• Ak123Level 1 - Junior Member

    • Post #1

    I’m trying to patch Waze for a rooted smartphone so it shouldnt have internet or poi. How would I do that? (The phone is android 9 so I could edit init script if I need to)

      Ak123 I'm not sure what POI is. But you can run

      adb shell su -c pm revoke com.waze android.permission.INTERNET

      Not sure how you plan to use Waze without internet though...

          • FlippyLevel 6 - Platinum Elite Member

            • Post #3

            Biden2020prez I think he means in-app browser, not all internet capabilities.
            POI- points of interest? Not sure what he has against that..

                • WwhynotLevel 5 - Gold Elite Member

                  • Post #4
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                  Flippy to be fair POI is annoying

                    Biden2020prez thanks but I want to patch the app itself (or perhaps change the init.d script) and I meant the browser, it would be quite useless without internet.

                      lgexalter1 I saw a post a while ago on xda about writing a script in init.d that will run during boot that would prevent certain actions

                        lgexalter1 what do you mean by the newer version of Waze? The original app comes without browser?
                        I’m not sure if my phone supports init.d It’s android 9 pie
                        The script would be:
                        #!/system/bin/sh
                        sleep 30

                        sed -i -e 's|.ExternalPOI.My Coupons Enabled:.|ExternalPOI.My Coupons Enabled: no|g' /data/data/com.waze/preferences
                        sed -i -e 's|.ExternalPOI.Feature Enabled:.|ExternalPOI.Feature Enabled: no|g' /data/data/com.waze/preferences
                        sed -i -e 's|.ExternalPOI.Max POIs Display:.|ExternalPOI.Max POIs Display: 0|g' /data/data/com.waze/preferences
                        sed -i -e 's|.ExternalPOI.Popup Enabled:.|ExternalPOI.Popup Enabled: no|g' /data/data/com.waze/preferences
                        sed -i -e 's|.ExternalPOI.Max POIs Display Small Screen:.|ExternalPOI.Max POIs Display Small Screen: 0|g' /data/data/com.waze/preferences

                        chown root:root /data/data/com.waze/waze/skins/default
                        chmod 555 /data/data/com.waze/waze/skins/default
                        find /data/data/com.waze/waze/skins/default -name "x28" | xargs rm -rf

                        chown root:root /data/data/com.waze
                        chown root:root /data/data/com.waze/preferences
                        chmod 755 /data/data/com.waze
                        chmod 644 /data/data/com.waze/preferences

                            Biden2020prez thanks. And what script should I use to block browser?