How to Flash a Custom Recovery on the ZTE Avid 4G

If you’re a flashaholic person like me, then you’ll definitely like to flash a custom recovery on your device. Flashing a custom recovery will let you install custom ROMs, Mods, make nandroid backups and there’re a lot of things you can do with a custom recovery. Here’s how you can flash a custom recovery on your ZTE Avid 4G smartphone.

I. Before You Begin:

1. You must have rooted your device before doing this procedure. Please head to our How to Root the ZTE Avid 4G procedure first, finish it, then return to this procedure and continue.

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

II. Downloading Required Files:

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

2. Terminal Emulator — QR Code (Google Play Link)

III. Flashing a Custom Recovery on the ZTE Avid 4G:

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

2. Rename the Recovery Image to cwmrecovery.img.

3. Connect your device to your PC using the USB cable.

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

5. Once it’s been copied, disconnect your device from your PC.

6. Head over to Google Play and download and install the Terminal Emulator app on your device.

7. Once it’s been installed, open it from your App Drawer.

8. Type in following commands into the Terminal Emulator app:

su
dd if=/sdcard/cwmrecovery.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/recovery

9. It should install the recovery on your device.

10. Once it’s done, reboot your device

11. You’re all set!

Excellent! You’ve successfully flashed a custom recovery on your ZTE Avid 4G and you’re now able to flash custom ROMs and Mods!

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 ZTE Avid 4G to learn how to do that.

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