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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.
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.
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.
It is free software released under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2. It has pciutils and zlib as dependencies, and for some programmers also libftdi and libusb . It is run from user space and usually requires superuser privileges (except when using supported USB devices as programmer).
flash – rewrites a partition with a binary image stored on the host computer. flashing unlock/oem unlock *** – unlocks an OEM locked bootloader for flashing custom/unsigned ROMs. The *** is a device specific unlock key. flashing lock/oem lock *** – locks an OEM unlocked bootloader. erase – erases a specific partition.
Odin achieves binary compatibility by converting Win32 executables and dynamic-link libraries to OS/2 format. Conversion can be done on the fly (each time the application is run) or permanently. Odin does not use emulation or a compatibility layer. Odin identifies itself to Windows applications as Windows 2000 Service Pack 2.
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The Primary Bootloader (PBL), which is stored in the Boot ROM [3] is the first stage of the boot process. This code is written by the chipset manufacturer. [4]The PBL verifies the authenticity of the next stage.