Bricked Mi A1 - Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers

Managed to brick my A1. The only screen its able to go to is either fastbook, or recovery. And even then, doesn't always necessarily boot into recovery, have to plug into computer and go into command prompt (fastboot boot oreo_3.2.2_recovery.img) to get it into TWRP.
Currently can't seem to flash *any* roms, I have a stock rom ("tissot_100108_stock" cant remember where i got it from). Which successfully flashes, but then on reboot gets stuck on the Android One screen. Longest i have waited before giving up is an hour. Even when i flash this rom and reboot, i get a message on TWRP saying "No OS installed"
Tried doing this: [wont let me post link] (MiFlash) method and got an error, basically does not work.
Super frustrated, at my wits end, would just like to flash stock rom and sell this thing or let it sit in a drawer at this point. Thanks in advance.

same problem here...
I have the exact same issue and also came here for that to ask for help.
Xiaomi Mi A1 was running 8.1 OTA updated and then I tried to flash Lineage, but it did not work. I wiped my phone and now it can't install anything, not via TWRP nor with Mi Flash.
I hope we can find a solution.

cantras said:
I have the exact same issue and also came here for that to ask for help.
Xiaomi Mi A1 was running 8.1 OTA updated and then I tried to flash Lineage, but it did not work. I wiped my phone and now it can't install anything, not via TWRP nor with Mi Flash.
I hope we can find a solution.
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hopefully! i posted on the xiaomi subreddit but no help. i was on 8.0 when i started this whole misadventure.

I got somewhere, I think.
I went into TWRP, switched from B to A booting. It then starts Android but gets stuck in the boot screen of Android one with the colored bar.
I then tried MiFlash again, going directly to the folder which containts the .bat files. It started flashing it finally.
I am back to a working system.
Let me know if it works for you.

you guys should try flashing the latest stock rom 8.1 July running the bat file of your choice located in the factory image through fastboot
the different custom recoveries and miflash are sometimes buggy
run the script directly on fastboot
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Lg g2 no os at all

Hi!
First I tell you how I recently messed up my LG G2 D802.
I hadn't had a custom rom for ages and now I wanted to have one (This wasn't the first time. I've done this a lot earlier). I had always had root access, but not custom recovery. So the first thing was to install one and I chose to download Rom Manager from Google Play, and then install ClockWorkMod. So, when I was installing the custom recovery I came up with a problem: something went wrong during the installation (I have no idea why). When I booted the device, white letters and numbers appeared on the top left of the screen, saying something like: "boot certification error" and numbers like "[780] [800]" and so on. The screen went black and the phone didn't load the OS. So I was shocked of course because I had never had such a problem.
So, desperate for trying everything to find the solution, I tried tens of ways to try to fix the problem. Finally I read about thing called SRKTool. So I used it and ended up having TWRP on my device, and no OS at all. I tried to flash CM12 and CM12.1 (downloaded from the official site) but nothing works out. TWRP says that flashing the ROM is succesful but when rebooting the system it doesn't load the OS but it comes back to TWRP Recovery mode - WHATEVER I DO. I can't enter the Download -mode at all. I tried hard reseting (Power + Vol - keys), but once again it boots to the TWRP. I can't understand why the TWRP fails to flash the ROM even though it's saying the process was successful. Or maybe this problem is much more internal - and permanent.
After tens of XDA developers' threads I'm writing this here because I'm in need of help. I want to bring my G2 to back in life. I'm out of ideas. Can you help me? I tried to flash the stock firmware but guess what happened? The installation failed, and the device booted back to TWRP. So all I'm able to do is to use the TWRP Recovery. I appreciate your help. Thank you.
(Ps. I'm sorry if I break the rules by writing a new thread. My problem just seems to be so unique that I couldn't find help anywhere.)
If you have access to twrp than you can do what ever is needed
what twrp version douy you have?
enabel MTP, so you can copy from PC
Spumpkin said:
Hi!
First I tell you how I recently messed up my LG G2 D802.
I hadn't had a custom rom for ages and now I wanted to have one (This wasn't the first time. I've done this a lot earlier). I had always had root access, but not custom recovery. So the first thing was to install one and I chose to download Rom Manager from Google Play, and then install ClockWorkMod. So, when I was installing the custom recovery I came up with a problem: something went wrong during the installation (I have no idea why). When I booted the device, white letters and numbers appeared on the top left of the screen, saying something like: "boot certification error" and numbers like "[780] [800]" and so on. The screen went black and the phone didn't load the OS. So I was shocked of course because I had never had such a problem.
So, desperate for trying everything to find the solution, I tried tens of ways to try to fix the problem. Finally I read about thing called SRKTool. So I used it and ended up having TWRP on my device, and no OS at all. I tried to flash CM12 and CM12.1 (downloaded from the official site) but nothing works out. TWRP says that flashing the ROM is succesful but when rebooting the system it doesn't load the OS but it comes back to TWRP Recovery mode - WHATEVER I DO. I can't enter the Download -mode at all. I tried hard reseting (Power + Vol - keys), but once again it boots to the TWRP. I can't understand why the TWRP fails to flash the ROM even though it's saying the process was successful. Or maybe this problem is much more internal - and permanent.
After tens of XDA developers' threads I'm writing this here because I'm in need of help. I want to bring my G2 to back in life. I'm out of ideas. Can you help me? I tried to flash the stock firmware but guess what happened? The installation failed, and the device booted back to TWRP. So all I'm able to do is to use the TWRP Recovery. I appreciate your help. Thank you.
(Ps. I'm sorry if I break the rules by writing a new thread. My problem just seems to be so unique that I couldn't find help anywhere.)
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The solution is easy. Download the stock rom for your model and install it with otg cable. The reason cm12 is not booted is because you need jb bootloader or caf bootstacks.
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renzo090513 said:
The solution is easy. Download the stock rom for your model and install it with otg cable. The reason cm12 is not booted is because you need jb bootloader or caf bootstacks.
Enviado desde mi LG-D802 mediante Tapatalk
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cm11 => jb bootloader
cm12, cm12.1 and cm13 => kk bootloader
klemenSLO said:
If you have access to twrp than you can do what ever is needed
what twrp version douy you have?
enabel MTP, so you can copy from PC
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The current version is 2.8.7.3. Should I try other versions?
Did you solve the issue? Or is it still not allowing you to get into your F/W?
staylecrate said:
Did you solve the issue? Or is it still not allowing you to get into your F/W?
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Hi!
I tried to install TWRP version 2.6.6.3, but it fails to flash it so I'm stuck with the version 2.8.7.3. All I'm able to enter is just the recovery mode. I can't enter the download mode so I can't flash the stock firmware.
Currently I'm out of ideas. I can't flash any OS, the TWRP fails everytime and creates errors.
Try flash bumped kernel like lp dorimanx then flash bumped bootstak then lp rom like cloudy or stock. Or google this: lg g2 unbrickable now xda ...that work for me

