Pixel OTA updates could soon be much faster - Android Central
Google is moving forward with reducing the install time for OTAs on its Pixel devices.According to Mishaal Rahman's tweet, Google has already submitted a new patch to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) that will reduce the time it takes for OTAs to install on Pixel phones. This patch will work for devices using virtual A/B partitions along with a new compression mechanism update.Together, this will reduce the time it takes to install a 2.2GB OTA update from around 23 minutes to somewhere around 13 minutes.
Combined, these improvements bring a full OTA install time from ~23 minutes to ~13 minutes.
This new compression mechanism works to reduce the time of an OTA to install by six minutes, wrapping up the grand total of an approximate 10-minute decrease in time for an OTA to install with this new patch.
This patch submitted to the AOSP works to improve Google's Seamless Updates, which allows users to use their phones while a new update is applied in the background.A few Android OEMs have not adopted Google's Seamless Updates due to some downsides that came along with it, like slow install times, which is fuel for its latest improvements to it.