How to Flash a Custom Recovery on the Coby Kyros MID7015

Rooted devices have always been ahead than unrooted devices in terms of functionality. A rooted device can have root-only apps, custom ROMs (with a custom recovery) and custom mods whereas an unrooted device can’t have any of these. In our earlier guide, we taught you how you can root your Coby Kyros MID7015 and this guide shows how you can flash a custom recovery on it. A custom recovery will let you get the most out of your device, so let’s get started with the procedure for the same:

I. Before You Begin:

1. You must have rooted your device before doing this procedure. Check out our How to Root the Coby Kyros MID7015 procedure to root your device.

2. Make sure your device has at least 60% of battery life left.

3. You must have a microSD card in your device.

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 Coby Kyros MID7015:

1. Place both files you’ve downloaded to your Desktop.

2. Unzip files from 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 via USB cable.

5. Copy the ClockworkMod Recovery file over to the root of your microSD.

6. Open a Command Prompt Window on your Desktop. To do so, simply hold down the Shift button and right-click anywhere on your Desktop and choose Open command window here.

7. Type in following commands into the Command Prompt Window:

adb shell
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img

8. Now press and hold the Ctrl+C buttons on your keyboard.

9. Enter following command to reboot your device into recovery mode:

adb reboot recovery

10. You should now be in ClockworkMod Recovery Mode.

11. You’re done!

Excellent! ClockworkMod Recovery’s been successfully installed on your device and you can start using it right away!

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 Coby Kyros MID7015 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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