Last Updated on September 20, 2024 by Mathew Diekhake

Huawei Honor 7If you don’t mind sticking with the stock ROM and not getting root access, then you might as well just keep your stock recovery mode. It is all you need to flash the signed zip files to install updates and take factory resets.

If however you wouldn’t mind checking out what a custom ROM is all about or starting to run some of those few hundred useful root applications, then a custom recovery might be needed, depending exactly on what you wanted to do.

There can sometimes be a one-click rooting tool out there for devices so a custom recovery isn’t always necessary for root access. You’ll even come across the occasional article explaining how you can get custom ROMs without the need of recovery mode at all.

But generally speaking, if you wanted to do things by the book and without root access, you’ll need to get a custom recovery installed if you want to flash a custom ROM. Not all devices get an official custom recovery image developed for it, so the ones that do usually have some custom ROMs available since it is one of the main reasons of getting a custom recovery installed in the first place. You’ll find most of those custom ROMs available from the XDA-Developers web forum.

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How to Install TWRP Recovery on Huawei Honor 7 Smartphones

1. Make sure you’ve installed the universal ADB driver on the computer.

2. You need to have the platform-tools part of the Android SDK on your computer.

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.

4. Pick up the Huawei Honor 7 smartphone and navigate to the Settings > About and tap your finger over the build number at least seven times so that the Developer Options menu becomes unlocked. Then go back to the Settings, enter the Developer Options menu and then enable the USB debugging mode.

5. Connect the Huawei Honor 7 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 adb reboot bootloader command and hit “Enter” on your keyboard to get the Huawei Honor 7 smartphone into the bootloader mode and ready for the flashing.

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 fastboot flash recovery twrp.imgcommand and hit “Enter” on your keyboard to flash the custom recovery.

9. Lastly type the fastboot reboot command and as soon as the Huawei Honor 7 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.)

The custom recovery image for the Huawei Honor 7 smartphone is now installed, and you are ready to boot into recovery mode and start flashing the custom ROM or rooting zip files.