Samsung is fresh from the launch of its new top of the range, the three brothers of the Galaxy S21 family who have also arrived in the Italian market a few days ago. Among the many novelties and features, one that is still quite banal is still missing.
We are talking about the so-called seamless update or the possibility of updating the operating system in the background while the smartphone is running. This software update mode was launched a decade ago on Android and only involves a restart of the device when the update is complete to apply the changes. This update mode uses the A / B type partitions to install the new firmware while the device is running, assumes a lower risk of data corruption and does not imply the impossibility of using the smartphone for as long as it takes to install the update.
Previously, Google seemed determined to impose the obligation to adopt seamless updates for devices based on the green robot starting with Android 11. Subsequently, BigG would retrace its steps on this aspect and Samsung did not feel obliged to implement this feature.
Even Max Weinbach on Twitter pointed out that lack in the source code of the new Galaxy S21. Further investigation showed that Project Treble support on the Galaxy S21 is also lacking, although those details need to be confirmed.
At the moment, the reason why Samsung has decided not to implement support for an update mode as convenient as seamless remains unclear. One of the hypotheses could lie in wanting to preserve the internal storage for the user as much as possible since seamless updates require less storage space available.