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DougW
DougW

Reputation: 30035

Stop Android OS auto-update

We have a variety of devices for testing purposes, and now that Froyo is being pushed (to the Nexus One so far at least), we have to constantly dismiss upgrade requests. There is no apparent "stop asking me" button.

So, is there any way I can disable OTA OS updates? We want a number of these phones to stay on old OS versions.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 25220

Answers (4)

Whome
Whome

Reputation: 10400

I have a very old Lenovo Yoga 2 1050F tablet, Android 5.0.1(Lollipop). Today year 2020 it made an unexpected OTA firmware download. After downloading a file reboot gives a signature error which may relate to my root and half broken recovery boot app. This is how I disabled a system update adb devices | adb shell | su | pm disable com.lenovo.ota

Upvotes: 0

e-info128
e-info128

Reputation: 4072

From ADB with root access:

adb shell pm disable com.google.android.systemupdater

Not need delete apk.

Upvotes: 2

thekindofme
thekindofme

Reputation: 3866

For XOOM running android 3 honeycomb. You have to remove Upgrader.apk (not SystemUpdater).

adb pull /system/app/Upgrader.apk C:/Path/to/your/desktop //Backup the file (just in case)  
adb remount                                       //Remount the system partition to read-write  
adb shell rm /system/app/Upgrader.apk              //Remove the apk

Upvotes: 2

QRohlf
QRohlf

Reputation: 2853

Remove SystemUpdater.apk from /system/app. From terminal (with ADB)

adb pull /system/app/SystemUpdater.apk C:/Path/to/your/desktop //Backup the file (just in case)  
adb remount                                       //Remount the system partition to read-write  
adb shell rm /system/app/SystemUpdater.apk              //Remove the apk

Warning - this will permanently disable system updates, until you push SystemUpdater back to /system/app

Upvotes: 6

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