Tools: Powerful Juicessh – Give Me My Pro Features Back

JuiceSSH used to be the best SSH client available on Android until December 2025.

Since then, the purchase made in 2019 is not recognized anymore, and the price went up by 20$. Some users complain in review that after buying it again, the application doesn't get activated. Support is unresponsive, this looks like an exit scam.

Below is a way to make the application work again. This required jadx to understand smali, and will require you ApkTool and jarsigner, which is part of OpenJDK, and you that can install on Windows using choco install openjdk.

You'll also need a JuiceSSH apk, I downloaded one from PureAPK, but feel free to dump your own from your device using adb if you cannot find it. Make sure to verify the hash using virus total/sha256sum if downloading from internet, which should be d1ee811bcd82f25aea0bdc568896d82017ee174d9c4631c123a9d9173c748232 for the last version available, version 3.2.2.

Below are powershell version of the command lines, but you get the idea.

The first step is to decompile the dex packed code from the apk.

You then need to modify the smali of three files, which are detailed below.

In this file, we'll patch the purchase validation and signature validation, done by the public boolean H() function.

In this one, we'll patch the public static boolean d(Object obj) function, who calls the H() function we modified above, which now returns true, filters product matching JuiceSSH in purchases list, and check if it the purchase is valid. We'll simply make it return true in any case.

Finally, we'll patch the central part of the authentication, which is called each time a pro-feature is triggered to ensure user has valid license, the public static void j(Context context, p pVar) function.

Source: HackerNews