Hello everyone,
I just recieved my Mi8 with bootloader unlocked.
I wanted to link my account to the bootloader so I started flashing 8.8.31 china developer rom via miflash with "clean all and relock" and the flashing didn't complete to the end and the phone started in Mi Recovery. I think I bricked my phone. I was on MIUI 10.0.2.0 global and I had checked arb FAILED before.
Can anybody explain what happened.
Can anybody help me please.
Thanks
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Hello
I bought the Mi8 from China this summer and I decided to unlock it so I can try a few roms ( Xiaomi eu , Pixel 2 Port , Lineage etc. ).
The phone came with Global ROM and unlocked via the unofficial method . My friends advised me to install China Developer MIUI 10 8.8.31 then lock the bootloader and unlock it via the official method and I am waiting 720 hours . In about 10 days the unlock procedure will be finished .
So can you explain which roms can I install ? I will install for now the Global Stable 10.0.2 but I am not the biggest fan of MIUI so I will want to install the Pixel ROM for example in the near future but it's on Android 9.0 . Will I be able to return to MIUI 10 Global Stable with Android 8.1 from any Android Pie ROM or Xiaomi eu ROM ?
Thanks a lot !
Hi, what procedure did you follow to relock the bootloader?
I downloaded China Developer 8.8.31 Fastboot ROM and I flashed it via MiFlash and chose "Clean all and lock" .
fatjanhushi said:
Hi, what procedure did you follow to relock the bootloader?
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I downloaded China Developer 8.8.31 Fastboot ROM and I flashed it via MiFlash and chose "Clean all and lock" .
Alexthekiller1993 said:
I downloaded China Developer 8.8.31 Fastboot ROM and I flashed it via MiFlash and chose "Clean all and lock" .
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Hello,
I flashed 8.8.31 china developer on my Mi8 with relock bootloader and I ended up with endless flashing. I think I bricked my device. The phone booted to Mi Recovery in chinese. Anyone help please
can anyone explain why should you lock and unlock with official method? I find this advice in several places, but noone was able to explain why.
t0mas_ said:
can anyone explain why should you lock and unlock with official method? I find this advice in several places, but noone was able to explain why.
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If you have unlocked Mi8 it means the seller unlock it unofficial by using EDL method . So that means you can brick your device very easily . If you bought it from China you need to install China Stable/Developer and lock it . Then unlock officially with your account then the phone will be less likely to brick if you know what you are doing .
Alexthekiller1993 said:
If you have unlocked Mi8 it means the seller unlock it unofficial by using EDL method . So that means you can brick your device very easily . If you bought it from China you need to install China Stable/Developer and lock it . Then unlock officially with your account then the phone will be less likely to brick if you know what you are doing .
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thanks. do you have more info why and how it will brick more easily? not that i dont belive you, im just trying to learn as much as possible.
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fatjanhushi said:
Hello,
I flashed 8.8.31 china developer on my Mi8 with relock bootloader and I ended up with endless flashing. I think I bricked my device. The phone booted to Mi Recovery in chinese. Anyone help please
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im sorry i cant provide help, but could you please tell the rest of us what exactly did you do so we dont brick ours? im sorry if it sound selfish, but im kinda in the same boat and in my country there is no xiaomi store/repair shop
Edit: i suppose you tried booting to fastboot and flash again?
t0mas_ said:
thanks. do you have more info why and how it will brick more easily? not that i dont belive you, im just trying to learn as much as possible.
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im sorry i cant provide help, but could you please tell the rest of us what exactly did you do so we dont brick ours? im sorry if it sound selfish, but im kinda in the same boat and in my country there is no xiaomi store/repair shop
Edit: i suppose you tried booting to fastboot and flash again?
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I was on MIUI Global 10.0.2.0. I rebooted into fastboot and flashed 8.8.31 fastboot china developer rom with MiFlash and "clean all and lock". The phone booted into chinese Mi Recovery without MiFlash finishing procedure. I couldn't use MiFlash again because the bootloader was locked. I tried Mi PC Suite in chinese and tried to recover my phone but it didn't work. I think maybe ARB bricked my phone. I don't know for sure. I had checked arb before with getvar and the result was "FAILED" so I was confident ARB was not present on my phone. When the phone booted in Mi Recovery in chinese... there was no text saying "This MIUI version can not be installed on this device". So I had not installed a global rom by mistake on my Mi8 china device. I don't know for sure what went wrong. Anyway, I unbricked my phone with an edl authorised account I bought at S-unlock and now I'm on china stable rom 10.0.5.0 and I am waiting 15 days to unlock my bootloader. If anybody might have an idea what might have gone wrong please share your opinion. Could it be the USB drivers on Windows 10??? I don't know.
