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[Epic 4G General] DroidApprentice:
I was a shade worried when the first thing that happened after the battery pull was a kick back into CWM. I just did a nandroid before to be safe, and didn't want to be placed in a CWM bootloop or something. But other than that I think this method may have worked like a charm! Thanks.
[Epic 4G General] flastnoles11:
Guess I should've mentioned you may go into cwm after the battery pull and reboot... but that did not happen to me... from what I hear it happens to most... I will update op to reflect this... thanks...
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
OR....freeze system updates, then go to /cache in root explorer and move or delete the update.zip file in there.

Edit: worked for me.

Sent from something with a Ｋモ尺れモㄥ.
[Epic 4G General] flastnoles11:
Ya I tired that but I kept getting the message... this was the only way I could get it to stop...
[Epic 4G General] Fantastic.Ergo:
thank you it worked for me!
[Epic 4G General] pipskicks:
I am on stock but rooted so I figure I can not let this install as described.

I also have changes made and I REALLY don't want to let anything install, I want to keep it as is.

That being said I deleted the update in Cache AND I used Root Explorer to push the FOTAKILL.apk to my phone and it STILL came up again :mad:

If anyone has any ideas for someone on stock but rooted, please advise!
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
If you had read through this thread you would have seen accepting the update does nothing to your rooted phone. It fails and you pull the battery and reboot. No more update notifications.
[Epic 4G General] pipskicks:
Oh crap, thanks, I don't know why but I thought I read something about them having a custom ROM, I apologize for the repetitive question.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
No problem. One guy claims he was only rooted and was able to get the OTA but a whole bunch more says it failed.
[Epic 4G General] pipskicks:
That's probably why, I'm going to just make a Nandroid, I just have an Epic from Sprint that I put on Page Plus and I am not that advanced, so I had someone else flash it, I really don't want to lose the settings because I don't know if I can fix it easily myself if it does mess something up.

But I think I'll feel safe enough after the Nandroid, I just am overly scared because of not being on Sprint and not having messed with switching carriers (only flashed ROM's I'm a very inexperienced user just following threads to Root :D ).
[Epic 4G General] pipskicks:
I forgot to restart after I tried the method that I stated did not work, I haven't gotten the upgrade screen again since!
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
For anyone wondering: Stock rooted doesn't stop OTA's from working, what stops it is deodexing or removing/modifying apps from system/app.

When we had OneClickRoots, they removed the Asphalt 5 demo to fit root in. That's why "stock rooted" is thought to stop OTA's from working. But, if the only thing you did to root was Odin cwm and flash the su.zip the OTA will update.

Sent from something with a Ｋモ尺れモㄥ.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Good info, thanks Z.
[Epic 4G General] mrleprechaunboy:
This worked, but now I converted Legendary RC2.2 ROM to MTD (Thank you The_Legendary for the guide) and now it keeps popping up again. Sad thing is, it doesnt let me press the update button so i cant use this trick again :(
[Epic 4G General] SharpHawk:
I "solved" the problem by switching to Cyanogen. That is to say, I fixed a thousand other problems and -incidentally- this one by doing so.
[Epic 4G General] flastnoles11:
Hmmmm... try using a root explorer and going to /cache and deleting the update and rebooting... it might work but idk...
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
I was a little concerned after reading Zanderman's post. I am glad it failed for you so it did not unroot you. I was going to tell you to flash the gps fix, that causes it to fail but you are good already.
[Epic 4G General] :
is it safe to do the battery pull with a mtd rom?
[Epic 4G General] flastnoles11:
Sure is... actually safer than ext4... I haven't had any data corruption upon pulling battery with mtd roms...
[Epic 4G General] :
haha i couldn't wait for a response i just did it and it worked, thanks for the quick response though. didnt boot into clockwork though.
[Epic 4G General] flastnoles11:
Yeah it didn't for me either but some people have reported it booting them into recovery after rebooting... glad it worked for you...
[Epic 4G General] pablomentabo:
Glad this worked for me too. Kennyglass123 mentioned this in the Legendary ROM forum and I was worried at first since I was on MTD but it worked out fine. Thanks again Kenny for all your assistance in the Epic 4G forums :D
[Epic 4G General] JRRinNC:
Well, I just received the update notification again. This worked for me for 3 days (did it first on the 24th) but apparently it just delayed it. Guess I'll try again as well as try freezing the updates and delete the zip as Zanderman noted. I'm on CleanGB MTD 1.05 by the way. (With HUGE hopes that Toadlife will be able to do the EL30 version soon!)
[Epic 4G General] Dronak:
Thanks for this information. I got the update notice this morning, and it came back two or three times within an hour or so when I was using the phone a bit. I certainly didn't want it happening that often, so I gave this a try. Luckily, there were no problems with the process (I'm new to rooting, so I'm still a little worried about changing stuff) and I haven't seen the notification again today. So it looks like it worked fine. Thanks again!
[Epic 4G General] intulsa:
Same here. got the update notification again last night after 6 days. It slowed it down but didn't completely stop it.
[Epic 4G General] blazinazn:
Same for me. Just came back after a few days.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Without restoring a nandroid? Or changing ROMs?
[Epic 4G General] intulsa:
Neither. Nothing has changed since converting my Legendary to MTD a few weeks ago. Since it's restarted it happens every hour now. I let the install fail again and will see how long it lasts this time.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
That's weird. I have 2 Epics and the only time I got a second notification was after restoring Legendary from CM7.
[Epic 4G General] flastnoles11:
I haven't had the update notification since starting this thread...
[Epic 4G General] zman519:
Search i have answered this before.

