Your spare Android won’t come back to life in a hurry but it should.
All through the mild-if-clammy winter here in The Register ’s Sydney, Australia, eyrie, the phone said it had moisture in its USB-C port and refused to charge.
Within seconds it suggested installing an OS update from April 2025, followed by six more – each of which needed manual consent for download and install.
The Korean giant could also do well to detect when a handset needs multiple updates and then tell users that its Smart Switch desktop app makes it possible to install cumulative updates in one fell swoop.
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Your spare Android won’t come back to life in a hurry but it should.
Our resident Microsoft-watcher Richard Speed last week wrote about his seven-hour odyssey bringing a Windows 11 box up to snuff with the latest patches.
I’ll see you that struggle, Richard, and raise you my experience updating a 2022-vintage Samsung Galaxy A33 Android smartphone.
All through the mild-if-clammy winter here in The Register ’s Sydney, Australia, eyrie, the phone said it had moisture in its USB-C port and refused to charge. Because it’s a budget model, topping it up with wireless power isn’t an option.
Within seconds it suggested installing an OS update from April 2025, followed by six more – each of which needed manual consent for download and install.
For Samsung that means rolling up past updates into cumulative downloads so leaving a device offline for a few months needs one intervention to modernize a device. The Korean giant could also do well to detect when a handset needs multiple updates and then tell users that its Smart Switch desktop app makes it possible to install cumulative updates in one fell swoop.
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