Google is reportedly engaged on quicker full over-the-air (OTA) updates for its Pixel telephones. The tech large is alleged to be planning to scale back the set up time for OTA updates. Updates are put in within the background on Pixel telephones, permitting customers to proceed to make use of their units with out ready for the method to finish. However, it takes so long as 20 minutes, and the corporate is alleged to have submitted software program patches to hurry up the method to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) code tracker.
According to an Android Police report citing Esper’s Mishaal Rahman, the patches, which have been submitted on Google’s code tracker, can cut back the time by round ten minutes or 43 p.c to put in a full OTA replace on a Pixel smartphone.
Google is engaged on making OTA updates quicker. A brand new set of patches has been submitted to AOSP that velocity up OTAs on units that use the digital A/B with compression replace mechanism. Combined, these enhancements convey a full OTA set up time from ~23 minutes to ~13 minutes! pic.twitter.com/2hDliWzUZZ
— Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) November 30, 2022
A screenshot of the code submitted for assessment reveals that it took round 13 minutes to put in a 2.2GB OTA replace on a Pixel 6 Pro with the brand new patches. The course of is at present stated to take round 23 minutes.
According to the main points shared by Rahman, the patches additionally cut back the time taken to put in a 376MB “incremental” OTA replace which is round 27 p.c quicker, from 22 minutes to 16 minutes. After putting in the OTA, Pixel customers merely have to reboot their telephone to make use of the up to date system.
As per the report, the primary patch permits COW (copy-on-write) operations in a cluster and the second patch makes use of two threads for quicker snapshot compression. These patches are stated to scale back the set up occasions for updates by round six minutes.
It is price noting that Google is but to approve the patches which might be claimed to enhance the velocity of putting in updates, and the corporate is but to make any announcement on this regard.
In latest information, Google rolled out free entry to the corporate’s Google One VPN for its Pixel 7 sequence in a number of nations. The Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro handsets can now connect with Google’s VPN free of charge.
The firm’s VPN service is at present accessible in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the UK and the US. Those prepared to get the characteristic on different units are required to subscribe to the 2TB cloud storage plan on Google One priced at $10 (roughly Rs. 800) a month.
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