Flashed latest miui8 on helium and now no recovery - Xiaomi Mi Max Questions & Answers

Hello i have flashed the latest miui8 8.1.6.0 global firmware on my Mi Max Helium.
Everything works fine except for the recovery.
If i try to boot into recovery mode, there is a picture to connect the phone on the xiaomi pc suite.
I have tried multiple times to flash twrp with the miflash tool saying success. Tried in edl and fastboot mode without success.
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valerio.tosti said:
Hello i have flashed the latest miui8 8.1.6.0 global firmware on my Mi Max Helium.
Everything works fine except for the recovery.
If i try to boot into recovery mode, there is a picture to connect the phone on the xiaomi pc suite.
I have tried multiple times to flash twrp with the miflash tool saying success. Tried in edl and fastboot mode without success.
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That's because there is no recovery for these roms on stock mui 8.
Try this soulotion to install twrp.
How to install TWRP on Mi Max:
Needed:
1. Mi Max with Unlocked Bootloader : http://en.miui.com/unlock/
2. Download USB ADB Drivers : http://adbdriver.com/
3. Extract the Minimal ADB Fastboot : https://androiddatahost.com/789ju
4. Download TWRP v3.0.2-0 for Mi Max : https://dl.twrp.me/hydrogen/twrp-3.0...rogen.img.html
5. Windows computer
6. USB Cable.
Let us begin:
1. Install USB ADB Drivers : Computer - phone.
2. Extract the Minimal ADB Fastboot files, example (adb folder)
3. Rename the twrp-3.0.2-0-hydrogen.img file into twrp.img.
4. Copy twrp.img file into the same folder as all extracted fastboot files (abd folder).
Install:
1. On your computer, Windows Explorer, go to the folder (adb) twrp.img.
2. Press and hold Shift button on your keyboard and right-click.
3. Open command window from here.
4. Reboot your Mi Max into Fastboot mode (reboot Power button + Volume Down (-) simultaneously seen Mi Bunny with Fastboot logo.
5. Conect your phone use USB cable
6. following command in the command prompt (CMD)
- fastboot devices
- fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
- fastboot boot twrp.img
Mi Max reboots successfully
Next time press Volume Up (+) and Power buttons simultaneously.
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Ok thank you. Waiting on xiaomi for unlocking bootlader and i will give it a try
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Stuck with nothing but mi recovery installed

I recently reverted back to miui recovery from twrp but the mistake i made was that i also removed rom while doind it and now i am stuck mith nothing but just mi recovery installed on my phone. I intent to flash back miui into my phone and so i need some help, please.
Dishagra said:
I recently reverted back to miui recovery from twrp but the mistake i made was that i also removed rom while doind it and now i am stuck mith nothing but just mi recovery installed on my phone. I intent to flash back miui into my phone and so i need some help, please.
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Try sideloading via ADB
RajGopi said:
Try sideloading via ADB
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well can you help me do that , i'm not a pro at these things.
Dishagra said:
well can you help me do that , i'm not a pro at these things.
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Download n install ADB n fastboot drivers on your windows PC
After installing restart pc once n follow below procedure
Download .img file of TWRP recovery
Flash it in fastboot mode
Place the .img file in C:\users:\xxxx folder
Power off redmi n start it in fastboot mode
Press power+volume down button simultaneously n leave buttons when you see Mi logo
Connect to PC
Now open command prompt n run this following command
fastboot flash recovery <filename>.img
Now pull out the battery n start in recovery mode
Power+volume up simultaneously till you see Mi logo n release buttons
If it is TWRP then you are good to go
Place the rom in users folder
Goto advanced section in TWRP n there you will find option to ADB
Select it n connect phone to PC
Open command prompt n run this command
adb sideload <filename>.zip
It takes a while n if that succeeds then you will be fine
Press thanks if helped
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Dishagra said:
well can you help me do that , i'm not a pro at these things.
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Download n install ADB n fastboot drivers on your windows PC
After installing restart pc once n follow below procedure
Download .img file of TWRP recovery
Flash it in fastboot mode
Place the .img file in C:\users:\xxxx folder
Power off redmi n start it in fastboot mode
Press power+volume down button simultaneously n leave buttons when you see Mi logo
Connect to PC
Now open command prompt n run this following command
fastboot flash recovery <filename>.img
Now pull out the battery n start in recovery mode
Power+volume up simultaneously till you see Mi logo n release buttons
If it is TWRP then you are good to go
Place the rom in users folder
Goto advanced section in TWRP n there you will find option to ADB
Select it n connect phone to PC
Open command prompt n run this command
adb sideload <filename>.zip
File name is name of rom
It takes a while n if that succeeds then you will be fine
Press thanks if helped

