yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] rfkd:
In case somebody needs the 10.0.2.0 fastboot ROM:

http://bigota.d.miui.com/V10.0.2.0....0.PDLMIFJ_20181221.0000.00_9.0_fed1fcdf5d.tgz
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] thorin0815:
You can't extract Delta updates.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Held der Arbeit:
I need the 10.0.3!
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Mattania:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bEdgnsFhmUHM1r7Du6HY_YEikWTM-9Oq/view?usp=drivesdk

Extracted 10.0.3.0 :)
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] PC295:
did you try the flash update?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Nanayaw1:
But I'm flashing a different build boot image with the latest. The phone won't boot I think
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] downloadonlyaccount:
How to install?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] PC295:
You should not try this!

It will brick your smartphone!

I'm still waiting for [MENTION=9583430]Mattania[/MENTION] answer...

DON'T FLASH THIS FILES!
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Mattania:
this is oryginal ota dump from my phone, for developer not lemings. I waiting for person for modify this ota files. My patched boot works, because i flashed IT And works
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] PC295:
After flashing the device switched off. It did not work anymore.

I had to open the cover, disconnect the battery and flashing again with MiFlash Tool.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Mattania:
Try push vol- And power for 40 sec
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] BubuXP:
This boot.img is probably taken from the OTA zip with size ~70 MB. That OTA don't contains whole partitions, but only the changes from old to new partitions (it's a Delta update).

The boot.img should be extracted from the full OTA zip, that contains the whole new partitions. I don't know how to find it, I've always used the ilnks provided by OP, but he still didn't update the first post with the new link.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Mattania:
Bubu i have boot oryginal from 10.0.3.0. i install clear 10.0.2.0 next update ota 10.0.3.0 next launch twrp And backup boot. Boot have name boot.emmc.win. on magisk i patched this file and have patched boot 10.0.3.0. od you rename boot.emmc.win to boot.img this is full non patched boot.img
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] BubuXP:
Probably, once boot.img is flashed on the phone, it got changed a bit (something like a signature), and it will not work correctly on other phones (just like the patched_boot.img, that could not be flashed directly, but only used to boot).

Somebody already tried to only boot from your vanilla boot.img without flashing it?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Mattania:
one has already tried and thanked, so it probably worked (renamed .emmc.win to boot.img) patched boot certainly works but only for boot and standard installation through magisk.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Ag00gleUser:
Was having lots of trouble getting OTA working while on 10.0.2.0 (guessing it was because of adaway messing up my host file)

To avoid all this hassle every time there’s an OTA, finally decided to go back to stock and staying unrooted as the only reason for me to use root was Adaway (which I've replaced with Blokada - so far working out great) and Google Camera (I've settled on sticking with the stock camera which has been good enough for me)

In case it helps anyone going through what I went through, here’s how I managed to flash the stock rom without using Mi Flash (as I was having trouble getting that to work for me)

1.	Downloaded the stock rom to PC from the official site here: https://en.miui.com/download-354.html (making sure it was the same version I had on my phone - 10.0.2.0 in my case)

2.	Unzipped this official rom (I used 7zip)

3.	Added the ADB directory (where fastboot.exe is) to the path in Windows environment variables

4.	Opened command prompt (not sure if we need to be administrator mode, but I did so just in case)

5.	Went to the directory where the image files were (from the official rom unzipped package)

6.	Went to Fastboot mode on the phone and connected to PC

7.	OTA worked after I ran the following fastboot commands to go back to stock (I added them to a batch file, and ran the batch file in command prompt instead):

