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Android usually takes about 30 seconds to boot. Ubiquitous, somehow, has made their QuickBoot solution to work for the Freescale i.MX51 processor, where Android can boot in about 1 second. In this video, a full Android OS is demonstrated booting from complete power off in about 1 second.

QuickBoot doesn’t actually “boot” the operating system. It is simply achieving a faster restoration of a running OS image. It’s said that QuickBoot achieves the fast operation by restoring memory areas necessary for restart. It restores necessary parts of the memory image by figuring out the priorities of memory usage for the system. The restart time isn’t dependent on the amount of memory used by the OS. This is due to the fact that memory areas are read sequentially. This doesn’t really affect user operations.

QuickBoot is offered in the form of a software development kit provided for developers at OEMs and ODMs. The SDK is said to include a QuickBoot snapshot script and snapshot driver, which together are used to store snapshots of a RAM image to nonvolatile memory.

This video was filmed by Charbax at Computex 2010 in Taipei Taiwan.

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http://live.pirillo.com/ – Modern operating system – especially Windows Vista – can take a rather long time to start up and shut down. What could you do to speed up these processes?

SpeedyVista is a utility that will allow you to end services in Windows Vista, which will let you shave off a couple of seconds off your setup time.

Beyond what services you could shut down, you could also try disabling some programs from running on startup (using the msconfig utility).

For now, until new technologies make their way into operating systems, the startup and shutdown times are going to remain longer than they should be.

Do you have any recommendations for speeding up your startup and shutdown time?

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