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Hard bricked Mi 8

Hello,
I have hard bricked my Mi 8 doing that :
1. install TWRP 3.2.1 (successfull)
2. backup of original phone setup (everything was checked)
3. trying to flash xiaomi.eu MIUI 10 (latest realease)
4. booting (unsuccessfull, not bootloop but after MI android logo doesn't boot up)
5. so i decided to restore my backup (just data unchecked)
6. press reboot (and it didn't reboot)
The actual situation :
When i try to press the power button the phone doesn't boot, If i try to go into recovery mode it doesn't boot and same for fastboot mode.
The screen is unresponsive (no backlight) and it doesn't vibrate. When i connect the phone to my computer it is automatically recognized as Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 (COM5) which correspond to the EDL mode (i think).
I tried :
1. miflash (using 2 different fastboot china dev rom found on the XDA recovery post for mi 8) --> the mi 8 is automatically recognized as Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 (COM5) without using deepflash cable or pressing any button and I got an error : "ERROR: Only nop and sig tag can be recevied before authentication."
EDIT : I updated my Miflash tool and now i have to connect to my Mi account BUT i have to be EDL authorized by Xiaomi to flash repair my phone
2. deepflash cable (but it changes nothing)
3. mi flash pro : it open miflashtool
4. mi pc suite : nothing
I don't understand why it is bricked considering i just restored a working setup but it the most hard brick i have ever seen.
If someone can help me or suggest an option i'll give it a try and keep you updated.
EDIT : i understand now , it is due to the Anti-Rollback system that xiaomi implemented in their rom (we can't downgrade) + the necessity to have an EDL authorized account
Thanks you
PS : i can post MiFlash log if it can help

And with mi pcsuite?

pizer11 said:
And with mi pcsuite?
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Didn't try it but i was thinking this software wasn't updated since 2015. I just see right now that the 3.2 beta is released and Mi 8 is supported.
Thanks for that, i'll give it a try tomorrow as i can't do this that night.
I'll keep you updated.

Did you format data, your backup... Was it global or chinese?

israelnobrega said:
Did you format data, your backup... Was it global or chinese?
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My initial ROM was the vendor rom (Mi global store on aliexpress) and i think it is a fake "official global rom" on MIUI 9.5 so a modified chinese rom.
The xiaomi.eu ROM was the MIUI 10 8.7.26 for Mi 8.
Before every flash (or restoration) of ROM I format DATA, CACHE and DALVIK.
btw i didn't format data, cache and dalvik after the restoration. I just press the reboot option of TWRP and it never booted again.

Omg. I'm afraid. My mi8 came with global 9.5 china (in facto it's chinese version) and i've put MIUI 10 beta 8.7.12. In 1 week I'll be able to unlock it and put global rom (my language is portuguese). But after reading this, i'm not motivated. Sad. Hope you'll can fix It. Crossed fingers here!

israelnobrega said:
Omg. I'm afraid. My mi8 came with global 9.5 china (in facto it's chinese version) and i've put MIUI 10 beta 8.7.12. In 1 week I'll be able to unlock it and put global rom (my language is portuguese). But after reading this, i'm not motivated. Sad. Hope you'll can fix It. Crossed fingers here!
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Yeah it is weird... that's the first time i see such a problem on an android (and Xiaomi device).
Actually you can flash TWRP (I suggest v3.2.1) without any problem but backup/restore didn't worked for me and flash xiaomi.eu didn't worked (but it didn't bricked my mi 8).
EDIT : I have some "news" but i'm not sure about that. I think there is something about the anti-rollback system : as i flashed MIUI 10 and restored back to MIUI 9.5 (downgrade) it activated the ARB system and hard bricked my phone (maybe).
I checked others forum and a guy named MyReghalia on en.miui.com forums have EXACTLY the same problem as me and he didn't figured it out with that problem.
BTW maybe with an EDL authorized account i'll be able to flash via Miflash but find someone who has an authorized EDL Mi account to borrow or EDL authorize my account is an other problem....

