Flash Global Stable ROM on Xiaomi Mi 5S with locked bootloader

1. First you’ll need to install a China Developer ROM using the “Updater” app.
2. Next download Global ROM for Mi5S to your PC.
3. Install all required PC drivers and install Chinese Mi PC Suite version (You may find it here http://zhushou.xiaomi.com/).
4. Boot into recovery, you should see an image with phone and cable.
5. Connect your device to PC, in Mi PC Suite new window should open. Press the first button and locate the Global ROM archive you’ve downloaded previously and press the top button once again.
6. Installation process should start. It will take around 20 minutes.
7. As soon as the phone goes restart, remove the cable and disconnect device from PC.
8. Another progress bar should appear and phone will reboot in system. You may probably see a “No SIM” error. Then ignore the error message and make factory reset.
9. After factory reset everything should work perfectly fine.

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How to flash Global ROM on Xiaomi Mi Mix without Unlocked Bootloader

1. First charge your device to 100%.
2. If you just open the box, then turn on your device and complete the startup setup. It’s required that you connect to WiFi, skip everything else. Wait until complete loading.
3. Enable “Developer options”. Go to “Settings” > “About phone” and tap a few times on “MIUI version”. You will see a message that developer options are now enabled.
4. Now enable “USB debugging”. Go to “Settings” > “Additional settings” > “Developer options” and enable “USB debugging”.
5. Connect your device to PC using the stock USB cable. When you see a “USB for charging” message, tap on it and select “Transfer files (MTP)”.
6. Download the latest China Developer MIUI ROM for Mi Mix. Check out this post for the latest Xiaomi Mi Mix ROMs.
7. Copy downloaded ROM .zip archive to your phone. On your PC or laptop open “My Computer” > “Mi Mix Smartphone” > “Internal storage” > “Download”. In “Download” folder copy downloaded China Developer ROM .zip file.
8. Now we will install China Developer ROM. Tap on the “Tools” > select “Updater” app > In the opened window tap on the “three dots” icon, select “Choose update package”, go to “Download” folder and select previously copied .zip file. Press “Ok” in the bottom of the screen to continue.
9. Wait until file checking is completed, confirm “Erase and Update” message with “Ok”.
10. Your phone will reboot and flashing process will start. After installation is completed the phone will reboot in system.
11. Now repeat the 2-4 steps and enable “USB Debugging”.
12. Install Chinese version of Mi PC Suite 2.3.0. Find download link below, unpack the archive and install Mi PC Suite 2.3.0 (CN). After installation, check for updates by pressing the small round blue icon in the bottom left of the screen. The Mi PC Suite will be turned off, updated and automatically reboots.
13. Now download latest Global ROM for Mi Mix. Check out this post for the latest Xiaomi Mi Mix Global ROMs.
14. Let’s continue with installing the Global ROM. Turn off your device, press “Volume Up” and “Power” button at the same time. Hold both buttons until the Mi logo appears, then release the “Power” button and continue to hold the “Volume +” button.
15. When you see a picture with smartphone and cable on the screen, release the “Volume Up” button.
16. Now connect your device to PC.
17. In Mi PC Suite, press the big orange button, in the new window press you’ll see the 3 buttons, press on the first one. Locate the Global ROM from your PC.
18. The flashing process will take around 15-20 minutes.
19. After installation is completed your device will automatically reboot.
20. If on the first startup the Mi logo is displayed  for a long time and the smartphone does not boot into the system, then press the “Volume Up” + “Power” buttons at the same time, hold both buttons pressed until the screen turns on and the Mi logo appears, then release the power button and continue to hold the “Volume Up” button. When you see a picture with smartphone and cable on the screen, release the “Volume Up” button. Connect your phone to PC via USB cable. In the Mi PC Suite, press the large orange button, and then in the opened window, click on the middle button. Press the button with orange Chinese symbols to continue. This will clear the phone memory and your device will automatically reboots into system.
21. After reboot, select the English language and required region, continue with the first startup setup.
22. That’s it! We’ve successfully installed Global ROM without unlocking the bootloader.

