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question about bootloader unlocking

Hi everyone, I am a few hours away from unlocking my bootloader but I am considering changing phone with a new note 5 because this one has a yellowish colour on the bottom of the screen (is this a thing? has anyone had the same problem?) If I change it and bind the new one to the same account, do I have to wait 360 more hours or will I be able to unlock the new one in the already given time? obviously I won't unlock this one

Yes you would have to wait again since it's a new phone.

oh, I thought the authorization was linked to the account, not the phone.. This really is bad news ?

Bootloader unlocking couldn't verify device

I'm trying to unlock my mi max 6gb version I got from tradingshenzen today but I have no success with the latest version of the mi unlock tool. What's the issue here?

zed011 said:
I'm trying to unlock my mi max 6gb version I got from tradingshenzen today but I have no success with the latest version of the mi unlock tool. What's the issue here?
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Isnt it unlocked already? It should come unlocked if you bought it from Trading Shenzhen...

Only if you get xiaomi eu rom, I did not I stuck with the original china rom

I bought my one at tradingshenzen too. It was locked.
Did you follow all the steps? Try to logout from mi-account on your phone and login again on the same wifi network as your pc is. Did you activate the developer options and set oem-unlock to on? Can your phone be located through https://i.mi.com/#/ ?
When everything goes right, it will say: waiting time 360 hours = 15 days before going to unlock.
If that's to long for you, then try to flash another rom (maybe China developer or stable), but better take an older version, because the new ones have Anti-Rollback activated.
And before you flash another rom, better logout from your mi account on your phone.
I reduced my waiting time to 240 hours by flashing another rom

zed011 said:
Only if you get xiaomi eu rom, I did not I stuck with the original china rom
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I chose china rom also from trading shenzhen and got miui 10 china developer rom and they had it unlocked. It gets OTA updates every week...

The device is definitely still locked because there's no message when booting up and going to developer options > mi unlock status shows the device is locked.
Device can be located using find device
OEM unlocking is enabled in developer settings
Logged into mi account on the device which is the same on the mi unlock tool
Don't know what to do now. I'm on 9.6.12.0 which has antirollback unfortunately which I updated to when I was still getting the error.

Nevermind solved. I tried another computer that was Intel instead of AMD and I can now see the wait time to unlock. Ridiculous 719 hours...

Okay, this problem got me now. Three different PCs, all of them unable to unlock the new Xiaomi Mi 8.
I have to say, I am royally pissed of with Xiaomi. What on Earth happened? Why do they create this process, and why is it that buggy?

I was waiting to unlock my mi 8 lite and it told me the usual 360 hours and today it was up so I went in to unlock and now it says that I must 'use the phone more before unlock' Please wait 7 days. I'm so pissed I just put the return in to amazon I'm not doing that waiting again just for them to tell me wait again and then I can't return it. Anyone else seen this? Getting a OP6 I'm tired of this ****.

Sörnäinen said:
Okay, this problem got me now. Three different PCs, all of them unable to unlock the new Xiaomi Mi 8.
I have to say, I am royally pissed of with Xiaomi. What on Earth happened? Why do they create this process, and why is it that buggy?
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I've read somewhere that it could be a problem with a USB 3 Port, use a USB 2 Port if available. But I can't verify that for myself as I'm still waiting for mine to come :crying:
sting12345 said:
I was waiting to unlock my mi 8 lite and it told me the usual 360 hours and today it was up so I went in to unlock and now it says that I must 'use the phone more before unlock' Please wait 7 days. I'm so pissed I just put the return in to amazon I'm not doing that waiting again just for them to tell me wait again and then I can't return it. Anyone else seen this? Getting a OP6 I'm tired of this ****.
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Well that's interesting, I was planning on letting mine just sit on the shelf until the 30 days have passed. Good to know that that's not a good way to go forward. Thanks for sharing that, even if it made you return your device.