Xiaomi Mi9T Hard/Rock Bricked

Hello everyone i am in desparate need of some guidance where i unfortunately Hard bricked my Mi9t while trying to flash the new Mokee Rom.
Where i think i went wrong was wiping the system option in twrp. After reboot i was stuck on flashboot and unable to get back into twrp recovery.
I then proceeded to flashboot twrp, also used multiple versions of twrp, again to hopefully be able to get into twrp recovery with no prevail.
Also tried to fastboot via Miflash tool with all latest fastboot roms available currently but kept getting a anti-rollback error.
So then i searched a way to install recovery or stock rom manually via flashboot commands. This caused me to end up where im at, no fastboot, no recovery, no logo at all. I connect the usb and the phone wont turn on at all, just a dead phone. Power button completely unresponsive now, Vol-Up/Vol-Down + Power and nothing.
I worked on it for countless hours trying to simply get into fastboot now with huge anxiety thinking i killed my phone.
I left my phone to charge all night and woke up this morning trying to get into fastboot again and nothing again.
Can someone please lead me in the right direction???
Everywhere i look the info seems to be outdated. At this point i am willing to send it in for repairs but i live in Indiana, US and there isnt a Xiaomi Service location anywhere in site.
Sad story. What did you do in fastboot? If you can't flash a certain twrp version you would have to do:
1. fastboot --disable-verity --disable-verification flash vbmeta vbmeta.img (in twrp archives)
2. fastboot erase recovery
3. fastboot flash recovery your-twrp.img
Concerning AntiRollBack:
You can bypass ARB in miflashtool, set the number of your new rom higher or edit the batch/shell-files manually. The first few lines are ARB and device-check.
I know the info comes too late, but maybe someone reads this before trying things the way you did. There have to be some EDL-pins inside the phone to reflash fastboot but you would have to open your phone. My opinion/solution: Cry and send in.
Anyway: Can you tell us what you did to wipe fastboot?
fabsen said:
Sad story. What did you do in fastboot? If you can't flash a certain twrp version you would have to do:
1. fastboot --disable-verity --disable-verification flash vbmeta vbmeta.img (in twrp archives)
2. fastboot erase recovery
3. fastboot flash recovery your-twrp.img
Concerning AntiRollBack:
You can bypass ARB in miflashtool, set the number of your new rom higher or edit the batch/shell-files manually. The first few lines are ARB and device-check.
I know the info comes too late, but maybe someone reads this before trying things the way you did. There have to be some EDL-pins inside the phone to reflash fastboot but you would have to open your phone. My opinion/solution: Cry and send in.
Anyway: Can you tell us what you did to wipe fastboot?
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When i 1st attempted to recover twrp i used TWRP 3.1.1-2 fixed from 4PDA. Ran the .exe file and the prompt said both fires installed successfully, but when i did a reboot it wouldnt go into twrp anymore, just stuck in logo so i would end up back in bootloader.
ttp://en.miui.com/thread-942449-1-1.html
This is exactly the instructions i tried to use before i lost fastboot.
At one point while entering the commands, it froze then my phone completely died and could never make it do anything else.
Why the hell did you use an outdated tutorial for an other phone? A few of the commands also wouldn't work because there are only some of these partitions. But if you did it with the right firmware it shouldn't brick anyway. So maybe you were stuck at boot flash. Else you still would be able to boot into fastboot.#
I feel sorry for you bro but it looks like you were searching for a possiblity to brick your phone
fabsen said:
Why the hell did you use an outdated tutorial for an other phone? A few of the commands also wouldn't work because there are only some of these partitions. But if you did it with the right firmware it shouldn't brick anyway. So maybe you were stuck at boot flash. Else you still would be able to boot into fastboot.#
I feel sorry for you bro but it looks like you were searching for a possiblity to brick your phone
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I kno bro i felt like shyt believe me. Literally all day in panic and anxiety that i just wasnt thinking straight and using any kind of guide i can find and ended up here.
Made some progress today tho.
Since my device manager or MiFlash tool wasnt recognizing my device even when i installed Qualcom drivers and pushing all sorts of buttons lol,
I have now opened her up for some surgery and using the Test-Point EDL method.
https://i.postimg.cc/HWJGWHRw/test-point-redmi-k20-mi-9t.png
While USB connected and shorted these 2 pins my computer finally recognized my device in MiFlash Tool and Device Manager again as Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 (COM3)!!!
Now the next problem is the MiFlash tool. I tried to flash rom and status states cannot receive hello packet. From what i understand, i need an authorized account.
Only thing i could find to bypass this was this but currently not yet working. - https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-8/how-to/unbrick-mi8-edl-authorized-account-t3896677
Any ideas where to go from here?
https://mi-globe.com/unbrick-your-xiaomi-phone-without-authorized-mi-account/
https://c.mi.com/thread-1479882-1-0.html
I didn't need an authorized account last year but maybe they've changed something. The guides are up to date so maybe follow these steps.
fabsen said:
https://mi-globe.com/unbrick-your-xiaomi-phone-without-authorized-mi-account/
https://c.mi.com/thread-1479882-1-0.html
I didn't need an authorized account last year but maybe they've changed something. The guides are up to date so maybe follow these steps.
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Already ran into those sites and actually am currently trying out S-Unlock service to bypass Authorized Account with there XiaomiTool v0.01, and unfortunately again with no prevail.
