Root Fastboot and Bootloader

[alfick3]

Ok, so I have a couple of questions:

1st, What is fast boot, and why is so bad for our phone (the Optimus M, that is)? I got into it some how a few weeks back and was able to get out thanks to the help of this forum. I was searching around, and it seems that for other phones it's a good and helpful thing to have. It is possible death (or at least a coma) for the Optimus M.

2nd, I'm running CM7 (reppards version) and when I long press the power button to get the options presented there, if I select reboot, I'm presented with 3 more options: reboot, recovery, and bootloader. What is bootloader? I've been hesitant to select that option for fear of bricking my phone.

 

[tripdoc79]

Fastboot isnt actually bad for your phone.. sorta.. it depnds.. if you ahve a custom recovery and rom, and something messes up, and you find urself in fastboot mode, its very simple to flash a recovery image and restore a backup and be right back where you were, however if you are on stock rom, you will ahve to start from scratch.. still useful, because you can flash a recovery, and then procede to flash a rom, but you will no longer be on stock.

bootloader is kinda the same thing, it loads before the operating system, and can allow you to hcange various things.. thats a broad definition, when i had my ascend.. i beleive i had to boot into bootloader to root it, but it may have been to flash the recovery image.. cant remember exactly been a while

 

[alfick3]

Thanks for the info.