Is there any way for me to disable the automatic checking for OTA updates? I'm having the volume fix update pushed to me, but I don't want to install it because of CWM. Whenever I dismiss the notification, it just pops up again in about 20 minutes, which is quite annoying.
Any suggestions? Thanks.
yeah install it and re-install CWM... or update via CWM to something else e.g Modaco custom ROM....
If I update and re-install CWM will I lose any of the date on my phone or my settings?
4569294 said:
If I update and re-install CWM will I lose any of the date on my phone or my settings?
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Should be fine..... but if you have CWM already do a Nandroid before trying so you can restore if you need to. Not sure what you would use to flash stock recovery tho... because you can't use the update unless you are running stock recovery.
Does anyone have an answer to the original question---how to disable checking for OTA updates?
jasonrennie said:
Does anyone have an answer to the original question---how to disable checking for OTA updates?
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Install a custom rom... Other than that you can't stop it
jasonrennie said:
Does anyone have an answer to the original question---how to disable checking for OTA updates?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21485951&postcount=4
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I am trying to apply to OTA update I got today, but for some reason it crashes half way through un-packaging the installer. Is this because I am rooted? Anyone else having an issue with the update?
codykeith said:
I am trying to apply to OTA update I got today, but for some reason it crashes half way through un-packaging the installer. Is this because I am rooted? Anyone else having an issue with the update?
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What are you using to try to update? You are going to lose root if this is an OTA update.
Yellowcard8992 said:
What are you using to try to update? You are going to lose root if this is an OTA update.
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It just came up on my phone and asked if I wanted to download it. I did, and it ask if I wanted to install. I clicked yes. It rebooted, got 1/4 of the way done with unpacking and froze up. I am guessing that its conflicting with the rooting. So I can't install any updates or I will lose root?
I don't think this update does much to anything I use.
codykeith said:
It just came up on my phone and asked if I wanted to download it. I did, and it ask if I wanted to install. I clicked yes. It rebooted, got 1/4 of the way done with unpacking and froze up. I am guessing that its conflicting with the rooting. So I can't install any updates or I will lose root?
I don't think this update does much to anything I use.
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It was mainly radios and and pri update with new software update. And yes you will lose root. You can just install a rom that is based off this ota if you really want it.
Yellowcard8992 said:
It was mainly radios and and pri update with new software update. And yes you will lose root. You can just install a rom that is based off this ota if you really want it.
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I want swype, mainly. I tried to install it from their website, but it says it can't install because its available OTA for EVO.
codykeith said:
I want swype, mainly. I tried to install it from their website, but it says it can't install because its available OTA for EVO.
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Then you can just download a rom that has it included and then pull the apk from the rom.
You NEVER want to take an OTA from Sprint if you are rooted. It will cause complications like that which may cause you to have a corrupted ROM. Always update to a ROOTED OTA. Check my stickied post in Q+A at the top. You will find the link to the stock ROOTED 3.70.651.5 version you can update along with any PRI and Radios.
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get this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=758197
it keeps telling me there's a tmobile software update, but when i try to update, it restarts the phone and goes into clockworkmod recovery and then i just exit back to the phone and nothing happens.
how do i update it or just turn the notification off?
Download 2.3.6 stock ROM (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1391174) and update via odin. I did same thing.
it wont erase my data won't it?
DeathBlimp said:
it keeps telling me there's a tmobile software update, but when i try to update, it restarts the phone and goes into clockworkmod recovery and then i just exit back to the phone and nothing happens.
how do i update it or just turn the notification off?
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You cannot updatee if you are rooted. If you dont want to update, I believe you can freeze the notification using BloatFreezer or similar. If you do want to update you can either (1) do so via Kies or (2) un-root and then update ota. Either way you will be unrooted and have to re-root
i did update to 2.3.6 when i received the OTA and I click update and realize that i am rooted (root using superoneclick). I let the update goes through and after few minutes, my sgs2 is updated to 2.3.6 with wifi calling and great battery life. I think i will stay stock rooted until Nick (dev for Miui vibrant) made Miui for SGS2
Edit: Like everyone said, every phone is not created equal. Like mine, got updated even its rooted
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You cannot updatee if you are rooted. If you dont want to update, I believe you can freeze the notification using BloatFreezer or similar. If you do want to update you can either (1) do so via Kies or (2) un-root and then update ota. Either way you will be unrooted and have to re-root
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I tried an app called voodoo OTA rootkeeper, I got it to temp-unroot my phone but after a restart it went into clockworkmod recovery. i restarted it again and it went back into unrooted mode.
i also cannot find bloatfreezer on android market.
bikrame said:
Download 2.3.6 stock ROM (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1391174) and update via odin. I did same thing.
