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Is there anything I can do? Brick help

My Xiaomi mi5 does not turn on.
No lights, fastboot is not accessible, resetting it does not do anything.
Basically for any combination of buttons that I press, nothing happens and the screen stays black - it is completely dead.
However, when I plug it into my pc, the devices shows up as qualcomm hs-usb qdloader 9008 (COM3) which is the only sign of life from the phone.
What I want to know is if it is possible for me to unbrick the phone from this situation. I understand that I need to get into fastboot in order to flash the ROM, but is there a way to get to fastboot using my pc? Or even turn the phone on with commands? At the moment ADB and Fastboot does not recognise my phone, is there a way to make it detect it from the state it is in?
Thanks

sivd said:
My Xiaomi mi5 does not turn on.
No lights, fastboot is not accessible, resetting it does not do anything.
Basically for any combination of buttons that I press, nothing happens and the screen stays black - it is completely dead.
However, when I plug it into my pc, the devices shows up as qualcomm hs-usb qdloader 9008 (COM3) which is the only sign of life from the phone.
What I want to know is if it is possible for me to unbrick the phone from this situation. I understand that I need to get into fastboot in order to flash the ROM, but is there a way to get to fastboot using my pc? Or even turn the phone on with commands? At the moment ADB and Fastboot does not recognise my phone, is there a way to make it detect it from the state it is in?
Thanks
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Do you have all the necessary driver installed? I think yes and that is why you are seeing in (COM3) port. You can do one thing, Unplug the phone from PC and Press and Hold Vol Down (-) and plug in again. If not works then you can also Press and HOLD Vol Down and Press and HOLD Power button until you see Fast boot menu. If don't work then try the same thing with Vol UP button. Then you suppose to see a MI phone logo with a USB cable.

"qualcomm hs-usb qdloader 9008" Is a signal of Hard Brick for QCOM devices (Like for LG G2);
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g2/general/fix-unbrick-lg-g2-stuck-qualcomm-hs-usb-t2933830
As you can see here, for fix it you need all partition files, all system files, and a programm
But i dont know if it will works also on SD820, you might need all files for Mi5
Just a question: How did you bricked your phone?
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I had an idea: maybe inside fastboot rom you can find all files you need, it might be worth a try, at least you can send it to your shop where you bought it

sivd said:
However, when I plug it into my pc, the devices shows up as qualcomm hs-usb qdloader 9008 (COM3) which is the only sign of life from the phone.
What I want to know is if it is possible for me to unbrick the phone from this situation. I understand that I need to get into fas,tboot in order to flash the ROM
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1: if you're detecting it as qcom 9008, there's a good chance it's in EDL mode, which is good news
2: download MiFlash from here: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24521665358595574
3: download the latest dev rom from here: http://update.miui.com/updates/v1/fullromdownload.php?d=gemini&b=X&r=cn&n=
4: Extract the files to C:\
5: Open MiFlash & point the folder to the root ROM folder, example: C:\gemini_foo_bar, NOT C:\gemini_foo_bar\images
6: connect your phone & select flash all (1st option from the left, bottom of MiFlash tool)
This might take a few tries (example - you might receive "missed hello packets)
Once you're done, you can stay with the China Dev, unlock the bootloader & flash a xiaomi.eu rom, or CM.
Good luck.

adwinp said:
1: if you're detecting it as qcom 9008, there's a good chance it's in EDL mode, which is good news
2: download MiFlash from here: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24521665358595574
3: download the latest dev rom from here: http://update.miui.com/updates/v1/fullromdownload.php?d=gemini&b=X&r=cn&n=
4: Extract the files to C:\
5: Open MiFlash & point the folder to the root ROM folder, example: C:\gemini_foo_bar, NOT C:\gemini_foo_bar\images
6: connect your phone & select flash all (1st option from the left, bottom of MiFlash tool)
This might take a few tries (example - you might receive "missed hello packets)
Once you're done, you can stay with the China Dev, unlock the bootloader & flash a xiaomi.eu rom, or CM.
Good luck.
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I also had the same issue with black screen and no responses from vol. & power buttons. But when I notice that in device manger it showed the qcom driver, then I new that there was hope to recover the phone. I can confirm that this will unbrick your phone. I MiFlash'd the China Rom (non-dev), unlocked the bootloader, MiFlash'd MiFlash_xiaomi.eu_gemini_V7.2.13.0.MAACNDB_6.0 rom, sideload lastest stable EU rom, TRWP and SuperSU.

