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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 .
RetroArch is a free and open-source, cross-platform frontend for emulators, game engines, video games, media players and other applications. It is the reference implementation of the libretro API, [2] [3] designed to be fast, lightweight, portable and without dependencies. [4]
In April 2016, HiOS 1.0 was released and was based on Android 6.0.It launched on Tecno Boom J8. [5] [6] [7] The OS included a custom home screen app. [8] [9] [10]In March 2017, HiOS 2.0 was released and was based on Android 7.0, It launched on Tecno Camon CX and L9 Plus.
Tecno Camon 12 Air, Tecno Camon 12, and Tecno Camon 12 Pro are Android-based smartphones manufactured, released, and marketed by the Chinese company Tecno Mobile as part of Tecno Camon 12 series. The device were unveiled during an event held on 5 September, 2019 in Lagos , Nigeria, as successors to Tecno Camon 11 and Tecno Camon 11 Pro. [ 4 ]
As originally used, firmware contrasted with hardware (the CPU itself) and software (normal instructions executing on a CPU). It was not composed of CPU machine instructions, but of lower-level microcode involved in the implementation of machine instructions. It existed on the boundary between hardware and software; thus the name firmware.
Custom firmware may still be available for certain products, which is often free and open-source software, and is especially popular in certain segments of hardware like gaming consoles, wireless routers and Android phones, which are capable of running complete general-purpose operating systems like Linux, FreeBSD or NetBSD, which are often the systems used by the manufacturer in their ...
Most emulators just emulate a hardware architecture—if operating system firmware or software is required for the desired software, it must be provided as well (and may itself be emulated). Both the OS and the software will then be interpreted by the emulator, rather than being run by native hardware.
Android Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California, in October 2003 by Andy Rubin and Chris White, with Rich Miner and Nick Sears [13] [14] joining later. Rubin and White started out build an Operating System for digital cameras viz FotoFrame. The company name was changed to Android as Rubin already owned the domain name android.com.