If you booted the original HTC Dream or Samsung Galaxy today, you might feel that it was stuck in a boot loop. Back in the day, Android phones would take a minute or two to start up after a shutdown.

Google is preparing some kernel improvements for Android devices which are said to improve boot times by up to 30% on the Pixel 10, the first semi-official reference to the unreleased smartphone. Two ...

Slow boot times can kill the excitement of sitting down to watch your favorite show or play a game on your Android TV. But not anymore. A few tweaks were all it took for me to reduce the boot time on ...

So, I have an old phone that I use for off-grid/no SIM usage. I need to try and get a few things off of it, but it won't start up, except when I plug it in to charge. It brings up the charging symbol, ...

What if I salvaged the internal storage (inside the phone) and then hooked it up to the raspberry pi (via some adapter)? We can have a bootloader in the Pi loading the os from the adapter and running ...