A buddy of mine has a T-mobile version of G2. I rooted for him. And thought I froze the app that checked for updates. I frooze two apps com.lg...., and update manager app. (will update with correct app names when i see him)
I thought froze the right apps because when ever i would go to the system update option inside of settings. The app would close.
Today he recived the prompt to update his phone!! what am i missing? I have not clrealy found a system update app in titanium back up for his T-mobile lg g2.
Any one know how to stop this and any future updates?
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Hey guys, So I rooted last night and installed titanium backup and removed amazon mp3 and city id.. then i did a test to see if i could simply restore them by titanium backup. I quickly found out that it could not do that. My phone is working fine I am just concerned for when any new update comes out that my phone wont be able to update.
What do I need to do to reinstall these apps as system apps. I have the .apk and placed it in System/App and installed, but it just installs as a normal application. I am sure I am missing something here.
Will amazon mp3 and city id be required when I do the next android update?
You might find a system dump in the dinc forum. For future reference use titanium pro to "freeze" all the unwanted apps meaning all things verizon. They can easily be un-frozen when you need to ota update.
good day. From my Fascinate using the XDA app.
My market just got a background update (As all market updates are) but I don't remember any announcements or anything. The only way I know it updated is because whenever an app downloads, updates, or installs, I get a notification from Lookout saying *App name* is safe.
Does anyone know anything about this? Mytouch 4g rooted with stock rom.
EDIT: Also, When i opened the market it took a little longer than normal and re-scanned my applications.
I have the pro version of Titanium Backup and am wondering what apps to freeze to prevent an automatic Verizon OTA. When I tried from the App manager, FWUpgrade 1.2.0 was not freeze-able. Looking at [ROM] [STOCK] [I535VRALF2] Stripped, Rooted It's on the list. Since I haven't seen much chatter about "FWUpgrade" in General or Q&A I thought I'd ask. In addition, I decided to freeze VZW Package Installer. Should I freeze anything else?
BTW I rooted using:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1756885
With the image from: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28570424&postcount=125
I haven't installed a custom recovery yet.
Did you hear something?
I was wondering the same thing about which specific services should be disabled to avoid OTA pushes, except I have Root66 with Touch.img and boot.ani.fix. Working like a champ BTW, much thanks to the developers.
In Titanium Backup Pro, I have no issues freezing FWUpgrade 1.2.0.
EDIT: This is not specific to Verizon, but may be useful to you. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1634624
Jurassitol said:
I was wondering the same thing about which specific services should be disabled to avoid OTA pushes, except I have Root66 with Touch.img and boot.ani.fix. Working like a champ BTW, much thanks to the developers.
In Titanium Backup Pro, I have no issues freezing FWUpgrade 1.2.0.
EDIT: This is not specific to Verizon, but may be useful to you. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1634624
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ThanksI I'm about to try installing TWRP via GooManager. I also came across this, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1767125&highlight=sdm which suggested to freeze SDM as well, so I did. Phone still works fine. I will be sure to go through that spreadsheet and see if anything else is worth freezing.
Done and done.
Hey, just a heads up, freezing the APKs alone isn't the right solution.
If you freeze just FWUpgrade then it isn't actually disabled. (Notice by clicking software update in settings) and unfortunately if you freeze the other APK then you will cause your phone to crash randomly AND you can get a crash/hang on-demand if you click software update manually.
In the market there is an app called 'OTA Blocker' for S3 will properly take care of the OTA apps and installs a hook in with the OTA APIs so that it gracefully is stopped from being able to perform an OTA. If UI interaction is needed it pops up a message instead of letting the phone freeze/crash.
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Hey, just a heads up, freezing the APKs alone isn't the right solution.
If you freeze just FWUpgrade then it isn't actually disabled. (Notice by clicking software update in settings) and unfortunately if you freeze the other APK then you will cause your phone to crash randomly AND you can get a crash/hang on-demand if you click software update manually.
In the market there is an app called 'OTA Blocker' for S3 will properly take care of the OTA apps and installs a hook in with the OTA APIs so that it gracefully is stopped from being able to perform an OTA. If UI interaction is needed it pops up a message instead of letting the phone freeze/crash.
