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Unable to install or update apps via market

As of today i have not been able to download any apps from the market.
when i click on the "accept and download" button an error message pops up saying, "******" could not be downloaded due to an error. (-101).
I noticed that the apps look as though they are downloading but with a blue bar continuosly scrolling on the My apps screen.
I have tried clearing cache and data from "Download manager" but this has not helped.
Any advice please?

mohoshin said:
As of today i have not been able to download any apps from the market.
when i click on the "accept and download" button an error message pops up saying, "******" could not be downloaded due to an error. (-101).
I noticed that the apps look as though they are downloading but with a blue bar continuosly scrolling on the My apps screen.
I have tried clearing cache and data from "Download manager" but this has not helped.
Any advice please?
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i guess you are rooted and running AOSP ROM
try clear the cache from CWM and fix permissions through ROM manager. if it wont work reflash the GAPS mate.

Hunteres said:
i guess you are rooted and running AOSP ROM
try clear the cache from CWM and fix permissions through ROM manager. if it wont work reflash the GAPS mate.
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I am actually running a stock rom and have not modified my phone. It is still on 4.01 firmware
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mohoshin said:
I am actually running a stock rom and have not modified my phone. It is still on 4.01 firmware
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Interesting... I'm stock on 4.0.2 and just started receiving this about 48 hours ago too, I'm not rooted either.
Exact message: "Application Name" could not be downloaded due to an error [-101]
I did a bunch of searches and haven't found many solid responses or anything that's helped, some people said "it's a quota error" but that doesn't make sense since I haven't downloaded many apps in the last few days, others said to clear data/cache and that hasn't helped either. Also tried on both 4G and WiFi and that doesn't matter.
I've done reboots, etc. as well and nothing - even swapped batteries so "batter pull" will not be helpful either.
FYI - This is my 4th Android device and I've never seen this before.
Thanks for anyone that has any input!

Have you tried uninstalling the apps and reinstalling?
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wayneb02 said:
Have you tried uninstalling the apps and reinstalling?
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Yes, did nothing.
I found this thread too:
http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/17505/how-can-i-fix-error-101-in-the-market
Just like this guy, my phone also isn't showing up in the online Market, it's showing my old ones but not my current (and it was there last time I checked about a week ago).
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****, this appears to be happening to A LOT of GNexus users right now, if you check the first page in the Google search for this:
https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclie....,cf.osb&fp=6f96d00fb0093b18&biw=1440&bih=802
Almost all threads point back to GNex users. Not cool...
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Fixed it!!!
Here is what I did:
1. Settings
2. Personal: Accounts and Sync
3. Selected my Google account
4. Once within my Google account, clicking on the context menu/settings menu I selected "Remove Account"
5. Once the account was removed it prompted and asked for a new account, I entered the credentials for the same account and then rebooted
6. Once it rebooted I went to the Market, accepted the EULA and downloaded Google Gesture (I wanted to try a free app first) without any issues!
FYI - the account I deleted was fine, there were no issues in how it showed up but deleted it anyway.
I hope this helps people out! Good luck!

How to stop system update from popping up???

can someone point me i'm the direction of this thread? i've seen it b4 but haven't been able to find it now. Thanks in advance.
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Let it install it will fail pop out the battery and it will boot into cwm then just reboot
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What Biggie said. The threads you are looking for are in General. As long as you are not fully stock it will fail and probably boot into CWM after popping battery and rebooting. Just hit reboot system.
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I have allowed it to fail, let it boot to CWM, but it just keeps coming back. It is quite annoying. Does anybody have a way to stop it?

mikebarr said:
I have allowed it to fail, let it boot to CWM, but it just keeps coming back. It is quite annoying. Does anybody have a way to stop it?
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Google Fotakill. It is an app you have to put in your system\app directory.
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kennyglass123 said:
Google Fotakill. It is an app you have to put in your system\app directory.
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I tried FOTAKILL, it worked when I was on EC05 to stop the OTA prompt.
But it's not working for me this time. The only thing that stops it for a while is doing like you said. Accepting the update & letting it fail. It came back again one time since then & I did the same thing, this has fixed it for now. But I do still have foatakill installed if that matters.
At least I have a way to stop the prompt for a week or so. I'm just waiting for CleanGB MTD to be updated.

