yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] Chema_F:
Sadly the deep flash cable is no more an option, thank Xiaomi once again.

All the procedures to open the back cover and so on are actually easier than what it seems. The hard part is to connect the points the right way, no risky at all but quite tricky, I need maaany attempts. I even thought I was doing something wrong. Just be patient and keep on trying.

I think there's no way to share those accounts because the PC gets bind to the account. I shared my credentials publicly and some people reported the fail using them.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] arunkareer:
Thanks Again descarao81,

Your comments/Guidance on the same is very well & much appreciated.

Sad to know that Deep Flash Cable wont work (although I kinda knew this, but wasn't sure), so I will give Test Point method a try tonight. Hard task would be opening the back cover, once opened and if I am able reach to EDL mode, I will buy the Authorized account then.

Hopefully, My device gets un-brick and back to normal.

Right now it is just lying useless, wasting more than $500 dollars. :( :crying:

I can't even take it to any service center here, there is no support of Xiaomi here.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] skanskan:
The EDL cable does exactly the same than the TestPoint.

Unfortunately you still need an authorized account but Xiaomi doesn't want to provide them anymore.

This is very bad from Xiaomi and makes many of their customs angry.

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Have you tried with Xiaomitool.com/adb?
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] dirtygamer:
Im with my Xiaomi Mi8 on EDL Mode, waiting account on s-unlock . com, How long takes to give it?
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] Filippo1193:
Do you have an account?
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] Filippo1193:
Hi, sorry for my english.

My mi 8 China is brick but, if I get the authorization Xiaomi account I can flash a rom global or I flash a rom China and I have to request unbrick account with MiFlash Unlock?

Thanks for reply

P.S. And I can flash "save user data"?
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] estari0l:
Sorry I couldn't answer earlier, but In was traveling.

I just followed this thread on miui forum:

en.miui.com/thread-3459005-1-1.html

But basically, when you enter EDL mode and start flashing the rom (I used China stable 9.5.11.0) it gives you error after several seconds and ask for ID and password .. After you enter the purchased authorized account it should continue flashing. Make sure you check the "clean all" box at the bottom left corner of mi flash and not the "clean all and lock". Maybe the problem with the wrong password is rrally timezone differences, but the support correct it.Hope I helped with the info.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] Spectr126:
I am in the same situation as you guys, and I think that by installing a chinese ROM version through Miui Sideload by Francesco Tescari or the official MiPhoneAssistant (which both allow MIUI installation even with a locked bootloader) we could be able to unbrick our phones without opening them or paying anyone.

I tried to flash the chinese 9.6.7.0 update through Miui Sideload (the currently installed ROM is 9.6.3.0 global) and, funnily enough, the OTA server does not verify the official ROM as it detects it being older than the currently installed one - but it isn't.

Here are the returned errors:

ERROR: This rom cannot be installed, server code -> 2003, server message -> Sorry, flash older version is not allowed.
* Querying ota update server, attempt #1 *
ERROR: This rom cannot be installed, server code -> 2004, server message -> You're allow to flash the newest stable version published by MIUI forum from deveolp version only.
* Querying ota update server, attempt #2 *
ERROR: This rom cannot be installed, server code -> 2007, server message -> Current version is illegal, only allowed to flash the latest stable version.
* Querying ota update server, attempt #3 *
ERROR: This rom cannot be installed, server code -> 2007, server message -> Current version is illegal, only allowed to flash the latest stable version.
ERROR: Installation of this rom via stock recovery is not allowed by Xiaomi

Very strange. MiPhoneAssistant also fails the installation but does not returns as much details on the causes (which are probably exactly the same). However, MiPhoneAssistant was able to update from 9.5.13.0 global to 9.6.3.0 global - with the phone already in this state - so it's sure that this tool is able to flash MIUIs with a soft bricked phone.