Zacki06 said:
I've read somewhere that it could be a problem with a USB 3 Port, use a USB 2 Port if available. But I can't verify that for myself as I'm still waiting for mine to come :crying:
Well that's interesting, I was planning on letting mine just sit on the shelf until the 30 days have passed. Good to know that that's not a good way to go forward. Thanks for sharing that, even if it made you return your device.
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Yeah I'm so unbelievably pissed, I noticed the unlock tool just told me no, then it said there was an update to the unlock tool, installed it. Then I get this now, LOL. Yeah ok Xiaomi I don't think so. It's too bad because the hardware is nice but they want to try and trap you into their crappy ad ridden ROM, bait and switch so I'm just going to grab a OP6 tonight and have it unlocked and flashed before this even gets back to amazon. I went cheap because I heard good things about xiaomi but it must have been in the past because this is very very bad business.

has anyone had any success unlocking after the time was up? I can't believe they are doing this.

sting12345 said:
Yeah I'm so unbelievably pissed, I noticed the unlock tool just told me no, then it said there was an update to the unlock tool, installed it. Then I get this now, LOL. Yeah ok Xiaomi I don't think so. It's too bad because the hardware is nice but they want to try and trap you into their crappy ad ridden ROM, bait and switch so I'm just going to grab a OP6 tonight and have it unlocked and flashed before this even gets back to amazon. I went cheap because I heard good things about xiaomi but it must have been in the past because this is very very bad business.
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Well from what I've heard, this unlocking procedure was introduced because some chinese vendors were unlocking chinese models of their phones and selling them in europe or elsewere and that was not what they had intended. So to prevent them from unlocking the devices they implemented this waiting time. And I guess "not using" is just one of the details of it. As I would understand it, a vendor could still request the unlock of several devices and then just wait but they would probably not pop a sim in every of these devices for a while. And to be clear, that's just a guess I'm making here. But I could imagine that being a "thing" to prove that you are indeed "using" the phone.

yeah I returned it this morning so I don't care anymore and got a OP6 I'm unlocking right now. I popped sim in the first day and then waited their mandated time and it said nothing about keeping sim in or anything and the countdown timer kept moving so I waited but not going to wait until my return period was over LOL. No way.

Zacki06 said:
I've read somewhere that it could be a problem with a USB 3 Port, use a USB 2 Port if available. But I can't verify that for myself as I'm still waiting for mine to come :crying:
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That's exactly the point. I had to use a very very old PC to do the unlocking. It wouldn't work on any newer one.
There is no waiting time anymore, though. But I guess you have found out yourself by now.

Sörnäinen said:
That's exactly the point. I had to use a very very old PC to do the unlocking. It wouldn't work on any newer one.
There is no waiting time anymore, though. But I guess you have found out yourself by now.
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What do you mean be "very very old"? My (desktop) PC is just a few years but it still has plenty of USB 2.0 ports. But for the waiting, I'm still waiting that TradingShenzhen is actually shipping the damn thing Ordered it a week ago.

Zacki06 said:
What do you mean be "very very old"? My (desktop) PC is just a few years but it still has plenty of USB 2.0 ports. But for the waiting, I'm still waiting that TradingShenzhen is actually shipping the damn thing Ordered it a week ago.
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None of my newer PCs did the job, although they all USB2 ports. I had to use a PC that does NOT have a USB3 port, and that was my 6 year old ASUS.
I don't know what Xiaomi is thinking, but my guess is: Not very much. In this case, at least, the phone altogether is brilliant.

Sörnäinen said:
None of my newer PCs did the job, although they all USB2 ports. I had to use a PC that does NOT have a USB3 port, and that was my 6 year old ASUS.
I don't know what Xiaomi is thinking, but my guess is: Not very much. In this case, at least, the phone altogether is brilliant.
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Ok that is strange, never heard of that, that the PC to use has to have USB 2.0 only. Then also my desktop would be out of the race as it has 2 USB 3.0 at the back...^^
Not sure this is something that they are doing on purpose, although it's not the first time I've read that something does not work with USB 3 and only with USB 2 (other stuff than unlocking).
It seems that there are still some driver issues or perhaps some other stuff that is interfering, because as more and more is upgraded to USB 3 (pc's as well as phones) that would make things very difficult if we were stuck on USB 2 for certain things.
But back to the phone, have you actually tried upping the dpi? I was wondering up to what point this can be done because the default resolution seems a bit like "not using the screen as effectively as you could do".