adwinp said:
1: if you're detecting it as qcom 9008, there's a good chance it's in EDL mode, which is good news
2: download MiFlash from here:
3: download the latest dev rom from here:
4: Extract the files to C:\
5: Open MiFlash & point the folder to the root ROM folder, example: C:\gemini_foo_bar, NOT C:\gemini_foo_bar\images
6: connect your phone & select flash all (1st option from the left, bottom of MiFlash tool)
This might take a few tries (example - you might receive "missed hello packets)
Once you're done, you can stay with the China Dev, unlock the bootloader & flash a xiaomi.eu rom, or CM.
Good luck.
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Thank you so much, this has worked perfectly and saved me a lot of money! I really appreciate your help, thank you again!

sivd said:
Thank you so much, this has worked perfectly and saved me a lot of money! I really appreciate your help, thank you again!
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Glad you could salvage your device.
Now remember - from great flashing power comes great responsibility ;]

adwinp said:
1: if you're detecting it as qcom 9008, there's a good chance it's in EDL mode, which is good news
2: download MiFlash from here: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24521665358595574
3: download the latest dev rom from here: http://update.miui.com/updates/v1/fullromdownload.php?d=gemini&b=X&r=cn&n=
4: Extract the files to C:\
5: Open MiFlash & point the folder to the root ROM folder, example: C:\gemini_foo_bar, NOT C:\gemini_foo_bar\images
6: connect your phone & select flash all (1st option from the left, bottom of MiFlash tool)
This might take a few tries (example - you might receive "missed hello packets)
Once you're done, you can stay with the China Dev, unlock the bootloader & flash a xiaomi.eu rom, or CM.
Good luck.
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Thanks for the guide, 1 q tho: what to do when i get the "missed hello packets, try to recover" message?, wait or restart the process?
Ok, solved by disabling driver sign (press F8 during boot)

Hello , i got the same problem as described at this topic and here is my problems :
I can't turn on my phone and i can't put it in fastboot mode ( tryed a lot of buttons combinations)
But when i plug it into my pc - it recognizes as Android
I have tryed to install drivers but windows shows mistake and can't install that
When my device connected to pc and i press volume + and power buttons - in few minutes system(WIN 10) recognizes it as ADB interface(can't install drivers too) and i have acess to mi5 internal storage ( i can download photos and so on )
But mi flash doesn't see phone in any mode and i feel that my device is still alive and i can recover it but don't know how....
I will be grateful for any help !

Isteran said:
Hello , i got the same problem as described at this topic and here is my problems :
I can't turn on my phone and i can't put it in fastboot mode ( tryed a lot of buttons combinations)
But when i plug it into my pc - it recognizes as Android
I have tryed to install drivers but windows shows mistake and can't install that
When my device connected to pc and i press volume + and power buttons - in few minutes system(WIN 10) recognizes it as ADB interface(can't install drivers too) and i have acess to mi5 internal storage ( i can download photos and so on )
But mi flash doesn't see phone in any mode and i feel that my device is still alive and i can recover it but don't know how....
I will be grateful for any help !
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If you can see it in adb, you might be able to see it in fastboot.
Try go in to fastboot (even though you can't see it on screen.)
And try fastboot oem device-info see if you can get anything. Then we go from there.

DrBubblewrap said:
If you can see it in adb, you might be able to see it in fastboot.
Try go in to fastboot (even though you can't see it on screen.)
And try fastboot oem device-info see if you can get anything. Then we go from there.
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tryed a lot of time to go to fastboot , but nothing happened...

same issue
I've been having the same problem with my MI5, 128gb running MIUI8 6.6.23CN, unlocked bootloader
It started when I did an OTA from 6.6.16, then OTA failed, I tried again this time it downloaded full rom and went into my twrp but installation started automatically. Then it rebooted but the system stayed in black screen. I forced-rebooted it, then everything was fine and I was on 6.6.23. I was using the phone normally for a few hours, then around 6hr later after I upgraded, I took phone out of my bag and it was bricked. I tried everything, no fastboot, no adb, no recovery, no led, nothing on screen. MiFlash reconizes (cuz of the 9008 status) but flash fails. I event opened it up, disconnected the 3 cables from the battery and hold onto power buttons for few seconds to try to drain whatever power it has left in system. Reconnected battery but no change.
I gave up, put phone back in case and was going to ask friend to take it back to send to china for repair the next day, but then I too it out an hour before I go meet my friend and suddenly, phone led flashed red and I see on screen out-of-battery icon. I plugged it in to charge then LED flickered quickly in red for a bit then turn solid red, then turned orange. I let it charged for 10min or so, and pressed power+Vol_Down for few seconds. Lo and behold, I got the bunny on screen and went into fastboot. I was able to re-flash 6.6.23 and phone was good to go again. (but why did removing battery cables do the same thing? Maybe I didn’t leave it disconnected long enough?)
Good story until this part… then 2 days later, I wanted to test MI Talk with friend, I click on it, and phone froze. Both touch sensor light stayed on. I waited about 15 second and forced reboot. Phone vibrates once and then went into hard brick again. Exactly same situation, nothing works.
Now I am waitng for phone to discharge by itself. God knows how many days it will take. It was 96% charged. (1st time I had about 45% and too a day to discharge)
Only if I can get back into fastboot......

