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How unlock bootloader and skip 360 hours waiting

Frederick Jerome — Sun, 20 May 2018 13:29:57 +0000

You’ve probably already know about the required 360 hours that you’ll need to wait before you can unlock the bootloader on your Xiaomi smartphone. For a quite some time there was no working solution and all you have to do is to wait. Finally we found a solution that is actually working and been tested for a few times.

Solution to bypass 72 and 360 hours when unlocking Xiaomi MIUI phone

Basically you’ll need to have two different MIUI accounts with unlock permissions. If you don’t know how to request official unlock permission please check for the additional guides on our website. You can get the MI account with the permissions in around 3 hours time.

Enable developer options on your device and go to “Mi Unlock Status”.

In the “Mi Unlock status” menu tap on the “Add account and device”.

So, prepare two MI account with unlock permissions and let’s get started. This tutorial might seem a little bit complex at first sight, but there is nothing really complicated there.

Sign in the first MI account on your phone and sync with it in developer options. Turn off your device after the sync is successfully completed.
Now sign in to the same account in MiFlashUnlock software.
Turn on your phone in fastboot mode (press and hold volume button down and “Power” buttons at the same time until you’ll see a Mi logo on the screen).
Connect your phone to PC via USB-cable, press “Accept” and continue with installations. The progress bar should appear and when it goes to 99% you’ll see an error message with 72-360 hours wait request.
Disconnect your phone and press “Power” button to turn it on.
Sign out from the 1st account on your device and then sign in to the second account. After you’ve successfully signed into to don’t do nothing and just turn your phone off immediately. Then start in the fastboot mode again.
In MiFlashUnlock sign out the first account and use the second account to log in.
Now connect your phone to PC once again and start the process of unlocking. Everything should work and 360 hours wait time should be skipped.

For those who already tried the unlocking with one single Mi Account and currently waiting for the time to pass, you can just get the second account and start from the Step 6 of this guide. This helped me a lot. If you got your own solutions and corrections to the method above, please share your thoughts and ideas in the comment below. Your help is appreciated!

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How to unlock bootloader on Xiaomi Mi A1

Frederick Jerome — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 09:41:21 +0000

To continue our posts about the latest Mi A1 Android smartphone, we want to cover one of the most important questions. In this post you’ll find the step-by-step tutorial for starters on how you can easily unlock the bootloader on your Xiaomi Mi A1 device. The process of unlocking the Mi A1 is a little bit different from the way you unlock other Mi phones, so take your time and read everything carefully. Also pay attention that your device is fully charged (or have at least 50% of battery charge) and remember that it’s recommended to use rear USB ports.

Unlocking tutorial for Xiaomi Mi A1 (tissot)

The first step would be enabling the unlock on the phone itself. For this you’ll need to enable developer options first. To do this, you should go to “Settings” > “About phone” and tap 7-8 times on the build version. You’ll see a message that developers options are now enabled. Now go to “Settings” > “Advanced” > “Developer options” and activate “Enable OEM Unlock”.
Now boot your device in “bootloader” mode, to do this you’ll need to turn off your phone first, then press “Power” button and “Volume down” buttons at the same time. Otherwise you can use adb command “adb reboot bootloader”.
Connect your phone to PC via USB cable.
Make sure you’ve downloaded and unpacked ADB drivers and tools: tools_r26.0.1-windows.zip
Now go to unpacked “Tools” folder, press and hold “Shift” key and right mouse click on empty space, in the menu select “Open command window here”. If you’re using Windows 10, make sure you’ve opened Windows (cmd) and not “PowerShell” app.
Now check if device is connected successfully by typing this command:
```
fastboot devices
```
If everything was done successfully, you’ll see your device unique ID number. If you don’t see it, try reinstalling drivers and repeat everything again.
Now to finally and completely unlock the bootloader on your Xiaomi Mi A1 type one of the following commands (these commands are absolutely identical):
```
fastboot oem unlock
```
or
```
fastboot flashing unlock
```

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Unlock bootloader on Xiaomi Redmi 4 with Mi Unlock

Frederick Jerome — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 23:15:28 +0000

Short guide on how to unlock bootloader of Xiaomi Redmi 4 device with Mi Unlock software. To unlock your device you’ll need the Official (China) ROM (stable or developer version) and Mi-account with an approved permissions! You can apply for permissions here.

Unlock Xiaomi Redmi 4 Bootloader with Mi Unlock

In your smartphone enter Mi account credentials: Settings > Mi Account
Start your smartphone in fastboot mode (turn off, hold power button and volume down, wait for short vibration signal and release the power button then. Wait for the fastboot logo to appear.
Now connect your device to your PC or laptop.
Download Mi Unlock (you can find download link below) and extract it to any folder of your PC.
Download Mi Unlock and extract it to any folder of your PC.
Run Mi Unlock by double clicking MiFlashUnlock.exe
Press “Agree” to confirm with disclaimer.
Press “Agree” to confirm with disclaimer.
Now in the “Email” and “Password” fields enter your account credentials, same as you use on your smartphone.
Now in the “Email” and “Password” fields enter your Mi account credentials.
Next we press “Unlock”.
If everything went successful you should see “Unlocked successfully” message.
That means that you now have unlocked bootloader on your Redmi 4 device.
Press “Reboot phone” and wait for device to reboot.

Download MiFlash Unlock

Software used to unlock the bootloader on Xiaomi smartphones.

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