Alock virker ikke når du bruger en enheder med S-ON. Denne 'feature' findes på mange HTC-enheder og gør at Alock ikke kan skrive til hosts-filen.
S-OFF betyder at NAND-delen af din enhed er ulåst og kan skrives til. Standard-indstillingen for HTC-enheder er S-ON, hvilket betyder at du hverken kan tilgå bestemte områder af filsystemet eller sikre dig en permanent root-adgang. Ydermere, signatur-tjek for dine firmware-images er også påvirket af S-ON.
Boot into the Boot Menu on your device by holding down volume down button while pressing power and the text on top will show the flag status as either S-OFF or S-ON. A full root generally means S-OFF.
More information can be found on www.addictivetips.com. Additional S-OFF methods since Unrevokable (in link) might interest you, namely: Revolutionary, Revone, Firewater, RumRunner, Moonshine, SunShine…
Prerequisite: You have to install a working Android SDK with ADB shell on your PC.
ln -s /data/hosts /system/etc/hosts
(This creates a symbolic link, which allows Alock to edit the hosts file stored in /data
while allowing the OS to use the file as if it were stored in /system
.)