Did u flash the right recovery.img on the mi8?if so what partitions u restore?faulty recovery?....is weird i have never see ql9008 mode unless the recovery is broken and restore an partiton in the wrong slot

You need to try the EDL method

Here try this
http://en.miui.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=3459005&extra=page=1&mobile=2

altvolt74 said:
Did u flash the right recovery.img on the mi8?if so what partitions u restore?faulty recovery?....is weird i have never see ql9008 mode unless the recovery is broken and restore an partiton in the wrong slot
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Yep, i flashed the v3.2.1 -0611- for Mi 8 availible on the XDA forums. It worked and i had access to the custom recovery.
When I backuped/restored I checked all the options availible and didn't touch anything about partitions. Maybe it is a faulty recovery but actually i have some clues because, IMO also it is weird that my device is automatically recognized as ql9008 mode. (BTW it seems to be a well known problem on redmi note 5/pro)
I checked on diverse forums and there is the ARB (Anti-RollBack system) that xiaomi put inside their rom and doesn't allow to downgrade android version or miui firmware unless a brick occurs. The only way I found to get back my phone is to contact xiaomi repair services and asked them to repair my phone because they have authorized EDL mi account (it is something pretty new, before we had acces to flash in EDL mode without account, now it is regulated by xiaomi....)
skanskan said:
You need to try the EDL method
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I did try (it is the way i used in Miflash with fastboot rom availible in the same post than TWRP v3.2.1 -0611-) and i need an EDL authorized account to do that
altvolt74 said:
Here try this
http://en.miui.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=3459005&extra=page=1&mobile=2
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Thanks you but actually i don't need to do the test point method because my phone is already and automatically in EDL emergency mode.
BTW it is the good way to do it but unfortunately i don't have any EDL auth account...
With everything i read on different forums i'm pretty sure that rom development will be extremely difficult until a way is found to get around this ARB system and EDL authorization account that doesn't allow to repair our bricked xiaomi phone.

Very bad they ask for an account even with emergency EDL repairs.

Hello, my mi8 I have it more than a month ago and came with the Chinese ROM, then update from the phone to MIUI 10 Chinese beta, then using Miflash to rom.eu MIUI 10 and then again through Miflash to the last global 9.5.14.0 and I have not had any problem PPR what I think At least in my case that Xiaomi has not activated the Antirollback in the Mi8, forgive my English, greetings
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Ahhh I forgot, before doing all that had unlocked the bottloader through Miunloock and the last ROM that had flashed the global I forgot to unmark that blocked the device and the phone was in Bootloop, so I went back to unlock the bootloader and Ripped smoothly

skanskan said:
You need to try the EDL method
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There are only 2 ways to bring back to life the MI8 with brick
1.-Xiaomi Authorized Account (Miflash)
2.-Latest version of China stable in my case I need the 9.5.14.0 and there is only the 9.5.11.0 for Flash by Mipcsuite 3.0 China
(Mipcsuite 3.0 Chinese version allows flash with blocked bootloader)

davidmtzs87 said:
There are only 2 ways to bring back to life the MI8 with brick
1.-Xiaomi Authorized Account (Miflash)
2.-Latest version of China stable in my case I need the 9.5.14.0 and there is only the 9.5.11.0 for Flash by Mipcsuite 3.0 China
(Mipcsuite 3.0 Chinese version allows flash with blocked bootloader)
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Mipcsuite does not allow flashing via EDL.

I have the same issue before and I got the solution form miuieu forum.
After installing miui 10 from miuieu, you need to format data. Then bring up to home screen successfully.

