yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] DavidRJ:
Sorry to hear that. I can't really say what's the issue here as your phone is definitely not hard bricked but I have never seen such behavior before.

Well depending on where you bought your phone, you could definitely file an RMA with the seller. You didn't unlock bootloader and your phone bricked itself basically. If you bought it in China, it depends on how easy it is to ship phones overseas in Brazil. In Europe, we can't easily ship phones with non-removable batteries sadly. (Sou da Alemanha btw mas falo um poucinho de Português :D)

In any case, your last bet would be the EDL method. You will lose your warranty though.

But I understand that this is way too much hassle for a soft brick caused by a damn theming engine... I'm so glad I switched off MIUI months ago.

Anyways good luck and let me know if you get any further.

David
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] mkioshi:
You're a very nice person, David, thanks a ton!

Oh no xiaomi RMA here. And yeah I saw some people who bricked their phones by installing some dark theme (not the same as mine, but it was always a dark theme) after upgrading to the Oreo global rom.

And just my luck, my Note 5 took a dive yesterday so I'm phoneless lol. Thinking bout getting a Xiaomi A1 or a Moto X4, theyre not expensive and about the same price here...
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] golfinry:
If you can use adb commands. Try:

> fastboot erase system

> fastboot erase userdata

> fastboot erase boot

> fastboot erase cache

> fastboot erase data

Then try flashing the the latest developer rom as you did before.
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] DavidRJ:
Damn... Well you could still try the advice from [MENTION=5597948]golfinry[/MENTION], I didn't think of regular ADB commands at all. Then again, if you can't do RMA anyways, what's stopping you from trying the EDL method? As far as I know you can flash any MIUI ROM you want without unlocked BL with that.
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] mkioshi:
Oh but I cannot use fastboot on locked bootloader right? Got the message after trying these commands

fastboot erase system

******** Did you mean to fastboot format this partition?

erasing 'system'...

FAILED (remote: Erase is not allowed in Lock State)

finished. total time: 0.003s
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] mkioshi:
Seems to require unlocked BL. Anyway have you ever seem this error:closed message when trying to do adb commands like adb usb (or xiaomiadb usb), adb format-data, adb sideload, etc?

Started happening after I managed to flash latest global. SO I cannot try to flash anything now :(
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] golfinry:
Figured as much... What about the data partition. Same thing?
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] mkioshi:
Yup, al the commands you've listed give the same message:

C:\Users\rikku\Desktop\Xiaomi>fastboot erase cache

******** Did you mean to fastboot format this partition?

erasing 'cache'...

FAILED (remote: Erase is not allowed in Lock State)

finished. total time: -0.000s

C:\Users\rikku\Desktop\Xiaomi>fastboot erase data

erasing 'data'...

FAILED (remote: Erase is not allowed in Lock State)

finished. total time: 0.016s
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] dndat97:
Have you found the solution yet? I have the exact same problem and exact same state as you, flash lasted dev global over china stable with a locked bootloader using XiaomiTool :( really upset

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Seem we have to use testpoint method :( or wait for another global dev rom from MIUI team
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] DavidRJ:
You won't be able to erase anything via fastboot at all with locked BL. Your only chance is the XiaomiADB tool which provides some limited ADB functionality only in recovery mode, you could try

xiaomiadb erase ...

but I highly doubt it will work.

Other than that, testpoint it is.
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] Amenothes:
Hi, I'm facing the exact same situation and couldn't find a getaway for now... After reading all you've been through, I'm seriously considering sending it back, something must be wrong hardware wise...
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] rsbosss:
Hi, David.

I have the same problem with my Mi6, as Mkioshi has. We both described it on Xiaomi official forum. No thing helped so far. But what is really disappointing is that I tried testpoint method, but it didn't help. I did everything correct. MiFlash sees the phone, as it should, but the flashing process gets stuck on "Missed hello packet" message and goes no further. I tried old and new MiFlash versions and 32-bit and 64-bit computers. It's the first time for me, when testpoint doesn't work. I'm both surprised and disappointed. :(

Maybe, there is some way to overcome this "hello packet problem"?
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] DavidRJ:
The hello packet issue isn't a big one. To start off and eliminate all possible errors:

1. Use 64Bit, Windows 10 if possible.

2. Install drivers with driver signature enforcement turned off.

3. Put MiFlash and the ROM in a folder without spaces or long names. Like

C:/MiFlash/ROM/[I]bat files etc here[/I]

4. Run MiFlash as Admin.

Good luck!
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] rsbosss:
Thank you for your advice.