find (you can get it from some roms) FOTAkill.apk push it to /system/app/ them set the permissions like the other apks in the folder
[Epic 4G General] flastnoles11:
Again... no need for most of us... the op was the only method I need!
[Epic 4G General] davidh59:
Mine is back after 7 days

What rom are you on Flastnoles?
[Epic 4G General] zman519:
That's only cuz sprint is not pusHING it

Sent from the Drivers Seat of my Suby txting and Driving doing 100MPH+ in a school zone! Ha.
[Epic 4G General] Dronak:
My update notification just came back, too, but it only took 4 days. I guess an EL30 ROM is going to be needed to stop this for good? I'm currently running the Mostly Stock ROM, if it matters. I think an update is planned, so I should be good once that comes out.
[Epic 4G General] davidh59:
Yeah I was hoping to hold off a few more days til there were more choices in the EL30 roms. I'm currently on Clean gb MTD which has been mostly very good even though its an EI22 rom. I may just let it fail again and buy a few more days.
[Epic 4G General] DroidApprentice:
It's back for me too. Rinse and repeat until I have my prepared update path with preferred ROM...
[Epic 4G General] zman519:
/system/app/FOTAKill.apk !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sent from the Drivers Seat of my Suby txting and Driving doing 100MPH+ in a school zone! Ha.
[Epic 4G General] sethlo:
can't kill it

Keeps coming back. Keep pulling battery. Really annoying. Seems to come at the worst times. PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAHH THE HORROR (okay, a little melodramatic)
[Epic 4G General] zman519:
Did you do what I said to do?

Sent from the Drivers Seat of my Suby txting and Driving doing 100MPH+ in a school zone! Ha.
[Epic 4G General] flastnoles11:
Anybody having problems and getting the update after a few days after doing this try this method of editing the build.prop... (fix by toadlife)

The update notification will probably stop of you modify the build.prop file to trick the phone into thinking it already has EL30.

Try this:

Open up a root shell and type the following (via adb, or a shell app)

su

remount rw

sed -i 's/SPH-D700-user 2.3.5 GINGERBREAD EI22 release-keys/SPH-D700-user 2.3.6 GINGERBREAD EL30 release-keys/g' /system/build.prop

sed -i 's/sprint\/SPH-D700\/SPH-D700:2.3.5\/GINGERBREAD\/EI22:user\/release-keys/sprint\/SPH-D700\/SPH-D700:2.3.6\/GINGERBREAD\/EL30:user\/release-keys/g' /system/build.prop

remount ro

I would recommend adb so you can copy and paste. Typing that might take awhile. ￼
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Awesome dude! May try this on Legendary 2.1 later today.
[Epic 4G General] intulsa:
This is a good idea, but can't I just change the relevant parts with a text editor?
[Epic 4G General] labumm:
The EL30 is nagging me again. I too allowed the install to fail a week ago.

If I understand correctly, what flastnoles11 is saying is make minor changes to the two lines in the /system/build.prop file:

ro.build.description=

ro.build.fingerprint=

changes:

2.3.5 --> 2.3.6

EI22 --> EL30

I used root explorer with the system directory mounted with r/w permissions. I was able to rename the old file, replace it with the changed EL30 spoof, change the permissions back to rw-r--r-- and ownership/group back to root. Reboot.