fatjanhushi said:
I was on MIUI Global 10.0.2.0. I rebooted into fastboot and flashed 8.8.31 fastboot china developer rom with MiFlash and "clean all and lock". The phone booted into chinese Mi Recovery without MiFlash finishing procedure. I couldn't use MiFlash again because the bootloader was locked. I tried Mi PC Suite in chinese and tried to recover my phone but it didn't work. I think maybe ARB bricked my phone. I don't know for sure. I had checked arb before with getvar and the result was "FAILED" so I was confident ARB was not present on my phone. When the phone booted in Mi Recovery in chinese... there was no text saying "This MIUI version can not be installed on this device". So I had not installed a global rom by mistake on my Mi8 china device. I don't know for sure what went wrong. Anyway, I unbricked my phone with an edl authorised account I bought at S-unlock and now I'm on china stable rom 10.0.5.0 and I am waiting 15 days to unlock my bootloader. If anybody might have an idea what might have gone wrong please share your opinion. Could it be the USB drivers on Windows 10??? I don't know.
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how did you flash 10.0.2.0 global? via zip or fastboot? im glad to hear you recovered your phone. if i understand correnctly you steel needed to connect testpoint to get to edl mode?
t0mas_ said:
how did you flash 10.0.2.0 global? via zip or fastboot? im glad to hear you recovered your phone. if i understand correnctly you steel needed to connect testpoint to get to edl mode?
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I flashed with MiFlash in fastboot.
Yes. I opened phone's back cover and connected testPoint to enter edl mode
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I flashed with MiFlash in fastboot.
Yes. I opened phone's back cover and connected testPoint to enter edl mode
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damn, i really have no idea what went wrong. you pretty much did everything by the book and this shouldnt happen. do you remember if you ran getvar anti before or after flashing global?
im asking because as far as i know, official xiomi software should return anti 1 from day to present day. variable unknown suggest reseller tempered with bootloader (to unlock?). but when you fastboot flashed official global it should rewrite everything including bootloader so after it should return 1. i could be wrong on this because im still looking for any real info on this topic. but if you open any fastboot rom tgz and look into flash_all.bat, there is a line thar sets anti to 1. so it should be there from day 1. thanks again for you feedback, lots of people are flashing back to china and locking because other people say it is a good thing to do. your case proves it might not be such a good idea.
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damn, i really have no idea what went wrong. you pretty much did everything by the book and this shouldnt happen. do you remember if you ran getvar anti before or after flashing global?
im asking because as far as i know, official xiomi software should return anti 1 from day to present day. variable unknown suggest reseller tempered with bootloader (to unlock?). but when you fastboot flashed official global it should rewrite everything including bootloader so after it should return 1. i could be wrong on this because im still looking for any real info on this topic. but if you open any fastboot rom tgz and look into flash_all.bat, there is a line thar sets anti to 1. so it should be there from day 1. thanks again for you feedback, lots of people are flashing back to china and locking because other people say it is a good thing to do. your case proves it might not be such a good idea.
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I ran getvar when I was on the global rom 10.0.2.0. I never got the chance to install TWRP or any rom on my Mi8 because I wanted to link my account to the bootloader first. When I opened the phone from the box It was on MIUI 9.6 and I updated to MIUI 10.0.2.0 via OTA and while I was using this version I ran getvar and then continued the flashing
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Redmi k20 pro (China)
I unlocked bootloader and flashed global version india.
Flash was finished and it show this MIUI version can't install to your device.
So i try to flash other rom, it say Erase Boot Error.
How can i do. Now i can't use my phone.
MiUnlock say 'i can unlock only 1 in 30 days.
Please help me for this.
Thank you.
KzFire said:
Redmi k20 pro (China)
I unlocked bootloader and flashed global version india.
Flash was finished and it show this MIUI version can't install to your device.
So i try to flash other rom, it say Erase Boot Error.
How can i do. Now i can't use my phone.
MiUnlock say 'i can unlock only 1 in 30 days.
Please help me for this.
Thank you.
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It sounds like you flashed with the Mi Flash Tool and forgot to change the flash option and so locked the bootloader. Unfortunately doing this bricks the phone when flashing a ROM that is not the same region the phone is from.
You could wait until 1st October and start the unlock again, it should reset to 7 days then. Your other option is to open up the phone and pay $15 to EDL flash a ROM. This guide tells you all about this.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/k2...h-how-to-fix-hard-brick-t3968400/post80248583
KzFire said:
Redmi k20 pro (China)
I unlocked bootloader and flashed global version india.
Flash was finished and it show this MIUI version can't install to your device.
So i try to flash other rom, it say Erase Boot Error.
How can i do. Now i can't use my phone.
MiUnlock say 'i can unlock only 1 in 30 days.
Please help me for this.
Thank you.
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Best way is just stay for a month, If try other things my be u will get hard brick your device. So pls just wait for unlock.
