CN110780893A

CN110780893A - Android intelligent terminal FOTA scheme

Info

Publication number: CN110780893A
Application number: CN201810855604.2A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 不公告发明人
Original assignee: Shenzhen Yang Yang Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Shenzhen Yang Yang Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2018-07-31
Filing date: 2018-07-31
Publication date: 2020-02-11

Abstract

The invention discloses an FOTA (firmware over the air) scheme for continuous incremental upgrading of an Android intelligent terminal, and aims to solve the problem that incremental upgrading packages between a plurality of old versions and a new version need to be manufactured or a full package is used for upgrading every time a new version is released in the existing FOTA upgrading incremental scheme, so that the user traffic is greatly wasted, and meanwhile, great pressure is brought to test verification. By using the continuous increment upgrading of the invention, only one upgrading packet needs to be made when a new edition is released, and all the terminal editions can be upgraded to the latest edition at one time, thereby greatly saving the complexity of FOTA deployment and user upgrading, reducing the flow overhead of air upgrading, and simultaneously realizing the same iterative test as software for the tested FOTA upgrading test. The invention relates to the field of mobile intelligent terminals.

Description

Android intelligent terminal FOTA scheme

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of mobile intelligent terminals

Background

FOTA (Firmware Over-The-Air) is an Over-The-Air software upgrade of a mobile terminal, and refers to a device with a networking function by using a cloud upgrading technology: for example, a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a portable media player, a mobile internet device and the like provide firmware upgrading services, a user obtains an intelligent terminal system upgrading package in an on-demand and easily-extensible manner by using a network, and cloud upgrading is performed through FOTA to complete system repair and optimization. The shortcomings of the FOTA technology of the existing Android intelligent terminal comprise that:

1. the increment upgrading maintenance is very troublesome, if 10 upgrading versions exist, 55 upgrading packages are needed to ensure that any version of all equipment can be upgraded to the latest version in one step, and in view of the above, many manufacturers upgrade across large versions and directly deploy comprehensive upgrading packages, so that the upgrading packages are large, the user flow is consumed, particularly, the software is more and more complex and huge, and the volume of the whole upgrading package body reaches 4GB frequently;

2. the local upgrade cannot be carried out, and the downloaded upgrade package cannot be shared with other users to reduce the user traffic so as to reduce the downloading process;

3. the deployment is not flexible enough, all policies are written in the FOTA client program, and the common use is difficult to achieve;

4. the upgrade test and the user upgrade conflict with each other;

5. the incremental upgrade packages between a plurality of old versions and the current new version are required to be manufactured when the new version is released each time, and great pressure is brought to the test work.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention mainly solves the technical problem of providing a new Android intelligent terminal FOTA scheme:

1. the FOTA upgrading method can reduce FOTA upgrading flow consumption, can locally upgrade and can be flexibly deployed.

2. The continuous increment upgrading technology is used for providing one-step upgrading to the latest version for the user while reducing the maintenance of the increment upgrading package, realizing zero-cost maintenance of the increment upgrading of the new version and saving the flow for the user under the condition of bringing convenience to the user upgrading.

3. And the function of the equipment list is added, and the test and the user upgrade are not conflicted with each other.

4. And a software white list is added, and the server can flexibly deploy an upgrading strategy for specific software.

5. The hardware version can be dynamically adapted, and the upgrading of new and old hardware is not interfered mutually by combining flexible deployment.

6. And breakpoint continuous transmission is supported, so that the user can pause downloading at any time and continue downloading.

7. And (4) verifying the legality of the upgrade package, and strictly verifying before upgrading to ensure the safety of upgrading.

8. And releasing the new version, wherein the test engineer does not need to test the upgrade from the old version to the new version, and the iterative test of the FOTA upgrade is realized.

The invention provides a novel FOTA scheme which consists of a mobile phone client software part and a server.

The client is a common android a pk application.

