A Fast Boot, Fast Shutdown Technique for Android OS Devices

Xia Yang, Peng Jia Shi, Haiyong Sun, Wenxuan Zheng, Jim Alves-Foss · Computer · 2016

Increasingly complex Android OS applications demand additional software initialization and configuration during startup, which slows system boot time and inconveniences users. The authors propose an approach based on existing snapshot-imaging techniques that can reduce startup time by 80.5 percent and shutdown time by half while avoiding the system-synchronization problem that plagues suspend-resume methods.

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