Follow this tutorial and learn how to restore hardbrick Xiaomi Redmi 6 Pro and Redmi Note 5 in EDL (emergency download) mode.

Restore hardbricked Redmi 6 Pro in EDL mode

Pay attention – Do not update to ARB4 via TWRP Custm Recovery. Before unlocking the bootloader, it’s highly recommended to install the official MIUI firmware via fastboot. You can check the ARB and bootloader status on your device by following the tutorial below:

How to check ARB status on Redmi 6 Pro and Redmi Note 5 Global?

1. Reboot your device in fastboot mode.
2. Download and extract Platform Tools on “C:\” drive.
3. Go into the folder with unpacked archive, hold “Shift” key and right mouse click on an empty space. Select “Open command window here”.
4. Type the “fastboot devices” command in terminal and if your phone is successfully recognized, then type the next command “fastboot getvar anti” to see the ARB status.
5. The number “3” means that you can easily downgrade the firmware on your device, if you see the number “4”, that means that you can get a hardbrick as a result of downgrading.

Download Platform Tools: platform-tools-latest-windows.zip

Requirements:

• You’ll need authorized MI account so you can flash your phone in EDL mode. To get this, you’ll most probably need to contact MIUI support a few times. To check the account permission find “account_auth.exe” in MiFlash folder and enter your account credentials.
• QDLoader HS-USB Driver installed.
• MiFlash Software installed, recommended version is 20180528.
• Official ROM for fastboot which includes ARB4.
• Hardbrick Xiaomi phone in your hands.

Now when you’ve got everything installed and got all required permissions, you can continue with unbricking tutorial:

1. Extract download fastboot ROM and MiFlash to the C:\ drive.
2. Start MiFlash tool.
3. Locate unpacked ROM and select “Clean All” option.
4. Press “refresh” to locate connected device.
5. Now press “flash”.
6. The new window will popup and you’ll need to enter your account credentials.
7. After successful authorization wait until the flashing process is finished completely.
8. In the end you’ll see a “success” message in “result” column.
9. Disconnect your device from PC and turn it on!

Just in case, here is the short list of possible issues:

• You can only flash one single device using your Mi account.
• If the flashing process doesn’t start try to reinstall drivers on your PC.
• If you see “Unauthorized xiaomi account” that means that your account doesn’t have the required permissions.

I really hope that this guide will be helpful to you!

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Restore hardbricked and bootloop Mi A1 with Test Point + MiFlash Method

First of all, before doing any manipulations with your device, I can recommend use to do the following steps, maybe they’ll help you.

• Check if your device is recognized as “Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008” in Device Manager.
• Reboot your PC and reboot your smartphone.
• Remove and insert phone battery, try rebooting once again.

Didn’t help? Ok, let’s try more complicated solution. We assume your Mi A1 is in bootloop and you can’t flash fresh ROM version using the fastboot mode, because the bootloader is locked, and there’s no way you can unlock it now. If your Mi A1 phone doesn’t react to any buttons and just shows black screen and any other similar situations could be possibly fixed with this guide.

1. Download official fastboot MIUI ROM for Mi A1, the first Android Nougat version in this case: N2G47H.7.8.23
2. Extract downloaded ROM (twice if needed), so you’ll see the following folder with the “Images” folder inside:
3. Download and install latest version of MiFlash tool: MiFlashSetup_eng.msi
4. Make sure you’ve all required drivers for Mi A1 installed on your PC.
5. Disassemble your phone and disconnect the battery connector:
6. Grab the USB cable and insert to phone only, do not connect to PC at this point.
7. Take any suitable tool, wire clip for example and use it to connect two test points on the device board. Watch this video:
8. Keep test points together and connect your phone to PC by inserting USB cable in to PC.
9. Open “Device Manager” and check if the phone is defined as COM-port, “Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008” in our case.
10. If everything is right, then you can disconnect test-points and continue to the next step. If not, then re-check if all the drivers are installed.
11. Start MiFlash tool, press “select” and open the folder with ROM files.
12. Press “Ok”.
13. Find and enable “clean all” option.
14. Press “Refresh” button and check if your phone is defined as “COM-port” in “device” column.
15. Continue by press “flash” button.
16. Wait until installation is completed.