fastboot erase boot_a

fastboot flash modem_a modem.img

fastboot flash modem_b modem.img

fastboot flash sbl1_a sbl1.img

fastboot flash sbl1_b sbl1.img

fastboot flash rpm_a rpm.img

fastboot flash rpm_b rpm.img

fastboot flash tz_a tz.img

fastboot flash tz_b tz.img

fastboot flash devcfg_a devcfg.img

fastboot flash devcfg_b devcfg.img

fastboot flash dsp_a dsp.img

fastboot flash dsp_b dsp.img

fastboot flash sec sec.dat

fastboot flash splash splash.img

fastboot flash aboot_a emmc_appsboot.mbn

fastboot flash aboot_b emmc_appsboot.mbn

fastboot flash boot_a boot.img

fastboot flash boot_b boot.img

fastboot flash system_a system.img

fastboot flash system_b system_other.img

fastboot flash vendor_a vendor.img

fastboot flash vendor_b vendor.img

fastboot flash lksecapp lksecapp.img

fastboot flash lksecappbak lksecapp.img

fastboot flash cmnlib_a cmnlib.img

fastboot flash cmnlib_b cmnlib.img

fastboot flash cmnlib64_a cmnlib64.img

fastboot flash cmnlib64_b cmnlib64.img

fastboot flash keymaster_a keymaster.img

fastboot flash keymaster_b keymaster.img

fastboot reboot
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] bla.tiga:
Bro.. sorry noob question

Is that possible we just simply flash the new os from twrp, like modified original os in zip style?

Like rebuild original os, but in zip style? So we can just flash it with twrp?

And last, since we actually do some modification why we just cant turn of the ota, and download the latest raw firmware from xiaomi (like sammobile) and flashed with fasbot (so we have complete rom), are the xiaomi only provide new os with ota?

Im new using xiaomi
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] j1505243:
They release fastboot packages later than OTA. It could be remade to a fully flashable zip, but I'm just providing links.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] p-walker:
Exactly. The only reason why OTA links are useful is that they are available faster than the full ROMs. However extracting the links in not trivial as I learned.

Also as I understand it a full OTA package contains the same files as the full ROM plus some extra files to make OTA work.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] bla.tiga:
Ooo like that.. i think have flashable zip is more handy than fastbot style hehehe

Ooo is there any website providing a xiaomi firmware from the oldest to newest (like sammobile) or we just relying on your link?

I find in en.miui.com likely they only provide the latest one
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] u363840:
https://xdaforums.com/mi-a2-lite/how-to/mi-a2-lite-daisysprout-v10-0-3-0-t3893910 might interest some people (10.0.3 OTA link from 9.6.11).

Also for the OP:

V10.0.2.0.PDLMIFJ, Pie from https://en.miui.com/thread-5125610-1-1.html:
Full package: http://bigota.d.miui.com/V10.0.2.0.PDLMIFJ/daisy_global_images_V10.0.2.0.PDLMIFJ_20181221.0000.00_9.0_fed1fcdf5d.tgz
OTA: http://bigota.d.miui.com/V10.0.2.0.PDLMIFJ/miui_DAISYGlobal_V10.0.2.0.PDLMIFJ_a87b68fc92_9.0.zip
= https://android.googleapis.com/packages/ota-api/xiaomi_daisysprout_daisy/1f3023a5d8b765e6350f9bff721b10f42f9824c0.zip

V9.6.11.0.ODLMIFF, latest known Oreo
Full package: http://bigota.d.miui.com/V9.6.11.0.ODLMIFF/daisy_global_images_V9.6.11.0.ODLMIFF_20181112.0000.00_8.1_8028e3bf1c.tgz
OTA: https://android.googleapis.com/packages/ota-api/xiaomi_daisysprout_daisy/8391d0eefe7e752830a0c2cee0149d73ab1909e7.zip

V9.6.9 Full: http://bigota.d.miui.com/V9.6.9.0.ODLMIFF/daisy_global_images_V9.6.9.0.ODLMIFF_20181010.0000.00_8.1_baf840279a.tgz
V9.6.6 Full: http://bigota.d.miui.com/V9.6.6.0.ODLMIFF/daisy_global_images_V9.6.6.0.ODLMIFF_20180816.0000.00_8.1_c1d890dd75.tgz
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] j1505243:
Thanks. I'll need to get my guys to do some mitm once again as meme made the game somewhat harder.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] hossman:
Just posting to keep this at the top..

Have a great day

Thread Should be stickied
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Mattania:
Hello, boot oryginal And patched boot for 10.0.4.0

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IAVSuYmOgzAw4G3HjNokjf-emIwk3xMD/view?usp=drivesdk

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t-G-TrEr3rYWnutSBDRIBy5RomaXapzP/view?usp=drivesdk
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] j1505243:
10.0.4.0 added
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Nanayaw1:
Please how can I install magisk on the latest build number V10.0.4.0? Thanks
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] didogat7:
How can I download the February OTA update and install it through the computer, the problem is I have magisk installed and it doesn't let me downloaded directly to the phone
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Hi [MENTION=7180076]j1505243[/MENTION]! How grab you full OTAs? I tried but find only incremental updates with logcat. Or you is on the Oreo?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] j1505243:
You need to be on an older version or have a "corrupted" system. You can alter the build fingerprint to a non-existent one, for example.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] WillianRBR:
V10.0.7.0.PDLMIXM Came Out Today For Daisy.

