Last Updated on September 20, 2024 by Mathew Diekhake

If you want to customize your mobile devices, one of the ways you can do it is by installing a custom recovery image. There is only one custom recovery image currently being developed and that is TWRP Recovery. With it you can flash unsigned zip files which can be custom ROMs, rooting files, modifications and more.

If you haven’t installed a custom recovery for a few years then you might be familiar with ClockworkMod Recovery. It offered similar features but made it users navigate using the Volume keys and confirm commands using the Power button. While it did work, its functionality wasn’t as good as what is available today with TWRP Recovery.

The TWRP custom recovery image offers a fully touch-based user interface, where you just tap on the buttons on the devices display, as you would expect to do when using the regular Android operating system. What’s more, TWRP’s GUI is themeable, meaning you can change the look and feel of it if the default design isn’t something you like.

This is what you need to install TWRP Recovery on the Lenovo K30-T smartphone.

Details of Note

  • The custom recovery images available in this guide are only to be installed on the Lenovo K30-T 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.
  • This device has its own support thread made on the XDA-Developers web forum if you need to ask any questions.

Files Required

How to Install TWRP Recovery on Lenovo K30-T Smartphones

1. Make sure you’ve installed 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 Lenovo K30-T 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 Lenovo K30-T 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 Lenovo K30-T 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 Lenovo K30-T 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 Lenovo K30-T smartphone is now installed, and you are ready to boot into recovery mode and start flashing the custom ROM or rooting zip files.