How to Install Custom Recovery on the HTC Desire X Dual SIM (T329W)

The HTC Desire X Dual SIM features a 4-inch touchscreen display, 1GHz CPU with 768MB RAM, and a 5MP camera among other things.  What could make it better though is rooting it, and before that, you will need to have a custom recovery (ClockworkMod Recovery in this case) in place.  The guide below should cover installing custom recovery and we’ll cover rooting the Desire X Dual SIM in another post.

I.  Before You Begin

1.  You need to have your bootloader unlocked for this procedure to work.  Visit HTCDev to do this.

2.  Back up everything you feel is important.

3.  Charge your device to 75% or more before you start to prevent unwanted shutdowns.

 II.  Necessary Downloads

1.  Custom_recovery.img [File attached to this post]

2.  adb-fastboot.zip

III.  Installing ClockworkMod Recovery

1.  Extract adb-fastboot.zip to your C:\ drive so the path is C:\adb-fastboot\Android.

2.  Copy Custom_recovery.img to the extracted adb-fastboot\Android folder.

3.  Enable USB debugging on your device.  To do this, go to Settings > Development options and tick the USB debugging checkbox.  If you don’t find the Development options section, go to About phone and keep tapping on the build number until your device tells you you are a developer.  You should now find Development options under Settings.

4.  Connect your device to your PC.  If there are drivers being installed at this point, let them do so before continuing.

5.  Hold the Shift key and right-click on the Android folder, then click on Open command prompt window here.

6.  Run the following commands (ignore the text in the brackets, which is for information purposes only):

adb reboot-bootloader [boots your device to bootloader mode]

fastboot flash recovery Custom_recovery.img [flashes custom recovery to your device]

7.  Restart your device once done.

You now have a custom recovery installed on your HTC Desire X Dual SIM smartphone!

 IV.  Rooting the Desire X Dual SIM

Use our guide to root your HTC Desire X Dual SIM

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