While things like the Arduino platform certainly opened up the gates of microcontroller programming to a much wider audience, it can also be limiting in some ways. The Arduino IDE, for example, ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. Bootloaders and the Moto X, what is really going on here? Yesterday, we were told that the bootloader on the ...

One of the last things the Linux kernel does during system boot is mount the root filesystem. The Linux kernel dictates no filesystem structure, but user space applications expect to find files with ...

The bootloader for PIC32 devices is used to upgrade firmware on a target device without the need for an external programmer or debugger. The flowchart in Figure 3 illustrates the operation of the ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. Since the version of the Galaxy S3 on Verizon that thousands of you pre-ordered has a locked bootloader, ...

Normally, users buy the developer edition handsets so that they can simply unlock it’s bootloader and tinker around with the device as theye please, flash new ROMs ...