[Redmi Note 8 Pro Questions & Answers] Muad.Dib:
Also keep in mind you obviously know what you are doing. I'd say we cannot be hold responsible for people not following precise guides posted by those who knows better, but, between people starting to flash stuff before waiting for their bootloader to be unlocked (yeah waiting 7 days can be frustrating... it is...), those not flashing the right thing at the right place, those forgetting a step or more (or thinking they can shortcut a whole process), there also is something we have to consider.

It seems from the many post I have read in many places, most of the phones which ended bricked were the Chinese model (and when I say bricked I mean bricked. Of half of the people who claim their phone is bricked I am pretty sure they are not even if they think it is).

You probably know like me, people with no skills at all in that particular area or with computer sciences at all, talking to you about, i am going to flash this, remove that, root and put this in system... and they dont know what a bootloader is when you ask them if they unlocked it...

And if anything goes wrong they completely panic (my phone is bricked help me help me!), overreact without any cool, often making things even worse trying to fix something they hasty diagnosed wrongly, ending up in really bricking their phone if it was not already.

As we all know here, people in China are not allowed to do some stuff or using some other stuff (apps etc), they do not live in a democracy out there (do we?), and it would not surprise me State has phones to be made a certain way for local market so people cannot just simply go and flash what they want to do what they want with their phones.

Obviously there kind of always is a way around, but, maybe not as easy and Plug n Play solution.

Some made the choice to order their phones from AliExpress or any Chinese website like they are used to do with their other toys making quite same savings doing so (aren't all of our toys made in China after all?), and end up with more difficult device to work around.

It seems that Eu/Gobal flavors of the phones are somehow more permissive (or people having them know how to read/follow tutorials better, or just more used to flashing with decades of trainings idk). For this Eu/Global market they have to follow some rules and regulations if they want to be approved for that said market (for all I know maybe they also had to put some specific backdoors so our own state services can snoop in?) example the call recording option considered as a privacy issue for people being recorded in EU/USA.

Now about touching the boot partition, from what I have read, it would be more when messing with recovery most phones ended bricked when people try to flash it/make it stick in recovery on some phones flavors (Chinese imo).

If the flavor that was shipped to dev was a Chinese one, no wonder why they got so many problems.

I am not even sure the Global/Eu one was ready to ship at that time.

Anyway just speculating here, because me too I am wondering what's the problem with this phone.

And not really being 'root' of the device you purchase with your own money straight out of the box also is a concept I am having hard time to live with. I cannot understand why we customers tolerate buying a phone for which we do not have an easy recovery option (rescue DVD or whatever, plug in, restore, done) if case anything goes wrong, or just if we want to restart fresh.

It used to be like this before with all phones and computers.

Nowadays it is not anymore most of the time.

Regards.