tkrave said:
I've been having the same problem with my MI5, 128gb running MIUI8 6.6.23CN, unlocked bootloader
It started when I did an OTA from 6.6.16, then OTA failed, I tried again this time it downloaded full rom and went into my twrp but installation started automatically. Then it rebooted but the system stayed in black screen. I forced-rebooted it, then everything was fine and I was on 6.6.23. I was using the phone normally for a few hours, then around 6hr later after I upgraded, I took phone out of my bag and it was bricked. I tried everything, no fastboot, no adb, no recovery, no led, nothing on screen. MiFlash reconizes (cuz of the 9008 status) but flash fails. I event opened it up, disconnected the 3 cables from the battery and hold onto power buttons for few seconds to try to drain whatever power it has left in system. Reconnected battery but no change.
I gave up, put phone back in case and was going to ask friend to take it back to send to china for repair the next day, but then I too it out an hour before I go meet my friend and suddenly, phone led flashed red and I see on screen out-of-battery icon. I plugged it in to charge then LED flickered quickly in red for a bit then turn solid red, then turned orange. I let it charged for 10min or so, and pressed power+Vol_Down for few seconds. Lo and behold, I got the bunny on screen and went into fastboot. I was able to re-flash 6.6.23 and phone was good to go again. (but why did removing battery cables do the same thing? Maybe I didn’t leave it disconnected long enough?)
Good story until this part… then 2 days later, I wanted to test MI Talk with friend, I click on it, and phone froze. Both touch sensor light stayed on. I waited about 15 second and forced reboot. Phone vibrates once and then went into hard brick again. Exactly same situation, nothing works.
Now I am waitng for phone to discharge by itself. God knows how many days it will take. It was 96% charged. (1st time I had about 45% and too a day to discharge)
Only if I can get back into fastboot......
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You don't have to go into fastboot to use miflash if you have stock recovery
Sent from my MI 5 using Tapatalk

vf1 said:
You don't have to go into fastboot to use miflash if you have stock recovery
Sent from my MI 5 using Tapatalk
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how do you flash stock recovery if you dont need to go into fastboot? now I am unable to go into recovery or fastboot as the phone does not boot at all. connecting it to PC reconizes the phone as the infamous "Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008" device.
Its been 4 days and the damn battery hasnt run out yet as I can still plug into pc and get qualcom 9008 to come up. I think I am going to send to china to get it fixed properly if I still cannot get the red flicker of low battery power to come up by tomorrow.

It has happened to me 3-4 times already. It didnt want to boot. No signs of life either. I even sent a message to the shop for sending it back..the only thing that was telling me it wasn't completely dead, was the qualcomm driver ,while on USB connection with the PC, which you are referring to as well
Here is what you could try doing. Try pressing the power button for about 30 seconds at first. If it does not boot, try bending the phone real gently back and forth (don't break it!!). Preferably, hit it gently with your palm while holding it in your other hand.( -- I know it might sound weird --) I noticed that it's shutting down while i have it in my pocket and doing some work which squeezes the phone a bit against my leg.
I came to the conclusion that some connection must become loose when some pressure is being applied to it.. Unfortunately it has to be a design flaw of the phone. Nothing random with yours or mine , in my opinion. // I have a case and tempered glass installed as well since the first minute I got it in my hands..
Sent from my MI 5 using XDA-Developers mobile app

Thanks for the tips Takkaros. I tried what you said but nothing changed (though I was a bit scared to bend it too hard). 1st time it happened to me, I had around 40-50% battery and somehow battery completely drained 24hr later so I got the red blinking low of battery light and was able to charge the phone up and go back into fastboot, which solved everything. this time it happened when I had 96% battery(which I knew cuz I was using the phone, then clicked MI Talk and phone froze, then bricked). I wish there is a way for me to force a battery drain without opening it up. I did opened it up once(on the 1st brick) and disconnected the 3 battery cables, but it was still in brick state when I put everything back.
The qualcomm 9008 driver detection was also my concern about sending back the phone. Chances are by the time my phone reaches the repair shop, battery is completely dead and they simply charge the battery then flash a stable rom and send it back to me without changing out the motherboard or whatever. Which in such case it will be faster for me to just wait a week or two and do myself, instead of shipping it to china and wasting shipping cost and probably will take 4-6 weeks.

