We heard a rumor a few weeks back that the Galaxy S25, S25+, and S25 Extremely can be the primary flagship Samsung telephones to assist Android’s seamless updates function. The parents over at Android Authority are actually corroborating that rumor in a brand new report.
The publication claims to have entry to some leaked recordsdata from the Galaxy S25 Ultra that verify assist for seamless updates. Not that it is stunning. Eight years after Google launched the function, Samsung lastly applied seamless updates on a Galaxy smartphone this yr, and it was solely a matter of time till we noticed it being applied on extra Galaxy gadgets.
Eight years after their introduction, seamless updates are coming to Samsung flagships
Gadgets that assist seamless updates, or A/B updates, function two system partitions. The working system is put in on each partitions however solely boots from certainly one of them whereas utilizing the opposite as a backup partition.
When a brand new software program replace is offered, it’s put in to the backup partition. The machine then boots from that backup partition with the up to date software program upon restart. The 2 system partitions are primarily switched upon reboot, a course of that’s repeated with each software program replace.
For the reason that machine runs from one partition and the replace is put in on the opposite, it permits updates to be put in within the background. Common (non-seamless) updates, then again, reboot the machine and make the consumer look forward to the replace to finish, locking them out from utilizing it even for emergency calls, which is not best.
As of December 2024, the Galaxy A55 is the only Samsung smartphone that supports seamless updates. And whereas having two system partitions technically requires more room on the inner storage, thereby lowering how a lot house is offered to the consumer, Samsung managed to get round that limitation on the Galaxy A55, and we hope the identical will probably be true on the Galaxy S25 lineup as effectively.
