Would it crash uBlock origin? :(

Yeah, I failed to mention that this is not about updating but installing from scratch.

I think we’ve got off track. Stevenblack’s is already shipped with AdAway. AdAway works perfectly fine with Magisk’s systemless hosts. I have no other reason for wanting to change to another app than the fact that it hasn’t been updated since 2024.

You mean systemless hosts works without being called/used by an app? Do you know the systemless hosts file path?

Interesting! And thank you! I already see a hosts file under /system/etc/, for now only containing localhost. Could I not just edit this file and be done? I know too little about how Android works…

If I do need to mount /system, can I not do it from the stock recovery? I think I saw a “mount system partition” in there the other day.

That’s a great idea for the ad blocking, which is what I am writing about in the OP, but I also would like to be able to block specific hosts and IP addresses on a hosts file level, in order to stop system apps from connecting.

Thanks! For this, I am using Mullvad’s ad blocking DNS. 😊 I want to be able to block specific hosts and IP addresses on a hosts file level in order to block certain system apps from connecting.

Sweet! Thank you for your contribution! :D

I use it for media only, if I can’t find it on 1337x.

Hey! Thank you so much! 🥰 I did see an issue over at Codeberg in which somebody reported something similar to my problem and to which a dev (?) replied just that! I tried applying that specific configuration (which would grab the apk from their new repo), but to no avail.

Thanks! I’ll clearify that in the OP. It’s the download that doesn’t work. It hangs at 30% and then fails.

I already had it installed on another unit, on which I used the apk extraction function of App Manager.

Installing from Obtainium has always worked for me and their site lists Obtainium as a valid install method.

Cool! I had little to no knowledge on e-readers… Wanting to buy one, and realizing how expensive they are, is what made me go for the Galaxy Tab A9+. It was about 150 bucks, on sale. I don’t regret it.

I hope tweaking the scaling governor helps you some, but as I have stated in the various updates in the OP, it has its quirks…

I like to experiment

and it has an awfully bad CPU that lags from time to time, but first and foremost

I like to experiment

Thank you for this insight! Before setting the scaling governor, I did some initial testing that showed exactly what you’re saying: whenever I switched windows, fired up another app, wrote to a file - really whatever I tried - the frequencies maxed out. Maybe, what felt marginally snappier was the result of the CPU not having to jump between frequencies? I have zero knowledge on how CPUs work with power… 😅

I had no idea e-readers can do manga 😱😍 maybe I should get one, after all 😁

probably needs to be done after reboot and probably drains battery more than otherwise, but I have not done any testing as of yet. I sat at a café and played around with it for two hours, during which I couldn’t really notice any difference in power draw since the battery capacity is huge. Keep checking the OP, since I might update after some testing.

Which resulted in what I was aiming for. There are other available scaling governors that yield different frequencies.

EDIT: I’m running stock Android rooted with Magisk. OneUI 7, Android 15, Kernel 5.4.249

I haven’t tried rebooting yet, but I’m pretty sure it resets on reboot. Also, my only evidence that it worked is what cpuinfo_cur_freq reports, and because of how Android seems to works with its virtual filesystems and Termux only being a virtual terminal, I’m actually unsure of how to measure the true frequencies in any other way. Here are two screenshots anyway. 1804800 is the maximum available frequency.

Thanks! I’ll go on and check if there is anything precompiled out there.

No telemetry, no analytics

Kiro doesn’t phone home. No usage stats, no crash reports, no opt-in dialogs hidden in defaults. Your install is yours.

The fact that this needs to be said for a Linux distro.