[Xperia X] Android OTA Updates - Why such small increments? [answered]
I've turned on my brand new and sealed Sony Xperia X F5121 today. The F5121's stock OS was on Android 6.0. As soon as I connected to Wi-Fi, a couple of large (1Gb+) updates were first installed to bring me up to 34.2.nnn (Android 7.0) but since the first couple of updates, all subsequent updates have been gradually less and less in size, now averaging around 100Mb. So far, all the installs, restarts and updates have taken about 4 hours. I've gone through about 9 or 10 updates, installs and restarts. I'm currently on 34.2.A.2.47 (Android 7.0) and I know that I need to get up to 34.3.A.0.228 before I can unlock the bootloader and then start flashing. The problem is, I have no idea how far away I am from getting to the latest update. With all the small incremental updates, there could be 10, 100 or 1000. I have no idea.
Why couldn't the updates be more smarter and be a more up-to-date, combined package? Rather than having to step through every incremental update, all the recent updates could have been slipstreamed into one current update, which simply contains the latest packages to take me straight to the latest available version. Why does it have to follow this incremental approach? Having never used Android before, I don't really know how this works or what they (Sony/Android) were thinking.
Why ? Simply to show to all people that were complaining about all the intermediate updates that we have to do when doing a factory reset on Sailfish that's it's far worse on Android :)
Sthocs ( 2017-11-12 02:28:17 +0300 )edit