How To Install TWRP Recovery on HTC One M8 [Ultimate Guide]

The HTC One M8 is really suitable for many amazing parts of your life. The M8 is a great successor to last year HTC’s flagship with many improvements and many new features. It runs on latest Android version with Sense UI providing you very fast performance. And if you still want to load some more interesting stuff in the terms of amazing custom ROMs and tweaks, here you can install TWRP recovery on HTC One M8, it is available unofficially.

TWRP recovery is one of best driver for your HTC M8 you can use to take a delicious trip to the ground of custom ROMs. And yes you can use TWRP for many other general Android hacking as well such as wipe, factory reset, nandroid backups and more. It will bring tons of useful functions to your HTC One M8.

It is important to mention here that this TWRP recovery build is still under development and contains a few issue. It will not support external SD card yet but worry not as the developer will hopefully fix all issues soon.

Disclaimer: Use everything at your own risk as Magmobi beta will not be responsible if you damage the device arising from this guide. You have been warned, so proceed carefully.

Requirements

1. Make sure your HTC One M8 have unlocked bootloader 
2. Use a Windows PC and make sure USB phone drivers are installed on your computer (use HTC Sync manager for derivers).
3. Make sure you have latest Android SDK and Fastboot drivers and device drivers installed on your computer.
4. Enable USB debugging on your HTC M8. To enable USB debugging, first navigate to Setting>About Phone, there tap on Build Number many times until developer option is enabled. Then open developer options and there you can enable USB debugging.
5. Download HTC One M8 TWRP Recovery from here or check XDA thread for latest version.

How To Install TWRP Recovery on HTC One M8

Step #1: Rename the downloaded file into recovery.img and move it to fastboot folder.
Step #2: Turn off fastboot option on your HTC One M8, go to settings>power or battery and there make sure fast boot option is not checked.
Step #3: Turn off your HTC M8.
Step #4: Reboot phone in bootloader mode and then fastboot, to do this reboot phone by holding down volume down and power buttons (use volume keys to navigate and select menus with power button there).
Step #5: Plug your HTC M8 to computer using a USB cable.
Step #6: Open command prompt and navigate to fastboot folder on your computer (Note: If you are using Windows 7 or above, you can open command window directly from fastboot folder, just press right click there while holding down shift button on keyboard).
Step #7: Issue following command in command prompt and press enter:

fastboot devices

Note: It will show the serial number of your phone which means your phone is connected to PC properly.

Step #8: Issue following commands to start installation:

fastboot erase cache

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

Step #9: Once the recovery is installed, unplug phone from computer.

Great, the TWRP recovery is installed on your HTC One M8. If you experience any error, you can leave comment and let us know.