Monday, June 27, 2016

Installing twrp with locked bootloader

I found a way to install twrp on my mi max with locked bootloader using EDL mode.
NB! This will reformat the phone so you should take a backup if you got something you want to keep on the phone.
NB! DO THIS ON YOUR OWN RISK!!!

To get into EDL mode I followed thi guide:
http://ift.tt/293EDvR
I turned off the phone and pushed vol+ and connected the usb to the PC. Then I installed the qualcom drivers.

I downloaded a fastbootimage
http://ift.tt/293EqZS
I also downladed twrp:
http://ift.tt/293Etok

I used 7zip to unpack fastbootimage.
Inside I found the folder with images and a recovery.img file. I renamed twrp file to recovery.img and replaced the one in images.

I then used miflasher and flashed the fastbootimage using clean option.

After flashing I diconnected the phone from pc and rebooted into recovery "power and vol+"
Now I had TWRP and could wipe and install ROMS etc.
I installed the ROM I found here
http://ift.tt/291bQId

This was a much better ROM than the china-rom


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