There's been a lot of talk about how to stop the Verizon OTAs. As of now you would have to flash a custom ROM to stop them.... but what if you want to stay on stock?
I pulled this from Android Forums in the Samsung Charge thread.
WARNING: Do not do this to your Thunderbolt.. its for the Samsung Charge.
I'm running a custom ROM so I can't see what the Thunderbolts line of text is suppose to read. I figured if someone thats running stock can copy and paste what the Thunderbolts line of text reads, that maybe we can figure out a way to edit the text so that this method would work with the Thunderbolt.
So if anyone is running on stock.. can you go into the build.prop and copy and paste the line of text to this thread.. the same way as described above.
I pulled this from Android Forums in the Samsung Charge thread.
WARNING: Do not do this to your Thunderbolt.. its for the Samsung Charge.
Depend on what Rom you are running? I am running FRG22 and this worked:
Try this (credit to girlluvsdroid and sinfuldragon) it worked for me:
Originally Posted by SinfulDragon quoted from GirLuvsDroid
Hopefully,you haveRootExplorer(and if you don't, I highly recommend it because it's so worth the couple of bucks). Here are the instructions to prevent to the FRG22D OTA update (which I was getting yesterday myself):
1. In Root Explorer, go to /system/
2. Tap Mount R/W at the top, then long-press on build.prop and scroll down to Open in Text Editor
3. Once the file is open as a text file,scroll down until you seethe line that says: "ro.build.fingerprint=verizon/voles/sholes/sholes:2.2/FRG01B/45394:user/release-keys" and change it to read as follows: ro.build.fingerprint=verizon/voles/sholes/sholes:2.2/FRG22D/50454:user/release-keys
4. Tap the back key and say "Yes" when it asks you to save (it will automaticallybackup theoriginal fileforyou)
5. Tap Mount R/O at the top
6. Reboot
You will no longer get the OTA update notifications, because Verizon will believe you already have it. That didn't work for me until I changed the line above it that says "description" to match, now there's no more update. Thanks!
I'm running a custom ROM so I can't see what the Thunderbolts line of text is suppose to read. I figured if someone thats running stock can copy and paste what the Thunderbolts line of text reads, that maybe we can figure out a way to edit the text so that this method would work with the Thunderbolt.
So if anyone is running on stock.. can you go into the build.prop and copy and paste the line of text to this thread.. the same way as described above.