We heard a rumor a couple of weeks again that the Galaxy S25, S25+, and S25 Extremely can be the primary flagship Samsung telephones to assist Android’s seamless updates function. The oldsters 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 Extremely that verify assist for seamless updates. Not that it is stunning. Eight years after Google launched the function, Samsung lastly carried out seamless updates on a Galaxy smartphone this yr, and it was solely a matter of time till we noticed it being carried out on extra Galaxy gadgets.
Eight years after their introduction, seamless updates are coming to Samsung flagships
Units 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 one among them whereas utilizing the opposite as a backup partition.
When a brand new software program replace is on the market, it’s put in to the backup partition. The system 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 system 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, alternatively, reboot the system and make the consumer look forward to the replace to finish, locking them out from utilizing it even for emergency calls, which is not supreme.
As of December 2024, the Galaxy A55 is the one Samsung smartphone that helps seamless updates. And whereas having two system partitions technically requires extra space on the inner storage, thereby lowering how a lot area is on the market to the consumer, Samsung managed to get round that limitation on the Galaxy A55, and we hope the identical shall be true on the Galaxy S25 lineup as effectively.