The server needs to deploy an apache server capable of running the p-p, u p g r a d e, p-p pages used for processing client requests, information upgrade _ packages.xml files containing all the upgrade packages, and firmware upgrade package files of various versions.

[ description of the drawings ]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a continuous incremental upgrade provided by an embodiment of the present application

[ detailed description ] embodiments

After the FOTA client analyzes the new version record, all the new versions are downloaded to the local, then the recovery mode is restarted to carry out increment, and the equipment can be seen from fig. 1 that the upgrade packages are loaded one by one, the upgrade packages are upgraded one by one, and the upgrade of the last package is guided to be completed. And each time the version N is released, only the upgrade from N-1 to N needs to be tested, so that the test iteration of the new version is ensured.

The present application will be described in further detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The working process is as follows:

1.and the software running on the client inquires the new version information according to the heartbeat cycle and informs the user whether to check and download the new version information. The new software updating notice can be timely pushed to the user, and the whole process almost consumes zero current.

2. The client program collects the local information, including the name of the manufacturer, the model, and the current firmware version.

3. And the client submits the collected information to the access address of the FOTA upgrading server set in firmware.

And the server returns the required upgrade package information to the client according to the deployment strategy condition in the upgrade. Various processing strategies therein may be implemented for a single product, such as adapting a hardware version, etc.

Claims

Patent claim of Android intelligent terminal FOTA scheme invention

1.An intelligent terminal continuous increment upgrading implementation method.
2. The method is characterized in that all any terminal equipment can be upgraded to the latest version in one-time increment mode, and also can be upgraded to a specified version in one-time increment mode for partial versions.
3. The method is characterized by covering the following three (but not limited) mainstream technical schemes: full upgrading, incremental upgrading, test mode, software version white list, hardware version white list and equipment white list.
4. The method is characterized in that: the method comprises the steps that a terminal A FOTA client reports a brand, a model, a software version number, an equipment ID and a hardware version number, an FOTA server is matched with deployment configuration of a corresponding model according to the brand and the model, then an upgrade strategy meeting requirements is inquired by taking the software version number, the equipment ID and the hardware version number as inquiry conditions, and the upgrade strategy is returned to the terminal A; different upgrading strategies are made according to the brand, the model, the software version, the hardware version and the hardware ID of the terminal; the terminal A FOTA client analyzes the upgrading strategy and downloads all upgrading packages to be downloaded to the local one time in sequence; the terminal A FOTA client checks the integrity of each upgrading packet one by one, writes the packets to be upgraded into an upgrading command file, and then restarts to enter a recovery mode; after receiving the upgrading strategy, the terminal A FOTA client downloads the upgrading strategy; the terminal can download all the upgrade packages to the local at one time according to the obtained upgrade strategy, and prepare for continuous upgrade.
5. The method is characterized in that: and the terminal A analyzes according to the upgrading command of the Android standard to analyze the continuous increment upgrading description and is compatible with the Android default upgrading scheme.
6. The method is characterized in that: the terminal A can continuously upgrade to the latest version by using a plurality of increment packages, thereby greatly saving the upgrade time and the flow consumption of users.
7. The method is characterized in that: and the terminal A loads and updates one by one according to the upgrading sequence described by the continuous-update.
8. And finally, the terminal A upgrades the N- (N), N- (N-1), N-3, N-2 and N-1 to the version N in sequence, and the upgrade deployment test of the N- (N) and N- (N-1) is performed after the version N- (N) is released, so that the iteration deployment and the test can be performed by only testing the incremental upgrade of the current new version and the previous version by repeating the steps, so that the analysis and the upgrade strategy of the negative terminal A FOTA client of a test engineer is greatly reduced, and all upgrade packages needing to be downloaded are downloaded to the local one time in sequence.
9. The method is characterized in that: the new version is released only by making the increment packages of the current version and the previous version, so that the burden of a software engineer is greatly reduced, and the deployment is more flexible and quick; the continuous incremental upgrade is transparent to the user, the experience of the user is that the upgrade is carried out to the latest version once, and a large amount of time is saved for the user.