Hello guys,
got an Mi3 , using it from last year!
suddenly, I forgot my Phone lock PIN and because of some foolish internet article,I went to Micloud website and from there I opted to lock my device!
But now it is asking for password of my MI account!
I have the password but cant activate it because my phone is offline!
And there's only this white screen asking for password!
I cant go anywhere!
No button is working and i cant get to internet settings!
Please help!
How can i remove the anti theft lock?
Install xiaomi helper or whatever-name-it-is, like the iTunes but for xiaomi 's phone, connect your mi3 it'll use you pc's connection
Yes use MI pc suite and share internet over usb, it will automatically connect.
Once the app reaches 99% it fails and says "sorry, your mi id is not associated with a phone number"
I tried everything I found on google/reddit/xda from ensuring the device was added to the account via developer options, validating the sim, reading my phone via the website directly etc.
Nothing seems to work. Any suggestions?
ND1Razor said:
Once the app reaches 99% it fails and says "sorry, your mi id is not associated with a phone number"
I tried everything I found on google/reddit/xda from ensuring the device was added to the account via developer options, validating the sim, reading my phone via the website directly etc.
Nothing seems to work. Any suggestions?
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Login in browser in your MI account and add your number (same number) in the profile.
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ishaqtkr said:
Login in browser in your MI account and add your number (same number) in the profile.
Sent from my Redmi K20 Pro using Tapatalk
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I have done this then attempted the unlock but it still gives me the same error.
ND1Razor said:
I have done this then attempted the unlock but it still gives me the same error.
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Log into the Mi Unlock Tool with your phone number as the user ID and your normal password
Robbo.5000 said:
Log into the Mi Unlock Tool with your phone number as the user ID and your normal password
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Doesn't work.
Same here, i got this message 2 days ago and now it still happens, i think it's server problem
I would freakin love a solution to this. I've tried every single solution I've seen over the web and nothing has worked so far.
MajorBoobage said:
Doesn't work.
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Do you want to be more specific?
Anyway, I'll expand a little bit.
Start the process again.
Login to a Mi account on the phone.
Go to the Mi Unlock Status, in the developer options.
Turn off WiFi and and hit the button.
Now when using the Mi Unlock Tool, use the phone number of the SIM in the phone to login.
Did not make any changes to the Mi account and don't change the Mi account connected to the phone.
Robbo.5000 said:
Do you want to be more specific?
Anyway, I'll expand a little bit.
Start the process again.
Login to a Mi account on the phone.
Go to the Mi Unlock Status, in the developer options.
Turn off WiFi and and hit the button.
Now when using the Mi Unlock Tool, use the phone number of the SIM in the phone to login.
Did not make any changes to the Mi account and don't change the Mi account connected to the phone.
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I personally already tried this, and no bueno. Even tried using the MI username and such.
MGG5 said:
I personally already tried this, and no bueno. Even tried using the MI username and such.
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After hitting the button in the Mi Unlock Status screen, check the Mi ID of the account logged into the phone, you should be able to see this in the Mi account details settings.
Then enter this Mi account ID as the user ID in the Mi Unlock Tool, using your normal password. This, in theory, should work.
If it does and you get the 168 hours wait message do not, under any circumstance, make any changes to the Mi account, or change the Mi account logged in to the phone, or hit the button again in the Mi Unlock Status screen.
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After hitting the button in the Mi Unlock Status screen, check the Mi ID of the account logged into the phone, you should be able to see this in the Mi account details settings.
Then enter this Mi account ID as the user ID in the Mi Unlock Tool, using your normal password. This, in theory, should work.
If it does and you get the 168 hours wait message do not, under any circumstance, make any changes to the Mi account, or change the Mi account logged in to the phone, or hit the button again in the Mi Unlock Status screen.
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Yes I've also tried this too, and it still doesn't work. By default, the MI account ID = user ID.
Robbo.5000 said:
Do you want to be more specific?
Anyway, I'll expand a little bit.
Start the process again.
Login to a Mi account on the phone.
Go to the Mi Unlock Status, in the developer options.
Turn off WiFi and and hit the button.
Now when using the Mi Unlock Tool, use the phone number of the SIM in the phone to login.
Did not make any changes to the Mi account and don't change the Mi account connected to the phone.
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Sure, I will be more specific:
The device is Chinese K20 Pro Premium 12/512
The OS is up to date.
My phone number is associated and shown correctly both on the phone and on the web, and I get an 2FA texts correctly when trying to make changes to my account.
The SIM card is in, wlan is off and data is on.
Developer options "allow oem unlock" is on.
Account is bound in "Mi unlock status"
Mi unlock tool and drivers are up to date.
I connect my phone in fastboot.
device is verified, but unlock gives an error at 99% "Mi ID is not associated with a phone number"
Changing the phone number and changing it back doesn't help.
Signing in and out doesn't help.
Using "find my phone" doesn't help.
Using Mi ID/phone number/email to log in the unlock tool makes absolutely no difference.
