App to Block OTA

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Here is an app to block OTA. Click it once an a message will pop up to indicate if it was successful or not. Your device must be rooted. You version number should contain OTA Blocked if successful.

http://www.multiupload.com/TEQGTBV2G4

This is likely unnecessary for anyone using snowball-mod.

Without knowing the details of what this app does, I can't say for sure, but it would likely do no more than what snowball-mod does automatically.

Originally Posted by cfoesch

This is likely unnecessary for anyone using snowball-mod.

Without knowing the details of what this app does, I can't say for sure, but it would likely do no more than what snowball-mod does automatically.

This is for people that do not want to lose the BN apps. This will just block OTA and nothing else.

Originally Posted by brianf21

This is for people that do not want to lose the BN apps. This will just block OTA and nothing else.

Wanna block OTA updates? There's an app for that. Brilliant!

Originally Posted by brianf21

This is for people that do not want to lose the BN apps. This will just block OTA and nothing else.

Yeah, totally. It's good at what it does, I just wanted to remind people that the snowball-mod doesn't need it, so random peoples with it installed don't think they need to download this and apply it.

Great news though to those who want to keep a mostly-stock Nook Tablet.

BTW, what does it do precisely? Just update values in the devicemanager.db? Just trying to get an understanding of what people are doing to block OTAs. I'm super paranoid about things like that. After all, if I'm forced back to stock B&N NT, it's going back, because it's a $250 lump of coal at that point to me.

Originally Posted by cfoesch

Yeah, totally. It's good at what it does, I just wanted to remind people that the snowball-mod doesn't need it, so random peoples with it installed don't think they need to download this and apply it.

Great news though to those who want to keep a mostly-stock Nook Tablet.

BTW, what does it do precisely? Just update values in the devicemanager.db? Just trying to get an understanding of what people are doing to block OTAs. I'm super paranoid about things like that. After all, if I'm forced back to stock B&N NT, it's going back, because it's a $250 lump of coal at that point to me.

It verifies root, extracts sqlite3 and libncurses.so if needed then it updates fota and appends OTA Blocked to the version number.

Nice work on your package. It's pretty sweet. You could integrate this into your scripts and launch an intent via the nook's cli using the am command. Since there are no buttons to press, there is no need for human interaction.

Interesting.

Is there any point in running this if we've already used Indirect's method of changing the device manager? Or should we do both? Would they contradict each other somehow?

Originally Posted by jimmysuggs

Interesting.

Is there any point in running this if we've already used Indirect's method of changing the device manager? Or should we do both? Would they contradict each other somehow?

No, I made this with future versions in mind. So when they come up with a way to root 1.4.1 and later, then this could be used.

brianf21, thanks for taking the time to create stuff like this, it's greatly appreciated.

Question: would it make sense for me to run your app now, even though I've already used indirect's method? It sounds like doing so might protect me against future updates, am I reading this correctly?

brian, why not just update FOTA Checkin timer to 0?