Annoying Android updates
10 Oct 2013Have you rooted and modified your Android phone? Are the vendor-pushed updates getting annoying? Follow this guide to silence those updates and be in control of your own upgrades:
Step 0: Be root.
$ su
Step 1: Mount the /system folder as read/write.
$ mount -o remount,rw /system
Step 2: Create an unwanted apps folder.
$ cd /system
$ mkdir app_hell
Step 3: Move the unwanted app (In this case, we’re moving the firmware upgrade app).
$ mv app/FWUpgrade.apk app_hell/.
$ mv app/FWUpgrade.odex app_hell/.
Step 4: Remount the /system folder back to read-only.
$ mount -o remount,ro /system
Step 5: Drink a beer.