Hiya. So, here's the story:
Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro EEA, bought from Amazon, not a shady reseller
I made a Google Backup of my apps, because I decided to try out some Android 11 roms.
After trying them out, I wanted to go back to Android 10, so I clean flashed my rom, GApps and disable force encrypt, the usual stuff. But the Google Backup, that I previously used on all the A11 roms was suddenly gone.
I thought, that wouldn't be a problem, since I still had my Android 10 TWRP Backup that I made, before I started experimenting with A11.
I restored that backup and couldn't unlock my phone. So I deleted /data/system/locksettings.db and finally my phone would unlock.
But: My sensors didn't work anymore. I searched the internet for info and found out, that my persist partition got corrupted.
tl; dr: I restored a TWRP backup and my Persist partition corrupted.
Until yesterday, I didn't even know, what the Persist partition was. I never touched it.
I know how to get my sensors working again. But I guess my Widevine L1 is gone now, isn't it?
Seki_ said:
Hiya. So, here's the story:
Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro EEA, bought from Amazon, not a shady reseller
I made a Google Backup of my apps, because I decided to try out some Android 11 roms.
After trying them out, I wanted to go back to Android 10, so I clean flashed my rom, GApps and disable force encrypt, the usual stuff. But the Google Backup, that I previously used on all the A11 roms was suddenly gone.
I thought, that wouldn't be a problem, since I still had my Android 10 TWRP Backup that I made, before I started experimenting with A11.
I restored that backup and couldn't unlock my phone. So I deleted /data/system/locksettings.db and finally my phone would unlock.
But: My sensors didn't work anymore. I searched the internet for info and found out, that my persist partition got corrupted.
tl; dr: I restored a TWRP backup and my Persist partition corrupted.
Until yesterday, I didn't even know, what the Persist partition was. I never touched it.
I know how to get my sensors working again. But I guess my Widevine L1 is gone now, isn't it?
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Yes, it's gone. Share what you did to get the sensors working.
mauam said:
Yes, it's gone. Share what you did to get the sensors working.
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Unfortunate. Oh well.
There's actually multiple ways. You could:
Flash persist from Xiaomi's full fastboot package
Flash persistbak to persist
Flash a working persist image from another Mi 9T Pro
All those things worked for me. In the end, I settled with the persistbak method.
Seki_ said:
Unfortunate. Oh well.
There's actually multiple ways. You could:
Flash persist from Xiaomi's full fastboot package
Flash persistbak to persist
Flash a working persist image from another Mi 9T Pro
All those things worked for me. In the end, I settled with the persistbak method.
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could you tell me how you flashed and dumped persistbak?
wavychris said:
could you tell me how you flashed and dumped persistbak?
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It's almost been a year, so I don't fully remember what I did exactly, but there's some tutorials around you can find pretty easily.
The only thing I remember is going into fastboot and dumping and flashing my partitions via command line, I think.
Seki_ said:
It's almost been a year, so I don't fully remember what I did exactly, but there's some tutorials around you can find pretty easily.
The only thing I remember is going into fastboot and dumping and flashing my partitions via command line, I think.
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ive been searching for a month and im still not sure which tutorial to follow, all i want is to fix my sensors and get widevine l1 back in case it gets void when i flash persist, any help would be phenomenal!
wavychris said:
ive been searching for a month and im still not sure which tutorial to follow, all i want is to fix my sensors and get widevine l1 back in case it gets void when i flash persist, any help would be phenomenal!
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Well if you didn't make a backup before, L1 is L Gone. I didn't get it back. Following any tutorial should get you your sensors back though.
And remember: The first thing to do when getting a new phone is to backup that persist partition, so you don't need to worry about something like this happening again.
Seki_ said:
Well if you didn't make a backup before, L1 is L Gone. I didn't get it back. Following any tutorial should get you your sensors back though.
And remember: The first thing to do when getting a new phone is to backup that persist partition, so you don't need to worry about something like this happening again.
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if i remember correctly you can get widevine l1 back via a magisk module or flashing xiaomi.eu rom and you can download the certificate from there, try it out if you dont got nothing to lose, by the way, if i flash persist will the sensors work permanently or do i have to do this again every once in a while?
wavychris said:
if i remember correctly you can get widevine l1 back via a magisk module or flashing xiaomi.eu rom and you can download the certificate from there, try it out if you dont got nothing to lose, by the way, if i flash persist will the sensors work permanently or do i have to do this again every once in a while?
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Oh, interesting. Definitely gotta try that, thanks. How do you download the certificate in MIUI? Does it happen automatically?
Since I flashed my persistbak, I didn't flash anything else and my sensors are still working, so I guess it sporadically happens... sometimes?
Btw, if you aren't already, you should use OrangeFox recovery instead of TWRP on Xiaomi devices. It usually doesn't kill itself by wiping partitions or flashing roms, especially when coming from MIUI. Also, you can make persist backups with it. For some reason they removed that feature from TWRP.
Seki_ said:
Oh, interesting. Definitely gotta try that, thanks. How do you download the certificate in MIUI? Does it happen automatically?
Since I flashed my persistbak, I didn't flash anything else and my sensors are still working, so I guess it sporadically happens... sometimes?