Unbrick your redmi 1s easily [custom recoveries also included]

HoLA!
If you are here then you have probably bricked your redmi 1s
You need not worry about it. :good:
Just follow the steps mentioned below:
1) Download the adb.rar from the attachment.
2)Connect your brick to your computer using the usb and wait for the drivers to get installed.
3)Extract the adb.rar wherever you want.
|---------For flashing stock mi recovery copy the recovery.img from miRecovery folder to minimal adb and fastboot folder
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|---------For flashing TWRP recovery copy the recovery.img from TWRP folder to minimal adb and fastboot folder
5)Open minimal adb and fastboot folder and click on MAF.
6)A terminal window will open and then type "fastboot flash recovery twrp.img" (If you have copied twrp) or "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" (If you have copied mi stock recovery)
7)The installation will be done and then type reboot-bootloader or just remove the battery and long press volup+power button to boot into recovery.
8) To flash rom and custom kernel(optional) then follow this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/red...rmance-ram-t3131851/post61500479#post61500479
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For flashing official MIUI ROM you need official mi recovery and for developer miui and other custom rom you can use twrp.
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Letv 1 pro US install Twrp !

hey
i need any one help me to install Twrp in Letv 1 pro US version ... Thanks
This is how I did it.
susbiction said:
hey
i need any one help me to install Twrp in Letv 1 pro US version ... Thanks
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Files required to Root and Install Custom Recovery on Letv Le 1 Pro –
1. Download ADB and fastboot driver for windows or ADB and Fastboot for Mac and install it on your PC. This will also install your device driver.
2. Download TWRP 3.0 Recovery for Letv Le 1 Pro.
3. Download SuperSu to root Letv Le 1 Pro and copy it to your phone sd card.
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Steps to Root and Install TWRP Recovery on Letv Le 1 Pro –
1) First, enable ‘USB debugging’ option from setting>developer option>. To enable Developer Options, go to About phone and tap the Build Number 7 times.
2) Download TWRP 3.0.0 for Letv Le 1 Pro from above and place it in the folder where ADB installed and rename it to ‘recovery.img’. Now you can Root and Install TWRP Recovery on Letv Le 1 Pro via fastboot method.
3) Now go to installation directory open ADB folder and open the command window thereby pressing and hold the ‘shift’ key and right-clicked anywhere in that folder.
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type adb command:
adb reboot bootloader (phone will reboot)
fastboot devices ( to check that device connection)
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img (flash twrp)
fastboot reboot (right away - continuously press "volumn up button" until boot to twrp recovery. or you it won't work)
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- After reboot into twrp, install supersu.zip to root your phone.
Good luck
ThaiDude said:
Files required to Root and Install Custom Recovery on Letv Le 1 Pro –
1. Download ADB and fastboot driver for windows or ADB and Fastboot for Mac and install it on your PC. This will also install your device driver.
2. Download TWRP 3.0 Recovery for Letv Le 1 Pro.
3. Download SuperSu to root Letv Le 1 Pro and copy it to your phone sd card.
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Steps to Root and Install TWRP Recovery on Letv Le 1 Pro –
1) First, enable ‘USB debugging’ option from setting>developer option>. To enable Developer Options, go to About phone and tap the Build Number 7 times.
2) Download TWRP 3.0.0 for Letv Le 1 Pro from above and place it in the folder where ADB installed and rename it to ‘recovery.img’. Now you can Root and Install TWRP Recovery on Letv Le 1 Pro via fastboot method.
3) Now go to installation directory open ADB folder and open the command window thereby pressing and hold the ‘shift’ key and right-clicked anywhere in that folder.
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type adb command:
adb reboot bootloader (phone will reboot)
fastboot devices ( to check that device connection)
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img (flash twrp)
fastboot reboot (right away - continuously press "volumn up button" until boot to twrp recovery. or you it won't work)
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- After reboot into twrp, install supersu.zip to root your phone.
Good luck
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i updated to 5.8. now i cant enter fast boot. actually i can but few seconds later automatically exit from fastboot. i guess its locked after 5.8. how can i flash twrp now?
THank you
fuat.meydan said:
i updated to 5.8. now i cant enter fast boot. actually i can but few seconds later automatically exit from fastboot. i guess its locked after 5.8. how can i flash twrp now?
THank you
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Try this guide by DerTech99
What i do need?
1.Usb Cable
2.The Zip File
Guide:
1.Download the zip and extract it!
2.Install the minimal fastboot and adb when you dont have it! (is included)
3.Copy the Stockrecovery.img to where you have fastboot installed!
4.Turn your phone off but be fast!
5.Press "Power + Volume down" for 5 Sec until the pinguin shows up!
6.And connect fast the usb cable to the phone good!
7.Then give followed commands in "Fastboot devices"
8.When your phone do show up yes? then your ready to rock
9.Type followed command in "Fastboot flash recovery Stockrecovery.img"
10.When its done type "Fastboot reboot"
11.Disconnect your usb cable and youre are done!
12.Enjoy!
P.S After that you can flash TWRP i put in the zip the latest file!