Please try and check this method, I hope that everything will work for you and you’ll be able to successfully restore your phone!

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The second part of this article will be generally about Redmi 5 Plus bootloop issue and how to fix it.

Tutorial on how to fix bootloop and restore hardbricked Redmi 5 Plus

Please pay attention that you do everything at your own risk and you’re responsible for any possible issues with your device.

Read the following information if you own Chinese version of Redmi 5 Plus: You can not flash Global MIUI ROM with locked bootloader, in this case you’ll get a bootloop device. Here’s what you should do: install Official Chinese MIUI ROM, sync with your Mi account (fix the 10008 error with DNS or VPN) and then request the bootloader unlock permission from MIUI.

Test point method is used in the following cases:

• Your phone is a brick. It can’t be turned on, fastboot and recovery modes are not working.
• In case of bootloop, when your phone automatically reboots on each startup and bootloader is locked.
• If you want to flash official ROM, but bootloader is locked.

For China Redmi 5 Plus version:

You can use the following tutorial to fix the following issues:

• If in the “Developer options” menu you see that the bootloader is unlocked, while if you check via terminal “cmd” command it is showing “(false)” meaning the the bootloader is locked.
• If you want to unlock the bootloader, but when you trying to sync device with Mi-account you’re getting 86006 error.

Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus Disassembly Part

The whole process requires accuracy and patience! Please read carefully and watch videos on YouTube to have a better understanding of the disassembly process.

1. Turn off your smartphone. In case you have bootloop issue, then press all the three buttons at the same time (both volume buttons and “Power”), hold them your device will reboots automatically for a few times and then it will turn off, release the buttons.
2. Next we are going to take out the SIM tray.
3. First, flip the bottom of the lid by carefully pulling it up near USB connector.
4. Next snap off the back cover.

Watch the following video for more information:

Required Drivers and Software for Redmi 5 Plus

Here’s the list of drivers and tools you must have installed on your PC to proceed with unbricking your Xiaomi Redmi 5 device:

1. First of all you’ll need to disable driver signature enforcement on your Windows PC.
2. Then you’ll need to install Qualcomm drivers: QDLoader+HS-USB+Driver_32-64bit_Setup.7z
3. Install the MiFlash tool, in case of any errors try the following version: MiFlashSetup-Beta.msi
4. Download the official MIUI ROM for MiFlash/fastboot, you can download and flash both Stable or Developer version. Unpack downloaded ROM to “C:/” drive.
5. Start MiFlash as administrator, click on the upper left “select” button and locate the path to unpacked firmware folder. Then select and enable “clean all” option in the bottom of the screen.

How to boot Redmi 5 Plus into EDL mode

We’ll try to give a step-by-step text guidance, but I will highly recommend you to check additional videos on how to get to the test points.

1. Remove the battery cable and gently pull it to the side.
2. Insert USB cable in the device, but do not connect other side to PC yet.
3. Grab some tool and close the Test Point contacts together.
4. While keeping the Test Points contacts together connect your device to PC via USB.
5. If everything was done correctly Redmi 5 Plus will reboot in the so-called EDL Mode and the screen will be off (black).
6. On your Windows PC open the “Device Manager” and check for the connected device and it’s COM or LPT port. You should see “Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 (COMxx)” device, where “xx” is the number of the port you’re using.
7. As soon as your device COM port is appeared in the device manager you can remove your hand from the Test Point contacts.

Flashing Redmi 5 Plus with MiFlash tool

Now you can continue with the flashing process, it wouldn’t be complicated really:

1. Open MiFlash software.
2. Click on the “Refresh” button.
3. If everything was done correctly, you should see COM port appeared in the “device” column.
4. Press “Flash” to start flashing process. You should see the progress bar appeared.
5. If the flashing was completed successfully you’ll see a green “Success” message.
6. Now we can check and test the smartphone. Remove the USB cable and connect the battery cable back.
7. Turn on your device.
8. Carefully put the back cover neatly to its place.
9. Insert SIM tray back as well.
10. That’s it!

