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Odin is a utility software program developed and used by Samsung internally which is used to communicate with Samsung devices in Odin mode (also called download mode) through the Thor (protocol). It can be used to flash a custom recovery firmware image (as opposed to the stock recovery firmware image) to a Samsung Android device.
Qualcomm EDL 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. [2][3] On Google's Pixel 3, the feature was accidentally shown to ...
Fastboot is a communication protocol used primarily with Android devices. [1] It is implemented in a command-line interface tool of the same name and as a mode of the bootloader of Android devices. The tool is included with the Android SDK package and used primarily to modify the flash filesystem via a USB connection from a host computer.
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TWRP (software) Team Win Recovery Project (TWRP), pronounced "twerp", [4] is an open-source software custom recovery image for Android -based devices. [5][6] It provides a touchscreen -enabled interface that allows users to install third-party firmware and back up the current system, functions usually not supported by stock recovery images. [6 ...
Examples include the Wiibrew program BootMii used to fix semi-bricked Wiis, the Odin program used to flash firmware on Samsung Android devices, [6] or the fastboot Android protocol which is capable of re-flashing a device with no software installed. [6] A soft bricked rooted Kindle Fire can be un-bricked by using unrooting tools.
Firmware is commonly stored in an EEPROM or Flash memory, [1] which makes use of an I/O protocol such as SPI. In computing, firmware is software that provides low-level control of computing device hardware. For a relatively simple device, firmware may perform all control, monitoring and data manipulation functionality.
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