[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CVAngelo:
Custom recovery is easy with the right tools!

You can make your own ClockWorkMod custom recovery for ANY phone as follows:

WHAT YOU NEED

* Your phone with USB Debugging enabled

* Root access (in other words, your phone must be rooted)

* Busybox installed on your phone

* MTK Droid Tools

* Your computer

HOW TO DO IT:

1. Down load MTK Droid Tools and install on your desktop (do people still have those)

2. Install the Flashify app on your phone (from the Play Store)

3. Open Flashify on your phone

4. Select the Backup/Restore option

5. Back up the current kernel to your SD card (name it it stock_boot.img)

6. Back up the current recovery to your SD card (name it it stock_recovery.img) & close the Flashify app

7. Copy the two files from your SD card (it's saved under Android>data>com.cgollner.flashify>files>flashify-backup) to your desktop NOW YOU HAVE BACKUPS OF YOUR STOCK BOOT AND RECOVERY IMAGES IN CASE YOU EVER NEED THEM IN FUTURE

8. Run your MTK Droid Tools as Administrator and connect your phone to the desktop via USB (you'll see details about your phone in Phone Information ... you can ignore this but it does confirm that MTK Droid Tools recognizes your phone)

9. Now select the tab called "root, backup, recovery"

10. Click on the "Recovery and Boot" button

11. MTK is going to ask you where is the BOOT image for your phone...just select the BOOT image from the folder to which you copied the BOOT image on your laptop

12. MTK is now going to create a CWM custom recovery for your phone. It stores this in its subfolder called "recovery"

13. Now just go to this recovery subfolder. You will see TWO files. Now you rename the one that has "_recovery_" in the name to cwm_recovery.img. DO NOT MAKE THE BONEHEADED MISTAKE of using the file that has "_BOOT_PATCHED_" in the name!

14. Copy the newly renamed cwm_recovery.img to your SD card on the phone

15. Close the MTK Droid Tools program...it's work is done

16. Reopen the Flashify app

17. Select the Flash option and choose the RECOVERY IMAGE from the list of options. DO NOT...I REPEAT...DO NOT SELECT THE boot image OPTION. YOU WILL SURELY BRICK YOUR PHONE AND YOU WILL NEED TO FLASH A SYSTEM BACK TO THE PHONE. Since you have no custom recovery yet, you will be in a very difficult spot! DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT flash anything to the boot partition!!!!

18. Now that you have selected RECOVERY IMAGE, you can now choose the cwm_recovery.img and let flashify do its thing.

19. Once Flashify is done flashing, it will give you the option to REBOOT...do that

20. Behold your new CWM custom recovery

A couple important notes:

* I'm not responsible if you do something boneheaded like flashing the cwm_recovery.img to your boot partition and muck up your phone. I've already warned you repeatedly NOT to do that. It's an amateur mistake (that I made once...LOL!) DO NOT MAKE THIS MISTAKE!

* You did not really need the stock_recovery.img file for anything. BUT I MADE YOU BACK IT UP JUST IN CASE (you can always flash your stock recovery back to the phone). SAVE YOUR STOCK RECOVER AND BOOT IMAGES.

* USE YOUR NEW CWM RECOVERY AND IMMEDIATELY BACKUP YOUR ENTIRE PHONE TO YOUR SD CARD AND PLACE A COPY SOMEWHERE ON YOUR DESKTOP! Now you have two copies. If you ever want to return your phone to stock, just restore your backup and reflash the stock recovery. Then UNROOT your phone. Now, you're completely stock.

* While you're at it, use MTK Droid Tools again and select the SCATTER FROM FILE (and save the map somewhere convenient).