Restore persist partition and unbrick Redmi 5 Plus

This method will only work only if your device automatically reboots on Mi logo and you can’t use Test Points method for some reasons. This could happen because of the corrupted (deleted or formatted) persist partition file. To restore it you’ll need to edit two files from the unpacked Fastboot ROM: partition.xml and rawprogram0.xml. We will recommend you to download Notepad++ to edit the files above.

Pay attention:

• If the bootloader is locked, you can only use the China Stable fastboot ROM
• If the bootloader is unlocked, you can use both Global or China Stable fastboot ROM.

1. Unpack downloaded ROM and find these files, locate “images” folder and find these two files: partition.xml and rawprogram0.xml
2. Open “partition.xml” find the following line:

   <partition label="persist" size_in_kb="32768" type="6C95E238-E343-4BA8-B489-
   8681ED22AD0B" bootable="false" readonly="false" 
   filename="persist.img" sparse="true"/>

   and change readonly=”false” to “true”, in the result you’ll get

   <partition label="persist" size_in_kb="32768" type="6C95E238-E343-4BA8-B489-
   8681ED22AD0B" bootable="false" readonly="true" 
   filename="persist.img" sparse="true"/>

3. Open “rawprogram0.xml” and make the following changes:

   <program SECTOR_SIZE_IN_BYTES="512" file_sector_offset="0" filename="" 
   label="persist" num_partition_sectors="65536" physical_partition_number="0" 
   size_in_KB="32768.0" sparse="true" start_byte_hex="0xf4000000" 
   start_sector="7995392"/>

   to

   <program SECTOR_SIZE_IN_BYTES="512" file_sector_offset="0" filename="persist.img" 
   label="persist" num_partition_sectors="65536" physical_partition_number="0" 
   size_in_KB="32768.0" sparse="true" start_byte_hex="0xf4000000" 
   start_sector="7995392"/>

4. Save changes.
5. Now you can use the flashing process which is described above.
6. You may also use the MiFlashPro tool for flashing, which can be downloaded here.

How to fix bootloop Redmi 5 Plus smartphone

Here’s the very simple solution on how to fix the bootloop issue when your phone automatically reboots without starting into the system.

1. Use all three available buttons to turn off your device completely. Press and hold “Volume Up” + “Down” and “Power” buttons and wait until your device reboots and then turned off.
2. Connect the test points and insert USB cable, you device should appear in device manager as “Qualcomm HS – USB QDLoader 9008” (please check the tutorial above on how to use Test Points and boot Redmi 5 Plus into Download mode).
3. Start MiFlash tool, locate the path to previously downloaded ROM and press “Refresh”. For China version use only China Stable or Developer Fastboot ROM, flashing Global ROM will lead to bootloop once again.
4. Your device should be identified as listed with its COM3 port, enable “clean all” and press “Flash” button to start flashing.
5. Wait until flashing process is completed.
6. Press “Power” button to start your phone. If the phone doesn’t start use the both volume and “Power” buttons at the same time and wait for 20 seconds. Your phone should start using this method.

If your phone is identified as “Unknown device” in “Device Manager” and constantly disconnects, that means that it just needs to be turned on. Disconnect USB cable from PC, press and hold all three buttons on your device and wait 20 seconds until it turns on.

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How to fix “EndTransferPacket id 0” error in MiFlash and restore bricked Redmi 3

The root of this issue is most probably related to the installed drivers on your system. The easiest solution will be to try flashing your phone with different PC. If you ain’t got that option, then the solution is to remove the currently installed drivers from your system. In result the “EndTransferPacket id 0” should be gone, after your device is recognized in Device Manager as “RELINK HS-USB QDLoader 9008 (COM *)”.

