Hi guys, I’m actually facing a little trouble around here, im trying unlock the bootloader of my redmi note 7 pro. But the latest xiaomi unlock tool doesn’t recognize it, is there something to do with port. Im using windows for this, the laptop detects the mobile but the xiaomi application won’t. Any suggestion or have anyone faced similar issue with any other xiaomi device.
Is this your first time unlocking/flashing a device? If it is, I would recommend first looking into installing the android adb tools, sometimes you can find minimal installs, then turning your phone in boot mode and trying to comunicate with it. This is usually done with the terminal and after you send a specific command the phone should reply with its identifier (i dont remember the specifics). Once you can communicate with the device this means the drivers you need are installed properly and you should be able to see your phone in the xiaomi application (or unlock the bootloader directly from the terminal).
All of this assumes you got the unlock code from the xiaomi site (which ofently does not work) but there are some shady programs around to bypass this step.
Actually i was using linux for years but had to switch to windows for research analysis software purpose. In that i used to have adb to remove google and other bloatware applications. Though its not permanent atleast they don’t run either. Right In the windows too i have installed the adb. If so like you are saying that we can unlock bootloader without xiaomi then it really great thing. But i hope I don’t brick my phone in the process, though its old phone i still use to avoid overuse of my current phone.
Could you specify what you’re trying to do?
How does this apply here? OP wants to unlock their bootloader
I wanted to unlock bootloader in my redmi note 7 pro so that i can boot lineage os. But to unlock it i need to use miui account and xiaomi unlock tool application in pc. So in that process my device should be recognized by the application while its in fastboot but the application doesn’t detect it. Yet the laptop detected my phone but not the application did not. That’s the problem here. Got it? Just like the xy problem.
Did you also installed the drivers? It took me some time to learn that your computer may see the phone in regular mode (accessing content) but not when you turn it on recovery mode / boot mode and this requires additional drivers.
I think i should look into that part. I actually used usb type c port but i tried with usual usb port too. But the result were same, may be this time i will try to share if anything weng alright.
I think you may be missing some drivers, you can install them from here.
Thanks for sharing, this may come in handy.
I have a xiaomi pad and also want to unlock the bootloader.
It seems that Xiaomi allow a limited number of token to unlock the bootloader each days at 00:00 China time.
Well… I tried 2 times, and I also tried scripts python to execute the requesy 4 times : 00:00:100 00:00:200 00:00:400 00:00:500
And that didn’t work. Son f*ck xiaomi. I’ll try again later when I got more time to kill.
Depending on the device, an older version of the Xiaomi app used to request unlocking might work better for getting past the “try at midnight” restriction.
Since im not familiar with python scripts i couldn’t dare, but only rely on official line. I see two other comments mentioned on drivers may be i should give a shot after fixing it.
As far as I know Xiaomi stopped letting unlock the bootloader even for older devices, so you’re out of luck I’m afraid.
I think they might not have stopped completely, but it seems they let very few devices to unlock like 10 per day. But if that’s the case, then they give no choice but to show a freshly roll out middle finger.
Well, they already made it very hard. Their account requires a phone number. You have to use their community app to appeal for an unlock request, and it only works at a certain time on a day. If it didn’t work at the first try, you have to wait for 10 days (this part could be different, 7 or 14 don’t exactly remember). Also. it never works at your first try anyway. They limited the unlock count per account, 3 per year, then they dropped it to 1 per year. Last time I heard it was impossible to unlock older devices because they shut down their server. So the very restricted version of unlocking appeal only works for HyperOS versions I think, so if you have MIUI it’s not possible anymore.
Oh damn, haha i lost the tiny bit of positivity in me.
Sorry about this. It happened to me with a Huawei phone in the past. I wanted to unlock its bootloader but their server was shut down and it was not possible anymore. Since that day, the first thing I do with a phone is unlocking its bootloader even though there isn’t a ROM to install yet.
Thats a good thing, it seems u got used to it.
Well, you can say that is an experience.
By the way, this won’t help for your current case but I suggest to track this page for your possible future phones. I know I never gonna buy Xiaomi again.
Clean your phone’s port. This is not a joke advice, but over long time use the port can get filled with all sort of gunk.
Sounds odd, but will give it a try too. Thanks for the device.
