Hi,
I don't remember if i have a global or a EEA device. Now i have a custom rom, but i want to revert back to stock.
Is there a way to know if it's an EEA or global device?
Thank you.
titou4488 said:
Hi,
I don't remember if i have a global or a EEA device. Now i have a custom rom, but i want to revert back to stock.
Is there a way to know if it's an EEA or global device?
Thank you.
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You can put your IMEI into an online IMEI checker, which should tell you what region that phone was registered to.
Robbo.5000 said:
You can put your IMEI into an online IMEI checker, which should tell you what region that phone was registered to.
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I try 2 but i don't find the info.
Thank you
Have you tried finding it from Antutu device verification
I have EEA device , and the only way i could get Volte working, was flashing the Global fastboot rom.
dont know why...
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Is there a way I can check weather my phone is the chinese or the global phone?
And if it is the global version, could i brick it with lock and re-lock bootloader?
What if I try to test MIUI 10 and then wanna go back to the eu version of MIUI?
Greetings
entchen
entchen66 said:
Is there a way I can check weather my phone is the chinese or the global phone?
And if it is the global version, could i brick it with lock and re-lock bootloader?
What if I try to test MIUI 10 and then wanna go back to the eu version of MIUI?
Greetings
entchen
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You can usually tell from the writing on the box. If it's Chinese, obviously a Chinese unit. Also, box will be opened and not sealed if unlocked and flashed by reseller.
Global units will be clearly marked with a red sticker on the outside of the box and the box is typically sealed with cellophane.
so and if it is a global unit, I can safe unlock bootloader an lock it without soft brick the device?
entchen66 said:
so and if it is a global unit, I can safe unlock bootloader an lock it without soft brick the device?
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Yes, but you'll need to wait the 720 hours or whatever it is these days first. That's if you're flashing the global rom. I heard it will brick if you flash the Chinese rom
SENSEI888 said:
Yes, but you'll need to wait the 720 hours or whatever it is these days first. That's if you're flashing the global rom. I heard it will brick if you flash the Chinese rom
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So I must wait 30 days when I unlock my bootloader? I thaught the global version is open for all? So I can't flash any other rom to the device without waiting the time?
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?
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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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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
fatjanhushi said:
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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I have this ROM 10.2.2.0 PFAEUOR and locked bootloader, there is a way to get miui v11?
You need update from Orange or unlocked bootloader.
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You need update from Orange or unlocked bootloader.
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Orange dont have a update. If I unlock the bootloader flash a global rom, and then lock again the phone will able to stay in global roms?
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Orange dont have a update. If I unlock the bootloader flash a global rom, and then lock again the phone will able to stay in global roms?
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Yes. You will have all global updates over OTA.
Don't know why to lock bootloader, it's gives you a lot more freedom.
btw you will have to wait a week to unlock it, after sending request for permission.
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Yes. You will have all global updates over OTA.
Don't know why to lock bootloader, it's gives you a lot more freedom.
btw you will have to wait a week to unlock it, after sending request for permission.
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Thanks, one more question if I want stay in a factory rom whats is better Global or EEA? I live in Spain.
djmgermanos said:
Thanks, one more question if I want stay in a factory rom whats is better Global or EEA? I live in Spain.
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Try to read this :https://forum.xda-developers.com/Mi-9/help/eea-stable-global-stable-t3916135 , the only thing I know is that EEA is made because of some Euroupe laws.
My friend flashed Indonesian fastboot Rom in indian RN10 Pro Max and locked the Bootloader, now he is trying to add acount and device to unlock it again but if fails everytime.
An error shows "Couldn't add. Device basic data verification failed"
Please see the attached screenshot.
Do you have any clue how to solve the issue?
you were should use only format data not all & relock.
There is three .bat orders:
one with erasing user data.
one with keep user data.
one with format and relock.
In your case you have to unlock it again.
Can't unlock, can't add account and device. Always shows the error mentioned in the post.
I had to abandon my previous xiaomi phone just for this reason. Accidentally locked the bootloader and couldn't unlock it ever. "The find device storage corrupted, your device is unsafe now".
Couldn't add miui account.
kazi69 said:
I had to abandon my previous xiaomi phone just for this reason. Accidentally locked the bootloader and couldn't unlock it ever. "The find device storage corrupted, your device is unsafe now".
Couldn't add miui account.
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You did the same? I mean flashed another region's rom and locked bootloader?
My friend told me that he did the same in his Redmi Note 8 and then re-unlocked and flashed stock regions's rom, it was fine for redmi 8 so he did this in RN10 Pro too.
Sabuj45 said:
You did the same? I mean flashed another region's rom and locked bootloader?
My friend told me that he did the same in his Redmi Note 8 and then re-unlocked and flashed stock regions's rom, it was fine for redmi 8 so he did this in RN10 Pro too.
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I actually did worse. I was on non-miui Rom then flashed the Fastboot without unticking the lock option. Guess what though the sensors of my MI5 is all okay nothing works due to wrong persist file.