I am not sure whats wrong with this phone. Sometimes it turns off while i have in on charge at night, with the Green led lighting. I can get into recovery mode but all the partitions are missing. I cant wipe anything and all my files are not there. If I restart the recovery 2-3 times everything comes back to normal. Maybe there is something wrong with the flash drive. If honorbuy replied to my messages i'd sent it back to them asap. This is not a reliable phone for daily use
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Try using mi flash. Follow the instruction
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I am sending back the phone to china to have them "fix" it. Not sure what they will do, hopefully they either swap me a new phone or swap out the motherboard or something. I just hope they dont just boot into fastboot (after battery completely drained and system resets) and flash new rom and send it back to me.
Probably will take a month or so. Good thing i still have my old phone.

tkrave said:
I am sending back the phone to china to have them "fix" it. Not sure what they will do, hopefully they either swap me a new phone or swap out the motherboard or something. I just hope they dont just boot into fastboot (after battery completely drained and system resets) and flash new rom and send it back to me.
Probably will take a month or so. Good thing i still have my old phone.
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This happened to me recently. I used mi flash and the global 7.2.4 stable fastboot rom to get it going again. Wouldn't work for me with with with newer versions. Think edl has been disabled on them.

mi5 hard bricked

hey guys i have a hardbricked mi5 no fast boot or charging if i connect to the computer it says unknown usb device.how to fix my device any ideas.

Try to find and install drivers for qualcomm hs-usb qdloader 9008.

if you hardbrick your pc prob detect your phone as Qualcomm hs-usb qloader 9008 . Just install any MIUI rom use MiFlashTool . you can find tutorial in MIUI forum . Because i got hardbrick last week . and my phone work again after install MIUI rom .

How to solve it
gowtham300 said:
hey guys i have a hardbricked mi5 no fast boot or charging if i connect to the computer it says unknown usb device.how to fix my device any ideas.
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I know it's been a long while since you had this problem, but as I have to face it myself without any clue how to solve it I thought it was a good idea to recover this thread.
First of all, let me say it happened to me with a Xiaomi mi5s. I had already installed adb & fastboot, as well as Xiaomi drivers from the Xiaomi Unlock Tool.
The problem arose when I made a partial firmware upgrade through fastboot in order to install LOS 14.1 via TWRP. I could not geet into fastboot mode, the screen went completely black and no charging LED. Curiously my laptop (Win10) made a tiny nose everytime I pluged or unplugged it (the same one it does everytime you plug a new device) and saw that it recognised it as a 'Qualcomm HS-USB qloader 9008'. More curiously, Xiaomi Flash Tool (BTW, it was the beta version although I guess the latest version would have worked as well) recognised the device although everytime I tried to flash an official firmware I got a message error: 'cannot receive hello packet'.
Well, after some research I was scared because I didn't want to open the phone to unplug the battery or anything. But I read somewhere that someone had the same problem as me and that he tried Xiaomi Flash Tool until it worked.
That was it, that was the clue. Xiaomi Flash Tool ready, having initially recognised my mi5s, the phone connected to the laptop, I made the combination to get into fastboot (holding volume - & power button) until my laptop made a tiny nose (the same one I explained at the beginning). As soon as I heard it I left the phone and clicked on the flash button on Xiaomi Flash Tool. Yes, it worked out. I installed latest development chinese MIUI rom. From there, I got into fastboot, flashed a new recovery... Well that's another history, the fact is that the mi5s is working again and I must say I feel really relived.
If anyone encounters the same problem I had I hope this post is of any help to him/her.

