[Help needed from Devs] Note 5 Pro Unbrick Project - Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro Questions & Answers
A BIG SORRY for a long post. But I am sure its worth reading step by step. Because many peoples are stucked in same situation, no straight forward solution for this issue is available till now. All solutions are based on 50/50 success ratio.
I think if my issue is resolved then it can become WORLD's FIRST SOLUTION to UNBRICK NOTE 5 PRO with 100/100 success ratio.
About Me: I am an ordinary Android user since years. I know how to root and install TWRP and Custom ROMs on any Android Phone. I am not a Developer, every thing discussed here is purely gained by experiments by playing with my phone.
After playing with my bricked phone I reach at a point where I am hopeless and I think at this stage a Developer can help me only, who have deep knowledge of android OS. That's why I called Devs to help me.
About Phone I have Note 5 Pro Global (whyred)M1803E7SG. Phone is under warranty but unfortunately Front Glass of my phone is broken few months ago but still working, so Mi Service Center refused to accept my phone under warranty due to broken Front Glass. Tried to repair my phone by a local Phone Service Shop, thay have all professional tools like UMT, Avangers, MedusaPro etc. but they were also unable to repair my phone. Now I have no option left other than I should repair it by myself.
Phone was on ARB4, was working fine. Bootloader Unlocked and I have rooted it long time ago and was playing with it since it is rooted by flashing different Custom ROMs on daily basis.
Currently phone was working fine on Masik X 4.1 ROM. Some days ago I flashed Masik X 5.0 ROM via TWRP on my phone and after reboot phone became dead and went to EDL 9008 mode. I noticed that I flashed Masik X 5.0 for Note 6 Pro (tulip) ROM on it mistakenly.
Journey Stats Here:
1 - After bricking my phone I tried to flash fastboot ROM for whyred in EDL mode, phone flashed successfully but still stucked in EDL mode. Tried all fastboot ROMs from ARB2 to ARB4 but still no sign of life, phone was not coming out of EDL mode. Also tried "test anti4.zip" files as well but phone is still in EDL mode after a successful flashing.
2 -After that I tried to flash fastboot ROM of Note 6 Pro (tulip) in EDL mode, after flashing complete when I tried to turn ON my phone, I noticed that phone try to start with vibrate and charging light blinks for a while but nothing on Screen and phone dead again. I checked with USB cable attached to laptop, nothing appear in Device Manager. Here I opened my phone and bring it to EDL mode via Test Point method.
3 - Then after searching on internet I saw on a forum where another person was in same situation. He mentioned his phone display was turning ON on a Mi 6X (wayne) ROM but with "Press any key to shutdown" message on screen. So tried same with Mi 6X (wayne) ROM. Phone is turning ON with "Press any key to shutdown". So I started playing with Mi 6X ROM. I started replacing Mi 6X ROM file with Note 5 Pro files one by one and flashing my phone again and again with every one new file (took so many hours in playing with my phone:crying. Initially had many issues like: missing keymaster64.mbn file as Mi 6X uses keymaster64.mbn but Note 5 Pro is using keymaster.mbn file (so corrected .xml and .bat files according to need), Unable to mount Persist partition in TWRP (corrected it by terminal method in TWRP by using command "make_ext4fs /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/persist", phone was going to Fastboot for a while, Not going to recovery mode, No USB detection on laptop in Device Manager. Fastboot lasts for a half second and then phone goes off.
In short at the end finally I noticed only three files "abl.elf, pmic.elf, xbl.elf" from Mi 6X ROM are responsible for turning my phone ON.
4 - So I replaced "abl.elf, pmic.elf, xbl.elf" files from Mi 6X ROM with Note 5 Pro ROM files and flashed my phone with this new modified ROM in EDL mode. Phone turned on without any "Press any key to shutdown" message on screen. Now phone can go to fastboot mode and detected on USB on my laptop. But not going to Recovery mode, after pressing Vol UP + Power Button, only a black screen and nothing happening on my laptop Device Manager (no driver at all). In fastboot mode I flashed "PitchBlack-whyred-2.9.0-20190501-1030-OFFICIAL" recovery (initially I tried TWRP Recovery for whyred but in TWRP phone was not detected as MTP device on my laptop, so I used Pitchblack Recovery) and after issuing boot command to recovery.img I can go to Pitchblack recovery mode, phone detected on USB port as "Note 5 Pro", MTP drive appear in My Computer, I can copy/paste files in phone Storage. In Recovery mode I flashed Official "miui_HMNote5Global_V10.3.1.0.PEIMIXM_d4d2c9f2aa_9.0" ROM. Phone flashed successfully but after reboot phone went to EDL mode again. So I revived it again with modified ROM.