No nag yet. I think that is it done.
[Epic 4G General] krwshl:
I have been trying to type this in with Shell Commander on my phone but it says remount and sed are not commands. Any way to get this to work by typing it on the phone directly?

thanks!!
[Epic 4G General] labumm:
I used "Root Explorer". Of course you need to be rooted. It has an text editor. You can make the text edits, attribute and ownership changes with it too. There are probably other apps out there that have similar function.

Initially I tried to transfer the file to my laptop, edit it, and transfer it back. Those are un-needed steps. If you are a developer, it makes sense to have higher power tools, but the changes here are so simple, making the changes on the phone is easiest.
[Epic 4G General] krwshl:
Thanks, I am rooted so going to try this ... just trying to figure out what to edit now :/
[Epic 4G General] usagi111:
I used the FOTAKill.apk, the message came up, but when I clicked on the Reboot & Install, then suddenly it said "Your system is up to Date"... no problems since...
[Epic 4G General] Dronak:
Thanks for the updated method. After just getting my third update notification, I decided to try this. I installed adb to have access to it (for this and possible future use), copied the build.prop file to my SD card for a backup, and ran the updated steps in the original post to edit build.prop. We'll see how it works. Hopefully this will hold me over until my current ROM gets updated to EL30.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Worked great on my Legendary 2.1 nandroid. Thanks!
[Epic 4G General] gdawg31:
Thanks. This worked great on my rather dated (but very stable) ACS-EI22-Prerooted[DEODEXED][GPSfix]...haven't seen the update notification again.
[Epic 4G General] iSaint:
Nice work man.

And 69 posts haha
[Epic 4G General] krwshl:
Do I have to click Mount R/W before I can open it in the text editor? Sorry just want to be safe before trying it. thanks!!
[Epic 4G General] flastnoles11:
Yes
[Epic 4G General] ashbuly:
ROM Toolbox works

Super Easy to do it in ROM Toolbox. The built in build.prop editor makes it a breeze. Make sure you reboot after you make the changes
[Epic 4G General] blazinazn:
I used Root Explorer to edit the build.prop

I changed every reference of EI22 to EL30, saved and rebooted. Got the prompt to update. Clicked install, it rebooted and attempted to update, failed. Pulled the battery and it rebooted directly into CWM. Hit reboot. Came up just fine and no update prompt.

Checked in the /cache folder and the update was there, deleted it.

I think the only reason why I was prompted after editing the build.prop the first time is because the update prompt was already there before I edited it.

We'll see how long it lasts...
[Epic 4G General] krwshl:
I used root explorer to change the following only, now my phone gets stuck rebooting on the Samsung screen. I think I really messed it up now :(

Any solutions or help please!!

ro.build.description=

ro.build.fingerprint=

changes:

2.3.5 --> 2.3.6

EI22 --> EL30

---------- Post added at 07:35 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:07 AM ----------

Thankfully I had a recent ACS Recovery that fixed it ... I was worried :)
[Epic 4G General] flastnoles11:
Just remember, odin fixes everything so there's never a need to panic or be worried... ;)
[Epic 4G General] labumm:
Did you check that the permissions and ownership were set to their original state?

Otherwise the result of the edit should be exactly that of the search and replace example at the beginning of this thread.
[Epic 4G General] krwshl:
flastnoles11 - True at the heat of the moment it is a oh shoooot moment.

Maybe I needed to change all of the 2.3.5 to 2.3.6 with the text editor, not just the one that I had. Same with EI22 to EL30. Guess I can try again now.
[Epic 4G General] phelony:
You are sadly mistaken sir. custom kernel is what causes it to fail. if you are on stock + root DO NOT attempt the update. the exclamation point is a nonstandard kernel flag
[Epic 4G General] flastnoles11:
Custom kernel is not the only thing that will make it fail... there are a multitude of different things that will make it fail and they all will give you that very same exclamation error...

Got CM9?
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
I am not mistaken nor sad...I said ONE guy CLAIMED to be rooted and it worked and all the rest say it failed. I know it fails. And you can attempt the update. Most that can happen is it fails and you pull/put in battery and reboot. If to CWM hit reboot system.
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
You CAN be rooted and it succeed. But, when we root the epic, usually we flash cwm or erase system apps or flash a prerooted kernel. All of those, among other things, break OTA updates.

