A third-party recovery system for Android devices. ClockworkMod Recovery provides many backup, restore, and maintenance features that are not present in the "stock" Android recovery system.
What is ClockworkMod Recovery?
ClockworkMod Recovery (often referred to simply as ClockworkMod) is a third-party recovery system for Android devices. It provides many backup, restore, and maintenance features that are not present in the "stock" Android recovery system.
ClockworkMod, having performed a Nandroid backup (source: XDA)
Related tags
- recovery-mode: the generic tag for all stock and custom recoveries
- twrp: Team Win Recovery Project is an alternative custom recovery
- backup: as from the custom recoveries, one can create/restore Nandroid Backups
- nandroid: a backup type offered by ClockworkMod and other custom recoveries, but not by stock recoveries
Selected core-questions
- What is ClockworkMOD Recovery and what is it for?
- Can I install CWM without Odin or root?
- Does ClockworkMod Recovery's “Wipe Data” command also wipe the SD card?
- What is the relation between ROM Manager, ClockworkMod and Nandroid? Which one(s) do I need?
- How can I tell if I have ClockworkMod recovery installed?
- How can I access the internal phone storage via ClockworkMod recovery?
- How to delete backups made using Clockworkmod?
- Clockworkmod Backup/Restore Feature