1. Download MiFlash 2015.10.28.0 and latest Mi PC Suite from official website.
2. Install ADB and this version of Qloader drivers.
3. Connect bricked Redmi 3 / 3 Pro to PC, if drivers were installed correctly, your phone should be recognized as “RELINK HS-USB QDLoader 9008 (COM *)”.
4. If your phone still doesn’t recognized as “RELINK HS-USB QDLoader 9008” even after reconnecting, try manually update drivers for “QHSUSB_BULK” device by selecting the folder with installed Mi PC Suite.
5. Now your device should be found in MiFlash tool.
6. Flash Redmi 3 / 3 Pro phone with a fastboot ROM (Select “Images” folder) to unbrick it!

This solution will be also useful for other Xiaomi phones in case you’ve stuck with installed drivers and your phone is recognized as Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008, RELINK HS-USB QDLoader 9008 or QHSUSB_BULK.

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Restore hardbrick Xiaomi Mi Max Prime / Unbricking Guide

1. First thing you’ll need to do is to disable driver signature enforcement.
   1. Open Command Prompt as administrator and run the commands below:

      bcdedit.exe /set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
      bcdedit.exe /set TESTSIGNING ON
      Bcdedit.exe /set nointegritychecks ON

   2. Now reboot your PC.
   3. To return settings back to normal run these commands:

      Bcdedit.exe /set nointegritychecks OFF
      bcdedit.exe /set TESTSIGNING OFF
      bcdedit -set loadoptions ENABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS

   4. You can find more methods here.
2. Now install “MiFlash Tool” and “MiPhone”.
3. Connect your device to PC via USB-cable (it’s recommended to use the stock cable from the original box), then press all three buttons: “Volume Up”, “Volume Down” and “Power” buttons. Wait for vibration signal (might take a while), now your device should be identified as “Qualcomm HS-USB Diagnostics 900E” or “Qualcomm HS-USB Diagnostics 9008”, but MiFlash tool still wouldn’t be working at this point.
   • If your phone is still not recognizable, try reinstalling drivers on your PC.
4. Now release the “Power” button and keep holding “Volume Up” and “Volume Down” for around 60 seconds more. Your device should vibrate once again and boot into EDL mode (in device manager it will still be recognized as “Qualcomm HS-USB Diagnostics 9008”).
5. Now you should be able to flash your device using the MiFlash Tool.
6. Download and flash China 7.3.15 MIUI ROM for fastboot. (other versions most probably won’t work). Select “Clean ALL” option.
7. Remove USB cable and disconnect your phone from PC.
8. Turn on your Mi Max Prime. First boot may require you to press and hold “Power” button for 10 seconds at least.
9. Next, if you want to flash Global ROM instead of China 7.3.15, then turn on developer options and enable “OEM Unlock” and “USB debugging”.
10. Now download latest Global ROM (by the moment it was Mi Max Prime Global V8.0.3.0.MBDMIDG (MIUI8)) and repeat the same steps, the same way we’ve flashed China ROM previously.

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How to restore bricked Redmi Note 4 MTK phone

First method:

Download the preloader version from Redmi Pro 64GB device and flash via TWRP recovery. After updating the Global Stable ROM to the newest version, preloader file might be lost again, and you’ll need to flash it again. Hope someone will find this useful: preloader.img

Restore bricked Redmi Note 4 MTK after flashing Global ROM

Second method:

If you’ve flashed a global ROM on your device, forgot to remove the “Preloader” option and in result got bricked device, then try flashing the preloader file from V8.1.10.0.MBFCNDI version: preloader_lcsh6797_6c_lw_m.rar

Check out this post for more information about this method.

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How to restore hard bricked Redmi Note 4 MTK after flashing Global ROM

If may successfully install Global ROM, but the smartphone can’t be turned on and in “Device Manager” it is recognized as “MTK USB PORT”.

The solution is actually very simple: you need to flash “Preloader” from China ROM version. You can extract it by yourself, for example from V8.1.10.0.MBFCNDI version, or use the download link below.

China ROM Preloader for Redmi Note 4 MTK: preloader_lcsh6797_6c_lw_m.rar (102.9 Kb)

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Unbrick and restore Xiaomi Redmi 4X / HM4X phone

Here’s some issues you might stuck with bricked device: MiFlash can’t see connected device, in “Device Manager” it is recognized as Qualcomm HS-USB Diagnostics 900E (COMX).

