If you have decided to take a trip to the land of custom ROMs and
Android hacking in general, you’d need to take one first step - flash
(install) a custom recovery. In this article, we explain what exactly is
a ‘custom recovery’, how you install it, and what are some popular
solutions.Let’s start with the fact that every phone ships with stock recovery software. Stock recoveries vary slightly between phone makers, but they are identical in their essence - they allow you to manually flash official updates and clear your phone’s cache. Sounds limited? It is, and that’s why custom recoveries exist.
Custom recoveries that we’ll flash here replace the limited stock ones, adding all sorts of functionality to your phone. Flashing a custom recovery is often a key part of the rooting process, but that is not its only use. Here is a short summary of all that you can do with a custom recovery:
- Create and restore a backup image - A backup image makes a copy of all your phone settings, application and app data. Such a backup copy is crucial if your hacking experiments fail - in such cases, you can use the created backup image to restore your phone to a fully functional earlier state without losing any data.
- Flash custom ROMs - custom ROMs can completely overhaul the looks and functionality of an Android smartphone, and usually they are the main reason for first flashing a custom recovery.
DISCLAIMER: Flashing your phones could cause unwanted damages and possibly brick the phone. I will not be held responsible if anything should happen. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK.
REQUIREMENTS:
1. A Rooted android phone
2. Rashr, download
3. Your bootloader must be unlocked (for devices with locked bootloader e.g HTC, Motorola etc)
4. Recovery.img of your devices, click here to get yours or search for it with your device name using google search
Procedures:
Your Android device should now reboot into Android Recovery Mode with Clockworkmod installed, but if it fails to automatically reboot, then you will have to manually reboot your device into recovery mode by using your device hot key combination.
Read: How to boot into custom recovery (like CWM or TWRP) on Android
REQUIREMENTS:
1. A Rooted android phone
2. Rashr, download
3. Your bootloader must be unlocked (for devices with locked bootloader e.g HTC, Motorola etc)
4. Recovery.img of your devices, click here to get yours or search for it with your device name using google search
Procedures:
- Download the specific recovery.img for your device and save it to the root of your sdcard to make it easier.
- Install and Launch Rashr
- Click on "Recovery From Storage"
- Now navigate to the root of your sdcard where you saved the downloaded recovery.img' file
- Select it and on the popup screen click on "Yes,please"
Your Android device should now reboot into Android Recovery Mode with Clockworkmod installed, but if it fails to automatically reboot, then you will have to manually reboot your device into recovery mode by using your device hot key combination.
Read: How to boot into custom recovery (like CWM or TWRP) on Android