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How do I block/remove system update

I have my wife on a stock rooted phone. She just now got the message.. "System update downloaded. Touch to install" How do I block and remove this notification... I am not ready to update until sacs has his new rom tweaked.

clone1008 said:
I have my wife on a stock rooted phone. She just now got the message.. "System update downloaded. Touch to install" How do I block and remove this notification... I am not ready to update until sacs has his new rom tweaked.
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I would like to know too! Running SACS V8. Have no desire to update. Would like to know how / where to remove the update from the phone.

freeze SprintID

Well, as far as I know, if you are running a custom recovery (twrp, cwm, etc.) you can click to update. However it will fail because of the custom recovery and should stop bugging you about the update.
I also believe there is a way using root explorer you can delete a certain file, then when you click to update nothing runs. That though you'd have to search for more details.
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check this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=47047860&postcount=634

First I froze fwupdate.apk using Titanium Backup like most threads say to. I think that only prevents it from downloading, but if the update file has already been downloaded, then you'll continue to get notifications.
I then deleted the actual update file from the \cache folder. Still shows under Notification.
So then I removed Notifications from the actual app that displays it - called Google Services (or something like that - don't have phone with me so can't look right now - but you can long-press on the notification to get App Info, then go in and remove Notifications).
Edit: Apparently you don't have to remove all notifications from Google Services, just clear the cache. Btw, my phone is rooted and I had already removed SprintDM.apk and ALL other Sprint related stuff (SprintID, etc) and it still downloaded the update and prompted me.

I woke up on Fri with the update icon on my phone . I'm on mf9 and not ready to update just yet.
This is what I did to get rid of the update notification.
Using root exp go into etc/security/and change otacerts.zip to otacerts.zip.bat
Then go to system/app/and change SprintDM.apk to SprintDM.apk.bak
I then went into recovery and wiped delvik and cache then rebooted
When it rebooted the icon was still there so I restarted the phone and after it rebooted the icon was gone.
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Long press it in the notification tray and then tap "app info" after that uncheck show in notifications.
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So I got the update notification again! I had already removed SprintID long ago (and all other Sprint apps) and frozen fwupdate.apk.
Somehow my phone still downloaded the update zip again. I can only think it has to do with one of the Samsung apps which I kept.
Anyways, decided to go into system/build.props and change all the MF9 to MFA. Let's see what happens now. Going to keep Google Services Framework notification on to test.
Well, I changed the build.props file and it cold rebooted fine to the lockscreen but once I enter my pattern code, the screen seems to go completely blank. I have to press the power button twice to go back to the lock screen again. Seems it doesn't like you changing MF9 to MFA in the build.props file!!!!!
Now how to change it back without having to do a restore.....can't see anything or do anything within the phone app itself since screen is blanked out. Any ideas anyone?
Edit: Nevermind, a hard shut down and reboot seems to have fixed whatever glitch that was. Odd....

Fotakill.apk, that worked for me when I was on MDL
Don't know if it works on MF9.

[Q] How do I remove the "System Update" notification?

I'm rooted on stock JB (T-Mobile). I recently got the notification for a new system update (KK). I do not want to upgrade until Xposed is functioning and some other bugs are fixed. In the mean time, I cannot swipe away this notification or reboot it away. On other brands, I could go to device manager apps in Titanium, wipe app data, and freeze it. I cannot find a similar app on this phone. Does anyone have any idea how to remove this annoying notification that I accidentally hit multiple times throughout the day? Thanks!

I used app quarantine and it worked just fine for me. Im on a custom rom now so i dont know which apps ive frozen with it but i know that the notification went away eventually.
EDIT: And please use the search function next time because there are already threads about this.

