[GUIDE] How to Install a Custom Recovery Using Terminal Emulator

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To all,

I couldn't be bothered with learning ADB, but wanted a custom recovery on my SIII ... maybe you can relate?

Here's the easiest way to do it -- and you don't even need a computer!!! You do, however, already need to be rooted before you can use this method ...

Download your recovery of choice (.. as of this writing, I think there are two: CWM and TWRP ..) and make sure you place a copy in the root drive of your sdcard. Rename it recovery.img, if you want to follow the terminal directions listed below ...

Then, download a terminal emulator onto your device (I use Better Terminal Emulator Pro, which is a paid app) and fire it up.

Once in the terminal emulator, type the following commands one line at a time, waiting after each line for the appropriate prompt:

$ su
# dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18
# reboot recovery

Your device should then boot into the custom recovery, which serves as immediate confirmation that you did things correctly.

I just used this method to install birdman's twrp8.img to my SIII and it worked like a charm.

Pj
Phoenix, AZ

link to XDA post for TWRP : http://http://forum.xda-developers.c....php?t=1768142
link to XDA post for CWM: http://http://forum.xda-developers.c....php?t=1760376

As an aside, it goes without saying that I generated none of this from scratch ...

Credit for the custom recoveries goes to their respective devs, as does credit for the command line instructions (which I borrowed from invisiblek's thread).

Hope this helps at least a few of you ...

Pj
Phoenix, AZ

Good looks, worked for me! I had to update my SDK and it was taking so long so I tried this. Works Great!

Thanks for posting this! You sure made my day. Will be trying it later.

Works great. Computer playing games with me, thanks a ton


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Should it go on the internal or external SD card?

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Internal, or "Phone".

Ok i open Better terminal emulator Pro and it has

/ $ when i add in the SU it says
bash: -c: command not found

what am i doing wrong?

I have downloaded and renamed the TWRP.IMG to recovery.img

Originally Posted by eastwood1

Ok i open Better terminal emulator Pro and it has

/ $ when i add in the SU it says
bash: -c: command not found

what am i doing wrong?

I have downloaded and renamed the TWRP.IMG to recovery.img

Are you rooted?

Pj
Phoenix, AZ

Originally Posted by pdinphx

Are you rooted?

Pj
Phoenix, AZ

Yes i am rooted. Any idea why its giving me that error? I was curious if i was rooted and grabbed the root checker from the market and said i do have root.

It already has the $ so all i added was SU and got that message.