okay to do this on a rooted phone? will it have any effect on the root or are these just going to improve phone performance?
go ahead and do the profile and prl ...firmware wont do anything
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This is the first smart phone I have ever had the enjoyment of using. I intend to root the phone so that I can get rid of the junk I don't want and enable the features that should be included on my phone.
My question, what do I have to do to not be forced into an OTA update? When I go to the Update menu setting I see no option to ignore updates. Also, is there a setting to not get notified of the updates? Like I had a required OTA voicemail update that I am unsure of how to ignore. Thanks
As far as i know the voicemail update should be fine. From wgat ive read its just to have voicemail to text. Jyst dont check for updates. If they come up automatically it usually asjs if you wan it
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You cannot ignore the voicemail update. It adds text-to-speech and is mandatory for all Sprint handsets with VVM. There is a way to shut off the updates under settings/about phone I believe, I haven't gotten mine turned on yet, just got it minutes ago, I'll edit with more specifics if you need.
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This is the first smart phone I have ever had the enjoyment of using. I intend to root the phone so that I can get rid of the junk I don't want and enable the features that should be included on my phone.
My question, what do I have to do to not be forced into an OTA update? When I go to the Update menu setting I see no option to ignore updates. Also, is there a setting to not get notified of the updates? Like I had a required OTA voicemail update that I am unsure of how to ignore. Thanks
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You will be prompted to do an OTA and if you are a custom rom you will not even get the prompt. However, if you end up wanting the OTA you will have to revert to complete stock. Any removed stock apps can potentially screw up the update process. Generally though its just fine to wait until the devs cook up something with the update and then just use their releases. If it is a necessary update someone will release it in the form of a flashable zip and you won't need to worry about updating OTA =)
Turning off OTA's
way back when before I rooted my hero I had to go through the hassle of reverting to a previous android version in order to root because i naively accepted the OTA update. Trying to avoid this on my shift.
I went into "settings" -> "system updates" -> "HTC software updates" and unchecked the box for "Scheduled Check".
Is this enough to turn off my OTA updates or would the update come from Sprint and have nothing to do with HTC updates?
So my S4 just got the notification that it has downloaded Lollipop ( I know. I should have rooted already). I'd prefer to stay on KitKat. I'd like to know the best way to proceed. Can I root, delete the update file then rename the update APK. Or is it cleaner and neccisary to wipe clean, root, and rename. I'd prefer not to rebuild the phone but since its not fully my daily drive yet it would be more like a nuisence than a pain to rebuild.
Here is a start. And yes you must root to block ota updates.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2270759
Let me throw something out there and see what people think. I'm currently on an ATT MVNO. Something in the APN settings got me thinking. The setting "fota" which is for OTA upgrades. So I went ahead and did a clean wipe. Set everything up and manually configured the H2O APN this time though under APN type I didn't add fota. After setting that I went to check for an ota. Almost immediately the system returned a response that my software is up to date. Not sure if it will hold or not. But this weekend I was setting up another S4 and after flashing back to NC1 and doing the ota it took right away. I'll report back in a few days if I don't get a notification and the download doesn't happen.
I upgraded to the official over-the-air OC3 Lollipop ROM yesterday on my AT&T Galaxy S4. Everything appeared to work fine except the phone would randomly shutdown while the screen was off. I did a factory reset yesterday evening and everything was working fine until late this afternoon, but now it's back to randomly shutting off while the phone is sitting idle. Anyone else having this issue? I'm assuming it's an issue with AT&T/Samsung's ****ty ROM because I never had this issue on KitKat. My phone is completely stock and unrooted. The only apps I have are: Textra, Nova Launcher, Tinder, Snapchat, Astro File Manager, Bleach icon set, Dolphin browser, and Shuttle music player.
Take it to an AT&T Device Support Center if there is one close to you, or call AT&T support.
Or... if you want to start customizing your phone, flash back to NJ4 and take the update again to see if it will solve the problem.
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Take it to an AT&T Device Support Center if there is one close to you, or call AT&T support.
Or... if you want to start customizing your phone, flash back to NJ4 and take the update again to see if it will solve the problem.
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Thanks for the response. I guess I'll try flashing my phone, since I have some experience playing around with ROMs on my AT&T Captivate.
I take it I just use Odin and flash to NJ4? I won't run into any issues with incompatible bootloaders, not being rooted, etc.?
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Thanks for the response. I guess I'll try flashing my phone, since I have some experience playing around with ROMs on my AT&T Captivate.
I take it I just use Odin and flash to NJ4? I won't run into any issues with incompatible bootloaders, not being rooted, etc.?
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Look at guut13's guide in the general forum. You would need to flash NB1 and then try the OTA updates, one or two updates to get to NJ4 then take the OTA to OC3 again. You must not root or install safestrap if you take this route. There are other ways to go too, which you can read in that guide.
I just started to receive messages yesterday that AT&T is pushing an update to my phone. I don't want to install it because I don't know how it will affect my root status. I'm still on stock ROM, but rooted and de-bloated. Anyone know if this is safe to install? Has anyone with root accepted it?
Silently got this update pushed to mu phone because I forgot to freeze software updater in Tibu. Luckily the update failed. I do not know if it was because I had done the v15 fixes mod/pack, or because of root, but I got lucky.
I would not update period, until somethind is released to keep, or reroot. If I am not mistaken, updates have a kernel in them, so it would over write the engineer kernel.
My bet is ATT did something to block flashing the kernel back.
Good call, I'd better not update. I connected WiFi and it just downloaded the whole package and kept on my bar asking me to update. I just froze the AT&T Software Update too, all better.
It's the pg1 update and the engboot kernel still works for root.
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Hi all.
I am trying to update my S7 Edge up to the latest build.
The phone was origionaly a Verizon phone.
But I was able to load it with the ATT filmware. and have been using my phone for over a year.
the only problem is ATT wont recognize the phone for updates.
I have it loaded up to G935AUCU4BQF3, but to keep updating it, ATT says I have to get to A935AUCU4BQG1.
I do not have the phone rooted, but have updated it successfully many times with ODIN.
Does anyone have the odin files?
Or can anyone tell me if I have to go in order of what ATT tells me the updates must go?
Or can i just jump way ahead?
Many thanks from a Semi-noob.
Thanks!