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brute347

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I have a droid x running froyo, rooted.
I keep getting an update notice on my screen every 12 hrs telling me to update. I don't want to update to gingerbread. Can I say yes to the update in order for it to go away? Or will it update my phone even though its rooted??? I don't want to have to sbf in order to get rid of the notice, but the notice actually freezes my phone and I was late to work today cause of it. It was up on my screen and my alarm never went off
Help please asap!!! I gotta go on a trip tomorrow and I wanna take my phone functioning before I go
Ty ty ty
 
brute347 said:
Ok
I have a droid x running froyo, rooted.
I keep getting an update notice on my screen every 12 hrs telling me to update. I don't want to update to gingerbread. Can I say yes to the update in order for it to go away? Or will it update my phone even though its rooted??? I don't want to have to sbf in order to get rid of the notice, but the notice actually freezes my phone and I was late to work today cause of it. It was up on my screen and my alarm never went off
Help please asap!!! I gotta go on a trip tomorrow and I wanna take my phone functioning before I go
Ty ty ty
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Since you in a hurry, just found 2 posts. Not sure if its gonna help, but just go through and see if it makes any sense :

http://androidforums.com/droid-x-all-things-root/232611-update-rooted-droid-x-2-3-340-a.html

Rooted Droid keeps asking to update - Droid Forum - Verizon Droid & the Motorola Droid Forum
 
if you are rooted you need to rename the updater to updater.bak or

not sure what the file name is, as quite a few people have posted it before and i can never remember.. but its called an updatersomething or somethingupdater.apk

if you want PM cougar214 he can tell you what it is cause i think he is the one that knows where it is
 
yeah if he renames it, he can easily locate it, deleting is the worst thing to do, freezing would be ok. but cougar knows more about it than i do
 
Yes, they have the same effect, but renaming requires more typing and more prone to human error. Moving it just requires putting it elsewhere.

For instance. Before I used titanium, I created a directory in /system/app/APPS.
I would just move the preinstalled software to that location. In the event that I had to put them back for an upgrade, I would just go to the command line, cd to /system/app/APPS and do a mv * ../.

That is much easier and faster than renaming or defrosting.
 
pool_shark said:
Yes, they have the same effect, but renaming requires more typing and more prone to human error. Moving it just requires putting it elsewhere.

For instance. Before I used titanium, I created a directory in /system/app/APPS.
I would just move the preinstalled software to that location. In the event that I had to put them back for an upgrade, I would just go to the command line, cd to /system/app/APPS and do a mv * ../.

That is much easier and faster than renaming or defrosting.
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All you have to do to rename it is take off the .apk and change it to .bak. That is a lot easier than moving to a folder then later opening terminal and typing all that. Esp when you mistype something and it really messes it up. Just my opinion. It's really just a personal preference though :D
 
I find it easier to just change the extension to .bak than renaming the file/app. Some things I just delete, that's even quicker/easier :D

But, to each their own, everyone has their own methods ;)
 
You guys think opening up a file browser, and changing the name of the file or the extenstion (same thing), is easier than typing mv [filename].apk new folder?

Some of the files have both an apk and an odex. You would have to rename both files one after the other.
All I have to do is mv appname* new folder.

I can do it in one command where it takes you two steps. I don't see how two steps are easier than one.

But as you stated, to each their own.
 
None of the Roms I use are odexed, so I have no .odex files. I use root explorer to rename and it's pretty fast for me since I am very familiar with it and can find things pretty quickly.
 
VoidedSaint said:
yeah i dont think hardly anyone in the all things root forum are odexed, deodexed is the way to go.
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I was thinking about upgrading to that, and I have it downloaded, but I'm still at .588. Everything is working just fine for me and I have yet to see an actual benefit to moving to 596.
Also, I don't care to use new themes.
 
pool_shark said:
I was thinking about upgrading to that, and I have it downloaded, but I'm still at .588. Everything is working just fine for me and I have yet to see an actual benefit to moving to 596.
Also, I don't care to use new themes.
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Well in your case if you are happy with the way your phone is working, I don't see the point in updating.

