In this guide, we will show you the steps to flash the TWRP Recovery onto your OnePlus 13R/Ace 3. The newest addition to the OnePlus family brings a slew of noteworthy features to the fore, at a price that is affordable to the masses. Along the same lines, it has plenty in store for tech enthusiasts as well. You can easily unlock the bootloader and gain administrative privileges by rooting your device either via Magisk or KernelSU.
This in turn will help you to welcome abode tons of goodies to your device, including the likes of Fox Magisk Modules, Substratum Themes, Xposed Framework via LSPosed, and Viper4Android among others. And now, a working custom recovery has just about made its way over to these devices, thereby easing the flashing and the backup process. So without any further ado, let’s make you aware of the steps to flash the TWRP Recovery onto your OnePlus 13R/Ace 3.
Benefits and Risks of Installing TWRP
Installing TWRP Recovery on your device will allow you to flash numerous types of ZIPs and IMG files, including the likes of custom ROMs and Magisk for root. Apart from that, you can also wipe specific partitions or perform complete formatting of data in just a couple of clicks. The most important feature of them all is the Nandroid Backup which allows you to take a backup of all the partitions on your device, which you can restore as and when required with ease.
However, there are a few drawbacks and risks associated with this process as well. First off, installing the recovery will wipe off all the data from your device and it might nullify its warranty as well. Apart from that, flashing an older or incorrect variant of this recovery might end up corrupting the recovery partition. So weigh all the benefits and risks involved and then make the flashing decision accordingly.
How to Flash TWRP Recovery on OnePlus 13R/Ace 3
Before starting, please take a backup of all the data on your device. Droidwin and its members wouldn’t be held responsible in case of a thermonuclear war, your alarm doesn’t wake you up, or if anything happens to your device and data by performing the below steps.
- To begin with, download and install Android SDK Platform Tool.
- Then enable USB Debugging and OEM Unlocking on your device.
- After that, download the recovery file for your device from below:
OnePlus 13R [in development stage] | OnePlus Ace 3 Credit: XDA Developer Steve0007
- Then rename it to twrp.img and transfer it to the platform tools.
- Next up, open Command Prompt inside the platform-tools folder.
- Then type in the below command to boot your device to Fastboot:
adb reboot bootloader
- Now type the below command to flash the recovery to your device
fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
- Then use the below command to boot your device to this recovery:
fastboot reboot recovery
- Check out this recovery. Once done, Reboot > System to boot to OS.
That’s it. These were the steps to flash the TWRP Recovery onto your OnePlus 13R/Ace 3. If you have any queries concerning the aforementioned steps, do let us know in the comments. We will get back to you with a solution as soon as possible.
