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Originally Posted by lepau
how can I prevent the Max from phoning home to Onyx, google, ...?
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Use AFWall+ (
F-Droid /
Google Play), which is a frontend to the good ol' iptables command. It requires root, so if you're not comfortable with that, someone mentioned a root-less firewall on this thread, but I'm not sure if and how it works.
For rooting I used Towelroot v1, get it from
archive.org. KingoRoot was reported to work multiple times but I don't really trust that one. Cydia Impactor would most likely work too if you have Windows, and it's trustworthy.
Note that Towelroot freezes when you run it, but that's not a problem. Wait for 20 seconds, do a hard reboot, and then you'll have the su binary installed. Next you need to install the Superuser apk (
F-Droid /
Google Play) and you're set.
Then you can set up AFWall+ to allow only the apps you want on the internet, and you can also enable logging to see which ones try to get online.