Not sure if it's any help, but according to the Sprint Rep I spoke with, all security updates come from Samsung. If that is true, its very disturbing. I have used the superfreeze and am running a gingerbread based rom already that does NOT have Carrier IQ. I did find the update zip in the system cache and deleted it, but no luck. The update pops up less often though, but still annoying. With that said, Samsung still has access to download files without consent, dispite a root command to freeze updates. Again very disturbing. []

jerm1027 said:
Not sure if it's any help, but according to the Sprint Rep I spoke with, all security updates come from Samsung. If that is true, its very disturbing. I have used the superfreeze and am running a gingerbread based rom already that does NOT have Carrier IQ. I did find the update zip in the system cache and deleted it, but no luck. The update pops up less often though, but still annoying. With that said, Samsung still has access to download files without consent, dispite a root command to freeze updates. Again very disturbing. []
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Check the op of my thread in general on how to stop the update message for a PERMANENT fix to the update message...
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I copied this from a thread in development. This works great. Open up an adb shell. Copy/paste this and run it. It modifies the build.prop file to identify your system as 2.3.6, which will stop the update prompts.
Code:
su
remount rw
sed -i 's/SPH-D700-user 2.3.5 GINGERBREAD EI22 release-keys/SPH-D700-user 2.3.6 GINGERBREAD EL30 release-keys/g' /system/build.prop
sed -i 's/sprint\/SPH-D700\/SPH-D700:2.3.5\/GINGERBREAD\/EI22:user\/release-keys/sprint\/SPH-D700\/SPH-D700:2.3.6\/GINGERBREAD\/EL30:user\/release-keys/g' /system/build.prop
remount ro

DaggettBeaver said:
I copied this from a thread in development. This works great. Open up an adb shell. Copy/paste this and run it. It modifies the build.prop file to identify your system as 2.3.6, which will stop the update prompts.
Code:
su
remount rw
sed -i 's/SPH-D700-user 2.3.5 GINGERBREAD EI22 release-keys/SPH-D700-user 2.3.6 GINGERBREAD EL30 release-keys/g' /system/build.prop
sed -i 's/sprint\/SPH-D700\/SPH-D700:2.3.5\/GINGERBREAD\/EI22:user\/release-keys/sprint\/SPH-D700\/SPH-D700:2.3.6\/GINGERBREAD\/EL30:user\/release-keys/g' /system/build.prop
remount ro
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Yep same method in my thread in general
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Noooo...your method was in General so it must not be right...only the one from Development should work...LOL.
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DeviceManagement.apk
I have an epic 4g on rooted with cwm and cleangb. I have been irritated with the frequent system update messages I have been rec'ing lately. Yes, letting it install and then pulling the battery works fine. But I have also been looking for a way to stop the update service from running in my phone. Here's what I did:
I checked Titanium Backup ( free version ) and found "System Updates" in the list of apps under the backup/restore tab. The list wasn't sorted so I had to scroll and carefully scan each app-name to find it. Then I started to uninstall it, but I cancelled when I was prompted whether or not to uninstall DeviceManagement.apk. Now that I know the apk, I don't need to uninstall, I can rename, right? Then I went to root-explorer and browsed to /system/app. Then I hit the button to mount r/w; then I renamed DeviceManagement.apk to DeviceManagement.apk.bak. Rebooted and checked menu -> settings -> Applications to see if System Updates was running. And it's not.
Hopefully this means no more firmware updates... time will tell
hope this helps someone else out there
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Why not just edit the build.prop as suggested? Can you still update PRL? I think you will get a network error.

Just a quick update, I'm still getting update notices. So renaming the .apk def did not work.
Re: build.props
I'm totally ignorant on how to do this. Ill re-read this post from the beginning. I must have missed it.
Thanks to all,
Disc
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discodan7700 said:
Just a quick update, I'm still getting update notices. So renaming the .apk def did not work.
Re: build.props
I'm totally ignorant on how to do this. Ill re-read this post from the beginning. I must have missed it.
Thanks to all,
Disc
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With something like root explorer you just long press on build.prop , choose edit text, change all EI22 instances to EL30 and all 2.3.5 to 2.3.6, save and exit then reboot.

