Hi all,
I am hoping to get some help from you all. My son owns Redmi Nore 8 Pro 6/128 purchased from online mi shop here in UK (I have a proof of purchase if needed). Recently it started playing around with some apps and I decided to Factory Reset it. He created a mi account and of course forgot the password. Knowing little about Redmi's security measures I decided to wipe it from the recovery level (remembered some basic stuff from my time when I was flashing my Xperia Arc). Unfortunately the phone now boots into a lock screen on wehich I am stuck. Here is what I ahve tried:
1. Reset password on mi cloud, used the new password to unlocke the phone but the phone is not accepting it
2. Removed Note 8 Pro from mi cloud, wipe it again - still not accepting the password and showing the locked screen,
3. I used the recovery code on i.mi.com but I ahve note heard back from anyone for a wekk now.
Regards
michalcieslik said:
Hi all,
I am hoping to get some help from you all. My son owns Redmi Nore 8 Pro 6/128 purchased from online mi shop here in UK (I have a proof of purchase if needed). Recently it started playing around with some apps and I decided to Factory Reset it. He created a mi account and of course forgot the password. Knowing little about Redmi's security measures I decided to wipe it from the recovery level (remembered some basic stuff from my time when I was flashing my Xperia Arc). Unfortunately the phone now boots into a lock screen on wehich I am stuck. Here is what I ahve tried:
1. Reset password on mi cloud, used the new password to unlocke the phone but the phone is not accepting it
2. Removed Note 8 Pro from mi cloud, wipe it again - still not accepting the password and showing the locked screen,
3. I used the recovery code on i.mi.com but I ahve note heard back from anyone for a wekk now.
Regards
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You need to choose option 2 and connect your wifi. Then use option 1 to login your Xiaomi account.
If everything you did and nothing change, you can start thinking about using custom rom (Even if your device still in lock status, just need for more skill)
You can also buy/hire to bypass Mi Account from shop. But Miui version can't be change or update or reset,... Or else it will be locked again
You can skip the hassle and custom rom it just unlock the bootloader from mtk bootloader unlock flash a custom twrp recovery from fastboot and install a rom, much debloated than stock anyways. I recommend crdroid by timjosten if you still would like stock reply and maybe we can figure out a solution
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After spending almost half a day trying to get my new Xiaomi Max into a usable state, I thought I'd share my findings for anyone else stuck in the same situation.
I recently bought a used Xiaomi Max from Taobao, the Chinese equivalent of Amazon. Things were going well until MiOS decided to update itself, and the phone rebooted only to say that this phone had been associated with a previous Xiaomi account and prompted me for the password. Of course, I had no idea what the previous password was, and the phone was stuck on setup until the correct password was entered just like when you setup a Google phone in China.
Since most Google servers are blocked by the Great Firewall of China, Google services will just keep saying "No Internet detected" and won't let you use the phone until some nice person decides to send you the address to a foreign proxy server that hasn't been blocked yet since VPNs don't work until *after* you can install them on the phone. Xiaomi phones apparently have the same thing, except that you have to track down whoever previously used this phone to register a Xiaomi account.
I tried a hard reset with the same result. Flashed a new Xiaomi ROM with the same result. Xiaomi locks the bootloader Apple-style to prevent anyone from using stolen phones. It also does a great job of preventing anyone from selling their phone or giving it to a friend. The locked bootloader prevented me from using fastboot to erase anything or install anything. Google provided a plethora of answers, all of which did absolutely nothing. Apparently, Xiaomi has fixed all of the security holes which were previously used to fix this problem. Good for them; bad for us.
Finally, I noticed that the Chinese and International MiOS had different recovery systems. Since this was being changed by the MiFlash program, it could only mean that somehow, MiFlash was capable of flashing system partitions even with a locked bootloader.
I downloaded TWRP, renamed it to recovery.img in the MiOS ROM, changed the MD5 checksum in the XML file, and gave the phone one more flash. The next time that it rebooted into recovery mode, I was staring at the TWRP logo instead of the Xiaomi recovery screen. From here, I could format /data to F2FS to gain the full 32GiB of space that the phone came with, install LineageOS, install Psiphon for a VPN, and then finally use TWRP to install OpenGApps. Voila! I had a fully usable phone without having to contact Xiaomi to unlock the bootloader, installing any strange Chinese software, or selling my firstborn child to Qualcomm.
I'd like to say that this method could probably be used on other Xiaomi phones as well, but considering that I have no other Xiaomi phones to test, I'll have to leave that task to the brave souls here in the forums. In any case, I hope that this will be of help to at least one other person and save them a couple of hours of trial and error as I have endured.
oh,please tell me which xml you modified with md5?
Hey there,
Sorry for the delay. I live in China currently, and it takes a VPN to get XDA to load correctly.
I can't remember the name of the XML file off the top of my head, but it was in the root directory of the ROM and contained all of the filenames as well as their MD5 values. All you have to do is to replace recovery.img's MD5 with TWRP's MD5 and you should be able to flash without any problems. Just make sure that you boot directly to recovery, otherwise the normal OS can detect that recovery has changed and flash the original recovery.
Please help me, I brought a Xiomi Max 2, from a second hand, when i started the phone it askes from its previously mi account, but the guy that sold me it, doent answer my e-mails anymore, what could i do?