For Relocking Bootloader 1St Flash Stock Region Of Ur Phone
Global Or Indian with Clean All
Then Reflash The Rom With clean And Lock
Tested On Redmi Note 8 Pro Global
javad0644 said:
For Relocking Bootloader 1St Flash Stock Region Of Ur Phone
Global Or Indian with Clean All
Then Reflash The Rom With clean And Lock
Tested On Redmi Note 8 Pro Global
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Could you please share how to flash? since bootloader is locked cant flash anything.
Maybe you did not get my point, we are stuck in another region's ROM with locked bootloader.
Try find Xiaomi repair support center and tell them to help you flash official Indian ROM for you.
You can boot into the system, and the device said it's locked and secure, so it's not hard brick. Should be fine for them to help out, if the warranty is covered under the policy.
Be prepared for data loss, so you need to backup what you want to keep.
Don't tell them you flash a wrong region ROM. Just say the phone seems a bit strange, so want them to help clean flash and update official latest ROM.
javad0644 said:
For Relocking Bootloader 1St Flash Stock Region Of Ur Phone
Global Or Indian with Clean All
Then Reflash The Rom With clean And Lock
Tested On Redmi Note 8 Pro Global
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Hey bro can you tell me if I want to flash preinstalled region's updated fastboot rom do i need to unlock bootloader? For example currently im on indian miui 12.5.4 and i want to flash indian miui 12.5.8 fastboot rom through mi flash. Do i need to unlock bootloader?
Sabuj45 said:
Maybe you did not get my point, we are stuck in another region's ROM with locked bootloader.
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You can try flashing stock with mi flash tool by rebooting to bootloader. Recovery ROM might work even with locked bootloader
Sagesaurabh said:
You can try flashing stock with mi flash tool by rebooting to bootloader. Recovery ROM might work even with locked bootloader
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You cant flash fastboot ROM with locked bootloader.
I own redmi note 10 pro global. I unlocked the bootloader, installed custom recovery, cuatoms roms. Then i flashed indonesian miui will default option, which locked the bootloader.
I booted the device, added account for unlocked and the same time i rebooted fo fastboot and ran miunlock tool and it just unlocked the bootloader. No7days or 30days error at all.
Now im unlocked and using miui global.
Same thing happend with my friend.
He did the same and faced no issue he is again unlocked lol.
Hy all,i have redmi note 10 pro and i want miui rom with call-rec.
Please how to step by step to change rom,tanks all!
Schmith said:
Hy all,i have redmi note 10 pro and i want miui rom with call-rec.
Please how to step by step to change rom,tanks all!
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You wanna flash firmwares / roms for call recording?
Yes,only for call recording.
Sabuj45 said:
My friend flashed Indonesian fastboot Rom in indian RN10 Pro Max and locked the Bootloader, now he is trying to add acount and device to unlock it again but if fails everytime.
An error shows "Couldn't add. Device basic data verification failed"
Please see the attached screenshot.
Do you have any clue how to solve the issue?
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Does the Redmi Note 10 Pro Indonesian (MIUI v12.5.3.0) has Dolby Atmos??
Please reply..
Coz at this time Indian Sweetin supports Dolby Atmos (v12.5.3.0)
Schmith said:
Yes,only for call recording.
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Does the Redmi Note 10 Pro Indonesian (MIUI v12.5.3.0) has Dolby Atmos??
Please reply..
Coz at this time Indian Sweetin supports Dolby Atmos (MIUI v12.5.8.0)
Yes.
I have question, Can I relock bootloader after flash Global rom? There any problem? as like stuck in boot or brick device.
himuscientist said:
I have question, Can I relock bootloader after flash Global rom? There any problem? as like stuck in boot or brick device.
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No. If you have a china rom and you flashed global rom or xiaomi.eu rom, you will find yourself in a screen 'System is destroyed' and only service centers are able to fix that.
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No. If you have a china rom and you flashed global rom or xiaomi.eu rom, you will find yourself in a screen 'System is destroyed' and only service centers are able to fix that.
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I mean after successfully flash unable to relock? Leave its unlock forever?
If you have a global phone with different global firmware, yes. if you have a China phone with a Global firmware, no.
So what firmware was originally on your phone?
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If you have a global phone with different global firmware, yes. if you have a China phone with a Global firmware, no.
So what firmware was originally on your phone?
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Thanks for clarification and replied. My phone CN origin and CN rom but I want to flash its global rom and relock agian bootloader for safety .
himuscientist said:
Thanks for clarification and replied. My phone CN origin and CN rom but I want to flash its global rom and relock agian bootloader for safety .
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Then no, you have to leave it unlocked or you will brick it. Good luck!
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Then no, you have to leave it unlocked or you will brick it. Good luck!
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Last one question please If I flash via official global rom do I get update automatically ?
Sorry, don't know the answer to that one, hopefully someone else will!
himuscientist said:
Last one question please If I flash via official global rom do I get update automatically ?
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Yes, you can update it