https://imgur.com/gallery/WMt968b
As you can see i got passed Hello packet, but now it doesn't go passed this message or looks like it didnt do anything.
https://imgur.com/gallery/hHApyJL
Already contacted S-Unlock Admin and now waiting for response. Im assuming im using the right Flashboot Roms. Tried latest flashboot roms from here available. https://xiaomifirmwareupdater.com/miui/davinci/
I also emailed unbrick.ru if they support K20/Mi9T variant and waiting for there reply.
Firmware on your page is not up to date. Use https://mifirm.net/
What device do you have? EEA/Global/CN? And what flashfiles did you use? I'm asking this because the only way I know to brick your device is to flash global/eea-rom on chinese device and lock the bootloader.
fabsen said:
Sad story. What did you do in fastboot? If you can't flash a certain twrp version you would have to do:
1. fastboot --disable-verity --disable-verification flash vbmeta vbmeta.img (in twrp archives)
2. fastboot erase recovery
3. fastboot flash recovery your-twrp.img
Concerning AntiRollBack:
You can bypass ARB in miflashtool, set the number of your new rom higher or edit the batch/shell-files manually. The first few lines are ARB and device-check.
I know the info comes too late, but maybe someone reads this before trying things the way you did. There have to be some EDL-pins inside the phone to reflash fastboot but you would have to open your phone. My opinion/solution: Cry and send in.
Anyway: Can you tell us what you did to wipe fastboot?
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Hey,
I'm in a similar boat but I still have fastboot.
I can flash everything I wan't. But flashing a recovery doesn't do anything.
I can not boot into the recovery.
When I boot into the recovery i'm at the bootloop screen.
My PC does recocgnize it as recovery mode tho.
Anyways is there a way to get out of this mess? I wanted to try to flash with miflash over fastboot.img but I can't find any .img to flash.
All I can find are the .zips for twrp.
I didn't want to flash cfw tho. I got into the mess because there was an update today for stock rom and I flashed it with twrp. Because OTA didn't work.
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I found the fastboot files.
But how do I bypass the antirollback error
Waidowai said:
Hey,
I'm in a similar boat but I still have fastboot.
I can flash everything I wan't. But flashing a recovery doesn't do anything.
I can not boot into the recovery.
When I boot into the recovery i'm at the bootloop screen.
My PC does recocgnize it as recovery mode tho.
Anyways is there a way to get out of this mess? I wanted to try to flash with miflash over fastboot.img but I can't find any .img to flash.
All I can find are the .zips for twrp.
I didn't want to flash cfw tho. I got into the mess because there was an update today for stock rom and I flashed it with twrp. Because OTA didn't work.
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I found the fastboot files.
But how do I bypass the antirollback error
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https://mifirm.net/model/davinci.ttt
to bypass the ARB you can edit the batch/shell files. the first few lines are device-check and ARB. you can also use xiaomitool and select it there.
Edit: I had the same problem with a twrp version I had installed. After switching to russian version I couldn't downgrade twrp. Just try one of the other 2 versions available.
fabsen said:
https://mifirm.net/model/davinci.ttt
to bypass the ARB you can edit the batch/shell files. the first few lines are device-check and ARB. you can also use xiaomitool and select it there.
Edit: I had the same problem with a twrp version I had installed. After switching to russian version I couldn't downgrade twrp. Just try one of the other 2 versions available.
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I've had the russian version of twrp that didn't allow backups.
I know tried all the other version as well.
What happens is it stays in mi.com unblocked screen and my pc will recognize that it's in recovery but twrp never opens.
Like I said the normal stock recovery is flashable but all other twrp versions don't work for some reason.
I've tried all 3.
I know where the lines are but idk what to write in there.
I tried to just delete the lines and then I've got a different error.
Also when changing the version number it says success it actually flashes for 0 seconds and nothing happens.
Waidowai said:
I've had the russian version of twrp that didn't allow backups.
I know tried all the other version as well.
What happens is it stays in mi.com unblocked screen and my pc will recognize that it's in recovery but twrp never opens.
Like I said the normal stock recovery is flashable but all other twrp versions don't work for some reason.
I've tried all 3.
I know where the lines are but idk what to write in there.
I tried to just delete the lines and then I've got a different error.
Also when changing the version number it says success it actually flashes for 0 seconds and nothing happens.
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The russian version I've installed allows backups, tried allready.
You can simply remove the lines, just care you dodn't left something or delete too much. Use xiaomitool v2, it'll bypass the lines.
fabsen said:
The russian version I've installed allows backups, tried allready.
You can simply remove the lines, just care you dodn't left something or delete too much. Use xiaomitool v2, it'll bypass the lines.
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If i download the xiamitool v2 and choose my device is bricked it says feature is not available yet.
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If I choose mod the phone it says my phone serial and all the 3 other things are unknown.
if I select my phone my phone reboots and says waiting for debugging mode....
Then if I delete the ARB lines and try to flash via MiFlash it says error error no such file found