The thing is that I tried to do it on Win 10 64-bit (didn't re-installed drivers, as they seemed to work OK) and both before and after this situation I successfully installed ROMs for other phones via MiFlash.

Anyway, I found another solution (with a help of one user). He landed me a service account, which allows to unlock bootloader without binding a phone to an account. After bootloader was unlocked, I installed TWRP and flashed Global ROM. The only weird thing is that even with unlocked bootloader I can't choose any other region but China, and stock recovery is back after flashing ROM. Maybe, it's because of the way I unlocked bootloader (without binding the phone to any particular account).
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] DavidRJ:
Wow, that's amazing! Maybe you could provide [MENTION=3685903]mkioshi[/MENTION] with that contact so he gets a service account aswell?

And yes, if you flash any ROM with MiFlash, recovery gets overwritten. With some ROMs (China Dev I think?) that recovery restore happens even on every reboot, you have to set something in TWRP to keep it. But I'm very glad to hear your phone is running again.
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] rsbosss:
Yes, but funny thing is that I flashed Global ROM via TWRP, and after the first reboot it wasoverwritten, though I as usual allowed modifications. And again, China as the only available region. But it's OK. Most important is that the phone is not just an expensive brick anymore.

As for sharing with Mkioshi, I sent him a private message. Unfortunately, that kind guy removed all his posts yesterday, so I can't help him. But maybe he could ask someone at official Xiaomi service in his country. Those guys must have such accounts (extremely useful, as it turned out). :)
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] Amenothes:
There is a light of hope from rsbosss, apparently, a service account would do the trick. The guy from another board who used to help seems to have vanished though, what a shame. I've tried to contact a few Xiaomi support services with no luck until now. I'm still struggling to make this brick come back to life.
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] Amenothes:
Has any breakthrough been done? I'll try to unlock my phone with the 1.1 version of Mi Unlock, someone talked about it on an other board, and apparently it can unlock the bootloader without having the account bound to the phone itself... I'm sceptical but any solution worth the try at this point...

I've checked on chinese forums and even with the hotline and it seems that I have a way better knowledge than them on this issue... That's such a pity that they can't provide official support themselves, we're not isolated cases.
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] kolembo:
I just received the OTA.

As I was downloading it, I nipped over to the official MIUI forum annnnd....

Stopped the download immediately.

The main complaints are over the way it handled notifications. Additionally, the problem that is the cause of this particular topic i.e. soft Brock related to the Themes store is also reported there.

So. I have to cool my fingers (very difficult) and wait for them to release the next update.

I would not recommend anyone go ahead with this update.

Where there is smoke, there is fire and if these problems are being recorded by the majority of users trying this update, it's only sensible that we wait for the next update.

The problems look severe so I think Xiaomi will be on it very quickly.

So...DON'T UPDATE!
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] Jeff72fr:
Hi , Maybe you can try this for the problem of region :

"The region only China remains as a result of formatting the section cust.

Who unlocked the bootloader can take the image of this section from the full archive of the firmware global for fastboot and flash it separately by running the command on the computer : "fastboot flash cust cust.img".

You need to get the cust.img file.

It's a translation from russian 4PDA forum.

I didn't test it so be careful.
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] haizapo:
I have same problem and now all data lost. I have to wipe out data and system auto recovery my latest Global Rom (9.2.3.0) which I have updated OTA before my phone dead.

Honestly Xiaomi now strictly banded us using third party themes and it can only work with some ROM version but not latest one as mine so that we better be careful when using it.
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] mrptoo:
Just had my mi6 end up in a similar state after changing a dark theme also (wtf is wrong with their theme engine, seriously?), but I can get to the recovery menu that offers me to wipe all data, which I have not done, because I care about my data more than the phone, any idea how I can get it back? Doesn't matter if the phone dies in the process.