We should try to understand the causes of the verification failure with the chinese 9.6.7.0 ROM. Has it been cancelled by Xiaomi (because of bugs pheraps)?
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] StarwarsMissionary:
I was thinking this last night I think it's possible but if it's on the site it should be able to detect officially maybe waiting a few days will help
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] dex833:
9.6.7 is official, just updated my mi 8 via ota, coming from 9.5.11
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] Spectr126:
Ok, I did not see it introduced in MIUI formus and thought there has been a problem with it. So why should OTA servers deny its installation?

By the way this is what happens when trying to flash the latests MIUI 10 development version (8.8.24):

ERROR: This rom cannot be installed, server code -> 2005, server message -> You're allow to flash the newest develop version published by MIUI forum from stable version only.
* Querying ota update server, attempt #1 *
ERROR: This rom cannot be installed, server code -> 2009, server message -> Couldn't verify. Looks like current ROM's network carrier type is different from that in the Recovery package. Please download the correct ROM from MIUI forum.
* Querying ota update server, attempt #2 *
ERROR: This rom cannot be installed, server code -> 2007, server message -> Current version is illegal, only allowed to flash the latest stable version.
* Querying ota update server, attempt #3 *
ERROR: This rom cannot be installed, server code -> 2007, server message -> Current version is illegal, only allowed to flash the latest stable version.
ERROR: Installation of this rom via stock recovery is not allowed by Xiaomi

OTA servers seem not to allow the installation of a developer ROM starting from a stable ROM.

We should definitely aim at successfully flashing china stable 9.6.7.0.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] sator02:
Have you tried side loading China dev rom 8.7.12? Since this is the only beta/dev rom that can be used to switch from stable to beta/dev rom thru updater.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] Spectr126:
Thank you, I did not know this, but I'm not finding any 8.7.12 ROM download link for Mi 8. Do you know where I can get it?
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] sator02:
Here you go,

Recovery: http://bigota.d.miui.com/8.7.12/miui_MI8_8.7.12_57905f2986_8.1.zip

Fastboot:

http://bigota.d.miui.com/8.7.12/dipper_images_8.7.12_20180712.0000.00_8.1_cn_26cd88303d.tgz

Forum link (China miui): http://www.miui.com/thread-15459591-1-1.html
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] Spectr126:
Sadly, same error as before.

This is instead the error coming up in MiPhoneAssitant

[IMG="miphoneassistant error image"]https://image.ibb.co/eozXcp/3.png[/IMG]

(the same error comes up with the latest beta, 8.8.24)

Thank you anyway.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] RainGater:
I am planing to buy a China version with Global ROM installed on it. It comes with bootloader unlocked. I see some folks have bricked the device by flashing later versions of Global ROM and relocking bootloader.

1. Just by flashing another Global ROM shouldn't brick the device, right? Only if you are re-lock the bootloader, the china version bricks the device, correct?

2. Since the bootloader is unlocked, can I encyrpt the phone or is it out of scope? And, if I flash Magisk on it, is encryption available?

TIA for any and all replies.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] Spectr126:
1. Can confirm that flashing other globals does not brick the device, but pay attention when using MiFlash since it automatically selects "Clean all and lock" and not "Clean all" by default (that's how I bricked my Mi8)

2. You can encrypt the phone, I don't known about Magisk.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] RainGater:
Thank you. Instead of using MiFlash, can't you do it in TWRP as it's already unlocked and flashing TWRP is easier and will make sure that we don't accidentally brick the device? I see lots of MIUI 10 betas are available as zip to flash it in TWRP.

Magisk is another way to root the device in TWRP. Magisk is a systemless interface that we can use to build MODs without altering the system files.

Anyone who rooted the device and have magisk installed, does the phone encryption work?
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] StarwarsMissionary:
Alright another update the cable came in doesn't work I didn't realize till someone said something about it by then though it was to late I will have to get the back removed and do the test points which is very inconvenient.. I don't have any tools to do that so I'll be doing the IT shop route to get the covers off and then I'll flash the software hopefully that'll resolve it finally so we can put this to rest
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] andrw3:
Hi guys, I bring updates on mi bricked Mi8.

