Patching Waze

Ak123

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)

Biden2020prez

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...

Flippy

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

Ak123

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.

whynot

Flippy to be fair POI is annoying

Ak123

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

Ak123

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

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

Ak123 if you have root with magisk you can put scripts in /data/adb/service.d/yourscript.sh and it runs boot

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Ak123

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