JW15Money said:
I'm rooted on stock JB (T-Mobile). I recently got the notification for a new system update (KK). I do not want to upgrade until Xposed is functioning and some other bugs are fixed. In the mean time, I cannot swipe away this notification or reboot it away. On other brands, I could go to device manager apps in Titanium, wipe app data, and freeze it. I cannot find a similar app on this phone. Does anyone have any idea how to remove this annoying notification that I accidentally hit multiple times throughout the day? Thanks!
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System Settings > Apps > Google Services Framework > Uncheck Show Notifications.
You can use Root Browser or similar and go into the Cache and delete the OTA update too.

update on stock rooted

I am on stock rooted MK2 with TWRP recovery installed. I woke up this morning to see that my phone had automatically downloaded the new system sfotware(i assume 4.4.2). The notification cant be removed from the notification bar and just says click to install. i dont want 4.4.2. My wife updated her s4 and it caused all sorts of minor issues with it. She was not rooted however. How can I get rid of the downloaded update and the notification? Also, is there a setting I can change so it wont try to automatically download updates in the future?
thanks

dbenney said:
I am on stock rooted MK2 with TWRP recovery installed. I woke up this morning to see that my phone had automatically downloaded the new system sfotware(i assume 4.4.2). The notification cant be removed from the notification bar and just says click to install. i dont want 4.4.2. My wife updated her s4 and it caused all sorts of minor issues with it. She was not rooted however. How can I get rid of the downloaded update and the notification? Also, is there a setting I can change so it wont try to automatically download updates in the future?
thanks
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Im sure I will be needing the same information as I am still on 4.3 and want to stay here also, I can tell you I had the same thing with my Galaxy S2 and I remember I had to do something in Titanium backup to stop the update process, but I cant remember the exact steps.
I will be watching this thread closely, Thanks for asking the question!

Search fellas. On the notification . press and hold it. Then you should get a popup of "app info" select it and uncheck "show notification". This will get rid of the annoying update notifications. You can also delete the file from system although I am forgetting right now where.
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daniel4653 said:
Search fellas. On the notification . press and hold it. Then you should get a popup of "app info" select it and uncheck "show notification". This will get rid of the annoying update notifications. You can also delete the file from system although I am forgetting right now where.
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Did that and deleted the file! It downloads it back and the notifications resurrects again.
I froze Configupdater, Sprint Installer, System Update
Disabled System Update on start up.
Dunno what else can stop this OTA notification!!
For me it's even more dangerous because I have the 720T running sacs for 720, hence the update that the system is trying to intsall is the NAE not NAF.
To be on safe side I'm thinking unroot and get to stock MK5 then upgrade to NAF then flash sacs again. This way the update notification will go away. Tedious but thats the only way I think I can get rid of this annoying notification.
Any thoughts?? Keep in mind I'm on 720T

frukyyy said:
Did that and deleted the file! It downloads it back and the notifications resurrects again.
I froze Configupdater, Sprint Installer, System Update
Disabled System Update on start up.
Dunno what else can stop this OTA notification!!
For me it's even more dangerous because I have the 720T running sacs for 720, hence the update that the system is trying to intsall is the NAE not NAF.
To be on safe side I'm thinking unroot and get to stock MK5 then upgrade to NAF then flash sacs again. This way the update notification will go away. Tedious but thats the only way I think I can get rid of this annoying notification.
Any thoughts?? Keep in mind I'm on 720T
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interesting... I had recently ODIN'd back to stock and saferoot'd before calling it a day and woke up in the morning to an update. I also know that the update only downloads if you're on wi-fi. I know before I ODIN'd I was already saferoot'd with a whole bunch of crapware "frozen" by TiBackup and I never got the update. not exactly sure which crapware I froze, but I did it again this time around and I still haven't seen an update message for the past week. below is a list of what I froze... if you have the time to weed out the exact crapware needed to disable the update, please let me know! would be nice to uninstall the crapware that wont affect the update from happening while cleaning up the rest of the crapware.
1Weather
ANT HAL Service
ANT Radio Service
ANT+ Plugins
BaconReader
BlurbCheckout
Bubbles
CBS Sports
com.sec.enterprise.knox.attestation
com.sec.knox.eventsmanager
eBay
EpsonPrintService
Flipboard
Google Play Books
Google Play Games
Google Play Magazines
Google Play Movies & TV
Google Play Music
Group Play
HP Print Service Plugin
KLMS Agent
KNOX
KNOX Store
Lookout Security
Lumen Toolbar
Messaging+
Mobeam Service Application
Mobile Print
MobilePrintSvc_CUPS
MobilePrintSvc_CUPS_Backend
Phase Beam
Samsung Apps Widget
Samsung Books
Samsung Games
Samsung Hub
Samsung Music
Samsung Print Service
Samsung Video
Samsung WatchON
Samsung WatchON Video
SamsungHub Updater
Share music
Share video
Smart Device Manager
SNS
Sprint - Discover Apps
Sprint Music Plus
Sprint TV & Movies
Story Album
Story Album Widget
TalkBack
Weather Widget
Yahoo! Finance
Yahoo! News