First default, I bricked mi Mi8 when flashing via Fastboot and choosing "Clean all and lock". It was bootlooping so I decided to flash the latest China Stable ROM following the EDL test mode (http://en.miui.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=3459005). Then, I realized I didn't have one of those Xiaomi EDL authorized accounts so I lost all my hope in recovering my device.

A guy posted in this thread a site to buy authorized Xiaomi EDL accounts and I was pretty skeptical about it but when a second guy posted about the same thing, I thought: why not? So I proceeded to buy one of those accounts from that site. The delivery was inmediately, IT IS ONLY VALID FOR ONE FLASH and it LASTS 24H.

So tonight I flashed the latest China Stable (from https://xiaomifirm.com/firmware/) and IT WORKED!! I'm so happy I recovered my Mi8 and I totally recommend you to spend 30$ on buying one of those accounts.

I'd be happy to help you assisting through your process but keep in mind that I cannot stay 24/7 online.

PS: I'm waiting for someone to confirm that downgrading from China Stable to Global Stable won't brick my phone again so I'm using China Stable for know. I installed GApps following this thread (http://en.miui.com/thread-2824236-1-1.html) and it seems to be working perfectly (loads of bloatware tho)
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] Aethyr3&:
By the way how did you enter the edl mode ? How did you open the back of your phone...
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] dex833:
You can uninstall bloatwares, or just root your mi 8, and install titanium back up and freeze bloatwares.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] irvingore:
I just looked for that page to buy an authorized account edl but in no section I find that option.

per day it gets to release up to 10 xiaomi EDL accounts but I could not find the purchase link
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] andrw3:
You have to apply heat in order to remove the glue. I did it with a hair dryer.

It is in the server services section. The product is called "Authorized Xiaomi Account Unbrick, Fix Anti-Rollback, Flash Firmware via EDL all Xiaomi Phone | Limited !".

I received an email yesterday saying that there were only 10 left like you said so maybe the ran out of stock today. The GMT they're using is GMT +7 so maybe you can try at 00:00 (GMT +7)
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] Aethyr3&:
Could you tell me when you bought an account and tell me if it worked ?

Since it's a mi 8 se I'd have to use a a suction cup and heat to remove the back and it's quite hard i'd have to go to a repair shop for them to open it for me lol.

Last question, i have global beta 8.8.9 on my bricked phone. If i flash through edl to stable china 9.5.1 (miui9) thanks to that authorized account will it work? Or will i have a brick
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] ekc_1971:
I also have bricked my Mi 8 phone cause this was my first Xiaomi, and never had that kind of problems with LG and SONY phones I had in the past. I am not happy with Xiaomi customer support. My phone is in a bootloop, no adb or flash commands work. Tried with Miflash but it says that my phone is in locked mode. So I tried using Xiaomi ADB from xiaomitool.com and Global 9.6. It moved the file, and installed it on the phone. I hoped that everything was OK, but still the same bootloop. At least it was a step further. Now I am trying with Chinese rom. If I succeed will update the post.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] siarolex:
The purchase of The autorizied Account workes for me also. Spent 30€. ITS in the section Server or so. The hard Point was to keep my Fingers still During The flash.

Also Crashed my backcover
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] siarolex:
S-unlock.com ist der Link. Dort erstmal unter "server" auswählen und dann muss man Credits aufladen. Geht mit PayPal. Dann im edl den flash ausführen. Dauert ca vier Minuten.

S-unlock.com ist the link. There under "server" Xiaomi and then you ve got to uploads credits via PayPal.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] RainGater:
Why do you flash it with MIFlashTool and inadvertently end up in a loop? Can't you flash TWRP recovery and flash the ROM (zip) in TWRP?

I am not sure why so many bricks? Is it because you wanted to lock the bootloader after the flash?

Anyways, my device will arrive in couple of weeks from China. Here is what I plan to do and correct me if my steps will end up in a loop as well?

