Guide to Extract Stock Recovery from Samsung Stock ROM

In case, you’re using any Samsung Galaxy device and you have already rooted your phone, this guide is for you. In this scenario, if you’re using any of the Samsung Galaxy devices and rooted via any Custom Recovery and now you want to get back the stock recovery, follow the full guide here. Here in this article, we will share with you the Guide to Extract Stock Recovery from Samsung Stock ROM.

Whether you have installed any Custom ROMs or not, your stock recovery of the Stock Firmware has been removed. Meanwhile, if you didn’t get the OTA updates, you should restore the stock recovery.

Now, you may ask what the stock recovery means? Let’s discuss it briefly.

What is the Stock Recovery?

In the Android platform, Recovery means the dedicated bootable partition of the system which has been installed in the recovery console. With the help of a key combination presses your device boots into the recovery. Here you can find useful stock tools like repair, reboot to bootloader, apply update of stock firmware, recovery logs, wipe cache partition, factory reset, mount/system, etc. These are useful tools if you’re using the official stock firmware.

However, it’s quite limited but simple to use. The stock recovery runs when the device Android system boots up. Meanwhile, custom recoveries offer much more functionalities like backups, restore, install any zip or image file easily, flash custom firmware, root file, mod file, etc.

Steps to Extract Stock Recovery from Samsung Stock ROM

The extraction process is quite easy. You need to download the latest Samsung stock firmware for your device model. Now, extract the recovery.img file from it, then compress it back into ‘.tar’ file and flash with Odin tool.

But before going to the actual process, let’s take a look at the pre-requirements.