Mishaal Rahman: Google is preparing to fully remove support for non-A/B updates from Android, leaving A/B updates as the only officially supported OTA update mechanism moving forward.
Mishaal Rahman: Google is preparing to fully remove support for non-A/B updates from Android, leaving A/B updates as the only officially supported OTA update mechanism moving forward.
Attached: 2 images Google is preparing to fully remove support for non-A/B updates from Android, leaving A/B updates as the only officially supported OTA update mechanism moving forward. However, this won't stop certain device makers from continuing to use non-A/B as they can either use their own ...
Not just seamless, but safer updates as well. A failed boot from the newly updated partition(s) can be detected with the malfunctioning slot flagged by the lower-level bootloader, allowing for an instantaneous rollback.
This could break devices that are older
How many devices are that old but still getting updates?
My 6 year old OP6 has A/B partitions.
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Good. Hopefully, samsung smartphones can enjoy this QOL improvement.
My last couple phones have been Samsungs (need MDM support for work) and I had no idea this even existed, let alone that everyone else has it already.
I think this was started about the Galaxy S7 times. This was never implemented by Samsung, AFAIK. But it's been a while.
I have a feeling Samsung will dodge it once again somehow
Edit: It says they're not mandating it, and I'm pretty sure Samsung uses their own implementation anyways, so no hopes here
Isn't that how iPhones update? I feel like I recall reading something similar a couple years back for iPhones.
Excellent job google.
What's the hidden gotcha though?
What's the difference?