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Screenshot of Device Manager, containing a Qualcomm device booted in the Emergency Download Mode. The Qualcomm Emergency Download mode, commonly known as Qualcomm EDL mode and officially known as Qualcomm HS-USB QD-Loader 9008 [1] is a feature implemented in the boot ROM of a system on a chip by Qualcomm which can be used to recover bricked smartphones.
The term over-the-air update applies specifically to embedded systems, [4] rather than non-embedded systems like computers. Before OTA updates, embedded devices could only be flashed through direct physical access (with a JTAG) or wired connections (usually through USB or a serial port).
Android TV: For TV sets. Vizio SmartCast: For TV sets. Western Digital: WD TV: For WD TV boxes. Westinghouse: Android TV: For TV sets. Fire TV: For TV sets. Roku OS: For TV sets sold in the US, Canada and elsewhere. [53] Samba TV: Former solution for TV sets. Xiaomi: PatchWall based on Android: For TV sets in mainland China, India, Indonesia ...
The Android TV platform is an adaptation of the Android OS for set-top boxes and as integrated software on smart TV hardware. It supports media and games apps from Google Play, although not all Google Play apps are compatible with Android TV. [3]
Android has suffered from "fragmentation", [366] a situation where the variety of Android devices, in terms of both hardware variations and differences in the software running on them, makes the task of developing applications that work consistently across the ecosystem harder than rival platforms such as iOS where hardware and software varies ...
Certain devices, including those from Huawei [21] and any brand sold by Verizon [22] lack the ability to be easily rooted, unless a privilege escalation exploit is found in the device's operating system version. Android SafetyNet API is tripped so some apps will not work or won't be shown on the Play Store. [23]
As originally used, firmware contrasted with hardware (the CPU itself) and software (normal instructions executing on a CPU). It was not composed of CPU machine instructions, but of lower-level microcode involved in the implementation of machine instructions. It existed on the boundary between hardware and software; thus the name firmware.
HarmonyOS (HMOS) (Chinese: 鸿蒙; pinyin: Hóngméng; trans. "Vast Mist") is a distributed operating system developed by Huawei for smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, smart watches, personal computers and other smart devices.