I have an icon stuck in my task bar prompting me to install the Lollipop update as well as regularly showing me full screen prompts when I unlock the screen that I have to keep cancelling. I don't want to upgrade to Lollipop at the moment as the phone is working fine as is and there's a couple of apps I use regularly that don't work with Lollipop so I'm trying to find how to cancel this prompt as it's getting irritating.
I found some advice that suggested disabling notifications on the Google Play Services would work but it hasn't, I've also tried disabling notifications on the app that is generating the alerts but all options for it are greyed out. The phone is a stock N910F that isn't rooted.
Thanks,
John
The only solution I know of is:
1) update
2) downgrade
3) disable the automatic update feature
Thanks for the reply, I woke up yesterday morning to find the phone had upgraded itself to Lollipop (I'm not sure if there's a timeout on the prompts or I did it in my sleep) so will just have to make do now.
John
Since you have to do a factory reset when downgrading, be sure to backup your data.
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Hi,
I have a Nexus 4 on 4.2.2 (stock, locked bootloader, no custom recovery, etc). I don't want to upgrade yet in light of all the issues people seem to be having with 4.3 -- I've even come across people that have had 4.3 hard brick their device. Unfortunately, my phone seems to have already downloaded the update and now its sitting ready to install, one missed click away in the notifications menu. So I have a few questions;
* Why did the update automatically download? Is this default behavior and if so, how do I opt out of downloading future updates automatically? As a side note, I'm particularly pissed because the download could have eaten into my data usage and because I wasn't asked to download it first. Google seems to increasingly love opt-out behavior on its services these days.
* Is there any way I can get rid of the update? I don't want someone else that uses the phone to accidentally click the notification. I also don't want to update until 4.3.x issues are resolved -- maybe 4.3.1, etc. Can I manually delete the upgrade files for 4.3 Google pushed onto my device?
Turn off the device, press and hold volume down and power until the bootloader shows up, using the volume keys scroll to recovery and then press power to select, the recovery should say "No command." so you have to press and hold volume up and power until it unlocks and shows the options, scroll to wipe cache partition and select it.
This will delete the OTA zip.
If you want to prevent it from happening every boot then you will need to get Autostart or an other startup application manager to stop the OTA updater from starting every boot but you need root.
Since you don't have root there is an option but it may cause a problem.
The option is to restrict background data by going to the settings, data usage, menu and enable "Restrict background data".
The problem is that you will not receive emails from gmail, other email clients and such unless you manually refresh that email client to look for new emails.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
I love 4.3. It seems smoother, has better battery life and has built in permissions settings.
How did someone hard brick their device doing an update? I find that hard to believe. Did they manage to run it over with a truck while it was installing?
I have just installed the official 4.3 ROM for my i9505 via Odin (I came from the google edition ASOP ROM) Two issues.
1. when on the lockscreen and I get a message/email etc. I can swipe the notification tray down, upon tapping the notification, it just goes back to the lock screen. Before the update it would unlock the phone and go to that application. I have no sort of security on the lockscreen. just normal swipe to unlock.
2. I keep getting messages about supersu etc trying to access the phone and being blocked. I am rooted and root access seems to work fie for apps requiring it. Is there any way to stop these?
Thanks
n1r0k said:
I have just installed the official 4.3 ROM for my i9505 via Odin (I came from the google edition ASOP ROM) Two issues.
1. when on the lockscreen and I get a message/email etc. I can swipe the notification tray down, upon tapping the notification, it just goes back to the lock screen. Before the update it would unlock the phone and go to that application. I have no sort of security on the lockscreen. just normal swipe to unlock.
2. I keep getting messages about supersu etc trying to access the phone and being blocked. I am rooted and root access seems to work fie for apps requiring it. Is there any way to stop these?
Thanks
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Same thing is happening me. So annoying
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Same thing is happening me. So annoying
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Is this normal behaviour for Samsungs 4.3 ROM? is it a bug, or supposed to be like that
Just purchased a new S5 last night, ... new contract, blah, blah, blah ...
Already it wants to OTA me Lolli.
I have another S5 - for business, & on Verizon as well - & I absolutely hate the new user interface, &, most of all, I cannot stand how you are now forced to manage tabs within Chrome.
Apparently I have to deal with it on that phone, but it is the last thing I want on my personal. 4.4.4 Works great, & I am so very used to it before the first phone's OTA that I stupidly allowed.
How can I stop or permanently refuse the OTA's Software Update Ready To Install pop-ups without rooting for special permissions, etc.?
PS: I went into the "App Info" after long-pressing the notification, & the uncheck box is checked, but is also "dimmed" making it not possible to just turn it off that way.
Thank you for anything, folks.
Zeke
'15
I'm in the same boat here.
Running 4.4.4 also and even with root access, I can't find the correct app to turn off / modify. I've read at other forums to stop notifications from Google Play Service Framework, but this doesn't work for me. Thanks in advance.
A permanent method is to root and disable the update manager
A temp measure is to wait until you get the OTA update notification, boot into recovery and clear caches, then boot back into Android and tell it to install the update, which will fail because you just cleared the cache where the update was saved - that will delay the OTA for about a day,
You have to do that each time you get the notification, but it will postpone the update indefinitely so long as you keep doing it
I have a rooted T-mobile LG G2 running Android 5.0.2. A couple days ago, (Oct 20 2015?) I got a notification (a box with a down arrow in it) that says T-Mobile has released a system update, for added security. It's about 51MB and I don't see anything online when I search to see what this update is. Because I've removed all bloatware, I was also surprised to see this and wondered what app this update was coming from. I just found out it's "Google Play Services" so it goes away if I prevent notifications.
1. How can I find out what this update is? I don't want to lose root access.
2. The update fails to install anyways. It seems to restart my phone into recovery mode, then just pops up later again. Can it even be installed? If so, how?
3. Can I disable this "updater" from Google Play Services without disabling or uninstalling the entire thing? I need gmail contacts sync...etc.
Thank you in advance for any and all info on this!
Hey guys,
Hopefully someone can provide a bit of help or point me in the right direction.
Tonight I installed (what I thought was) an update but accidentally installed the original 6.0.0 image for my 6P (MDA89D).
I noticed that not much on my phone was working, discovered my error, and went ahead and updated to the latest image (MTC19X).
Most of the phone's functions remained unable to work using this image so I also tried the last image I was on before updating.
Now after trying to uninstall xposed, reinstall xposed, disable certain modules, etc I am unable to get certain functions of the phone to work.
The things I've noticed are: my recents button doesn't function, no notifications are popping up on my notification panel, I can't expand my notification panel to show quick settings, sometimes home button doesn't function at all. If it helps "vibrate on touch" was turned on for some reason after I updated the second time.
The first update I did was using FlashFire (undid xposed, installed update, reinstalled xposed), the rest of the updates were using fastboot to update everything but data.img.
Well I ended up finding the fix finally thanks to a little more googling.
running "adb shell am start -n com.google.android.setupwizard/.SetupWizardTestActivity" and going through the setup ended up fixing it
Might as well leave this up in case anyone else needs help in the future