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So you come to XDA and your only two posts are to promote your own paid app. Care to elaborate on how your app works?
Agreed. This is a community, not an advertising venue. If you care to "contribute" please do so. If you think the visitors of this forum are blindly going to buy your app, you are sadly mistaken.
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Is there a suggested method of blocking OTAs on rooted stock right now? I will eventually go to a custom rom, but am taking my time. All my previous android phones have been HTC and I'm trying to make sure I don't screw something up with my new gs3. I have gotten TWRP installed, nandroided and done OTA root keeper but want to make sure. I'm comfortable in ADB as long as I have the script before hand.
Well I've been pushing my Moto Droid to it's last legs before getting my GS3 so a lot of this is shock to me.
I never thought VZW would push an OTA and force you to install it. They would nag you, but never force the install.
I'm also not familar with current recoveries (I was using sprecovery on my old phone) and it wouldn't ever automatically flash an OTA, you would have to confirm the update so I'd imagine it would be the same in CWM or TWRP.
I have been searching all over the place for the last several days for an answer to this issue. I hope someone can help with this.
So I decided a few days ago to upgrade my phone (an HTC Sensation) to ICS. It was previously on Gingerbead. I didn't even know the update was available until I was messing around in the settings.
So the upgrade went well. Didn't lose any data and I thought it was great. Until I decided to watch a YouTube video. Then I locked the screen and the video paused. I know it was not doing this before the upgrade. I subscribe to a few YouTube channels that are just people talking, so I turn off the screen and just listen. So I did a search online and found out a lot of other people were complaining about this as well.
So then I came across a forum post stating they were able to downgrade their YouTube app to an older version and get the play while locked functionality back. I found the APK for 2.1.6 and installed it. Worked great, back up and running with lock and listen.
Then I rebooted the phone. Android "helpfully" decides to re-update my YouTube app to the new "improved" version.
I rooted the phone during the process of trying to fix this. So it has S-OFF, root, and Super SU installed. I also put System Tuner on the phone.
Already checked the Play store to make sure updates are disabled there. I don't have updates enabled for any apps.
How can I stop this automatic upgrading? YouTube is a stock app and from what I understand, Android updates these (gmail, maps, youtube, etc) automatically and you can't stop it on the front end. Any ideas? Something I can do in System Tuner?
Thanks.
TL;DR Try using the search function and you might find something called Titanium Backup which can 'freeze' apps.
Already tried it. System Tuner has this feature. Freezing an app removes it from the drawer and will not allow it to run. Not exactly what I want.
Maybe I didn't make that clear enough. Titanium Backup allows you to effectively remove an app from the Play Store update routine, so it will not update anymore.
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Maybe I didn't make that clear enough. Titanium Backup allows you to effectively remove an app from the Play Store update routine, so it will not update anymore.
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Thanks for the info. I didn't want to pay for Titanium Backup, but you at least got me going in the right direction. The issue appears to be that YouTube on my phone is marked as a system app and that causes Android to update it automatically regardless of what you select in the Play Store settings. I was able to use an app called "/system/app mover" to convert YouTube to a user app. Now it won't update automatically.
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Thanks for the info. I didn't want to pay for Titanium Backup, but you at least got me going in the right direction. The issue appears to be that YouTube on my phone is marked as a system app and that causes Android to update it automatically regardless of what you select in the Play Store settings. I was able to use an app called "/system/app mover" to convert YouTube to a user app. Now it won't update automatically.
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There is an app calls Addons Detector from Play Store, you can use it to turn on and off the auto notification and download.
actually under Play Store, you can browse your preinstalled app and untick the "Allow automatic updating" option.
I'm having problems with quite a few apps either stalling, force-closing, or just being unstable after receiving the OTA 4.1.1 upgrade. One example that comes to mind is the Smartactions app (which worked fine with 4.0.4, but now force closes and won't let me make some changes).
Is this an app problem (which might be resolved when the apps themselves update to support 4.1.1), or is this a 4.1.1 build problem on Motorola's end (as though they released a sh!tty update that makes apps unstable)?
