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A small plastic "card" that expands the available storage memory on your phone. Used by applications to store data, and you can store ringtones, pictures, etc., on it.
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A small plastic "card" that expands the available storage memory on your phone
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Browse Related Terms: a2sd, Apps2SD, Root folder, Root (SD card), RTFM

Sense - permalink - collapse

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: A custom user interface (or skin) on top of Android. Exclusive to HTC smartphones.
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Browse Related Terms: Desire, Droid Eris, Evo 4G, Hero, Legend, Magic, myTouch 3G, myTouch 3G Slide, myTouch 4G

service - permalink - collapse

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A class that runs in the background to perform various persistent actions, such as playing music or monitoring network activity.
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An object of class Service that runs in the background (without any UI presence) to perform various persistent actions, such as playing music or monitoring network activity. Related: Activity
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Browse Related Terms: Activity, Dialog, Services, theme, View, Viewgroup, Widget, Window

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Services - permalink - collapse

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Portions of code that run in the background to provide content and services to applications.
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Browse Related Terms: Activity, Dialog, service, theme, View, Viewgroup, Widget, Window

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SGL - permalink - collapse

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2D graphics layer for Android applications
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Browse Related Terms: Canvas, Drawable, Nine-patch / 9-patch / Ninepatch image, OpenGL ES, Resources, Surface, SurfaceView

Shell - permalink - collapse

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Often referred to as Terminal, Bash or command line. Typically this is where you would make configuration changes. Command line is a a powerful way to make changes which you usually couldn't do in a graphical users interface (GUI)
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Browse Related Terms: Amon Ra, Clockwork, recovery, recovery mode

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Shell or SSH - permalink - collapse

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secure shell or ssh is a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged using a secure channel between two networked devices
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Browse Related Terms: Bravo, Citrus, Cliq, Cliq 2, Cliq XT, Defy, Dext, Droid, Motoblur, Spice, Vortex

Sideload - permalink - collapse

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The act of installing an app outside of the Android Market. AT&T (tries to) prohibit its phones from doing this.
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Browse Related Terms: Android Market, Apps, FC (Fibre Channel), Launcher, Market

Sideload Wonder Machine - permalink - collapse

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A simple open-source program that lets you sideload apps via computer, bypassing any restrictions a carrier might have put in place.
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Browse Related Terms: Android Sideload Wonder Machine, Bootchart, Goldfish, Kernel, Linux, OS, TUN/TAP

SIM card - permalink - collapse

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The little card used in GSM phones (AT&T, T-Mobile, Rogers, etc.) that connects the phone to the network.
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The little card used in GSM phones
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Browse Related Terms: Carrier, CDMA, GSM, Manufacturer, PRL, Q, ViewPad 4

SL4A - permalink - collapse

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Scripting Layer for Android - an execution environment that let's users use scripting languages (such as Python or Ruby), instead of Java, to write programs for Android. See Android Scripting
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Browse Related Terms: ASE, busybox, init, rild, TARGET_PRODUCT, toolbox

Soft Reset - permalink - collapse

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turning off phone or removing battery
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Browse Related Terms: Factory Reset, Hard Reset, JIT, Overclocking, Reset (hard, soft), Stock, Underclocking, Vanilla

Sony Ericsson - permalink - collapse

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A joint wireless venture from Sony and Ericsson.
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Browse Related Terms: Acer Iconia Smart, Aero, HTC ChaCha, HTC Salsa, Streak, Xperia, Xperia Neo, Xperia Play, Xperia Pro

Spice - permalink - collapse

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A 3-inch vertical slider from Motorola with Android 2.1.
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Browse Related Terms: Bravo, Citrus, Cliq, Cliq 2, Cliq XT, Defy, Dext, Droid, Motoblur, Shell or SSH, Vortex

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Sprint - permalink - collapse

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One of the four major U.S. carriers.
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Browse Related Terms: AT&T, Early Termination Fee, Evo Shift 4G, T-Mobile, Verizon, WiMax

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SPR or SPRecovery - permalink - collapse

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A recovery program that is often used to apply updates, ROMs, or create a back up or restore a backup file
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Browse Related Terms: Boot Loop, Bug or Software Bug, ClockworkMod, Cupcake, cyanogenmod, dalvik-cache, nandroid backup, Nandroid or Nandroid Backup, ROM

SQLite - permalink - collapse

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A powerful and lightweight relational database engine used by the Android system components, and available to all Android applications.
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Browse Related Terms: ANR, Broadcast Receiver, Intent, Intent Filter, Intent Receiver, logcat

Stock - permalink - collapse

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Simply means an un alltered 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"
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Browse Related Terms: Factory Reset, Hard Reset, JIT, Overclocking, Reset (hard, soft), Soft Reset, Underclocking, Vanilla

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SD card (or microSD card) - permalink - collapse

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Services - permalink - collapse

SGL - permalink - collapse

Shell - permalink - collapse

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SIM card - permalink - collapse

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