My device keeps booting into recovery

I installed MIUI latest beta update this morning. After it finished the installation, it opened recovery. I turned it off keeping finger on power button for 10 seconds and it opened recovery. What I should do? Volume up button doesn`t work and neither I can`t start bootloader.
DarkWarrior12345 said:
I installed MIUI latest beta update this morning. After it finished the installation, it opened recovery. I turned it off keeping finger on power button for 10 seconds and it opened recovery. What I should do? Volume up button doesn`t work and neither I can`t start booadetlor.
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Volume down dan Power button work or not ?
I "assume" volume down and power buttons work as well.
Download the file below :
1. Download your MIUI latest beta update.
2. Download PitchBlack Recovery : https://sourceforge.net/projects/pitchblack-twrp/files/whyred/
3. Download Platform-tools : https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools
4. Download dummy.img : https://forum.xda-developers.com/redmi-note-5-pro/how-to/index-everything-anti-roll-t3816219
Here we go.
1. Extract Platform-tools, PitchBlack Recovery, and dummy.img
2. Rename recovery.img from PitchBlack Recovery folder to rr.img
3. Copy paste rr.img and dummy.img to Platform-tools folders.
Connect your phone (bootloader mode), open cmd from Platform-tools folders, you can opened from path or shift + right click -> Open command window here
type :
fastboot devices -> check your device connected or not. if connected, serial number will showed.
fastboot flash antirbpass dummy.img
fastboot flash recovery rr.img
fastboot boot rr.img
===== Your phone will boot to recovery ====
Now, transfer your MIUI latest beta update from pc.
Wipe your phone (except user data or backup just in case), and flash.

[SOLVED] Mi flash error (Length cannot be less than zero)

