[1]TWRP recovery is your gateway to what many regard as the greatest custom recovery available for the Motorola Moto E budget smartphone. People love it for it’s touch-based UI and ease of use. Without a custom recovery installed, you can’t do much with your root access unless you just want to check out the root-only apps available from Google Play, so let’s check out how you can install TWRP on Moto E 2015 LTE with encryption support.
REQUIREMENTS
Understand that there are a few different versions of the Moto E that came out in 2015. Only one of them is the LTE variant. That’s the one you want to follow this guide.
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
- Install ADB and Fastboot on Windows PC by following that a guide. You don’t need to do it twice if you already have it up and running. Those of you with Macs can find a different guide for setting up ADB.
- You must unlock the Moto E 2015 bootloader [2] before starting the guide. There’s no way of doing this guide without unlocking the bootloader and voiding the warranty.
- Download the Motorola USB Drivers [3] from our page. Smartphone USB drivers such as the ones here for Motorola don’t usually work unless you reboot the PC. You might prefer to give the guide a go and if the connection fails, reboot the Windows PC and trying again.
HOW TO INSTALL TWRP WITH ENCRYPTION ON MOTO E 2015 LTE
- Download the TWRP Recovery file from this page [4].
- Enter Fastboot or Bootloader mode: completely power off by holding down Power, reboot holding Volume Down for 5 seconds, followed by holding Power key for 3 seconds. You are now inside Fastboot mode, which is also known as Bootloader mode.
- Connect the Moto E 2015 to the Windows PC with the USB cable.
- Open the file where you have the TWRP recovery installed on the Windows PC.
- Right-click the mouse and hold Shift in a blank area from within the folder where it’s white and a new menu should appear. Select to open the command window here from that menu.
Type the first command: “fastboot flash recovery recovery.img”.
– it is now flashing TWRP to your smartphone. - Type the final command: “fastboot reboot” and your handset is now rebooting itself to the normal OS mode so you can use it again.
- You are now capable of entering the TWRP custom recovery instead of the stock recovery mode.