looks like the inevitable just happened... with all the above items turned off/frozen, I still got the OTA download last night! I'm rooted with the hotspot mod and despite all of that, the OTA still came through. the update is located in /cache.

dimm0k said:
looks like the inevitable just happened... with all the above items turned off/frozen, I still got the OTA download last night! I'm rooted with the hotspot mod and despite all of that, the OTA still came through. the update is located in /cache.
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Indeed! I gave up on OTA block. The only way I can think of if you stop all framework notifications, but I dont want to do that. Got to NAF and CF rooted. Waiting for stable KK before trying it on 720T. I don't care for sparks.

As of last night I hadn't received the OTA update yet, so I decided to try to fend it off buy freezing the system update in titanium backup... I swear I'm at 10 minutes went by and I can I receive the OTA notification! So now it looks like I'm in the same boat right next to you...lol
As I said earlier back in my S2 days I remember having to freeze the "System Update" with Titanium, but I think I also remember having to boot into recovery and Wipe a cache or something, because something is placed in the cache that looks to see if the update was downloaded and installed, and if not just keeps downloading until it is. So the steps that I do remember are;
1) Freeze system update with titanium.
2) Delete downloaded system files (I'm not sure where they are located, so please help me out with this one)
3) Boot into recovery and wipe a cache or two (I can't recall if it was one or more then one, and/or which one) so maybe someone could help with that?
I am going to do some searching for the S2 instructions to see if I can find them, maybe they will help with this.... Not sure if the update process is still the same though.

0Gravity said:
As of last night I hadn't received the OTA update yet, so I decided to try to fend it off buy freezing the system update in titanium backup... I swear I'm at 10 minutes went by and I can I receive the OTA notification! So now it looks like I'm in the same boat right next to you...lol
As I said earlier back in my S2 days I remember having to freeze the "System Update" with Titanium, but I think I also remember having to boot into recovery and Wipe a cache or something, because something is placed in the cache that looks to see if the update was downloaded and installed, and if not just keeps downloading until it is. So the steps that I do remember are;
1) Freeze system update with titanium.
2) Delete downloaded system files (I'm not sure where they are located, so please help me out with this one)
3) Boot into recovery and wipe a cache or two (I can't recall if it was one or more then one, and/or which one) so maybe someone could help with that?
I am going to do some searching for the S2 instructions to see if I can find them, maybe they will help with this.... Not sure if the update process is still the same though.
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as I stated in my last post, the downloaded update file is located in /cache. for the time being I've deleted that file and created a zero-byte file with the same name and its permissions set to read only. not sure what's going to happen if I try to update with an empty file or if I reboot, but I have it this way to hopefukky assure me that if I accidentally press update that it won't update successfully. I doubt cleaning up the OTA downloads will prevent it from downloading again unless you can somehow fake your version number.

dimm0k said:
as I stated in my last post, the downloaded update file is located in /cache. for the time being I've deleted that file and created a zero-byte file with the same name and its permissions set to read only. not sure what's going to happen if I try to update with an empty file or if I reboot, but I have it this way to hopefukky assure me that if I accidentally press update that it won't update successfully. I doubt cleaning up the OTA downloads will prevent it from downloading again unless you can somehow fake your version number.
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Doesn't sound like a bad idea! But I can't believe there isn't a fix for this out there though. In my research I found a file for the S2 called fota-killer, you would think something like that wild be available for the S4.

