Open-source software custom recovery image for Android-based devices

TWRP Recovery features and how to use it? We will write an overview of the most used Android recovery apps and finish with several tricks on how to use TWRP Recovery on your Android phone.

Recovery Options: whether you saved your data on your device internal memory or an external memory card, the software should be able to handle both options. This factor alone has helped us knock out most recovery programs which only support retrieving data from a removable disk or card. Supported File Types: a good Android data recovery tool must be capable of recovering as many types of files as possible, such as Contacts, messages, pictures, movies, audio, documents, call history or even data from third-party apps like WhatsApp.

It’s known as the world’s first data recovery tool for Android. This software supports various Android phones and tablets, namely Motorola, HTC, Samsung, LG, and several others. It can directly recover deleted SMS text messages and contacts and retrieve lost photos and videos that have disappeared due to deleting, restoring factory settings, flashing ROM, rooting, and more, from SD cards contained in Android devices. One of the best features of Dr. Fone for Android is that it supports the ability to review and select messages, contacts, and photos before recovery.

As an all-in-one solution, Tenorshare UltData can restore the data that you might have thought was gone for good. Before performing a recovery, you can preview which individual files you want to select. The program supports restoring photos, videos, history, contacts, and more. Compatible with both Windows or macOS computers, you can recover data from the internal storage of your Android device, as well as an SD Card. Tenorshare UltData is completely risk-free and read-only, so there is no potential for your personal data to be leaked. Compatible with over 2000 devices, this software makes your smartphone life easier.

This process will only work if you’ve unlocked your booloader. So if you haven’t done that yet, check out our guide to get started. Then, when you’ve finished, come back here to flash TWRP. (If your phone’s bootloader isn’t unlockable, you’ll have to flash TWRP using some other method.) In addition, make sure there is a version of TWRP available for your phone, and do a little research on the TWRP website and XDA Developers to make sure there aren’t any quirks. For example: some new phones like the Nexus 5X come encrypted by default, but when TWRP first came out for the Nexus 5X, it didn’t support encrypted phones. So Nexus 5X users either had to wipe and decrypt their phone before installing TWRP, or wait a few months for an update to TWRP that supported encrypted devices. Make sure you’re aware of any device-specific quirks like this before you start the process.

Step by Step: In the first place, download the latest version of the TWRP Recovery and move it into the same folder where is your ADB and Fastboot are available. Then rename this file to simpler such as recovery.img for the future convenience. Now please right click your mouse with the shift key, then go to the menu and select Open Command Prompt. Next, you should boot your device into fastboot mode, you may use the following keys. Press the Power Button and Volume Up keys both at the same time). After that, connect it with your PC/laptop, and type the following command to confirm the connection: fastboot devices. If everything’s fine, you should see your device connected in Fastboot mode with a serial identifier next to it. Now, proceed with installing the recovery using the following command: fastboot flash recovery recovery.img (First Replace the filename that you have downloaded and remember what you have saved). Read more information at How to Install TWRP Recovery.

TWRP developer explains why it will take some time for the custom recovery to support Android 10: Changes made to the ramdisk, such as moving away from static binaries with no linked libraries to dynamic linking, have also presented the devs with decisions to make on how best to move forward in light of those changes. Even when those decisions have been made, new challenges come up, such as mounting the system partition to /system in light of this dynamic linking. Android 10 also introduces what the dev is calling a “super” partition — a partition that contains a bunch of smaller partitions; and Google is utilizing a read-only ext4 file system for the new dynamic partitions within the super partition.