Newbie tutorial on how to flash Xiaomi Mi Max Pro

Please, pay attention that authors of this tutorial are not responsible for any of your actions and possible issues. You do everything at your own risk! Make sure you know, what you’re doing.

How to flash official MIUI ROM with EDL (fastboot) – Locked / Unlocked bootloader

1. Make sure your phone is charged with at least 80%.
2. Download Official MIUI Fastboot ROM and unpack downloaded ROM in “C:\fastboot”. Make sure ROM files are in this folder, avoid subfolders.
3. Install MiFlash on your PC.
4. Enable “Developer Options”. Go to “Settings” > “About phone” and tap a few times on MIUI version.
5. Now go to “Settings” > “Additional Settings” > “Developer options” > Enable “USB Debugging”.
6. Start MiFlash Tool.
7. Insert USB cable to your PC (do not connect your phone yet).
8. Turn off your phone > press “Volume Up” and “Volume Down” and hold these buttons > now connect it with USB cable.
9. Release the buttons after short vibration signal.
   • If your phone doesn’t vibrate then try pressing “Volume Up” and “Volume Down” as well as “Power” button. After first vibration, release the power button, and then wait for the second vibration signal, after the second one release the volume buttons.
10. In MiFlash press “Refresh”. You should see device port number on the screen.
11. Now press “Select” to locate the folder with fastboot ROM files.
12. Make sure you’ve selected “Clean ALL” option.
13. Now press “Flash” to start flashing your Mi Max Pro phone. If everything was successful in the end you’ll “Success” message. Flashing could take around 15 minutes.
14. Disconnect your phone from PC and turn it on with the “Power” button.

How to flash Custom ROM on Mi Max Pro with locked / unlocked bootloader

If you haven’t previously flashed your phone and have no experience with TWRP, you may first try installing the official MIUI ROM since that is much easier. While Custom ROM installation is a little bit more complicated.

1. Download Custom ROM you want to flash. No need to unpack the .zip archive.
2. Download TWRP Custom Recovery for Mi Max Pro: TWRPMax(32Gb).rar | TWRPMax(64-128Gb).rar
3. Open MiFlash and install TWRP for your phone model. The process of flashing is described above. From the links above you can download TWRP Custom Recovery for MiFlash installation. You must first install the Global or China 8.0.3.0 MIUI ROM on your device before flashing TWRP. This will give you the option to install TWRP without unlocked bootloader. On newer ROM version you’ll have to unlock bootloader first and only after proceed to flashing custom recovery.
4. After you’ve flashed TWRP do not disconnect your device from PC.
5. Boot into Custom Recovery by pressing “Volume Up” + “Power” buttons. If TWRP asks for password, tap cancel and allow system partition modifications.
6. Go back to main menu and tap on “Wipe”. Select “Data”, “Cache” and “Dalvik” partitions.
7. Back to main menu again and reboot into system.
8. Go to “Mount” and enable “MTP”.
9. Copy downloaded custom ROM .zip archive to phone internal memory.
10. In “Mount” disable “MTP” and safely remove USB cable.
11. In case you see a checkmark against “system”, remove it to unmount “system” partition.
12. Now go to “Install” menu and select ROM .zip file. Confirm with swipe to continue. Flashing will take around 10-15 and you’ll see a successful message in the end.
13. Reboot into system.
14. You should see a Mi logo on a black screen. First startup will take around 10 minutes. If you can’t boot into the system, you can try rebooting into TWRP Custom Recovery and try installing ROM once again, this help sometimes.

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This is an instruction on how to flash TWRP on a working Mi Max Pro device with locked / unlocked bootloader.

TWRP installation with locked bootloader

Required files:

• Mi PC Suite: MiSetup3.2.1.3111_2717.exe
• Mi Flasher Beta: MiFlashSetup-Beta.zip
• TWRP-3.0.2.0_Helium: TWRP-3.0.2-0-Helium.rar

Mi PC Suite is required because of the drivers. Mi Flasher Beta is used as flashing software.

Install guide:

1. First we’ll need to check if we have all required drivers installed.
2. Connect your device to PC.
3. Press and hold volume up + volume down buttons and wait for vibration signal.
4. In “Device Manager” your device should appear in EDL mode (9008). The port number is not important. If your device is not identified then check if you’ve got Mi PC Suite installed, it will provide all required drivers.
5. Download Mi Flasher Beta, TWRP-3.0.2.0_Helium and extract all files in C:\”any_folder_name” (avoid creating sub-folders here!).
6. Run Mi Flasher Beta, press “Select” and select path to folder with TWRP-3.0.2.0_Helium files.
7. Boot your device in EDL mode (9008), connect USB cable and check if your device is identified correctly in “Device Manager”.
8. Press “Refresh”.
9. Now Mi Flasher Beta should identify device ROM version and COM Port.
10. Press “Flash” and flashing process will start.
11. After flashing process is completed, disconnect your device from PC and press power button then volume up to get into recovery mode.

TWRP installation with unlocked bootloader

Required files:

• Mi PC Suite: MiSetup3.2.1.3111_2717.exe
• Firmware_TWRP-HELIUM_3.0.2-0_of_8.0.2.0_from_Fastboot_D-V_v3: Firmware_TWRP-HELIUM_3.0.2-0_of_8.0.2.0_from_Fastboot_D-V_v3.rar

Install guide:

1. First we’ll need to check if we have all required drivers installed.
2. Then press “power” and “volume -” buttons, wait until fastboot logo appears. Your device should be in fastboot mode now.
3. In “Device Manager” check for COM PORT number that have just appeared. The port number is not important. In case COM PORT is not identified, then check if you’ve got Mi PC Suite installed, it will provide all required drivers.
4. Download Firmware_TWRP-HELIUM_3.0.2-0_of_8.0.2.0_from_Fastboot_D-V_v3 and extract all files in C:\”any_folder_name” (avoid creating sub-folders here!).
5. Start “Firmware_TWRP-HELIUM_3.0.2-0_of_8.0.2.0_from_Fastboot_D-V_v3.bat” file.
6. Now follow the instructions:
   1. You can flash TWRP recovery on a permanent basis – that’s “1”
   2. Or can flash TWRP recovery temporary (for a single run, until next reboot) – that’s “2”
7. Keep following instructions on the screen, start your device in fastboot mode, check the connection in “Device Manager” while keep following all instructions. In result your device will reboot in TWRP recovery.

Preparing, setup and start-up TWRP on Mi Max Pro:

1. Disable password by pressing “Cancel”.
2. Make swipe to agree with system changes.
3. In the main menu “Wipe” – choose “Format Data”, type “yes” to start data format.
4. In the main menu “Mount” > Select “Enable MTP”.
5. Connect your Mi Max to PC via USB cable and using file explorer (total commander is recommended) copy downloaded ROM to your phone storage.
6. In the main menu “Install” select ROM file you’ve just transferred and confirm with swipe.
   
7. That’s it!

Just in case you’ve got any troubles with installing TWRP on your Xiaomi Mi device, here’s a few ideas and solutions that might work:

• Try changing USB cable.
• Flash only via USB 2.0.
• Try different USB ports.
• In case you’re using home PC use only rear USB ports.
• Try different Mi Flasher versions.
• In case you’ve got another PC or laptop device near you, try flash with it.
• After each failed try reboot your PC and smartphone.

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