What needs to be frozen/renamed to prevent OTA's from downloading and installing.
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I'm using CleanRom 3.3, last night like others I received the OTA message, I was busy and didn't realise it had automatically downloaded.
I don't want to install it and will wait for custom versions of 4.2.2
My question is how do I stop the OTA from installing, I don't want to reboot my Nexus 7 and have it install itself.
Hopefully I'm not giving you misinformation, but I think there is an OTA update thingy under system/ app that can be disabled.
First of all, I know you just can't update modified stock ROMs with OTA updates, it's just that Huawei Updater keeps downloading the OTA Update and prompts me to install it every other time I awake my phone. Just wanted to know if there's any way to stop it from trying to update the phone, maybe killing a service or something. Also, I believe this constant waking is swallowing my battery, since Android OS is on top.
Potentially dangerous but you can Find the app and freeze it with titanium, or even uninstall it
KillerDam said:
First of all, I know you just can't update modified stock ROMs with OTA updates, it's just that Huawei Updater keeps downloading the OTA Update and prompts me to install it every other time I awake my phone. Just wanted to know if there's any way to stop it from trying to update the phone, maybe killing a service or something. Also, I believe this constant waking is swallowing my battery, since Android OS is on top.
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Go to settings,updates, in options there you have two things to slide them off. Do it. Then close that notification. Thats all
using Tib what needs to be frozen to prevent OTA updates? the wife and i use our phones for home internet and foxfi doesnt work with android 7 so we both need to stay on 6.0.1. both phones are rooted but none of the guides say what needs to be frozen to prevent the OTA updates to be stopped.
The disable threads go over this. Also, the updater fails during the update if it senses system modifications.
So is there any way of stopping the OTA from downloading automatically. I know I can disable the OTA notification by blocking notifications from Google Play services but the update file is still being downloaded automatically, and then as soon as the phone is restarted it automatically installs the update.
I’ve turned off Automatic system updates in Developer options but it seems to do nothing, it still seems to check for updates and download them in the background.
I’m not rooted but I have got my bootloader unlocked. Anybody know of a way to stop all future updates from being downloaded?
watcher00 said:
So is there any way of stopping the OTA from downloading automatically. I know I can disable the OTA notification by blocking notifications from Google Play services but the update file is still being downloaded automatically, and then as soon as the phone is restarted it automatically installs the update.
I’ve turned off Automatic system updates in Developer options but it seems to do nothing, it still seems to check for updates and download them in the background.
I’m not rooted but I have got my bootloader unlocked. Anybody know of a way to stop all future updates from being downloaded?
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Hello,
Someone mentioned this on another site:
Rename /system/etc/security/otacerts.zip to otacerts_bak.zip.
This prevent it from communicating with the OTA update server.
I don't know if it works. And I would disable automatic system updates though.
Also delete downloaded OTA from internal storage.
Good luck...
I've systemless-ly rooted using magisk and the next step I wanted was to freeze certain system apps with something like Titanium backup freeze feature.
Would doing so affect my device getting OTA? I'd hate for that to happen. Thanks
OTA updates stop if the SafetyNet check fails. So disable the apps you want and then (restart just in case) use Magisk Manager to check if SafetyNet is still OK. I suspect disabling things like Google Play Services would make SafetyNet fail.
No it will not interfere with OTA's, when disabling system apps you won't alter the system partition so you'll be fine and OTA's will be applied normally.