How To Install TWRP Recovery on LeEco Le 1s Eco Easily

How To Install TWRP Recovery on LeEco Le 1s Eco Easily

China’s LeEco, erstwhile known as Letv, has set its sights on India. From extensive social media campaigns to fan meets, the company seems to be fully prepared for its foray in the Indian market. Speaking of the Indian market, especially the smartphone segment, not only it is highly crowded and competitive, it is almost nearing a saturation point with most of the smartphones at certain price bracket coming with similar set of specifications. For a new entrant such as LeEco, making an impact in the Indian market is going to be a daunting task. With the Le 1s, priced at Rs 10,999, let’s see whether LeEco can take on existing brands.

Design
One of the first things that impresses about the Le 1s is its design. Featuring a metal unibody, the smartphone has rounded corners and metallic frame on the edges. It is quite slim at 7.5mm, considering that it is a 5.5-inch smartphone housing housing a 3,000mAh battery. The overall design is sort of becoming quite common with most Chinese brands these days, but I would not take away the fact that it looks quite premium, especially for a smartphone that costs just Rs 10,999.

Display
The smartphone has a 5.5-inch full HD display. In terms of viewing angles, brightness levels, visibility in sunlight and indoors, the Le 1s delivers a satisfactory experience. You can customize the display color modes with options such as the Vivid (for more vibrance), Natural (true colors) and Soft (for long-time phone use) depending on your preference. I mostly stayed on the default and Natural color modes.

Camera
The Le 1s has a 13-megapixel rear camera and a 5-megapixel front facing camera. The 13-megapixel rear camera comes with features such as PDAF and LED flash. It can also shoot videos in 4K resolution and also supports slow motion. In terms of custom settings, you can set the white balance, ISO level, exposure, contrast, sharpness and saturation levels. The camera interface is quite simple for point and shoot or casual photography.

Performance & Battery life
The Le 1s doesn’t disappoint when it comes to performance. The 2.2 GHz Octa-Core Mediatek Helio X10 Processor coupled with 3GB of RAM ensures the phone keeps ticking smoothly. The phone comes with 32GB onboard storage, out of which roughly 29GB is available to users, which is quite impressive for a budget smartphone. There is no microSD card slot, however, so you cannot expand the storage.

HOW TO INSTALL TWRP RECOVERY ON LEECO LE 1S ECO
Download the TWRP Recovery for the LeEco Le 1S Eco  smartphone and have it on the desktop of the computer.
Set up ADB and fastboot on the computer running Windows and then come back and continue with this guide.
Extract the TWRP Recovery file and copy all of the contents of the TWRP folder to the ADB folder, so you have it all in the one directory.
Connect the LeEco Le 1S Eco smartphone to the computer with the USB cable keeping it in the ordinary mode for now.
Open the TWRP and ADB folder and hold the Shift key and right-click the white background within the folder and a new menu should pop up on the display.
Change the file name of the recovery image to “twrp.img” before continuing to the following step.
Choose to open a new command prompt window here from the menu.
Type the command “adb reboot bootloader” to get the Le 1S Eco phone into the bootloader mode and ready for the flashing.
Type the command: “fastboot flash recovery twrp.img” to flash the custom recovery image on the Le 1S Eco device.
Type the command: “fastboot reboot” and then hold the hardware button combination for the recovery mode when you see the smartphone reboot so it first-time boots directly into the recovery mode.
In conclusion, that is how to flash TWRP Recovery on the LeEco Le 1S Eco smartphone by using Fastboot and a computer that is running the Windows operating system. You are ready to start installing custom ROMs that come pre-rooted such as the CyanogenMod custom ROMs, and they run as well as give you the opportunity to use the device as a root user.