[Huawei MediaPad, T-Mobile SpringBoard] Kris the wizz 15:
Unfortunately, I've managed to brick (sort of) my Huawei Mediapad 7 Youth (s7-701u), and I need some help unbricking it.

Complete log of events before and leading up to the brick:

1)Flashed an alpha release of a CWM port than I'm working on, using terminal emulator. It doesn't work, unfortunately. and now I may never get it to work. :(

2)Had a few xposed modules running:

-Monster UI 4.0

-Permission master

-Guesture Navigation (or something like that)

All xposed modules were working fine together, rebooted quite a few times with them active. So I don't think they're the problem.

3)Removed everything located in the /cust folder. Again, I've rebooted enough times to conclude that this may not be the root of the problem.

4)Changed a few apps into system apps, either to replace those I deleted, or just to ensure they run at boot namely:

-Nova Launcher (to replace Huawei launcher)

-Google Keyboard (to replace Huawei Keyboard)

-Titanium Backup (to replace Backup)

-SD Booster (to change SD card read speeds at boot)

-Monster UI (I figured It may work better as a system app)

-SuperSU (Why not?)

5)I put in a custom boot animation.

I found a lollipop boot animation on OnHax, downloaded the bootanimation.zip, placed it in my /system/media and changed appropriate permissions.

When I rebooted, it worked, but hang halfway. The device booted as normal though. I took apart the bootanimation.zip, messed around with the desc.txt, recompressed it, and once again placed it in /system/media.

Upon rebooting, it didn't work, giving me a blank screen with only the backlight on. However, it vibrated, as it usually does, to indicate that the boot was completing, and it did indeed boot up.

A couple of tweaks to the desc.txt and two bootanimation.zips later, I rebooted, confident I'd at last solved the problem.

Huawei Logo shows up, as usual. Blank screen with only backlight (figured I must still have messed up the desc.txt), the vibration happens, as usual, Then, nothing.

Analysis of current situation

Here's a quick rundown of my tab's current situation:

1) Normal booting

It will show the Huawei logo it shows first, but instead of the boot animation, there's nothing but the backlight. The vibration that happens just before the boot completes still happens, at around the normal time, and after that, the backlight goes on/off if I press the power button.

2) SD Upgrade recovery method

If I copy the update folder (the one named dload) form the official firmware to the SD card, as per the instructions, nothing happens. Probably because I replaced the recovery. It shows the huawei logo, same as when a normal boot happens.

3) Bootloader mode

I can, in fact, boot the tablet into bootloader mode. This is the only reason I haven't given up on this tab. Applications such as RKAndroid and rkflash recognise it, so i think it's just a matter of getting the correct config files and/or proper .img files to use with such apps

4) ADB

Generally, no. ADB will not work. I believe USB Debugging was deactivated. Not too certain though

It did detect the tab once, and only once. Unfortunately, it didn't occur to me then to just delete the offending bootanimation using ADB shell. Never got it to work since. Maybe there is a special order of keys to press to get it to work, I dunno.

Things I have tried

1) Reflashing the stock recovery using RKAndroid

My logic behind this is, if I can get the original recovery back in, I can then get the SD upgrade to work, fixing everything.

2) Getting ADB to recognise it

If I can get ADB to recognise it, I can delete the bootanimation.zip, and maybe reflash the stock recovery using ADB shell

3) Using the SD Upgrade

If this works, then all my problems are solved, right?

Any and all help in this situation will be greatly appreciated. Looking forward to working with you guys to breath life back into this tablet.