How to Flash a Custom Recovery on the HTC One X

HTC One X, the phone which came into the market recently, has really grabbed attention of the smartphone lovers around the world. Boasting a quad-core processor, it really gives you an amazing user experience, and means there are less chances of lags on your phone while swiping through screens, playing high-resource games, etc. To take this excitement to an upper level, you can load custom ROMs and to do so, you will need to install a recovery on your phone. Here’s a guide for you on how you can install ClockworkMod Touch Recovery on your HTC One X smartphone.

I. Before You Begin:

1. You must have a rooted HTC One X smartphone, learn how to root it from here.

2. There’re some functions in the recovery which seems to be not working.

II. Downloading Required Files:

1. Download ClockworkMod Touch Recovery Image from here.

2. Download Fastboot package from here.

III. Installing ClockworkMod Touch Recovery on HTC One X:

1. Extract files from the Fastboot archive to the Desktop of your PC. You will get four files from it.

2. On your HTC One X, enable USB debugging by going to Menu>>Settings>>Applications>>Development>>USB debugging and check-mark the box.

3. Turn OFF your smartphone using the Power button.

4. Press and hold Volume DOWN button and then immediately press Power button. Select Fastboot mode from the menu that appears on the screen.

5. Connect your phone to your PC using the USB cable that came with it.

6. Open a Command Prompt Window on your Desktop and then type in the following commands. It will flash recovery on your phone.

fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.3.1-endeavoru.img

7. When the flashing is done, simply enter the following command into Command Prompt Window to reboot your phone.

fastboot reboot

Your job is done. You have successfully installed ClockworkMod Touch Recovery on your HTC One X and from now on, you will be able to load custom ROMs on your phone. Credit for this recovery image goes to the member broncogr over at XDA. You can thank him or donate to him at the official thread.