Ending reoccurring updates for S22 used only a hot spot?

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I was recently gifted an S22 which I use to provide cell data for several Weize Cams and a WiFi Honeywell thermostat at a second home in central Colorado. I do not use it for anything else. I was using a Moto G Power for this task till it puffed its battery to twice normal size. 🙄  I want to use this phone as an uninterrupted hot spot. Currently, it will not last more than about a week without it constantly updating something and shutting off the hot spot and requiring a hands on restart. I want/need this phone to run without me touching it, for 10 weeks beginning in mid-January. I will be a thousand miles away from the phone. Is there any way to make this happen?

[officialguy]

Turn off automatic updates

[Members_UN3KQ3b · Accepted solution]

I pulled up several videos on the subject, because my free phone has no setting in the menus for turning off the auto updates. Nor did it have a developer option line in the settings. I found a video that showed me how to turn on the developer option and so I did. Of the dozens of developer options, only one was similar to an auto update off mode. It's named Auto Update System [apply updates when the phone restarts]. I turned it off and am hopeful that this will help me, but maybe not optimistic. [the S22 phone is AT&T originally, unlocked, now using Consumer Cellular with AT&T sim]

[Ekamek]

You can get a cellular modem/router and use it as your network for the cams/devices. That's a more reliable option than using a cellphone, in my opinion. You may also look into 5G modems by the likes of AT&T today.