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Possible to disable android os autoupdate?

Might be an answered question. Was just wondering if there's anyway to disable the autoupdate. I like my S4 the way it is right now and don't want any chance that it might autoupdate to android 4.3 which can mess up rooting etc even though i have rootkeeper. At least til issues with new android ver are all clear. So anyway to disable this auto os update? thnx..

Your rooted that's enough to disable I believe cus it wont update if modified. .I might be wrong
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And I have never seen my phone's auto update.

w7excursion said:
And I have never seen my phone's auto update.
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Rooted my nexus 10 and that didn't prevent it from dnlding the update. At least it has the decency not to go ahead w installing the downloaded update. Now I hv this constant notification on the status bar to install it. Don't want this to happen also to S4

4.3 is at least 1-2 months away so I doubt you need to do this. And got a blunt is mostly right. Being rooted will not allow the installation to happen. It will download the update and tell you have a system update but it won't install on its own.
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daniel4653 said:
4.3 is at least 1-2 months away so I doubt you need to do this. And got a blunt is mostly right. Being rooted will not allow the installation to happen. It will download the update and tell you have a system update but it won't install on its own.
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So any danger of me inadvertently clicking on the update notification and update happens and wiping out my settings? or rooting won't let it updated at all and to update you have to go back to stock first?

wildpig1234 said:
So any danger of me inadvertently clicking on the update notification and update happens and wiping out my settings? or rooting won't let it updated at all and to update you have to go back to stock first?
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The only way of being able to update its just having a rooted phone with no mods in someway and also having stock recovery, if you are rooted with a custom rom or mods and have a different recovery then yes if you click the update accidently then you wont have no problem what so ever its just going to abort.
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ROMANTiC KiD said:
The only way of being able to update its just having a rooted phone with no mods in someway and also having stock recovery, if you are rooted with a custom rom or mods and have a different recovery then yes if you click the update accidently then you wont have no problem what so ever its just going to abort.
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On my rooted S4 (CF-auto-root), I also have TWRP recovery installed. So this would qualify then as a different recovery? Additionally i also got MF9HotspotMod-Odexed and international SIM unlock on there. So i am guessing all this should be enough to prevent any update?

OTAs won't flash in custom recoveries. If you for some reason hit install update it would boot into recovery and try to install but fail.
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4.3 update questions...

Hey everyone I have a few questions hopefully that can be answered. I took my phone to bestbuy today because I jacked up my recovery and it disappeared so they fixed that and now my root is gone which is what I wanted to happen because of the 4.3 update. If my phone is still rooted somehow will the update jack up my phone? Or will it just get rid of the root and make it like everyone else's phone? Second question. When I try and look for updates by hitting the update button in settings it won't let me do so. I remember freezing DM manager with titanium and I don't know why it would still be frozen because my phone got flashed back to stock. Does anyone else have this problem? Or is it just me... :/ I have a feeling its just me. Hopefully not and its just a common prob. If anyone can help me out I would appreciate it. Thank you!
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ToastyyX said:
Hey everyone I have a few questions hopefully that can be answered. I took my phone to bestbuy today because I jacked up my recovery and it disappeared so they fixed that and now my root is gone which is what I wanted to happen because of the 4.3 update. If my phone is still rooted somehow will the update jack up my phone? Or will it just get rid of the root and make it like everyone else's phone? Second question. When I try and look for updates by hitting the update button in settings it won't let me do so. I remember freezing DM manager with titanium and I don't know why it would still be frozen because my phone got flashed back to stock. Does anyone else have this problem? Or is it just me... :/ I have a feeling its just me. Hopefully not and its just a common prob. If anyone can help me out I would appreciate it. Thank you!
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you took it to best buy. to restore it to stock. it is stock, not rooted. The update button is for updates from samsung, you just got restored to the latest update. there is no updates available.
Is titanium backup still installed?

TRusselo said:
you took it to best buy. to restore it to stock. it is stock, not rooted. The update button is for updates from samsung, you just got restored to the latest update. there is no updates available.
Is titanium backup still installed?
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I uninstalled it cuz there was no need for it anymore. I don't have root access anymore but It is just odd that the Software Update button worked before and I was able to at least connect to at&t to check for an update and now it won't. I was wondering if there is a possibility that something glitched and at&t DM server is still frozen.
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look in about phone>Device Status, does it say 'modifed' or 'normal'?'