Why the hell would this annoying pop-up repeatedly come up in the first place... so much for the "users" right to custom ROMS. They always have to sneak some b.s. in to annoy the XDA community. Theres a conspiracy going on at Samsung {-_-}

RealTic said:
Why the hell would this annoying pop-up repeatedly come up in the first place... so much for the "users" right to custom ROMS. They always have to sneak some b.s. in to annoy the XDA community. Theres a conspiracy going on at Samsung {-_-}
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I think it is because they consider it a security update to remove CIQ.
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Hi,
I finally got back to this. As previously stated, renaming devicemanagement.apk didn't do anything regarding the autoupdate notification. I was indeed nolonger able to do a prl or profile update via home-screen -> menu -> settings -> about phone -> updates. Not only that, but, I got a little foolhardy renaming stuff in /system/app when I started getting the update notices. Long story short, I've gone back thru, re-renamed everything back from .bak to .apk with rootexplorer, and I'm still not getting my vmail downloaded to my phone.
Back on track now... as suggested, I used rootexplorer to edit /system/build.prop. only 2 instances needed to be updated. 1 from EI22 to EL30, and one more a few lines down from that, updating 2.3.5 to 2.3.6. Hopefully this will quiet the autoupdate gremlins.
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Update: rebooted phone, and I still had the update to el30 in my notifications. I suspect that since the update was auto-downloaded pre-updating build.prop that I would continue to get update nags till I did the "go ahead and install update / pull battery" trick one last time.
So I did that one last time hoping that the update will nolonger auto-download since build.prop references the current versions.
Thanks for everyone's help. Hope someone else finds it useful.
-disc-
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Uh-oh, rebooted my phone today and was greeted with an auto-update nastygram. Ill recheck my build.prop. to see if I missed anything. If not, I think there's an adb method described earlier in this thread. Ill try that and report back.
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[Q] 2 problems: System Update and Swype

Sending from my phone.
Problem #1: I'm running RandomRom EI22 and I've done every step to prevent the System Update message, however it's still popping up. Definitely made sure I erased the systemupdate apk and everything else. What other methods are there to make it stop being such a nuisance?
Problem #2: I uninstalled regular Swype and installed the beta, ever since the original kept asking for a system update. After installing the beta, it worked fine. Now everytime I try, it keeps saying "Try again".

Volknochi said:
Sending from my phone.
Problem #1: I'm running RandomRom EI22 and I've done every step to prevent the System Update message, however it's still popping up. Definitely made sure I erased the systemupdate apk and everything else. What other methods are there to make it stop being such a nuisance?
Problem #2: I uninstalled regular Swype and installed the beta, ever since the original kept asking for a system update. After installing the beta, it worked fine. Now everytime I try, it keeps saying "Try again".
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Do a search here on "FOTAKill.apk" - that was the only thing that helped me on both my phone and my wife's - but we are on Froyo so this might not work for you.
With that being said, all of what you tried has been suggested for Froyo users also, but didn't work - so give it a try. Sometimes the search on XDA doesn't seem to work well for me - so what I do is use Google, and in the search terms I type "XDA FOTAKill.apk"

You have to edit your build.prop to say 2.3.6 and EL30 in all places where it says EI22 and 2.3.5. Then reboot.
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kennyglass123 said:
You have to edit your build.prop to say 2.3.6 and EL30 in all places where it says EI22 and 2.3.5. Then reboot.
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Okay.....so how do I go about doing that?

Volknochi said:
Okay.....so how do I go about doing that?
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With Root Explorer. Edit build.prop in system directory.
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EDIT: I did the trick of allowing it to do an update, then I let it reboot, it goes to the "Triangle !" mode, wiped Dalvik and rebooted, and so far, it hasn't popped up yet.
Now to fix Swype...

