Hi!
Sorry for piggybacking this question.
I am newbie to this phone and, while I have tried to do all this in the past, never went over the parlance understanding.
My objective is to be able to do nandroid backups, so I understand that I need to get TWRP working on the phone. And for that, I need to unlock the bootloader.
I have searched here and there for how to do the unlocking, and found
A)
I was sent to:
https://en.miui.com/unlock/
I registered and account but was unable to pass the page after login - pure chinese, and google translate did not provide any translation...
so, deadend
B)
I was sent to:
en.miui.com
Instructions are
- download
http://miuirom.xiaomi.com/rom/u1106245679/3.5.1108.44/miflash_unlock-en-3.5.1108.44.zip to pc
- Shut down your phone manually, and hold Volume down key and Power button to enter Fastboot mode;
- Step 3. Connect your phone to PC using USB cable and click "Unlock".
and redirects to FAQ in
https://c.mi.com/thread-2262302-1-0.html
There it says:
You don't have to fill in any application form or wait for the SMS anymore. Log in and head towards
https://en.miui.com/unlock/ Download the Mi Unlock Tool (picture above) from the site and proceed to unlock. A waiting period and instruction will then be displayed in Mi Unlock Tool.
Use your phone actively during the waiting period.
(note that as per A, the url does not work....)
I have not tried this way yet....
Besides, someone had problems with some versions of the unlocker, and recommended using previous versions (see
https://xiaomi.eu/community/threads/unlock-bootloader-chinese-error.50636/ )
C)
Perhaps I did not understand well, but looks that the phone includes a way to unlock the bootloader. But the message would intructions that I did not undertstand and required to make a factory reset (?!)
So, I need help, please!
My current ROM is the one it come with the phone (or whatever was OTA updated): 11.0.3 PGGEUXM
QUESTIONS?
1- To unlock the bootloader, should I
- register mi account (done)
- set up mi account in the phone (done)
- donwload
http://miuirom.xiaomi.com/rom/u1106245679/3.5.1108.44/miflash_unlock-en-3.5.1108.44.zip
- Shut down your phone manually, and hold Volume down key and Power button to enter Fastboot mode;
- Connect your phone to PC using USB cable and click "Unlock"
2 - Would this delete phone contents? Is this implying a factory reset?
3 - Unlocking must be done before changing the ROM? Do I need to be in an specific ROM to do the unlocking?
4 - unlocking has any degree of bricking risk?
TIA!
GW