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ADB: Android Debug Bridge. A utility to link the commands in the android through PC. (How to install & setup?)
- adb.exe can be taken from the SDK (already included in the android SDK). It is in the platform-tools folder. Acess help by typing “adb help”
- adb shell logcat = to know the log while flashing (for debugging)
ADK: Android Development Kit, used for development purposes.
AOSP: Short for Android Open Source Project, and when the term is used in ROM descriptions, it usually indicates that the ROM in question is based on the Android source code provided by Google itself, and not on some other ROM project or a company’s firmware.
APN: Access Point Name, a computer protocol that normally allows computer users to access Internet using mobile phone network.
Baseband: In communications and signal processing, the baseband describes signals and systems whose range of the frequencies measured from close to 0 hertz to a cut-off frequency, a maximum bandwidth or highest signal frequency. It is sometimes used to describe frequencies starting close to zero
Boot Loader: State in which the device can be flashed from RSD with an appropriate .sdk file that reprograms the phone into a specific ROM or update. This is typically a last resort when the recovery screen cannot be reached to make a much simpler and less risky solution
Boot Loop: simply means something is preventing the phone from completting it’s boot cycle and is stuck between the boot animation and the unlock screen, creating a looped animation. This is often fixed by either reloading a Nandroid, or reflashing a rom from the Boot Loader.
Brick or Bricked: Jargon for a completely unrecoverable device, (no more than a brick or paperweight) Refer: What is Bricking?
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