How to Flash a Custom Recovery on Android [Tutorial]

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For those who have dove into rooting an Android phone, you have more than likely come across the world of custom recovery images. These can be accessed by booting into a special menu, giving you the ability to many options for your Android phone, allowing you to:

• Do a full back up of your Android system
• Restore backups
• Flash custom ROMs
• Partition the SD card to allow A2SD (Apps to SD)

among other options. Whether you’re unhappy with your current recovery, want to upgrade to a newer version from your recovery developer, or just want to try something new, this How to Flash a Custom Recovery Tutorial will show you how.

How to boot in Recovery Mode

Booting into recovery will be different for each phone. If you have a non-touch buttons, you can hold the home button and the power button to get into recovery. If you do not, you can hold the volume-down-key along with the power button to get into the bootloader and then selecting RECOVERY.

How-to Navigate

Depending on your phone model, navigating could be a little different. Most all custom recoveries will say within them how to navigate, but these are some general guidelines.

• If your phone has a scroll ball, you can navigate using that, pressing it to select and using the back key to go back.
• If you don’t have a D-Pad or scroll ball, you can use the volume-keys to navigate through the both menu, along with the power-key to select. Pressing both volume-keys will go back.

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