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play store connection error

Hi what makes you think you can fix it n by rooting it.
Have you tried clearing Play Store data in settings, applications?
 
SammyTuiono said:
Download root browser and and click on some files... they tell you to go to a file named hosts and midify it by puting a hashtag there... soo yeahh....
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Your unmodified hosts file ought to only have localhost routing information.

If you ran Freedom or any of the other methods to get paid apps for free you likely need to do more than comment out a line (# - it's called an octothorp in code, it's only called a hashtag on Twitter).

If you're not completely clear on how and why a hosts file does what it does then you'd be better off copying the contents of yours here (or upload it to your Drive if it's large) and letting one of us help you rather than following some video and getting worse off than you are.
 
Ummm..... want to dumb down what you siad there...... i have no idea what you just said.... sorry...

And yes i ran freedom but didnt use it get free in game purchases... didnt work for me anyways....
 
SammyTuiono said:
Ummm..... want to dumb down what you siad there...... i have no idea what you just said.... sorry...

And yes i ran freedom but didnt use it get free in game purchases... didnt work for me anyways....
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The /system/etc/hosts can get broken by Freedom.

If so, the Youtube is right, you need to edit it.

However, youtube advice is almost always magically generic and I've often seen magically generic advice cause more trouble than it solves because phones are generally not generic.

If you root and show us the contents of the hosts file, one of us (including me, whoever gets here first) will help you confirm the proper edit.

That's up to you, no big deal, but there's the offer. :)

Makes more sense?
 
Thank you for dumbing it down.. haha.... here you go

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.174.155.197 android.clients.google.com mtalk.google.com
 
SammyTuiono said:
What do you mean link?
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I mean that I can't find that app in the Play Store and I wanted to check that it used standard line termination (and be acceptable for editing system files) and not follow the Microsoft way of doing that (and being useless and a good way to mess up your system - which, I've seen happen).
 
SammyTuiono said:
Do I have to be rooted?
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You need to have read-write access to the /system partition and privileges to modify the file.

So - yeah - by default you need to be rooted.

How have you gotten the contents of your host file if you're not rooted? :confused:

Unrooted, that's a protected file and normally invisible.
 
EarlyMon said:
You need to have read-write access to the /system partition and privileges to modify the file.

So - yeah - by default you need to be rooted.

How have you gotten the contents of your host file if you're not rooted? :confused:

Unrooted, that's a protected file and normally invisible.
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To be honest, I don't know, like I said I, I used to be rooted and I uprooted, er since then I haven't been able to root my phone using the phone roots without PC.
 
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