Last Updated on September 20, 2024 by Mathew Diekhake

Motorola Moto G5 PlusAdding a custom recovery to your device is one of the ways you can go about customizing it. When you get root access, it allows you to install root applications. Some of those root applications can allow you to install custom ROMs or even flash a custom recovery image. But if you wanted to do those things yourself and not rely on just apps, you can flash the custom recovery image and install the custom ROMs and get root access from the custom recovery image as well if you preferred.

In addition to a custom recovery just offering another way to do things, there will be times when a device doesn’t have a one-click rooting tool, which is what you need if you aren’t getting root access form a custom recovery, and then getting root access and flashing ROMs is going to have to get done after installing a custom recovery first. Other times, people just shun the idea of using one-click rooting tools for root access because they want to install the custom recovery and get the root access/install custom ROMs themselves, without just watching an application do all the work for them.

If you aren’t yet sure why on earth you’d want a custom ROM, or even what it is for that matter, then you’ll want to learn that custom ROMs are like third-party version of the Android operating system. Since Android is open source, there are developers who can play around with it, alter it and create something else. There are some valid reasons for people preferring what some of these third-party developers create over the version of Android currently on their devices, such as them coming debloated with no stock apps from the manufacturer, no manufacturer skins, different features, different design, so forth, which helps them have an operating system that is better suited to their needs.

This is what you need to install TWRP Recovery on the Motorola Moto G5 Plus smartphone.

Details of Note

  • The custom recovery images available in this guide are only to be installed on the Motorola Moto G5 Plus smartphone. Most devices have a custom recovery image developed specifically for it, and you shouldn’t install one that is intended for another device unless advised it is okay by a professional.

Files Required

How to Install TWRP Custom Recovery on Motorola Moto G5 Plus

1. Install the universal ADB drivers on the computer.

2. You need to have the platform-tools part of the Android SDK on your computer. From the download link, scroll down until you get to the command line tools section and then download the package that is made for your operating system.

3. Once you have the SDK Manager on your computer, check the box only for the platform-tools, so you end up with the adb and fastboot binaries installed on the computer.

You could also install the drivers from there as well if you wanted.

4. Pick up the Motorola Moto G5 Plus smartphone and navigate to the Settings > About and tap your finger over the build number at least seven times so that the Developer Optionsmenu becomes unlocked. Then go back to the Settings, enter the Developer Optionsmenu and then enable the USB debugging mode.

5. Connect the Motorola Moto G5 Plus smartphone to the computer by using the USB cable that it comes with.

6. Now on the computer open the Command Prompt and type the following command and hit Enter on your keyboard to get the Motorola Moto G5 Plus smartphone into the bootloader mode and ready for the flashing:

adb reboot bootloader

7. Make sure you have copied the TWRP image file to the same folder as the adb and fastboot binaries. Also when you’re there, change the name of the TWRP to “twrp.img” by right-clicking the mouse pointer on it and selecting the Rename option from the menu.

8. From the command line type the following command and hit Enter on your keyboard to flash the custom recovery:

fastboot flash recovery twrp.img

9. Lastly type the following command and as soon as the Motorola Moto G5 Plus smartphone reboots, hold down the key combination to boot directly into the recovery mode.

If you don’t sometimes the stock recovery will wipe over the custom recovery you just installed.

fastboot reboot

The custom recovery image for the Motorola Moto G5 Plus smartphone is now installed, and you are ready to boot into recovery mode and start flashing the custom ROM or rooting zip files.