Last Updated on September 20, 2024 by Mathew Diekhake

The Android operating system comes with some extra coolness thanks to the fact that it is based on open source software. Its open source nature means that people can have a play around with it and create something else. You’ll never be able to show what you’ve made on people’s mobile devices as official Android software updates, but there’s nothing stopping you from creating your own custom ROM.

And that’s precisely what some third-party developers do: they create new ROMs that people find appealing and then those people start using them over what Android offers as the default operating system.

You can get a custom ROM flashed a couple of ways: by using a root applications or a custom recovery image. Most people stick with just flashing the files manually from a custom recovery image, after finding out what ROMs are available from the XDA-Developers web forum.

There isn’t a huge difference in terms of efficiency for how you go about getting a custom recovery and root access. You could get root by using a one-click rooting tool and then flash a custom ROM using a root application or you could flash the custom recovery and flash the rooting files directly from the custom recovery image itself. Both end up being about the same amount of effort. But you won’t always find a one-click rooting tool available to use for all devices whereas, as long as you know you have a custom recovery image, there’s always a way to get root access with apps like SuperSU.

This is how to go about installing TWRP Recovery on the Lenovo A7000-a smartphone.

Details We Should Know

  • The custom recovery images available in this guide are only to be installed on the Lenovo A7000-a 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 We Need

How to Install TWRP Recovery on Lenovo A7000-a 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 A7000-a 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 A7000-a 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 A7000-a 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 A7000-a 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 A7000-a smartphone is now installed, and you are ready to boot into recovery mode and start flashing the custom ROM or rooting zip files.