How to Flash a Custom Recovery on the Acer Iconia Tab A101

In order to be able to flash custom ROMs on your device, you need to have a custom recovery installed on your device. The stock recovery doesn’t allow installation of custom ROMs but a custom recovery does. So, if you’ve rooted your Iconia Tab A101 and want to flash a custom recovery on it, here’s how:

I. Before You Begin:

1. You must have rooted your device before doing this procedure. Instructions to do so can be found here.

2. Make sure you’ve appropriate drivers installed on your PC.

3. This procedure works on Windows based PCs only.

II. Downloading Required Files:

1. ClockworkMod Recovery Image (Download link’s available in the first post)

2. Fastboot

III. Flashing a Custom Recovery on the Acer Iconia Tab A101:

1. Place both the files you downloaded to your Desktop.

2. Extract files from the Fastboot archive over to your Desktop.

3. Enable the USB debugging option on your device by simply heading to Menu>>Settings>>Applications>>Development>>USB debugging.

4. Once it’s been enabled, plug in your device to your PC using the USB cable.

5. Launch a Command Prompt Window on your Desktop. To do that, hold down the Shift button and right-click anywhere on your Desktop and select Open command window here.

6. Type in following command into the Command Prompt Window:

adb reboot bootloader

7. Your device should reboot into the bootloader mode.

8. Now issue the following command to flash the recovery. Make sure to replace recovery.img with the actual name of the Recovery Image you downloaded:

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

9. Once the recovery’s been flashed, reboot your device.

10. And you’re done!

Awesome! You’ve successfully installed CWM Recovery on your Iconia Tab A101 and we’re sure you’d enjoy flashing ROMs with it!

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 Acer Iconia Tab A101 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.

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