0Gravity said:
As of last night I hadn't received the OTA update yet, so I decided to try to fend it off buy freezing the system update in titanium backup... I swear I'm at 10 minutes went by and I can I receive the OTA notification! So now it looks like I'm in the same boat right next to you...lol
As I said earlier back in my S2 days I remember having to freeze the "System Update" with Titanium, but I think I also remember having to boot into recovery and Wipe a cache or something, because something is placed in the cache that looks to see if the update was downloaded and installed, and if not just keeps downloading until it is. So the steps that I do remember are;
1) Freeze system update with titanium.
2) Delete downloaded system files (I'm not sure where they are located, so please help me out with this one)
3) Boot into recovery and wipe a cache or two (I can't recall if it was one or more then one, and/or which one) so maybe someone could help with that?
I am going to do some searching for the S2 instructions to see if I can find them, maybe they will help with this.... Not sure if the update process is still the same though.
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OK I tried the fotakill.apk method and so far I have not received the notification like I was eveytime I rebooted earlier go to here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30205683&postcount=1 for the instructions I used and a link to the file.... I used the manual method rather then installing the zip thru recovery because they said the zip method is device specific..... I'll stop back in a couple days to update how it's working or b4 that if it doesn't!

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OK I tried the fotakill.apk method and so far I have not received the notification like I was eveytime I rebooted earlier go to here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30205683&postcount=1 for the instructions I used and a link to the file.... I used the manual method rather then installing the zip thru recovery because they said the zip method is device specific..... I'll stop back in a couple days to update how it's working or b4 that if it doesn't!
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24 hours and still no update message!

OK it's been 4 or do days and this fix worked for me, we have not heard anything from the thread starter so I assume he has also fixed his, thanks for the help guys!

T-mobile System Update, from Google Play Services?

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!

How do I disable OTA update after rooting?

I have the Verizon variant V20 and rooted with Dirty Santa last night. I have gone into developer options and turned off automatic system updates, but it still downloaded an update today and asked to apply it. I hit the later option and delayed it until tomorrow. How do I delete that update file and prevent it from trying again in the future? I have TiBu installed, so hoping there is something I can freeze to prevent it.

Search for "system update" in titanium backup and freeze the two apps you see.
I don't know about deleting the downloaded update though... Browse through and find it?

I just froze the two system updates and also FOTA Update 7.0. Thanks for the help!

Anyone know the file names for the tmobile variant?

If anyone had an issue freezing these apps with TB just open up your dialer interface and type in 277634#*#
This will bring up a hidden menu and then select Wi-Fi test and then select OTA then select disable. After that you will have to kill the hidden menu and you shouldn't be seeing the annoying OTA icon in your status bar anymore.

Had this problem on AT&T H910 it's an easy fixer.
1. boot into TWRP go to wipe and clear cache and Dalvic and reboot
This rids you of the annoying wanna update msg and gives you time to fix it
2. Go to playstore and install DisableService
3. Open and find Software Update open it and disable everything reboot and your good 2 go....
4. Just in case... Go to Developer options and see if you have a checkbox for Automatic System Updates and turn it off ( after using step 3 it most likely is but turn it off anyway)

Just curious, can't u just go to Developer Settings and turn off "Automatic System Updates" ?