Maybe Xiaomi's verification servers are DDOSed, otherwise no idea what I am doing wrong.
MGG5 said:
Yes I've also tried this too, and it still doesn't work. By default, the MI account ID = user ID.
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It does look like there is a problem with Xiaomi servers.
There's a few people now on these forums having issues and I've just had a look on the Mi Community forums seen people discuss it.
For a long time there's been a bug when starting the unlock process on the phone, when the Mi account currently logged into the phone doesn't have the phone number associated with it.
What should happen is that the phone number from the SIM should be added to the Mi account, but what happens is that a new Mi account is created with the phone number.
So logging in with your normal Mi account gives the error everyone is now seeing, in this case.
This is the reason why logging in to the Mi Unlock Tool using the phone number usually works, because you are actually logging into the new account that you are unaware was created. (It's easy to prove this is what has happened, because you can login into your existing Mi account, then log in using the phone number and you see this is then a different account, with a different Mi ID)
Seeing that many people are failing to unlock the phone and the normal solution is failing, then it does seem like a Xiaomi issue.
Robbo.5000 said:
It does look like there is a problem with Xiaomi servers.
There's a few people now on these forums having issues and I've just had a look on the Mi Community forums seen people discuss it.
For a long time there's been a bug when starting the unlock process on the phone, when the Mi account currently logged into the phone doesn't have the phone number associated with it.
What should happen is that the phone number from the SIM should be added to the Mi account, but what happens is that a new Mi account is created with the phone number.
So logging in with your normal Mi account gives the error everyone is now seeing, in this case.
This is the reason why logging in to the Mi Unlock Tool using the phone number usually works, because you are actually logging into the new account that you are unaware was created. (It's easy to prove this is what has happened, because you can login into your existing Mi account, then log in using the phone number and you see this is then a different account, with a different Mi ID)
Seeing that many people are failing to unlock the phone and the normal solution is failing, then it does seem like a Xiaomi issue.
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Yeap, it definitely looks like the problem is on Xiaomi, because I think I've pretty much tried almost everything by now.
With that said, I'm just going to try and try again every 24 hours or so, or wait for an actual working solution.
For everyone whos having this issue, could you please head over to settings>about phone>all specs>status and check if your phone number is listed or unknown.
ND1Razor said:
For everyone whos having this issue, could you please head over to settings>about phone>all specs>status and check if your phone number is listed or unknown.
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I'm facing the exact issue and it's listed as unknown, even though I manually typed in the number in the SIM settings page.
ND1Razor said:
For everyone whos having this issue, could you please head over to settings>about phone>all specs>status and check if your phone number is listed or unknown.
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My SIM 1 slot shows the number correctly (though without international prefix, just local format)
My SIM 2 slot is disabled for now because it's my high speed limitless 4G data SIM, it has no number, and the instructions for unlock specify explicitly that the unlock request in the status check should go through the mobile data of the SIM associated with your Mi account.
MGG5 said:
Yeap, it definitely looks like the problem is on Xiaomi, because I think I've pretty much tried almost everything by now.
With that said, I'm just going to try and try again every 24 hours or so, or wait for an actual working solution.
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So after a lot of frustration and numerous tries here is what worked for me, not sure if these matter or just a coincidence but.
1. Sign out from your device.
2. Using a PC browser, delete your xiaomi account (this is under "settings" in my info)
3. On your phone, create a new xiaomi account with your phone number, say yes to all prompts (Mi cloud, activate find my phone).
4. On your phone browser, go to account.xiaomi.com, enter the credentials, add your email.
5. Go to Mi unlock status in developer options and associate the number (allow OEM unlock should also be on).
6. Boot to fast boot.
7. In Mi unlock tool, paste your phone number, do not type it!
This seems to be important to me, because due to some bug, when I type my number there is no international prefix drop down menu, when I pasted the number (after typing it 100s of times today) this international prefix dial code suddenly appeared. Making me believe there was a mismatch in the number which caused the problem.
8. Connect phone and proceed to unlock. The timer is now 168 hours.
Hope it helps.
MajorBoobage said:
So after a lot of frustration and numerous tries here is what worked for me, not sure if these matter or just a coincidence but.
1. Sign out from your device.
2. Using a PC browser, delete your xiaomi account (this is under "settings" in my info)
3. On your phone, create a new xiaomi account with your phone number, say yes to all prompts (Mi cloud, activate find my phone).
4. On your phone browser, go to account.xiaomi.com, enter the credentials, add your email.
5. Go to Mi unlock status in developer options and associate the number (allow OEM unlock should also be on).
6. Boot to fast boot.
7. In Mi unlock tool, paste your phone number, do not type it!
This seems to be important to me, because due to some bug, when I type my number there is no international prefix drop down menu, when I pasted the number (after typing it 100s of times today) this international prefix dial code suddenly appeared. Making me believe there was a mismatch in the number which caused the problem.
8. Connect phone and proceed to unlock. The timer is now 168 hours.
Hope it helps.
