Boot Android in 1 second with Ubiquitous QuickBoot [Video]
People might be familiar with hacks to speed up PC booting, but the gadgets that are most frustrating for their sluggish start-ups are smartphones. Ubiquitous have been showing off their QuickBoot for Android system, which promises to load the Google OS in just one second, ready to load up whatever apps you want to run.Video demos after the cut
The system works in a similar – though more refined – way to hibernation, where a snapshot of the system in its functional state is stored in non-volatile memory and instantly loaded whenever the phone is turned on. Unlike hibernation, though, which takes longer the more apps you have running in the snapshot, the Ubiquitous solution is independent of memory size and uses intelligent copying to only save the necessary data and processes to RAM from the snapshot.
So, as long as there's a stable snapshot in the memory, your Android phone boots up straight away, as if it had been turned on all the time (only without the battery drain). This won't be something offered to end-users directly, but Ubiquitous are hoping OEMs pick up QuickBoot for Android and integrate it into future handsets.
Official Ubiquitous demo:
[via Android Community]