Many applications from the Play Market do not start.
The phone restarts or shuts down by itself.
The phone began to slow down a lot.
The OS does not match the system requirements of the smartphone.
Where can I find the firmware?
On the official website of your phone manufacturer.
On Internet resources where users post custom or official OS.
What should be done before installing the firmware?
Create a backup copy of all personal information: contacts, photos and transfer it to another computer.
Insert an SD card into your phone to write the firmware to it.
Find information about your smartphone model.
Fully charge your device. If the battery runs out during the firmware, the device will no longer turn on.
Download archive with Firmware.
Installing TWRP Recovery
Download the Official TWRP App to your phone from the Play Market. And install this app.
When you start the application for the first time, you need to give consent to future manipulations, as well as to give consent to granting the application Superuser rights and click the 'OK' button.
After moving to the next screen, you need to select the 'TWRP FLASH' item and give the application root rights.
On the main screen of the application, select 'Select Device', and find your phone model.
After selecting a device, the application will direct the user to a web page to download the appropriate modified recovery environment image file. Download the suggested *.img file.
After downloading the image file, return to the main screen of the Official TWRP App and press the 'Select a file to flash' button. Then we tell the program the path where the file loaded in the previous step is located.
Now press the 'FLASH TO RECOVERY' button and confirm your choice, press 'OK'.
When the message 'Flash Completed Succsessfuly!' appears. Click 'OK'. The TWRP installation procedure can be considered complete.
Copy the necessary files to the SD memory card. Using a PC or laptop card reader.
Insert a SD memory card into the phone.
To reboot into recovery, you need to use a special item in the Official TWRP App menu, accessible by pressing the button with three stripes in the upper left corner of the main screen of the application. We open the menu, select the 'Reboot' item, and then click on the 'REBOOT RECOVERY' button. The phone will reboot into the recovery environment automatically.
Firmware via TWRP
Before flashing, you need to clear the 'Cache' and 'Data' sections, press 'WIPE' on the main screen. You will delete all user data from the phone, this will avoid software errors and other problems.
Now you can start flashing. Click the 'Install' button.
On the file selection screen, at the very top there is a 'Storage' button for selecting an SD card.
Select the location where you copied the files.
Select the firmware file and click on it. A screen opens with a warning about possible negative consequences, you need to check the item 'Zip signature verification', which will avoid using damaged files during recording.
The procedure for writing files to the phone's memory will begin, this is accompanied by the appearance of inscriptions in the log field and the movement of the progress bar.
The completion of the firmware installation procedure is indicated by the inscription 'Successful'.
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