Can someone pls give me some clearer instructions.
Ok I somehow fixed it.
I flashed everything manually like the times before twrp existested.
Now I don't have the OS running but a running twrp.
I could flash xiaomi eu now and be done with it. But I actually wanted to use stock rom and not a costume rom right now because I wanted to switch to a costume rom when a good official comes out whenever that is.
Although flashing the stock rom got me in this mess in the first place. I never had this problem with flashing costume roms.
Anyhow I know this might not be the place to ask but are xiaomi eu and stock actually that different? Also are there any downsides in using it over stock?
My experience on most phones was that early costume roms usually didn't work with all features etc.
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alright who gives a dang I just flashed the eu rom to be safe with updates..
anyhow is it normal that my devices says Redmi by Xiaomi now?
Prior on my stock rom it said MI by mi.com or something
Waidowai said:
Ok I somehow fixed it.
I flashed everything manually like the times before twrp existested.
Now I don't have the OS running but a running twrp.
I could flash xiaomi eu now and be done with it. But I actually wanted to use stock rom and not a costume rom right now because I wanted to switch to a costume rom when a good official comes out whenever that is.
Although flashing the stock rom got me in this mess in the first place. I never had this problem with flashing costume roms.
Anyhow I know this might not be the place to ask but are xiaomi eu and stock actually that different? Also are there any downsides in using it over stock?
My experience on most phones was that early costume roms usually didn't work with all features etc.
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Basically it's (xiaomi.eu) debloated and optimized but sadly based on chinese official rom. That means no widevine L1.
In my opinion the best rom is EEA (because of "spy restrictions"), debloated with ADBTools with same optimizations which come with mi-globe rombuilder (gpsset, preinstalled magisk, adaway, removed apps). Sadly mi-globe is based on xiaomi.eu which is based on chinese official.
Waidowai
Could you explain the steps you did to flash ALL manual? Which Commands? Which imagens?
Thanks friend.
fabsen said:
Basically it's (xiaomi.eu) debloated and optimized but sadly based on chinese official rom. That means no widevine L1.
In my opinion the best rom is EEA (because of "spy restrictions"), debloated with ADBTools with same optimizations which come with mi-globe rombuilder (gpsset, preinstalled magisk, adaway, removed apps). Sadly mi-globe is based on xiaomi.eu which is based on chinese official.
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Well i did instal xiaomi.eu now. Not because of optimizations etc.
The only reason is that like i said i don't wanna brick by updating official roms anymore.
I mean maybe it's my bad since I'm running costume roms on all my phones for about 12 years or longer.. can't remember when I started but I think with first xyanogen mod.
And I don't know how to flash stock roms.
But with a costume rom it won't brick and if it does I'm not loosing twrp again.
For debloating I do that myself with the android terminal. So idk what the rom has on bloat I'll just uninstall it.
My only fear was that main features don't work with the costume rom. But from first sight everything but themes work fine. And I couldn't care less.
Well one thing changed the icons look like a chineese appleish phone now. Oh well I'll change that later.
Other than that the fingerprint is more responsive which I do like.
And for some reason my Modelnumber changed from Mi 9T to RedmiK20. Even on the boot it says Redmi now instead of MI.
Idk if it's because of the ROM or because I manually flashed the phone.
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mauriciocardoso said:
Waidowai
Could you explain the steps you did to flash ALL manual? Which Commands? Which imagens?
Thanks friend.
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Just download the fastboot rom and flash everything but dummy. You can flash dummy to but that is just for ARB. Depending on what your ARB index is you can flash it to ignore future problems.
My index was 1 tho and apperently if it's under 4 ARB is supposed to be irrelavent.
I'm not to sure on ARB tho because it's my first time dealing with ARB.
Other then that u flash everything else.
You will end up with a phone that is empty. Basically you reformate your phone so nothing is on there but TWRP. My phone was at 59gb/60 or something like that. basically the only folder I've had left was twrp.
Like I said I remembered the method from like 8 years ago when we didn't have twrp.
The problem with this method is that you can easily hardbrick tho I think. Since if it doesn't work you turned your phone into a fancy usb drive.
I only did it because I thought of buying a new one so since the phone was dead in my eyes already I just tried the old method and it worked fine, besides rebranding the phone to RedmiK20 from Mi9T.
Anyhow if your not giving up on the phone yet I wouldn't try it. Only try if you wanna throw the phone in the trash anyways.
just like me , for the anti roll issue u need to flash newers rom like from latest u flash on ur device before (recommend V10.3.11.0.PFJMIXM) u can get on mifirm.net . after download rom extract the file into fastboot tools then copy all .img file into fastboot tools . after that open the fastboot mode on ur phone and tools on pc
then flash this file
fastboot flash dtbo dtbo.img
fastboot flash logo logo.img
fastboot flash vbmeta vbmeta.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash misc misc.img (u can get on fastboot rom not .zip)
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img (recommend used twrp-3.3.1-2-davinci-fix)
then try reboot phone into recovery
