How to Flash Official TWRP Recovery and Safely Root Motorola Moto E3 / Moto E 3rd Gen.

Flash TWRP & Root Motorola Moto E3 /  3RD GEN. There are many advantages that you get if TWRP recovery installed on your Moto E3 / Moto E 3rd Gen. We know that TWRP recovery is one of the popular recoveries on Android device. Therefore if you want to install a custom ROM on the Android device TWRP recovery is needed. On this guide we will explain the easy method to install recovery on Motorola Moto E3 / Moto E 3rd Gen. Other than that it will enable the Android user to take full backup device this also called with the Nandroid backup. This backup can be restored when your device gets bricked. There are many methods to install or flash TWRP recovery into Android device. And now in this guide we use fastboot method, it will flash TWRP via fastboot command send from the computer or laptop.

Before we proceed this guide, we would introduce Motorola Moto E3 / Moto E 3rd Gen specs. This device Released on 2016, July. Comes with 5.0 Inches IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors display. Powered by Quad-core 1.0 GHz Cortex-A53 CPU, MediaTek MT6735P chipset, Mali-T720 GPU. Supported by 1 GB of RAM. Featured with 8 MP of primary camera, 5 MP of secondary camera. Motorola Moto E3 / Moto E 3rd Gen run on Android OS, v6.0 (Marshmallow).

Now, let's we proceed our guide to flash TWRP recovery and root Motorola Moto E3 / Moto E 3rd Gen.

Section A. (Unlock Bootloader)

To flash a custom ROM or flash TWRP recovery we need to unlock the bootloader on Motorola Moto E3 / Moto E 3rd Gen. The following link below can help you how to perform it.

http://guidebelajar.blogspot.com/2015/11/how-to-unlock-bootloader-on-motorola-smartphone.html

Section A. Flashing TWRP recovery.

1. This guide using fastboot method, therefore ADB and fastboot should installed correctly on the computer. ADB or fastboot used to send flashing command to Motorola Moto E3 / Moto E 3rd Gen. You can download ADB or password from the link below.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0MKgCbUM0itNVB1elljU2NPR0k/view

2. To make a good connection between the computer and Motorola Moto E3 / Moto E 3rd Gen we need install USB driver for Motorola device. Driver available download from the link below.

https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/88481

3. TWRP recovery for Motorola Moto E3 / Moto E 3rd Gen. Here

https://dl.twrp.me/taido/

4. The latest SuperSU. Here

https://download.chainfire.eu/696/supersu/

5. Put all files downloaded files above at the same folder. for example C:\Flash
6. Now, enable developer options on your Moto E3 / Moto E 3rd Gen. (Go to Settings - Tap 7 times at build number until you see you are now a developer.)
7. Then, enable OEM unlocking.
8. Enable USB debugging.
9. Now turn off Motorola Moto E3 / Moto E 3rd Gen.
10. Then enter Motorola Moto E3 / Moto E 3rd Gen to fastboot mode. (Press and hold Power Button + Volume Down).

    

    Fastboot Motorola Moto E3 / Moto E 3rd Gen
11. Now, connect Motorola Moto E3 / Moto E 3rd Gen to the computer via USB cable.
12. Then open the command prompt at this folder (C:\Flash), how to do it.
• Press and hold the shift key on the keyboard.
• Then right click on empty space - select open command window here.
13. To check whether ADB or fastboot working between the computer and your phone, you can type the following command at prompt. The result should return with list of devices attached
• fastboot devices
14. Then, the type the following command below to flash TWRP recovery 
• fastboot flash recovery recovery name.img
• Change recovery name with the recovery name you just download at step 4 above, for example.
• fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.0.2-0-taido.img
15. Now type the following command below to boot Motorola Moto E3 / Moto E 3rd Gen to recovery mode.
• fastboot boot twrp-3.0.2-0-taido.img
16. Motorola Moto E3 / Moto E 3rd Gen will reboot into recovery mode now.
17. Boot your Motorola Moto E3 / Moto E 3rd Gen to the system. to load Android operating system and normal boot. 

Section C. Root Motorola Moto E3 / Moto E 3rd Gen.

The following guide below will help you how to flash SuperSU zip file into Motorola Moto E3 / Moto E 3rd Gen device.

http://guidebelajar.blogspot.com/2016/12/guide-how-to-root-all-motorola-phone.html