For SM-N986U1 users, one update that we can receive is the Google Play System UPDATE, which afterwards, as you may recall requires a reboot, restart..whatever you call it. You should be sitting at February 2021 (see attached) after your restart is complete.
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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!
My device was running Fire OS 5.0 and I installed my copy of Titanium Pro (used APK extractor on another Android device as play not working on 5.0).
I then proceeded to kill as many Amazon processes based on my Remove Bloat thread - I actually deleted them from the device so that they were no longer there. I kept the OTA processes in place - reset the device from [Recovery Mode] and upon boot joined WiFi and proceeded with the upgrade to 5.01
The update by the looks of things repaired the Fire OS and the system processes that I had deleted were now back on the device (Kindle Book Store etc). It also removed root from the device.
So just like everyone says - disabled OTA updates if you do not wish t remove root.
Were you able to reinstall root post update?
shinji257 said:
Were you able to reinstall root post update?
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Would love to know also
Sent from my Amazon Fire 2015
i reinstalled the firmware to give it real factory reset, and applied OTA twice yesterday, but I could make it rooted after that. So I guess you can reinstall root again because the updated system did not reject root.
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Were you able to reinstall root post update?
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Yes I was able to root 5.01 after the OTA update
I would strongly advise everyone to disable the OTA processes. If you want to update a new device from 5.0 to 5.0.1 you can do so manually. Fire (5th Gen) updates are available here https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201830180
Who knows when amazon will roll out the next OTA, tomorrow, next week, next month. And they certainly might block root with it. The fire cost us only $50, amazon may be losing money on the straight device price. They want us to spending money on all the premium amazon services that we are striping out as bloat. They may need the money to even break even.
Huh... This actually gave me some insight into the OTA bit. I went and pulled the latest update and it basically overwrites the system partition. That's why it seems to undo everything you did. This is good though because it also means if it won't boot then I should be able to get into 3e recovery and sideload the most recent update back to the device. I tested this by flashing google play then "repairing" using the update and google play was no longer present from this. It also doesn't seem to wipe userdata when doing this which is nice.
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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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 setup my Mi A1. I updated the phone to latest security update. But after that, I couldn't update or download any app from play store. Then I factory reset the phone, and updated the apps first. Then tried updating the phone and it showed 'Waiting for Wifi' error. I factory reset it again. Then updated the phone first and then tried updating apps. But again can't update or download any apps. Clearly Updating phone and Updating apps is messing with each other. Any solutions for this?
Just to be sure: Didn't you clear your google-framework services data to force the update?
If yes, then read three posts from this and that article too: https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi...blem-mi-a1-t3720842/post74890876#post74890876