How To Flash CWM Recovery Image Of All MTK Android Phones

October 03, 2015

Flashing or installing CWM (Clockworkmod)
recovery image as the name suggests is a
process of adding a recovery image file that have
a .img extension to your Android phone in other
to be on the safer side if your phone gets bricked
or run into a serious problem.

Installing Recovery image of your phone is suppose to be the first
thing you do after buying a new
Android phone unless you are afraid of breaching
your warranty agreement because installing a
recovery image requires you to give your phone a
superuser access by rooting it which is a breach
of
warranty agreement. So if that won't be a
problem for you, you can go ahead with the
Clockworkmod (CWM) flashing.

There are tremendous advantages of flashing a
recovery image to your Android phone and the
long term benefits can not be overemphasized as
it gives you control and upper hand over your
phone. You can not install or flash a custom ROM
to your phone without having a recovery image
flashed into the phone because it opens your
gateway to booting into CWM recovery mode
where you are able to perform custom ROM
flashing, system formating, data formatting, cache
formatting, delvic formating and backing up of
your phone ROM.

Flashing a recovery image helps you to easily
recover your phone if at all it got bricked. No one
knows what will happen in the next minute and
electronic gadgets can misbehave anytime so its
advisable to take this good prevention method to
avoid stories that touches the heart. Once you
have a custom recovery image installed on your
phone, you can simply boot into recovery if your
phone is bricked and restore or flash another
based on your phone brand. This won't be
possible if you don't have a recovery image
installed instead you will have to go through
some rigorous ways with PC in other to try
reviving your dead phone.

How To Flash Recovery Image Of Android Phones
1. First of all, you have to root your phone. See
how to root Android phones

http://www.gidimasters.com/2015/09/how-to-root-infinix-hot-infinix-hot.html

2. Secondly, you need to download recovery
image of your phone brand and make. Remember,
every phone has its own recovery image so you
don't use recovery image of an Infinix phone on a
Tecno phone. You don't even use the recovery
image of Infinix Hot on Infinix Hot Note. So try to
download the recovery image of your android
phone
Recovery image is always about 6MB in size and
it is saved with .img file extension so check it
well before downloading.

3. Download mobileuncle tool Android app here
because you will need it to flash the
recovery image.

4. Now copy and paste the recovery.img you
downloaded in step 2 to the root of your SD card.
Please don't place it in any folder. Just leave it at
the root of your SD card. You get it right? Okay,
let's continue.

5. Now open and run mobile uncle tool you just
downloaded in step 3 Scroll down and select
"recovery update".

6. You will see the recovery.img so just tap on it
and wait for some seconds. It will prompt you to
reboot into recovery, tap ok and you will be taken
to recovery mode. At this stage, you are done.
You can now choose to do a backup of your
current ROM from that interface.

Hurray!!! You have just opened the gateway to
porting different custom ROMs as you like. Even if
you mistakenly brick your phone at this stage, you
can easily restore it to its previous working state.
Enjoy!