Will someone please provide the definitions for the following two words?
1.bricked or brick
Literally, turned your phone into a brick. Did something wrong, so your phone no longer works. (Most bricking situations can be fixed with software and no expense - IF you find instructions to do it for YOUR phone.) You may also see reference to JTAG - that's a method (and a piece of hardware) to bring what seems like a totally dead piece of equipment (like a phone or a router) back to life.
Getting administrative access to the operating system of the phone. Like Run as administrator in Windows.
Can anyone translate the following into less "inside baseball" jargon?
"Myself, I was rooted
Had admin access to the phone
Could use any carrier's SIM card (or it could refer to unlocking a locked bootloader, which would take a separate thread to explain.)
The ROM (system) that the phone came with, not one I put in myself
...failed the OTA install
Over the air update, sent out by the carrier by radio to all that model phone its customers are using. It failed.
Write software to read-only memory
Latest version of Android Jelly Bean
Because the OTA upgrade kept failing - probably because the phone was rooted, and OTA updates don't take on rooted phones.
An app that gives you access to the su (superuser) program
Well ... you get root by installing su. You make use of that ability by installing a program that can access su, and SuperSU is one of the best.