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thanks, but where do i get the PIT file? or do i need one? would i also need to re-partition? i dont see those information in that thread
DeathBlimp said:
thanks, but where do i get the PIT file? or do i need one? would i also need to re-partition? i dont see those information in that thread
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You just need one file. I am at work now. i will go home and check and write details tomorrow.
Sorry .
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Look at Page 13 of same thread. There is full description.
if we ever had to block an ota update whats the best way to kill the ota update reminder? i tried renaming otacert.zip to otacert.bak while on 4.1 that didn't work, thought by running cwm recovery that even if i accepted ota that it would fail sig check but nope it updated and flashed stock recovery, but kept superuser . So if i wantd to stay on 4.1 for a bit how would i go about killing the evil reminder
thanks
iB4STiD said:
if we ever had to block an ota update whats the best way to kill the ota update reminder? i tried renaming otacert.zip to otacert.bak while on 4.1 that didn't work, thought by running cwm recovery that even if i accepted ota that it would fail sig check but nope it updated and flashed stock recovery, but kept superuser . So if i wantd to stay on 4.1 for a bit how would i go about killing the evil reminder
thanks
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28826653
efrant said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28826653
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Thanks!!
Hello guys,
Just a quick noob question to which I get different answers: If I flash from yakjuxw to yakju and choose to flash a custom recovery, will I be able to receive OTA updates?
Thanks in advance
You will receive them, but you won't be able to install them if your recover isn't stock.
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To add to what Petrovski80 said, you wont be able to install the update over-the-air, but you will be able to install it by downloading it to /sdcard and rebooting into CWM and installing it from there.
EDIT: And in most cases, you will likely see the update here before you get it over-the-air on your device.
And if I have flashed mods/kernels through CWM and i install the update, will the mods be preserved or do I have to flash them again?
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And if I have flashed mods/kernels through CWM and i install the update, will the mods be preserved or do I have to flash them again?
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If you flash "mods/kernels", the update will NOT install. If you change any of the original stock files, the update will NOT install.
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efrant said:
If you flash "mods/kernels", the update will NOT install. If you change any of the original stock files, the update will NOT install.
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THIS.
I am sorry if this question is answered already, but is there any way one can get the OTA again once the device is rooted? I mean by unroofing and factory reset or whatever means....
After rooting, OTA is still working but you'll probably lose root after it, excepted if your Superuser has an " OTA Survival " feature. In this case, you'll have to flash a stock ROM, and root it.
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azvlean said:
After rooting, OTA is still working but you'll probably lose root after it, excepted if your Superuser has an " OTA Survival " feature. In this case, you'll have to flash a stock ROM, and root it.
Sent from my Nexus 7
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be careful if you have a custom recovery, accepting an OTA might screw your device up.
sk8trix said:
be careful if you have a custom recovery, accepting an OTA might screw your device up.
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Thanks for replying.
Will the custom recovery be overridden by the stock one? Or is there any chance of bricking the device?
sriram18981 said:
Thanks for replying.
Will the custom recovery be overridden by the stock one? Or is there any chance of bricking the device?
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no sometimes what happens is the files dont install and you either get a reboot screen or some sort of black screen and then you might need to fix things with a toolkit through the pc or some hard kind of fix, t happened to me on a motorola Atrix a while back.
sriram18981 said:
I am sorry if this question is answered already, but is there any way one can get the OTA again once the device is rooted? I mean by unroofing and factory reset or whatever means....
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If your phone or tablet is rooted but with Stock Recovery the OTA should work just fine as long as you haven't modified any system files that get updated through the OTA. The bigger the update is the more likely it is you will lose root and that the OTA will find modified files. On Nexus devices I've personally never seen more than an error message if the OTA fails. At most I've only ever seen "unexpected contents in" error with whatever (modified) file is the problem. The OTA will always fail if you have a custom recovery but it's not really a big deal, you can always flash the OTA update zip in your custom recovery (TWRP?), more often than not before the OTA even rolls out to your device you can find the OTA zip here or on another website.