Below you’ll find download links for the latest TWRP Custom Recovery modifications for Xiaomi Redmi 3S / 3X phone. To find ADB and other required drivers please visit this post and to find the latest Custom ROMs, including Android 8 Oreo, you may proceed here.
TWRP Custom Recovery for Xiaomi Redmi 3S and Redmi 3X
You’ll need to unlock the bootloader before installing custom recovery on your phone.
Download ZCX-TWRP for Redmi 3S / 3X
This version is currently under development. We’ve got an Alpha release for Redmi 3S phone.
Features:
- OTA support.
- ad-hosts support.
- SuperSU v2.79 included.
- English and Chinese language.
- and more…
How to flash ZCX-TWRP on Redmi 3S / 3X
- Download ZCX-Recovery image: download link
- Install ADB drivers, if you haven’t done that previously.
- Copy downloaded custom recovery .img file to the folder with ADB files and rename .img file to “recovery.img”.
- In the folder with ADB files, press and hold “Shift” key and click right mouse button, in the menu select “Open command window here”.
- Reboot your device in fastboot mode and connect to PC.
- Type in the command window:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img fastboot boot recovery.img
Download TWRP Installer Tool for Redmi 3S / 3X
Download: TWRP-Installer.rar
How to use TWRP Installer Tool?
- First of all unlock the bootloader here http://en.miui.com/unlock
- You should have Redmi 3S device with Android 6.0 installed.
- Download TWRP Installer tool and unpack downloaded archive.
- Start “twrp-installer.bat”.
- Start your phone in fastboot mode and follow the instructions on the screen.
- After installation is completed, your phone will automatically boot into TWRP Recovery. On the first startup you will see a confirmation message “Keep System Read Only?”:
- If you select “Mount system partition read-only”, you can receive OTA updates for official MIUI ROMs.
- If you swipe to confirm system partition modification, you’ll need to do additional thing, go to “Advanced settings” and enable “Disable dm-verify”. Otherwise your device will stuck at Mi logo while starting.
- Now you can reboot into system or continue working with TWRP Custom Recovery.
CyanogenMod 13 Recovery for Redmi 3S
Download: recovery.img | XDA Thread
Download Stock Recovery for Redmi 3S
Below you can download official MIUI Stock Recovery file for Xiaomi Redmi 3S: official_MIUI_recovery_redmi3s.zip