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Too many Mi Accounts are associated with the phone number ********. Wait 6 months after deleting your Mi Account to add this phone number to another account.
Great.
Regardless, typing my number to log inot the tool appears to show the country code for me. Would logging in via email/account number not solve this issue too?
ND1Razor said:
Too many Mi Accounts are associated with the phone number ********. Wait 6 months after deleting your Mi Account to add this phone number to another account.
Great.
Regardless, typing my number to log inot the tool appears to show the country code for me. Would logging in via email/account number not solve this issue too?
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No idea, didn't work for me.
The country code was the thing for me.
I suggest you get a prepaid sim to use for a week, and start from scratch, you won't need this Mi account anyway after the unlock.
Hi all!
I'm trying to unlock the bootloader of my redmi k20 pro / mi 9T pro, I followed some different guides, but without any result.
Now I'm at a sticking point: when I try to add the account in the "Mi Unlock status" i get the message "can't add more account to this sim card".
anyone can help me to get through this problem?
Thanks a lot, this is a really helpfull forum!
Fiodorx said:
Hi all!
I'm trying to unlock the bootloader of my redmi k20 pro / mi 9T pro, I followed some different guides, but without any result.
Now I'm at a sticking point: when I try to add the account in the "Mi Unlock status" i get the message "can't add more account to this sim card".
anyone can help me to get through this problem?
Thanks a lot, this is a really helpfull forum!
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It sounds like you've got more than one Mi account and the phone number is registered to a different account than the account connected to the phone.
Try logging out of your Mi account on the phone, then log in again, but using the SIM phone number as the account ID.
If that works, then you will also need to log in to the Mi Unlock Tool using the phone number for the account ID.
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It sounds like you've got more than one Mi account and the phone number is registered to a different account than the account connected to the phone.
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yes, I've got two different accounts, but every time I sing in with a different one, I delete the previous account. but it seems that xiamoi as a "memory" of the number used. so, I can't sing in with no one of the other tow accounts beacuse I already deleted it. now I tried tu use and create an account with another sim: I need to wait 168 h, the same of some weeks ago, but the unlock went bad the last time. I'm on a stacking point.
Fiodorx said:
yes, I've got two different accounts, but every time I sing in with a different one, I delete the previous account. but it seems that xiamoi as a "memory" of the number used. so, I can't sing in with no one of the other tow accounts beacuse I already deleted it. now I tried tu use and create an account with another sim: I need to wait 168 h, the same of some weeks ago, but the unlock went bad the last time. I'm on a stacking point.
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y have same problem
hello the community,
have recently purchased a Mi mix from a friend,(for my girlfriends son for passing his GCSE's), who purchased it from facebook marketplace when we rebooted the device to clean it for the young lad we found that the original sellers account was keeping the device locked,so we tried contacting the chap but to no avail he seems to not want to reply to any messages sent to him,either via facebook messenger or email,so am looking for help on bypassing the original account so i can give this phone to this hard working lad who did so well on his exams through these troubling times of lockdown and covid-19,now for anybody asking THIS IS NOT A STOLEN DEVICE it was purchased in good faith but this is an issue i cannot seem to solve,i have tried the Mi unlock progam on my PC with no luck,Mi PC suite with no luck,numerous videos on youtube with no luck if anybody could help that would be much appreciated
thanks
As I understand it the device is locked to the previous owners Mi account, which lock is actually located on a Xiaomi server somewhere, not in the device itself.
As soon as you start up the device, running any version of MIUI, and give it internet access, it will check and discover it is locked.
If you have proof of purchase you could try contacting Xiaomi support and ask them to remove the lock for you.
Otherwise you really need the former owner to remove the device from his Mi account.
He can do that remotely if he has any other Xiaomi device registered to the same account.
Can I add another MI account without removing the previous accounts?
Hello,
Please I use a redmi9t , I purchased and set up my Mi account my self , and I've been using it for sometime now.
Just recently I was about adding a new Google account to my phone when suddenly my phone got locked.
The first thing I saw displaying on my screen was "This device is locked", so I was directed to activate the device by inputting the password of my MI ACCOUNT, which is the same account associated with my phone ,which I did but the phone would not unlock...
Kept saying "couldn't unlock. Can't sign in " (and I was inputting the correct password),
I've used the same I.D and password to log in to my MI account on the Xiaomi website with another phone, and it was swift, I've checked if my account was blocked but it wasn't, I've even change my Mi password while on the website but my phone would still not accept the password, kept returning the same response...
I don't know what else to do.
I've been locked out of my device, and I can't even switch off the phone.
Please is there a way to get back Access ?
Try hard to remember incase not then its need to remove it from server
Its the correct password, as a matter of fact , I intentionally inputted a wrong password just to see if it would bring the same response, it didn't ; instead it brought back the response "couldn't verify mi account I.D. Invalid username or password"
as you see invaild you can try login mi tool
as see if its same try reset pw
Just don't add again MI Account in Developer Options. Because so, you'll have to wait Again.