How to change the hosts file on android [closed]

Answer 1

You have root, but you still need to remount /system to be read/write

$ adb shell
$ su
$ mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

Go here for more information: Mount a filesystem read-write.

Answer 2

Probably the easiest way would be use this app Hosts Editor . You need to have root

Answer 3

adb shell
su
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

This assumes your /system is yaffs2 and that it's at /dev/block/mtdblock3 the easier/better way to do this on most Android phones is:

adb shell
su
mount -o remount,rw /system

Done. This just says remount /system read-write, you don't have to specify filesystem or mount location.

Answer 4

That didn't really work in my case - i.e. in order to overwrite hosts file you have to follow it's directions, ie:

./emulator -avd myEmulatorName -partition-size 280

and then in other term window (pushing new hosts file /tmp/hosts):

./adb remount
./adb push /tmp/hosts /system/etc