Download only on wireless android

Set Android to update only via WiFi? Ask Question. Asked 6 years, 7 months ago. Active 5 years, 11 months ago. Viewed 45k times. Improve this question. Lucky 3, 7 7 gold badges 31 31 silver badges 51 51 bronze badges. Nathan Long Nathan Long 1 1 gold badge 3 3 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges.

Do you mean a system update? App updates can be set to WiFi-only in the Play store. System update does not respect that setting. This happened to me because I accepted the download when I was on WiFi but had run out of storage space. Later, when I was only on 3G, I watched a movie and deleted it.

Now there was space, the update downloaded using my mobile data, while I was asleep! One solution would have been to disable mobile data, having noticed that the download failed and was likely to retry automatically. We could do with a better solution. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Fabio Silva Fabio Silva 1 1 gold badge 2 2 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. Edit : If you want to instead auto-update apps only when you're connected to a WiFi network, tap Auto-update apps over Wi-Fi only in the same pop-up.

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Re: Change android system update setting to download via WiFi to mobile data , PM What about future updates? Will they also set to download via WiFi or specific to this update alone. Re: Change android system update setting to download via WiFi to mobile data , PM wrote: What about future updates? Will they also set to download via WiFi or specific to this update alone As what you have experienced that you were able to set the system update to be downloaded via Wifi.

Re: Change android system update setting to download via WiFi to mobile data , PM Thanks for the reply One more question regards this How about factory resetting the phone will resolve this. After resetting can I able to download updates via mobile data. Re: Change android system update setting to download via WiFi to mobile data , PM What about the opposite?

Re: Change android system update setting to download via WiFi to mobile data , PM I have the same problem, but nothing helped. All the time before updates, I can not change the dowland option. It's so stupid to demend of wifi connection in mobile age.

Ironman What's DOS? Re: Change android system update setting to download via WiFi to mobile data , PM Well that needs to be fixed so we can change it to what is available when we get our updates!!! Jerry What's DOS? Re: Change android system update setting to download via WiFi to mobile data , PM Hi Is it possible to just use data somehow? I think you could make this phone more user friendly.

Have a nice day. Re: Change android system update setting to download via WiFi to mobile data , PM Sorry but this is a stiupid and dengerous.