1. My device is a China variant with bootloader unlocked and global ROM installed on it. That's how the seller is going to ship it to me.

2. Flash TWRP using fastboot (fastboot flash recovery twrp.img) and reboot to recovery

3. In recovery, flash MIUI 10 zip, for example.

4. Flash magisk to get root

5. Reboot

Anything else I missed?
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] fatjanhushi:
Yes, but the seller has used his Mi account to unlock the bootloader on your device. Don't you want your account instead to be able to unlock the bootloader in case of a problem in the future? Can we use our Mi account to unlock the bootloader in the future if we lock it by mistake. I am also wiating for my Mi8 and I would prefer it to be bootloader unlocked by my Mi account.

Correct me if i'm wrong, but is this the right procedure??

1. Flash chinese stable rom with erase and lock,

2. Unlock bootloader with Mi unlock,

3. Flash TWRP,

4. Flash ROM
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] ramon2101:
Bricked Mi 8

Hello, I'm happy to know that you have managed to recover your Mi 8.

I'm going through the same problem that you went through and would like to know how to get this account to get this account authorized xioami edl, and what procedure after adding this edl account.

I have my Mi8 unusable and I do not know what to try to recover it.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] ramon2101:
On what website do I have to go to buy an authorized xiaomi edl account?
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] andrw3:
s(-)unlock.c om
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] ekc_1971:
My phone is bricked too. The problem is that the Chinese companies, and I will speak about Europe, cause I'm European, when they sell an item to a buyer in Europe they don't or they don't want to understand that they are obligated to follow the European laws. It's not acceptable to sell a Chinese version as "Global" and when the client wants to send it back to have to pay the cost. We will have to complain to the European authorities, especially when these companies have stores in Europe and they don't respect European consumer rights.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] gugugrp:
That's it!
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] siarolex:
Yes, you can do it that way. BUT: if you erase and lock there would be no way to get your bootloader unlocked again, because your account didn't the first unlock (if it came unlocked).

And as I understood: if your bootloader is locked it doesn't matter which Rom you get on your phone, you wouldn't be able to install it. Paste it to phone,yes. Able to run, no.

Don't know if twrp makes a difference in this case. You better choose the clean all (without lock) option in mi flash tool, so your bootloader is open

Maybe some of the guys which didn't brick there phone make a test, if they can unlock their bootloader in-between it's unlocked from the reseller?

In my case (the s-unlock-solution): I'm able to unlock my bootloader after the waiing period.

For the one who asked how it worked in edl mode. Open your backcover, remove the screws of the Mainboard protector plate and disconnect the Accu.

Then bridge the two edl points and connect the USB cable to computer. In my case I got to hold the dots bridged the whole time while flashing with authorities mi account which i baught. Note: I could only flash one time and I could only flash the Chinese Version Rom (as I have Chinese Version). BUT I could flash the developer rom.

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(I'm thinking about keep the Chinese version because everything works fine, gapps working good, faceunlock works and with morelocale2 (which is also a little tricky to install/work on mi8 (your device is currently locked 3/3" or similar sounding) my apps are in my foreign language German, only settings are in English)

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Please note if you use some go-through-install-differrent rom that you found on the internet: please check twice if your mi8 got the requested developer toggles on "on". There was my fault. Didn't check it and then there was no usb-debugging and so on, because the toggles slammed back, which I didn't notice.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] fatjanhushi:
I was wondering if flashing the china rom to a china device version with unlocked bootloader and global rom installed would brick the phone!! Maybe flash first with Clean All ... and then with Clean all and relock !!
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] siarolex:
I think it would not brick in this case. Bat be careful, you only can flash newer versions of China rom or the same
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] OzanSRC:
Dude when did you try that Test Point way? One Miui Forum admin said me Xiaomi doesn't allow EDL and Test Point way anymore since 3-4 weeks ago. Also some of my friends tried s-unlock authorized accounts and only %10 of them worked.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] siarolex:
I got email from them that they changed the method. Mine was five days ago working.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] OzanSRC:
Got an email from s-unlock?

