Adding 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 […]

When it comes to mobile devices, it is Apple that is known as the largest company in the world. They are the ones often leading the way, or at least, so it seems to the general public. As for Android, […]

When you want to start installing custom ROMs or unsigned zip files of any description, such as those you might find with SuperSU and other rooting file alternatives, you won’t be able to achieve it from the stock recovery partition. […]

Android being based on open source software means that you get to use what Google developers have created out of the box and the chance to swap it over for a ROM that has been made by third-party developers instead. […]

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 […]

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 […]

If you want to get custom ROMs and/or rooting files flashed onto your Lenovo K33 smartphone and don’t want to achieve it via a one-click rooting tool then you can always do it from a custom recovery image instead, so long […]

A custom recovery image is necessary if you want to flash custom ROMs, flash rooting tools such as SuperSU, and flash any other unsigned zip file. All Android operating systems come with a stock recovery image but it is only […]

There are two main ways for people to start modding on the Android operating system, the most common choice being to get root access, followed by the option of getting a custom recovery image installed. Unlike with root access, you […]

Custom recoveries have long been a tradition for anyone wanting to customize a device that runs on the Android operating system. All Android OS’s come with the stock recovery partition out of the box, but you’ll need to swap it […]

When TWRP Recovery first came out it was only available for Google Nexus devices. But as time went on it was clear that the then most used ClockworkMod Recovery had some competition on its hands. Within a few years ClockworkMod […]

The Android operating system ships with a recovery console that can be booted into which users will know as the recovery mode. That recovery console is useful for doing a few things like clearing the cache if you need it, […]

The Team Win Recovery Project, abbreviated as TWRP for short, is the custom recovery image that can have the most custom ROMs installed. TWRP comes with a gorgeous GUI, one that is much better than ClockworkMod’s, thanks to it being […]

As markets continue to grow, the world of operating systems continues to change. If you look at Windows, for example, the operating system is much different today than it was a decade ago. The biggest difference? You have a lot […]

One of the great things about the Android operating system, and that separates it from its competition, is that it doesn’t mind if you hack it, for ethical reasons, and install different ROMs and kernels. The upside that ethical hacking […]

Since the dawn of Android, third-party developers not affiliated with Google in any way have tried to take advantage of the open source nature of the operating system. These days there are millions of people around the world who are […]

If 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 […]

Contrary to belief there are ways out there for you to get a custom ROM installed without a custom recovery image, or even by using the stock recovery for that matter, too—for example, you can get root access and then […]

Rooting methods, whether they be different tools or different ways the same tools need to navigate through the operating system, come and go, but one thing that never changes is the state of your custom recovery images. Google has shown […]

Team Win’s custom recovery image, known as just TWRP to most for short, is the best custom recovery image available out there for any device that runs on the Android operating system. It was so good when it first arrived […]

If you want to get root access and install custom ROMs, then the easiest way to go about it is by getting a custom recovery image installed. There used to be a few custom recovery images floating around the place, […]

TWRP Recovery, pronounced as if you were just saying the letters one after the other, is a custom recovery image that will completely replace the stock recovery image when you flash it, as you can only have one of them […]

TWRP is the custom recovery image you want to install on the Huawei Honor 4X smartphone if you want to be flashing custom ROMs and getting root access. Once you’ve got TWRP installed, you can boot into the custom recovery partition […]

Every device that runs on a version of the Android operating system comes with a stock recovery partition. You can boot your device into the recovery partition, which is known as recovery mode when you do, and then flash signed […]