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How to install TWRP and flash Redmi 3S with locked bootloader

Before doing anything from this guide remember to make backup of your device. Make sure you’re completely understand on how to boot your Redmi 3S / 3X device in EDL and fastboot mode and you know how to use MiFlash. You take all responsibility for your actions!

So what’s the main point of this guide? Just to make things easier! Bypassing official MIUI unlocking is generally much easier than getting the official unlock. You don’t need to request and wait to get unlock permission and the process itself isn’t really complicated than the official unlock. The only thing is that you can’t reinstall TWRP version, that you will flash during this guide.

Required drivers for Redmi 3S and Redmi 3X

Basically all you need is to install the latest version of MiFlash. If you can’t install drivers for different modes, then you can try install them separately:

• EDL mode drivers for Redmi 3S: QDLoader+HS-USB+Driver_32-64bit_Setup.zip
• Fastboot drivers for Redmi 3S: Android_adb-USB_UnifL_Driver_v1.17.exe

How to enter EDL (download mode) on Redmi 3S and Redmi 3X

When you boot your Redmi 3S device in EDL mode device screen is rather black or turned off. There are two methods on how to boot in EDL mode:

• First way is to hold both volume buttons and connect your device to PC.
• If your device is in bootloop or hardbricked then try to hold all three buttons for a long time (around 60-90 seconds). First this will lead to reboot, you will get vibration signal, and then device reboot again, now it will be booted in EDL mode.
• Another way is to use fastboot mode. Boot your Redmi 3S in fastboot and then type “fastboot oem edl”. Your device will be identified as “Qualcomm HSUSB-Qloader 9008”.
• To exit EDL mode just hold the power button for a few seconds.

How to use fastboot mode on Redmi 3S and Redmi 3X

To boot into fastboot mode you need to hold down the volume button and press “Power” to turn your Redmi 3S device. In device manager your phone will be identified as “Android” or “Redmi3S”. You can use fastboot commands to reboot your device in different modes. If you press “Power” button for some time, your device will reboot back into the system.

How to use MiFlash to flash Redmi 3S device

Unpack downloaded ROM in any folder. For example “C:\rom”. In extracted MiFlash ROM version you’ll see “images” directory. Launch MiFlash tool, press “Browse” and select folder with ROM files. Then click “Refresh”, you’ll see COM port of your device. Select “flash all/clean all” mode. Don’t forget about backups! Press “Flash” to start flashing and wait until installation process is completed.

Flash Xiaomi.EU 7.5.1 ROM with pre-installed TWRP Recovery on locked bootloader Redmi 3S

This is a test version, feel free to leave your results in the comments section below. Below you’ll find short tutorial on how you can flash Xiaomi.EU multi lingual 7.5.1 ROM with custom recovery on locked Redmi 3S or Redmi 3X device.

Download here: RedMi3S_MiFlash_xiaomi.eu_7.5.1.zip

How to flash Xiaomi.EU ROM on locked bootloader

Follow these simple steps:

1. Download Xiaomi.EU 7.5.1 ROM version with pre-installed TWRP Custom Recovery.
2. Right after you’ve flashed this ROM via MiFlash, turn off your device, then enter the fastboot mode and run UNLOCK.bat from the archive with ROM files.
3. Congratulations! You’ve successfully flashed Xiaomi.EU 7.5.1 ROM with TWRP recovery on your locked Redmi 3S.

How to flash TWRP Custom Recovery on locked bootloader Redmi 3S

First you must enable the developer options and OEM-unlock in the settings. Then download and flash bootloader patch via MiFlash: RedMi3S_MiFlash_PatchLockedBL.zip (449.6 Kb).

Then boot your device in fastboot mode and execute these two files: doit1.bat and doit2.bat. Download here: RedMi3S_Fastboot_UnlockPatchedBL_specTWRP.zip (21.7 Mb). By doing this you’ll get device with custom TWRP installed. After this you can flash any custom ROMs (including OTA) without unlocking the bootloader on your Xiaomi Redmi 3s device.

