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Originally Posted by cellsafemode
I have a howto somewhere here from around 2016 on how to remove the cell board. As far as wifi goes....you need to give it a password to connect...so that's less of a problem. Nobody generally rocks open wifi ap's anymore.
Removing the wifi is not possible without losing other features. Though, you could stick some grounded aluminum sheets around the hcm and really kill the wifi range. But that would probably also kill bluetooth.
Dont associate with any wifi and you should be fine there. Removing the cell board was easy on 2016 models. I think it remained that way.
These updates though may have to do with any other apps on the car's os that access external services...or even the lawsuits it order to stop data collection. .so could be best to do the update. 2016 and i think 2017 models dont do over the air updates so....meh. I think that started with cars with the gm app store. Which we did not get. I'd have to goto a dealer and get a manual update like i had to to install android auto.
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Thanks for this knowledge, let me pick your brain on this a bit more.
So first, it's good to know the wifi would need a password, I've never provided one.
Now, when you mention cell board, is that separate from, or part of, the OnStar module?
Since wifi may not be as big of a concern as I thought, I'd like to focus on OnStar. I know there is a fuse for that, but I'm curious if the cell board is related in any way to the OnStar module.