21prods said:
I know it's been a long while since you had this problem, but as I have to face it myself without any clue how to solve it I thought it was a good idea to recover this thread.
First of all, let me say it happened to me with a Xiaomi mi5s. I had already installed adb & fastboot, as well as Xiaomi drivers from the Xiaomi Unlock Tool.
The problem arose when I made a partial firmware upgrade through fastboot in order to install LOS 14.1 via TWRP. I could not geet into fastboot mode, the screen went completely black and no charging LED. Curiously my laptop (Win10) made a tiny nose everytime I pluged or unplugged it (the same one it does everytime you plug a new device) and saw that it recognised it as a 'Qualcomm HS-USB qloader 9008'. More curiously, Xiaomi Flash Tool (BTW, it was the beta version although I guess the latest version would have worked as well) recognised the device although everytime I tried to flash an official firmware I got a message error: 'cannot receive hello packet'.
Well, after some research I was scared because I didn't want to open the phone to unplug the battery or anything. But I read somewhere that someone had the same problem as me and that he tried Xiaomi Flash Tool until it worked.
That was it, that was the clue. Xiaomi Flash Tool ready, having initially recognised my mi5s, the phone connected to the laptop, I made the combination to get into fastboot (holding volume - & power button) until my laptop made a tiny nose (the same one I explained at the beginning). As soon as I heard it I left the phone and clicked on the flash button on Xiaomi Flash Tool. Yes, it worked out. I installed latest development chinese MIUI rom. From there, I got into fastboot, flashed a new recovery... Well that's another history, the fact is that the mi5s is working again and I must say I feel really relived.
If anyone encounters the same problem I had I hope this post is of any help to him/her.
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fixed long time ago , but i appreciate your help and you taking time to do this for me

You are welcome. I was afraid I wouldn't be of much help to you but I thought that it was a good idea anyway to leave my experience just in case at some point it proves helpful to someone.

Help with Xiaomi mi5

Hi I just recived my mi5 and was wanting to put a stock android rom on it that is stable, I see a couple of ROMs on here but not sure what to use or where to start if anyone can give me a guide and correct ROM to use, I'm in UK Scotland
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Please help me my phone is in EDL mode and i can't flash anything on it. It does not turn on no led no light no display no response. Just Qualacomm QDLoader 9008
Everytime i flash it gives me an error.
Max buffer sector is 256.
Errors and so on.....
How to fix please
I have reinstalled all drivers and programs , tried a lot of miflash versions , fastboot roms like 6-8. Many pc restarts

casuk said:
Hi I just recived my mi5 and was wanting to put a stock android rom on it that is stable, I see a couple of ROMs on here but not sure what to use or where to start if anyone can give me a guide and correct ROM to use, I'm in UK Scotland
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk
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If I were you I would definitely flash Lineage OS, its really solid, fast and has a good battery life.
Check this post for instructions. And give him a big thank

Spevky said:
Please help me my phone is in EDL mode and i can't flash anything on it. It does not turn on no led no light no display no response. Just Qualacomm QDLoader 9008
Everytime i flash it gives me an error.
Max buffer sector is 256.
Errors and so on.....
How to fix please
I have reinstalled all drivers and programs , tried a lot of miflash versions , fastboot roms like 6-8. Many pc restarts
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I had the exact same problem, it happened randomly after a normal reboot. I was considering taking it apart to disconnect the battery, try a deepflash cable and EDL but then I solved it.
The problem is your Windows driver. That's why you can't flash anything. Read up on Xiaomi forums about the problem. I can't remember exactly how I solved it, but I think I uninstalled the driver, plugged the phone back in, wait for the automatic install on Device Manager, then for it to update, do a roll back and then flash it via MiFlash.

xdadevet said:
I had the exact same problem, it happened randomly after a normal reboot. I was considering taking it apart to disconnect the battery, try a deepflash cable and EDL but then I solved it.
The problem is your Windows driver. That's why you can't flash anything. Read up on Xiaomi forums about the problem. I can't remember exactly how I solved it, but I think I uninstalled the driver, plugged the phone back in, wait for the automatic install on Device Manager, then for it to update, do a roll back and then flash it via MiFlash.
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Thanks. THat must be the problem. But i tried on my friends pc too and it did not work. Maybe Windows 7 is the problem? Im installing Windows 10.
Which OS do you have?

