The 2.8.7.0 update focused on refining the user experience and expanding technical capabilities:

TWRP 2.8.7.0: A Pivotal Milestone in Custom Android Recovery

, released on June 22, 2015, represents a significant evolutionary step for the Team Win Recovery Project. As a fully touch-based custom recovery environment, it replaced the stock recovery on Android devices to allow for advanced management tasks like flashing custom ROMs, creating full system backups (Nandroid), and modifying system partitions.

: Resolved crashes when taking screenshots on arm64 devices and fixed errors encountered during the creation of encrypted backups.

: Fixed issues related to wiping internal storage on "datamedia" devices (devices where internal storage is a subfolder of /data). Why Use TWRP 2.8.7.0?

: At its release, it was deployed for nearly all supported devices, including popular models like the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0, Xiaomi Mi4i, and various Nexus phones.

: While often used for rooting, TWRP itself does not require the phone to be rooted to be installed; it only requires an unlocked bootloader. General Installation Guidelines

: A standout feature that allows users to resize their data or system partitions. For example, users flashing factory images on a 64GB Nexus 6 often found their storage incorrectly limited to 32GB; TWRP 2.8.7.0 could fix this by expanding the partition to utilize the full available space.

While newer versions like TWRP 3.x are now available, version 2.8.7.0 remains a historical benchmark for several reasons:

This specific version introduced several critical fixes and features that improved the stability of the recovery on modern hardware of its time, such as early 64-bit (arm64) devices. Key Features and Changelog for TWRP 2.8.7.0