Redmi Note 9 Bootloop to recovery - help needed - Redmi Note 9 Questions & Answers

Hi all,
I have a rooted redmit note 9 that was running the stock rom (EU version i believe as i am UK based) perfectly well for several months until today when then latest over the air update installed and my phone is now stuck in a bootloop where i can only access the custom PBRP recovery (installed from when i rooted previously). I can also access fastboot. I have tried wiping all data and cache etc, i have tried reflashing the magisk patched stock rom that previously worked, i have also tried flashing vbmeta that i flashed previously but still no luck. This is my only phone so I really need to get it working again.
I was about to try re-flashing the stock rom with SP tool but it tells me the scatter file is invalid.
Not sure what else to try now. I also note that when i PBRP loads up it always asks for a password however i dont have a password on the device.
Please could someone suggest something i could try?

ajadamjones87 said:
Hi all,
I have a rooted redmit note 9 that was running the stock rom (EU version i believe as i am UK based) perfectly well for several months until today when then latest over the air update installed and my phone is now stuck in a bootloop where i can only access the custom PBRP recovery (installed from when i rooted previously). I can also access fastboot. I have tried wiping all data and cache etc, i have tried reflashing the magisk patched stock rom that previously worked, i have also tried flashing vbmeta that i flashed previously but still no luck. This is my only phone so I really need to get it working again.
I was about to try re-flashing the stock rom with SP tool but it tells me the scatter file is invalid.
Not sure what else to try now. I also note that when i PBRP loads up it always asks for a password however i dont have a password on the device.
Please could someone suggest something i could try?
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your devices is encrypted try flash other custom rom first then try revert to stock hope it help u out

Thanks very much for your response. Based on your advice i tried to flash the latest Kraken 11 Vanilla rom from this fourm, however after installing via TWRP now i can't even get into recovery anymore, just goes straight to fastboot.
Any other suggestions please?

I have now managed to get back in to TWRP and tried flashing lineage latest rom but still i am stuck in a boot loop taking me to fastboot this time.
Please can someone help suggest hwo i can get my phone working agian. At this point i dont care which rom i end up (custom or stock) with as long as i can get it to function again

If your device is rooted, you can NOT update the system using the OTA (over-the-air), or the device will be stucked in bootloop.
If your device is rooted, you need to update the system MANUALLY, using the fastboot or spflashtool.
I suggest to update the system using the fastboot.
Now, you need to flash the whole MIUI again, except userdata and you will have your device back.

For anyone with a asimilar problem i eventually managed to fix my issue by using miflash tool version 20180528 and flashing merlin_eea_global_images_V12.0.10.0.QJOEUXM_20210413.0000.00_10.0_eea_c4a9d5d7fc fastboot version which i downloaded from the xiami site.
I had to try this multiple times because the extraction of the file did not seem to be correct on the first attempts.

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MIUI update bricked my phone?!

My Mi 8 got bricked by the latest MIUI update. I installed the software update from settings and clicked reboot and it booted straight to TWRP (more on that in a bit). I tried rebooting to system but it just went straight back to TWRP. I have unlocked the bootloader and also rooted my phone but as I kept the stock ROM I wouldn't think this would break it. In hindsight, after doing a bit of looking around it seems like people tend to reflash stock.img before updating or something when they've rooted their phone? Wish I'd known that before I clicked update.
I tried flashing a different ROM but when I go to reboot it just says "no OS installed. Are you sure you want to reboot?" and just goes into bootloop stuck on the Mi logo
using fastboot adb tools I can boot it into TWRP (has never worked using the volume and power buttons) and flashing ROMs seems to go okay but reboot says no OS installed and it bootloops, as I said.
I've tried flashing the latest MIUI build for my device, pixel experience, lineage OS and all of them yield the same results. Happy to answer any questions and try out any suggestions that anyone has. I'm really quite desperate!
SOLUTION: I flashed the stock firmware using the xiaomi mi flash tool. This fixed pretty much everything apart from now the camera doesn't work lol
What twrp you are using?
dimitrisverlis said:
what twrp you are using?
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twrp-3.2.1-0611
Wipe everything, FORMAT data and update xiaomi firmware.

stuck on "MI"

