Google is apparently planning on making the time it takes to roll out OTA (Over the Air) updates for its Pixel series of smartphones shorter. A new report has revealed that the company is working on offering faster updates for its Pixel line.
The Search Engine tech giant has submitted new patches to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) gerrit to reduce the time it takes the Pixel users to install an update. But according to Android Police and Mishaal Rahman, the patches took just 10 minutes or around 43 percent off the time it usually required to install a 2.2GB OTA update on a Pixel 6 Pro. The patches also reduced the time it took to install a small update of 376MB size to 16 minutes from 22 minutes, which also marked a 27 percent reduction.
Google had first introduced Seamless Updates for Android with Android 7.0 Nougat back in 2016. The first smartphones to get this feature the Nexus 6, Nexus 5X, and the Nexus 6P. To put things simply, Pixel phones install OTA updates in the background on an inactive part of the device. Meaning, you can still use the smartphone while till the time the installation is completed. After this, the user will be prompted to reboot their phones as the inactive partition with the update installed switches with the active partition. Now, the company has also reduced the amount of additional storage needed for Seamless Updates with Android 13.
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