How to change the hosts file on android

Question

I have successfully rooted my Samsung Galaxy Mini  android 2 2 1  and thought  that I could change anything  as root usually can     I would like to change the hosts file on the android  to include some local addresses  However  I still get the message that I do not have permission to do that  I tried following options    adb push  path to my new hosts  system etc     and  I got the response Read-only file system  directly in the shell on the phone  But this didn t work either  I can do su in the console  but cannot change the file     Isn t it strange  that as super user I am not allowed to change some files

User · Accepted Answer

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

User · Answer

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

User · Answer

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

User · Answer

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

[android] How to change the hosts file on android

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