However the standard recovery mode on most Android phone is somewhat limited in what it can do which is why many Android users, especially when it comes to rooting an Android device, will flash a custom recovery instead and replace it.īefore you proceed please make sure your Android device has been rooted. Recovery mode comes as standard on all Android phones and allows for recovery tasks to be performed such as installing zip files that are stored on the SD card to flash a custom ROM or to wipe the phone cache for example. This guide is for those phones that are rooted but for which a custom recovery was not also installed as part of the rooting process such as HTC, Sony or Motorola devices. When you root an Android device, especially Samsung handsets, the root process installs ClockworkMod automatically as part of the process. Please note that installing ClockworkMod requires rooting your device first. The custom recovery will replace the default recovery mode that comes with the Android phone as standard. This article will show you how to install a custom recovery on to your Android phone. Whilst these steps are correct at the time of writing FlexiSPY is not responsible for the custom recovery flashing process in any way and you do this at your own risk. Disclaimer: Flashing a custom recovery is done at your own risk.