Shows up on adb as sideload mode so I can't pull anything from it
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] Dobsgw:
If your boot loader is unlocked we might be able to get somewhere....

If not then due to the data being encrypted I think its pretty much gone since there won't be a way to decrypt it without backing it up, fixing the phone and then restoring it...

If you're unlocked then flash twrp and see if it boots. Then decrypt data and backup.

Copy the backup to PC and then fully format the phone data so it boots.

Get a working ROM installed (whatever was working last) and then restore everything?

Vague guide depending on your options I'm afraid :(
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] stiw47:
Confirmed from my side as well. Latest developer rom 8.3.1 - I had to wipe data twice yesterday. Installed 8.3.1 installed some dark theme G - B.L.A.C.K. and no launcher => wipe data ; installed some another dark theme Ansel Dark 9 and no launcher => wipe data. Now I am on stock theme and will not touch anything ~50 hours in future, until I can unlock bootloader.

One question is: Is this related just for MIUI launcher? I was on latest Oreo global rom 9.2.3.0 until yesterday, I had Nova Launcher and Space Kadet NY theme installed, without any issue, but I really can't remember now what I have installed first - Nova or theme. For yesterday on latest developer rom, I remember for sure that I had just MIUI launcher at the moment of themes installing.

If this is a case that custom theme crashing MIUI launcher, and working correct with third party launcher, then maybe people who are not screwed complete as OP, can avoid wipe data by installing some third party launcher, from Google Play in web browser, from some other device. Let's thinking: Phone booting still, have no launcher and have just a black screen, but still have an internet connection and Google account. But this is just a "MAY BE", this is not and will not be tested by me because, as I already said, waiting for bootloader unlock and will go far away from MIUI, same as with latest three my Xiaomi phones :)
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] muff99:
There is a thread on the Miui forums explaining that starting on 8.3.1, theme support is disabled (as well as mi messaging). It is somehow connected to European union regulations and therefore has been disabled for users from the EU.

So my guess is Xiaomi broke something in the process ...

Source: http://en.miui.com/thread-1906854-1-1.html
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] stiw47:
Yup, you are right, just saw that, but isn't it ridiculous to disable theme support and made a system which will crash with custom theme from one side and from other side keep Theme app inside of mentioned system, so user can crash phone?

We are good, we fix our problem with data wipe and best part with me is that I bought this phone before of three days, so didn't loose some special data, but what with people like OP?

Sorry to all cause light off topic, I am just pissed off on Xiaomi.
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] muff99:
Of course you are right, but after all: This is a beta, it contains bugs. I am pretty sure Xiaomi will fix it before it goes out as a stable.
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] kolembo:
It's not a beta, it's being delivered as stable global 9.2.3 to stable steam.
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] mmd1989:
How can I get service account ?

full story:

Hey all,

Today I updated my Mi 6 to V10.0.1.0.OCAMIFH (MIUI10) (via update manager)

everything went ok, I got it work.

Then I did a factory reset, and after that, when I setup the phone, I chose English as language, then next page the region only has china, so I chose it, then it try to continue but a flash message appeare : " find device closed unexpectedly"

and it do a soft reboot continuesly. (until I enter recovery and do wipe data)

I tried to unlock the phone but I get "account application area query failed"

I tried mi pc suite but it didn't detect the phone, also I read that it isn't supported anymore.

I tried EDL but read it disabled since miui 8.1.

I tried to flash last developer version miui_MI6Global_8.9.20_3fdd068bb1_8.0 via xiaomiadb, got same error ( find device closed unexpectedly)
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] super 8:
Hi...

Same story for me, Unfortunately.

Phone from Gearbest with only China Region and bootloader locked from the beginning.

Everything was ok for almost a year and a half but, got now a Xiaomi Mi 8 and I did a Factory reset because the Mi 6 was going to use it by a friend and.... the same result. I'm in V10.0.1.0.OCAMIFH (MIUI10) too and have the same bootloop after choose language (Spanish from Spain) and Region (only China from Gearbest).

I tried everything (Mi flash, mipcsuite chinese, ADB commands, EDL cable and.... the only succesful way was mipcsuite chinese. But.. i tried to install China Stable Rom or China dev Rom because of the origin version of the phone but.... i had some error messages (in the attached pictures).

