A Couple of Android Questions

[Stone_Wings]

Well this is all very confusing. You said "The standard adguard" (which is the one I am using and the one I am referring to) but you linked 2 different things. The first you linked is not "Adguard" but rather "Adguard: Content Blocker For samsung and yandex" (not standard adguard).

The second you linked is not even from the same company , and its called "Adguard VPN - Private Proxy" (Again , not the standard adguard).

The standard adguard can only be downloaded from their site. The certificate is needed in order to block ads on secure pages (https) otherwise it has no access to filter it's content. This is the only true solution for a device-wide ad blocking mechanism. Although it's setup as a VPN , no data is ever sent to adguard. It uses VPN functions to filter out the unwanted sites and blocks them , that's all.

No. The ones I linked to and the one you are using are all from the exact same company. My use of "standard" when referring to the content blocker version was not correct. But stating that what I was linking to is not even from the same company is also not correct.

https://adguard.com/en/adguard-content-blocker/overview.html
There is a link on that page that leads to:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adguard.vpn

https://adguard-vpn.com/en/welcome.html
There is a link on that page that leads to
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adguard.vpn

AdGuard, AdGuard VPN, and AdGuard Content Blocker are all from the exact same company. We have both been right in some statements, but we have also both been wrong in others. The layout of their website certainly needs to be revamped because it IS confusing. That, along with the Play Store having two of them but not the third (and proper "standard" version) is imo what has caused some of this confusion between us.

 

[godreborn]

well, I got ad guard for free or rather a cracked version. I didn't like the idea of paying monthly for it. in the subscription status/date it says "till the end of time." lol, so far I've had no ads. it's supposed to work even in apps now that it's the premium version. I also ditched apk pure and file manager for xplore file manager. my friend is taking a look at trek sounds to see if there's a way to get the sound effects. and, I did get approved for a refund for that app.

 

[Stone_Wings]

well, I got ad guard for free or rather a cracked version. I didn't like the idea of paying monthly for it. in the subscription status/date it says "till the end of time." lol, so far I've had no ads. it's supposed to work even in apps now that it's the premium version. I also ditched apk pure and file manager for xplore file manager. my friend is taking a look at trek sounds to see if there's a way to get the sound effects. and, I did get approved for a refund for that app.

There are many sites out there with free Star Trek samples in mp3 or other ringtone/notification compatible formats that you can just save to your phone rather than messing with that app. Here's just one: https://www.trekcore.com/audio/

 

[godreborn]

thanks! the only reason I haven't looked myself is because I don't know if any site has a way to hear the sound effect before you download it.

 

[godreborn]

nm, I just copied everything into the clipboard, and I'm using jdownloader to download everything. I'll ftp it to my phone at some point, then go through them.

 

[Stone_Wings]

thanks! the only reason I haven't looked myself is because I don't know if any site has a way to hear the sound effect before you download it.

No problem. There's so much stuff on that site, I'm not sure if you even have to go searching for more. lol

 

[Stone_Wings]

nm, I just copied everything into the clipboard, and I'm using jdownloader to download everything. I'll ftp it to my phone at some point, then go through them.

There are sections within sections within sections within.... lol. Did you already go through ALL of them?

 

[godreborn]

no, I downloaded them all, put only the tos ones in the notifications folder and saved the rest. there's like 700-something of them. they're working!

 

[godreborn]

@Stone_Wings , could you test something for me - the alien materialization and tos_tricorder_alert mp3s from that one page? something weird seems to be going on with both of them. most of the time, they don't appear in my notifications list. I've tried changing the mp3 tags, but they still do not appear. I've gotten them to appear a few times, but never with the corrected names. I'm mostly interested in the tricorder alert one as I want that for my email notification. these are the only two that have a problem for some reason.

 

[Stone_Wings]

@Stone_Wings , could you test something for me - the alien materialization and tos_tricorder_alert mp3s from that one page? something weird seems to be going on with both of them. most of the time, they don't appear in my notifications list. I've tried changing the mp3 tags, but they still do not appear. I've gotten them to appear a few times, but never with the corrected names. I'm mostly interested in the tricorder alert one as I want that for my email notification. these are the only two that have a problem for some reason.

See if the attached files work.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/f95c5cff8b996dff01572757d12c276033de7f6f3502e4cfa53b659a1fb2a6f5

 

[godreborn]

they still do not appear.

 

[godreborn]

nm, I got it. I changed the tags to remove mp3, but the problem was that it was getting corrupted via ftp for some reason, and only those two files, so I did a direct connection. thanks.