Starting with Android Oreo (version 8), the operating system switched to a faster decompression algorithm (LZ4), which ...

When your Android's system files stop communicating correctly, the device may end up having difficulty starting. Boot loops are the result of system files not knowing how to function during the ...

Go to Settings > System > Reset options > Erase all data (factory reset) > Erase all data. After the erasing process, set up ...

Starting in Android 4.4, Google implemented verified boot (known as dm-verity) in the Android kernel to prevent malware from hiding in your device. This was all behind the scenes until Android 6.0 ...

One of the more exciting – and yet not so much talked about – features of Android 7.0 Nougat is seamless updating. This concept was originally taken from Google’s own Chrome OS. It’s a way of ...

Q: My Android phone started crashing, and now it can’t even finish booting up. Is there any rescuing this thing? A: Once a mobile device gets stuck in a “bootloop,” in which Android can’t even get ...

Ryne was ostensibly a senior editor at Android Police, working at the site from 2017-2022. But really, he is just some verbose dude who digs on tech, loves Android, and hates anticompetitive practices ...

The OS scene in the tablet segment is pretty straight forward – its Google’s Android and not Windows 7 OS that finds application in most tablets even though Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer strongly ...