Hi ,
Actually the only way to get back a hard-bricked Mi8 ( no fastboot , no recovery) is through MiflashTool with an EDL authorized account , there isn't any way to do this because MiPcsuite doesn't recognize an hard bricked device.
By the way it seems that this problem is not well known on XDA forum I strongely invite you to speak about that on these forums (BE AWARE) and to take a look at xiaomi forum, where it seems a bigger problem than here (a LOT of people, from India , China and everywhere around the world are in the same boat...).
The problem begun with the note 5/pro (you will find more about that on this device's forums)
Also, i returned back my Mi8 because of the xiaomi's politics about the liberty to self repair (software) our phone and i get to oneplus which allows us to do whatever we want...
Good Luck and peace

Hello, my MI8 is Bricked and i need An EDL Auth. Can anyone help my? Sry for my bad English. :Weinen::Weinen:

skanskan said:
You need to try the EDL method
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The problem is you need an authorization buy Xiaomi doesn't provide them anymore.
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How can we get the authorized account, please?

Did you find a solution?
raulmhe said:
Mipcsuite does not allow flashing via EDL.
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I am facing the same problem. It's driving me crazy!

BRICKED A2 totally Differently

I flashed miui 10 on my a2 just to experience the rom. Then totally out of my mistake I flashed an 58 mb update of miui 10 of Note 5 instead of 6x from here. " https://sourceforge.net/projects/xiaomi-firmware-updater/files/non-arb/V10/whyred/ ". I flashed it via twrp, and bang my set is bricked.
It now stays in EDL mode when i connect to pc, Then i tried the guide "[GUIDE][MI A2 / MI 6X] How to unbrick from ARB (EDL state)" [ Link is : https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-a2/how-to/guide-how-to-unbrick-arb-edl-t3846426]
Here, i downloaded miui 10 of mi 6x, then exchanged abl.elf, ddr and another file of jasmine .
I followed everything, but problem occurs when i clicked on flash. these thing come up:
1) read hello pocket
2) could not read hello pocket
3) try to reset status
4) write timeout ,maybe device was disconnected
I opened mI flash tool as an Admin, still same erros.
I later tried to flash a2's stock rom by clicking flash_all.bat file and it gave me this error: "fastboot getvar product 2>&1 | findstr /r /c:"^product: *jasmine" || echo Missmatching image and device"
SEEKING YOUR KIND HELP .....
EDIT : SOLVED AFTER TESTPOINTS MTHOD

Have you tried test point method? I have the same issue with Mi 6X and it should work with Mi A2 too

Redmi Note 5 Pro and Mi A2 / Mi 6X ROMs are interchangeable with a proper TWRP so you flashed an older version of MIUI 10 which caused the brick. In your case, the only way to revive it is by test-point (shorting two tiny pins on the motherboard to put phone in a proper EDL state).

Arrappp said:
Have you tried test point method? I have the same issue with Mi 6X and it should work with Mi A2 too
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no didnt tried it

Here :
https://en.miui.com/thread-3052407-1-1.html
You only need to download the proper ROM your device

Arrappp said:
Here :
https://en.miui.com/thread-3052407-1-1.html
You only need to download the proper ROM your device
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u have given me Test point method, but the link of the rom is of mi 6x's where my set is a2 actually, shouldn't i use A2's stock rom?

Syed Shahriar said:
u have given me Test point method, but the link of the rom is of mi 6x's where my set is a2 actually, shouldn't i use A2's stock rom?
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Use that method to flash your Mi A2 with it's original stock Android One ROM. You do not need to modify any files just to open up your device and short that pins.

djmitza222 said:
Use that method to flash your Mi A2 with it's original stock Android One ROM. You do not need to modify any files just to open up your device and short that pins.
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Actually, with my case Mi 6X you have to extract and replace this file into the extracted stock ROM
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oGYw3DfLxmSlBoWATYWec_qk1amb0KeA/view?usp=drivesdk
I don't know if it will work with Mi A2

