There are 2 famous custom recoveries out there ~ ClockworkMod and Team Win Recovery Project (TWRP). You won’t be wrong by using either one of them on your Google Nexus 4. It is totally up to personal taste and usage. TWRP has a fully touch driven user interface (which better than CWM in my opinion). And the GUI is also fully XML driven and completely theme-able.
TWRP 2 Key Features
- Ability to save custom recovery settings
- Touchscreen driven with real buttons and drag-to-scroll
- XML-based GUI that allows full customization of the layout – true theming!
- Settings are saved to the sdcard and persist through reboots
- Ability to choose which partitions to back up and which to restore
- Ability to choose to compress backups – now with pigz (multi-core processor support for faster compression times).
As for basic features, both CWM and TWRP are the same. You can install update zip, custom ROM, backup and restore. But different in special feature like support for exFAT formatted SD card (of course, Nexus 4 can’t use this feature) and other more. Try it to find out…
Download TWRP Touch Recovery for Nexus 4 here.