Spevky said:
Thanks. THat must be the problem. But i tried on my friends pc too and it did not work. Maybe Windows 7 is the problem? Im installing Windows 10.
Which OS do you have?
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I don't think Windows 7 is the problem, but I've been using Windows 10 for 3 years (as Beta user) so I can't tell. Boot into EDL (Phone must be powered off, then hold both "Volume UP" and "Volume Down" as you plug it into the computer, only then do you let go) and tell me what driver your phone is seen as in Device Manager.

xdadevet said:
I don't think Windows 7 is the problem, but I've been using Windows 10 for 3 years (as Beta user) so I can't tell. Boot into EDL (Phone must be powered off, then hold both "Volume UP" and "Volume Down" as you plug it into the computer, only then do you let go) and tell me what driver your phone is seen as in Device Manager.
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It is detected as QDLoader 9008 version of QDLoader 9008

im trying to follow the guides but im not understanding what to do I have downloaded adb and fastboot I extracted the files to a folder and im now stuck, whats this mean
•Append ;%USERPROFILE%\adb-fastboot\platform-tools to the end of the existing Path definition (the semi-colon separates each path entry)
that's were im am so far and im basically lost and need so help if anyone is kind enough to go through the steps with me
thanks
Ok I've unlocked the phone but i can seem to be able to root it

I Messed Up My phone fastboot not working!!!!!

Hello Everyone, so 2 days ago i hard bricked my MI 8 with flashing an eu rom over global mi 8 rom with twrp then when i rebooted the phone it stuck at mi logo so i tried to goto recovery mode again but nothing happens when i press power + volume up its just mi logo and i tried to go to fastboot mode but not luck i get a black screen....................so i decided to connect it to a computer but no signs of anything(not detected).....so i searched google a little and i found a solution wich envolved disassembling the phone the method called EDL method with test point,,,,,,,so i opened my phone with my friends and tried to do the test points,,,when i joined the testpoints and then connecting the phone to pc.....nothing happened.....it should detect the phone but nothing happens.....please help guys!!!

Keep trying with edl, maybe it's a driver issue, but if you can't get it to edl I don't think you can recover your phone ?

mi_guel said:
Keep trying with edl, maybe it's a driver issue, but if you can't get it to edl I don't think you can recover your phone
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I have been trying....but no luck till now:crying::crying::crying:

alandxaled said:
I have been trying....but no luck till now:crying::crying::crying:
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You need to use QPST.
Also you didn't need to open the phone, that step is outdated.
Go ahead and read up on installing all of the needed drivers and as long as your phone is linked to you. That is you have the phone registered to your MiCloud account this issue should be fixable.
I dont have a lot of time today or tomorrow. but I am willing to try and help you figure this issue out.

tsongming said:
You need to use QPST.
Also you didn't need to open the phone, that step is outdated.
Go ahead and read up on installing all of the needed drivers and as long as your phone is linked to you. That is you have the phone registered to your MiCloud account this issue should be fixable.
I dont have a lot of time today or tomorrow. but I am willing to try and help you figure this issue out.
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I installed the drivers...but the main problem is that when i connect it to the pc ....the pc did not recognize the phone not even in device manager

alandxaled said:
I installed the drivers...but the main problem is that when i connect it to the pc ....the pc did not recognize the phone not even in device manager
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This could be an issue with the PC...happens all the time.
If the battery is not completely dead, or if the usb port is not completely fried you should be able to at least see the port.
It's also possible that you are not in EDL.
Simply Flashing the EU rom over Global will not brick your phone, I have done that myself many times. Was your bootloader unlocked? If not then you will probably need to take it to a Xiaomi Service center.
Does the phone mac any vibrations when pressing and holding both the volume up and down ( at same time along with the power button?
Have you tried alternate usb c cables?
If you have a newer computer with usb 3.0 ports you will need to use a Usb hub., which will downgrade the connection to usb 2?
Is ADB Installed on this computer along with generic android drivers?
is the computer up to date?
Have you tried an alternate user and are you using the admin account?
If you have a device that uses linux, see if Linux will see the phone.
If you have tried everything, and you still you see the phone, and the phone has not been exposed to an extreme amount of force or to water. It may be that your usb card in the phone is fried or there is a short in the internal usb flex cable. ( It's the wire that connects the usb card to the motherboard.
You can Google the steps to make your own deep flash cable, that would help rule things out much faster.
I am going to sleep now. Good Luck.

@tsongming Do you know why he bricked his phone? I mean he just flashed .eu.

