Team Win Recovery Project: instructions and recommendations

With the help of the popular Team Win Recovery Project, users of mobile devices on the Android platform have the ability to perform a large number of operations related to optimizing the structure of the device's programming interfaces. How can these actions be carried out? What are the main features of the corresponding program?

What is the Team Win Recovery Project solution, or TWRP?

The mobile application Team Win Recovery Project, the instruction for installation and use of which will be examined by us today, is a tool for restoring a multimedia device system, allowing you to back up files, install various types of software and firmware.

The solution in question is installed in a special section of the device's built-in memory and replaces, thus, the branded interface for system recovery. The practical importance of the corresponding solution can be, in particular, in the ability to restore the mobile system's performance even in cases where there was such a significant failure in the device that it does not turn on at all.

Interface Team Win Recovery Project - instructions to it should be read carefully, allows you to restore, including those files in which the settings of the system and applications are prescribed.

Advantages of TWRP

It is worth noting that the solution under consideration is not the only one that is capable of restoring the system on mobile devices. In the network, competing products are also available for download. However, Team Win Recovery Project (instructions to it, again pay attention to this, should be carefully studied before work) has a number of significant advantages. To such it is possible to carry:

• Interface, adapted to the touch control;
• The ability to fine-tune the key options associated with managing system files;
• The presence of interfaces for the formation of the optimal data package placed in the backup copy of the system;
• Support for ZIP files.

These options are of great importance in terms of ease of use of the program, as well as the use of its main functions. Actually, it will be useful to consider a list of such.

Basic functions of TWRP

The main functions of the Team Win Recovery Project (the instruction for their use details the process) are as follows:

• Installation of custom firmware and kernels;
• Installation of branded updates to system files;
• Ensuring the operation of the device in the flash drive mode;
• The ability to form both a full backup of the firmware of the mobile device, and partial, for example, represented primarily by system files;
• Restoring the system from the backup while maintaining the functionality of the interface;
• The implementation of an operational reset of settings to those that are installed in the branded version of the system;
• Creating partitions for storing data on the memory card, as well as performing their formatting;
• Launching various commands through the terminal;
• Access to files on the device.

Features of the installation of the program

Consider the moments that describe how the solution in question can be installed on a mobile device. For this purpose, common interfaces can be used, such as, for example, GooManager. You need to download this program in a trusted application store, start, and then select the option Install Open Recovery.

If the user owns a smartphone from Nexus, then he can use another popular utility - the Google Nexus 7 Toolkit. In principle, there are quite a few programs that allow to solve the problem in question. But the two mentioned solutions are among the most convenient.

Let's consider in more detail how the programs for installing TWRP can be used in practice.

Using TWRP: Starting the System Restore Tool

There are usually no difficulties in installing the Team Win Recovery Project. However, there are nuances that characterize the actual launch of the program, in fact, the inclusion of a mobile device in the appropriate mode. If you use the program GooManager, you need to run the appropriate application, after selecting the option Reboot Recovery, then select the item that allows you to load the recovery mode.

In principle, you can start the program you are talking about by using a special combination of the keys for controlling the mobile device. But in this case it is quite difficult to choose their universal combination: it is determined by the specific device manufacturer. Also, in order to run the solution under consideration, you can use the popular ADB application. It involves connecting the mobile device to the computer. Using the specified application, you can download your smartphone or tablet in recovery mode by means of special commands entered through the ADB interfaces.

We will now study in more detail how to use the program in question in one version or another, for example, Team Win Recovery Project in version 2.8, 2.8.7.0, 2.8.7.3 or Team Win Recovery Project 3.0.2. The instruction for each of these versions of the solution will be similar in general. The same can be said about earlier versions of the corresponding application, for example TWRP 2.6.3.0.

TWRP interface: features of use

As soon as the smartphone or tablet is loaded in recovery mode, the main menu of the Team Win Recovery Project - 2.8 will appear on the screen or in some other of the marked versions that are generally similar both in terms of the location of the controls of the various options and from the point of view View of the management functionality of the recovery interface.

If a smartphone or a touchscreen tablet (it is likely that this will be so), then you can control the interface of the application in question with your finger on the screen. But it is important to do this not in a random order, but in accordance with what is prescribed by the instructions used in the use of the Win Win Project Project solution. How to exit the interface, which is selected from the main menu by mistake, so as not to accidentally activate any unsuitable procedures? It's very simple: you can use the return button, which is equipped with a mobile device. It is often located just below the screen, if it's a smartphone, or in its upper right corner, if it's a tablet.

Let's consider in more detail the main options of the menu of Team Win Recovery Project 2.8.7.0 or another version close to it, in particular from those listed above. The interface of the application in question is generally English-speaking. We will be guided by it. Thus, the main options that will be available to the user TWRP:

• Install.
• Wipe.
• Backup.
• Restore.
• Mount.

