How do i get rid of "new system update available" notification from notification bar

[Vineebaby]

Just been sent a new handset by Orange after the latest kitkat update ruined my battery life...now I keep getting bombarded with system updates and I specifically dont want to install the kitkat (10.5.A.0.230) update again - only thing is I cant get the notification out of my notification bar...any ideas?

[Raul007]

To get that out of your way until u gonna have a better update that you will like to uptate is to root your phone,download Esfile explorer,open it go to menu and at the bottom u will find the option ''tools'' than ''root explorer''and turn it on. Than go back on top the menu than"home/device/system/app" and find the app named "com.sonyericsson.updatecenter.apk" and make a copy where you want to, than delete the app,and restart your phone.I hope it's helpful

[Fastchin]

hey Homie. that disable option only appear for the android version below 4.4 kikat. for those phone that support Lolipop not really have such option. what others proovided is not stupid. they just have no choice. pls read the android version charateristic

[ghost65]

Go into settings-->apps-->all and find "update center". Click force disable. This will turn off the notification until you restart the phone or open update center manually.

[cascasey]

OMG Thanks so much!!! Ive already updated my system 3 times and everytime it finishes, that notification comes up again, but the thing is Ive already updated it -.- 

[PAULXZ]

This advice of your does not work on Xperia XZ. There is no app called "Update Center" in Xperia XZ. I just finished talking to the Xperia XZ phone support and they said there is no way of getting rid of if. Of course, I can always root my phone, but this time, I am not rooting my £600 phone and voiding my warranty because of some idiotic notification icon => I am going to Vodafone who sold me the phone and I will return it. If they do not allow me so, I will stop paying my monthly payments of £42 => that might open the Sony's eyes! 

[Veanaru]

Hello, i got Xperia xz1 compact. It had android v8. Seems like there is no '' legal'' way to remove that annoying notification.

Sony support, please confirm. 

[Uliwooly]

@Veanaru

What do you mean by "legal" way?

[Veanaru]

Without jailbreak and warranty loss

I've got a corporate owned device and can't jailbreak 

[Uliwooly]

@Veanaru

Jailbreak its on iOS, in Android will be rooting, but if I'm not mistaken there was a way to do so, let me see if I can find the post, but you can use the search bar too. 

[PAULEXZ]

I have Sony Xperia X which I bought here in the UK in March 2017. I have not updated a new system since the new, it does nothing useful, just slows down the device. There have been already like 40 or so updates since March. And yes, the notification icon is very annoying. I have a way to get rid of it, but it will reappear after each reboot, and sometimes,  even when not rebooting for weeks,  it can appear as well. On Xperia X I get rid of it as follows: 1) Go to SETTINGS and select APPS. 2) Tap on the three vertical dots in the right top corner and select SHOW SYSTEM and the apps list is now going to include the system apps as well. 3) The annoying update icon is the system app called SOFTWARE UPDATE. 4) Click on it and a menu box for that app appears. 5) In that box, click FORCE STOP. 6) It will show a dialog window with "Force stop? If you force stop an app, it may misbehave." 7) Don't click CANCEL, instead click on OK. After clicking this OK, the stupid system notification update icon diappears. It only reappears if another newer update is available. But it will always reappear after each reboot. I got used to this procedure and it doesn't bother me anymore, it's fairly quick. I have missed already like 40 updates, and my phone run fast like a new. Remember, these updates are only pushed to the users to make their phones obsolete in about 2 years. After 2 years while installing all the updates, in all that time, you will be running an Android version that is being put into the newly built phones with faster chips. Your 2 year old phone will run like a snail in 2 years. And you cannot revert to the previous versions, so you phone becomes a £500 useless brick, even when mechanically there is nothing wrong with it. It is the same with PCs. I run a Packard Bell desktop from 2010 and then it came with Vista Home 64 Bit. I put on it the Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Corporate with an SSD HDD for the system drive. It is the fastest PC I've had in my past 22 years of computering. My friend gave it to me in 2015 with Windows 10 on it, and it was the slowest PC I've ever seen in my past 22 years of computering. Same **bleep** with smartphones. They call it PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE and almost all people fall into that crap. Paul