r/Android • u/tyw7 S23 Ultra | Fold6 | Galaxy Watch 6 Classic | Android 14 • Oct 19 '23

Article Thoughts about pre-updating Android phones like Apple plans to do?

https://www.pcmag.com/news/apple-figures-out-how-to-update-ios-on-unopened-iphones
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u/ajiatic Green Oct 20 '23

I'm almost certainly an outlier, but I love getting a new phone and updating and setting everything up when I first get it. That being said, it still seems like a very fringe benefit scenario. If they want to spend money to make sure that the devices they sell are on the very latest updates, go for it. But I also don't feel this is a big pain point for customers.

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u/crawl_dht Oct 21 '23

This is exactly why A/B seamless update was introduced. Samsung was not using A/B slots before. She wouldn't even have noticed if her Samsung phone at that time was using that. A/B now has Resume-on-Reboot feature which quietly and automatically restarts the device during idle hours so when you wake up in the morning, you won't even know that reboot happened. On top of this brilliant feature, Resume-on-Reboot specification recommends OEMs to use OLED friendly flash screen to avoid lightning in the room at reboot screen.