Syed Shahriar said:
I flashed miui 10 on my a2 just to experience the rom. Then totally out of my mistake I flashed an 58 mb update of miui 10 of Note 5 instead of 6x from here. " https://sourceforge.net/projects/xiaomi-firmware-updater/files/non-arb/V10/whyred/ ". I flashed it via twrp, and bang my set is bricked.
It now stays in EDL mode when i connect to pc, Then i tried the guide "[GUIDE][MI A2 / MI 6X] How to unbrick from ARB (EDL state)" [ Link is : https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-a2/how-to/guide-how-to-unbrick-arb-edl-t3846426]
Here, i downloaded miui 10 of mi 6x, then exchanged abl.elf, ddr and another file of jasmine .
I followed everything, but problem occurs when i clicked on flash. these thing come up:
1) read hello pocket
2) could not read hello pocket
3) try to reset status
4) write timeout ,maybe device was disconnected
I opened mI flash tool as an Admin, still same erros.
I later tried to flash a2's stock rom by clicking flash_all.bat file and it gave me this error: "fastboot getvar product 2>&1 | findstr /r /c:"^product: *jasmine" || echo Missmatching image and device"
SEEKING YOUR KIND HELP .....
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edit flash_all.bat with notepad++ and delete 2-3 first lines that have a getvar command
after that in fastboot you can flash any rom without mismatch error

djmitza222 said:
Use that method to flash your Mi A2 with it's original stock Android One ROM. You do not need to modify any files just to open up your device and short that pins.
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actually whenver i connect my device its recognised as sd 9800 under PORTS & COM, do i need to short the pins?

If you cannot bypass the Hello package error or the mismatch, you need to short pins because the phone it's not in a proper EDL state (yours in brick-EDL state and it can flashed only with Mi Authorized Account even if its Mi A2 or any other one). So we need to do this method in order to bypass that thing. As I read more carefully, I understand that you triggered the ARB (anti-roll back). In this case your only hope is to flash the latest MIUI 10 for Mi 6X and then, to get back to stock Android, you can flash AOSP Extended.

Syed Shahriar said:
I flashed miui 10 on my a2 just to experience the rom. Then totally out of my mistake I flashed an 58 mb update of miui 10 of Note 5 instead of 6x from here. " https://sourceforge.net/projects/xiaomi-firmware-updater/files/non-arb/V10/whyred/ ". I flashed it via twrp, and bang my set is bricked.
It now stays in EDL mode when i connect to pc, Then i tried the guide "[GUIDE][MI A2 / MI 6X] How to unbrick from ARB (EDL state)" [ Link is : https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-a2/how-to/guide-how-to-unbrick-arb-edl-t3846426]
Here, i downloaded miui 10 of mi 6x, then exchanged abl.elf, ddr and another file of jasmine .
I followed everything, but problem occurs when i clicked on flash. these thing come up:
1) read hello pocket
2) could not read hello pocket
3) try to reset status
4) write timeout ,maybe device was disconnected
I opened mI flash tool as an Admin, still same erros.
I later tried to flash a2's stock rom by clicking flash_all.bat file and it gave me this error: "fastboot getvar product 2>&1 | findstr /r /c:"^product: *jasmine" || echo Missmatching image and device"
SEEKING YOUR KIND HELP .....
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How did you flash MiUI on it? I want to flash mine but couldn't find how to do it

emprazol said:
edit flash_all.bat with notepad++ and delete 2-3 first lines that have a getvar command
after that in fastboot you can flash any rom without mismatch error
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< waiting for device >
stuck in here

I had a similiar problem the last weekend, my phone wasn't able to boot up and the pc didn't recognize the device while on fastboot. if your pc detects your phone as 9008 COMX (something like that) you should try to flash the stock AO rom 9.6.10 with MiFlash, I only could flash with the latest miFLash version, its installer was on chinese! try this one if you get something like "couldnt connect to COMX" error, if miflash doesn't recognize your phone at all or you cant flash even when everything seems to be ok, you probably must short the pines and flash with MiFlash... I had to use test points to recover my device, there wasn't other way, my pc never detected it at all... good luck!
sorry for my english

