[Lava Iris X8 Guides, News, & Discussion] romcrazy:
here's help for OP

Guide for rooting and recovery:

Model: Lava Iris X8-L

Android V. : 5.1 Lollipop

One Click Rooting methods like Kingoroot, Kingroot and Iroot wont work with X8 Lollipop so we will use conventional trick. MTK droid tools doesnt support Lollipop so we cant depend on it for scatter file.

Requirements:

1. A PC with SP Flash tools installed. Latest version is best.

2. MTK Droid Tools (Optional)

3. Official Lollipop Firmware for Iris-X8 from firmwarefile website.

4. Carliv Touch Recovery from the 1st post of this OP.

5. SuperSU package V. 2.46 from Chainfire. (put it in your SDCard)

Method:

Flashing might cause loss of IMEI (I didnt loose my IMEI though). So first thing is to backup NVRAM. This guide assumes you have installed adb drivers and VCOM drivers.

1. (If you dont care or are extemely confident that you wont loose IMEI, proceed to step 4). Turn on USB debugging and tick "Unknown Sources" in security settings. Open MTK droid tools and let it detect your phone (Phone should be ON). Use Block Maps and create scatter file (You cant use this scatter for flashing).

2. Without closing Droid Tools, open SP Flash Tools and select the newly created scatter file. Goto Readback tab and create Readback ROM till cache partition.

3. Goto Root, Backup and Recovery tab in MTK Droid Tools and Click "To Process File ROM_ from Flash Tool". Select Redback ROM created in previous step. Upon completion, you will have some files in the backup folder in MTK droid tools folder.

You WILL need nvram.bin file (for IMEI restoration), so save it for later.

4. Your scatter file will not work due to changes to partition table, so use the scatter from downloaded firmware folder.

5. Load the scatter from firmware folder. Select "Firmware upgrade" and dont untick any box (not even the preloader one). Switch off phone. Do not hit Download button. Connect phone to PC with USB. The phone will light up and show you the battery charging animation. Let it complete its animation. When animation completes, hit Download button in Flash Tool. Now press and hold down power button till SP flash tool detects the phone and red bar appears. Let go the power button and let it complete the flashing process, purple bar and yellow bar. (Note: This will erase your phone storage so back it up before you do this).

When the Tool shows Green OK, disconnect phone from PC. Your PMT has been changed to use the firmware scatter file now.

6. Switch the phone on and let it load the new android. After boot, turn on debugging and check "Unknown sources" in Security settings. Turn the phone off.

7. In SP Flash Tool, select the scatter file from firmware folder and select the CTRecovery from the first post of this OP. Untick all other partitions. Connect phone and after finishing battery animations, hit Download button. Press and hold down power button till Tool detects phone and red bar appears. After completion of yellow bar, Flash Tool WILL show error 4008. Ignore it. Click OK on error tab and disconnect phone from PC. Do not turn on the phone. Press Volume+ and power button till LAVA boot screen shows up. Let go of the buttons and you will reach the new custom recovery that you installed. Do not reboot the phone as it will bring back the stock recovery. Locate SuperSU.zip from your SDCard. Install it and reboot your phone.

9. Now you have Rooted your Lava Iris-X8-L and have the custom recovery (Rooting disables the restoration of stock recovery). If you want to go back to stock recovery just flash it from firmware folder. It will show green OK. You will not loose root by flashing stock recovery.

10. If you have lost your IMEI during flash, just copy the scatter from firmware folder to a new place, open it with notepad, locate NVRAM and move cursor ahead to reach a place "Is_download false". It should be right next to NVRAM word. Change false to true. Load this new scatter in SP Flash tool and you will have a new partition called NVRAM. Select it and choose the nvram.bin that you saved through MTK droid tools. Flash it and you have your IMEI back.

11. Kindly understand that you should not use this recovery for flashing new roms since it is Kitkat based. I think Philz recovery will work but it has not yet been ported to our device yet. So please wait for that. This recovery will help you for backup, restorations, factory resets and such things.

12. Please thank this OP for the recovery and creator of MTK droid tools since he saved your IMEI.

Cheers.