if work let me know . im trying make this method because before this i got this problem to after flashing paranoid rom without format data .
Waidowai said:
Well i did instal xiaomi.eu now. Not because of optimizations etc.
The only reason is that like i said i don't wanna brick by updating official roms anymore.
I mean maybe it's my bad since I'm running costume roms on all my phones for about 12 years or longer.. can't remember when I started but I think with first xyanogen mod.
And I don't know how to flash stock roms.
But with a costume rom it won't brick and if it does I'm not loosing twrp again.
For debloating I do that myself with the android terminal. So idk what the rom has on bloat I'll just uninstall it.
My only fear was that main features don't work with the costume rom. But from first sight everything but themes work fine. And I couldn't care less.
Well one thing changed the icons look like a chineese appleish phone now. Oh well I'll change that later.
Other than that the fingerprint is more responsive which I do like.
And for some reason my Modelnumber changed from Mi 9T to RedmiK20. Even on the boot it says Redmi now instead of MI.
Idk if it's because of the ROM or because I manually flashed the phone.
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Just download the fastboot rom and flash everything but dummy. You can flash dummy to but that is just for ARB. Depending on what your ARB index is you can flash it to ignore future problems.
My index was 1 tho and apperently if it's under 4 ARB is supposed to be irrelavent.
I'm not to sure on ARB tho because it's my first time dealing with ARB.
Other then that u flash everything else.
You will end up with a phone that is empty. Basically you reformate your phone so nothing is on there but TWRP. My phone was at 59gb/60 or something like that. basically the only folder I've had left was twrp.
Like I said I remembered the method from like 8 years ago when we didn't have twrp.
The problem with this method is that you can easily hardbrick tho I think. Since if it doesn't work you turned your phone into a fancy usb drive.
I only did it because I thought of buying a new one so since the phone was dead in my eyes already I just tried the old method and it worked fine, besides rebranding the phone to RedmiK20 from Mi9T.
Anyhow if your not giving up on the phone yet I wouldn't try it. Only try if you wanna throw the phone in the trash anyways.
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Don't know how you manage to brick your phone with official firmware tbh. And why should you lose TWRP? I flashed about 10 times (global, eea, chinese, xiaomi.eu, mi-globe) and I still didn't have to reflash twrp once. It won't even touch the recovery partition. I also don't see a reason to mess with fastboot (except your brick haha). The boot behavior (redmi instead of mi) is fine, depends on the rom you've flashed. If you flash global or eea rom it'll switch back to "Mi".
What do you mean by "I don't know how to flash official rom"? Boot up twrp, clean dalvik cache/cache, install... tadaaa. I was also using custom roms on all of my phones but I can't find a reason for now to do so. I see only bugs and things not working. I want my widevine L1 and I want AndroidAuto to be working. I'll stay on global/eea till a good rom pops up.
fabsen said:
Don't know how you manage to brick your phone with official firmware tbh. And why should you lose TWRP? I flashed about 10 times (global, eea, chinese, xiaomi.eu, mi-globe) and I still didn't have to reflash twrp once. It won't even touch the recovery partition. I also don't see a reason to mess with fastboot (except your brick haha). The boot behavior (redmi instead of mi) is fine, depends on the rom you've flashed. If you flash global or eea rom it'll switch back to "Mi".
What do you mean by "I don't know how to flash official rom"? Boot up twrp, clean dalvik cache/cache, install... tadaaa. I was also using custom roms on all of my phones but I can't find a reason for now to do so. I see only bugs and things not working. I want my widevine L1 and I want AndroidAuto to be working. I'll stay on global/eea till a good rom pops up.
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I mean yeah that's what i thought just flash a official rom like any stock rom. Or rather if you change roms cuz if you update existing roms you don't really need to wipe anything anymore.
But apperently it busted my whole phone. It was a weird brick. My phone wasn't recognized as a phone anymore in fastboot. But it was recognized normal in adb. So I needed to change windows drivers to make my phone recognize.
And after that nothing booted but stock recovery and even then it said I don't have debugging enabled. Eventho I was connected to adb??
Anyhow I think the flash messed up the whole system partition. So what I did is in short formate the whole drive and start with a clean slate.. anyhow don't need to repeat all that.
But yeah I'm with you with the take on costume roms. I don't see the need anymore since most stock roms are decent nowadays and costume roms especially are most likely buggy somehow. Good thing is that most stuff I need in my phone is working on the eu rom. Like I said only thing that I could find not working are themes. But thats ok.
I don't know what that widevine L1 thing is. So I prolly don't need it. But maybe u can explain it to me Always up to learn new things.
Well for now I stick with the costume rom since it's basically no different to me. And the chance of bricking again like that with a costume rom are slim to none. If the phone brick it's most likely just a simple brick that can be fixed with twrp. and if that doesn't work by booting into twrp from adb.
Btw that didn't work on my weird brick either. I couldn't boot anything from adb. It gave me a black screen when trying to boot something.
Anyhow I'm glad I've got it running again. But somehow I'm not that surprised. Most times when I brick phones I can fix it when I'm at the point where I wanna throw the phone away. Cuz then I'm just flashing everything I can to make it work xD.

