How to Install TWRP Recovery on Oppo R5

Oppo R5 may have been out for quite some time but the official TWRP recovery for the device is only coming now.

TWRP stands for TeamWin Recovery project, a very featureful custom recovery for Android devices which lets you flash/install custom ROMs, MODs and take complete system backups (nandroid) along with a host of other features.

For the adventurous users among us, TWRP recovery is a must have. Let’s see how you can install it on your Oppo R5.

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1. Setup ADB and Fastboot on your PC, follow this guide.
2. Enable developer options on your Oppo R5. Go to Settings » About phone » tap Build number (seven times), this will enable developer options.
3. Now enable USB debugging, go to Settings » Developer options » turn on USB debugging.
4. Now connect your Oppo R5 to PC, it may ask for authorization for USB debugging to the PC, accept the request.
5. Now open a command window on your PC inside the folder where you saved the downloaded TWRP recovery on your PC. For this, do a “Shift + Right click” on any empty white space inside the folder and select “Open command window here” from the context menu.
6. Once command window is opened, issue the following command to boot your Oppo R5 to bootloader/fastboot mode

   adb reboot bootloader

7. Once in bootloader mode, flash the TWRP recovery file with the following command:

   fastboot flash recovery twrp.img

   └ Rename twrp.img with the filename you downloaded or change the file’s name to twrp.img

8. Once TWRP recovery is installed successfully, reboot your phone using the command below:

   fastboot reboot

That’s all. Now to boot into twrp recovery on your Oppo R5, you just have to do the following:

1. Switch Off your phone.
2. Press and hold “Power + Volume down” and release them as soon as you see the Oppo logo on screen. This will boot you into TWRP recovery on your Oppo R5.