TBPro pulls "FOTA Update 7.0" and "System updates 1_16_02_0"
I've frozen both of them and assume that will do the trick for the popups. But would wiping their data remove the updates that they already downloaded (not installed)? Also, would deleting these apps cause any issue with the device? Just curious...

https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=72463487&postcount=4237
On Tmo H918. The above link has a pic that shows the screen mentioned below.
Here's how I got rid of a previous update:
Rename otacerts.zip in /system/etc/security to otacerts.bak.
The full update is found in the cache partition called update.zip. Move the update.zip file from /cache directory (I put it on the sd card).
The next time you get the notification, selected to install it. See the attached. It said rebooting. It won't reboot because the necessary file is gone. Wait 10 seconds and touch the recents key and close the window. Done!
I rebooted the phone and no nag.

Would just like to point out if you click on system updates it will still download, but it won't install you'll have to delete the update zip again, but you shouldn't get any notifications.

crazyc78 said:
If anyone had an issue freezing these apps with TB just open up your dialer interface and type in 277634#*#
This will bring up a hidden menu and then select Wi-Fi test and then select OTA then select disable. After that you will have to kill the hidden menu and you shouldn't be seeing the annoying OTA icon in your status bar anymore.
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I tried this on my H910 and it says "Connection problem or invalid MMI code."

This is what I did on H918.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=72463487&postcount=4237

androiddiego said:
This is what I did on H918.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=72463487&postcount=4237
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Mine's already named .bak. Still getting the notification.

ArmOfAtlas said:
TBPro pulls "FOTA Update 7.0" and "System updates 1_16_02_0"
I've frozen both of them and assume that will do the trick for the popups. But would wiping their data remove the updates that they already downloaded (not installed)? Also, would deleting these apps cause any issue with the device? Just curious...
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Does anyone else find a different wording of this "System updates 1_16_02_0" ? Am I the only person who's TiB shows it to be called "Software updates 1.16.02? I figure that this "Software updates" is what everyone is talking about because it has the same version build numbers with the exception of not having the trailing 0 at the end. It seems highly unlikely that there would be a coincidence where two different programs would have the same version build numbers.
I have had to restore my rooted factory ROM several times after I have tried to remove some factory installed things which apparently were too deeply tied into android to be safely removed. My nandroid backup which I often restore to is pretty much untouched with the exception of SU and TiB being installed. So I've had the luxury of dealing with this multiple times now. I just want to know if people are seeing a different program called "System updates" than I am seeing it as being called "Software Update."

wargear said:
Had this problem on AT&T H910 it's an easy fixer.
1. boot into TWRP go to wipe and clear cache and Dalvic and reboot
This rids you of the annoying wanna update msg and gives you time to fix it
2. Go to playstore and install DisableService
3. Open and find Software Update open it and disable everything reboot and your good 2 go....
4. Just in case... Go to Developer options and see if you have a checkbox for Automatic System Updates and turn it off ( after using step 3 it most likely is but turn it off anyway)
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Ok so i got this OTA I was going to update to SuperV 4.0 to try to fix this which told me to update my TWRP...So I went to the app to update and now somehow I have no TWRP and I cannot get my phone to show properly in LGUP because it come up unknown device I cant push that way either now...I am stuck on about 1 minute or so of a loop of the OTA update...obviously my phone wont work for much...I did freeze FOTA in TiBu but there are no system update or software update to freeze...PLEASE HELP ME I have been trying to figure this out for 2 days now...
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Dgsaxhitman84 said:
Ok so i got this OTA I was going to update to SuperV 4.0 to try to fix this which told me to update my TWRP...So I went to the app to update and now somehow I have no TWRP and I cannot get my phone to show properly in LGUP because it come up unknown device I cant push that way either now...I am stuck on about 1 minute or so of a loop of the OTA update...obviously my phone wont work for much...I did freeze FOTA in TiBu but there are no system update or software update to freeze...PLEASE HELP ME I have been trying to figure this out for 2 days now...
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Ok so i got into Download mode and LGUP recognized the phone...The issue you ask??? It was the usb port i had it plugged into...Here's more...
I didn't had the same issue as you, but had a similiar one (phone didn't get discovered neither by LGUP nor LG Flash Tool). Yesterday I fixed it by following this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2785089