It's a 266.7MB OTA package.

Comes with March 5 2019 security patch as well as other undocumented (as always) fixes.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Caleb39411:
v10.0.4.0.PDLMIXM link is

https://android.googleapis.com/pack.../ba01b724176da9aaaf8c58c30f502a2c665a530e.zip
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Mark7Aymn:
Hi I just can't find any where a way to get out of the beta program I want to apply to help but if I want to resell the phone or something I would like to stop it
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] j1505243:
PM me and I'll explain more.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] j1505243:
That's a delta, not useful to us.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] u363840:
https://android.googleapis.com/pack.../e0f0a6553559fa1726c3567e2569dc3be6fd0ded.zip

Edit: V10.0.7.0.PDLMIXM - OTA from 9.6.11
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] wolfe_124:
I tried Flash through edl but still bootloop any clue ?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Cappucinto:
How long does it usally takes until the fastboot file for the new update (V10.0.7.0.PDLMIXM) is available? I'm stuck at January Update with root because some apps teaked the system ?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] marstonpear:
Can somebody pls share boot.img from 10.0.7.0?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] j1505243:
Dunno, but it sometimes takes a lot of time.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] boe323:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AqlJY73bUA7rhpsyqqrvu13Re05Miw
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] agbadino:
[/COLOR]

I had dis issue also. It depends which rom version u r working with.

From my observations, u shd download and use the following:

Oreo 9.6.4.0

Orea 9.6.10.0

Pie 10.0.3.0

Dey come complete and just "work" right.

However i can only flash using edl mode. Bcos fastboot just doesnt complete for me - dnt kno y tho.

Hit thanks if this helped
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] hgiang0808:
How can i flash v10.0.7.0?

I'm using stock pie. I need a guide! Can anyone help me? I have just move to mi a2 lite
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] JenniferRivero:
Help me, please!

My Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite had stayed in Bootloop and relivated it by installing with Miflashtool V version.10.0.3.0. I have TWRP, ROOT and Bootloader Unlocked. I want to update to V.10.0.7.0 How can I do it? Sorry I am Venezuelan and my English is bad
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] j1505243:
Personal guide to translate from English to English? Lol.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] j1505243:
Flash every partition as explained in the main post and redo the installation steps for TWRP and Magisk.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] SkandaH:
April 2019 build (V10.0.8.0.PDLMIXM) is live now.

http://bigota.d.miui.com/V10.0.8.0.PDLMIXM/miui_DAISYGlobal_V10.0.8.0.PDLMIXM_29324cbe1b_9.0.zip
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Majaque:
Do you have extracted original/patched boot.img?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] wenna.speedy:
Changelog?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Txatxiquesi:
April security update.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] u363840:
Is aptX support still missing from April 2019 build (V10.0.8.0.PDLMIXM) ?

Btw, alt. download link: https://android.googleapis.com/pack.../f488ff89506f43abd0604218f01093e7f0139aff.zip
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Benik3:
Can anyone post the fastboot zip pls? I tried to extract the payload, but the payload_dumper from the link is deleted and the one from Github still bring me some error :(

EDIT: This dumper looks working fine and you don't even need to struggle with Python :)

https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=818070582850510260
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] IkkeZelf1000:
This may be a stupid question, but does this wipe your device or does it do the same as the OTA update on the device (which isn't showing the April patch in my case, even though i'm in the beta program)?