Btw, if you aren't already, you should use OrangeFox recovery instead of TWRP on Xiaomi devices. It usually doesn't kill itself by wiping partitions or flashing roms, especially when coming from MIUI. Also, you can make persist backups with it. For some reason they removed that feature from TWRP.
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in case you got it wrong xiaomi.eu is a custom miui based rom, not official, just to clarify that, and to download the certificate you must enroll fingerprint then go to fingerprint payments and youll find widevine l1 there, then click on certificate in widevine l1, pretty easy stuff, also how do i install orangefox?
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in case you got it wrong xiaomi.eu is a custom miui based rom, not official, just to clarify that, and to download the certificate you must enroll fingerprint then go to fingerprint payments and youll find widevine l1 there, then click on certificate in widevine l1, pretty easy stuff, also how do i install orangefox?
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Oh, I can't read. For some reason, I thought you said xiaomi.eu or stock, that's why I said MIUI. Anyway, thanks for telling me. I never heard of that.
To install OrangeFox, just download the zip, make backups if you want to be extra sure and flash the zip. Here's the thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/recovery-official-orangefox-recovery-project-r11-1.4308019/
The UI is different, so it took me a little while to get used to it, but ultimately, OrangeFox is a smoother experience than TWRP, at least on Xiaomi.
wavychris said:
if i remember correctly you can get widevine l1 back via a magisk module or flashing xiaomi.eu rom and you can download the certificate from there, try it out if you dont got nothing to lose, by the way, if i flash persist will the sensors work permanently or do i have to do this again every once in a while?
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No, you cannot get L1 through Magisk module - because you need a (paid) certificate for your hardware
To the contrary, there is a Magisk module that disables L1, dropping you to default L3.
Although I never understood who/why needs that
wavychris said:
could you tell me how you flashed and dumped persistbak?
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See here how to backup and/or dump Persist and restore/flash it back.
Of course, if you didn't backup a working Persist on time, you have nothing to restore:
Extracting stock Boot, Recovery and Persist images
Talking here about how to extract the stock Boot, Recovery and Persist images, needed in case of e.g. bootloop upon flashing Magisk or TWRP, to reflash the stock image(s). Also, boot image is needed for patching from Magisk Manager (and flashing...
forum.xda-developers.com
Seki_ said:
Oh, I can't read. For some reason, I thought you said xiaomi.eu or stock, that's why I said MIUI. Anyway, thanks for telling me. I never heard of that.
To install OrangeFox, just download the zip, make backups if you want to be extra sure and flash the zip. Here's the thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/recovery-official-orangefox-recovery-project-r11-1.4308019/
The UI is different, so it took me a little while to get used to it, but ultimately, OrangeFox is a smoother experience than TWRP, at least on Xiaomi.
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its alright lol, thanks for your help btw have a nice day/night
zgfg said:
No, you cannot get L1 through Magisk module - because you need a (paid) certificate for your hardware
To the contrary, there is a Magisk module that disables L1, dropping you to default L3.
Although I never understood who/why needs that
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that sucks man, thanks for the news anyway i might use xiaomi.eu rom to get it back that way at least
zgfg said:
See here how to backup and/or dump Persist and restore/flash it back.
Of course, if you didn't backup a working Persist on time, you have nothing to restore:
Extracting stock Boot, Recovery and Persist images
Talking here about how to extract the stock Boot, Recovery and Persist images, needed in case of e.g. bootloop upon flashing Magisk or TWRP, to reflash the stock image(s). Also, boot image is needed for patching from Magisk Manager (and flashing...
forum.xda-developers.com
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alright thanks i might try it out tommorow ill update you on the process if you want
Hi,
I bought an IMEI changed Samsung Galaxy Note 9. Its rooted using Magisk. I accidentally uninstalled magisk and now I'm getting no network.
I'm asking for help and the way to fix it.
Thanks
Emom 99 said:
Hi,
I bought an IMEI changed Samsung Galaxy Note 9. Its rooted using Magisk. I accidentally uninstalled magisk and now I'm getting no network.
I'm asking for help and the way to fix it.
Thanks
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You're pretty sure uninstalling magisk caused it?
ethical_haquer said:
You're pretty sure uninstalling magisk caused it?
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Yes . I think they changed imei by rooting the phone.
Emom 99 said:
Yes . I think they changed imei by rooting the phone.
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Try reinstalling Magisk.
Hi, I lost my IMEI's and tried everything to fix it. Ended up storing the phone and grabbing another note 9.
Someone did post a fix recently so I took out my no Network Note 9 after 6 months and tried it. It worked !
You need TWRP and a backup of your EFS partition (If you did any backup of your phone through TWRP try that) but only restore the partitions below.
" I wiped all partitions (except internal storage and SD card), then restored EFS, ODM, and ODM image partitions only. Did not reboot to TWRP, simply went to TWRP home and restored all the other partitions (vendor, system, etc)."
Hopefully that helps.
If it works maybe thank the original poster here:
[Alexis Rom 3.4_FVh1][22/08/2022][08/2022 Patches][N960F/FD OneUI3.0 Apps Ported]
DISCLAIMER I will be aware of your problems caused by root like tripped knox... When you flash something like this you may know about the risks you are going to find in! DESCRIPTION SM-N96xF/FD supported. Based on Android 10 OneUI 2.5 Note9...
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