tsongming said:
This could be an issue with the PC...happens all the time.
If the battery is not completely dead, or if the usb port is not completely fried you should be able to at least see the port.
It's also possible that you are not in EDL.
Simply Flashing the EU rom over Global will not brick your phone, I have done that myself many times. Was your bootloader unlocked? If not then you will probably need to take it to a Xiaomi Service center.
Does the phone mac any vibrations when pressing and holding both the volume up and down ( at same time along with the power button?
Have you tried alternate usb c cables?
If you have a newer computer with usb 3.0 ports you will need to use a Usb hub., which will downgrade the connection to usb 2?
Is ADB Installed on this computer along with generic android drivers?
is the computer up to date?
Have you tried an alternate user and are you using the admin account?
If you have a device that uses linux, see if Linux will see the phone.
If you have tried everything, and you still you see the phone, and the phone has not been exposed to an extreme amount of force or to water. It may be that your usb card in the phone is fried or there is a short in the internal usb flex cable. ( It's the wire that connects the usb card to the motherboard.
You can Google the steps to make your own deep flash cable, that would help rule things out much faster.
I am going to sleep now. Good Luck.
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1-My Bootloader was unlocked yes!
2-i flashed eu rom over evolution rom(Custom rom)
3-Yes It Does Vibrate
4-Yes I Have Tried Other Usb Cables
5-yes, adb installed with generic usb driver
6-yes its updated and i tried mutliple ports
7-i haven't tried linux
8-and i dont think that my usb card is fried because before that it was working
And Another Thing That Might Have A connection with the problem"Before i flashed eu rom over custom rom the unlocked text was shown in the display when booting with mi logo but now that text has gone"

alandxaled said:
1-My Bootloader was unlocked yes!
2-i flashed eu rom over evolution rom(Custom rom)
3-Yes It Does Vibrate
4-Yes I Have Tried Other Usb Cables
5-yes, adb installed with generic usb driver
6-yes its updated and i tried mutliple ports
7-i haven't tried linux
8-and i dont think that my usb card is fried because before that it was working
And Another Thing That Might Have A connection with the problem"Before i flashed eu rom over custom rom the unlocked text was shown in the display when booting with mi logo but now that text has gone"
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The EU rom does not lock the bootloader, the developers actually removed the bit of code that will allow MiFlash to lock the bootloader. Whenever leaving or returning to Miui, storage must be formatted.
The problem with these custom roms for the Mi8 is that These mi8 developers do not work together ( like most do, on other threads) These developers are always fighting and arguing and accusing each other of stealing their code, while they do it themselves and they all have their own way of doing things. Ideally every rom should use the same device tree, firmware and vendor...The basics! But no, everyone does things differently.
I would suspect that your phone bricked due to firmware encryption or just corruption. Even though it seems that it can't be fixed, you will surely be able to fix it eventually.
Many people were eventually able to solve this exact issue in the past with success. so start with the basics., and dont give up when or if it fails, just try again on a different device, and be sure to disable Windows defender. Because it's possible you could have your computer setup in a way that it will make this process harder to resolve, temporarily disable the antivirus and firewall etc.
Download the All in One tool: https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-8/development/tool-tool-one-driverstwrpfactory-t3895807 If it gets flagged, and completely disabled. then your computer is helping contribute to this issue.
If you can successfully install and open the tool, use it to update adb and android drivers and to apply system wide adb access. Next manually setup the phone , even if it claims to not see a fastboot device. and attempted to remove encryption. if this fails find a Linux machine to complete these tasks.
See if you can leave EDL, by pressing and holding the power and volume down. >>>>> Even if you dont see the fastboot screen the computer may see the phone in fastboot.
I definitely believe that you will have a easier path to getting this issue resolved sooner by using linux. If you can "format" ( not wipe) user data, install TWRP and root the rest will obviously be easy.
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Boiisxu said:
@tsongming Do you know why he bricked his phone? I mean he just flashed .eu.
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He didn't format user data, or the file was somehow corrupted

Question Help needed. I think I bricked my phone...

I installed android 12 beta on my Mi 11 ultra. Did not like it and wanted to install global. Installed TWRP, wiped data and instead of rebooting in twrp, I tried to enter fastboot mode via adb. The phone screen turned black. Now it is not showing in ADB, not detected by Mi flash tool, not enetering fastboot mode and not entering recovery. When I connect it to computer, there is this connecting sound but soon it is followed by disconnecting sound. Not even getting the charging screen. In the device manager on Windows, there is this Qualcum HS-USB QDLoader 9008 (COM9) when the phone is connected via USB cable to PC.
Anyway to restore any firmware on it? It is a CN version, star, has bootloadder unlocked.
EDL time? Or even worse? Is it paperweight now?

EDL time I think.