Could this be due to my unlocked bootloader? Strangely enough, every update until March did come over the air.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] j1505243:
OTA ships no userdata image, so you can't wipe anything with it. After extraction, it won't appear by itself, so you're safe enough.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] IkkeZelf1000:
Is there any way to do the update from the device (by putting the OTA zip on my phone, similar as a local update in MIUI)?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] j1505243:
Not doable with stock recovery, but I don't remember the situation with TWRP.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] IkkeZelf1000:
I extracted the payload.bin but it doesn't contain all the images mentioned in the instructions, only these:

aboot.img

boot.im

cmnlib.img

cmnlib64.img

devcfg.img

dsp.img

keymaster.img

mdtp.img

modem.img

rpm.img

sbl1.img

system.img

tz.img

vendor.img

does this mean that the other partitions remain unchanged by this OTA?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] dedebekri:
Yes, these are all you need to update to the newer version. Other partitions remain unchanged.

Mi A2 Lite cihazımdan Tapatalk kullanılarak gönderildi
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] IkkeZelf1000:
For what it's worth, it did indeed work.

But I did have to download the MIUI platform tools version 28 (https://miui.blog/any-devices/xiaomi-adb-fastboot-usb-drivers-tool/) as the generic platform tools I used were unable to flash the system and vendor partitions due to size errors.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] CherryFarmer8:
[HELP]

Can someone provide the stock build.prop file of our Daisy?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] topubsl:
Mi a2 lite ota update 10.0.9 need

Please anyone upload mi a2 lite 10.0.9 ota update file
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] u363840:
Full OTA :

https://bigota.d.miui.com/V10.0.9.0.PDLMIXM/miui_DAISYGlobal_V10.0.9.0.PDLMIXM_03922d21a7_9.0.zip

https://android.googleapis.com/pack.../d169c3cc8acf0937e67cc9f22411bd901a585757.zip

Fastboot/Recovery :

https://bigota.d.miui.com/V10.0.9.0...0.PDLMIXM_20190514.0000.00_9.0_f9d0c739e0.tgz

https://bigota.d.miui.com/V10.0.9.0.PDLMIXM/miui_DAISYGlobal_V10.0.9.0.PDLMIXM_03922d21a7_9.0.zip
https://android.googleapis.com/packages/ota-api/xiaomi_daisysprout_daisy/d169c3cc8acf0937e67cc9f22411bd901a585757.zip
https://bigota.d.miui.com/V10.0.9.0.PDLMIXM/daisy_global_images_V10.0.9.0.PDLMIXM_20190514.0000.00_9.0_f9d0c739e0.tgz
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] eduardoslima:
Mi A2 Lite (Sakura)

I have version V10.0.8.0.PDLMIXM in my Mi A2 Lite (Sakura). It turns out that it came with LineageOs and thanks to the forum, I was able to install this version. My question is if I can receive the updates normally (via Android Update) or will I always have to update via Fastboost?

I wanted very much to have the official ROM of my device and to receive the updates normally

Sorry for my English, I'm using Google Translate.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Durotan:
What's new? have solved the problem of wifi that goes slow in 2.4 ghz when the gps or bt is active?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] kierzu:
What`s update size?

Baseband/modem version?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] JescaHoogendijk:
I got it too. I didn't note down the update size but I think it was about 80 MB. I made a screenshot of the baseband version.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] DieterZett:
Full OTA 10.0.10.0 URL:

https://android.googleapis.com/packages/ota-api/xiaomi_daisysprout_daisy/17953a54ed8aeeee78d3dc116c3788309a1dba7f.zip

Patched Magisk 19.3 boot.img ( untested ):

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZSqAAhxgGxC8Swv8MMm3zx0uBOSzHVoF
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Letitride:
Thanks, I downloaded it twice - getting an invalid zip error, cannot open the *.rar file - can you check & advise.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] kiella2813:
PATCHEDBOOT for Mi A2 lite

can some share a patched boot for mia2 lite PATCHEDBOOT 10.0.10?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] gkornaks:
https://www.the***********.com/enable-camera2-api-xiaomi-mi-a2-lite-guide/
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Antho02:
anyone tried it?

i use to update with XiaoMiflash but this one looks much different from previous

its 6GB once unzipped, the boot.img is 64MB, and there are many files inside tha we dont have in previous one

i'd have give a try since the flash scripts look same but im afraid to flash whe i see size of the boot.img
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] wenna.speedy:
Dont worry, works great.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] georgs_town:
Has anybody tried that patched image? I'm a bit hesitant to go first... ;)

Or has anybody found the full fastboot image from a trustworthy source? Thanks!
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] georgs_town:
Hey, i found out how to extract the original boot.img from the payload file you need to run the payload file through this program called payload-dumpster.

