简单地说，BootLoader就是在操作系统内核运行之前运行的一段小程序。通过这段小程序，我们可以初始化硬件设备、建立内存空间的映射图，从而将系统的软硬件环境带到一个合适的状态，以便为最终调用操作系统内核准备好正确的环境。 Bootloader和PC的BIOS有 ...

In a statement on the official Android developer blog, Google security engineer Nick Kralevich highlighted the relative openness of Google's new Nexus S smartphone, confirming that it provides a ...

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Smartphone bootloader firmware should be secure even if the operating system is compromised. But researchers have found five flaws in major chipset vendors' code that leave the process vulnerable. The ...

Asus just announced that Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is coming to the Eee Pad Transformer Prime starting on January 12th. The company also announced a bootloader unlocking tool in response to ...

There seems to be something in the water over at Sony Ericsson’s offices. Not long after announcing it was reversing its decision to upgrade the Xperia X10 to Gingerbread (Android 2.3), Sony Ericsson ...

This is the first episode of our new series, Android Power User, where we talk about technology, definitions, and concepts to help regular Android users become Android Powerusers! The bootloader, in ...

One part of our phone that most of us probably haven’t seen for a while, is the stock recovery. Usually we have a custom recovery on our devices, if we use it at all. The reason being is that the ...

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