Hey guys,

It seems whenever I connect to the internet, my N900 (apt?) automatically checks repositories for updates. This is great if I'm connected to a high-speed wifi connection, but on GPRS @ $2.05/MB, I "DO NOT WANT".
Every time I connect to a GPRS network, it uses at least a megabyte, which makes me hesitant to connect to the net at ALL. There's no setting in Application manager or the Settings menu, and after searching these forums I found something to change the check-update frequency but not disable it. In theory I could bump the UNIX time to a high value, but that's a hack.

Is there a way to disable update checking over GPRS, or at least temporarily disable it?

http://wiki.maemo.org/Customizing_Ma..._Updates_Check

I'm sorry, I must've missed it.

http://wiki.maemo.org/Customizing_Ma..._Updates_Check

Nice to see I'm not the first with this issue!

Looking for this too, thanks

Does anyone have details on how to do actually do this? Im a complete noob at this kinda thing but it pisses me off a lot when it wastes my internet usage.

Open X-Terminal. Paste in this command:
Press enter.

This doesn't completely turn off automatic updates, just makes them very infrequent. (4294967295 is the number of minutes between automatic updates.)

If the above doesn't work, you might need to become root (administrator) first. Install the rootsh package from extras, and then execute this command in X-terminal before the gconftool command above:

In fact, the maximal value seem to be 2147483647

Run this command in terminal:
gconftool -s --type int /apps/hildon/update-notifier/check_interval 2147483647

You don't need to be root, and remember to run this command again after OS update or reflashing

You can also check this thread for full file system access: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...+access+winscp

Or use the Filebox file manager (enable root from options).

How can I find out if the value was set?

gconftool -g /apps/hildon/update-notifier/check_interval