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OK, made it a bit further using my gaming machine. It is windows 11. I have both the usbdk and the mtk usb all 1.0.8 installed.

It looks like the process nearly gets to the end but at this point of the process windows makes the disconnect noise and then an unknown device shows up. It seems I may be missing a driver but I cannot find which one. I have included the output of dumping both boot.img and running the unlock command. They both get to the same part. Sometimes it will hang at the reconnecting to bootloader. Other times it will just exit with no errors.

c:\Users\Frank\Downloads\mtkclient-main\mtkclient-main>python mtk r boot,vbmeta boot.img,vbmeta.img
MTK Flash/Exploit Client V1.6.2 (c) B.Kerler 2018-2023

Preloader - Status: Waiting for PreLoader VCOM, please connect mobile

Port - Hint:

Power off the phone before connecting.
For brom mode, press and hold vol up, vol dwn, or all hw buttons and connect usb.
For preloader mode, don't press any hw button and connect usb.
If it is already connected and on, hold power for 10 seconds to reset.

..........Port - Device detected :)
Preloader - CPU: MT8167/MT8516/MT8362()
Preloader - HW version: 0x0
Preloader - WDT: 0x10007000
Preloader - Uart: 0x11005000
Preloader - Brom payload addr: 0x100a00
Preloader - DA payload addr: 0x201000
Preloader - CQ_DMA addr: 0x10212c00
Preloader - Var1: 0xcc
Preloader - Disabling Watchdog...
Preloader - HW code: 0x8167
Preloader - Target config: 0xe5
Preloader - SBC enabled: True
Preloader - SLA enabled: False
Preloader - DAA enabled: True
Preloader - SWJTAG enabled: True
Preloader - EPP_PARAM at 0x600 after EMMC_BOOT/SDMMC_BOOT: False
Preloader - Root cert required: False
Preloader - Mem read auth: True
Preloader - Mem write auth: True
Preloader - Cmd 0xC8 blocked: True
Preloader - Get Target info
Preloader - BROM mode detected.
Preloader - HW subcode: 0x8a00
Preloader - HW Ver: 0xcb00
Preloader - SW Ver: 0x1
Preloader - ME_ID: 777264C459B2B19DEFAAE02C4054BD33
Preloader - SOC_ID: 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
PLTools - Loading payload from mt8167_payload.bin, 0x264 bytes
PLTools - Kamakiri / DA Run
Kamakiri - Trying kamakiri2..
Kamakiri - Done sending payload...
PLTools - Successfully sent payload: C:\Users\Frank\Downloads\mtkclient-main\mtkclient-main\mtkclient\payloads\mt8167_payload.bin
Port - Device detected :)
DA_handler - Device is protected.
DA_handler - Device is in BROM mode. Trying to dump preloader.
DAXFlash - Uploading xflash stage 1 from MTK_AllInOne_DA_5.2136.bin
xflashext - Patching da1 ...
Mtk - Patched "Patched loader msg" in preloader
xflashext
xflashext - [LIB]: ←[33mError on patching da1 version check...←[0m
Mtk - Patched "Patched loader msg" in preloader
Mtk - Patched "get_vfy_policy" in preloader
xflashext - Patching da2 ...
DAXFlash - Successfully uploaded stage 1, jumping ..
Preloader - Jumping to 0x200000
Preloader - Jumping to 0x200000: ok.
DAXFlash - Successfully received DA sync
DAXFlash - Sending emi data ...
DAXFlash - DRAM setup passed.
DAXFlash - Sending emi data succeeded.
DAXFlash - Uploading stage 2...
DAXFlash - Upload data was accepted. Jumping to stage 2...
DAXFlash - Successfully uploaded stage 2
DAXFlash - EMMC FWVer: 0x0
DAXFlash - EMMC ID: 008GB0
DAXFlash - EMMC CID: 110100303038474230005d39a0d9a76f
DAXFlash - EMMC Boot1 Size: 0x400000
DAXFlash - EMMC Boot2 Size: 0x400000
DAXFlash - EMMC GP1 Size: 0x0
DAXFlash - EMMC GP2 Size: 0x0
DAXFlash - EMMC GP3 Size: 0x0
DAXFlash - EMMC GP4 Size: 0x0
DAXFlash - EMMC RPMB Size: 0x400000
DAXFlash - EMMC USER Size: 0x1d2000000
DAXFlash - HW-CODE : 0x8167
DAXFlash - HWSUB-CODE : 0x8A00
DAXFlash - HW-VERSION : 0xCB00
DAXFlash - SW-VERSION : 0x1
DAXFlash - CHIP-EVOLUTION : 0x0
DAXFlash - DA-VERSION : 1.0
DAXFlash - Reconnecting to preloader

c:\Users\Frank\Downloads\mtkclient-main\mtkclient-main>python mtk da seccfg unlock
MTK Flash/Exploit Client V1.6.2 (c) B.Kerler 2018-2023