Stuck in fastboot after flashing TWRP (Mi 9T)

First of all why did this happen, presumably I wasn't doing anything wrong or uninformed. I just unlocked the bootloader successfully, afterward as many threads claimed I flashed twrp-3.3.1-2-davinci-fix, and now it simply wont boot neither to system nor twrp. Why did this happen?
Does anyone know how to fix this? Thank you!
Mi 9T (M1903F10G)
Did you try to power off and then turn back on holding power and volume up? I had this issue yesterday but doing the vol up and power got me to twrp then did format and it booted up
cmlucht said:
Did you try to power off and then turn back on holding power and volume up? I had this issue yesterday but doing the vol up and power got me to TWRP then did format and it booted up
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Thank you for your reply. You can't even power off, it will simply bootloop forever into fastboot. Nonetheless I managed to fix it by flashing fastboot ROM using MIFlash, but man, didn't expect root solutions to be this complicated, unstable, and outdated for our beloved Mi 9T. I simply want to achieve root in the stock rom, and wasted 7 hours yesterday and still got nowhere. I come from a classic LG G2, when things were much simple and straight forward back then. You can stop reading here, but now I had to:
Wait 1 week for bootloader unlock.
Flash TWRP, which soft bricked my phone right away. Why on earth, a recovery image provided in many reliable tutorials from multiple sources cause soft-brick in the second step is beyond my comprehension. I am still genuinely curious why did this happen, and why such a broken image is still circulating here?
Then I had to inform myself all about Anti Rollback, in order to prevent it happening, and concluded that MiFlash is safe, so I got MiFlash and a fastboot rom.
Apparently Mi Flash is terribly buggy and kept showing .net error exceptions because a "LOG" folder was missing in root folder, so let's waste one hour scratching our heads what the hell is happening because the developer missed a simple MkDir line during development.
After creating LOG folder, and installing drivers, couldn't flash any fastboot ROM because my 9T antiroll back number is 1 while fastboot rom ARB index was 0.
Then it appears that this error has actually nothing to do with ARB, but it is because I had to a) start MiFlash from C:\, b) remove name spaces in target address and c) shorten fastboot ROM folder name. So I had to get all these 3 variables right in order to resurrect my phone. MiFlash terrible programming didn't stop at step 4) but it extends into showing entirely confusing ARB errors that have nothing to with the real problem, rather petty programming bugs such as folder naming.
Finally managed to boot up 9T, and we're back at square one.
Afterward successfully flashed mauronofrio TWRP including vbmeta and got recovery working.
I decided to try out few custom ROMs since all my data were erased anyway, but it appears my system was encrypted and TWRP showed encrypted alphanumeric characters, so I had to format data in order to flash files.
Now every-time I flash stock ROM .zip I lose TWRP, and every-time I reflash mauronofrio TWRP I end up in recovery bootloop, and so I can't manage to have both at same time in order to move with the Magisk flash.
10 steps and 7 hours later and still got nowhere, just risked bricking my phone.
Now we have to deal with
a) bootloader wait,
b) twrp encryption mess,
c) anti roll back risk,
d) buggy MiFlash
e) safety net measures
f) no custom ROMs that are pre-rooted and simple
g) dependency of stock ROM files - meaning you can't wipe everything including system and just flash custom ROM .zips, like I used to do with 5 android phones before this one. Now you are somehow dependent on original ROM files which probably means you will have to base install stock MI before you flash anything Xiaomi.EU, Evolution X, PixelExperience etc.​ When did things get so complicated? It seems every year new limitations are introduced and the sheer combination to get them all right give headaches.
Anyway, all I want is to install latest stock ROM from TWRP and keep TWRP so I can also flash Magisk. In other words, how to simply have a rooted stock?
Your mistake is to not use Official TWRP instead of an old TWRP version...
Micdu70 said:
Your mistake is to not use Official TWRP instead of an old TWRP version...
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Thanks for your reply! Yes, that must have been it. Those outdated tutorials should be removed.
Now I flashed miui_DAVINCIEEAGlobal_V11.0.4.0.QFJEUXM through latest TWRP, but it removed TWRP. When I reflash latest TWRP then it ends up in bootloop.
EDIT: Ended up reflashing all over again using MiFlash. Now the only problem remaining is which version of Magisk is compatible with miui_DAVINCIEEAGlobal_V11.0.4.0.QFJEUXM?
What are you flashing with? I am now using xiaomitools v2 and it installed twrp and magisk with no problems.
I flashed the EU custom stable, I was global but I wanted to compare the 2 and I like the EU better.
I came from a non rootable lg g7.
I have not flashed custom ROMs since my old Galaxy note days.
cmlucht said:
What are you flashing with? I am now using xiaomitools v2 and it installed twrp and magisk with no problems.
