Recovering from a bootloop in Lenovo S960 I've recently rooted my phone and have installed Xposed Framework. I'm used to this process and know what the consequences are. The phone was working fine until I installed a module for Xposed called Tinted Statusbar. Activated it and rebooted. thats when the bootloop happened. Tried all methods for disabling Xposed. The xposed-disabler zip didn't work when i tried flashing it, the hardware buttons just vibrate.

How can i recover my phone? The recovery is an old CWM v2.2.2 running on a Mediatek Processor.
The only way to overcome bootloop is to reflash the phone (start off on a clean slate) by using an SPFlashTool format firmware (where you have to use SP Flash Tool to flash). 

Irregardless of the version release, replace the original recovery.img file with either CWM/TWRP recovery  file and rename it to "recovery.img" file. This will ensure that immediately after the reflash you will have custom recovery installed already.(but in the original firmware folder there will be a "Checksum" file. Remove/expunge this file from the folder since the CWM/TWRP (if it has checksum that doesn't match with the original factory recovery checksum)).

Then search for a "custom Firmware for S960" from NeedROM website and upgrade via TWRP/CWM. Install the latest updates you can find there (I do contribute firmwares on that site) and this bootloop issue is a normal occurence amongst users. I provide them with a downgraded firmware which is SP Flash Tool and then upgrade it back to the latest version with no issues, except you loose all the installes apps (better than having a paper weight!)