Zacki06 said:
Ok that is strange, never heard of that, that the PC to use has to have USB 2.0 only. Then also my desktop would be out of the race as it has 2 USB 3.0 at the back...^^
Not sure this is something that they are doing on purpose, although it's not the first time I've read that something does not work with USB 3 and only with USB 2 (other stuff than unlocking).
It seems that there are still some driver issues or perhaps some other stuff that is interfering, because as more and more is upgraded to USB 3 (pc's as well as phones) that would make things very difficult if we were stuck on USB 2 for certain things.
But back to the phone, have you actually tried upping the dpi? I was wondering up to what point this can be done because the default resolution seems a bit like "not using the screen as effectively as you could do".
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My best guess is that it indeed is a driver issue and the problem was the INTEL motherboard I use in both of my newer PCs. But it's just a guess. Perhaps the motherboard treats all USB ports internally like USB3 or what not...
I haven't upped the DPI. Maybe I should have, I had some trouble adapting my old browser to the much lower resolution of the Mi 8.
At first that put me off a bit - I come from a device with a 2K screen, and it felt like downgrading - but in everyday use there is no difference. The screen might just be FHD, but it's crisp, bright and great.
I will have a look at the DPI thing, I am triggered now.

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My best guess is that it indeed is a driver issue and the problem was the INTEL motherboard I use in both of my newer PCs. But it's just a guess. Perhaps the motherboard treats all USB ports internally like USB3 or what not...
I haven't upped the DPI. Maybe I should have, I had some trouble adapting my old browser to the much lower resolution of the Mi 8.
At first that put me off a bit - I come from a device with a 2K screen, and it felt like downgrading - but in everyday use there is no difference. The screen might just be FHD, but it's crisp, bright and great.
I will have a look at the DPI thing, I am triggered now.
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Well I've also read that Intel boards are fine but AMD boards are causing trouble... Strange.
Well my phone before the 5x was an OPPO Find 7 (the s, not the a, so the "better" one with a QHD display) and I still use that from time to time like for navigating because its just so much more you see on the screen than on my 1080p Honor 5x. Let me know if you managed to get anything satisfying in regards to the DPI

Mi Max 3 Bootloader Unlocking Taking Too Long

Hello all
Can anyone tell me why Xiaomi keep moving the 'time period' for unlocking the BOOTLOADER on the Mi Max 3 ?
Initially I was told onscreen (PC Mi software) to try again in 360 hours. So I waited for the 360 hours and now it is saying onscreen, unable to unlock , try again in another 4 days time......
The phone is VERIFIED onscreen , my Mi Account is well established and verified.
Has anyone else experienced this ?
Will the BOOTLOADER ever unlock ?
I am becoming less interested in the Xiaomi brand as every day goes by. At least with a Samsung product there is no waiting nor external company control.
I am curious to know if Xiaomi are collecting personal data or info when you connect your device to their PC software to unlock the device.
Seems like Xiaomi like to control what the end user can and can't do with their products.
Thanks for reading :good:

tsam19 said:
Hello all
Can anyone tell me why Xiaomi keep moving the 'time period' for unlocking the BOOTLOADER on the Mi Max 3 ?
Initially I was told onscreen (PC Mi software) to try again in 360 hours. So I waited for the 360 hours and now it is saying onscreen, unable to unlock , try again in another 4 days time......
The phone is VERIFIED onscreen , my Mi Account is well established and verified.
Has anyone else experienced this ?
Will the BOOTLOADER ever unlock ?
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I've just read this message in a different thread here that seems related to your problem. How much have you been using the device while waiting for it go get unlocked?

RE Zacki06
Thanks for the link. As for using the phone i.e making calls or texting. I haven't really used it that way. I've installed a few apps on it. Surfed the web occasionally.
I don't want to use or customise it because when the bootloader gets unlocked it wipes the device like in a fresh format.
It seems like yet another bizzare, controlling twist from the Xiaomi manufacturers if they demand the user to use the device. Before allowing the bootloader to be unlocked.
It also seems suspiscious that Xiaomi are keeping tabs on the owner i.e knowing if they are using the device or not. Personally I don't like being spied on when I invest in buying a product.
I am swaying more and more to stay with a Samsung product if Xiaomi keep dangling a carrot then pulling it away at the last minute.

