Preventing Adroid 7 update

RatLabGuy

RatLabGuy

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Argh. One thing I hate more than anything is Android automatic updates.
Just coming when they want and giving you no choice to not doo it.

So my S7 notified me it was going to update to Nougat (Android 7). No option to "cancel, no don't do it." Just "Do it now, or later". And by "later" it's tomorrow.
I avoided it by restarting the phone, which just put the notice in the system tray.

Is there any way to put it off indefinitely?

Yes, I know eventually I'll want to do it, but my experience is that every release has issues that take awhile to work out. I'd rather just stay w/ Marshmallow for now.
The bigger problem is in 2 days I'm going backpacking and will need my phone to work reliably for GPS tracking etc, and I can't afford to have the battery draining quickly, as seems to happen to some random subset of users.
 
RatLabGuy said:
Mine didn't give that option.
plus now, once it forced me to schedule a time, w/ no option not to, the notification is gone.
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Then your screwed unless you root it.

I let mine update, no issues. Yet.
 
Do what I do. Use up the storage space on your phone. Mine hasn't had the space available to download and install the past two or three updates.

ETA: I just checked. Android version 5.0
 
Don't do the update. Ive got a less than year old top of the line Motorola that it has turned into a worthless nonstop crashing piece of shit. I don't doubt these updates are always to force people to buy new phones.
 
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