AdAway not blocking ads after updating to Android Pie

[Frank Dewey]

Hi, so I upgraded to Android Pie last night. My phone is rooted and running OOS 9.0.2 now. I installed AdAway from F-Droid and installed the host files. AdAway says ads are being blocked, but that is not the case. Even added Systemless Hosts from Magisk and still no fix. Can someone help me out? Thanks

 

[Tagtag123]

Hi, so I upgraded to Android Pie last night. My phone is rooted and running OOS 9.0.2 now. I installed AdAway from F-Droid and installed the host files. AdAway says ads are being blocked, but that is not the case. Even added Systemless Hosts from Magisk and still no fix. Can someone help me out? Thanks

Same here, I came from Havoc OS 2.5 after a full wipe and rooted using Magisk 19.2, installed adaway latest and enabled adblocking in systemless mode. No adverts are being blocked.

 

[Frank Dewey]

Same here, I came from Havoc OS 2.5 after a full wipe and rooted using Magisk 19.2, installed adaway latest and enabled adblocking in systemless mode. No adverts are being blocked.

Hmm, at least I'm not the only one

 

[Frank Dewey]

Seems like I'm unable to tick the Enable Systemless Hosts option in AdAway. Can anyone help me out?

 

[Tagtag123]

So, I got it working.

Here's what I did:
I saw that the entire root partition is absolutely filled.
I then went to titanium backup and removed Google Play movies and YouTube to create some space and rebooted.
Then updated the hosts file, it worked.

Enabling systemless mode in adaway is something I didn't face, however try installing the latest stable magisk and the latest adaway from f-droid.

 

[Frank Dewey]

Thank you for getting back to me. How can I check if the root directory is full? I can remove Play Movies, but I have YouTube Vanced installed which I'd like to keep. Any other app that I can remove instead?

 

[Frank Dewey]

Well, it's the same issue here. The root directory is full. Uninstalling Play Movies and YouTube didn't free up any space? What are some of the stuff I can delete safely to make room?

 

[Frank Dewey]

Lol it's been like 15 hrs since I made this post. Is there absolutely no one out there who can help this poor soul out? This is honestly so annoying

 

[7thedevil7]

Same issue here, deleting Google Play movies and YouTube didn't do anything for me.

 

[Frank Dewey]

Ughh. I've looked everywhere and still no answers

 

[Tagtag123]

Reboot after deleting any system app which you think wont brick the functionality.
Rebooting after that is important, you would be needing something like titanium backup to remove the app.

Deleting only Play movies should be enough.

Update:
Deleting maps using solid file explorer from /system/apps created more space for me, REBOOTING is important.
Check the before and after screenshots to see the space created.

 

[Frank Dewey]

I just wiped data and flashed OOS and Magisk again. AdAway worked without any issues. The entire system is a lot more smoother now too, so its all good. Thank you

 

[sandeep_kumar]

Thank you for getting back to me. How can I check if the root directory is full? I can remove Play Movies, but I have YouTube Vanced installed which I'd like to keep. Any other app that I can remove instead?

For checking root directory you can use Solid explorer or Mixplorer to check the root section storage.
Some apps are useless for me fo rthe stock ROM always like Google play music, Google play movies, Google news, Google drive etc.
After uninstalling these apps you can install any time from play store if any one of them you like to download again.

 

[oriental_noodle]

this is what I did to get it worked, go to Preferences/ target hosts file and choose /data/data/hosts

 

[Javellinh]

del

 

[Sir_gpm]

Just delete some apps in system/app and you are good to go. I did that. And running ok.