Android has long supported the so-called seamless updates, which sooner or later were adopted by most smartphone manufacturers, but not the biggest one, i.e. Samsung. From the very beginning, he stubbornly refuses to move his devices to the A/B system that these updates use. Android now plans to make smooth updates the only supported update mechanism, but even that may not force Samsung to switch updates to it.
In short, smooth updates allow phones with Androidem to install the system update in the background while the phone is running and apply it when the user reboots the device. While it may technically take longer, it significantly reduces the amount of time the device is unavailable for use, and also provides some safety mechanisms, such as the ability to roll back an update if something goes wrong. Google has also improved smooth updates over time, with its Pixel phones getting significantly faster recently.
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However, Samsung still resists their introduction tooth and nail, not even its latest flagship series supports them Galaxy S24. Android however, he may soon make his stubborn "no" difficult for the Korean giant. New comment on page of the AOSP system (Android Open Source Project) says that Android is preparing to remove support for updates that do not use the A/B system. In other words, only various forms of smooth updates are to be supported in the future.
But as a well-known expert on Android Mishaal Rahman, Samsung could still technically avoid using smooth updates. According to him, it could develop its own update mechanism or simply reverse Google's change in the affected versions Androidu.
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The only way Google could really force Samsung to use smooth updates would be to force them in the compatibility requirements Androidat or through the license agreements for Google applications. The American giant has already taken this step at Androidu 13, but eventually relaxed that requirement, which has resulted in Samsung continuing to avoid smooth updates.
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I have both Pixel and Fold at home. It's nice that the Pixel installs in the background, but a normal monthly update takes about 3 hours. A minute on Samsung. Anyway, I have to restart the Pixel after installation, so what can I do to help myself. In addition, Samsung offers installation at night when the device is not in use.
I own a pixel. With qpr update, it takes +- 1,5 hours to update at android update is 3h. I really praise Samsung that it always goes the old way instead of waiting 3 hours for my phone to be updated
From a user point of view I don't see any difference honestly. I don't really care if the restart takes 30 seconds or 3 minutes, because I still choose the time when it happens. At a critical time when I need the phone, even a 30-second restart is bad. So I don't understand the author's negativity at all because of a few minutes a month. Not to mention the ability to schedule nightly updates.
Exactly, the article is completely off. I've already had a lot of phones through my hands, and on the other hand, I praise the Samsung update option, there's nothing restrictive about it, the system update doesn't come out every day... the update is downloaded, prepared, and then just a quick restart, which only takes a moment with the flagship compared to an infinitely long update in the background during a "smooth" update, which still ends with a restart. And on top of that, Samsung has the easiest option to play the SW via Odin, if there is an error etc. in the SW, as one of the few that is so primitive that it is wrong to mark it as user-accessible.
Somehow I don't know where the problem should be. Anyone can't stand the 5 minutes, or how long?