Oppo R5 may have been out for quite some time but the official TWRP recovery for the device is only coming now.
TWRP stands for TeamWin Recovery project, a very featureful custom recovery for Android devices which lets you flash/install custom ROMs, MODs and take complete system backups (nandroid) along with a host of other features.
For the adventurous users among us, TWRP recovery is a must have. Let’s see how you can install it on your Oppo R5.
Download TWRP Recovery- Setup ADB and Fastboot on your PC, follow this guide.
- Enable developer options on your Oppo R5. Go to Settings » About phone » tap Build number (seven times), this will enable developer options.
- Now enable USB debugging, go to Settings » Developer options » turn on USB debugging.
- Now connect your Oppo R5 to PC, it may ask for authorization for USB debugging to the PC, accept the request.
- Now open a command window on your PC inside the folder where you saved the downloaded TWRP recovery on your PC. For this, do a “Shift + Right click” on any empty white space inside the folder and select “Open command window here” from the context menu.
- Once command window is opened, issue the following command to boot your Oppo R5 to bootloader/fastboot mode
adb reboot bootloader
- Once in bootloader mode, flash the TWRP recovery file with the following command:
fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
└ Rename twrp.img with the filename you downloaded or change the file’s name to twrp.img
- Once TWRP recovery is installed successfully, reboot your phone using the command below:
fastboot reboot
That’s all. Now to boot into twrp recovery on your Oppo R5, you just have to do the following:
- Switch Off your phone.
- Press and hold “Power + Volume down” and release them as soon as you see the Oppo logo on screen. This will boot you into TWRP recovery on your Oppo R5.
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