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Android: change DNS for data and WiFi

If we want change the DNS on our smartphone Android we can use a simple script as the following: #!/system/bin/sh # # Script to change DNS on Android # by Mentor - www.internauta37.altervista.org # [email protected] # nameserver_1='1.1.1.1' nameserver_2='1.0.0.1' iptables -t nat -I OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 53 -j DNAT --to-destination $nameserver_1:53 iptables -t nat -I OUTPUT -p udp --...

Mentor's Gapps: no set_metadata core Gapps working with ART for Android 4.4.x

If you wont sync your contacts and the calendar with google, if you believe that the gapps are for the most part bloatware and you want to use only the necessary part of Google's services then you can use these gapps for the CM11 and for any AOSP KitKat rom. Why anyone should want the gmail app if he can use the great native aosp email client? Why anyone would want the online Google Maps if he use an offline GPS navigation app? Why anyone should have installed Google Now if he does not like it? Why these useless apps should eat our resources? and why we should permit to google to spy we with its apps? In these gapps there are only the minimum core gapps with the Play Store: GoogleLoginService.apk GooglePartnerSetup.apk GoogleServicesFramework.apk Phonesky.apk PrebuiltGmsCore.apk...

Patch to change BMM partitions layout for Motorola Droid 4

The Motorola Droid 4 xt894 has a lot of memory space unused splitted in two partitions: /preinstall : 600 Mb /webtop : 1,4 Gb /preinstall is the partition where are stored the preinstalled apps and /webtop is an abandoned partition that under Gingerbread was used for the webtop but since ICS has been abandoned. We could install a rom in these partitions using: /preinstall for /system_2 /webtop for /data_2 sharing the /cache partition between /system_1 and /system_2 BMM is an advanced Recovery based on ClockworkMod natively created for the spyder xt909 but fully working on a lot of Motorola omap4 devices, Droid 4 xt894 included. BMM allows you to install a rom in System_2 using the unused partitions but it uses this layout: it creates a virtual slot in /data/media/virtual/system_1/cache...

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