Now, straight up root, w/ su binary only, can except ota updates, you'll just lose root.

I am Z.
[Epic 4G General] djgabor:
Worked like a charm! Thanks again!
[Epic 4G General] arhoolie:
This is how I did it, too. After almost two days, all is still good. Keeping my fingers crossed.
[Epic 4G General] DroidApprentice:
Could you please mention exactly which lines you needed to alter so I can do the same? I've researched the question but get a lot of different or incomplete answers and don't want to brick it.

You'll also need more than 2 days to make sure the update notice doesn't appear again. It usually happens to me around once a week after I do the 'deliberate install fail' method.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
I just used Notepad and Did a replace all for 2.3.5 to 2.3.6 and Did the same to EI22 with EL30. Save and exit. Put it back in the system directory and reboot. It sounds easier with Rom toolbox though. Is there a find and replace in that?
[Epic 4G General] 10Ring:
Ok, I wasn't real sure on this, but finally Kenny kind of spelled it out.

Here's what I did that seems to have worked:

Let it try to install, then pull battery as before.

Download/install Rom Toolbox.

Allow superuser when it asks.

Select 'Root Browser'.

Scroll down, select System folder.

Select build.prop

Select Edit.

Now go through and replace all "EI22" with "EL30", and all "2.3.5" with "2.3.6". Careful, the capital I looks the same as a lowercase l/L. There's only a few, it takes about a minute to do and double check.

Save, exit, reboot.

So far everything seems normal. If I get prompted again I'll let you all know.
[Epic 4G General] bg4:
why not actually install EL30 - follow link and follow instructions

works great and you have EL30 on custom ROM w/o going back to stock

from dev forum

============

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1464791

[MTD][EL30][KEXEC][CM7] Boot EL30 stock from sdcard

Mainly Useful for CM Users

This is an unusual ROM that boots entirely from your sdcard. This allows you to temporarily boot into stock EL30. The next time you reboot, your phone will be back to your regular ROM. This sdcard ROM might be useful for various purposes including:

Test stuff on EL30 to compare behavior to aid in CM debugging.

Update Profile, PRL, or do Sprint Hands Free activation.
[Epic 4G General] blamethenetwork:
Many Thanks

This pop-up has been annoying me for the last month. I finally decided to search for a fix. I had tried letting it complete/pull battery about 5 times and it keeps coming back. I just did the build.prop update so hopefully it will go away.
[Epic 4G General] DroidApprentice:
I ended up using the FOTAKill.apk method, also using ROM toolbox to change the permissions once I put it in the system/app folder. Time will tell if this works, I'll make a followup edit about it.
[Epic 4G General] flastnoles11:
The FOTAkill.apk has worked for some but other has said that it didn't work for them... editing the build.prop has been flawless for everybody that I know has tried it... at least nobody has said they have had it come back yet...
[Epic 4G General] DroidApprentice:
I think this deserves its own post. I believe enough time has passed that I did get fotakill.apk to work and I have a theory why it may not work for all...some people may not have actually *installed* the file, only copied it to that system/app folder and maybe changed the permissions. When I installed it, I noticed one of its permissions was to run at boot. So I also made sure I restarted the phone. It's been over a week and no more nags (touch wood).
[Epic 4G General] Dronak:
I know this is a little bit of an older thread, but I just received the FC09 update notification. Still being on a custom ROM, I'd like to stop it again. Does anyone know the build.prop changes necessary for FC09? I don't want to just guess, and can't seem to find the exact lines elsewhere. Thanks for your help!
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
If you changed to EL30, then search and replace for EL30 with FC09.
[Epic 4G General] Dronak:
Great, thanks. I thought that might have been all that was needed, but wasn't certain since the Gingerbread version is also in one of the lines I changed before. I thought it would be safer to check before editing. I made a copy of my current build.prop as a backup, edited EL30 to FC09, and reboot. I actually already got the notice a second time, so hopefully this will stop it just like the last edit did before. Thanks!
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Yeah, do the same thing you did before clearing your caches.
[Epic 4G General] PythonFanTN:
I have Connectbot and was going to try this because the update message starting popping up for me this morning as well, but for some reason I can't type dashes in commandline with C-bot. Both Fn + w or Fn + e render underscores (the w is supposed to be a dash)....anyone know how to either fix that or a way around it?
[Epic 4G General] ÜBER™:
Why connect bot? Terminal emulator ftw?
[Epic 4G General] 10Ring:
After it worked the first time, I did the same procedure again for FC09.

