[N00BS GUIDE][Beginner]What is Root, Recovery, Brick ETC[EASY TO UNDERSTAND] [WIP] topic

Hello everyone on xda

This is a guide for all those who are absolute noobs, who don't know what Root is, but have heard of it. Let's get into it.

This guide is a WORK IN PROGRESS. Will be continuously adding things

BASICS:

"Stock" is the unrooted, unmodified state of your device running on the original OS.

Your device may get "bricked" while rooting, which means that your device will not boot back.
There are many ways to unbrick a device.

Flash means installing a new firmware via recovery

Root:

Whenever you buy a new Android device, the manufacturer makes sure that you, the buyer cannot access system files. By rooting an android device, you get access to the system files, tweak them and can manage them with many applications. Rooting can make your Android device much cooler than it was before. There are many modifications you can do, and you can even put a totally new operating system. You can add multi window, gravity box (which allows lot more tweaks) etc. (No limit exists in the Android world.

Superuser is when you grant access to the system files to an app

Pros:
1) Ability to upgrade Android version and have a billion more features
2) (Well... It's a never ending list :D)

Cons:

1)Bricking
2) In some cases, losing all oem apps

How to Root:

Search for the method on internet.

YOU WILL VOID YOUR WARRANTY, WHICH DOES NOT COME BACK ON UNROOTING

Recovery

This is the most important tool for any android device. It comes on many android phones even without rooting, but the
"stock" recovery is not so useful. Custom recoveries like TWRP or CWM are the ones I'm talking about. These recoveries can back up, restore, or /and replace the whole system. In most cases, if your OS just blows off your device, you can still boot into recovery and flash a rom.

Pros:

1)Nice and easy way of making an android device
2)Nice way of bringing a device back to life.

Cons:

None I guess

Bootloader:

When you boot up your Android device, you see the device name or manufacturer name for a few seconds, when there is no animation. This part is the bootloader, which is the initial few seconds of fastboot. Here, you can retain fastboot and flash/update recovery. The bootloader is the toughest thing to delete. This bootloader is the software that interacts with the kernel to boot the device up. This is also responsible for booting into recovery .

Brick:

A brick in the toughest terms means a totally unresponsive.device, one that had no life.

Soft Brick: This means that your OS somehow got wiped off, But you still have the recovery to flash a rom. 90%of the bricks are soft bricks. To recover from it, perform a full wipe and then install a rom for your device.

Hard Brick: This means that your device does not have an OS, recovery. You can recover by entering fastboot(bootloader) and flashing a recovery and then a rom.

Bootloop:

This is a kind of soft brick in which, the OS starts booting but never finishes. Just perform a wipe, and if that does not help, Reflash.

Next Chapter ill be posted by 18th January