[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Questions & Answers] nachtwacht:
Hello,

I have a Redmi 2 - 2014813 (TD-LTE)

I live in Europe but the phone is a chinese version.

History: It was running an old MIUI version (no idea wich one it was... I don't upgrade much...). This version gave some troubles a few weeks back (some programs stopping running etc) I had to return to factory defaults and since that gave some other problems I flashed TWRP and a custom rom (Cyanogenmod 13 from http://xdaforums.com/redmi-2/development/rom-cyanogenmod-unofficial-builds-t3267958 ). That went fine for several days and then suddenly, the phone did not boot anymore. I fixed that by again flashing the same rom. Again, a few days all ok, then again no more booting.

Problem: This time however flashing did not work anymore in TWRP. Unfortunatly also not when using fastboot, MiFlash or MiPCSuite

The error I get in MiFlash (2016.04.01) is "(0x80004005: FAILED (remote: failed to write partition))"

If I try to flash using TWRP (tried both 3.0.0.0 and 3.0.2.0) it fails to flash. When it tries to update the partition details is gives the eror:

"failed to mount '/cach' (invalid argument)"

"failed to mount '/system' (invalid argument)"

Updater process ended with signal: 11

So far that tells me there is something wrong with my partitions....

When I go in TWRP to -wipe - advanced wipe both /cache and system have the ext4 file system but have a 0MB size. Repairing or changing them in TWRP does not help.

If I go in TWRP to - mount only data and micro SDCard are mounted. If I try to mount System and Cache the phone "buzzes" but it does not select them.

If I go in TWRP to - file manager I do see all kinds of directories. (boot, cache, cust, data, dev etc) so apperantly that partition is still there....

When trying to find the correct ROM for my phone I did have some troubles. Naming of the Redmi 2 phones is not very clear... I tried several fastboot roms and will put them all here.

Mismatching image and device (and therefore did not want to install for that reason but just here for information):

wt88047_global_images_V8.0.1.0.KHJMIDG_20160805.0000.29_4.4_global_daca6227c0

wt88047_images_5.3.6_4.4_cn_684e616dfa

wt88047_images_V7.3.1.0.KHJCNDD_20160419.0000.19_4.4_cn_7c7e1e1a71

wt88047_pro_global_images_6.8.18_20160805.0000.29_5.1_global_b9951b6005

wt88047_images_V6.4.3.0.KHJCNCB_4.4_cn_7a50d016b9

Matching but failing to flash with above errors:

wt88047_pro_images_V7.5.3.0.LHJCNDE_20160725.0000.28_5.1_cn_eb95720f3e

I don't realy get the differences... It appears my phone is made for the "China" ROM and at this moment does not like Global roms. Fine with me for now, as long as I can find a rom that can fix my partitions...

However, so far that has failed....

I found that there is now a new version of MiFlash called XiaoMiFlash. (20160830) I tried that also but this give the error:

error:Flash tz error (again with the wt88047_pro_images_V7.5.3.0.LHJCNDE_20160725.0000.28_5.1_cn_eb95720f3e image)

Global rom and another again give the "mismatching device" error.

Hopefully somebody can see what is going wrong and know how to fix this. Please let me know if there is anythin that I could try or any information that you want.

All help apreciated !

Greetings