Manually replaced all "EL30" with "FC09", and it seems to have worked fine.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luizfilipel:
Guys I have entered on this menu and now there are no option to get out .___. what shoul I do?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baseballfanz:
Try pressing and holding power button till it reboot
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrevankyle:
there should be a ---back--- or unmount if not just hold the power button for a while to reboot

edit: also baseballfanz literally every single time. this is at least the 10th time we have posted the same thing within a minute of each other
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luizfilipel:
I'm really ashamed for creating a topic to this jajaja' but it wasn't working, I tried to HOLD the power and worked XD thanks for both
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gee one:
For future reference, if you keep scrolling back, it will toggle the back menu item. It might be forward, regardless, keep scrolling through the menu.

sent from my transformer
[HTC Amaze 4G] eggydrums:
Anybody find it very hard to push the power button on a Tmo d30 case? It's extremely annoying for me
[HTC Amaze 4G] NeoAndroid:
Yes, I ended up returning it and purchasing one off Amazon.

This One.
[HTC Amaze 4G] chrischoi:
You can cut a slit on the inside or just keep using it. Mine eventually broke in.
[HTC Amaze 4G] magiconthetire:
Had a D3O on my T989 and the power button WILL become much easier to push once broken in..

:-)
[HTC Amaze 4G] asesino:
Incipio is the way to go.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cvv1984:
Hey guys is their anyway we can get a line out mod in any of the custom roms. There isn't a way to use this feature currently that I'm aware. Any help would be great and I think that this is a much needed feature for audiophiles and/or people looking to listen to their music via aux input in their automobiles.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Samzebian:
how specifically are you trying to mod the line-out? Make it output via FM Radio? Or make it output louder audio from the AUX port? If so, I know you can use an auxilary ampifier to make it louder, but software wise I no of no such thing. There probably is something out there, I'm just too lazy to look
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cvv1984:
Where would I find a aux amplifier at?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Herman76:
Can't say I understand what you are trying to achieve. Could you elaborate it a little more? :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cvv1984:
When you try to hook up your GN to a aux input or say a pair of speakers, the volume is unlistenable to say the least. Their is no way that I know of to improve this sound or quality that I have found. For info more see this link http://www.head-fi.org/t/582179/samsung-galaxy-nexus/60
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ankushkatari:
Use Volume+ 1.8 . It will boost the headset volume to whatever level u need. Search for it in the forums. That should solve ur problem!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] markouk:
Get one from Dealextreme. I use the FiiO E5 to take the audio signal from my Xbox 360 cable straight into my headphones. You just connect the E5 inline with the two 3.5mm connectors and it has a volume control independent of the source!

http://www.dealextreme.com/p/fiio-e5-3-5mm-earphone-volume-booster-power-amplifier-black-900118350
[Android General] daevion0:
I tried to look at my friends evo 3d and HTC rezound and it hurt my eyes. I can't bare to look at a non oled screen again. Do you own a phone with a oled display? And what should I upgrade to? I currently have a nexus s and I'm considering the Droid razr. Is this a good choice ?
[Android General] Trekfan422991:
i love my lg thrill screen it looks ten times better then my sisters samsung infuse 4g with the amoled display in direct sunlight. purely awesome. amazing color clarity as well. lg really knows how to make screens

Sent from my LG Thrill 4G...
[Android General] achyut:
now my dad owns a nexus s. but both of my phones with "LCD" :rolleyes: (APPLE IPHONE 4S & LG OPTIMUS BLACK is far better than it.

OLED screens does not give the actual color. it gives overly saturated colors and are not very good under direct sunlight.

if u love OLED, u'd be owned by a good IPS like the optimus black (if u are talking android, that is).
[Android General] Livewings:
Bad choice. RAZR's screen is terrible, pixelated garbage. Get the GNex or GNote.

Avoid LG at all costs. Their update schedule is so messed up.
[Android General] Trekfan422991:
agreed this is my lasy lg phone!!! it sucks cause their hardware is great!!! it tricks you.. they suck at updates!

Sent from my LG Thrill 4G...
[Android General] I Am Marino:
I'm not sure how the Rezound hurt your eyes, one of the best screens I've ever used.

-Sent from my Droid 2-
[Android General] DroidDavi:
I remember when I went from my vibrant back to a my touch I thought my eyes where bleeding lol