Finally, yesterday i got the Global dev installed with the pcsuite chinese but... when the phone start, i had the same bootloop after choose language and region.

I´m afraid the only way i have is the Test Point but a few days ago, i read in a spanish forum that i need an account with EDL permissions to flash later the rom in Mi Flash and cost about 25€. Someone knows about that requirement? And... someone can explain to me what´s the reason of this bootloop?

Thanks in advance and regards from Madrid

PD: Can acces to fastboot and adb commands but i had the same error messages than OP "Erase is not allowed in Lock State"
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] marcoryn:
Mi Max 3 Pie update and also got the reboots, find device closed unexpectedly. It happens to a very small amount of people, but almost on every Xiaomi model. My phone reboots about 15 times an hour. It closes calls, everything. It is useless. Hope there will be an update soon.
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] traptrigger:
i eont sing if I'm helping or not but I got this issue a few months ago and the only way to fix it is using test point. say good bye to your water resistant phone :)
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] pulad:
Is your phone a Mi6?

What should we do to prevent this from happening again? I mean what has caused this problem.

I just factory reset the phone, and this came.

Should I do something before resetting the phone, or after every factory reset this phone's ROM has to be flashed with pain?
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] traptrigger:
from my experience it was from a buggy MiUI update, so basically the update wasn't supposed to be released yet but it did got released, and it has tons of bugs. so as a person that uses my phone daily I don't want a buggy phone, so I tried downgrading it, but when I factory reset it, it happened. Tried everything, and another problem is I haven't turned on my ADB so I can't sideload a rom or anything. The only way to make my phone function again was to use test point even though I know it voids warranty and remove my phone water resistancy but I prefer a working phone than a dead phone. Learned from my mistake, started installing custom recovery, using custom room, always have backups, and always checking if an update is safe or not
[Xiaomi Mi 6 Questions & Answers] pulad:
Yeah, we should keep in mind that these cheap Xiaomi phones are not ordinary Android phones like Samsung or LG. Xiaomi started it's existence with free downloadble MIUI on other phones, now they're here with cheap phones which should match their own raised OS, but as we experience, they aren't much reliable.
[Amazfit] Cracklydisc:
I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards, thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please make sure you read and understand everything written in the post before flashing it! YOU are choosing to make these modifications and must be sure of what it does

This is a original Chinese ROM 2.0.7.5 for the Huami AmazFit sport watch 2 and the AmazFit Stratos with all features and OTA enabled.

An Italian guide is available on my site: http://nicolasagliano.com/stratos-flash-versione-cinese-2-0-7-5/

Installation

Make sure you have working adb and fastboot on your PC and have the bootloader unlocked on the watch, for the AmazFit Stratos you need to unlock the bootloader on the site: https://unlockamazfit.com/index.php

Download the zip file to your PC and unzip the content

Windows: double click the file “flash.bat”

If you haven't already connect the watch to the PC, do it now and press enter

As soon as you see a white triangle on the clock press enter again, from this moment the procedure starts and you shouldn't disconnect the watch, you just have to wait for the end of the flash!

The installation takes about 8-10 minutes, during the whole procedure the watch stays with the white triangle screen, when it has finished the watch it will reboot itself and you will have installed version 2.0.7.5!

Downloads

Origina Chinese ROM 2.0.7.5: https://mega.nz/#!CdpyzJTT!HTD4PvjKtx0HkdD4UJLcEVeCr5BuxyVrYzvjyvsX4yI
[Amazfit] Miken25:
Thanks Nicola for this.

