Want to install a custom recovery on your Tecno Camon 12 CC7? then you are in the right place. In this guide, we will help you to install TWRP Recovery on the Tecno Camon 12 device. This guide contains both the written instruction and video tutorial to help you install it quickly. Make sure to download the files required and jump straight into instruction on how to install TWRP on Tecno Camon 12.
Keep in mind that before heading over to the process, you will need to unlock the device bootloader at first. As the smartphone OEMs provide a locked bootloader to its devices due to some security concerns, in order to install any third-party file, you will need to unlock the bootloader. Then you will be capable to install TWRP Custom Recovery on your Tecno Camon 12 device and root as well. The TWRP Recovery can also take Nandroid backups, restore, wipe out system/data/cache, and more.
TECNO Camon 12 Specifications:
TECNO Camon 12 was announced in August 2019 which sports a 6.52-inch IPS LCD display with a screen resolution of 720 x 1600 pixels. The device has an aspect ratio of 20:9 and a screen-to-body ratio of 81.6 %.
TECNO Camon 12 is powered by an Octa-core 2.0 GHz Cortex-A53 with Mediatek MT6762 Helio P22 (12 nm) chipset coupled with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. It also supports an external memory card. The device came out of the box with Android 9.0 Pie under HIOS 5.5 and backed by a 4000 mAh battery (Non-removable).
As far as the camera concerned, the device has a triple-camera setup with 16MP + 8MP + 2MP primary sensors and a selfie camera with a 16MP lens. Other connectivity option includes 4G, GPS, Bluetooth, Mobile Hotspot, accelerometer, proximity sensor.
TWRP Recovery and its Advantages
Steps to Install TWRP Recovery on Tecno Camon 12 CC7
Before going to the TWRP installation process, make sure to follow all the pre-requirements mentioned below properly.
Advantages of TWRP Recovery:
- You can flash Custom ROM on Tecno Camon 12 using TWRP
- You can flash modding zip files to customize your phone
- Easy to flash and use Xposed Modules using TWRP
- Easy to Root and Unroot using TWRP Recovery flashable zip SuperSU
- You can install Magisk on Tecno Camon 12
- Easy to Create and Restore Nandroid Backup using TWRP Recovery.
- Easy access to restore the Nandroid Backup.
- You can flash the image file using TWRP Recovery on Tecno Camon 12
- Easy to remove all bloatware using TWRP Recovery on Tecno Camon 12.
- To underclock and overclock.
- You can clean Wipe, Cache, and Data.
Pre-Requirements:
- The file and guide are supported for the Tecno Camon 12 model only. Don’t try it on other devices.
- Tecno Camon 12 bootloader should be unlocked.
- A PC/Laptop and a USB cable are required for this process.
- Make sure to take a Full Backup of Device Data (No Root).
- Download Magisk or SuperSU file for rooting. You can follow one method from below.
- Charge your device battery to full.
Method 1: By Smartphone Flash Tools
Follow the instructions given down below to install TWRP on your phone (need scatter text file):
Download Links:
- TWRP Recovery 3.3.1 for Tecno Camon 12
- No Verity opt Encrypt
- Download SuperSU Zip – For root using SuperSU
- Download Magisk Zip – For root using Magisk
- Tecno USB Drivers | MTK USB Drivers
- Download SP Flash Tool
- Download ADB and Fastboot and install it on your PC
- For scatter file, either extract the Stock ROM for Tecno Camon 12 or create scatter txt file
Disclaimer:
Method 2: ADB and Fastboot Tool
After downloading all the required files, drivers, and tools, follow the installation process.
- First of all, enable the Developer Options and USB Debugging mode on your device.
- Head over to the device Settings > System > About Phone > then tap on the Build Number for seven times to enable Developer options mode.
- Now, go to the Developer options in the Settings menu and turn on the toggle to enable USB debugging.
- Next, open the ADB & Fastboot folder on your computer. Then press and hold the Shift key and right mouse click to open the command window.
- Turn off your device > Press and hold the Volume Up + Power button together for a few seconds to enter into Fastboot mode.
- Connect your device with the PC via a USB cable and type the following code on the command windows and hit enter:
adb reboot bootloader
- Now, your device is connected successfully as a fastboot device.
- Type the following command and hit enter to check the fastboot device connected or not:
fastboot devices
Now, in order to install TWRP Recovery on your phone, type the following command and press enter:
To just boot, you can use the command fastboot boot twrpname.img
That’s it. You’ve successfully installed the TWRP Recovery on Tecno Camon 12 device. Now, you have to flash the Root.
What is Root?
Smartphone Rooting is the unofficial way to enable an administrator or superuser access to your device system and subsystem. Therefore, the user can easily tweak, change, edit, or delete system files and apps easily.
fastboot flash recovery twrpname.img
With the help of rooting, you can uninstall bloatware, increase device performance, reduce battery draining, install Xposed modules, and more. However, smartphone rooting will void the device warranty and you may not get software OTA updates anymore. Improper way of rooting can also brick your device easily. Therefore, make sure to follow the guide properly.
The advantage of Rooting:
- You can get access to all files on your Tecno Camon 12, even the files which present in the root directory of your phone.
- You can increase the performance of your Tecno Camon 12 by overclocking.
- By rooting you can increase battery life by underclocking Tecno Camon 12.
- Uninstall Bloatware on Tecno Camon 12.
- You can block Ads on any Android applications such as Youtube and other game-related applications.
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- By Rooting Tecno Camon 12, you can View, Edit or Delete any system file inside the root directory.
- You can install the Xposed Framework and many Xposed module support.
