n900 eats my money
 

I've no flatrate.

n900 does regulary updates of the software.
I don't need that.

I've tried everything of maemo wiki.

my /var/lib/gconf/apps/hildon/update-notifier/%gconf.xml file shows:
?xml version="1.0"?>
<gconf>
<entry name="blink-after" mtime="1280353508" type="int" value="1440"/>
<entry name="check_interval" mtime="1284968752" type="int" value="20160"/>
</gconf>
~


Nokia-N900:~# gconftool -g /apps/hildon/update-notifier/check_interval

yields:
20160

This should be an update every two weeks. But it does an update every time I connect to the internet after one or two days.

Re: n900 eats my money
 

Yes, I did the same changes to do a check each 3000 years (moreless:), but I can see the same "checking", not so often as before but equally annoying (everything is almost frozen, and when with 3G the data plan is happy ...

Re: n900 eats my money
 

Is there perhaps a possibility to block every automatic connection with 3G

using

"iptables"

?


But I want still to use my browser, my email and OVI-cards with 3G.

Re: n900 eats my money
 

cant you just change your internet connection setting to "always ask"?

Re: n900 eats my money
 

Gerdish:

Yes. I am in the same boat.
I have tried several check_interval values but no luck.

Cfh11:

I have it set to always ask.
The problem is if i turn my internet connection on for instance to check my mail or a weather report it triggers the update check and 5Mb unwanted download.
It doesn't happen always but quite often.
Nokia should have thought about it. :(
A simple option in appmanager settings would be enough.

Re: n900 eats my money
 

Whenever there is one or more updates, when I connect to the internet I get the the update notification (orange "!" icon). It's up to me to choose if and which updates will be downloaded and installed.

If I choose to ignore the updates, it doesn't download anything.

How can all this be automated in your device?

Re: n900 eats my money
 

just checking the database to tell you there are updates available uses data, up to 10MB i think, some countries can charge €5 perMB for data use so just the checks can be a killer.

Re: n900 eats my money
 

Oh I didn't know that!

Have you tried disabling the repos then? Ifi you get them all off then it may not trigger an update check

Re: n900 eats my money
 

n900 is build for flatrate. Go and get flatrate now or sell you n900.

Set you connection to "always ask" as cfh11 suggested.

Re: n900 eats my money
 

Are you sure it is looking for updates? I have set it to a week.. and it does not look for updates before that. I have other things that uses the internet but not for program updates.