Cancel Android FOTA Install?

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Does anyone know how to cancel an in progress update? My Wildfire S recently offered me a software upgrade to 2.3.5 which I accepted.

Now however the phone is stuck at "Installing app (1/2)" the progress bar never goes anywhere so I left it 6 hours and in that time it had used almost a full battery but still made now progress. I've turned the phone off a few times but as soon as it loads it just starts installing again but still makes no progress.

If anyone knows a way to kill the update process or force it to complete that would be brilliant, I've had a look around but can't see anything that would seem to do it.
 
Short version - not unless you're extremely technically minded, you'd need to mount the phone without loading the OS and delete the update cache. A factory reset is probably your only real option I'm sorry to say.
 
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