tsam19 said:
RE Zacki06
Thanks for the link. As for using the phone i.e making calls or texting. I haven't really used it that way. I've installed a few apps on it. Surfed the web occasionally.
I don't want to use or customise it because when the bootloader gets unlocked it wipes the device like in a fresh format.
It seems like yet another bizzare, controlling twist from the Xiaomi manufacturers if they demand the user to use the device. Before allowing the bootloader to be unlocked.
It also seems suspiscious that Xiaomi are keeping tabs on the owner i.e knowing if they are using the device or not. Personally I don't like being spied on when I invest in buying a product.
I am swaying more and more to stay with a Samsung product if Xiaomi keep dangling a carrot then pulling it away at the last minute.
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So as mentioned here this might have to do with the fact that xiaomi wants to prevent chinese vendors to sell their stuff elswere.
But of course I agree that this level of "spying" is absolutely not ok and actually reminds me a bit of windows 10...^^
Thank goodness I'll be switching to the xiaomi.eu rom after unlocking, so this stuff is just for a while.
I mean, it does make some sense from their point of view as a company, but it's still annoying for the average customer.

Chinese vendors or any other seller, will sell any products where ever they can to make money, so it's naive of any big company like Samsung or Xiaomi to think they can sell their products to a selective audience. And prohibit the sales to an unwanted group or country.
Places like eBay are littered with these devices with cheap shipping worldwide.
From a buyers point of view who has trusted and bought a product doesn't expect to be spied upon or had barriers put in place to stop customising a device. It's similar to Apple and they way they control the end user on what they can and can't do with their products.
Tech companies aren't doing themselves any favours by behaving the way they do. It forces customers to look for a better product elsewhere.
Where is the Xiaomi.EU rom found ?
Personally for me if the device cannot be unlocked then I will be getting rid of it asap.
Regards :good:

tsam19 said:
Chinese vendors or any other seller, will sell any products where ever they can to make money, so it's naive of any big company like Samsung or Xiaomi to think they can sell their products to a selective audience. And prohibit the sales to an unwanted group or country.
Regards :good:
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The point is to miminise the risk for the seller to unlock and flash own shady firmwares on the phone before selling.

tsam19 said:
Where is the Xiaomi.EU rom found ?
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You can find the stable version of the rom here: Link
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Personally for me if the device cannot be unlocked then I will be getting rid of it asap.
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Well I'm quite certain that it can be unlocked but it's rather surprising to me that it is so difficult But yeah, if I can't unlock mine (that hasn't even been shipped since I ordered it almost a week ago ) then I'll probably also have to think what to do with it.

Zacki06 , yes others have unlocked their Xiaomi bootloader. However the process is not as straight forward as rooting or unlocking a Samsung bootloader.
If your not aware you have to register for an Mi account, verify it. Use that login to be able to use the unlocking PC software and at the same time register and verify your Mi account / phone number on the Xiaomi device you have bought . Boot into fastboot mode and connect to the Mi servers who verify your device and that is when the time duration kicks in. Either 360 hours or 720 hours message will appear.
As in my experience I am having to use the device for yet another 4 days before I may or may not be allowed to have the bootloader to be unlocked.
All I want to do is root the device. No bootloader unlock, no root!
dannejanne , As for sellers selling Xiaomi devices with flakey firmware already on them, that is quite widespread on eBay and similar for sales places. And if these sellers have registered that particular handset with their details registered to that device for them to have had the bootloader unlocked. Then you or anyone who has bought that device. The new owner will / could have problems when trying to use that device or register it. There are lots of instances when the Xiaomi device can become Mi cloud blocked ( just like Apple icloud) . :good:

