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promark747
Contributor I
November 24, 2014

How do I stop update requests?

  • November 24, 2014
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I'm a long-time Sonos user who is very disappointed that Sonos has made my iPad1 (four of them) incompatible with the latest update. I understand not being able to use the latest features, but to make them completely unusable to me is bad policy (in conjunction with Apple).

Anyway, I have declined to update to the latest update (I currently have two iPhone 5/6 along with the four iPad1). My question is how do I stop Sonos from nagging me to update? Every few times I go into the app, I get the update message. I thought there was a way to stop those alerts. If so, how?

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    DenisM.
    Lyricist I
    April 15, 2018
    AVOID PERMANENT LATEST SONOS UPDATE - Solution found

    Hi to all,
    100% fully agreeing with all what was said about SONOS fecal-mindset policy since raughly 5 years.
    Being an antic customer since 2004, + having been a prescriptor for 40-50 Sonos units around me, I can tell you SONOS was much less greedy and locking their Customers in the past.

    That said, problem is we face both : Sonos policy combined with Google/Android & Apple/iOS policies.
    All of these nowadays unfair people are aligned to push for hardware obsolescence from firmware permanent shift making your device controllers to be un-usable and out of order.

    My case is a pair of Sonos CR100 controllers perfectly working nicely (with some restricted functions since Sonos FW v.: 6.2 ? ) Anyway, they perform the requested job, I need, even with Sonos Fw 8.4.
    + About nowadays missing functions, I have others (Mac OSX Controlers) .

    IF I move to Sonos Fw 8.5 , then I will fully loose the use of my loyal CR100 pair.

    SOLUTION is :
    1 - Stop GooglePlayStore (and/or Apple AppStore) Automatic updates (as mention from previous & judicious post in this thread). Not always easy to only stop this for Sonos Apps ONLY.
    This has to be worked out onto every/all controller you use into the considered "Sonos Network".

    2 - Uninstall the Sonos Apps the (controler) Android device considered.

    3 - Connect to https://www.aptoide.com/ (European website (initially Portuguese created) promoting independent Android Apps Stores allowing to manage Apps versioning according to Customer needs.

    Install Aptoide App (is a free play store or AppleStore)
    + Allows requested authorization/ Android rights
    (simply fellow indications, but do not confuse with promoted advertising)
    +
    Install Sonos Apps Fw.: 8.4 from Aptoide store.
    please find direct link is :
    https://sonos.en.aptoide.com/?store_name=denergod&app_id=35437811

    Please note :
    — It should be same process playable from Aptoide with iPhone Apple devices.

    — Aptoide has a feature to lock some Apps (eg. Sonos) to a given version, while you can let others Apps with Automated updates.

    Hoping this will help the community.

    As of today, I performed succesfully this with Huawei P10/Android 8 (Oreo) & Honor 9/ Android 7 (Nougat) ... works finely.
    Chris
    Chris
    Lead Maestro
    April 15, 2018
    not sure why your putting on really old thread - current info regarding lock down etc. here

    https://en.community.sonos.com/controllers-software-228995/save-the-cr100-6800510/index1.html
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