Recovery Mode Xiaomi Redmi 5A

In this article i will show you how to enter recovery mode on xiaomi redmi 5a, just like fastboot mode you can enter recovery mode in two different ways, using physical button or using adb command line. This tutorial explain both ways.

How to enter and exit recovery mode with physical button

To enter recovery mode, first you need to turn off your phone and then press and hold volume rocker up (+) and power button at the same time for a few seconds.

While in recovery mode, you can use the volume rocker button to navigate the menu and power button to confirm/execute/enter.

To exit recovery mode, choose 'reboot' from the menu and then choose 'reboot system', your phone should be back to normal now. 

How to enter and exit recovery mode with adb command

To enter and exit recovery mode using adb command, you need to have adb & fastboot command line tool which you can get from platform-tools on android developer website. 

The platform tools available for windows, linux and mac, but for windows you also need to install adb driver which you can get by installing pdaNet software.

Once you get the adb & fastboot command line tool on your computer, now you need to enable usb debugging on your phone,

Now plug the phone to the computer and you should see pop up on the phone asking to allow usb debugging or not, choose 'OK'.

Open command line on the computer and type adb reboot recovery and hit enter, your phone should be in recovery mode now.

adb reboot recovery




Unfortunately, when you are in recovery mode (specially stock recovery mode), there is no way to reboot the phone using adb command, so you need to reboot manually from the stock recovery menu.

Keep in mind that there are two kind of recovery mode, stock recovery and custom recovery, custom recovery (TWRP) allow you to flash custom rom and root the phone, which i will discuss in the next article.