Syed Shahriar said:
actually whenver i connect my device its recognised as sd 9800 under PORTS & COM, do i need to short the pins?
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You must short the pins to revive your device, remember it will void your warranty,

djmitza222 said:
Redmi Note 5 Pro and Mi A2 / Mi 6X ROMs are interchangeable with a proper TWRP so you flashed an older version of MIUI 10 which caused the brick. In your case, the only way to revive it is by test-point (shorting two tiny pins on the motherboard to put phone in a proper EDL state).
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Genuine question: is this true for the official LineageOS version (made for whyred)? That would be a massive finding, so much so that people building for whyred should be made aware that they cover more devices than they expected.
Needless to say, without confirmation I won't risk my Mi A2 experimenting that... sounds too good to be true (no offense intended).

enapah said:
Genuine question: is this true for the official LineageOS version (made for whyred)? That would be a massive finding, so much so that people building for whyred should be made aware that they cover more devices than they expected.
Needless to say, without confirmation I won't risk my Mi A2 experimenting that... sounds too good to be true (no offense intended).
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It works. You just need to flash the whyred TWRP and flash back stock Android One boot.img after every ROM install.

Mi 9 stuck on mi logo but there's more than that...

Hi!
Suddenly my phone is stuck on mi logo with the android logo on bottom for 2 days now.
I downloaded a frimeware for mi 9 and trying to flash it with mi flash software but its never completed the flashing.. it keeps counting the seconds for 3h and nothing happend.
(I added a screenshot above)
I tried to flash a new rom but its says the bootloader is locked.
Im afraid that development mode is not turned on so i can even unlock it and the phone is not booting up for it.
There is something eals to do or use it for door holder ? ?
Thanks.

very sad
I have an experience like that,
step1: but first try to flash the exact ROM was before this happened. it must be fastboot one. if no success try the next step
step2: if you are lucky and have been Bound mi account in the developer menu you can unlock the bootloader and flash any ROM for your device. if no success try step 3
step3: unfortunately maybe you need to flash ROM via EDL and authorized account.

thanks you.. the first step worked! buy via recovery mode
cheers!

xiaomi MI 9 CC9 brick ?

hello I have a locked xiaomi mi 9 lite (xiaomi m1904f3bg / MI 9CC / pyxis)
I manage to activate the EDL mode and my windows recognizes it in Qualcomm on the COM port (03)
I am stuck at this stage, in this mode I cannot do anything, the adb or fastboot commands do not work the device cannot be found
Side mode Or fastboot mode its recognize on adb but , erreur lock state , thanks
how can I proceed,
thank you.

any mate help me plz ?
Thanks

Patmos77 said:
any mate help me plz ?
Thanks
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What did you do to brick your phone?
Is your phone recognized as "Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader" in Windows settings? Did you try to flash fastboot ROM with mi flash?

Hello sorry for the late reply but I had found the solution.
The phone was blocked mi account cloud it was impossible to flash it without the authorized account or an account certified by xiaomi,
I pay for software with it, I have access through their server to authentication at xiaomi (the only solution) ( edl mode Qualcomm usb ^)the flash was authorized at the start of the procedure, so it was impossible to do it with any other software (free) or the xiaomi official as authorization is required solve the problem in 20 minutes this way!
Thanks

Question Mi 11 ultra stuck in fastboot

Hello,
I buy a Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra to Tradingshenzen.
I try to update in 13.0.13 EU.
Since it stuck in fastboot mode loop.
Bootloader is lock.
USB debug is off.
I can't access with ADB.
I try to flash it with MiFlash 2022.5.7, don't work ( Erase is not allowed in Lock State).
I heard about EDL fastboot mode but It seems to need a specific software to generate a code to unlock, so i don't know what to do.
Sorry for my bad english...

Try to unlock bootloader .
Apply for permissions to unlock Mi devices
en.miui.com
Some useful info , here it says that it's possible to apply for EDL auth.
https://c.mi.com/thread-2173190-1-0.html