How to Flash a Custom Recovery on the Prestigio PAP4040

So you have rooted your Prestigio PAP4040 smartphone and now wish to flash some custom ROMs on it? Great! I recommend everybody to do that but before you can actually do that, you’re gonna need a custom recovery on your device. While not all devices are lucky enough to have a custom recovery, the Prestigio PAP4040 has been blessed with TWRP Recovery – one of the finest custom recoveries available for Android devices. The guide below explains how you can get it up and running on your device in no time. Here you go:

I. Before You Begin:

1. You must have rooted your device before doing this procedure. Please head to our How to Root the Prestigio PAP4040 procedure first and root your device, then come back to this one and continue.

2. Your device should have at least 60% of battery life left.

II. Downloading Required Files:

1. TWRP Recovery Image

2. Mobileuncle MTK ToolsQR Code (Google Play Link)

III. Flashing a Custom Recovery on the Prestigio PAP4040:

1. Download and place the Recovery Image onto your Desktop.

2. Make sure the recovery image is named as recovery.img.

3. Now head over to the Google Play and download and install the Mobileuncle MTK Tools app on your device.

4. Plug in your device to your PC using the USB cable.

5. Copy the Recovery Image over to the root of your SD card.

6. Once it’s been copied, unplug your device from your PC.

7. Launch the Mobileuncle MTK Tools app from your App Drawer.

8. Hit the Recovery option and choose the Recovery Image you copied earlier to be flashed on your device.

9. It should begin flashing the recovery on your device, should take a couple of minutes to finish.

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

11. You’re all done!

Excellent! You’ve successfully flashed TWRP Recovery on your Prestigio PAP4040 smartphone! Custom ROMs are now just a touch-away from you!

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 Prestigio PAP4040 to learn how to do that.

If this procedure helped you please thank/donate to the original developers here.

2 thoughts on “How to Flash a Custom Recovery on the Prestigio PAP4040”

  1. I have problem with flash recovery.
    I makeall steps correct:
    1. root my phone (was already rooted before)
    2. get recovery.img and install mobileuncle app
    3. run mobileuncle…
    4. select option “Recovery update”
    5. select recovery.img from sdcard (I tried phone memory and sdcard too)
    6. Confirm OK and OK to reboot
    7. Now is the problem because phone start in recovery mode and.. nothing. I can on recovery console by clicking the second symbol from left under the lcd, tried also manual run update but files *.img will not shown on the list and if I tried to put recovery.img into *.zip file and run I have “verification error” (of course this will not work because it’s not for this, but I tried).

    Can you help me how to run recovery update and change ROM to cyanoid or other. Maybe I missed something, maybe small step and can’t flash recovery.img from my bootloader ?

  2. MobileUncle MTK does not flash that image somewhy, I still get Android Stock Recovery, no signs of TWRP Recovery. Any fix for this?

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