The previous owner activated device protection, so you're locked out of the phone until he releases it. You'll have to install a custom ROM instead of MiUI to be able to use the phone.
If you made a credit card to purchase the phone, make sure that you submit a request to get your money back. There are too many scammers who steal and resell phones around here.
Just tried with mi6 glob 7.12,
and twrp 3.2.1 and changed md5sum.xml
but showing "the system has been destroyed"
Tried doing this one on Redmi Note 4/4X (Snapdragon). Flashed MIUI 10.2.3 Global Stable with TWRP 3.3.1-0. Replaced the stock recovery.img with the TWRP one and then replaced md5 in the md5sum. Power Button+Volume Up only shows a blank screen after Mi logo shows up. Tried to go on with the initial setup then boot into recovery via adb but only sent me back to stock recovery
Hello,
Couple of months back I purchased a Mi Note 5 Pro (4GB/64GB) for my mother. Being a senior citizen, as expected, the phone ended up messed up (softwarely) within a month or so. I tried to clean things but found she fell victim to so much fishing that phone was running dead slow and full of bloatware !!
So went for a factory reset (bone stock MiUi Indian 9.5.xx) to start fresh and there was the surprise. Phone is stuck at setup screen as it is asking for Mi Account credential. My mother is unable to remember what she has done with this Mi Account thing so I am unable to enter any details.
I have tried to do a hard reset but there too the same.
How do I get around this issue ?
Anyway I can clean flash MiUi Firmware to erase this and bring the device back to normal ? I did some Searching and a third party website suggesting a very complicated solution for this same issue, here is the link, not sure if that is the right way to try.
Any help ?
Thanks.
Try formatting internal and then flash a rom.
m666p said:
Try formatting internal and then flash a rom.
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How do I do that via stock recovery?
Kindly note, I am with bone stock phone and stuck at setup screen !!
Damn, try this
Hi guys,
I am going to sell my RN5. Currently is Xiaomi.eu ROM installed.
I took now my old RN4 from the box and flashed MIUI 10. I had to log in into my account, so I can use the phone.
At this time it's not a big deal, since I will use the phone, BUT...
Wenn I reset the RN5, I guess I will get the same notification, right?
If so, how can I get rid of that message?
I would wipe it anyways so wiping data is okay for me.
Is it enough to delete the phone in i.mi.com? Or do I have to do something else too?
Thanks!
having multiple devices on one mi account is allowed but you cannot just flash miui10 over miui 8 with different mi account on mi8. you should have logged out mi cloud.
now what seems to be right is to flash fasboot rom over the device in order to wipe all
make sure you don't check " wipe all and lock" in mi flasher as it will LOCK your bootloader
YasuHamed said:
having multiple devices on one mi account is allowed but you cannot just flash miui10 over miui 8 with different mi account on mi8. you should have logged out mi cloud.
now what seems to be right is to flash fasboot rom over the device in order to wipe all
make sure you don't check " wipe all and lock" in mi flasher as it will LOCK your bootloader
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That means, that I can not just log out of my Mi-Account, delete Phone on i.mi.com, wipe everything (incl. Data) via TWRP and flash Xiaomi.eu rom?
I managed to do it. Info for other people:
Disable find device on phone, log off your phone, wipe all via twrp and thats it!
Hi,
can't manage to find a solution...
device bootloader is locked (can't unlock it since I don't have an access to the device settings and its after a full wipe - when I try to choose region when setting the device for the first time - I can choose only china - and then the loop starts.)
Its a chineese device which I managed to put a fresh global rom on without unlocking about two years ago, the problem started after a wipe of the device.
any help?
You need to test point flash, or have a Mi Home store in HK or China force an unlocked bootloader on it. Installing global over chinese rom without wiping tends to cause this - had it happen to mine, and test point flash wasn't an option due to special edition solid ceramic, so Mi Home store in HK was thankfully able to help.
Have you physically went there or asked via email or something? I don't want to break the device trying to remove the back panel
do u find any real solution ?
Hello everyone! I hope someone here will be able to help me.
I purchased a new Mi Mix 2 in 2018, and last year I decided to upgrade its ROM to LineageOS. I changed ROMs in the past on other phones so I felt familiar with the process, but this time I made a mistake, and wiped the phone from the stock recovery BEFORE logging out of my old MI account. On restart, the phone now asks me for the account password to proceed.
Unfortunately I don't have access to the Mi account anymore. In fact, I only activated it once with a dummy email, so that MIUI would not bother me every time, and then forgot about it. I did not expect it to still be there after a phone reset.
Now, the login screen on the phone doesn't even give me complete information on which email (or Mi account number) it is set on, so I have no way to trace those back and try to reset the access credentials.
I don't know where that account data is stored on the phone, I wonder if it can be reset somehow? I am a software dev, so don't be afraid of being technical. Some sources I found say it is in a sort of separate partition, but I am afraid it could be in the on-chip keystore instead? Furthermore, I found out about the EDL mode on Qualcomm chips, which seems to be effectively a first-stage bootloader which could be used to access the phone data. Using `fastboot oem edl` however I get a `FAILED (remote: 'Oem edl command is not allowed Lock State')` response, which is quite self-explanatory.
Has anyone tackled this situation before? Is there any hope of recovering my Mi Mix 2?
Thanks to anyone willing to give a hand