Volknochi said:
EDIT: I did the trick of allowing it to do an update, then I let it reboot, it goes to the "Triangle !" mode, wiped Dalvik and rebooted, and so far, it hasn't popped up yet.
Now to fix Swype...
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It will be back within a week.
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If it'll be back within a week, then does that mean that there's no way of getting rid of that update message?

Volknochi said:
If it'll be back within a week, then does that mean that there's no way of getting rid of that update message?
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I mentioned what has to be done before. Build.prop has to be edited.

Sorry, thought I mentioned that I did. My fault.
Yes, I did edit the build.prop file through Root Explorer, per your advice. Even after I did the final editing (missed a couple), the message still popped up. But, that's when I did the cache clearing and it didn't pop up again upon reboot.

Volknochi said:
Sorry, thought I mentioned that I did. My fault.
Yes, I did edit the build.prop file through Root Explorer, per your advice. Even after I did the final editing (missed a couple), the message still popped up. But, that's when I did the cache clearing and it didn't pop up again upon reboot.
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Ok, that makes sense because the message was still in your phone's queue.
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If you are on a MTD rom, someone in another thread suggested going back to regular swype. You can get the appropo files from the Starsky ROM, this is one of the few MTD roms that uses swype still, and the only files that I found work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1242335
system/app/swype.apk
system/lib/swypecore.so
I pushed using Root Explorer and got mine working again

The 'Android Update to EL30' is not removed by uninstalling system updates.apk that apk is meant to provision your Epic to Sprint. The Update Notification is caused by the 'Google Framework' Service. There may be ways to fool it, such as the buildprop edit suggested.
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[Q] OTA Updates

Now that we have root, how do we stop the OTA Updates. I looked through Titanium Backup to try to freeze SDM.apk but the file does not seem to exist. Any help?

I just froze both update apps and I no longer get OTA update notifications. Go to titanium backup and search update, you should see 2 green update apps, freeze those. Hope this helps.
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YiZK said:
I just froze both update apps and I no longer get OTA update notifications. Go to titanium backup and search update, you should see 2 green update apps, freeze those. Hope this helps.
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Thanks, I froze those apps, now time will tell.

Google how to change your fingerprint in "build.prop"
I went back to 4.4.2 on my Nexus 5 and was getting the notification all the time till I edited my build.prop from 4.4.2 to 4.4.3 and haven't had a notification since
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Just picked up my Tab S 8.4 today and after rooting I wasn't fast enough to catch the OTA download but after editing my build.prop the notification was still up after a reboot so with confidence I hit install and a pop up stated that "modifications have been found" and it couldn't perform the OTA .
Am happy [emoji12]
Yes I'm aware that root alone is a modification that could prevent the OTA [emoji33]
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Yeah, I still have this software update notification looming over me that isn't going away. Ìm rooted - is there a preferred method of knocking out these software updates/notifications (either the Titanium Backup or build.prop edit above)? When I search "update" in Titanium, I get both the software update results mentioned above, along with Secure Policy Updates. Disable all 3? Forget it and edit build.prop? Does it even matter which? thx
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I went ahead and froze both software updates in TB - seems to have stopped the notifications. I'm still interested in knowing if there's a general method most people follow tho - I've been putting off doing the same thing on my S5... thx

b3aucb said:
Yeah, I still have this software update notification looming over me that isn't going away. Ìm rooted - is there a preferred method of knocking out these software updates/notifications (either the Titanium Backup or build.prop edit above)? When I search "update" in Titanium, I get both the software update results mentioned above, along with Secure Policy Updates. Disable all 3? Forget it and edit build.prop? Does it even matter which? thx
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I went ahead and froze both software updates in TB - seems to have stopped the notifications. I'm still interested in knowing if there's a general method most people follow tho - I've been putting off doing the same thing on my S5... thx
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I'll say it again "EDIT THE BUILD.PROP"
I don't use titanium backup and edited the build.prop .before I edited the build.prop the update had already downloaded and that notification wouldn't go away till I accepted it ,once you accept it after editing the build.prop a prompt pops up stating that your device has been nodded and the install is declined.
NO MORE NOTIFICATIONS FOR OTA [emoji12]
Google how to do it
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[Q] OTA file location

