[Android General] jesvi:
Hey There Were No Posts Regarding Latest Bootloaders, Firmwares, Twrp, Etc... For C7 And C7 Pro.

So I Thought Of Making This Thread Which Will Be Useful For My Other Rom Threads

OK , So Here Are The Shortcut Links To The Specific Post Directly -

#1 Latest Official Full Firmware -

#2 Latest Official Bootloader -

#3 Root Guide -

#4 Latest TWRP Recovery -

#5 OEM Unlock Guide -

#6 Soft/Hard Brick Recovery -

Basics-

-Our Samsung Android Devices Have Three Modes, Namely -

2 System

1 Recovery Mode

3 Download Mode

1) System-

It Is The Normal Workaround That Every Device Normally Boot To Which We Also Call As TouchWiz, One UI, Etc...

You Normally Have To Just Power On Your Device And It Directly Boots To System And The System Is Normal Under Control Of The Vebdor (ie: Samsung, One Plus,etc..) Who Deny Full System Access There By Restricting The User From Modifying All Thats There In The Root Directory, So Here Is What We Mean By Rooting Your Device -

And Custom Rom Means Nothing But Replacing Your Stock System With A modified Or With A Custom System ....

2)Root -

There Is A Thing Called Root Folder Which Is The Very First Directory In Your Device And Usually These Directories Cannot Be Accessed Directly Because Of OEM Control Over The Device And What We Mean By Rooting Is Nothing But

The Process Of Handing Over The Control Of Device From Oem To A Root Manager (A App That Monitors Root Activity) Is Called Rooting..

3) Bootloader (AKA Download Mode In Android) -

It Is The Program That Manages The Booting Process (Before Kernel) And Also Service As A Recovery Point In Most Cases. Where You Will Use Tools To Communicate With It And Use The Bootloader As Medium To Intsall Other Firmware Including Root & Custom Recoveries. So For Installing Latest Firmware Files Latest Bootloader Is Needed ...

Official Bootloaders Are Usually Preferred, Which Has To Be Unlocked Via Developer Options (OEM Unlock)

4) Recovery -

This Is The Place Where We'll Be Hangin Out Most Of The Time For Installing Roms, Kernel, etc...

Basically Your Device Comes With A Stock Recovery Which Can Do Nothing But Just Format Data,Clear Cache & Redirect b/t System And Bootloader.... But Thats Not What We Need, So What We Do Is Install A Custom Version Of Recovery Which Can Be Replaced With Stock Recovery And Do What Ever Stuff We Want To ..

Why Go For Custom Recovery ?

Just Imagine A State Where Your System & All The System Security Have No Control (Or It Is Switched Off), That Is What A Custom Recovery Takes Advantage Of.....

OK, So In That Case The Custom Recovery Can Access The Root Directories And Can Make Modification To System Without The Systems Knowledge Or With The System Along Side,

These Days The Oem System Have Hardened Custom Recovery Detection And Stuff Like That, So We Need A Recovery & Also A system That Supports Custom Mods With It .... Inorder To Do That We Make Use Of Custom Recoveries To Delete The Existing System and Replace It With A Similar/Modified System Which We Call It As A Custom Rom, Which Allows Modification To Any Part Of The Device Without Interruption ... This Is What An Super User Basically Does When He/She Unlocks Bootloader And Makes Modification To System

The Most Common Recovery Is TWRP Recovery

5) Hard/Soft Brick -

Is A State Where You Cant Boot To System (Usually Soft Brick) & Face Bootloops Etc... This State Is Usually Recoverable By Flashing The Original Firmware Again..

When You Have Messed Something With The Kernel/Recovery (Recovery In Most Cases) ,Your Phone Wont Boot, Turn On, Literally Anything ...(Hard Bricked) In This Case You Have Only On Option That Is To Boot To Download Mod (It Wont Boot Via 3 Button Combo) But Still There Are Ways To even Recover From This State Like Using Usb Jibb Or By Plugging Into The Device Into The PC With The Flash Tool Running .... etc

6) Kernel -

A Kernel Is A Platform Below System And Hardware, It What Controls The Clock Speed, Cores, Etc And Other Hardware/Software Related Things In A Device, These Often Determine The Performance Of A Device & There Fore ppl Tend To Move To A Custom Kernel For Flexibility ....

Will Add More Basic Tips