Android proxy setup

Protocols

HTTP proxy in Wi-Fi settings; HTTP or SOCKS5 with a login through a proxy app

Login and password

No fields in Android: Chrome asks in a sign-in window, most apps cannot

UDP

No, not through the Wi-Fi setting

Where the setting is

Settings → Network & internet → Internet → your network → Edit → Advanced options → Proxy

Works with

Residential and mobile proxies

Before you start

• A Pixel or another phone with stock Android (the menu names below are Pixel's). Samsung and other brands put the same options in a slightly different place.
• Your proxy login and password from the Residential or Mobile page of the dashboard, and traffic on that product.
• Decide what you need: Chrome on one Wi-Fi network (the steps below), or every app and mobile data (a proxy app, further down).

Add the proxy to a Wi-Fi network

1. Open Settings → Network & internet → Internet and tap the Wi-Fi network you are connected to.
2. Tap Edit (the pencil icon) and open Advanced options.
3. Under Proxy, tap the down arrow and choose Manual.
4. Proxy hostname: gate.aeonproxy.com. Proxy port: 7000. Leave the list of excluded hosts empty. Tap Save.
5. Open Chrome and load a page. Chrome opens a Sign in window for the proxy: enter your login (with keys, see below) and your password.

On Samsung Galaxy phones go to Settings → Connections → Wi-Fi, open the settings of the connected network and expand its advanced options to find Proxy.

Which apps use it

Android warns under the proxy fields that the browser uses the HTTP proxy but other apps may not. In practice:

• Chrome follows it and asks for the login in its sign-in window.
• Most other apps either ignore the proxy and connect directly, or follow it but cannot send a login and fail.
• Mobile data never uses it: the setting belongs to one Wi-Fi network.
• UDP traffic (calls, games) goes direct.

Every app and mobile data: a proxy app

A proxy app runs as a local VPN on the phone, keeps your login and sends every app through the gateway over HTTP or SOCKS5, on Wi-Fi and on mobile data. Step-by-step setup for one such app: NekoBox for Android. Android shows a VPN icon in the status bar while it runs. Set the Wi-Fi proxy back to None when you use an app, so you know which one is in effect. Telegram has its own setting: Telegram.

Check the proxy

Open the IP checker in Chrome. It should show the exit IP and the country you targeted. With a proxy app, check on both Wi-Fi and mobile data.

Rotating or sticky

In the Chrome sign-in window and in a proxy app, use a sticky login such as LOGIN-cc-de-sid-pixel1-ttl-60: apps and sites that keep you signed in expect one address. The IP is kept for up to 60 minutes, then the same login gets a new IP in the same country. For a new IP sooner, use a new key (-sid-pixel2). Chrome keeps the old login until it restarts, so force-stop it first.

If it does not work