Hello, my friend, i was so sad as you are, and searched in all internet how to fix this problem. So after some trys I got the fix only downloading the miflash unlock and unlocking mi fone, after this every thing worked right even without flashing a rom. ,Hope this information help others people.
Hello there,
So let me explain to you what happent to me.
1 week ago i received the notification telling me that i can update to android 10 with miui 10.4.8, so i did it and i don't know why when the phone rebooted it was stuck on start screen, infinitly loading.
I let it like this all the night, and then when i woke up it was still in the same state.
So i dedicated to flash my older rom, 10.3.5, but when i flashed it using fastboot rom the bootloader got relocked again and i had this message telling me "This miui version can't be installed on your device" in recovery
I can't unlock bootloader again because i need to add my mi account to miui (wich i have no access to), so i decided to use the EDL method, i contacted some people that have an verified miui account with EDL permission, i flashed 10.3.5 but problem is still here i made sure it was indian rom because my phone is india (raphaelin)
So here i am without a solution
Thanks in advance, i can pay if peope can help me
Use miflash and a stock rom. I've never had the bootloader relock itself through flashing.
Hello,
I intentionally bricked my Mi 9 this morning and I only had access to Fastboot mode.
I was able to reinstall an original rom using MiFlash Pro and the tgz file of the rom 11.0.8.
However, my Mi9 was previously on 11.0.5 and I had the unlocked bootloader.
The fact of reinstalling the system made me lose my boootloader and during my unlocking requests via MiUnlock I now get the following message: "Couldn't Unlock, please download the lasted version".
What can I do to downgrade my rom and thus be able to re-unlock my boootloader?
Thanks in advance for your help and sorry for my English I am French
Maybe this is out of place here, but I was wondering, is the mi 9 100% possible to unlock the bootloader? Or is it something you apply for and hope for the best? Also, when they let you unlock the bootloader, is there a lot of custom ROMs out there that can be used as daily drivers?
this is mi flash error, you must download the latest version of mi flash!
Actarus0013 said:
Hello,
I intentionally bricked my Mi 9 this morning and I only had access to Fastboot mode.
I was able to reinstall an original rom using MiFlash Pro and the tgz file of the rom 11.0.8.
However, my Mi9 was previously on 11.0.5 and I had the unlocked bootloader.
The fact of reinstalling the system made me lose my boootloader and during my unlocking requests via MiUnlock I now get the following message: "Couldn't Unlock, please download the lasted version".
What can I do to downgrade my rom and thus be able to re-unlock my boootloader?
Thanks in advance for your help and sorry for my English I am French
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this is mi flash error, you must download the latest version of mi flash!
Hi
I just bought mi 11 ultra unlocked bootloader and its converted to global rom
So what i did .. i flashed another global rom version but by mistake i relocked the bootloader
now cant boot it say cant boot this firmware
cant flash in fastboot again
cant unlock bootloader again i dont know what mi user and password
cant flash in recovery i tried Xiaomitool but couldn't find official Chinese firmware
Any way to fix this ?
XIAOMI MI 11 PRO/ULTRA BRICKED
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Never lock the bootloader when flashing a non original ROM. You may now need to find someone who can perform an edl level flash. Just look at other posts, they do mention who to contact but it will cost a few dollars.
brsteej said:
Hi
I just bought mi 11 ultra unlocked bootloader and its converted to global rom
So what i did .. i flashed another global rom version but by mistake i relocked the bootloader
now cant boot it say cant boot this firmware
cant flash in fastboot again
cant unlock bootloader again i dont know what mi user and password
cant flash in recovery i tried Xiaomitool but couldn't find official Chinese firmware
Any way to fix this ?
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Your case is more easy than was mine. Just reflash the original ROM, unlock, and flash the global.
Cant flash original ? how did you flash it ?
I just found a guy fixed it in EDL mode remotely (Paid service )
brsteej said:
Cant flash original ? how did you flash it ?
I just found a guy fixed it in EDL mode remotely (Paid service )
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are you sure you can't flash?
You said your phone can't boot, get into fastboot, download the oficial fastbook rom to your smart, and just re-flash using the cable
its locked bootloader !
i relocked by mistake .. and mi account is not mine so i cant unlock again
I wont send this post if i have unlocked one
EDL flash then I'm afraid
Same problem here.
Anyone have a contact who can help me, $$.
Thank you
Edl flashing is easy (if we are talking about the same thing), you just need an original rom and the software. But yeah, not sure if that exists for the Ultra out there..
Software is MiFlash or something like that IIRC.
fredour said:
Same problem here.
Anyone have a contact who can help me, $$.
Thank you
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Has your phone fixed?
Yes I paid someone and with the appropriate tools unbricked my mi 11 ultra
But I do not have the contact anymore.