Sorry for the late reply... it says Samsung so I'm assuming normal.
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ToastyyX said:
Hey everyone I have a few questions hopefully that can be answered. I took my phone to bestbuy today because I jacked up my recovery and it disappeared so they fixed that and now my root is gone which is what I wanted to happen because of the 4.3 update. If my phone is still rooted somehow will the update jack up my phone? Or will it just get rid of the root and make it like everyone else's phone? Second question. When I try and look for updates by hitting the update button in settings it won't let me do so. I remember freezing DM manager with titanium and I don't know why it would still be frozen because my phone got flashed back to stock. Does anyone else have this problem? Or is it just me... :/ I have a feeling its just me. Hopefully not and its just a common prob. If anyone can help me out I would appreciate it. Thank you!
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What version were you on before? I'm on the leaked version and wondering if Best Buy could flash the new update.
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Im on 4.2.2
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If the phone is rooted and VZW puts out an important update, what do we do?

I'm still on the stock ROM. I've heard rumors of VZW putting out updates to help with battery etc. I have the SDM file frozen so it won't auto OTA and lock the phone up. But I also don't want to miss out on solid improvements.
Suggestions?

deputydog95 said:
I'm still on the stock ROM. I've heard rumors of VZW putting out updates to help with battery etc. I have the SDM file frozen so it won't auto OTA and lock the phone up. But I also don't want to miss out on solid improvements.
Suggestions?
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Whole threads covering people who were rooted already downloading the most current firmware updates (two of them for Verizon landed via Kies in last couple of days) and then going back in after the updates and re-rooting their N3's. The current firmware updates keep SELinux at Permissive.

Runamuck0870 said:
Whole threads covering people who were rooted already downloading the most current firmware updates (two of them for Verizon landed via Kies in last couple of days) and then going back in after the updates and re-rooting their N3's. The current firmware updates keep SELinux at Permissive.
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So are they "unrooting" to do this? Sorry, I'm a bit of a newb. I'm used to running custom ROM's and not dealing with VZW whatsoever when it comes to updates.

Any idea on how to unroot the N3 and prompt for an update?

deputydog95 said:
Any idea on how to unroot the N3 and prompt for an update?
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You can use superuser to unroot
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neopolotin75 said:
You can use superuser to unroot
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I didn't know that. I'll check it out.
Any idea on how to prompt for a verizon firmware update once I have it unrooted?

Once it's unrooted, is there anything else I need to do?
I haven't installed a custom ROM or custom recovery software.

deputydog95 said:
Once it's unrooted, is there anything else I need to do?
I haven't installed a custom ROM or custom recovery software.
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You can use Kies to get the update
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Am I forever stuck on MJ9?

Hey everyone,
Here's my situation. I updated my unrooted phone to AT&T's 4.3 update as soon as it became available. But as many of you know, the update was quite buggy. Which is why they postponed it and then later released MK2.
Well me, being my impatient self, rooted my phone while running MJ9 and manually removed a lot of AT&T blotware using titanium backup.
My question is, am I forever stuck with running MJ9? I know safestrap isn't available for 4.3 and from what I've read it doesn't look possible. I wouldn't mind unrooting, installing the new update, and then rooting again. But because of all the apps I've deleted I doubt it will let me.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated... Thanks!
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Evilpoptart96 said:
Hey everyone,
Here's my situation. I updated my unrooted phone to AT&T's 4.3 update as soon as it became available. But as many of you know, the update was quite buggy. Which is why they postponed it and then later released MK2.
Well me, being my impatient self, rooted my phone while running MJ9 and manually removed a lot of AT&T blotware using titanium backup.
My question is, am I forever stuck with running MJ9? I know safestrap isn't available for 4.3 and from what I've read it doesn't look possible. I wouldn't mind unrooting, installing the new update, and then rooting again. But because of all the apps I've deleted I doubt it will let me.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated... Thanks!
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2526964
Follow this guide by gtj0 flash the emergency mf3 files and it'll give you back the apps you deleted. Follow everything step by step and after you get back onto mj9 sideload mk2 than you'll have mk2.
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Evilpoptart96 said:
Hey everyone,
Here's my situation. I updated my unrooted phone to AT&T's 4.3 update as soon as it became available. But as many of you know, the update was quite buggy. Which is why they postponed it and then later released MK2.
Well me, being my impatient self, rooted my phone while running MJ9 and manually removed a lot of AT&T blotware using titanium backup.
My question is, am I forever stuck with running MJ9? I know safestrap isn't available for 4.3 and from what I've read it doesn't look possible. I wouldn't mind unrooting, installing the new update, and then rooting again. But because of all the apps I've deleted I doubt it will let me.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated... Thanks!
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Take a look at my other thread at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2573637.