1. To start with, you’ll need to disassemble your device and find test points. We recommend to use Google or watch youtube videos for more details on this.
2. Download latest China Stable MIUI ROM version.
3. Remove battery from your device and connect test-points.
4. Connect your device to PC.
5. Press “Refresh”, now your device should be found in MiFlash.
6. Now proceed with flashing China Stable ROM on your device using MiFlash tool.
7. Flashing should take around 2-4 minutes.
8. First device startup will take much longer than usual. Keep calm and wait until it starts.
9. Now you should have unbricked Redmi 4X with China Stable ROM installed.

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Restore hardbrick Redmi 4X and fix “cannot receive hello packet” error

Here’s an solution on how you can restore your hardbricked Xiaomi Redmi 4X and fix “cannot receive hello packet” error.

1. Delete currently installed MiFlash Tool.
2. Download and install MIUI ROM Flashing Tool (MiFlash) 2016.12.22.0
3. Download Official Chinese ROM for MiFlash and copy to C:\ drive on your PC. For example use santoni_images_V8.2.16.0.MAMCNEA_20170425.0000.00_6.0_cn
4. Remove the battery from your device, connect the test-points (find tutorial on youtube on how to connect test points on Redmi 4X) and connect your device to PC via USB-Cable.
5. Your device should be found and recognized as QDloader (com), now in MiFlash select the ROM folder, and select “Clean all”, then press “Flash” button.
6. Error “cannot receive hello packet” should be gone now.
7. Home some one will find this tutorial useful! Don’t brick your devices

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How to unbrick or fix bootloop on Xiaomi Redmi Note 4X

Bricked Redmi Note 4X with unlocked bootloader

First thing you should try is to boot your device in TWRP custom recovery (of course, in case it was previously installed).

In TWRP:

1. Press “Wipe” > “Advanced Wipe” > Select “dalvik” and “cache” > Wipe. If this didn’t work for you, then continue to the second step.
2. Select “Wipe” > “Advanced Wipe” > Select “dalvik”, “cache”, “system”, “data” and “internal storage” (at your discretion) > Wipe and flash firmware again. Still not working? Continue to third step:
   
3. “Wipe” > “Format data” > Yes.  Reboot in recovery and repeat step 2.
   

In case you don’t have TWRP recovery installed:

If you don’t have TWRP custom recovery installed already then flash TWRP via fastboot or flash ROM using MiFlash tool.

Unbrick Redmi Note 4X with locked bootloader

Here’s two methods on how to restore and unbrick locked Redmi Note 4X: first method is about dissembling the device and connect testpoint or try flashing with Mi PC Suite. First method is 100% working, but you’ll need to do your own research about how to correctly find and connect the testpoints on your device.

So if you choose a first method, then google something like “redmi note 4x test points” and you’ll find a few guides. The idea is to enter the EDL mode and then flash your device with MiFlash.

Unbrick locked Redmi Note 4X with Mi PC Suite

If you want to try the second method of unbricking Redmi Note 4X with Chinese Mi PC Suite, you’ll find it below. This method also working on Redmi Note 3 Pro device and probably other MIUI devices, but make sure that you’re downloading the correct ROM for your device.

1. Download and install Chinese version of Mi PC Suite (agree with installation of unsigned drivers).
2. Start Mi PC Suite.
3. Press and hold both volume buttons and power button, after vibration signal release the power button and keep holding volume buttons until your device boots in Recovery.
4. Connect your device via USB-cable.
5. Now in Mi PC Suite press the first button on top and select downloaded ROM version. You can downloaded Redmi Note 4X ROM from here: http://en.miui.com/download-321.html
6. The ROM file will be checked (around 1-3 minutes) and you’ll see few “green” Chinese symbols, accept the ROM flashing by pressing the top first button.
7. The ROM flashing process should start, wait until your device reboots.
8. The whole process will take around 10-20 minutes.
9. After reboot you’ll get fully working device.
10. To reset your device to factory settings, press the second button in Mi PC Suite. Your device will be rebooted and restored to factory settings.

Download Mi PC Suite: MiInst.exe (3.2 MB)

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