How to use Yandex.Maps on Android for free? (On MTS or Megaphone)

Question

Android

Enthusiasts from w3bsit3-dns.com remember collecting apk with yandex.cards whose traffic is as free as the traffic of branded yandex cards for symbian / WM ... Their posts there for some reason were carefully cut out ...
But putting the left apk which then can not be updated from the market somehow would not be desirable …

Isn't there another way on a system as flexible as Android?

Answer 1

Having sniffered the traffic of branded and non-branded Yandex maps, it was found that the first ones break on mobile.maps.yandex.net, and the second on mobile-partners.maps.yandex.net
Accordingly, using the power of Linux in Android, there are two options for making Yandex.maps be free:
via iptables: via /etc/hosts: PS and yes of course you must have root access to your phone - it's your phone and you are its owner.
iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -d 93.158.134.138 -j DNAT --to-destination 93.158.134.156
iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -d 213.180.204.138 -j DNAT --to-destination 213.180.204.156
iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -d 87.250.250.138 -j DNAT --to-destination 213.180.204.156


93.158.134.156 mobile.maps.yandex.net
213.180.204.156 mobile.maps.yandex.net


Answer 2

Why is this needed if you can download the ymm.sytes.net/ cache and not worry?

Answer 3

Maps from the market now do not take into account traffic on MTS and MegaFon.