lag is due to the account data with SwiftKey, I deleted my word predictions from SwiftKey cloud storage and it seems to be fine now.
Do try and let me know.
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Guys .I deleted Knox from my phone and enabled USB debugging .and now using the Google keyboard and the lag seems to have disappeared completely . can someone experiencing keyboard lag try this and report back ?
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I have the same problem with SwiftKey... Tried to search everywhere but couldn't find any solution for this... Even the Samsung keyboard seems laggy.. Tried to restore factory default settings and cleared SwiftKey data... Still the same... ?

Unrooted stock adblock?

Is there an app for adblocking in the galaxy store? I thought I read about one a while back. I searched in the store but nothing came up.
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There are a couple options, like Block This!

Adblock plus for Samsung it's in the play store

BWolf56 said:
There are a couple options, like Block This!
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Tried this one it kind of locked my phone up. Couldn't swipe to other screens.
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spankmatic22 said:
Tried this one it kind of locked my phone up. Couldn't swipe to other screens.
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Well that's odd. I used it for a while and it ran just fine.

I've been using Adgaurd for the past week and it works just fine for me. Haven't noticed a hit on the battery either.

hauntyu said:
I've been using Adgaurd for the past week and it works just fine for me. Haven't noticed a hit on the battery either.
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This. Adguard is so awesome I purchased the Lifetime licence. (40% off until the 5th). It blocks browser ads as well as app ads. And while it can (and will certainly) show up in the stats with a pretty high usage, that's not the truth, as it used a local VPN to remove the ads, so when Adguard shows up in the stats with X mb consumed and Y time on, those are just really other apps that went through the VPN.
Here's a really detailed report about Adguard and battery usage.

AdAway is my favorite, but I don't think it's in the play store anymore.
Edit: oops, forgot that AdAway requires root.

imcass said:
This. Adguard is so awesome I purchased the Lifetime licence. (40% off until the 5th).
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Block This would kill my internet, and NetGuard would kill itself off constantly. AdGuard works well, and yeah, I snagged the lifetime license with the sale going on.

So far adblock plus seems to be working well for me. Thanks guys. What is that vpn stuff some of them have going?
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For those of you using a vpn based ad blocker like adguard, do you leave it on 24/7 or only turn it on whenever you need it?
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guaneet said:
For those of you using a vpn based ad blocker like adguard, do you leave it on 24/7 or only turn it on whenever you need it?
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I leave it on 24/7. very satisfied so far. ?

Using crystal for samsung browser, works great very battery friendly, browser takes a bit of getting used 2 after chrome but it's optimised for the S7e.

Ad blockers without root?

I know they've been mentioned in other threads, but can't remember which ones. They're probably also super buried in those threads. So, yeah, what do you use?
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Adguard works great!

CVertigo1 said:
Adguard works great!
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I dont feel comfortable channeling all my traffic through there vpn servers. Basically what they do

vipercoyote said:
I dont feel comfortable channeling all my traffic through there vpn servers. Basically what they do
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The vpn is local, not going to a remote server - you aren't passing any data to their servers (outside of the licence check).
I've been using Adguard for the past few months, works great.

AdGuard nuff said.

Block This works great and is completely free.
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How do you get rid of the annoying notification, that never goes away, with adguard?
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You can't, it's part of how Android does VPN.
Adguard is very good.

Adguard will destroy your battery

sonkameja said:
Adguard will destroy your battery
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Do you use something different?
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sonkameja said:
Adguard will destroy your battery
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nah.. I get about 6 hours sot and 22hrs with it enabled all day. Also use it while streaming music with screen off on YouTube. My battery doesn't last much longer without it enabled. I think you think it uses a lot of battery because all traffic goes through it so it looks like its power hungry in battery stats.

Adgaurd browsers for android ?

Started using Block This. It's great. Creates a local VPN on your device and filters out all ads. https://block-this.com/how-to-install-blockthis.php
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I ended up removing Block This cause it was causing problems with some Tmobile services like Wifi calling and I think it was the reason why some apps were unable to launch.

Netguard. Works well with wifi calling and open source

Regarding Adguard, is there anyway to remove the "VPN is activated by Adguard" in the notification list?

jimmyh05 said:
Regarding Adguard, is there anyway to remove the "VPN is activated by Adguard" in the notification list?
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No
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Ad Guard

Does anybody know if ad guard is allowed after updates to sprint PB5. Is ahybody running it on new updates?

I use adaway
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I run ad guard on the latest version with no issues. I'm a paid ad guard user and I have the life time subscription. I love it man
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Soooperstar said:
I use adaway
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I'm asking because I always used adaway on my rooted note 4. When I updated to marshmallow the old version of adaway I had been using for years wouldn't run. I tried adguard and it blocked that too. I'm not rooting my edge so the adaway that works on rooted marshmallow is useless. I don't want to update and be agreivated by ads.

Mine works fine
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Mine works fine. Although google blocked SSL filtering with user certificates for apps outside of the browser which sucks.