![]() ![]() ![]() You cannot fix a Samsung device after an unintentional NAND erase action by simply flashing the stock firmware. ![]() Your Samsung phone or tablet won’t boot up at all except to the Odin or Download Mode. A sheer piece of hardware is all you get as the boot, kernel, system recovery, data, EFS, etc. In simple words, you’ll end up with a device without an operating system. Similarly, when you perform a NAND erase in Odin, you wipe all the partitions on your Samsung Galaxy device. When you create a nandroid backup, an exact mirror of all the above partitions and directory structures is created. Thus, when it comes to Android, NAND memory stores the following partitions of your Android device. Being a non-volatile memory, it keeps the essential OS data even when your Android smartphone is turned off. NAND is neither an acronym of a term used to express a boolean nor a logic gate “ NOT AND“. Since Android devices don’t have a BIOS, flash memory, or NAND relates to the bootloader and OS kernel that work together to boot Android devices into the system. NAND and NOR are 2 main types of flash memory, that are related to computers and it stores the BIOS settings to the ROM of a computer. Fortunately, he was able to fix his phone by following one of my tutorials published on another website. Nand Erase had wiped all partitions on his S9 including EFS, boot, recovery, kernel & system partitions. You know what, he ended up with a bricked phone. I know a lad who enabled Nand Erase in Odin while installing the firmware on his Galaxy S10 out of curiosity. Do you know that Odin can flash or install firmware on more than 60 Galaxy devices at the same time?Īnyway, let’s keep our focus on Odin’s ‘Nand Erase’ option. It is meant to be used only in the Samsung service centers by Samsung engineers to fix non-functional Galaxy devices. Odin is not just a simple flash tool for flashing the stock firmware. ![]()
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