[Q]Anyone update VZW LG g2?

I'm rooted and was wondering if the new
VS98012B update was worth it and plus if it would get my phone to boot loop by getting this update since I'm rooted.
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I used the LG Mobile Support tool while rooted because the update failed otherwise. After getting the update I no longer have root. I'm happy with this update, it added a few small things and corrected an issue with the touch screen behaving erratically. I haven't tried to re-root it and I haven't bothered with any custom recoveries since this update.

EnsoniqHT said:
I used the LG Mobile Support tool while rooted because the update failed otherwise. After getting the update I no longer have root. I'm happy with this update, it added a few small things and corrected an issue with the touch screen behaving erratically. I haven't tried to re-root it and I haven't bothered with any custom recoveries since this update.
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So you just updated like that without your phone bootlooping or any malfunction?
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It will fully update wiped. Like an out of the box device.

Steamer86 said:
It will fully update wiped. Like an out of the box device.
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What do you mean?
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wadamean said:
What do you mean?
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I was rooted - stock recovery took the B OTA and didn't loose root mine also didn't wipe. Ive checked and my Verizon g2 does indeed say it has the new B update on it.

12b and no custom recovery
if you are still on 11a, use ioroot to root your phone and then install a recovery afterwards.
if you update to 12b you can still root it, but for now you wont get a custom recovery to install.
that should change today or shortly i would guess, but if your gonna flash roms your better off doing it now in 11a and skipping 12b.
just a heads up and info share. enjoy

EnsoniqHT said:
I used the LG Mobile Support tool while rooted because the update failed otherwise. After getting the update I no longer have root. I'm happy with this update, it added a few small things and corrected an issue with the touch screen behaving erratically. I haven't tried to re-root it and I haven't bothered with any custom recoveries since this update.
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Are their instructions on how to do this? I'm rooted and the update just keeps failing. Also, I have read that VooDoo does allow you to keep root.

Ferret1978 said:
I was rooted - stock recovery took the B OTA and didn't loose root mine also didn't wipe. Ive checked and my Verizon g2 does indeed say it has the new B update on it.
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So your phone didn't get into any sort of boot loop or anything?
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Ferret1978 said:
I was rooted - stock recovery took the B OTA and didn't loose root mine also didn't wipe. Ive checked and my Verizon g2 does indeed say it has the new B update on it.
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Oh you had stock recovery? I have cwm
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wyrdtrtle said:
if you are still on 11a, use ioroot to root your phone and then install a recovery afterwards.
if you update to 12b you can still root it, but for now you wont get a custom recovery to install.
that should change today or shortly i would guess, but if your gonna flash roms your better off doing it now in 11a and skipping 12b.
just a heads up and info share. enjoy
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Well I don't flash roms at all. I just have my phone rooted to hack the games and get unlimited money. But I do have cwm and if I were to get the update I don't want to risk it getting my phone into any sort of glitch or boot loop
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new update didnt mess with root?
EnsoniqHT said:
I used the LG Mobile Support tool while rooted because the update failed otherwise. After getting the update I no longer have root. I'm happy with this update, it added a few small things and corrected an issue with the touch screen behaving erratically. I haven't tried to re-root it and I haven't bothered with any custom recoveries since this update.
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I've been wondering if i should accept the new update, thought i heard somewhere that it included a patch to relock the bootloader or something, & I'm planning on rooting mine (vs98011a). Sounds like its a worthwhile upgrade tho..my screen gets just a tiny bit glitchy sometimes. Guess I'll go ahead & take it then, thanx for the heads up. As long as i can root it still after I'm good...?

Boatloader had always been locked. There is just currently no working recovery/loki with the current update. If you plan on flashing/heavy modding, don't take it. You can still root.
Edit: Apparently, Freegee now works to flash recovery on 12B.

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Steamer86 said:
Boatloader had always been locked. There is just currently no working recovery/loki with the current update. If you plan on flashing/heavy modding, don't take it. You can still root.
Edit: Apparently, Freegee now works to flash recovery on 12B.
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10-4, well thanx for the heads up bro. I ended taking the update & I'm glad i did cuz it fixed the screen glitch. I'm gonna root as soon as i can get to a decent computer. Idk anything about freegee....I'll have to look into it. Well hey, i appreciate the info man looks like i have some research to keep me busy for a min. Thanx again! Btw...I'm lovin this phone, its a totally underestimated beast. Any tips on a good rom aosp/stock would both be good to know about. Heard OSE had one for this phone maybe & i loved ose on my s3.