I'm on twrp and I can't install any aosp rom anymore. format "yes", install fw 0.9.0. start with the flash seems to be all right, reboot system and get stuck on MI and nothing happens, try again with another rom and it is the same. I returned to the initial state with XiaomiFlash, I install twrp, I redo all the procedures and start again as before. any idea about it?
if i install a rom xiaomi.eu with twrp the phone works, if i install a rom always with different twrp inside it does not install anything. It had never happened to me, the problem appeared after I tried xiaomi.eu 12 how do you suggest me to proceed?
baggino said:
I'm on twrp and I can't install any aosp rom anymore.
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Unfortunately you're not very clear with what you did. So I only can assume that you probably didn't flash vbmeta.
Cheers
Toscha
thanks tosca, I don't know how but I had used the wrong firmware ..., now all solved

Bootloop after flashing

It all started 1 month ago when my phone stopped working for 3 days, then went really slow.
Luckily I had the time to unlock it and I started trying to fix it today, but it won't work.
I tried to flash it with the latest EEA Rom on the MiFlash tool (succeed, but then it bootloop).
I also tried to flash it in recovery mod with OrangeFox but again it doesn't change anything
Btw phone is a Redmi Note 9 PRO (idk if the PRO does change anything)
Could you be more specific?
What did you unlock? Bootloader? Did you root the bootloader after?
Is it the correct rom for your device ( I know little of EU/EEA variants (I believe your choice here may be wrong) )
If you flash recovery then reboot into recovery, and it's still stock, you are using an unrooted bootloader.
Hello, thanks for the answer
This is hard to be specific as I've tried countless things and every one of them lead to others countless things not working either.
So yueah I unlocked the bootloader, and I think I'm in root already because when I try to install magisk via orangefox I get the following error
Error installing zip file '/sdcard/MAGISK/Magisk-v23.0.zip'​Which I believe tell that there is already another program rooting the bootloader.
About the ROM, I've tried severals of them, Global, EU, EEA, with Fastboot or Recovery, with different android version
Latest I've tried was :
joyeuse_eea_global_images_V12.0.4.0.QJZEUXM_20210423.0000.00_10.0_eea_8b93dea9fd
Then success, and bootloop
(Either the installation complete and nothing work, either the installation doesn't complete and I have to lookup for 1H30 where is it coming from)
how do I know if it's still stock after rebooting into recovery ?
Thanks a lot

Only Official Binaries can be flashed. Bootloop and Cant get into TWRP.

Hi, I recently thought of flashing Project Sakura or iOS ROM by Sayanu. And when I flashed TWRP I Formatted Data, Used universal forceencrypt disabler, and after booting to phone and then trying to go to recovery, my phone is now stuck in a bootloop and Red Text Saying Only Official Binaries can be Flashed. I went to SamMobile, got the zip file, flashed in Odin, then back to normal, I've reflashed Stock ROM for 7 times straight. Even then, TWRP Fails to load with the red text saying Only Official Binaries can be Flashed. Please help me, I need a custom ROM urgently.
RealMetafetamine said:
Hi, I recently thought of flashing Project Sakura or iOS ROM by Sayanu. And when I flashed TWRP I Formatted Data, Used universal forceencrypt disabler, and after booting to phone and then trying to go to recovery, my phone is now stuck in a bootloop and Red Text Saying Only Official Binaries can be Flashed. I went to SamMobile, got the zip file, flashed in Odin, then back to normal, I've reflashed Stock ROM for 7 times straight. Even then, TWRP Fails to load with the red text saying Only Official Binaries can be Flashed. Please help me, I need a custom ROM urgently.
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Also, here's the model- SM-N950F
Currently Running Android 9.
Stock ROM from SamMobile.
Enable developer mode
Disable OEM lock in developer mode
Read about RMM little bit
Wait 7 days
Flash twrp
There are two encrypted partition the name I forget but you have to reformat it google before procedure
Then format phone
Install any custom ROM that you want
PS project sakura is end of life, lineage 19.1 is pretty stable

How to flash ASOP based ROMs?

Hi
A few months ago I was able to flash on angelica lineage-17.1-20210326-UNOFFICIAL-angelica.zip and this worked well. Yesterday I tried to flash the s same image again and after several attempts I get a black backlit screen when lineage is meant to start. I reflash stock _V12.0.10.0.QCRMIXM then a recovery - PBRP 3.0.1. From there I was having issue
What is the flashing process for an unlocked device that has something like TWRP/Pitch Back/Orange Fox installed?
I guess once you unlock and can flash the recover you use the recover to flash the zip, then reboot and flash magisk.zip and everything should work? Or is there some step missing.
I had this problem too with the google pixel 7 pro. Can't help ya there on that one. I even tried re installing older firmware and it still didn't work. Maybe the bootloader is permanetly downgradable but the firmware of the stock is. Just a guess. Lineage os 20 is an unofficial build at the moment that receives hardly any updates.

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