about android and how to flash via odin adb: Android Debug Bridge, a versatile tool lets you manage the state of an emulator instance or Android-powered device ADK: Android Development Kit, What people use to develop anything for the droid such as ROMs 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 droid 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 completing its 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) Bug or Software Bug: an Error or flaw in software that produces a failure or unexpected/unwanted result. Typically created from incorrect code, this is why some ROMs are better and smoother running than others because certain developers have taken the time to input perfect code Busybox: BusyBox is a single multicall binary that packages the functionality of most widely used standard Unix tools, BusyBox provides a fairly complete environment for any small or embedded system. ClockworkMod: A recovery program that is often used to apply updates, ROMs, or create a back up or restore a backup file De-odex: Apk files have respective odexes that devs use to supposedly save space. Deodexing means you convert it back to a .dex file and put it back inside the apk. This allows you to easily replace files (not having to worry about odexes), but the main point was to deodex services.jar so that you can change all text to different colors (such as the clock color to white) and to deodex services.jar, you need to deodex everything. Dev. or Developer: An individual that creates, or alters a file in such a manner as to advance the program Flash or Flash Memory: a program technology that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed Kernel: The governor of the CPU usage and Battery output, one can upload certain Kernels to achieve greater performance speed of their device at the cost of some battery life Nandroid or Nandroid Backup: A file typically created in the custom recovery program, such as SPRecovery, that is a carbon copy of whatever state your phone is in before a drastic change is made. the file then can be moved onto or off of the SD card for later use in case something should go wrong in the ROM or Update, or a Boot Loop occurs OS: Operating system, I.E. Windows Vista or MAC or ANDROID Overclocking: Speeding up the CPU past the factory presets to achieve a faster and more responsive device ROM: Read Only Memory, a program used to make changes to anything from the look of the home screen, to icons to custom boot animation Root: Common word associated with giving a user super user access to their phones programming and other various aspects that would normally not be possible, also known as Jailbroken for iPhones Shell or SSH: secure shell or ssh is a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged using a secure channel between two networked devices SPR or SPRecovery: A recovery program that is often used to apply updates, ROMs, or create a back up or restore a backup file Stock: Simply means an unaltered state, such as when you first purchase your phone from Verizon, or when you do a factory reset. Current stock image is Android 2.2 (Froyo) SU: Super user, or root permissions Theme: A set of icons, backgrounds and app trays that change the ascthetics of the overall look of the droid and its applications TUN/TAP: Refers to a network Tunnel, operates within layer 3 packets, or ip packets. Packets sent by a system via a TUN/TAP device are delivered to a user-space program that attaches itself to the device. A user space program may also pass packets into a TUN/TAP device. In this case TUN/TAP device delivers (or injects) these packets to the operating systems network stack thus emulating their reception from an external source. Underclocking: Slowing down the CPU mainly to limit battery usage File types: .apk or APKs: An .apk file extension denotes an Android Package (APK) file, an .apk file can be opened and inspected using common archive tools .sbf: Summation Briefcase File .tar: Similar to a zip file, a tar file archives multiple files into one file .tgz: TGZ files are commonly used as install packages for Slackware Linux. .zip: Zipped file used to archive multiple files into one to save space and allow for single download. Commonly asked questions. Ma void po ba warranty ko after rooting? Yes. Pwede kopo ba ma unroot ulit ang SGY ko? Yes, just follow the thread by MrGambit about rooting. May possibility ba masira/ ma brick ang SGY ko after rooting? Nope, unless your doing the instructions corectly. Risky ba mag flash via KIES? Nope, just install the cd (KIES) then update mo, then connect your phone para makita mo may available na update (firmware). Internet connection needed. Flashing via Odin safe po ba o hindi? Safe po basta sundin lang natin yung instructions ng maagi. Just download the needed files (firmware, Odin). No internet connection needed. Nakakaapekto ba ang rooting/ flashing (upgrading) sa plan ko? Hindi po. Walang kinalaman ang pag root o flash. I dont know about using OpenVPN. Pano po ba e move yung applications ko naka install sa internal memory? Root your phone, then install gemini app manager para ma move mo yung mga apps. (Attention: Some of the apps kasi may kasamang widgets, minsan hindi na fufunction ng maayos after moving.) May way po ba mataasan ang battery life na SGY ko? Meron po, gamit lang po tayo ng mga 3rd party na mga apps like juice defender, antutu power saver. Madami sa market nakakalat. Pero Antutu power saver talaga ginagamit ko and also refer below post about tips for battery risen. May mga apps po nagru-run ko kahit hindi ko ginagamit? Normal po yan, isa yan sa maka drain ng batt mo. Gamit nalang po tayong ng mga task killers like gemini task killer, advance task killer, etc. Punta kayo sa market maghanap. How to back-up installed applications? Use Titanium Back up Pro o kaya Gemini app manager. TIPS AND REMINDERS Konting TIP po sa taong gustong mag collection ng mga apps o games, you can use google for that. ex: nag hahanap kayo ng app na titanium back pro ito dapat ilagay niyo sa search engine titanium back pro apk then hit search yung 1st page na links na e provide ni google ay yun yung mga sigurado na mga result. happy androiding Iwasan po natin e install ang font changer na app. Madami na kasi naka experinece ma softbrick yung mga SGY nila. If youre planning to flash your phone, do a nandroid backup (not available at the moment) 1st then dapat naka 90% pataas ang batt. Try to avoid flashing by using ROM Manager sa unit niyo, dami ng nasirang board (hardware) sa app na yan. May Odin naman tayo o kaya update through KIES Do a hard reset *2767*3855# everytime you upgrade/ flash a new stock firmware. Yung mga nag stuck up sa boot animation also know as boot loop after flashing. go to recovery mode: home + power button then wipe data and wipe cache partition. that will do.. Note: after wiping data everything will back to default settings. Some Tips To Extend The Battery Life of Your Android Smartphone. Dont Use Live Desktop Wallpapers Turn Off Your WiFi When Not In Use Keep Your Homescreens Clean Do Not Use External Launchers or Themes Reduce Your Screen Brightness What is Rooting? Rooting is basically a process where the access to system level files is given to the third party custom ROMs or the files so that the required customization can be made. Only rooting makes it possible to customize the phone the way you want to. So, let’s proceed and check out the merits and demerits below. Merits of Rooting There are many advantages of rooting which we have mentioned in the below list. Rooting allows you to convert the current laggy file system of RFS to the faster EXT4 file system, It also allows you to remove the default applications which comes pre-loaded, It allows you to install the custom firmwares as well as the beta Stock ROMs from different country un officially. De Merits of Rooting If rooting process is not followed properly then you may even brick the device, Rooting voids the warranty, though can be regained by updating with the default firmware.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 01:59:22 +0000