Orbot transparent proxy working on rooted android?

Stephen Carpenter thecarp at gmail.com
Fri Sep 17 00:07:23 UTC 2010


Well it is, at least good to know that I am not alone.

I kind of like the vpn+proxy idea. I may have to set that up for now.

On Sep 14, 2010 10:36 PM, "Kyle Williams" <kyle.kwilliams at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been having the same issue on my Droid with the 2.2 firmware, which
> is rooted. The alternative I do is create a PPTP VPN tunnel back to my
home
> server that is running JanusVM.
>
> The downside is everything goes through the vpn, including apps like
e-mail
> when all you want is a browser using it.
>
> On Sep 14, 2010 7:27 PM, "Stephen Carpenter" <thecarp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Has anyone had any luck getting orbot working on android 2.2?
>>
>> I installed it from the market, and it of course, immediately set out
>> to root the android. I did it, and orbot requested root access, I
>> granted it.
>> Then I turned on transparent proxy, and selected "browser" and a
>> couple of other apps to be proxied. It claims to connect just fine to
>> the tor network, and is able to build a circuit.
>>
>> So far I can't get tor check to say I am using tor. Has anyone had
> success?
>>
>> -Steve
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