Even though I had disabled automatic system updates in the developer settings, my phone still booted up to Pie after restarting. Is there a way to completely stop the phone from even downloading updates, let alone applying the updates?
At first boot without sim I've disabled WiFi. Probably just after the login with my account. Than I received the notification of an update, I've hidden the notification and I've disabled automatic updates in dev settings
Maximum time with connectivity 20 seconds... No enough time to download any update
Just rooted my phone to stop installing updates. It will still download the update though.
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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".
So, my phones inactive but I use it for communication through email and browsing and kik and all that through wifi, but I was having wifi issues and I did a suggestion that asked me to dial a certain code, it restarted my device, but now every time I boot, it wants me to activate my phone, although I can't. So I'm stuck with a stupid system update notifications. By default my rooted stock ND8 rom has google services framework modified disabling the update service, yet it's still there... Any ideas? This isn't the traditional OTA update nag. And as I said, I can't activate a deactivated phone.
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So, my phones inactive but I use it for communication through email and browsing and kik and all that through wifi, but I was having wifi issues and I did a suggestion that asked me to dial a certain code, it restarted my device, but now every time I boot, it wants me to activate my phone, although I can't. So I'm stuck with a stupid system update notifications. By default my rooted stock ND8 rom has google services framework modified disabling the update service, yet it's still there... Any ideas? This isn't the traditional OTA update nag. And as I said, I can't activate a deactivated phone.
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i would say delete Activation.apk from the system/priv-app folder
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.
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.
So I was using the face unlock (which works amazing) and when I rebooted my phone, as usual it re-enabled the "fingerprint sensor can lock phone" option. But it also made all my smart Lock options disappear. Very wierd.
Same
Yea same, I have the Moto z2 force on Sprint with Android 7.1.1 . Every time I restart or boot up the phone the Smart Lock buttons don't work or show up. I factory reset the phone and did nothing but removed all of my stuff. Maybe when Android 8 or Oreo comes out it will be fixed. I hope it will fix it because I use it a lot. If you don't know how to update your phone you first go to Settings, then About phone, then System updates.
I had this problem but once I made a factory reset last week it is working normally, at least until now. One way to temporarily fix it is by deactivating smart lock in the secure agent section, reboot and activate again. The downside is that everytime you reboot without deactivating it as a secure agent it will stop working again.
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I had this problem but once I made a factory reset last week it is working normally, at least until now. One way to temporarily fix it is by deactivating smart lock in the secure agent section, reboot and activate again. The downside is that everytime you reboot without deactivating it as a secure agent it will stop working again.
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That worked thank you!