[Note 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] knight-raider:
About a week ago, I was reading about Samsung will start pushing an OTA update to limit the phone more and maybe brick them so we can return them.

After reading a few threads, I downloaded package disabler. Unfortunately, the package disabler developer was contacted by Samsung or whatever to not show the OTA packages so that they can push the update.

I have to say, I'm not sure if this is just a rumor or if it's true, a lot of stuff like this can be found in any forum. :eek:

Also disabled update automatically and disabled the play store's automatic update as well. Paranoid much...:rolleyes:

But I still received the notification of a new update. Now I know that this is what they want so I tried to avoid it. Then it started bugging me, so I'm like let me click on it and cancel it. Don't be fooled, there's no cancel button! There's a counter too! Which was funny. I tried putting the phone into recovery mode in hopes that it would cancel the update, but after the phone rebooted it just installed the updates.

Phone will only charge to 60, and a more annoying pop up will show saying it's illegal to have the phone or give it and have to return it and so on.

Anywhooo, I managed to get the stock rom from the previous version and decided to try and flash it maybe it'll override the update.

IT DID!!! Now my phone charges to 100 again the recall pop up is still there and its the old one not the scary one. I downloaded package disabler 6.3 and managed to block the correct packages to avoid this from happening again.

You can Google "note 7 stock rom" and find yours or you can message me and I'll send you the link.

My phone is a Roger's phone. Downloaded this N930W8VLU2API3 (release date 16.09.2016) this is the build from September.

The download was very slow speed, so be patient!

Settings, developer options, and checked "OEM unlock" and "USB debugging". Then lock screen and security and disabled SD encryption. Screen lock settings none.

TIP

Go to phone and type *#06# and write down the IMEI and

S/N

just incase something goes wrong and you have to use smart switch to recover the firmware. Also, back up the phone.

After downloading the firmware, I downloaded another copy. I did this to check the files' sizes and see if the download was interrupted or caused files to break.

TIP

UNZIP THE FILES FROM THE FOLDER, do not attempt to only open the zip and choose the files as it might crash.

Files should have "AP, BL, CSC, CP". I opened Odin(3.12), plugged the phone.

Odin should say that the phone is connected in port X.

Chose the files from the unzipped folder. One of the files is almost 4 GB in size, so it will take time for Odin to read. Windows might display (application not responding) on top, ignore it and wait.

Selected and checked all the files in Odin. If there's no check next to it, it won't work.

Put the phone in recovery mode (vol down + home + power), then click (vol up).

Start on Odin. It should pass.

Phone displayed the blue screen and that its installing the "update" which really should be a downgrade. Then it took a while displaying the Samsung logo. It was waving so waited.

Now the phone went back to how it was before the OTA update. :cool: :good:

That's exactly what I did after I received the OTA update. not sure if I was lucky or not but my data was still there. Didn't have to restore it. If it deleted your date, it should be fine since you backed it up.

Don't forget to uninstall package disabler then install the 6.3 version and disable the update packages!!!