I flashed the EU custom stable, I was global but I wanted to compare the 2 and I like the EU better.
I came from a non rootable lg g7.
I have not flashed custom ROMs since my old Galaxy note days.
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Never heard of XiaomiTools v2, it seems like a great alternative. I used buggy MiFlash to flash fastboot ROM, flashed TWRP, then got a bootloop, formatted data from TWRP and flashed Magisk. It seems everything is working fine now, but in the future I'll make sure to check XiaomiTools v2.
I never used stock ROMs in any of my past phones, first thing I did when I bought a new phone is unlock bootloader and install Lineage or Cyanogenmod back in the days. But somehow I like MIUI so all I needed was root.
It is hard to believe that there are actually phones that have no root at all.
blackmatrix64 said:
Thank you for your reply. You can't even power off, it will simply bootloop forever into fastboot. Nonetheless I managed to fix it by flashing fastboot ROM using MIFlash, but man, didn't expect root solutions to be this complicated, unstable, and outdated for our beloved Mi 9T. I simply want to achieve root in the stock rom, and wasted 7 hours yesterday and still got nowhere. I come from a classic LG G2, when things were much simple and straight forward back then. You can stop reading here, but now I had to:
Wait 1 week for bootloader unlock.
Flash TWRP, which soft bricked my phone right away. Why on earth, a recovery image provided in many reliable tutorials from multiple sources cause soft-brick in the second step is beyond my comprehension. I am still genuinely curious why did this happen, and why such a broken image is still circulating here?
Then I had to inform myself all about Anti Rollback, in order to prevent it happening, and concluded that MiFlash is safe, so I got MiFlash and a fastboot rom.
Apparently Mi Flash is terribly buggy and kept showing .net error exceptions because a "LOG" folder was missing in root folder, so let's waste one hour scratching our heads what the hell is happening because the developer missed a simple MkDir line during development.
After creating LOG folder, and installing drivers, couldn't flash any fastboot ROM because my 9T antiroll back number is 1 while fastboot rom ARB index was 0.
Then it appears that this error has actually nothing to do with ARB, but it is because I had to a) start MiFlash from C:\, b) remove name spaces in target address and c) shorten fastboot ROM folder name. So I had to get all these 3 variables right in order to resurrect my phone. MiFlash terrible programming didn't stop at step 4) but it extends into showing entirely confusing ARB errors that have nothing to with the real problem, rather petty programming bugs such as folder naming.
Finally managed to boot up 9T, and we're back at square one.
Afterward successfully flashed mauronofrio TWRP including vbmeta and got recovery working.
I decided to try out few custom ROMs since all my data were erased anyway, but it appears my system was encrypted and TWRP showed encrypted alphanumeric characters, so I had to format data in order to flash files.
Now every-time I flash stock ROM .zip I lose TWRP, and every-time I reflash mauronofrio TWRP I end up in recovery bootloop, and so I can't manage to have both at same time in order to move with the Magisk flash.
10 steps and 7 hours later and still got nowhere, just risked bricking my phone.
Now we have to deal with
a) bootloader wait,
b) twrp encryption mess,
c) anti roll back risk,
d) buggy MiFlash
e) safety net measures
f) no custom ROMs that are pre-rooted and simple
g) dependency of stock ROM files - meaning you can't wipe everything including system and just flash custom ROM .zips, like I used to do with 5 android phones before this one. Now you are somehow dependent on original ROM files which probably means you will have to base install stock MI before you flash anything Xiaomi.EU, Evolution X, PixelExperience etc.​ When did things get so complicated? It seems every year new limitations are introduced and the sheer combination to get them all right give headaches.
Anyway, all I want is to install latest stock ROM from TWRP and keep TWRP so I can also flash Magisk. In other words, how to simply have a rooted stock?
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Hey, I'm facing the same issue you faced here. Waited 7 days to unlock bootloader, after unlocking it, flashed a twrp i found on one of the youtube tutorials. Immediate bootloop. Im fairly new to all of this, and dont understand what certain words even mean tbh. Do you mind guiding me in fixing my phone? Any help would be really appreciated. Thank you.
blackmatrix64 said:
Never heard of XiaomiTools v2, it seems like a great alternative. I used buggy MiFlash to flash fastboot ROM, flashed TWRP, then got a bootloop, formatted data from TWRP and flashed Magisk. It seems everything is working fine now, but in the future I'll make sure to check XiaomiTools v2.
I never used stock ROMs in any of my past phones, first thing I did when I bought a new phone is unlock bootloader and install Lineage or Cyanogenmod back in the days. But somehow I like MIUI so all I needed was root.
It is hard to believe that there are actually phones that have no root at all.
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i miss the Cyanogenmod days

