With even a modest set of modifications, the monthly OTA update is incredibly annoying. Especially for people who actually have important things they need to do rather than manually apply updates to their phone.
And we all know that the monthly ota updates are just a show being put on to address complaints that have no bearing in reality. Specifically, all those nasty security holes that really don't lead to anything besides mild annoyance, IF somebody bothered to try to exploit them. Like for example the most [in]famous bug in StageFright that could allow a hacker to... do absolutely nothing of consequence (since it is protected by user access rights -- the "media" user, and also selinux which would nail it quite quickly. There is also the bug that could break out of the lockscreen if somebody bothered to punch in an absurdly long random password.... but only affects people who actually use a password lock (as opposed to pin, pattern, face, or none).
So here is a very easy little program that stops the SystemUpdateService from doing its thing;
http://github.com/lbdroid/StopOTA
You will have to compile it yourself.
Don't share binaries, I don't like that. If you can't figure out how to compile, you are unworthy, if I catch you, I will stop giving things away for free.
If you want to learn how to compile simple Android applications, feel free to ask! I'd be happy to help.
If you would like to contribute, submit a pull request!
Don't forget to read the project README file, it explains about it properly.
This should work with any device that uses gms SystemUpdateService for its OTAs. I've personally tested on Nexus 5, 6, and 9.
And we all know that the monthly ota updates are just a show being put on to address complaints that have no bearing in reality. Specifically, all those nasty security holes that really don't lead to anything besides mild annoyance, IF somebody bothered to try to exploit them. Like for example the most [in]famous bug in StageFright that could allow a hacker to... do absolutely nothing of consequence (since it is protected by user access rights -- the "media" user, and also selinux which would nail it quite quickly. There is also the bug that could break out of the lockscreen if somebody bothered to punch in an absurdly long random password.... but only affects people who actually use a password lock (as opposed to pin, pattern, face, or none).
So here is a very easy little program that stops the SystemUpdateService from doing its thing;
http://github.com/lbdroid/StopOTA
You will have to compile it yourself.
Don't share binaries, I don't like that. If you can't figure out how to compile, you are unworthy, if I catch you, I will stop giving things away for free.
If you want to learn how to compile simple Android applications, feel free to ask! I'd be happy to help.
If you would like to contribute, submit a pull request!
Don't forget to read the project README file, it explains about it properly.
This should work with any device that uses gms SystemUpdateService for its OTAs. I've personally tested on Nexus 5, 6, and 9.
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