Sathelp said:
EDL time I think.
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Believe me, this is reassuring. I'm happy to settle on EDL instead of paperweight... For EDL does the phone need to be opened, back cover removed and then that magic short circuit or is there a way to get it done without opening the phone?

hellodrsoul said:
Believe me, this is reassuring. I'm happy to settle on EDL instead of paperweight... For EDL does the phone need to be opened, back cover removed and then that magic short circuit or is there a way to get it done without opening the phone?
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Don't worry. When mine was EDL flashed the guy asked me to download a specific miflash version that he had the link for and the ROM of choice to be flashed. I connected the phone to the PC, he connected, asked me to put it in to EDL mode ( he will explain if your not sure) and done his stuff using TeamViewer with control of my desktop. Once finished, just rebooted when asked, all done.

need mi auth to flash

How do you put the phone in EDL mode?

can you get your phone on fastboot?

xNAPx said:
How do you put the phone in EDL mode?
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Hold both vol up and down while powering up or adb, adb reboot edl or fastboot, fastboot oem edl . You will see edl drivers load on your PC.

Thank you guys for your replies. I got it fixed and now it is rocking again. If anybody faces the same issue, please see details below.
Diagnosis: EDL mode
Signs and problems: Completely dead phone. Black screen. None of the buttons or their combinations work. Volume down plus power, volume up plus power, Both volume buttons, All three buttons. None of these worked in this EDL mode. In fact, the only sign that this phone was "alive" was the Qualcomm driver showing in the device manager when the phone was connected to a PC. There was this yellow sign even on the Qualcomm driver and the official Xiaomi flash tool failed to detect the phone due to the Qualcomm driver malfunction. Got the Qualcomm driver working (the yellow sign on the driver name icon in device manager) by disabling windows driver signature check. After this the phone was detected by the official Xiaomi flash tool. When I tried to flash the official and stock CN ROM, it did not allow me and gave the error "you are not authorized to download". Took the phone to Xiaomi service, they refused as the phone was of another region. They did not know any unofficial paid solution. Took it to local technicians. They tried but failed (ultimate multi-tool, some other tool they called as "aqua" did not work.
Treatment: Searched online and found a YouTube channel (
). Paid USD 35 and got it flashed via TeamViewer. I just sat anxiously (praying that he must not be a scammer...). He did some magic and successfully flashed the phone with the original CN ROM with the boot loader unlocked. I then was able to install the global version via fastboot as usual.
Thanks again for the free support I got here. Obliged and stay blessed

hellodrsoul said:
Thank you guys for your replies. I got it fixed and now it is rocking again. If anybody faces the same issue, please see details below.
Diagnosis: EDL mode
Signs and problems: Completely dead phone. Black screen. None of the buttons or their combinations work. Volume down plus power, volume up plus power, Both volume buttons, All three buttons. None of these worked in this EDL mode. In fact, the only sign that this phone was "alive" was the Qualcomm driver showing in the device manager when the phone was connected to a PC. There was this yellow sign even on the Qualcomm driver and the official Xiaomi flash tool failed to detect the phone due to the Qualcomm driver malfunction. Got the Qualcomm driver working (the yellow sign on the driver name icon in device manager) by disabling windows driver signature check. After this the phone was detected by the official Xiaomi flash tool. When I tried to flash the official and stock CN ROM, it did not allow me and gave the error "you are not authorized to download". Took the phone to Xiaomi service, they refused as the phone was of another region. They did not know any unofficial paid solution. Took it to local technicians. They tried but failed (ultimate multi-tool, some other tool they called as "aqua" did not work.
Treatment: Searched online and found a YouTube channel (
). Paid USD 35 and got it flashed via TeamViewer. I just sat anxiously (praying that he must not be a scammer...). He did some magic and successfully flashed the phone with the original CN ROM with the boot loader unlocked. I then was able to install the global version via fastboot as usual.
Thanks again for the free support I got here. Obliged and stay blessed
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I tried this method today and it wasn't successful. It appeared he flashed it with his auth code, but it still doesn't power on. I'm so bummed because DHL won't touch the phone for less than $151 (risk of it being sent back) because seller wants me to lie and say it's a gamepad when DHL has precautions on phones being sent back, etc. requiring importer certificates.
My phone was acting strange on 3rd day: wasn't detecting charging USB cable overnight, would only charge wirelessly. I manually rebooted a bunch of times, then it detected the USB charging and would charge. About that time I updated to Miui 13 OTA update (Chinese /EN Rom) and noticed it was rebooting randomly in my pocket asking for PIN (not getting notifications) . Again got no USB charging through cable.
I was doing a bunch of vol up/down and Power and rebooted into safe mood. Rebooted again after things were 'ok' and little while later, the phone was OFF and never came back on again.
Did I put it into EDL and brick it this way? I Never flashed anything through USB until I tried the 35eur paid service dude.

Happy to see that is being fixed.

Wish it had fixed mine. Unfortunately, it didn't . Was refunded