Preloader - Status: Waiting for PreLoader VCOM, please connect mobile

Port - Hint:

Power off the phone before connecting.
For brom mode, press and hold vol up, vol dwn, or all hw buttons and connect usb.
For preloader mode, don't press any hw button and connect usb.
If it is already connected and on, hold power for 10 seconds to reset.

Port - Device detected :)
Preloader - CPU: MT8167/MT8516/MT8362()
Preloader - HW version: 0x0
Preloader - WDT: 0x10007000
Preloader - Uart: 0x11005000
Preloader - Brom payload addr: 0x100a00
Preloader - DA payload addr: 0x201000
Preloader - CQ_DMA addr: 0x10212c00
Preloader - Var1: 0xcc
Preloader - Disabling Watchdog...
Preloader - HW code: 0x8167
Preloader - Target config: 0xe5
Preloader - SBC enabled: True
Preloader - SLA enabled: False
Preloader - DAA enabled: True
Preloader - SWJTAG enabled: True
Preloader - EPP_PARAM at 0x600 after EMMC_BOOT/SDMMC_BOOT: False
Preloader - Root cert required: False
Preloader - Mem read auth: True
Preloader - Mem write auth: True
Preloader - Cmd 0xC8 blocked: True
Preloader - Get Target info
Preloader - BROM mode detected.
Preloader - HW subcode: 0x8a00
Preloader - HW Ver: 0xcb00
Preloader - SW Ver: 0x1
Preloader - ME_ID: 777264C459B2B19DEFAAE02C4054BD33
Preloader - SOC_ID: 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
PLTools - Loading payload from mt8167_payload.bin, 0x264 bytes
PLTools - Kamakiri / DA Run
Kamakiri - Trying kamakiri2..
Kamakiri - Done sending payload...
PLTools - Successfully sent payload: C:\Users\Frank\Downloads\mtkclient-main\mtkclient-main\mtkclient\payloads\mt8167_payload.bin
Port - Device detected :)
DA_handler - Device is protected.
DA_handler - Device is in BROM mode. Trying to dump preloader.
DAXFlash - Uploading xflash stage 1 from MTK_AllInOne_DA_5.2136.bin
xflashext - Patching da1 ...
Mtk - Patched "Patched loader msg" in preloader
xflashext
xflashext - [LIB]: ←[33mError on patching da1 version check...←[0m
Mtk - Patched "Patched loader msg" in preloader
Mtk - Patched "get_vfy_policy" in preloader
xflashext - Patching da2 ...
DAXFlash - Successfully uploaded stage 1, jumping ..
Preloader - Jumping to 0x200000
Preloader - Jumping to 0x200000: ok.
DAXFlash - Successfully received DA sync
DAXFlash - Sending emi data ...
DAXFlash - DRAM setup passed.
DAXFlash - Sending emi data succeeded.
DAXFlash - Uploading stage 2...
DAXFlash - Upload data was accepted. Jumping to stage 2...
DAXFlash - Successfully uploaded stage 2
DAXFlash - EMMC FWVer: 0x0
DAXFlash - EMMC ID: 008GB0
DAXFlash - EMMC CID: 110100303038474230005d39a0d9a76f
DAXFlash - EMMC Boot1 Size: 0x400000
DAXFlash - EMMC Boot2 Size: 0x400000
DAXFlash - EMMC GP1 Size: 0x0
DAXFlash - EMMC GP2 Size: 0x0
DAXFlash - EMMC GP3 Size: 0x0
DAXFlash - EMMC GP4 Size: 0x0
DAXFlash - EMMC RPMB Size: 0x400000
DAXFlash - EMMC USER Size: 0x1d2000000
DAXFlash - HW-CODE : 0x8167
DAXFlash - HWSUB-CODE : 0x8A00
DAXFlash - HW-VERSION : 0xCB00
DAXFlash - SW-VERSION : 0x1
DAXFlash - CHIP-EVOLUTION : 0x0
DAXFlash - DA-VERSION : 1.0
DAXFlash - Reconnecting to preloader