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What you should do before Flashing the TWRP TWRP offers ROM installation and backup features but the stock recovery doesn't. The popular custom recovery - Team Win Recovery Project ( TWRP ), is a touch-based recovery. Custom recoveries has the ability to create and restore device backups. It is modified to allow update packages that have not been digitally signed by official sources. Compared to stock recovery, the custom recovery has more addtional features. A custom recovery is a third-party recovery environment. The stock recovery on Android device can delete all user and cache content ( for factory reset purposes ), allow external tools to run functions on Andorid device and perform system updates. There are two kinds of recovery, one is stock recovery, the other is custom recovery. It contains tools to help repair installations as well as official updates.

The recovery is a runtime environment separated from Android that can perform various system-related tasks. An Android device consists of several pieces of software, including the bootloader, radio, recovery and system.

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