I just reverted back to KitKat. In order to prevent any accidental updating, I skipped the entire setup process and immediately unchecked "Auto Update" under "About device" in the system settings. I rebooted the device for the hell of it. After connecting to wifi, the device is still downloading the Lollipop update. How do I stop it and get rid of the downloaded update?
Root it, it'll never update then.
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I have a Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (SPH-L900). I'd like to do the update to MC2 (Currently AMA7). I was rooted but unrooted to get the update. Usually the notification icon would come up as well as a popup letting me know to install it. So far since I unrooted it has come up only once. That's ok though because I just went to Menu > Settings > System Update > Update Samsung Software and there it is all downloaded and ready to install. So I click on "Restart & Install" and it gives me a countdown letting me know that my phone is about to reboot and here is where my issue begins. When the countdown reaches 0 and says Rebooting phone it just sits there with nothing happening. I have let it sit for up to 5 minutes. I had tried to do this process when I was rooted just to see if it would work and the phone rebooted right away, tried to install and then of course error out. So now I am stuck.
1. How long should it take to reboot?
2. Is there a way to manually update to MC2 without using OTA?
3. I am actually happy at AMA7 assuming that MC2 isn't all that special, is there a way to stop the stupid popup and notification icon from showing up?
I was on GENNXT SUPERIOR ROM - the Russian build for quite sometime.Today while I phone was idle, some google update downloaded itself. Once the it applied itself, the language went back to Russian. To make matters worse, the phone went into boot loop mode. It would start, apply google update, work for sometime and then reboot again. Finally had to do a factory reset and wipe all my contacts/messages. This really pissed me off as I have been seeing this bull**** about "automatic" update for quite sometime. Is there way to permanently disable it so that updates are only downloaded when I approve them?
Do you mean Google Play store auto update? If so, launch Google play, setting, auto update, set to "Do Not Auto-update apps".
Hi everyone,
I do not know if it happened after a specific update, but my FTV 1st gen has started acting weirdly a few days/weeks ago.
It used to be that the FTV would go into hibernate after 10min and when you press any button it would wake up and be ready right away. Within 5sec you could use it.
Now for some reason, when the FTV is in hibernation (both automatic and manual hibernation) the FTV will do a fresh boot when you click a button. So the FireTV logo is shown, the "loading homescreen" message is shown and I have to wait for it to fully boot.
It's as if the FTV actually shut down rather than going into hibernate.
Does anybody know what is causing this and how to fix it? Costumer support of course knew nothing of this problem
anybody?
weird that i am the only one... but my second FTV also works properly. Maybe I will have to try a factory reset
Is this box rooted? If so, have you blocked OTA updates? If no rooted, have you blocked OTA updates in your rooter?
Box may have downloaded an update previous blocking OTA updates and it is trying to update every time you try to re-start it however it fails. That is the only thing I may think about.
The box is not rooted. I also did not block updates. I checked and it is on 5.0.5, last updated in January. Can I somehow check if an update was downloaded and is trying to be installed? Manually chrcking for updates says that I am on the current firmware.
Attempting to update my N7 to apply the latest Android updates. It is rooted, but standard Android and was on 6.0.1 MMB29K and I've managed to get it to MMB29V by using Flash Fire and doing incremental downloads/updates, but it refuses to go any further. FF goes through all the motions of looking like it is doing something, but the device always ends up still on MMB29V.
Where am I going wrong?
Thanks for all your help with that one, much appreciated.
Now for my next trick. When I go into Settings, tap About Tablet and then System Update the settings app crashes. Also, I have never had my apps set to auto update in the Play Store, but that setting changed on its own and updated everything in the background without my knowing. I have not been into the Play Store settings in months (years?) and could not have accidentally toggled this back on, so how did that happen? This is an immense irritation, as I like to dictate when to update things!
A couple hours ago my phone with unlocked bootloader, twrp and magisk root installed an OTA update without me initiating it. This failed and the phone was stuck in twrp recovery and couldn't boot until I flashed a stock rom through fastboot and restored my backups.
Now I want to prevent this from happening again. How do I block the phone from checking for OTA updates?
I will have to install them manually anyway so the OTA checking is not helpful.
Same thing happened to me except I was dumb enough to try and install myself the update... You can install Titanium Backup and freeze the Motorola Update app. Also, you can go under dev options and disable automatic updates (this alone didn't work for me).
How to prevent OTA updates, without root, please?
I followed this guide, the method 4 worked for me when my phone was rooted.
http://www.droidviews.com/disable-ota-notifications-android-devices/
With help from the Google, I finally recalled how I'd done it in the past.
Initially, I thought rooting would stop OTA updates, but that may have been prior to Marshmallow or with SuperSU.
This time, I used Titanium Backup (must be rooted) to freeze the MOTOROLA UPDATE SERVICE app.
As soon as it was frozen, the OTA notification disappeared from the notification bar and I gave not seen it return, for a couple days.
Yay! I didn't want to go beyond the stock firmware version that is available and I really didn't want Oreo.
Another way is to use a firewall app.
Also you can just add Motorola's address to your 'host' file to block it
Im the opposite, I want the notifications, without the automatic installation.
Wonder if I changed the permissions of the folder the updates download to, would that prevent automatic install?
also, there is an option in developer options, to turn off OTA.