As I mentioned during another tutorial dedicated for the new Motorola Moto G5 the best way in which you can successfully tweak the Android Nougat OS that comes pre-loaded on your phone is by using several custom operations such as gaining root access or flashing a custom ROM firmware. But, for being able to perform such procedures you first have to install a custom recovery image on your phone. So, in that respect I am going to show you how to install TWRP recovery on your Motorola Moto G5.
You have successfully installed the TWRP Recovery on your Moto G5 Plus and Rooted it. How To Install an App on Play Store that isn’t available in your country I hope to use to understand all about How to Install TWRP Recovery And Root Moto G5 Plus. How To Install TWRP Recovery On Moto G5 Plus. The first method you can Install the TWRP recovery then flash the SuperSu or Magisk to get your device rooted. Check out the Pre-Requirement Section above (Important) Make sure your device’s bootloader is unlocked.Check out the link given above to unlock the bootloader if you haven’t done it yet.
With a custom recovery image installed you will finally be able to access the internal Android core system. So, you will extend the general access that can be managed on your Moto G5. Thus, you will take one step closer in fully unlocking the Android Nougat OS a process that can be ensured via root. However, until then flashing and using TWRP recovery is bringing further advantages that can help you customize and optimize the performance of your Motorola Moto G5.
Just like the stock recovery image that is pre-installed on your device, TWRP recovery is ensuring a virtual link or path between you, as the general user, and your phone’s internal system. Only by using a recovery environment you can initiate and complete dedicated operations that cannot be performed in any other ways. However, the custom recovery image is offering an extended access as it is not coming with the restrictions that are there on the stock recovery platform.
That’s why through TWRP recovery you can flash .zip files (such as SuperSU, so yes, afterwards you can consider in gaining root access), you can remove bloatware, make Nandroid backups, add custom features and root-only apps, update with custom ROMs and flash custom MODs, install custom kernels or overclock / undervolt your Moto G5.
A custom recovery is developed by third party devs and it is a third party software which is not released by your OEM. Thus, this tutorial is not supported by Motorola which means that you are going to replace an official software with a third party app. Because of that you are going to lose your phone’s warranty – after completing this guide if you will take your Moto G5 back to service you will be told that you have modified the stock Android system thus you cannot reclaim the warranty – so, basically, you will be by yourself.
The warranty aspect is the major downside when talking about flashing TWRP recovery or when dealing with any other similar operation. In addition, during the steps from below you will also have to make a hard reset on your Moto G5 and clearing app data cache will not be optional either. Thus, due to same reasons you should now consider in completing a general backup. The backup process will help you save personal and system files such as contacts, call logs, texts, images, videos, audio files, market apps, internet settings, calendar info, saved passwords, IMEI / NVRAM data and lot more.
Other pre-requisites to consider:
- Unlock the bootloader of your Motorola Moto G5. TWRP recovery can be successfully installed only if the bootloader is already unlocked.
- You can install TWRP recovery only manually so a computer or a similar device can be used; your smartphone and its USB cord are also required.
- On your phone you have to enable Developer rights operation that can be completed by tapping repeatedly on Built Number until the ‘you are a developer’ message is displayed.
- Also from your smartphone you have to check the USB Debugging option; you can do so by accessing “menu - > settings - > developer options”.
- On your computer you have to install your phone’s drivers and the Android SDK toolkit.
- Set up ADB correctly by using this tutorial if you have a Windows based computer or this tutorial if you use MAC OS X / Linux instead.
- Charge your Moto G5 if its power is currently lower than 50%. Don’t skip this operation if you want to keep everything safe and secured – if your phone will get turned off during the TWRP recovery flashing process you will risk in soft bricking its Android OS.
- Use the steps from below for flashing the latest version of TWRP recovery only if you own the Motorola Moto G5; try not to mess things up from this perspective.
How to Install TWRP Recovery on Motorola Moto G5
- Switch on your smartphone and connect it with your computer via USB cable.
- Access the Android SDK folder from your computer and from that path open a cmd window by: press and hold the Shift keyboard key while right clicking on any blank space.
- In the cmd window enter “adb reboot bootloader” and wait while your phone is rebooted into bootloader mode.
- On your computer access this page and download the TWPR recovery file; save it on desktop and rename it in “recovery.img”.
- Now, go back to the cmd window and enter: “fastboot flash recovery recovery.img”.
- Next, in the same cmd window enter: “fastboot boot recovery.img”.
- You will be now taken in the TWRP recovery environment.
- Go to the decryp/data screen and press cancel; then “swipe to allow modifications” is prompted.
- From there make a full wipe by selecting “wipe data factory reset”, “wipe cache partition and “wipe dalvik cache”.
- When done, reboot your device.
That should be all; now you can reboot your Moto G5 into TWRP recovery mode. As you will notice the software comes with a touch based interface and with intuitive settings that can be easily used for tweaking everything you want. So, give it a try and don’t forget to share your experience with us by using the comments field from below.