Follow this guide to restore HTC U11 to stock firmware. You can do so by installing the RUU zip or restore Nandroid backup of stock firmware using TWRP. This article explains how to install a custom ROM on a rooted Android device using the popular recovery utility TWRP.

• Connect your phone to your PC, go to ADB installation folder, open a command window from there and issue the below command to flash stock recovery image.
• So if you have any of them follow and proceed the process.
• While many of you might not be familiar with the name, LineageOS is actually the same custom ROM that started as CyanogenMod.
• This way, you can save all your images and videos to your pc and restore them quickly on your phone.
• First, you need to extract the stock boot.img firmware files file, this is a bit complex as you cannot simply extract the firmware and get the required partition files.
• Click on the folder icon with Choose, just after Scatter-loading the file.

If not, you can search our website for the device-specific tutorial. Google Photos enables you to backup Android photos and videos to the cloud. You can easily backup WhatsApp messages to your Google Drive.

The ROM includes basic but useful features that include but are not limited to customizing the status bar, changing the overall theme, editing the navbar, and much more. The main reason why people prefer custom ROMs is that almost every company drops support for their devices after 2-3 years of their launch.

Once you’ve found the ROM you want to install, download the ZIP file either on your computer or on your phone. Since you will need to data wipe your phone in some of the later steps, it’s advisable to do the file transfer later on, after the data wipe. But make sure that your phone can connect to your computer and can receive files, just to be clear that your device drivers are in place. Later on, you will need to copy the ROM file to the root of your phone’s internal storage. Once you’ve copied the ROM and GApps files to your phone’s internal memory, it’s time to boot into TWRP to flash the files. Once you’re in TWRP, there are a few things you need to do before installing the ROM which we’ll go over in the next step.