And i have to ask did you signed in with your account before locking bootloader? I was signed in with my account that's why i'm asking
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] siarolex:
Quoting from the email I got:

Subject:

Bricked mi8

Priority:

high

Department:

Supports

Ticket Message:

https://s-unlock.com/users/**

New update for

**************************************************

Authorized Xiaomi Account Unbrick Xiaomi anti-rollback, Flash Firmware via EDL Xiaomi Phone 2018 models !!!

**************************************************

- Order in website s-unlock.com

- Download stock rom china for phone

- Pls instant teameviwer or anydesk

- Give me pass and ID in chat box

- We will debrick phone online via teamveiwer

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No I signed in with an account I got from them

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To understand: my method I worked through doesn't work anymore, I think they ran out of accounts.

The poster email is the actual form
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] StarwarsMissionary:
Alright so I got the back off did the test points which took forever because there's only one video telling you how to do it on Mi 8 so disclaimer! Take the battery cable out and charger out get tweezers put it on the test points it'll be above a screw hole on the right side of th phone and plug in the cable at the same time while holding down the test points which it took me 2 times on that attempt I got so confused and did it different ways before because theres no one that actually gives info how to do it correctly anyway I just need an account to proceed and s-unlock ran out of stock and to sign up you need a Facebook WhatsApp and Skype which is stupid. If anyone can give me the email for xiaomi support to add my account for authorization I don't mind waiting I've already been over 2 months without this phone
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] hallodrix:
Is it possible to enter EDL mode via opening your device and connecting the dots to enter 9008 Mode and than use *QFIL (Qualcomm_Flash_Image_Loader)* to restore the software without BUYING an EDL authorized account?
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] Chema_F:
It's safe to lock the bootloader with any account even being different from the one which unlocked the bootloader, you'll be able to unlock with a different account. That's proved by myself.

BUT we still don't know the method used by the sellers to unlock the bootloader. There would be no problem if they used an account for a regular unlock but there's the possibility that they are parsing boot partition in any way and we don't know what would happen then locking the bootloader even with stable Chinese rom.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] StarwarsMissionary:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/comments/9eb0lj/xiaomitool_update_from_the_developer/

this was on reddit today in that post I will quote him saying "If you get the message "this miui can't be installed on this device" and your device is bricked you might be able to recover it using xiaomiadb by first installing global developer and then installing china developer OF SAME VERSION (for example 8.8.16->8.8.16) using "xiaomiadb sideload_miui -otarom CurrentRom [ZIP_ROM_FILE]"

maybe this can fix our bricks? if anyone could verify by trying
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] hallodrix:
I tried this, but this tool requires you turning on Android Debugging in developer settings, but this cannnot be done if you device is bricked.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] erwin5wijaya:
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[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] StarwarsMissionary:
Final update to my thread because I got a solution finally I bought an S-unlock xiaomi unbrick EDL service I got it for 40$ through using PayPal not sketchy at all two days later which was today got a email from my guy asking me for a WhatsApp account to message me on (or Facebook) he did not speak fluent English so I had to be basic with him I doubt he understood most of what I said I was at work when he wanted to do it but thankfully he understood I couldn't do it right then so he slept and right now it's 1:30am my time and 11am his time he messaged me we got on team viewer I struggled to get it into EDL mode but after several attempts I did he logged into the xiaomi account flashed the file waited till it was finished deleted the account from the computer logs and everything (probably because it's super rare and doesn't want it stolen) he signed out of team viewer we exchanged gratitude's and my phone is now alive! Tomorrow I will go back to the IT place get the back placed back on and definitely first thing after is make sure I unlock my bootloader and always have it unlocked always. To which after I will flash TWRP global Android P MIUI rom open beta and magisk and set up my phone as normal, thank you to everyone who helped and if anyone has any questions pls let me know! BUT THIS IS THE ONLY CONFIRMED WAY TO GET YOUR XIAOMI UNBRICKED