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  2. Booting process of Android devices - Wikipedia

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    The Android Bootloader (Aboot or ABL), which implements the fastboot interface. Android Bootloader verifies the authenticity of the boot and recovery partitions. [4] By pressing a specific key combination, devices can also boot in recovery mode. Android Bootloader then transfers control to the Linux kernel.

  3. Android recovery mode - Wikipedia

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    A Samsung Galaxy A02s booted into recovery mode. The Android recovery mode is a mode of Android used for installing updates and wipe data. [1] [2] It consists of a Linux kernel with ramdisk on a separate partition from the main Android system. Recovery mode can be useful when a phone is stuck in a bootloop or when it has been infected with ...

  4. Qualcomm EDL mode - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Fastboot - Wikipedia

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    Fastboot is a communication protocol used primarily with Android devices. [1] It is implemented in a command-line interface tool of the same name and as a mode of the bootloader of Android devices. The tool is included with the Android SDK package and used primarily to modify the flash filesystem via a USB connection from a host

  6. Pre-boot authentication - Wikipedia

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    A PBA environment serves as an extension of the BIOS, UEFI or boot firmware and guarantees a secure, tamper-proof environment external to the operating system as a trusted authentication layer. [2] The PBA prevents any operating system from loading until the user has confirmed he/she has the correct password to unlock the computer. [ 2 ]

  7. Boot ROM - Wikipedia

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    When a system on a chip (SoC) enters suspend to RAM mode, in many cases, the processor is completely off while the RAM is put in self refresh mode. At resume, the boot ROM is executed again and many boot ROMs are able to detect that the SoC was in suspend to RAM and can resume by jumping directly to the kernel which then takes care of powering on again the peripherals which were off and ...

  8. BIOS - Wikipedia

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    The keyboard works even if the BIOS keyboard service is not called; keystrokes are received and placed in the 15-character type-ahead buffer maintained by BIOS.) The boot program must set up its own stack, because the size of the stack set up by BIOS is unknown and its location is likewise variable; although the boot program can investigate the ...

  9. UEFI - Wikipedia

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    Standard PC BIOS is limited to a 16-bit processor mode and 1 MB of addressable memory space, resulting from the design based on the IBM 5150 that used a 16-bit Intel 8088 processor. [ 8 ] [ 34 ] In comparison, the processor mode in a UEFI environment can be either 32-bit ( IA-32 , AArch32) or 64-bit ( x86-64 , Itanium, and AArch64).