The benefits of flashing an Android device with custom recovery outweigh the standard stock recovery in every possible manner. With the popularity of Android and other Android-based OS cropping up in devices exported from China, users want to experiment and push the boundaries of a normal smartphone usage. There are two ways to flash a custom recovery to any Android device- TWRP Recovery & CWM Recovery. The latter is our main theme for today, so without further ado let’s jump right in.
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Now that you’ve made your decision to download and install CWM Recovery anyway, let us get down to some action.
It is virtually impossible to not have an app for something that you desperately need, so CWM recovery can be downloaded from Google Play Store either via ROM Manager or Flashify, which is the official version and the most up to date. Best thing is, you won’t even need PC to install CWM Recovery for which you had to use ADB and Fastboot. In case, you are using ADB and Fastboot, you can check our Most useful ADB Fastboot commands
In the case your device only supports an older version of CWM recovery software, then you can download a ZIP file of the older version and flash it into your device if it is already rooted.
This would be the unofficial or unsupported version that may involve the risk of bringing malware and another virus onto the device, so apply caution.
Also, you will require a USB cable and a PC to perform the transfer of ZIP file to your device set in recovery mode.
Flashify is quite straightforward in its interface. You will only see two options on screen-
Within the Flash tab, the options presented to you will consist of a Boot image, Recovery image & ZIP file. On the top-right, you will see three vertical dots representing settings. Here you will find additional options such as Reboot, Reboot Recovery, Reboot bootloader, Settings, etc.
Whereas within Backup/Restore, you will see Backup current kernel and Backup current recovery.
Flashify makes it a tad bit easier to enter the bootloader menu for those of you who do not know “how to enter into recovery mode and access the bootloader?”
If your device is already rooted, you can easily install the CWM recovery on the front-end.
If not, then you need to enter the recovery mode and flash the ZIP file from your computer to the SD card and then install it on your device in the back-end.


Once the CWM recovery has been installed, you can swap files, folders, even reset partitions, or install a newer or older Android OS on your device.
It isn’t exactly a big secret that most Android phones, including the branded phones, suffer from a ton of slacking features. First, there’s the system slowdown; and second, the OS crashes frequently or the device begins to heat up very fast. Such problems aren’t necessarily caused due to stock recovery but this is the reason that you cannot tweak your device in a manner that it would work the best for you.