Recent content by gamer-x

OK this worked and the updater is not attempting to install the update anymore. I gave up looking for the update.zip file at this time. I needed to get back to using the phone. So in summary, the above mentioned post..... freezing SDM works great. Could not be easier. That update was...

I deleted update.zip early this morning in the /cache/fota folder. It was not located in /cache as I have seen on some posts today. That made the update go away until 1.00pm CST. It seems to have downloaded again to the phone, but not in the same place as last time. It is not in the...

BTW, here is another method that seems to reportedly work well. To block the OTA update, Uninstall SDM 1.0 - xda-developers

Wow my first posting here, although I have been lurking for years... and ill be damned. OK that did not work for long. I am thinking that I may already have the update.zip file on my phone again, hiding in the cache directory somewhere, and that the program konwn as SDM, is simply trying to...

and for the record, I do read before posting. It seems like this is as good a place as any to post how to disable OTA on Galaxy S4 directions. So I went and did some more digging. Here is the link. How to Block OTA Updates on Samsung Galaxy S4 - Androidayos I tried this, and instead of...

ok so I have root. How do you stop the notification and the OTA download?