[Xiaomi Mi Pad Guides, News, & Discussion] Galacticpunk:
Thanks a ton for the guide.

My Mi Pad got hard bricked by pressing the wrong button on the update su binary.

this method is by far the best way to bring mi pad back to life.

Searched for the method, found this thread,

i thank the member who came up and guided us by creating this post, also to anyone else whom i left to thank if any. thanks to all the guys without whom this thread was incomplete. you saved my life

Do the process with a cool mind. it takes time and efforts. so only start to do this when you are free.

Download :

Mi pad miui "fast boot" Rom

Mi flash tool 2015. there's a reason why only any 2015 one. mentioned in the post when you reach that step.

Mi phone suit.

that's it. now the process i did.

preparation Steps:

(i)go to the Mi pad miui fast boot Rom file. unpacked the tar.gz and then the tar file and keep the folder ready for flash.

(ii)First disable the "device driver certificate signature check" enforcement by booting using the advanced startup mode. there are other ways to disable it too, for that google it.

(either restart your PC by pressing Shift+restart button and selecting advanced startup mode or by pressing F8 on boot and selecting advanced start up and then selecting "Disable device driver certificate signature check enforcement mode" by pressing F7.)

then when you boot install Mi flash 2015 tool and accept the warning for installing unsigned drivers.

(iii)install Mi phone software suit.

now comes the actual part :

(1)opened the mi pad back panel.

(2)unscrewed all the screws covering the main board and camera area.

(3)removed the battery cable as indicated in the picture (the middle one).

(4) best way to create a short circuit is to use a piece of wire. it has much higher rate of success than paper clip and other stuffs.

creating a short circuit is quite tricky. so if you have an extra hand who could connect the usb plug to the computer for you, while you create a short, then short circuit would be successful on the first time itself.( i got mine successful at 3rd time as i realized that i wont be able to do both things at once. :) ). when the device connects to the PC wait for 15-20 secs with the short circuit for safer side. then you can remove the short circuit.

Caution : "Mi pad doesn't get detected in Mi flash tool released in 2016 or further. try the 2015 one ;) .

(5) got the device registered as an APX device. updated the drivers to "nvidia mobile recovery USB drivers" from the Mi flash drivers folder.

(6)after it has been successfully registered as an nvidia mobile recovery USB device, open up the mi flash tool without wasting time and select the folder that u unzipped in step 1 check the device list again in the tool.

don't panic if the device shows "0" just flash it. after all you don't have anything to loose even if the flash is unsuccessful. (i thought the same way. after all it was worth a shot.)

(7) it would take some time between 30 seconds-120 seconds or even more depending the file you selected for flashing, so don't panic just leave it there itself. if there's an error then do the short process again and flash the files.

(8) after some time when the green bar is full you will receive a message on the right as Rom flashed success or something like that . that means your device is now alive after this long revival treatment from the death. :D

(9)so plug that battery cable that you removed, place the main board cover back to its place and screw it up, put back the back panel. and voila startup your device . it should show the MI logo.

if possible keep your device for charging as soon as possible.

sorry for such a long post.

Hope this helps. :)

best of luck!!