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Used Mi 5

If I were to buy a used Mi5 and I dont have the mi account that was originally used on the phone, can I unlock the bootloader?

As far as I know, the Mi Unlock tool only checks if the Mi Account you login to is the same as the one currently in use on the phone. It should work.

So if someone factory resets, no account used then I use a new account, all should be good?

ermacwins said:
So if someone factory resets, no account used then I use a new account, all should be good?
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Yeah, as long as that user removes the device from their Mi account, as you won't be able to sign in to any other one otherwise.

Yeah, I would make sure that user actually removes the device from their Mi account. Even when I use Miflash and install a new ROM via fastboot, I still get prompted to enter my Mi account password.
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Maybe this can work? http://en.miui.com/thread-212187-1-1.html

Locked Mi Account

Hey guys I just bought in China used Mi5,
Seller told me that i can't log in Mi account, so now I can't update my MIUI rom,
Miui version is 7.2.12.0 can someone tell me how to remove binding from old account and install clean Global Stable rom?

Download the version you want (i suggest the Global Developer version) and put it in the Download_rom map of the phone.
Then start the Update software, choose from menu for installing downloaded rom and choose the downloaded version.
After that, you can register online an own (new) MI account.
If the phone is still bootloader locked you can ask for unlock permissions on your new account.
If already unlocked, just connect you new MI account with the phone.
Last step can be done from the developer version in the developer menu.

elot01 said:
Download the version you want (i suggest the Global Developer version) and put it in the Download_rom map of the phone.
Then start the Update software, choose from menu for installing downloaded rom and choose the downloaded version.
After that, you can register online an own (new) MI account.
If the phone is still bootloader locked you can ask for unlock permissions on your new account.
If already unlocked, just connect you new MI account with the phone.
Last step can be done from the developer version in the developer menu.
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I was in similar situation and that helped. I reccomend folowing elot01 adice

and what about if my phone becomes locked after upgrade? its losted phone so it has binding on the old account

Meerk4t said:
and what about if my phone becomes locked after upgrade? its losted phone so it has binding on the old account
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I am not sure if i understand correctly, but the bootloader will not get locked just from the upgrade.
It can get locked by a full new install via the MI flash software (if you want that).
You can simply logout from the current Mi account, so the phone is not mapped to that old account.
Make a new Mi account if you don't have it, and login on the phone with that account.
If the phone is bootloader locked, wait 24 hours after login and then request unlock permissions.
But yours was already unlocked i thought.

elot01 said:
I am not sure if i understand correctly, but the bootloader will not get locked just from the upgrade.
It can get locked by a full new install via the MI flash software (if you want that).
You can simply logout from the current Mi account, so the phone is not mapped to that old account.
Make a new Mi account if you don't have it, and login on the phone with that account.
If the phone is bootloader locked, wait 24 hours after login and then request unlock permissions.
But yours was already unlocked i thought.
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my bootloader is locked aswell as mi account on the phone. you don't understand me

Meerk4t said:
my bootloader is locked aswell as mi account on the phone. you don't understand me
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Ok, then start by logging out the MI account.
You will not need a password for that, just go to settings and find the MI account and logout.

elot01 said:
Ok, then start by logging out the MI account.
You will not need a password for that, just go to settings and find the MI account and logout.
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No I can't because now I have installed rom without Mi services, If I install global rom with Mi services my phone will be locked

Meerk4t said:
No I can't because now I have installed rom without Mi services, If I install global rom with Mi services my phone will be locked
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If you have a MIUI without Mi account in the settings, then i think you have a custom rom and not the original China or Global rom.
If you follow my steps, then you will not lock the bootloader.
Download the Global Developer or the China Developer version and put in on the phone in the Download_rom directory.
Start the Update App.
Push on the 3 dots (menu) button on the top right.
Choose for 'Other rom' or something like that.
Choose the downloaded full version rom and choose install.
That will give you a developer version with the Mi account option and it will not lock your phone.

