Tuesday, 13 September 2016

ANDROID NOUGAT “SEAMLESS UPDATES”




IN UPCOMING ANDROID 7.0 i.e NOUGAT, GOOGLE WILL INTRODUCE THE CHANGE IN ITS UPDATE PROCESS.

IT IS REFERRED AS SEAMLESS UPDATE. THROUGH HIS METHOD, THERE WILL BE LESS INTERRUPTION TO THE USER DURING UPDATING THE SMARTPHONE.
SEAMLESS UPDATE WORKS BY USING TWO PARTITIONS: AN ACTIVE SYSTEM PARTITION AND A DORMANT PARTITION, WHICH ARE IMAGES OF EACH OTHER. OTA UPDATE IS DOWNLOADED IN ACTIVE PARTITION AND OTA UPDATE IS INSTALLED IN DORMANT PARTITION. AFTER REBOOT, DORMANT PARTITION BECOME ACTIVE SYSTEM PARTITION AND VICE VERSA . THROUGH THIS PROCESS, NEW UPDATE IS APPLIED.

ADVANTAGES OF SEAMLESS UPDATES

1.       FASTER UPDATE OF SMARTPHONE.
2.       DORMANT PARTITION SERVES AS BACKUP.
3.       BETTER HANDLING OF UPDATE FAILURES.


THIS SEAMLESS UPDATE WILL ONLY WORK WITH PRE-INSTALLED NOUGAT ANDROID SMARTPHONE.





By - V. Bhusan



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