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How to stop Google Play Store self update - easy! by halnovemila
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In /data/app
folder make a
new folder
with name
com.android.vending-1.apk
(to make the folder use a le manager app or the command "su"
followed by "mkdir /data/app/com.android.vending-1.apk" with
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a Terminal Emulator app and Busybox installed.
NOTE: Making a new folder in /data partition require root ALL-TIME
permissions so the Andriod system must be rooted rst)
That's it!
2 That could be done, of course, but still there's a
loss of 2MB of …
I'm proud to have more than 50% of internal storage free and I
1 Wow, sneaky! This is obviously a far superior
like to have it that way for as long time as possibile. solution to my …
- the other one is to make a "dummy" le in /data/app that will DIY Ballistic Kickstand Case
make the installation of the update to fail as the required name January 8, 2016
for the new apk is already in use by the dummy le.
Unfortunately for those smartphones, like the Samsung Galaxy HTC One X9 Sub Forums Now Available!
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Y, where the /data partition is formatted RFS (Robust File
System from Samsung; basically a FAT 16/32 based le system Chat Hub for the Gear S2 Lets You Send Messages
with a sort of journalling system on it) this solution doesn't work Without a Notification
because RFS doesn't support the immutable le attribute and January 5, 2016
therefore the "chattr +i" command will fail.
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As an attempt to make the second solution, the "dummy le
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solution", to work with my Galaxy Y, I made the immutable
dummy le in another partition then I created a link in Chainfire Releases SuperSU 2.66 BETA, Fixes
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But that didn't work... same as for the not immutable dummy January 3, 2016
le, the link can be deleted by the installation task that will then
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proceed till completion.
True?
No! False!
I then remembered the days I used to make a autorun.inf folder
in the root of my FAT32 formatted USB thumbdrive to prevent
removable drive spreading viruses to make their own
autorun.inf le in the thumbdrive.
So... why not to try the same trick to make the installation of the
Google Play Store update to fail due to the impossibility to
make it's own com.android.vending-1.apk le in /data/app
folder?
Tried it...
and tested...
SUCCESS!
Anyway I've observed that after the rst failure of the update
there are no further update attempts neither new downloads...
at least for a while (maybe till next new version will be
released?)
I don't know how long it takes, after the rst update failure, for
the downloaded apk in /cache folder to be automatically
deleted... if ever; so I advise you to give a look at the /cache
folder and manually delete it if still there.
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24th November 2014, 09:53 AM | #2
Why don't you just integrate update to system with link2sd app
It will just replace the system app with the new update - you
get the latest update and you not using any extra space with
two versions of the app
Root required & restart after integrating (or it will force close)
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Uninstall any updates to the Play Store and put the modded apk
in the system apps folder replacing the one on your phone,
make a backup just in case. Reboot and you should have a play
store that doesn't update.
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I'm sorry but I'm afraid that without root privileges there's no
way to avoid the self update of Google Play Store as this app is
designed to self update and doesn't expose any option/settings
that the user might use in order to disable that function.
So, as the self update can't be disabled by power of user
account, it's required to operate at system level and therefore
root privileges are needed.
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4th September 2015, 09:09 AM | #10
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