Forgot to disable OTA updates and my phone downloaded it and now I have this notification that doesn't go away. Looked around using ES file browser but I can't find the location out the OTA file so I can delete it.
Anyone know the location of the OTA?

valefour said:
Forgot to disable OTA updates and my phone downloaded it and now I have this notification that doesn't go away. Looked around using ES file browser but I can't find the location out the OTA file so I can delete it.
Anyone know the location of the OTA?
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I'm one of the dummies that half-asleep clicked on the OTA update and am now softbricked. In looking around the potential solution threads I saw that long pressing the notification should dismiss it. Just a warning, I haven't tried fixing my phone as of yet, so I'm not sure if this advice is right.

vengurls said:
I'm one of the dummies that half-asleep clicked on the OTA update and am now softbricked. In looking around the potential solution threads I saw that long pressing the notification should dismiss it. Just a warning, I haven't tried fixing my phone as of yet, so I'm not sure if this advice is right.
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That sucks. Look for "I softbricked my T-Mobile G3" under the questions thread. I think there's 2 fixes in there if you haven't checked yet. Idk if they'll work for you but worth a try if haven't seen them yet.
I read an adb fix somewhere that supposedly came from the G2 forums that supposedly worked too.
Good luck!
I'm just going to wait to find the location to delete, don't want to try and ling click and some kind of earthquake or something happen and end up just single clicking it. Lol

valefour said:
That sucks. Look for "I softbricked my T-Mobile G3" under the questions thread. I think there's 2 fixes in there if you haven't checked yet. Idk if they'll work for you but worth a try if haven't seen them yet.
I read an adb fix somewhere that supposedly came from the G2 forums that supposedly worked too.
Good luck!
I'm just going to wait to find the location to delete, don't want to try and ling click and some kind of earthquake or something happen and end up just single clicking it. Lol
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Yeah I saw the adb fix for the G2 and was hoping to have someone confirm that it is fine for the G3 too. I don't see why it wouldn't be, but I don't want to dig myself into a deeper hole.
Hope you find your answer!

valefour said:
Forgot to disable OTA updates and my phone downloaded it and now I have this notification that doesn't go away. Looked around using ES file browser but I can't find the location out the OTA file so I can delete it.
Anyone know the location of the OTA?
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You can freeze Update Center from Titanium Backup and that notification will go away. Forever.

ymcc said:
You can freeze Update Center from Titanium Backup and that notification will go away. Forever.
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I froze it and that thing still popped up. Thanks for trying though.
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valefour said:
I froze it and that thing still popped up. Thanks for trying though.
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There are 3 tgings for you to freeze
Software Update
Update Center
App Updates
I had the same problem thats a solid fix and should be working on every occasion like that.

Long press on the notification to enter app info and from there turn off notifications

I just use "notification off" app > uncheck googleplayservices > to hide the annoying notification.

Hello, I have this weird thing after trying to update to V30c... I received OTA (~230mb), downloaded and pressed to install but nothing happens, it just reboots the phone without performing the upgrade. So what I did connected it to PC and updated via LG mobile tool don't know why but the size was (1.3GB) unfortunately after upgrading I still receive the notification which I don't need as I already upgraded via PC... Anyone knows how to solve this?

If you're rooted, you can use the 'disableService' app from playstore. Then System / Google Play Services / SystemUpdateService, uncheck it. Problem solved.
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ymcc said:
There are 3 tgings for you to freeze
Software Update
Update Center
App Updates
I had the same problem thats a solid fix and should be working on every occasion like that.
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Only it doesn't solve the problem. Just froze it with TB, but the notice persists. D851 stock MM V30D rooted. Also have SystemUpdateService disabled via app disableService from playstore, which got rid of the OTA notices for OS versions, but won't disable this compatibility patch notification.
EDIT: Notification gone now, probably had to reboot for it to evaporate.
EDIT2: Came back a day or so later, so that method was a no-go for me. Didn't want to try the long press to see if it could be dismissed via option presented in response to that action