I think your device is bypassed Mi account lock for temporary .
device can lock after firmware update or factory data reset , please be careful

Redmi 3s
bootloader is unlocked in my device. i frequently shift between miui and stock rom. Once when i came back to miui rom from stock, everything came up, but i got a screen saying "mi account is locked" and it wants me to verify the account. So when i entered the password of the mi account, it says "cant verify, cant connect to internet". The thing is im not able to bypass that screen, without bypassing i cant use the phone nor cant enter any app.
Im using global developer rom.
Please help me.

bootloader unlock _ Deleted account

Hi friends
I deleted my account before logging out of it from my device and now my device locked And after flashing roms is edl mode it locked again.
Is there any way to unlock bootloader or bypass the lock?
Thanks

ali.ir78 said:
Hi friends
I deleted my account before logging out of it from my device and now my device locked And after flashing roms is edl mode it locked again.
Is there any way to unlock bootloader or bypass the lock?
Thanks
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Could you be more specific please for this part "I deleted my account before logging out of it from my device"? Have you deleted the Mi account from the device?

DutchMan_1990 said:
Could be more specific please for this part "I deleted my account before logging out of it from my device"? Have you deleted the Mi account from the device?
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excuse me for my weak English
I mean first I deleted my mi account and I have forgotten to log out on mi 5 and NOW the device is locked.

ali.ir78 said:
excuse me for my week English
I mean first I deleted my mi account and I have forgotten to log out on mi 5 and NOW the device is locked.
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Well can you see the Mi account info in your device? If yes then try to recover the password. If that's not possible then register a new Mi account and request for an unlock request again. As far as I know it may not be possible to delete an Mi account fully. Just try to recover the password.

ali.ir78 said:
Hi friends
I deleted my account before logging out of it from my device and now my device locked And after flashing roms is edl mode it locked again.
Is there any way to unlock bootloader or bypass the lock?
Thanks
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It's because of weak xiaomi programming
I can recover my account just using Mi ID because I made another account using my email that was associated with my previous account Is there any way to find out the ID? because its like this 167****5677
Thanks again

ali.ir78 said:
It's because of weak xiaomi programming
I can recover my account just using Mi ID because I made another account using my email that was associated with my previous account Is there any way to find out the ID? because its like this 167****5677
Thanks again
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I don't think so. Unless you've phone no bounded with that account. Just re-apply for unlock with that new account and remove the Mi account from your device.

No its not possible to recover it anymore... Unfortunately your phone is a paperweight now.

I think you can try https://imeisn.com/ if you didn't found a solution. It helped me just yesturday.

Waiting 168 hours to unlock bootloader for more than a month

So I bound the Mi account I use on my 9T Pro when I bought it in October (came from redmi 4x) and in November I tried to unlock the bootloader from the common method using Mi unlock, but it said I had to wait 168 hours, I waited like 15 days (I was occupied by work and forgot about the bootloader thing) then, 15-16 days after tried to unlock the bootloader again and got the same "wait 168 hours"; I waited another week+1 day and tried to unlock it again and the same 168 hours message appeared. Today, another week+1 day passed and tried to unlock again and the same message showed up again.
Tl;Dr :
I've been trying to unlock the bootloader for like 2 months and every time I try to unlock it it shows "wait 168 hours".
Any way to fix this or unlock the bootloader without mi unlock?

when you say you tried to unlock the bootloader, what did you actually do?
Also during the wait time was the phone on? Was the SIM card in? were you using it while you waited?

After waiting a week what are you doing?
You should not do anything on the phone, other than put it into fastboot.
Then connect to the PC and use the Mi Unlock Tool as normal.
Doing things like changing the Mi account linked to the phone, binding the phone again in the Mi Unlock Status screen, etc. will reset the timer.

I am facing same issue on my mi note 10!!
Do you able to unlock your Device then??

From my experience you can use your phone normally while you wait , make sure you use an Intel based pc and make sure you install and update the drivers from mi unlock tool and mi flash tool .
It happened to me once because i didn't have the drivers correctly installed , and log in to both devices , also oem unlock on in dev options just in case.

