Its 2:13am at where Im at and Im posting this.. yeah.. its a geek thing.
Well, I had managed to create a "working" cwm recovery and root the device. It took me longer than I had expected.
From my experience, always start with the easiest method possible to gain root. If all hope is gone, take the long path. That was exactly what I did.
I had tried Framaroot, VRoot and a few auto rooting programs and they all failed.
I downloaded the MTK Droid Tools and made a backup of the rom, create a cwm recovery and flash it via the SP Flash Tool.
To enter into recovery, press both vol up & pwr button. Navigate with the vol up button to highlight recovery and press vol down to select.
The auto created cwm is working... well sort of. Its upside down and the output didnt come out right.Well, at least I got a nandroid backup sitting in the internal memory. I still need to backup the NVRAM though.
To gain root, simply flash the update-supersu.zip (mine was v1.99) in recovery.
I had uploaded my cwm recovery image, original recovery, scatter loading file and the original boot image on my
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Hopefully somebody in the correct time zone will be kind enough to create a working cwm touch while im taking my nap.
Ciao.