Here’s additional information for you:

1. Go to “Settings” > “About device” and tap several times on MIUI version. Developer options will be enabled now. Open “Developer options” and enable OEM-Unlock.
2. Start your Redmi 3S in EDL mode.
3. Flash RedMi3S_MiFlash_PatchLockedBL.zip using MiFlash tool.
4. Turn off your device and start again in fastboot mode. Attention! You need to start your device in fastboot without booting into the system.
5. Unpack RedMi3S_Fastboot_UnlockPatchedBL_specTWRP.zip and run doit1.bat. Your phone will reboot, first startup will take around 10-15 minutes.
6. After the reboot, turn off the phone again, go to fastboot mode again and run doit2.bat.
7. TWRP Custom Recovery should start. Swipe to allow changes to system partition.
8. Now to flash any custom ROM connect your device to PC, download required ROM and copy to SD card or device internal memory. On the phone press “Install” and select downloaded ROM file.
9. With this TWRP version you can install other custom ROMS and upgrades without officially unlocking the bootloader.

How to root locked bootloader Redmi 3S

1. Download SuperSU Stable.
2. Reboot in patched TWRP version.
3. Install downloaded SuperSU.
4. Wipe “Dalvik” and “Cache”.

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Flashing Global ROM on Redmi 4A with locked bootloader

First thing you’ll need is to check the bootloader lock status. If your device is already unlocked then you can flash the Global ROM using MiFlash tool.

How to check bootloader status on Redmi 4A

1. Download and unpack Platform-tools (adb/fastboot). 
2. Boot your device in fastboot mode (turn off your device, then press and hold “Power” and “Volume Down” buttons, after short vibration signal release the “Power” button and wait until fastboot logo appears).
3. Now connect your device to PC via USB-cable.
4. In the folder with ADB Tools, hold “Shift” button and right mouse click, select “Open command window here”.
5. In the opened terminal windows, type these commands:

   fastboot devices
   fastboot oem device-info

6. “Device unlocked: true” message means that you’ve unlocked bootloader. “Device unlocked: false” means that bootloader is locked.

Ok, now you’ve checked bootloader status. Continue to this guide only if you’re pretty sure about what you’re doing. And remember that you’re doing everything at your own risk.

How to flash Global ROM on locked Redmi 4A

Here’s two ways on how to flash locked Redmi 4A device. Please read carefully and pay attention to the details.

First method:

1. Download and install Chinese MiSuite: http://zhushou.xiaomi.com/
2. Boot your device in recovery mode. To enter recovery mode: Turn off your device, then press and hold “Volume Up” + “Power” buttons. After Mi logo appeared, release the “Power” button and keep holding “Volume Up”. In the menu press “Recovery” button.
3. Open MiSuite and connect Redmi 4A to PC or laptop. A menu with 4 buttons should appear. Press the second button from the top.
4. Select the .zip file with China Developer ROM. No need to unpack .zip file. Press “Open”.
5. On your phone you should see some kind of progress bar, and in MiSuite you most probably will see an error message. Don’t worry and don’t press anything. Wait until installation on your phone is completed.
6. Your device will reboot. Currently we have installed some kind of Frankenstein ROM version.
7. Make full wipe with data formatting.
8. After full wipe and passing the welcome screen, reboot your device in recovery mode again (watch step 2).
9. Now repeat the step 4, but instead of China Developer ROM, we will flash Global ROM .zip file.
10. Watch the progress bar on your phone. Do not pay attention to the progress bar on your PC.
11. On the first reboot you’ll see some errors. Press “Cancel” and make factory reset.
12. Congratulations! You’ve successfully flashed Global ROM on your device with locked bootloader.

Second method:

1. Download and install Chinese MiSuite: http://zhushou.xiaomi.com/
2. Boot your device in recovery mode. To enter recovery mode: Turn off your device, then press and hold “Volume Up” + “Power” buttons. After Mi logo appeared, release the “Power” button and keep holding “Volume Up”. In the menu press “Recovery” button.
3. Open MiSuite and connect Redmi 4A to PC or laptop. A menu with 3 buttons should appear. Press the first button from the top.
4. Now we select Global ROM .zip file.
5. After short loading press the top button again.
6. Progress bar on your device should appear. Ignore errors in Mi Suite and wait until installation is completed.
7. On the first reboot you’ll see some errors. Press “Cancel” and make factory reset.
8. Congratulations! You’ve successfully flashed Global ROM!