5 - After revival I tried to boot phone in normal way, I noticed that MI Splash screen is blinking with behavior: Splash screen appears fine for a while and on second blink Screen is inverted then 3rd blink Screen fine and 4th blink screen inverted and so on till I reach to MIUI10 welcome screen. On welcome screen the behavior is same like once fine then inverted. But here my touch screen is not working, I can't go after this screen. Phone is not allowing to touch Next button. I can charge my phone with charger connected. Phone detected as "Note 5 Pro" on my laptop.
6 - I rebooted phone to fastboot mode, tried to flash "whyred_global_images_V10.3.1.0.PEIMIXM_20190522.0000.00_9.0_global_8201319a7e" with MiFlash but can't flash due to "Product Mismatch" warning by MiFlash. Tried Mi 6X ROM and MiFlash started flashing fine.
7 - Then I flashed "boot.img, recovery.img, cust.img, system.img" files by using fastboot flash xx xxx.img commands for Note 5 Pro. Fastboot flashed all files successfully. But after rebooting phone behavior is same like blinking inverted screen and touch not working.
8 - Now I am helpless at this stage. Tried all ways to revive my phone. Nothing else is remaining as I think. No other file is remaining which I can try.
HELP REQUIRED FROM A Developer
I reached on a stage where my phone is now "Semi Unbricked" but is still useless for me. But I hope some Developer can help me to revive my phone.
My Note 5 Pro is converted to Mi 6X but touch screen is not working. Screen is working fine in Pitchblack Recovery mode, phone is responding in Fastboot mode but as it is the fastboot mode of Mi 6X on a Note 5 Pro so it is useless for my phone.
Kindly assist me further so I can replace Mi 6X fastboot with original Note 5 Pro fastboot so that I can flash Note 5 Pro ROM on it.
Waiting for a very positive and prompt reply.
Regards!
Any body knows about display/touch driver files inside Android OS???
My touch screen is not working at all on MIUI Welcome screen. I want to embed Display Driver files in ROM so I can go forward ahead of this Welcome Screen.
I have tried so many ROMs from different Xiaomi models, replaced so many files one by one, spent too much time on doing this all. But the only combination of files works mentioned below:
abl.elf (must be from wayne ROM)
pmic.elf (must be from wayne or tulip ROMs, both working)
xbl.elf (must be from wayne ROM)
All other files from whyred ROM are OK to flash to bring my phone alive.
ROMs Used:
whyred_global_images_V10.3.1.0.PEIMIXM_20190522.0000.00_9.0_global_8201319a7e
wayne_images_V10.3.3.0.PDCCNXM_20190514.0000.00_9.0_cn_1d4725ac4d
tulip_global_images_V10.3.2.0.PEKMIXM_20190426.0000.00_9.0_global_2264f9bd86
Now I concluded all this mess as: I can never go back to whyred original ROM. The only way left is to use my phone as a Mi 6X by name if touch screen of my mobile gets start working.
Some body please help me in replacing Display Driver files of whyred with wayne files.
Kindly assist me to pass through this step. I want to see what's working and what's not after MIUI Welcome Screen. e.g. IMEI, BT, WIFI, SOUND, CALL etc......
