Alock ne deluje na napravah s takoimenovano funkcijo S-ON. Ta funkcija obstaja na mnogih HTC napravah in preprečuje Alock-u pisanje v hosts datoteko.
S-OFF pomeni, da je NAND del naprave odklenjen in je pisanje mogoče. Privzeta nastavitev na HTC napravah je S-ON, kar pomeni, da do nekaterih delov sistema ne morete dostopati, prav tako pa ne morate zagotoviti trajnega root dostopa. Preverjanje 'podpisov' slik programske opreme je tudi zagotovljeno z nastavitvijo 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
.)