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It is there, but hibernation is a pain to implement since it doesn’t have much in common with other OS functions, so eg device driver engineers don’t enjoy implementing/maintaining it much.

It is useful in laptops as a last ditch effort to avoid losing data when the battery dies, but that’s one reason phones don’t implement it even though their batteries die much more often.




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