I recently downgraded my XL to 7.1.1 Factory Image. I need this version of Android, unrooted, for a specific purpose.
I didn't use the phone for a couple days, but when I turned it on now, it is upgraded to 8.1.0.
I'm surprised it did this without prompting me.
Is there a way to prevent auto updating?
Edit - Oh, derp. Just found "Automatic System Updates" in Developer Settings.
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I've had a Nexus 7 (2013) for a couple of years, which I kept with locked bootloader, unrooted, stock ROM etc. in all that time. Early on, when it came with 4.something, I disabled the "Google Search" app, in order to remove the search bar from the home screen. This worked fine, and through several OTA updates of 5.x and up to 6.0.1. The search bar was not present in all those versions.
However, just yesterday I decided I wanted to unlock the bootloader and root it, which I did with Wugfresh NRT. I did a "adb backup" first (while bootloader still locked), unlocked bootloader (which factory reset the device as expected), rooted, then restored the backup. This all went fine, although a few apps seemed to have still lost their settings despite restoring the backup, but nothing I can't cope with.
At this point I noticed that the search bar had come back. I searched and found the solution now was to disable the "Google App" (as opposed to "Google Search" in 4.x). As soon as I did that, I found my tablet going into a bootloop, alternating between the Android animation and optimising apps.
Searching around, this seems to be a common complaint with 6.0.1. I realise I can fix the bootloop by dirty flashing a system.img, that's not a problem - the question is what do I do next to disable the search bar, as I had it disabled fine before in 6.0.1.
For example, what was different between my previous state, where I had no search bar in 6.0.1 after disabling the "Google Search" app in 4.x and going through lots of OTA updates, compared to the state where I tried to disable "Google App" in the "new" 6.0.1?
I presumably could downgrade to an older version of Android, disable "Google Search" and go through all the upgrades after that and probably all would be well, but it seems like there should be a simpler way.
I realise I can change launcher, but I'd rather not. I had things just as I wanted them in 6.0.1 with stock launcher and no search bar, and if possible, I'd like them again!
Any advice?
For now I've worked around the problem (which is probably what most people do) by changing to a different launcher. But still, I did use to have the stock launcher minus the Google search bar, and it would be nice to get that again.
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!
Hey everyone.
I have Zenfone 2 ze551ml (ASUS_Z00AD) for a year.
Apparently, it was rooted by the seller, I wasn't actually aware of it being rooted, acknowledged it only after I had tried to install some applications required for my job - they wouldn't install on a rooted device for security reasons. And I haven't used any benefits from my device being rooted (Are there any at all just because of the fact it is rooted?).
Later I found out that while rooted you don't really get any updates unless you manually upload them to your phone.
So several days ago I did unroot my device using "SuperSU" app. The only difference I've noticed - there is a lag spike when pressing "Home" button while in main menu - it does really annoy me, as I haven't seen this lag before, though I'm not sure if it is "unroot-related problem". Should there be any performace change since I've unrooted it?
But main question is about updates. Finally, there is a Marshmallow OS update - how do I upgrade?
I haven't got any updates since the first day of usage - I believe it is because of the root feature I had preinstalled. But now it is not rooted, and still I am not getting any updates.
I would love to "Check for updates" if there was such a feature - but in settings menu "Settings" -> "About" there is no "Check updates" function. How do I force check for updates? Will I get them automatically if I wait long enough? Or I won't since my device was sometime ago rooted in the first place?
I am sorry if the question was already mentioned here and for my bad englando.
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.
Hi!
As per the title, an apparently bad update to 9 (Pie) made my Z2 Force (Verizon) wildly unstable, can you roll-back and try again?
FYI, the phone re-sets itself at the slightest use of the OS (swapping apps, etc.), most smaller apps fail upon launch (eg: "Settings keeps stopping"...).
Did a factory re-set with no difference. Even after the factory re-set, it still says "Software not updated to PCX29.159-21", and it's not in the update history, although the Build Number IS PCX29.159-21"! Weird...
Phone was perfect prior to Pie update!
Is there a stock 8.0 Verizon ROM available for USB flashing?
Thanks!
xdabubba14 said:
Hi!
As per the title, an apparently bad update to 9 (Pie) made my Z2 Force (Verizon) wildly unstable, can you roll-back and try again?
FYI, the phone re-sets itself at the slightest use of the OS (swapping apps, etc.), most smaller apps fail upon launch (eg: "Settings keeps stopping"...).
Did a factory re-set with no difference. Even after the factory re-set, it still says "Software not updated to PCX29.159-21", and it's not in the update history, although the Build Number IS PCX29.159-21"! Weird...
Phone was perfect prior to Pie update!
Is there a stock 8.0 Verizon ROM available for USB flashing?
Thanks!
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Me too
You can't downgrade to oreo
xdabubba14 said:
Hi!
As per the title, an apparently bad update to 9 (Pie) made my Z2 Force (Verizon) wildly unstable, can you roll-back and try again?
FYI, the phone re-sets itself at the slightest use of the OS (swapping apps, etc.), most smaller apps fail upon launch (eg: "Settings keeps stopping"...).
Did a factory re-set with no difference. Even after the factory re-set, it still says "Software not updated to PCX29.159-21", and it's not in the update history, although the Build Number IS PCX29.159-21"! Weird...
Phone was perfect prior to Pie update!
Is there a stock 8.0 Verizon ROM available for USB flashing?
Thanks!
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I think you can repair this device using Verizon Software Upgrade Assistant. that you can download from Verizon website.