tsam19 said:
Zacki06 , yes others have unlocked their Xiaomi bootloader. However the process is not as straight forward as rooting or unlocking a Samsung bootloader.
If your not aware you have to register for an Mi account, verify it. Use that login to be able to use the unlocking PC software and at the same time register and verify your Mi account / phone number on the Xiaomi device you have bought . Boot into fastboot mode and connect to the Mi servers who verify your device and that is when the time duration kicks in. Either 360 hours or 720 hours message will appear.
As in my experience I am having to use the device for yet another 4 days before I may or may not be allowed to have the bootloader to be unlocked.
All I want to do is root the device. No bootloader unlock, no root!
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I am fully aware of the process, I asked a ton of questions before buying this phone because I was not sure at first if it was worth the wait. Turns out I still didn't learn everything but I still bought it because it is an amazing phone (screen size, battery, etc.). And I'm not new to android It has just been a while since I flashed a custom rom on a decvice, my Honor 5x is running stock at the moment so I was not familiar with all the recent changes that have happened.
I still hope you will try and keep the phone. And as a personal note, I never had a good hand with samsung phones (no problem with tablets). I can't stand AMOLED screens and my experiance shows, that they also don't like me. So all my phones except for the only samsung phone I had for only a week until it broke had an LCD or another kind of screen, but never an amoled
Cheers

A good result at last
After more messages of wait, wait, wait.
Today, finally, at last the job is done !! :good:
I don't know what information Xiaomi have extracted from my handset in order for their servers to allow 'unlock'.
But for anyone else in the same 'waiting position', there is light at the end of the tunnel! :victory:

tsam19 said:
After more messages of wait, wait, wait.
Today, finally, at last the job is done !! :good:
I don't know what information Xiaomi have extracted from my handset in order for their servers to allow 'unlock'.
But for anyone else in the same 'waiting position', there is light at the end of the tunnel! :victory:
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Good news, congratulations

chinese NOTE 8 UNLOCK TIMER???

hey dear people
i got yesterday 408HOURS, thats horble, i cant understand how my firend with same phone got just 150 hours???
how i can reduce that time?
CHEERS, tim

Usually is 168hours /7days.
I would create a new account and re-apply again

tofiq94 said:
hey dear people
i got yesterday 408HOURS, thats horble, i cant understand how my firend with same phone got just 150 hours???
how i can reduce that time?
CHEERS, tim
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it's usually 168 hours. but once you get this waiting time do not remove your mi account from your device or factory reset otherwise you'll get waiting time again. make sure to use your phone during waiting time.

Question Unlock Bootloader on a Refurbished Poco F4?

So this is my first time stepping into the Xiaomi ecosystem and I am planning to get my hands on a refurbished Poco F4. True to my knowledge. we have to add an MIUI account on our device and sign in via the same account on the Mi Unlock Tool.
So my query is if I get my hands on a refurbished device, could I simply create a new account, sign in to the device and the Unlock Tool via that account, and proceed ahead with the unlock process or will it require [at any stage] the original MIUI account which was first logged into the device?
If the latter is the case [need for the 'original' account], then my purchase will be of no use. So any help in this regard will be highly appreciated.

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So this is my first time stepping into the Xiaomi ecosystem and I am planning to get my hands on a refurbished Poco F4. True to my knowledge. we have to add an MIUI account on our device and sign in via the same account on the Mi Unlock Tool.
So my query is if I get my hands on a refurbished device, could I simply create a new account, sign in to the device and the Unlock Tool via that account, and proceed ahead with the unlock process or will it require [at any stage] the original MIUI account which was first logged into the device?
If the latter is the case [need for the 'original' account], then my purchase will be of no use. So any help in this regard will be highly appreciated.
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Being a refurbished device with probably a guarantee, I don't see why the seller would forget that,which would make the device unusable

I don't know whether what I experienced is true to all Xiaomi device or not, but the counter, in my case 7 days, starts when I log in with my own Xiaomi account on the device. It doesn't matter whether the device is new or used. Don't know about refurbished tho..

damadikaz said:
I don't know whether what I experienced is true to all Xiaomi device or not, but the counter, in my case 7 days, starts when I log in with my own Xiaomi account on the device. It doesn't matter whether the device is new or used. Don't know about refurbished tho..
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Yep,it's almost always like that, but in the case of a private sale if the seller does not delete the device from his account, the operation is impossible.

Thank you both for your valuable insights. I guess the seller would most probably remove his account from his device before selling it or else it might be a privacy/security concern for him itself.

UPDATE: Just posting it in case someone lands up with the same query- the seller [Cashify, in India] didn't have their account signed in. So I easily created a new Xiaomi account and logged into my device, waited for 6 days, and the bootloader stood unlocked....