Patching that boot.img worked fine. If anybody is in need of that patched file, holla at me :D
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] requiiiem:
Can you post the boot o parches boot here? Thx
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] georgs_town:
I'll do that, when I'm home tonight.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] georgs_town:
So here you go:

Patched boot.img

Boot.img

Both are for the Version 10.0.10.0

Cheers
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] requiiiem:
thank you!
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Winchester316:
How did you get/catch this Full OTA URL? wanna know how you did it...
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] j1505243:
Basically you can break your build fingerprint for the same result.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Winchester316:
What do you mean by that? I've no idea.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] j1505243:
Change your ro.build.fingerprint to something like:

xiaomi/daisy/daisy_sprout:9/0/0/release-keys
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Winchester316:
After I update the build.prop,when I try to update via updater I could now get the full ota url in logcat,is that it?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] j1505243:
Yeah.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] alcopsy:
pls make 10.0.14!! for save my phone i need! pls pls
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] rootsdroid:
Me too, please... i need to restore and save my data
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] psyriccio:
sended to PM (cant post links)

---------- Post added at 02:09 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:07 PM ----------

sended to PM too

---------- Post added at 02:09 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:09 PM ----------

sended to PM too
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] gkornaks:
Can I have 10.0.14.0 link too?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] alcopsy:
Thanks but it iMG, i would the OTA Dump.... Thanks anyway
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] p-walker:
Also no offense but if a user with only 6 posts pm's me a link I would rather classify it as spam ;)

Obviously if someone had the OTA link for 10.0.14.0 he would have already posted it somewhere, I don't see a reason why u would want to keep it secret. Unfortunately it's not that easy to acquire that link.

Last time I talked to OP the method involved some man-in-the-middle wifi attack as the logcat didn't show the links anymore.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] SkandaH:
V10.0.14.0.PDLMIXM recovery link is now live: http://bigota.d.miui.com/V10.0.14.0.PDLMIXM/miui_DAISYGlobal_V10.0.14.0.PDLMIXM_0b1ed8deb6_9.0.zip

MD5: 0b1ed8deb6bdf9bc22374027eb5c8b9e
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] DekiS3:
Hi! I’m curious about the procedure to extract the boot.img. Is it extracted from the OTA dump? So how do you get the OTA dump and then you extract a vanilla boot.img?

I see there are 64 MB boot.img, which I believe are created by making a backup of the entire boot partition, using the TWRP. But are these boot.img reliable like the vanilla ones? I know TWPR can be used via fastboot without installing it, but when I find a 64MB .img I can't really know the method. Right?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] p-walker:
I will try to answer this quests as much as I can.

If you you get your hand on full OTA payload payload.bin file then it's rather easy to extract it.

You will find a lot of guides for example for this one: https://github.com/cyxx/extract_android_ota_payload

The next question it how to get a full OTA dump. First of all Android uses also incremental OTA updates which cannot be extracted (or are useless to you if extracted).

How and when Android triggers the download of a full OTA payload is mysterious to me.

Even if your phone dowloads the full payload file you would need to find it in your phone and somehow get it on your PC. Location is dependent on the manufacturer, usually somewhere in your cache partition. Thus you would need Root to even find it. However will not download the update if Google's safety net finds out your phone is rooted.

In the past you could find the direct HTTP OTA download link in your catlogs. This is not the case anymore. There were successful attempts to do a man-in-the-middle attack while Android downloads the update so you can actually get the full OTA link and just download the payload on your PC. Even this seems to get circumvented by google these days but I am not sure.

If you're only interested in the boot.img then you can rely on Magisk as it backs up your original file before patching it.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] S /\ E E D:
September update finally released for Mi A2 Lite

V9.6.8.0.ODLMIFF
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Sprut_name:
give the kernel v9.6.8.0
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] endoshy:
Slot sim 2 now is working?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] eltano06:
i need the V9.6.8.0.ODLMIFF boot.img file
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] j1505243:
OTA link added. Wait for what you need from other guys then.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] onesolo:
Is this like full OTAs??
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] j1505243:
Not like, but actual.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] onesolo:
??

Factory image?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] j1505243:
Actual full OTA xD And nope, don't ask me how to flash it, because I don't even have this device to test specially for you.