We will study in more detail the specific application of each of them.

Install option

The considered option Team Win Recovery Project 2.8.7.3 (the instruction to it will in general be the same in structure, as in the case with other modifications of the corresponding solution) allows you to install on the phone primarily various firmware. In this case, they can be both custom and branded. Also, with the option under consideration, you can install software cores, various themes and other types of software that the user needs.

Important nuance: the installation files of the programs that you want to install on a mobile device must be packed in a ZIP-archive. It is desirable to place it on the memory card of your smartphone or tablet. Using TWRP interfaces, you need to select the appropriate archive, then add it to the firmware queue. You can, by using various options, check the signature of the archive file, as well as the checksums of those files that are installed on the mobile device.

Now let's look at other useful options for the Team Win Recovery Project. How to install the firmware, we know, now we will consider the specific application of the Wipe interface.

Option Wipe

This option allows you to reset the program settings of the mobile device to the factory ones, and also clean up a number of system partitions of the OS, such as, for example, the cache. In addition, this interface allows you to clean the connected memory card, as well as internal flash memory of the mobile device. If necessary, you can also clean up the system folder, which is called android_secure.

Another notable option, available when using the Wipe interface, is cleaning the smartphone or tablet from statistical files that reflect the use of the battery. If the user is not sure that he chooses the correct option within the Wipe interface, it is better to cancel it so as not to provoke any problem in the work of the phone or the program itself Team Win Recovery Project. Instructions how to exit the selected interface in the main menu are discussed above: all you need to do is click the return button on your smartphone or tablet.

Backup option

This option allows you to create a backup copy of the system files of the mobile device. Actually, many users install the corresponding solution mainly in order to use this interface Team Win Recovery Project 2.6.3.0 (the instruction to it, as we already know, will be similar in structure to any other one that characterizes the above modifications of the program).

Using the Backup menu, the user can use the following application functions:

• Select specific system partitions that you want to save as a backup;
• Definition of free space on the flash drive;
• Activation of the option of compressing a copy of the system package;
• Disabling the option of checking checksums for backups;
• Select a specific memory card as a resource to host a backup of system files;
• Specifying a name for the system data copy file;
• Recalculate the size of partitions on the disk.

After the files for creating a copy of the system data are selected and copied according to the algorithm defined by the user, you can restart the mobile device by clicking on the Reboot button.

Restore option

Complement the above option of the program interface Restore. It allows, in fact, to restore the operating system from a backup. This procedure may require the user of Team Win Recovery Project 2.8.7.0 (the instruction for other versions of the program assumes the implementation of similar actions):

• Select a specific memory card to access the backup files;
• Selecting a specific backup file (for example, if there are several, you can sort by ascending or descending name, date or value);
• Selecting a specific section of the operating system of the mobile device that you want to restore;
• Renaming, deleting a backup of the system package;
• Activating checksum checks against backups.

Mount option

Another useful option of the application in question is Mount. It allows you to mount various partitions on the disk, format them, and also configure the mode of using the device as a USB drive. This procedure may include mounting:

• System partition;
• Disk partition on which the user files are located;
• The partition on which the cached data resides;
• An external memory card;
• Internal memory module.

Other options

So, now we know how the firmware on the phone can be installed using the Team Win Recovery Project, replaced with a branded one, and saved as a backup. It will also be useful to study a number of additional settings of the program in question in order to detail our small instructions.

So, you can pay attention to the Settings option in the TWRP interface. It allows, first of all, to set the settings of the program under consideration by default within the framework of creation, as well as restoring some or other backup copies of the system data, in addition, when installing files located in ZIP archives.

Another noteworthy menu item of the TWRP - Advanced program. It allows the user to perform a large number of operations. Namely:

• Copy transaction data to the memory card;
• To adjust the rights of access to various data;
• Form partitions on the disk;
• Use the file manager, through which you can copy or move them, set permissions, delete, rename;
• Activate commands entered through the terminal.

In addition, the developer of the programming interfaces can be added other options in the Advanced menu. Another significant interface is the application Team Win Recovery Project 2.8 or its equivalent - Reboot. This option allows you to reboot the device completely, restart only the recovery program or turn off the mobile device.

These are the main features of the popular program Team Win Recovery Project. With its help, you can perform a wide range of operations with the device in order to optimize its performance, including by installing an updated firmware. The program is convenient to use, functional, sufficiently universal.

It is important to carry out certain operations with the device, especially those related to firmware changes, to consult with specialists beforehand whether it is worth changing the structure of the software interfaces of the mobile device in one way or another, and also how much the relevant changes can be effective.