Is the process valid also to flsh the new chinese ROM 2.0.8.0 ?
[Amazfit] Cracklydisc:
yes, you can flash the 2.0.7.5 and after update to the last Chinese ROM :)
[Amazfit] Miken25:
Hi Nicola,

Do you know if GPS recording interval of the amazfit sttratos is? )1 second, 5 second,..etc) It is possible to change via watch or app the GPS recording interval?
[Amazfit] tripp:
Does not working for me. It will end with watch reboot and after this i have still StratOS 1.0 installed. Do you have a working solution to get back to original chinese condition.
[Amazfit] FaunandLion:
I am having the same issue with this. I have re-flashed StratOS to see if that would make a difference, but it did not. I would like to know if there is a work-around.
[Amazfit] HiddeNKinG:
Does not working for me
[Amazfit] grigoris_a:
[MENTION=8047176]Cracklydisc[/MENTION] There is an error in the flash.bat file.The line "adb shell ls /data/media/0/flash_rom.sh" should be "adb shell sh /data/media/0/flash_rom.sh"
[Amazfit] Cracklydisc:
i have upload the fixed version! thanks so much! :)
[Amazfit] FaunandLion:
Thanks
[Amazfit] tripp:
thank you! :)
[Amazfit] rykatokotume:
Still stuck at loading apps

hello i originally have the CN version then tried to swap to eng version but it didnt work ( the touch screen stopped working so i tried to swap back to the original CN firmware follwoing this guide, but it is now still stuck at the loading apps screen)

I have the amazfit 2 CN version.

Have tried a few times and everything seems to run through smoothly.

Except that after the devices reboots (after the flashing) it doesnt load past the loading apps screen.

If anyone has any suggestions that would be awesome

thanks
[Amazfit] richboy324:
hi there

i was able to flash to english rom 2.7.2.8 but now im flashing back to chinese version, it flashed but still running in english, i need to get this flashed to chinese. is this one not allowed to flash lower version to 2.0.7.5?

can anyone share a higher version to me?
[Amazfit] steo120973:
stratos Help!

come faccio a tornare alla versione originale inglese?

mi si bolcca sulla schermata delle impostazioni del polso e non posso continuare..

non riesco piu a utilizzarlo
[Amazfit] Pequito100:
Hey guys. this rooms is stable? the problems of the euro version been solved? Hr and the consumption of the battery with the blue connected with the cardio band?
[Amazfit] watermelon17:
Can someone help? I was on StratOS 2.0 and want to revert back to Stock rom but after click Flash.bat now I'm stuck at "downloading boot.img"
[Amazfit] Guto ViP:
Search for (Google): "Instalador Firmware Stock Chino Oficial Amazfit 2/Stratos con Actualizaciones OTA (01/08/2018)" by [MENTION=5062938]Saratoga79[/MENTION]
[Amazfit] watermelon17:
Thank you i will try this :fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:

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I tried to flash that and i got pass the downloading boot.img but then at copying file section it said adb error no devices/emulator found :(:(:(:(:(

At the changing language to chinese it said failed to stard daemon and no devices emulator found again. Please help

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Hey I figured it out. I think there is something wrong with my pc adb driver. I changed to my laptop and the installation is working fine. Yesterday when i tried to flash rom with my pc there is also error in the process
[Amazfit] ch3mn3y:
I can buy bricked Stratos. Bricked meaning that it's stuck on teh A logo. It's bricked coz previous user tried to flash Polish language.

Does ot mean it's bootloader is unlocked? Or could he flash the language without unlocking it?

It's chinese Stratos, so this rom would be right one for it.

If it is hnlocked than fine, but if not, than can I unlock bootloader even with bricked watch? Is there a chance ADB will work when stuck at bootlogo?
[Amazfit] savteam:
adb: error: failed to copy 'boot.img' to '/data/media/0/

i have this error. what problem?
[G4] wynasoft1:
hi friends can anybody help me with that ROM please;)

txs a lot

wbr
[G4] animelover:
This must be the HTC Touch aka Elf so it's better for you if you ask the members here!
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Questions & Answers] arnabbandopadhyay:
I am unable to run apps like "tez" , "bhim" on pixel experience rom installed in redmi note 3. Apps say that my phone is rooted but its not. I confirmed it by installing"root checker" app. My device is not rooted. is there any solution for this problem? is it because of permissive Selinux?
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Questions & Answers] yachandra:
Magisk

Install magisk 15.3 or whichever is latest and hide all the apps that don't require root in magisk hide, after that clear data of playstore and apps like tez etc. I used this method, it is working perfectly fine.

Hit thanks if a solution works. it will encourage us to answer queries.
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Questions & Answers] arnabbandopadhyay:
I dont want to root my phone. Will magisk root my phone?