Please help
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My Redmi Note 8 Pro has bricked after flashing Magisk, confused which method can fix my device - No Recovery (bootloop even holding volume+) - Can boot to Fastboot but after connect to PC it's rebooting instead connected on fastboot can somebody help me ASAP
crazyfox21 said: My Redmi Note 8 Pro has bricked after flashing Magisk, confused which method can fix my device - No Recovery (bootloop even holding volume+) - Can boot to Fastboot but after connect to PC it's rebooting instead connected on fastboot can somebody help me ASAP Click to expand... Click to collapse Can you get it to stop at fastboot, and stop rebooting over and over? Like, when it first powers down (black screen), before it starts to come back up, hold power and volume down, and boot to the fastboot screen. It should stick. From there you can flash stock ROM. You might need to only flash stock boot.img, but when that's happened to me, I flashed the whole thing
beachfl said: Can you get it to stop at fastboot, and stop rebooting over and over? Like, when it first powers down (black screen), before it starts to come back up, hold power and volume down, and boot to the fastboot screen. It should stick. From there you can flash stock ROM. You might need to only flash stock boot.img, but when that's happened to me, I flashed the whole thing Click to expand... Click to collapse Get some info from youtube it seems this laptop fail to detect/install adb/fastboot driver,, then my Device go to charging mode and ended up bootloop instead of charging. (because if i let the phone itself, without connecting to Laptop. . .it's rock solid on Fastboot mode) Still try to get other PC/Laptop, seems current available one has a messy Windows. . . When i execute "fastboot devices" on cmd,, pop-out error api-crt-. . . .- l1.1.0.dll missing Try installing vc_redist failed to execute MSU
crazyfox21 said: My Redmi Note 8 Pro has bricked after flashing Magisk, confused which method can fix my device - No Recovery (bootloop even holding volume+) - Can boot to Fastboot but after connect to PC it's rebooting instead connected on fastboot can somebody help me ASAP Click to expand... Click to collapse So Sad, was stuck in the same situation tried 100 of methods but all in vain, in the end had to send my device to customer care center & received after 15 days without charges
I use to flash rom`s when i was younger phones and tablets and never had a brick, I am glad it`s out of my system, Anyway the 8pro works fine for me as a non-gamer as it seem to be very risky to flash. Good luck getting your problem solved.
crazyfox21 said: My Redmi Note 8 Pro has bricked after flashing Magisk, confused which method can fix my device - No Recovery (bootloop even holding volume+) - Can boot to Fastboot but after connect to PC it's rebooting instead connected on fastboot can somebody help me ASAP Click to expand... Click to collapse crazyfox21 said: Get some info from youtube it seems this laptop fail to detect/install adb/fastboot driver,, then my Device go to charging mode and ended up bootloop instead of charging. (because if i let the phone itself, without connecting to Laptop. . .it's rock solid on Fastboot mode) Still try to get other PC/Laptop, seems current available one has a messy Windows. . . When i execute "fastboot devices" on cmd,, pop-out error api-crt-. . . .- l1.1.0.dll missing Try installing vc_redist failed to execute MSU Click to expand... Click to collapse Greetings, First thing I would do is grab the latest version of ADB/Fastboot, uninstall previous version and reinstall it on your Laptop as Admin, turn off your Anti-virus anti-spyware, optimization program or whatever app you may have running on your Laptop and which could prevent system modification, then run it as Admin. If during installation you are poped with installing more things like MS or google's libraries and such, install them. You may also try to reboot your phone to fastboot while already being connected to computer which may prevent it to boot to the charging page. If you manage to get fastboot stable enough when connected and if you have no done already, you may want to proceed with reading the [GUIDE][INFO][PSA] Redmi Note 8 Pro - Megathread + CFW and applying the anti-brick solution before flashing anything else like a recovery again. Assuming you have not damaged anything else, to recovery from a Magisk installation failure you may only need to flash the boot.img from your exact same Stock image you were on. If that does not suffice, flashing additionally system and userdata (all data will be lost) should fix it. Hope this helps, Good Luck! PS: I am assuming your bootloader is unlocked right?
[SOLVED] Sorry for late update. . . Just like i mention above, cause of laptop that i borrowed so messy. . .its anti-core thing won't allow adb/fastboot connection (that's why, my device suddenly disconected and going to charging mode) *as soon as i go to nearest net-cafe, i can do fastboot thing (Re-flash stock boot.img and TWRP) and my phone booted up normally ?? Edit : my false because i'm forget to close AVB before flashing Magisk
crazyfox21 said: [SOLVED] Sorry for late update. . . Just like i mention above, cause of laptop that i borrowed so messy. . .its anti-core thing won't allow adb/fastboot connection (that's why, my device suddenly disconected and going to charging mode) *as soon as i go to nearest net-cafe, i can do fastboot thing (Re-flash stock boot.img and TWRP) and my phone booted up normally ? Edit : my false because i'm forget to close AVB before flashing Magisk Click to expand... Click to collapse So glad you could fix it and make it work in the end! That's all what matters! You can now mark your thread as "[SOLVED]" by editing original message tittle Cheers!
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