android

Android 各版本及对应名称

• Beta
• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.5 Cupcake
• 1.6 Donut
• 2.x Eclair
  • 2.0
  • 2.0.1
  • 2.1
• 2.2 Froyo
• 2.3.x Gingerbread
  • 2.3
  • 2.3.3
  • 2.3.4
  • 2.3.5
• 3.x Honeycomb
  • 3.0
  • 3.1
  • 3.2
• • 3.x Honeycomb
    • 3.0
    • 3.1
    • 3.2

Ice Cream Sandwich

 

 

AOSP:
AOSP stands for Android Open Source Project, this refers to people, processes, and the source code that make the Android OS. Many ROMs are built from the Android Source code, such as Cyanogen Mod, SkyRaider, ShadowROM, etc.

HBOOT:
The HBOOT screen is like the boot screen on a computer. From here you can see if you have S-OFF, access your recovery image, fastboot, clear your storage, simlock, or factory reset. This screen can be accessed by powering off your device > after it is off, hold the volume down button, and your power button until the white HBOOT screen appears. You can navigate between the options using the volume keys, and the power button to select an item.

Kernel:
The govenor of the CPU useage and Battery output, one can upload certain Kernals to achieve greater performance speed of their device at the cost of some battery life. The kernel of your phone allows for overclocking, modifying battery charging conditions, stability issues, fps, and tons of other cool stuff.

S-OFF:
This means your security is OFF, and basically means you have permission to make your device awesome, or really mess it up.

ADK: Android Development Kit, What people use to develop anything for the droid such as ROM's

Baseband or Radio: 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. Be very careful when flashing a radio.img, flashing the same .img twice will brick your device.

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 it's 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)

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(ed): 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.

Flash or Flash Memory: a program technology that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed

Root: Common word associated with giving a user "super user" access to their phones programming and other various asspects that would normaly not be possible, also known as "Jailbroken" for iPhone's.

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

Nightlies: Probably very broken ROM builds, mainly CyanogenMod 6 builds.

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.
-Senseless: a ROM that has had Sense or some of the Sense components removed making it a hybrid
-Vanilla: a ROM that never had Sense and thus has no Sense components.

RSD or RSD lite: Remote Software Download, Motorola's own tool in flashing virtually any type of program, (so long as its in .sbf form) to the Android OS

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 un-altered state, such as when you first purchase your phone from Verizon, or when you do a factory reset to "go back to stock 2.1"

SU: "Superuser", or root permissions.

Theme: A set of icons, backgrounds and app trays that change the aesthetics 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 system's network stack thus emulating their reception from an external source.

Underclocking: Slowing down the CPU mainly to limit battery usage

.sbf: Summation Briefcase File

.apk or APK's: An .apk file extension denotes an Android Package (APK) file, an .apk file can be opened and inspected using common archive tools

.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.