[Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Questions & Answers] Gammelstulle:
My Phone feels "halfsoftbriked"

Halo, hope you can help me. I'm having quite a bit of trouble with my Redmi Note 3.

to the prehistory... after a long time of having an unofficial omni rom on my Red Mi Note 3 Kenzo that hadn't received updates for several months, and had some illnesses, I thought it best to bring the smartphone up to date. So I looked if a new firmware would appeal to me. I had also the idea to check if there is any new TWRP update available. My recovery version was very outdated, I wasn't even sure if it officially came from TWRP ( if i remember me right, in the past this was the only existing methode to get a custom Recovery). My TWRP old version also had some problems when I extended the internal memory with an SD card, so it was time for an update. When I downloaded the newest TWRP version from the official TWRP page and wanted to flash it over fastboot, I had the first problem: For reasons, not understandable to me, my bootloader was locked again. But I allready unlockeds the bootloader... so... how? First I tried to unlock the bootloader via adb with the command "fastboot oem unlock", unfortunately that didn't work. Something that made me very fishy, because I was 100% sure that I had done it that way with my first custom rom flash on this phone. I don't remember me that I needed to use "miflash_unlock" to unlock the bootloader, but I just used this tool to unlock the bootloader "again". ( which was pretty annoying... I needed a Account... second phone .... no matter) Maybe I only remember me wrong. Maybe I allready did something wrong in the past that my smartphone had corrupted.

So, after the bootloader was unlocked I flashed the new recovery. Exactly from there the annoyance began.

After a clean format of system data cach fact reset, sudden for hours, there was nothing that I could flash over the recovery ( via sideload). During the flash process I only got an error code "Error 7, /system partionen have no value" . I tried to reformat the system partition, repair it, mount, remound via the TWRP GUI, and even tested different older versions of TWRP. Different Roms, different builds... For a long time I wasn't able to flash anything and on the internet I didn't find any solution to my problem, except for steps I had already tried. Finally I tried a idea from myself, to mount the system partition "by hand" via the terminal in TWRP ( mount -o /system). But that didn't work properly either, often I got different errors so I had to reboot into the recoverry. (Sometimes the recovery complained that there is no entry for the system partition in the ftaps, sometimes it showed me other errors. Very strange that all...) Finally I was able to flash exactly one (!) rom using the mount /system command and sideload. (PixelExperience_kenzo-9.0-20181110-0416-OFFICIAL).

. Today I tried again to flash the ROM which I actually prefer.(syberia_gemini-v1.4-20181110-1123) Same result. I Also can't flash Mangsik or other "goodies" . Everything seems very corrupt. I also try to repair the system partition again. But this doesn't work anymore, the process stops with a long error code. The only thing I haven't tested yet is to install a Stock Rom. Something I would not like to do, only it is strongly recommended.

It feels like I hardstuck on the "PixelExperience" Rom for the moment, because it's the only thing I can flash.

I hope you can help me. :eek: