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[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] invisiblewave:
Boot to TWRP using the buttons instead of the fastboot boot twrp.img command. I had the same problem. Also, make sure you're not installing the stock rom, that appears to also overwrite TWRP (that's what it looked like to me, I didn't bother to confirm for sure).
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Mackay53:
You can use stock ROM and twrp. Twrp is replaced if you boot the OS
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] invisiblewave:
Ok, so once you've flashed TWRP, there are two recoveries on the device and booting into the stock OS changes the bootloader to boot to the MIUI recovery?
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] marshedpotato:
Hello, i found this very useful. thank you
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Alexdruso:
Hi, I followed your instructions and I flashed TWRP, but I just can't reach it. When I give the ADB command to boot I immediately try to start in TWRP recovery mode by pressing vol up+power, but at the beginning the phone doesn't do anything, then it boots to Android and I can only access MIUI recovery. Have you worked out another way or am I wrong in doing smth?

(Also pardon my ignorance, but I turned USB debugging on, am I right?)
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Mackay53:
You don't need ADB for flashing twrp so having usb debugging on is irrelevant.

Flash twrp In fastboot and once it's done and without giving any more commands just hold power and volume up. Eventually it will boot into twrp.
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] PWn3R:
Did anyone wipe system before flashing the global zip over the Chinese rom? I didn't wipe data (which is not smart, I know this) and I have noticed some of the system apps have duplicates with different versions. I also have a few weird behaviors with Google Play store and some other items now. Debating installing TWRP, wiping both, and reflashing.

Nevermind, I can't do that. I don't have another activation for Google Play Music, and I can't set the device ID without root, and I can't root the global version so I can't wipe data. GG
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Mackay53:
You never ever need to wipe the System so it won't be that, wipe would be recommended if you can do it
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Herrick1209:
Which version of twrp should I use?
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] invisiblewave:
The only one there is for the MM3.
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Herrick1209:
I couldn't find it on the twrp website??
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] cobben:
You can't find one for the Mix 2s there either.

You can find one for the Mix1 there, but it is non- functional.

. . .

DYODD
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] invisiblewave:
That's why I posted the link in the OP.
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] diffstyle:
Thanks, does this apply to the Xiaomi MI Mix 3 Forbidden City Edition?
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] diffstyle:
Thank you!
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] PWn3R:
Did using Magisk 17.1 ACTUALLY work with the global ROM? I tried removing the "test" conditions from the Magisk script on 17.3 and 18.0 and then flashing earlier with a clean copy of the boot.img installed from fastboot. Neither of them worked, and the phone would not boot after doing it with either version.
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] invisiblewave:
Actually, I don't know. I ended up going with the eu rom, so I never tested the global. I'm on Magisk 17.3 now (with eu weekly). I've modified the OP to remove any confusion, and also cleaned up the TWRP boot procedure.
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] PWn3R:
That's fair, my intent wasn't to crap on your guide post, just was like WTF, 17.1 works and 17.3 and 18.0 dont???? lol

Edit: I just tested 17.1 and can confirm it will not patch the Global boot image when it is flashed over the top of the chinese device. I am wondering if there is something different/wrong with one of the other images we have, like maybe we didn't get a partition updated because the chinese TWRP we have didn't mount the partition. I should've reviewed the install log, but I didn't.

Maybe someone with a true "global" device can backup their boot.img and share it for those of us chin"global"ese plebs.
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] invisiblewave:
Right. I can't get my head around the Magisk problem either. I was thinking about trying one of their bleeding edge builds, but I've been preoccupied with a myriad of other unrelated technical issues for the last few weeks, plus the inability to backup the /data partition with TWRP makes playing around with installs that probably aren't going to work a bit of a pain since you inevitably end up having to wipe to prove it's not a data issue. Do we know that Magisk 18 works on the global boot.img? I thought that couldn't be rooted even with 17.3?
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] PWn3R:
I tried both with the "checks" disabled in the script. Neither produced a boot image that actually booted. I tried to use the steps in the script by hand from my Linux Dev box and it produced a 14 or 16mb boot image which is wrong. I think they may have changed the packing method for the image in the global version.

In other news, I reinstalled the OS build (global) with the update tool by choosing download update and then rebooting. My phone feels way snappier than it was. I don't have TWRP installed right now so the entire installation happened via stock recovery. I haven't tried to check yet, but I an suspecting that the TWRP version we have doesn't mount everything that it should to be fully compatible. This is making me wonder if we didn't get some of the firmware updates and stuff we should've gotten for global. I know that magisk install also tries to read some other partitions to build to boot image. It could also be those were not updated because the stock TWRP didn't have the ability to write to those partitions.
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] cyeung11:
I have the same proble. After ‘fastboot flash recovery twrp.img’, it prompted the process is finished. But then when I tried to reboot to recovery by holding power & vol +, it went into fastboot again. Then the phone cannot boot normally. Holding power also led to fastboot. I tried to use ‘fastboot boot twrp.img’ but it prompted booting is fail because it cannot load/authenticate the img.

My phone is a global variant that ships with 10.0.11. I was able to boot successfully later after flashing CN rom with the MiFlash tool.

Tried couple times. Still in vain... when i use ‘fastboot boot twrp.img’ without ‘fastboot flash recovery ‘, it went black screen for a couple seconds and booted to lockscreen.

Any help please?
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Mackay53:
Do not use fastboot boot twrp.img
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] cyeung11:
Tried that. Just to be sure. After ‘fastboot flash recovery twrp.img’, I unplugged the device, it pwered off, then I hold power & vol +. Is it right?

I am now able to enter recovery. Turn out I don't need to wait for it to power off and should hold the 2 button long enough until I see the recovery screen. Thanks:good:
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] faddys123:
guys i cant find the proper twrp version to download could someone guide me please ?
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Mackay53:
Links in first page, open that and search for twrp then download Perseus
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] faddys123:
thank you! btw how can i boot into twrp instead of flashing? i ran fastboot boot twrp.img but didnt work
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Mackay53:
Yeah don't use that command

Just fastboot flash recovery twrp.img then hold volume up and power until it boots into twrp
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] faddys123:
what about getting ota from xiaomi ?
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] PWn3R:
Having an invalid recovery image didn't stop OTAs on my Mix 2s. I doubt it will on this phone. Just to make sure you are on the same page, you can't root the Global software on a Chinese device with the existing version of Magisk. I've been posting over in the Magisk threads trying to figure out why.
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] lukatsch:
Can't install the Global ROM on my MI MIX 3 :( The xiaomi.eu version works though...

Error message from TWRP:

E:String resource 'zip_compatible_err' not found. Using default value.

Zip Treble compatibility error!

Invalid zip file format!

Error installing zip file '/sdcard/miui_MIMIX3Global_V10.0.11.0.PEEMIFH_9761b07e78_9.0.zip'
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] rodi.sch:
Hi! I installed the ROM using TWRP.

It started everything ok. However the speaker and the microphone até nota working anymore.

What can I do?
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] ClaySlinky:
boot looping problem

I've been following the instructions carefully, but every time I flash a system.img to my phone it boot loops. I've tried flashing unoficial pixel, bootleg, Xiaomi EU, and some other trebble roms. All of them boot looped. When i tried to flash the global rom it failed install. Any ideas on what could be going wrong?
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Mackay53:
Only reason EU will boot loop is by not formatting the data in twrp, applies to others as well if encrypted.

What was the error when you tried to install global?
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] ClaySlinky:
global initially didn't boot, but I walked away for like an hour and came back to a working phone so i guess i'm good now.
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] PWn3R:
The global rom when I first flashed to it in December was slow to boot the first time. I think it took about 3 of 4 minutes. I did not clear my data like I should've but I need root to be able to do that, which we do not have for global yet. Based on feedback from some Magisk experts Xiaomi cheated on the implementation of "system as root" which they are required to implement by Google in order to ship with Pie. They combined ramdisks for boot and recovery, which makes Magisk not work. There are some people that claim they have rooted their devices on the global software, but we don't have a copy of the boot.img backup from TWRP to look at. If we had that, I have one idea about why a Chinese device may not boot after having global installed, which I suspect would be fixed by having the fastboot files and flashing from fastboot over the Chinese device. However, we have neither global fastboot files, nor a supposedly working boot.img from a global device that has been rooted with Magisk.
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] BangCamaro91:
Hello Sir,

Thanks very much for the guide, everything worked like a charm, one thing tho: I tried to flash the global ROM published by you guys, and when I reached the region selection of the new installation, only China was available. I selected China and that cause a loop between find device crashing and the phone rebooting, I had to flash the Chinese fastboot ROM to being able to use it again.

I believe it will work with the EU version, will try again, only wondering what's the matter with the global ROM.

Edit:

Ok in my case the ROM needed the fix for regions to be flashed right after the MIUI ROM, I did it and now it worked perfectly through google setup. Thank you!
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] RampageKiwi:
Hi, I did everything on the guide and it worked like a charm. However, now I am stuck in the setup screen where it says it is checking for updates... And it is taking forever. Do I just have to wait? I'm also currently in China so if it is trying to download from Google then rip. Is there a way to skip this some how?
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] diffstyle:
I am having issues ending the .zip rom file....
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] dchaparro:
Yes it Does!, you just have to press it for abour 10-11 seconds, just before it shut downs (which happensif you are pressing it still).
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Henniesnijman:
flashing "twrp.img" doesn't work at all.

flashing "twrp-3.2-whatever.img" doesn't work either.

You need to rename the TWRP-blah-blah.img file to "recovery.img".

then flash using "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img"

once done, boot into recovery using volume up + power.

sadly my brand new (ex-Hong Kong) Mi Mix 3 (8GB+256) loops after installing the Global ROM .

The ROM install process starts nicely enough, I get to choose a language and China as my (only?) country and then it starts looping....

back to square one

so I've now flashed the EU ROM - which seems to be stable enough.

from here: https://xiaomi.eu/community/threads/miui-10-0-10-1-10-2-stable-release.47170/

it comes with Google Services pre-installed. (nice)

phone seems to work fine on EU ROM.

will try ROOT tomorrow.
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Henniesnijman:
Root.

Actually I ROOT'd my trusty China-Bought Mi MIX 3 (8GB/256GB) right after my previous post.

It was already past 2AM but what the hell....

I reboot into Recovery (TWRP)

Flashed Mgisk

Rebooted

Done

SuperSU is happy,

I installed Busy Box and some ROOT tools.

All work perfectly - so far.

Plus the phone is EXTREMELY snappy on the EU ROM.

:)

---------- Post added at 05:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:47 PM ----------

I experienced the same issue..

I installed EU ROM

Root'd

Everything works nicely.
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] steffenmix3:
unlocked global device, stuck in fastboot

hey, I have followed the procedure successfully unlocked the device (it also said "unlocked") in the normal boot screen.

then, via linux, "fastboot flash recovery twrp" successfully - the official one from twrp - but I am stuck in fastboot. not possible to boot into recovery, it would always come back into fastboot.

I can't find any solution or reason in all the threads. it should have just worked.

can anyone help? I am absolutely helpless right now, no idea what to do. don't even know what to do to be able to start the phone normally. :(:(
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] fastjohnson:
Stuck in fastboot ( struggles )

you will need to reflash the official firmware because the phone will not boot or go into recovery only fastboot. So DL the official stable firmware and flash all system img and make sure you don't relock the phone. I'm having the same issue myself which is weird because i was rooted & twrp installed and working perfectly and i needed to put the phone back to stock state ( but still unlocked ) and i can't install twrp now it either BL with no stock recovery or TWRP only fastboot or bootloop. My suggestion is download the all in one tool and flash system imgs with that it's much easier that miflash tool that didn't work but said it did.
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] bryan_mmx:
good day

anybody here that uses the command fastboot boot before? I'm a user of Xiaomi since Redmi 2. I started to only boot TWRP image on Mi 5 and Mi 6 without actually flashing it so I can root while still retaining the stock bootloader and I have no issue with updates. This time on Mi Mix 3 I would like to fastboot boot it once again but I ended up having a unit looping at stock bootloader and can only be fix if I wipe it. Anybody knows why?
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] invisiblewave:
If I remember correctly, fastboot boot doesn't work on MM3. Any stock rom will take you back to the stock recovery, so it's easy to revert should you ever want to, although I can't imagine why you might want to.
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] bryan_mmx:
my bad, i meant stock recovery, not bootloader. I just find it to be more stable and less issues during updates compared to when flashing the twrp recovery.
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Giuskiller:
Hi guys i'm running MIUI 11.0.4 (Global stable) on my Mi MIX 3 and of course i've unlocked it already. I'm having a lot of trouble by flashing and running TWRP tough. I've installed correctly adb then went into fastboot and used the command "fastboot flash recovery xxxx.img" but when pressing Vol + and Power it gets stuck on Mi unlocked logo. I can boot the phone if i shut it down first, so it works normally...but why cannot boot into twrp? Tried various twrp, various methods...still nothing. Any help? I wish to install Xiaomi eu rom
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] invisiblewave:
Which version of TWRP are you using, and did the flash appear to complete correctly? Interestingly, and I'm not sure why, but when I installed the eu MIUI 11, my recovery reverted to the LR Team version of TWRP which I haven't used for months.
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Giuskiller:
Hi, i've managed to boot TWRP ("TWRP_perseus" downloaded from Android Filehost, from a thread here in XDA...version 3.2.X) someway. When it booted was named like you wrote...LR Team and started in Chinese. and yeah, the flashing went fine all the times i tried before succede, i can't explain though how i managed to get it to work because i REALLY didn't anything different from the ither times (power + vol uo). However i really don't like Xiaomi EU, it was reported to be Android 10 but it's still based on 9, also even if the translation is reported to be 100% a LOT of text is not translated, a lot of system app are older version, not upgradable from playstore, of those i used to have on Global Stable. Now my Mi Mix 3 is a Mi 8 (to pass safety net i know) and camera looks a bit laggy compared to full stock miui 11...also double tap to wake doesn't work propely and fingerprint is less accurate than it was. 90% of people told me to try Xiaomi EU...i'm really not satisfied at all. If someone know a method to get back to stock (MIUI 11 v 11.0.4.0) without getting bootloop would be amazing...
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] invisiblewave:
If you're still on Android 9, you installed the wrong EU MIUI 11 (MIUI 10 is horrible, that was the last one I'd previously tried). I installed it last week and it's definitely Android 10 and works like a charm, it's far and away the best rom I've run on the Mix 3. Both the camera and the double-tap-to-wake are fine. The easiest way to update TWRP from where you are now (assuming you're rooted) is to install the official TWRP app from the play store and update from there using the direct patch, it will put you on 3.3.1 (if I remember correctly).
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Giuskiller:
Damn, really? Would you please send me the link of the rom? I couldn't find it! Actually i've installed MIUI 11.0.4.0 with some menu changes, earthquake alerts and some other minor adjustments, but as said still Pie on it. Would like to upgrade xD. Oh and btw i'm not magisk rooted (disn't want to)...i guess i should do it if i want to upgrade recovery too right? T.T

---------- Post added at 12:22 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:18 AM ----------

If you're talking about the MIUI 11 BETA i've found a rom uploaded 3 h ago on xiaomi eu....may e i was wrong because i've installed a MIUI 11 stable rom
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] invisiblewave:
Yeah, Beta is the one I'm on, 9.11.28, but the 9.12.5 is downloading as I type. https://xiaomi.eu/community/forums/miui-11.202/

I'd recommend 9.12.5, I don't think you'll regret it. You may have to wipe to go from the one you're on, I'm not sure, since it's apparently Pie. My other recommendation is to remove all security first, which gets around the possibility of having to format /data/media.
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Giuskiller:
All done, works perfectly :)
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] invisiblewave:
:good: My only gripe is the permissions. Even flashing without wiping seems to have reset everything again.
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Giuskiller:
Idk that because i wiped before flashing so...coudl't help :/
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] invisiblewave:
Why did you wipe??
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Giuskiller:
I wiped because i was coming from MIUI 11 Global Stable (Official) so i tought that upgrading to Android 10 usimg a BETA version of MIUI 11 (Xiaomi.EU, so unofficial) would cause problems
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] invisiblewave:
Oh yeah, I was forgetting you came from Pie. Did you have any problems restoring apps? I came from AOSP and some apps won't restore from Titanium but I can't figure out why. Most work fine, it's just the odd one. Virtually every problem I've run into has been permission-related, but I can't see how this one is.
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Giuskiller:
Well i tried after your message and i can confirm that everything works as expected, no issues so far
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Rockmadeofrock:
I've never jumped an Android version when updating through TWRP (I want to go from global stable 10.3.2.0 based on Android 9.0 to xiaomi.eu 9.12.5 based on Android 10), what do you mean when you say it needs to be wiped? Does that mean format data then a factory reset? Does this always need to be done when moving from global > xiaomi.eu or from Android 9 > 10?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Headdog:
Galaxy S3 w/new T-mobile SIM, calls & texts but no data after APN set-up, need HELP!!

Help! I need to use old Verizon S3 temporarily on my T-Mobile account. I moved a T-Mobile SIM card into the S3, changed to GSM, and used my T-Mobile account to make calls and verified texting works. All of this with a notification that reads:

Phone Activation - "This SIM card is from an unknown source."

When I press on that message and hold it, I can open the "App Info" screen and see that it is from the Verizon "Setup Wizard" version 1.0 (which I cannot disable in application manager).

(FYI this SIM card works in an old NOTE 1 that I own, AND the data works; Originally the SIM was in my NOTE 4 that stopped working recently, but is another issue for later)

I have called T-Mobile and gone through the Access Point Names set-up:

Name: T-mobile US LTE

APN: fast.t-mobile.com

MMSC: http(added to allow this post)://mms.msg.eng.t-mobile.com/mms/wapenc

MMC: 310

MNC: 260

APN type: internet+mms

APN protocol: IPv4/IPv6

APN roaming protocol: IPv4

(the rest are defaults)

After telling the T-mobile person about this SIM card message, he said he thought Verizon might have it locked so I called them and was told there is NO LOCK enabled on the S III phone per their records.

I looked on-line elsewhere and tried a couple of suggested "codes" but they did not work (failed without running).

I am at a loss on what to try next, so I am hoping someone "out there" has an idea (other than rebooting which I have done many times or factory resetting the device [it was already factory reset before I started]).

Thank you in advance everyone. I know someone probably knows exactly what is happening and I appreciate your efforts to help!

Rob
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Ibuprophen:
If you take a look at the "Mobile networks and data" category on the following link (with the comparison of the Verizon and T-Mobile devices)...

https://www.phonemore.com/compare/p...16gb-vs-galaxy-s3-sch-i535-verizon-16gb/12090

... You'll notice that the Verizon uses the CDMA Network Bands and the T-Mobile uses the GSM Network Bands.

From what I can see, only a small part of the Network Band Frequencies will work while the others are not compatible.

This is why your Verizon device is just not capable of using all of the T-Mobile Frequencies on its towers. The CDMA and GSM is not cross compatible with each other.

A final clarification... There's nothing you can do to make the Verizon device able to Fully operate the GSM network.

I hope that I had explained this okay via text... :thumbup:

Good Luck!

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