How To Flash Custom Recoveries: TWRP, CWM, Philz

In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to flash the most widespread used Custom Recovery TWRP, that is assuming your phone is not officially supported by TWRP. If you want to find out if your phone is officially supported, click here and check if your phone is listed. If not, continue reading.

You might be wondering, How are we going to flash TWRP if it is not officially developed by the TWRP Team. Wel, thanks to the very generous developers out there, various TWRP versions have been ported over to various unsupported devices.
If for any reason you dont know What a custom recovery is and you are on this page
, we've got you covered here So, without wasting much time, lets get right into it.

Note: This guide assumes that your device has an unlocked bootloader. If not, follow our detailed guide on How to Unlock Bootloader via Fastboot on Android.

1. Get a TWRP recovery .img file compatible with your device and save to a separate folder on your PC. 
2. Setup ADB and Fastboot on your PC, follow this link .
3. Enable USB debugging on your device.
4. Open the folder where you saved TWRP Recovery .img file in Step 1 above.
5. Now open a command window inside that folder. To do that, “Shift + Right click” on any empty white space inside the folder and then select “Open command window here” from the context menu.
   
6. Connect your device to the PC. And type the following into the command window we opened in Step 5 above to boot your device into bootloader/fastboot mode:

   adb reboot bootloader

   └ If you get a permission dialogue on your device to “Allow USB debugging”, tap OK.
7. Once your device boots into bootloader mode, issue the following command into command window to flash the TWRP recovery .img file:

   fastboot flash recovery twrp.img

   └ Here modify twrp.img with the name of your TWRP recovery .img file, OR change your TWRP recovery filename to twrp.img and use the command above.
8. Once TWRP is successfully flashed on your device, issue the following command to reboot:

   fastboot reboot

That’s all. TWRP recovery should be installed on your device now. To boot into the freshly installed recovery, simply issue the adb reboot recovery command from PC command line when your device boots into system.

Let me know in the comments section if you found this helpfull or if you want to see a video tutorial.