Cupcake update pushed to JFv1.51 US/UK
This morning I checked my phone only to find a message about updates downloaded and ready to install. That’s an odd thing, since I’ve got modded firmware that should have disabled such behaviour to prevent conflicts. I was a bit worried, but an ADP G1 wielding colleague pointed me to this notice… http://andblogs.net/2009/07/otas-in-jfv1-51/
I followed JF’s 2nd and 3rd suggestion and so far so good. Here’s the exact steps I took to disable the update.
- Download and extract JFv1.51 ADP firmware and copy build.prop to the sdcard. Or use this build.prop (freshly extracted for your convenience).
- Mount /system on the G1 as read/write. Two simplest ways to do this is either install “DroidSans Tweak Tools” or run “mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system” in a terminal.
- Replace build.prop and make the permissions the same as the old one with something like:
$ su
# mv /system/build.prop build.prop.bak
# cp /sdcard/build.prop /system
# chmod 644 /system/build.prop
- Find the update in the /cache directory and “chmod 000″ it…
- Now I actually clicked on the “restart and install” option on the update dialog. The phone rebooted, and the update failed. I rebooted with Home+Back and haven’t had the update prompt as yet.
So far so good. One odd thing I noticed is the update is gone from the /cache directory.
Tags: Android, Conspiracy, G1