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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

Mi 5 stuck on black Mi screen

Hello everybody,
To explain things a bit better than just this title. I have a Mi 5 that was working smoothly for quite a long time. Had a modified MIUI ROM flashed on it with many specific apps such as xposed, Magisk and also TWRP. However, my GPS has turned completely dead for some months. Couldn't use it anymore. After some researches, I found out it could be software related. So I decided to flash a new ROM (AOSP Extended) to see if that could fix the GPS issue.
First I backed up the whole system via adb on my laptop and then wiped the whole system. It turns out after trying to flash the AOSP ROM, I came across a message saying I should have MIUI 8.1.30 or older. Or something like that... Can't remember exactly. Just read that I was supposed to update my ROM to a newer stock ROM to be able to flash AOSP in a second time. I did a lot of different operations and I can't remember them all but it turns out one moment, adb started to flash a ROM because the adb command line was saying it. But it failed. Aftert that moment, my phone definitely got bricked. I have no clue what exactly happened, it's kind of confused...
Currently, the phone is always displaying dark screen with mi logo and "unlocked" mention below. Power and volume up will just reboot it to the same state (meaning twrp is not longer installed or accessible). In this dark screen mode, plug the phone to a computer will do nothing, it's not even detected in devices manager. On the other side, power and volume down will boot the phone into fastboot mode, the computer beeps when I plug the USB cable and I can briefly see the Android device with a yellow warning in the dev manager. But after something like 20 seconds, fastboot mode goes off and phone restarts on black MIUI screen.
I've tried to install Google drivers, Qualcomm drivers and did numerous actions but the phone isn't detected anymore. Also, tried to type command "adb devices" in the short time when the phone is detected by computer in fastboot but it shows an empty list. I'm pretty desperate, seems I've tried anything and I've no ideas now... Just saw there is possibly a hardware fix which requires to dismount the back of the phone. Not sure what it does but I'll try it out if no other solution shows up...
Any idea is welcome ! Thanks

Well, looks like my thread wasn't so popular Finally found a workaround after nearly 8 hours searching for a fix. Thought that might help anybody else having the same struggle as mine. What I can tell is that it's not related to the computer used since I've made the same operations on 3 different computers, same problem for each of them. In fact, there were two problems :
First the bootloader not remaining more than 30 seconds. To stop this, I had to open the devices manager and as soon as the Android device would appear after turning it into Fastboot, I would right click on the visible device (appearing with an exclamation mark) and update manually the driver following the process that is described in many topics (locate the Google Android devices USB drivers that I downloaded right before). The time is quite short so you have to be pretty fast, otherwise, the MI 5 would disappear, forcing you to do the fastboot mode operation again. I have to say that doing it without the device being recognized is not working. So if you install with the legacy driver option, it's not going to be associated directly to the device. At least, not in my case.
Once I had done this, the Fastboot mode would remain on. I found my way pretty fast until that moment but the problem was adb wouldn't detect my device. Typing "adb devices" command would return no result, no matter what I did. Strangely, installing an old version of MiFlash (last ones gave me error) would help the computer to detect the device. I don't know why, possibly because the drivers are better ? Anyway, MiFlash helped me to access the phone and Flash a new ROM. Usually, I was just using adb and it would do the job but this time not.
Hope it can help !