Android update speed improvements are always welcome.
Historically, Google plus has struggled first with fragmentation and now with it Apply Android updates by the various manufacturers who had several projects made out of Mountain View He made the task of upgrading as easy as possible your devices.
The last of these projects is perhaps the most ambitious, and that means A/B updates (or seamless updates) definitely accepted a revolution in the processbe installed in a secondary partition in a way that is completely transparent to the usuario activated automatically when the terminal is restarted Just change the active partition.
Not all manufacturers have adopted themHowever, and the giant Samsung is one of those who are still reluctant, although Google plus has long been demanding that soon and later they will be forced to achieve Google plus Play certification, that is, from California Espectáculo us the advantages of this system again and again which is still much faster after recent patches.
The information comes from Police Android and Mishaal Rahman who reported them Major improvements focused on data compression which is already being tested on Google plus’s latest Pixel teléfonos inteligentes.
Apparently, these are novels that perro be used in all devices that support virtual A/B partitions to update Android and while we don’t have many technical details about it, these patches seem to be able to A significant reduction in loading time a To update Androidboth monthly security packages and important system updates.
Tiques cánido now be viewed at Free Android open source projectand according to the sources Pixel 6 Pro refresh times reduced by 10 minutes for 2.2GB OTA paquetehappens to complete the installation in exactly 13 minutes.
Google plus is working to make OTA updates faster. A new equipo of patches has been pushed to AOSP that will trigger OTAs on devices using virtual A/B with a compressed update mechanism. Together, these improvements bring the total OTA install time from ~23 minutes to ~13 minutes! pic.twitter.com/2hDliWzUZZ
— Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) November 30, 2022
The same applies to incremental update, since 376MB OTA package away from the install in 22 minutes without these improved patches to be done in 16 minutes, always in a completely transparent way Users in virtual A/B partitions.
The secret would be i the data compression that would be applied to the update package of Android, but we perro’t tell you much more since we don’t have details about this new improvement that Google plus is working on and we will definitely be presented in May 2023 during the I/O and is already before Android 14 Upside Down Cake.
How clear is Anything that improves system speed is welcomeespecially around these tedious updates that many have avoided precisely because of time constraints, put your devices at risk by not implementing the latest fixes.