Prevent Nougat update for S7 / S7E

[beatglitch]

Update:
I've fixed the problem. I was able to finally realize that the PDP engine app installed on my S7 was no longer compatible with the new version of PDP. Once I uninstalled both PDP and that engine app, then reinstalled both of those in their newest versions, the PDP package list tick boxes began holding the values that I set. I have thus been able to re-enable software updates and upgrade the device's OS. So, never mind on this issue. Thank you.

[RRiVEN]

Yes, 0.5.8 is really old and not supported. You need the ShieldX
https://shield.alliancex.org/update/All ... .0.5.1.apk

That has a way better interface and a working package disabler, and firewall.

I know 0.5.1 looks lower than 0.5.8 but that is 0.5.1 on ShieldX and 0.5.8 on Shield

[balog420]

I still have the S7. A year ago or so I experimented with PDP again because I decided to upgrade to Android 7.0 and came across claims that PDP would in fact still work to disable software updates on Samsung phones. So I tried PDP again on my S7 edge (my second phone) after upgrading its OS to v7.0 and it worked. I thus decided to do the same on my non-edge S7. I first re-enabled all of the items I'd disabled on it through Shield v0.5.8 and then uninstalled Shield. I then installed PDP. This time, PDP in fact disabled the packages I wanted to disable seemingly without issue. It even disabled the software update services. Thereafter there were no nags and I was able to preserve the OS version and re-enable software updates at will... or so I thought.

Well, as it turned out, while PDP allowed me to disable packages of choice on Android 7.0, it doesn't allow me to re-enable them (except on my S7 edge). I thus cannot upgrade the S7's OS software. Each time I uncheck a tick box in PDP to re-enable a disabled app or service, the tick reappears in the box after restarting or refreshing PDP. But again, that's only on my non-edge S7 (running PDP+ v12.8). My S7 edge is still running PDP v9.8 and it works fine. I tried uninstalling v12.8 on my non-edge S7 and then installing v9.8, but that version won't install on that device for some reason.

I've uninstalled PDP on the non-edge S7 and tried installing Shield v0.5.8 but my login effort fails each time. It renders a code dump that says something about being deprecated. Is it possible that a newer version of Shield will allow me to log in to your system and that doing so will offer me some control to re-enable the disabled packages so I can then upgrade the phone's OS?

Thanks