Smartphones & Tablets | April 27, 2024
It took Samsung eight years to implement this update method on the Galaxy A55, the first to feature what is called seamless update.
After 8 years, it can now be said that Samsung is beginning to bring an experience that has been present on Android since 2016. The Samsung Galaxy A55 is the first mobile from the Korean company that can be updated so that only a quick restart occurs after installing all the system files while the smartphone is in use.
In 2016, Google introduced support for ‘seamless’ updates that allow users to continue using the mobile while the new system version is downloaded in the background, and the installation of all the files to be updated begins. Once the process is completed, the mobile simply restarts to have the update loaded.
This means that users can forget about having the mobile turned off for a few minutes while all the updated files are installed. In the Samsung Galaxy A55, with the March 2022 security patch in India with firmware version A556EXXS1AXC1, updates can be done in this manner with two steps to complete the process.
The first step indicates that the update is being downloaded and installed, and the second is the verification of the installed files in the system. This new experience ensures that the update is carried out in partition B, while the user continues to use their mobile device under partition A.
Once the installation is complete, a restart occurs. The best part is that the mobile device remains active at all times during the installation, allowing normal usage, and becomes unusable during the restart, which takes 90 seconds on the Galaxy A55.
For now, it is unknown which Samsung phone will be the next to benefit from the ‘seamless update’ feature, but older models are likely to be left out of this significant advancement for the mobile device experience. This is primarily because the device needs to be configured from the factory to support this method of Android system updates.
That said, according to GSMArena, future Samsung phones released to the market will have to adopt seamless updates, as it was revealed earlier this year that Android will require the system to be updated in this way. Therefore, the Korean manufacturer has no choice but to start offering this type of update on its phones.
