How to Flash a Custom Recovery on the Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet
The official version of ClockworkMod Recovery isn’t out, yet for the Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet, an unofficial version’s there to help you with your flashing tasks, though. If you’re just curious to know how well custom ROMs work on your device, this guide is going to be useful for you. Here we have compiled all the steps to install ClockworkMod Recovery on the Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet. Here you go:
I. Before You Begin:
1. Your device must be running on the Android ICS.
2. It must be rooted in order for the following procedure to work. You can root it from here.
II. Downloading Required Files:
1. ClockworkMod Recovery Image (It’s attached in the first post of the thread)
2. Fastboot
III. Installing ClockworkMod Recovery on the Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet:
1. Place both the files you downloaded to the Desktop.
2. Extract files from the Fastboot archive to your Desktop. You will get adb.exe along with some other files.
3. Enable USB debugging on your device. Head to Menu>>Settings>>Applications>>Development>>USB debugging, tick-mark the box.
4. Connect the device to your PC with the help of the USB cable.
5. Open a Command Prompt Window on your Desktop. To do so, press and hold the Shift button on your keyboard and right-click on any empty area on the screen, then choose Open command window here.
6. Enter following commands into the Command Prompt Window:
adb push recovery.img /mnt/sdcard/
adb shell
su
mount -o rw,remount /system
mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/install-recovery.sh.backup
dd if=/mnt/sdcard/recovery-<version>.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1
7. Reboot your device and the procedure finishes here.
Awesome! You’ve successfully installed the ClockworkMod Recovery on your device, although it’s a ported version, it works fine!
IV. Flash a Custom ROM (Optional):
1. If you are ready to flash custom ROMs on your device, head to the How To Flash a Custom ROM on the Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet to learn how to do that.
If this procedure helped you please thank/donate to the original developers here.
If you need help with this procedure, please ask in the comments below or in the forum.
This is part of our Android How To’s. We have how to’s on rooting, loading ROMs, and tons of other tips and tricks for your specific device or for Android devices in general! For all of our Android How To’s, head here.
When I enter “mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/install-recovery.sh.backup” I get the response “failed on ‘/system/etc/install-recovery.sh’ – No such file or directory”
Not sure what I’m doing wrong…