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  2. Firmware - Wikipedia

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    Firmware. Firmware is commonly stored in an EEPROM, 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. For a more complex device, firmware ...

  3. LineageOS - Wikipedia

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    LineageOS is an Android-based operating system for smartphones, tablet computers, and set-top boxes, with mostly free and open-source software. It is the successor to CyanogenMod, from which it was forked in December 2016, when Cyanogen Inc. announced it was discontinuing development and shut down the infrastructure behind the project.

  4. Odin (firmware flashing software) - Wikipedia

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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 ). It can be used to flash a custom recovery firmware image (as opposed to the stock recovery firmware image) to a Samsung Android device. Odin is also used for unbricking certain ...

  5. Over-the-air update - Wikipedia

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    Smartphones. On smartphones, tablets, and other devices, an over-the-air update is a firmware or operating system update that is downloaded by the device over the internet. Previously, users had to connect these devices to a computer over USB to perform an update. These updates may add features, patch security vulnerabilities, or fix software bugs.

  6. Custom firmware - Wikipedia

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    In Android, installing custom firmware, colloquially known as installing a custom ROM or Android ROM, is the practice of replacing the system partition of the Android operating system, usually mounted as read-only, [9] [10] with a modified version of Android, also known as "flashing a ROM". [11]

  7. Android (operating system) - Wikipedia

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    Contents. Android (operating system) Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Android has historically been developed by a consortium of developers known as the Open Handset Alliance, but ...

  8. Comparison of mobile operating systems - Wikipedia

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    Google, Open Handset Alliance. Apple Inc. Huawei. Linux Foundation, Tizen Association, Samsung, Intel. KaiOS Technologies Inc. ( TCL) Sailfish Alliance, Mer, Jolla and Sailfish community contributors. UBports and Ubuntu community contributors (previously Canonical Ltd. ) Debian on Mobile Team. KDE and Blue Systems.

  9. List of custom Android distributions - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Android distributions, Android-based operating systems (OS) commonly referred to as Custom ROMs or Android ROMs, forked from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) without Google Play Services included officially in some or all markets, yet maintained independent coverage in notable Android-related sources.