I'm curious and I like tinkering, so I will always be changing things up ;)
 
So I wanted to compare your method with ours and these are the points I found. Please note this is not an attack against the way you do things, just an exploration of the options. Being a chemist I'm a person that likes raw data so that's all this is. I basically just think that having to type the long command out leaves one more prone to error. I hid the actual results just for the threads sake.

And I'm always changing my theme up. I like themes. :D
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I first ran my method and this are the steps I took. From my main home screen I navigated to root explorer and then made my way to data/app and renamed android.tether-1.apk to .bak. I then closed the app completely using the long press back to close feature with MIUI so my position in the directory wouldn't be saved. I then went back to the main home screen and repeated the previous steps but obviously .bak --> .apk. Total time 40s. And that's with me first typing .apj instead.

Then I tried yours. I am not as familiar with it so I practiced a few times so I could get the steps down since I pretty much have them down with Root explorer. From the home screen I navigated to the terminal which is in the same folder as r.e. Opened it and then typed the following commands: [su (break) mv data/app/android.tether-1.apk data/app/apps]. Then closed the app as before and went to home screen then back to terminal and typed: [su (break) mv data/app/apps/android.tether-1.apk data/app]. That took a minute twenty so twice as long.
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when i got the update notice, i told it to go and the update failed. no more notice.

I never changed anything to.bak or the like this time.


I'm rooted, froyo, themed, and on stock rom.....

?????
 
Aggie12 said:
So I wanted to compare your method with ours and these are the points I found. Please note this is not an attack against the way you do things, just an exploration of the options. Being a chemist I'm a person that likes raw data so that's all this is. I basically just think that having to type the long command out leaves one more prone to error. I hid the actual results just for the threads sake.

And I'm always changing my theme up. I like themes. :D
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I first ran my method and this are the steps I took. From my main home screen I navigated to root explorer and then made my way to data/app and renamed android.tether-1.apk to .bak. I then closed the app completely using the long press back to close feature with MIUI so my position in the directory wouldn't be saved. I then went back to the main home screen and repeated the previous steps but obviously .bak --> .apk. Total time 40s. And that's with me first typing .apj instead.

Then I tried yours. I am not as familiar with it so I practiced a few times so I could get the steps down since I pretty much have them down with Root explorer. From the home screen I navigated to the terminal which is in the same folder as r.e. Opened it and then typed the following commands: [su (break) mv data/app/android.tether-1.apk data/app/apps]. Then closed the app as before and went to home screen then back to terminal and typed: [su (break) mv data/app/apps/android.tether-1.apk data/app]. That took a minute twenty so twice as long.
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I hardly think typing
# mv filename* APPS
is a long command.

My terminal is set to run as root, no su command needed.

Now, time how long it takes for you use use root explorer to rename all of the files you have renamed back.

Then time how long it takes to type:

# mv * ..

Also, you typed the full filename, not necessary in Unix.
 
...and another thing :)

Once you have all of the filenames you want to move, you can put those filenames in a file, create a script to read the names in the file and move them to another location. You can keep that script on your sdcard, and run it any time, on any device.
You can email it to a friend and let them run it on their device to move all of the files at one time just by running the script.

Beat that with the file explorer renaming option! :D
 
poolshark your way is better if you are going to be moving/renaming a lot of files, but if you are simply renaming one file I still think root explorer is quicker, at least it is for me.
 
bouchigo said:
poolshark your way is better if you are going to be moving/renaming a lot of files, but if you are simply renaming one file I still think root explorer is quicker, at least it is for me.
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Understood, but when dealing with the preinstalled software, there will be multiple files, and there are times when you have to put them all back into place.

That was my point.
 
Yes your point is valid, there's no denying that.

But a lot of us remove/delete things usually because we don't plan on putting them back simply because of the fact that we are on Roms that are not blur based or we are trying to remove things forced onto the phone that we deem not necessary or just simply don't want on our phones.

Our fix is usually a wipe of data, cache, etc., and on to the next Rom or for a more complete wipe, an sbf ;)
 
I have no need for this particular threads information, but I found my self reading the entire thing intently. Once I was done, I couldn't figure out why I just read all that. Interesting...:)
 
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