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I'm having problems with quite a few apps either stalling, force-closing, or just being unstable after receiving the OTA 4.1.1 upgrade. One example that comes to mind is the Smartactions app (which worked fine with 4.0.4, but now force closes and won't let me make some changes).
Is this an app problem (which might be resolved when the apps themselves update to support 4.1.1), or is this a 4.1.1 build problem on Motorola's end (as though they released a sh!tty update that makes apps unstable)?
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I'm no expert but I'd expect this to be an app issue for two reasons:
1) The apps were created for 4.0.4. If you are noticing this problem with a Jellybean app (like Google Now for instance) it would make more sense that it's an android issue but since you're talking about smart actions I'd think it's likely just bad compatability between the app and the OS.
2) Moto/Verizon put this build through a butt load of testing before releasing it. We had a leak well before the official OTA that was extremely stable and Moto still wouldn't release the OTA. Generally OEMs, especially one's like Motorola, and especially for flagship devices like the Razr HD, do not release updates without thorough (as in what might seem as unnecessarily thorough) testing. They don't want to take the chance of having to give people their money back because they can't use their phones after the update.
Lastly, it's possible that something happened along the way of your update and that may be causing your problem.
Are you rooted? Were you rooted before updating? This may have caused a problem while updating.
I'd suggest using the DROID RAZR HD UTILITY to fastboot restore and start with an out of the box experience. It's also possible that the app data for smart actions (as in the data your phone saved about what you already had programmed into smart actions) was not wiped before you updated and now you are getting conflicts with app data from 4.0.4 not working with 4.1.1. Your best bet is to start fresh if it really is a problem. I ran the update after fastboot restore and I haven't had any problems. I also haven't used smart actions since updating, though.
Hope this helps...good luck
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I'm having problems with quite a few apps either stalling, force-closing, or just being unstable after receiving the OTA 4.1.1 upgrade. One example that comes to mind is the Smartactions app (which worked fine with 4.0.4, but now force closes and won't let me make some changes).
Is this an app problem (which might be resolved when the apps themselves update to support 4.1.1), or is this a 4.1.1 build problem on Motorola's end (as though they released a sh!tty update that makes apps unstable)?
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Have you try a factory reset (master clear)? You can also try wipe data and dalvik if you have access to these options.
Only app I have a problem with is draw something. Works on my nexus 7 but not on this jb update. It also works on cm 10, unfortunately that's too buggy to be a dd.
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After I updated the amazon app store keeps crashing upon opening. And also draw something doesn't work.
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After I updated the amazon app store keeps crashing upon opening. And also draw something doesn't work.
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Amazon sent me an email saying they noticed I was having app store issues and a link to download a update outside of their app store.
The only issue I'm having and can't figure out is when I set the alarm on my phone and it goes off there's nothing that pops up to turn it of or snooze. I literally have to shut the phone down and restart it to turn the alarm off. I've looked thru my disabled apps and can't find anything disabled that would be affecting this. Any advice?
James
I don't have any issues with my alarm. Maybe try clearing the cache?
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Amazon sent me an email with a like for the new appstore. Haven't had issues since.
We recently learned that you may be having trouble signing into the Amazon Appstore for Android after upgrading the operating system on your Verizon Android phone.
We've made a newer version of the Amazon Appstore available that addresses this issue. To download and install this latest version:
1. Go to http://amzn.to/getappstore from your mobile phone's web browser.
2. If prompted, choose "Browser" in the "Complete action using" pop-up and Appstore will begin to download.
3. Once the download is complete, pull down the Notification bar at the top of the screen and tap "Amazon_Appstore_release.apk" to install.
4. Select "OK" to replace the application, then tap "Install."
5. Tap "Open," then enter your log-in information.
6. If you previously turned on Parental Controls or adjusted other Appstore settings, you will need to make those changes again. To do so, tap "Menu," and then "Settings."
Your previously purchased apps will remain available. You can view them by tapping "Menu," and then "My Apps." Your previously downloaded apps and progress will also not be impacted when you download the new version of the Amazon Appstore for Android.
We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused and we look forward to seeing you again soon.
Sincerely,
Customer Service
Amazon.com
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