Basically, the phone needs rooting to be able to access those files.

Unless you have government/police type tech, and have time and money to spend, that sort of thing is generally out of reach.

I have the same problem. I am Canadian and live near the US border so I have to keep the network selection as manual so that my phone doesn't roam. It's the only way to prevent it.
Unfortunately at my home I have next to zero reception, so the "search for available network?" popup happens repeatedly.
There must be a way to disable this. Something in the root or something? An app? I could put it on airplane mode but then I can't seem to use wifi, so what's the point of using the phone at all? It really seems like a massive oversight on Google's part to not at least have a work-around. The OS on my old galaxy did not do this. I'm on a fairly new s21 now.

Not if you buy used from a reputable dealer with a warranty.

I don't use Windows, so I can't really help you with it. The official Bluestacks site, downloads a 683MB DMG file((macOS disk image installer) on my Macbook, which is actually the whole Bluestacks 4 Android system, no additional download required.

Are you downloading and trying to install Bluestacks from their official site? https://www.bluestacks.com/

LDPlayer is Windows only, so of course I can't help with that. However their site pushed me a 2.9MB EXE file. Which presumably does need an additional data download to fully install their Android emulator. Assuming you got a reliable solid internet access, and that LDPlayer's download servers are online, it should install correctly.

yeah but

So I am entering a proxy in the main Settings config, and it validates well. However, it doesn't work in the VDAs. How can it be that it works in the settings, but not in the emulators? I badly need to make this proxy work, let me know if you have ideas how to debug this. Thanks!

Please keep in mind that this thread is 6 years old. The chances of a response from the thread participants is slim at best.

Drag it into the trashcan.

It is kind of trippy.

We Haz Snakeses?

Looks like ship camouflage.

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