Just go to developer mode and check mi unlock status and follow what has been said. And dont just login mi account in your phone but also sync your account with your phone

I have followed all rules
1)I didn't sign out my mi account from the device during waiting time!!
2)used my phone normally with sim card
3) i installed drivers from mi unlock tools
4)oem &usb debugging is on
5)i tried with 3 accounts but same issue occuring!

404.rinik said:
I have followed all rules
1)I didn't sign out my mi account from the device during waiting time!!
2)used my phone normally with sim card
3) i installed drivers from mi unlock tools
4)oem &usb debugging is on
5)i tried with 3 accounts but same issue occuring!
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After waiting 7 days, what steps are to doing to finish the unlock process?

Robbo.5000 said:
After waiting 7 days, what steps are to doing to finish the unlock process?
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I have added mi account from the developer option
Then went to fastboot mode then again trying to unlocking my device by mi unlock tools and same errrorrr!! 168 hours
NB: find device, location,sync is turned ON!

404.rinik said:
I have added mi account from the developer option
Then went to fastboot mode then again trying to unlocking my device by mi unlock tools and same errrorrr!! 168 hours
NB: find device, location,sync is turned ON!
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You should have already added the Mi account at the start of the process. Redoing this again at the end is why the counter is getting reset.
After 7 days you only need to put the phone in fastboot mode, connect to the PC and run the unlock tool.

Robbo.5000 said:
You should have already added the Mi account at the start of the process. Redoing this again at the end is why the counter is getting reset.
After 7 days you only need to put the phone in fastboot mode, connect to the PC and run the unlock tool.
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No brother listen, suppose i added mi account in mi unlock status ...then maintaining all rules(find device on,sync on) i have entered to fastboot mode and starts the unlock process by mi unlock tools then i got 168 hours timer
Ok fine then after 7 days don't i need to again add account to mi unlock status??? I talked about this!! I didn't logout mi account from my device within the 7 days!
If you talk about that after 7 days i just need to go at fastboot mode and unlock through the mi unlock tools then my question is how my device will recognize?? It won't show any error like add your device in mi unlock status?????
Check this note i found it miui website
Note:
1. Follow the timer/ waiting period shown in Mi Unlock Tool to unlock successfully.
2. After you've successfully bound your Mi Account, do not factory reset/ log out the approved Mi account from your phone. Otherwise, the timer will be reset and you gotta spend more time waiting again.

404.rinik said:
No brother listen, suppose i added mi account in mi unlock status ...then maintaining all rules(find device on,sync on) i have entered to fastboot mode and starts the unlock process by mi unlock tools then i got 168 hours timer
Ok fine then after 7 days don't i need to again add account to mi unlock status??? I talked about this!! I didn't logout mi account from my device within the 7 days!
If you talk about that after 7 days i just need to go at fastboot mode and unlock through the mi unlock tools then my question is how my device will recognize?? It won't show any error like add your device in mi unlock status?????
Check this note i found it miui website
Note:
1. Follow the timer/ waiting period shown in Mi Unlock Tool to unlock successfully.
2. After you've successfully bound your Mi Account, do not factory reset/ log out the approved Mi account from your phone. Otherwise, the timer will be reset and you gotta spend more time waiting again.
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At the start you go to the Mi Unlock Status in the developer options and press the button to link and validate (bind) the phone with your Mi account(needs to be done over cellular data). This only needs to be done once. If you do this step again it resets the 7 day timer.
After 7 days you just need to use the Mi Unlock Tool, logging in to it with the account you already linked to the phone 7 days earlier.

Robbo.5000 said:
At the start you go to the Mi Unlock Status in the developer options and press the button to link and validate (bind) the phone with your Mi account(needs to be done over cellular data). This only needs to be done once. If you do this step again it resets the 7 day timer.
After 7 days you just need to use the Mi Unlock Tool, logging in to it with the account you already linked to the phone 7 days earlier.
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I got it !!
That's the issue!! Okay i will try after next 7 days
So the summary is like
Unlocking process has two parts
1st part
We need to apply and get 7 days waiting
In this step we need to add mi account through mi unlock status (developer option)
2nd part
After 7 days just directly booted to fastboot and starts unlocking procedure by mi unlock tools!!
But are you sure about that???