Flashing Custom rom i get stuck at fast boot but flashing xiaomi.eu works fine

Hi,
I've done countless steps and watched a ton of videos today but still can't answer this and it feels like I'm missing something simple.
I received my xiaomi 9t today and quickly unlocked the bootloader (no wait time possibly because I had a Mi8 before hand so I already had an account). I've since installed TWRP as well as tried OrangeFox Recovery and still can't get any custom roms to work, it goes directly to the fastboot screen. I can get back into TWRP and flash xiaomi.eu rom, no issue but as soon as I go to a custom rom I get fastboot.
I've flashed my Mi 8 countless times but I can't seem to get this to go. I've tried making sure the mounts were correct, I've flashed a disable forced encryption thing that I saw on some youtube videos and still nothing works.
Thanks in advance,
Joe
AbsoluteZero said:
Hi,
I've done countless steps and watched a ton of videos today but still can't answer this and it feels like I'm missing something simple.
I received my xiaomi 9t today and quickly unlocked the bootloader (no wait time possibly because I had a Mi8 before hand so I already had an account). I've since installed TWRP as well as tried OrangeFox Recovery and still can't get any custom roms to work, it goes directly to the fastboot screen. I can get back into TWRP and flash xiaomi.eu rom, no issue but as soon as I go to a custom rom I get fastboot.
I've flashed my Mi 8 countless times but I can't seem to get this to go. I've tried making sure the mounts were correct, I've flashed a disable forced encryption thing that I saw on some youtube videos and still nothing works.
Thanks in advance,
Joe
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Hello, what OrangeFox version did you install?
You should try with R10.1_1 if you are using latest one.
If your phone is working with xiaomi.eu ROMs..., do you know xiaomi.eu ROMs are custom ROMs?
You generally only have to "Format Data" in TWRP before flashing another ROM (stock or custom).
Good luck!
Hi,
Thank you for the reply. I now have OrangeFox R10.1_1 installed. sorry I should've said other custom roms aren't working xiaomi.eu seems to be fine for some reason.
I just installed OrangeFox, reflashed xiaomi.eu and booted, worked fine. Then I went back, formatted data, rebooted back to recovery, flashed AOSPextended and gapps pico. Rebooted to system and it went to the fastboot screen again. I noticed it says during the AOSP install that "Root Status: Disabled" could that be a problem?
Thanks again for your help.
AbsoluteZero said:
Hi,
I've done countless steps and watched a ton of videos today but still can't answer this and it feels like I'm missing something simple.
I received my xiaomi 9t today and quickly unlocked the bootloader (no wait time possibly because I had a Mi8 before hand so I already had an account). I've since installed TWRP as well as tried OrangeFox Recovery and still can't get any custom roms to work, it goes directly to the fastboot screen. I can get back into TWRP and flash xiaomi.eu rom, no issue but as soon as I go to a custom rom I get fastboot.
I've flashed my Mi 8 countless times but I can't seem to get this to go. I've tried making sure the mounts were correct, I've flashed a disable forced encryption thing that I saw on some youtube videos and still nothing works.
Thanks in advance,
Joe
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Use the official TWRP.
You should install latest stable xiaomi.eu rom or install latest China rom through MI flash, you need latest vendor partition for latest custom roms to boot properly.
jaggyjags said:
You should install latest stable xiaomi.eu rom or install latest China rom through MI flash, you need latest vendor partition for latest custom roms to boot properly.
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I installed the latest Global Rom 11.0.5. via OrangeFox. I couldn't get it to go with Mi Flash. Not sure how to create the flash_all.bat and where to get all the files from. Is that the same? What are the steps from here?
Thank you
The same exact issue I am facing. Tried multiple custom roms and everything failed to boot only resulting in bricked or error. Even my previous budget phone redmi 3s was much better than this.

Stuck in TWRP as custom roms are not booting after flashing with TWRP

Hello,
i got a second phone for my GF as i was really happy with this phone and had it flashed without any issues before. This second phone is used and was over a year in use from the guy i've bought it from. It was 100% fine and he always used the shipped Android with it.
So i went on, got the latest TWRP for the phone. Flashed it without any issues and tried to install LineageOS from their website. Flashed it and tried to flash TWRP back as LOS replaces it. I wanted to use TWRP install the backups. But that's where it started to go wrong. Lineage seemed to have been gone from that point on. I couldn't get it to work again, even with reflashing and such. I've downloaded CRDroid and Paranoid and tried them but no luck. Non of them where booting up and TWRP stays showing a warning about "No OS installed".
After some more digging, i've found some posts stating that i would need newest firmware and venders. I've downloaded and flashed them but this made it even worse. The phone started to be stuck in fastboot. I got it working again by flashing latest MIUI version with Xiaomi Flash Tool.
Then i've installed TWRP again but somehow any rom i flash does not boot. The phone starts with the MI logo and flashes once and loads TWRP. There is no message about missing OS or any kind or error when flashing any of these roms.
Anyone able to help me?

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