[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] metalslug53:
How's it going, everyone? I just want to apologize ahead of time if this is in the incorrect forum. There's so many to choose from and I didn't see one dedicated to this particular tablet.

I recently acquired a Verizon Ellipsis 8 and the first thing I wanted to do with the device was root it. After trying what must have been 10-15 different methods, I was finally successful at getting the device rooted using a (What I assume to be) Chinese root method called Kingroot. They had support for the tablet and actually got me root access, so I went with it. Shortly after, I installed all my necessary root apks and got the device working in what I would describe as acceptable order. I then began hunting for custom ROMS for the thing, but if there was one thing harder to find for this tablet than root access, it was a custom ROM.

Anyways, I've been living quite happily on rooted stock. I removed all the unnecessary bloatware from the device and everything has been going smoothly, until a few days ago. Verizon pushed out an OTA update and now I am receiving daily prompts from Verizon to update to the latest firmware. Now, this isn't my first rodeo when it comes to dealing with OTA updates, so I began digging around inside my system files to find the update.zip and disable it, as well as remove the different processes that would possibly be spamming this update notification. After several different files given the .bak extension and several different reboots, I felt comfortable that I had taken care of the issue. Hell, I even went so far as to take the same steps on my wife's tablet (She has the same one, rooted in the same fashion), and HER tablet has stopped sending her updates. HOWEVER, even though I have taken all the necessary steps, I still get the same prompt on my tablet at least once a day.

Now, I know for a fact the update files have been disabled, because last night I decided to test the update to see if it would actually go through, but it always results in the same error and the update doesn't apply. But no matter what, the prompt still shows up for me the next morning.

The prompt itself is quite annoying. It takes up the entirety of the screen, disables all other functionality of the tablet and doesn't let me choose other processes, and makes me select one of two options: Either I choose to apply the update, which immediately fails, or I can choose to delay the update to a different time during the day. If I could grab a screenshot, I'd show you guys what it looks like. But, I literally can't do anything on my tablet until after I make that selection, which immediately closes the process. That means I can't freeze the process using TitaniumBackup or something like that. I am helpless to suffer these update prompts every morning.

Now don't get me wrong. I'm not ever going to actually run the update, but the reminder is just such an inconvenience. So, I thought I'd make a post and see if there's anything you guys can think of that might be able to help me find whatever is causing these prompts and get rid of it. I've disabled the update.zip, I've disabled notifications from the Google Play Services, and I've rid myself of all the unnecessary bloatware on my device. I left a few Verizon processes on the tablet that I wasn't 100% sure if they were safe to remove or not, and I've even installed the FOTAKill.apk to see if that would help. The update doesn't work, but the prompt still shows up every morning.

I'd be forever in your guys' debt if you could help me on this one. Thanks for the read, and thanks ahead of time for any help! =D