To install custom recovery, it is not necessary to have root access. Using your PC and your debugging mode, you can install custom recovery manually using the instructions below.
If you know how to flash the phone using the SP Flash Tool, then there will not be much new information for you. Download and install the SP Flash Tool and drivers for your phone. Now you need to download the Recovery for your device, after the download, save your new recovery in a convenient place:
- Launch the Flash Tool and immediately in the settings, tick the “DA DL ALL WITH Check Sum”
- Then click on “Scatter Loading” and select the Scatter file from the archive with the downloaded recovery, or take the Scatter from the official firmware
- After that, you can click on the start and connect the phone in firmware mode
- Done. Now you can install custom Recovery
After following the steps write please whether there were any difficulties.
Installing custom recovery on Samsung phones
Everything with “how to install Recovery with Odin” is almost the same as in the firmware of the smartphone. The main thing here is that you do not need root rights to install recovery using Odin:
- Download Odin and drivers for your device, as well as an archive with recovery, you install this whole staff and launch Odin
- Uncheck “Auto Reboot” and press “AP”, select the downloaded archive from Recovery and press start
- Put the phone in the firmware mode, usually the volume down button, home and power, and connect it to the computer Odin will pick up the phone and fresh a custom recovery
- In conclusion about how to install recovery with Odin, it is necessary at once to be loaded in CWM or TWRP, otherwise the system will restore the native
Did you install custom recovery? Or have some troubles? Write in the comments below!
Recovery
In the Android OS we have two kinds of recovery mode: stock or custom. The stock recovery mode Android provide you to install updates or clear data and system or dalvik cache. The custom version can provide you much more.
To enter the Android recovery mode, you need to power off device and then press and hold key combination, in basicaly it:
- Volume up + power on
- Volume down + power on
- Home + volume up + power on buttons
After enter this mode you can navigate on the list using volume buttons, to confirm select just press the power button. Be careful, if you will select “Wipe data” – it will erase all user data!
To exit navigate go to “Exit” or “Reboot” line and confirm your select. If you want to know more about custom versions (TWRP or CWM) – read articles below.
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The CWM Recovery can provide you to install custom rom’s, create backups of all system and get root rights. Here we got two guides, how to install CWM Recovery img on devices with root access.
Installing CWM Recovery can be done with the help of the official CWM installer:
- Install the app from Google Play and grant root rights
- Open the application and click Recovery Setup
- In the window that opens, click “ClockworkMod Recovery” and confirm the model of your device. During this step you can click on three dots in the upper right corner and open the advanced mode, this will allow you to download the CWM of the version that you need
- In the last window, click “Install ClockworkMod” and the program will start downloading and installing
- After installation, load into CWM to verify the installation result
Another CWM Recovery install method assumes that you already have CWM Recovery img file, if you don’t have that – write your model in the comments and I’ll give you a link for download.
- Install Flashify app
- Grant root access for this app
- Tap on “recovery image”
- Choose CWM img file
- Click on “Yup”
- Done!
Hope that now it is clear how to install CWM without PC. If you have troubles with installing CWM – write in the comments and I’ll help you as soon as possible!
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