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Reset forgotten password on Redmi Note 4

How to reset password with locked bootloader Redmi Note 4

First thing can do is flash TWRP recovery with SP Flash tool. Download recommended TWRP version: recovery.img (13.1 Mb) and Wipe all data. This will reset password on your device.

Another method is to wipe your device with SP Flash Tool. Another way is to flash official ROM again.

Next you can try to reset all settings in Mi PC Suite. This will reset password, screen lock pattern and fingerprint scanner. First download required Redmi Note 4 recovery ROM from official MIUI website. Download Chinese Mi PC Suite version: MiInst.exe (3.2 Mb)

1. Start Mi PC Suite.
2. Turn off your device and press Volume Up and Power buttons at the same time.
3. Recovery menu should appear.
4. Press “Recovery”;
5. Connect the USB cable to your device.
6. Mi PC Suite should identify your device and displays your device ROM version.
7. Next press the “Update” button in Mi PC Suite (it is located in the bottom, on the right side of the screen).
8. A new window should appear. First button is for selecting ROM. Second button for WIPE. Press “Wipe” button to wipe all data. Device will reboot.
9. Now press the first button and select ROM you want to flash on your device.
10. Press the first button to start flashing.
11. Wait until flashing process is completed.

And the last possible solution: If you’ve got Google Account on your device, you can sign into your account and delete all data. Same thing you can do with your Mi account.

How to reset password with unlocked bootloader Redmi Note 4

If you’ve got unlocked bootloader device, it’s much easier to reset forgotten password. Boot in TWRP recovery mode and delete these files:

• gatekeeper.password.key
• gatekeeper.pattern.key
• locksettings.db
• locksettings.db-shm
• locksettings.db-wal

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Note! Only for Redmi 4 Prime 3/32 versions!

Flashing Xiaomi.eu MIUI ROM on Locked Redmi 4 Prime

To flash international MIUI ROM from Xiaomi.eu or MultiROM you must have MiFlash and all required drivers installed on your PC. Also you need to have any ROM installed on your device.

1. First you’ll need to enable developer options and enable OEM UNLOCKING.
2. Go to “Settings” > “About phone” > Tap a few times on MIUI version to enable developer options. Also go to developer options and enable OEM UNLOCKING.
3. Download and extract _PatchLockedBL.zip and install this patch using MiFlash just like a usual ROM.
   • To do this you’ll need to boot your Redmi 4 Prime device in download mode (EDL). To enter EDL mode on Redmi 4 Prime: reboot your device and hold power button with volume up. Here’s our post on how to enter EDL mode on Redmi 4 Prime smartphone.
4. Now turn off your device and enter fastboot mode (vol – and power button at the same time).
5. Download and extract TWRP.zip and run “doit1.bat” file.
6. Device will reboot. First startup will take around 10-15 minutes.
7. After reboot enter fastboot mode again and run “doit2.bat” file.
8. TWRP recovery should start. Disable password and allow changes to “system” partition. Make swipe to confirm.
9. Enter “Wipe” and select data format. Type “yes” and swipe to continue. Enter main menu again and press “Reboot” > “Power Off”.
10. Hold three buttons to enter TWRP again. Enter “Wipe” > “Advanced Wipe” > Select all partitions except “system” >  Swipe to confirm.
11. Enter main menu press “Reboot” > “Turn off”
12. Hold three buttons and enter TWRP again.
13. Copy International MIUI ROM to phone internal storage and install via TWRP.

That’s it! Now you’ve got unofficial international ROM installed on your device!

Remember! Do not wipe “system” partition or you’ll get bootloop and bricked Redmi 4 Prime in your hands.

In case you’ve stuck with doit1.bat file do the following:

1. Replace emmc_appsboot.mbn file to patched one and install with “clear all” option.
2. Skip steps with “doit1.bat” file and continue with “doit2.bat”.

Download links:

_PatchLockedBL.zip

TRWP.zip

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