[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shadeclan:
I have this ASUS tablet and it's a nice one. It's got 1.8GHz Quad-Core processors and 2 GB of (actual) RAM. It was, apparently, issued for educational purposes by Google in their

Android for Education

program.

I was able to root the tablet - it accepted the same rooting method as the ZenPhone 5. Please ignore me calling this an ME176CX in the linked post - that was incorrect and I just now fixed it.

About the Tablet:

OS: Android Lollipop 5.0

Kernel Version: 3.10.20-x86_64_byt

android@aquarius #1

Thu Mar5 16:30:07 CST 2015

Build #: LRX21V.WW_epad-12.9.3.19-20150305

BootLoader Info:

Variant: K013C 16

HW_Version: 2

Bootloader Version: WW_epad-12.9/3/19-20150305

IWFI Version: 200.7

Secure Boot: Yes

The major issues I have with it are:

Battery consumption is high.

Data partition is encrypted by the BootLoader.

BootLoader recovery fails.

System updates fail.

I understand that Lollipop 5 is a battery hog and I believe that is my battery issue - I restored a TWRP backup I made (without the data partition of course) and the tablet is currently running nothing but the OS and still consuming battery at about 10% an hour.

I would like to put on a different version or flavor of Android. Before that happens, I need 3 things:

My BootLoader Unlocked

My Data Partition unencrypted

A ROM that will improve battery consumption and maintain full functionality without bricking the tablet.

Can anyone help me with these issues?

I have searched the internet for a ROM or MOD for this tablet without success. In fact, there's very little info out there on this tablet at all. I suspect that ASUS tried to sell it for too much money, decided it was a flop and wound up donating it for educational purposes as some sort of tax break.

Here is a link to my Lollipop backup on Google Drive

Let me know if there's any additional information you need - any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Update: Oooh - found something! Teaching myself ADB and FASTBOOT commands and stumbled on this getvar command by chance - it may help people who know a lot more than me:

C:\[ADB Files Location]>fastboot getvar all
(bootloader) partition-type:reserved: hidden
(bootloader) partition-size:reserved: 0x0000000002e00000
(bootloader) partition-type:metadata: raw
(bootloader) partition-size:metadata: 0x0000000000100000
(bootloader) partition-type:ESP: vfat
(bootloader) partition-size:ESP: 0x0000000002100000
(bootloader) partition-type:boot: hidden
(bootloader) partition-size:boot: 0x0000000001000000
(bootloader) partition-type:recovery: hidden
(bootloader) partition-size:recovery: 0x0000000001000000
(bootloader) partition-type:fastboot: hidden
(bootloader) partition-size:fastboot: 0x0000000001000000
(bootloader) partition-type:reserved_1: hidden
(bootloader) partition-size:reserved_1: 0x0000000002000000
(bootloader) partition-type:panic: raw
(bootloader) partition-size:panic: 0x0000000002000000
(bootloader) partition-type:factory: ext4
(bootloader) partition-size:factory: 0x0000000001000000
(bootloader) partition-type:config: ext4
(bootloader) partition-size:config: 0x0000000002000000
(bootloader) partition-type:cache: ext4
(bootloader) partition-size:cache: 0x0000000058000000
(bootloader) partition-type:system: ext4
(bootloader) partition-size:system: 0x0000000080000000
(bootloader) partition-type:data: ext4
(bootloader) partition-size:data: 0x00000002bcff6e00
(bootloader) partition-type:mnt/sdcard1: vfat
(bootloader) partition-size:mnt/sdcard1: 0x0000000edda00000
(bootloader) max-download-size: 536870912
(bootloader) version-bootloader: 2.0
(bootloader) kernel: droidboot
(bootloader) product: baytrail
all:
finished. total time: 0.102s