404.rinik said:
I have added mi account from the developer option
Then went to fastboot mode then again trying to unlocking my device by mi unlock tools and same errrorrr!! 168 hours
NB: find device, location,sync is turned ON!
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Brother, you shouldn't add the mi account in MI unlock status more than once. Just add it the first time only. If you add it again, the waiting timer resets.

Robbo.5000 said:
At the start you go to the Mi Unlock Status in the developer options and press the button to link and validate (bind) the phone with your Mi account(needs to be done over cellular data). This only needs to be done once. If you do this step again it resets the 7 day timer.
After 7 days you just need to use the Mi Unlock Tool, logging in to it with the account you already linked to the phone 7 days earlier.
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One confusion is there....nd forgive me....i dont know much about all this nd am doing this first time, in the 7 day wait period....do i have to leave the phone attached to my PC by the cable? or can i detach it nd use it normally for the waiting period?

fragmeant said:
One confusion is there....nd forgive me....i dont know much about all this nd am doing this first time, in the 7 day wait period....do i have to leave the phone attached to my PC by the cable? or can i detach it nd use it normally for the waiting period?
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You SHOULD use it and with the SIM card

zgfg said:
You SHOULD use it and with the SIM card
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okay...... i wish to do that cz after i updated to android 11 this june...the wifi speed on my phone has decreased drastically...... nd it was a normal update ..... not something i forced....i've resetted my phone almost 10 tmes now but nothing worked......all the other devices connected to my router work at the max bandwidth except for this one. So i plan on fastbooting my phone with the previous android 10 version which was on my device before android 11...... does anybody think that it might fix the issue?

After binding the phone to your Mi account, using the Mi Unlock Status, put the phone into fastboot and connect to the PC.
Login to the Mi Unlock Tool on the PC and try to unlock the phone. If your lucky it might unlock straight away. If not it will tell you how long you need to wait. (Used to be 7 days)
If you need to wait, disconnect the phone and continue to use it as normal.
Once the wait period has expired, put the phone into fastboot and connect to the PC.
Login to the Mi Unlock Tool and try the unlock process again. This time it should work.
Do not do the Mi Unlock Status process again. It restarts the timer.

Robbo.5000 said:
After binding the phone to your Mi account, using the Mi Unlock Status, put the phone into fastboot and connect to the PC.
Login to the Mi Unlock Tool on the PC and try to unlock the phone. If your lucky it might unlock straight away. If not it will tell you how long you need to wait. (Used to be 7 days)
If you need to wait, disconnect the phone and continue to use it as normal.
Once the wait period has expired, put the phone into fastboot and connect to the PC.
Login to the Mi Unlock Tool and try the unlock process again. This time it should work.
Do not do the Mi Unlock Status process again. It restarts the timer.
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understood thanks

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understood thanks
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One more thing to know, if you haven't got that far.
There used to be a bug with the Mi Unlock Status process and I don't know if it's fixed.
If your Mi account never had your phone number linked to it, the Mi Unlock Status process would create a new account, using your phone number from the SIM card and with the password of your original Mi account, instead of updating the original Mi account with the phone number.
When using the Mi Unlock Tool, logging in with your email or Mi ID, if it says the phone isn't linked to your account, use your phone number to login to the tool instead.

Mi Cloud lock bypass

Hello everyone, I bought a Xiaomi Redmi 4A, but the seller haven't been using it for a long time so she forgot Mi Account login things and doesn't want to care about it. The phone wasn't locked and I wanted to do a factory reset, but it was protected by the Mi Account. I did the factory reset in recovery (stock) and then the phone was locked. I removed the FRP lock and used Miku Tool for Mi Account removal, but the account is removed only until I connect to the internet. What should I do to remove it permanently? Thanks lot.

Hi did you find solution sir im stuck with the same problem . I just registered to this forum today but im worried no answers are forthcoming here