Hi everyone;
I'm on MIUI11 hybridOS now, and want to get back to the stock rom.
My bootloader is unlocked (by "fastboot oem unlock" command), the drivers are installed on my PC, I'm using mi flash tool 20191206 (i think it's the latest version), i copied mi flash on drive C, and there is no space in the directory of the rom, and i run mi flash as administrator;
but when i connect my phone (in the bootloader mode) to the computer, mi flash doesn't detect it and shows the error "Length cannot be less than zero. Parameter name: length"
Even i tried EDL mode, when in fastboot mode typed "fastboot oem edl", but after that the phone turns off and led light blinks and nothing happens and PC doesn't detect the phone, then i have to restart it by holding the power button.
Could anyone help me?
Thank you
pourya_fa said:
Hi everyone;
I'm on MIUI11 hybridOS now, and want to get back to the stock rom.
My bootloader is unlocked (by "fastboot oem unlock" command), the drivers are installed on my PC, I'm using mi flash tool 20191206 (i think it's the latest version), i copied mi flash on drive C, and there is no space in the directory of the rom, and i run mi flash as administrator;
but when i connect my phone (in the bootloader mode) to the computer, mi flash doesn't detect it and shows the error "Length cannot be less than zero. Parameter name: length"
Even i tried EDL mode, when in fastboot mode typed "fastboot oem edl", but after that the phone turns off and led light blinks and nothing happens and PC doesn't detect the phone, then i have to restart it by holding the power button.
Could anyone help me?
Thank you
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Pleaaaase! Anybody can help me??
You need to be in fastboot mode for miflash. Xiaomi geek has instructions.
bonzoe said:
You need to be in fastboot mode for miflash. Xiaomi geek has instructions.
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I am in fastboot mode, however it doesn't detect my phone
The alternative way! (My solution )
Finally I found a way to flash my phone without Mi flash tool!
It's so simple,
You boot into fastboot mode and connect the phone to your PC, in the ROM folder (after extracting) there are some files in .bat format (flash_all.bat , flash_all_lock.bat , etc), you just need to double click the appropriate file to run and flash your phone! No need to Mi flash tool!
The Mi flash tool provides the drivers and then basically does what you have done (as I read Xaiomi geek)
bonzoe said:
The Mi flash tool provides the drivers and then basically does what you have done (as I read Xaiomi geek)
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Yea you're right, but despite i installed the drivers it gave me the error, so i installed the rom manually!
For fastboot oem edl , you need to have installed Qualcomm drivers, and if u are in miui is more safe edl mode, that is why mi flash don't flash the rom.
Os_Herdz said:
For fastboot oem edl , you need to have installed Qualcomm drivers, and if u are in miui is more safe edl mode, that is why mi flash don't flash the rom.
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Thank you so much
I'll try it next time
pourya_fa said:
The alternative way! (My solution )
Finally I found a way to flash my phone without Mi flash tool!
It's so simple,
You boot into fastboot mode and connect the phone to your PC, in the ROM folder (after extracting) there are some files in .bat format (flash_all.bat , flash_all_lock.bat , etc), you just need to double click the appropriate file to run and flash your phone! No need to Mi flash toSounds
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pourya_fa said:
Hi everyone;
I'm on MIUI11 hybridOS now, and want to get back to the stock rom.
My bootloader is unlocked (by "fastboot oem unlock" command), the drivers are installed on my PC, I'm using mi flash tool 20191206 (i think it's the latest version), i copied mi flash on drive C, and there is no space in the directory of the rom, and i run mi flash as administrator;
but when i connect my phone (in the bootloader mode) to the computer, mi flash doesn't detect it and shows the error "Length cannot be less than zero. Parameter name: length"
Even i tried EDL mode, when in fastboot mode typed "fastboot oem edl", but after that the phone turns off and led light blinks and nothing happens and PC doesn't detect the phone, then i have to restart it by holding the power button.
Could anyone help me?
Thank you
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The same problem!!!
Os_Herdz said:
For fastboot oem edl , you need to have installed Qualcomm drivers, and if u are in miui is more safe edl mode, that is why mi flash don't flash the rom.
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But how to solve it? I think I have installed drivers both by pressing Drivers button in Mi Flash and separately.
pourya_fa said:
The alternative way! (My solution )
Finally I found a way to flash my phone without Mi flash tool!
It's so simple,
You boot into fastboot mode and connect the phone to your PC, in the ROM folder (after extracting) there are some files in .bat format (flash_all.bat , flash_all_lock.bat , etc), you just need to double click the appropriate file to run and flash your phone! No need to Mi flash tool!
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I want to try this and manually have found both the .bat files for Windows and .sh files of the same name for Android, but I need to know, from which location of them did you flash the phone: I have downloaded stock ROMs both on my phone SD card and on my PC, both in zip and unzipped. Even with developer mode unlocked, the update function from Settings sees only zipped versions on SD, but only tries to get file info and stops. Tapping on either bat or sh files in the phone's File Explorer opens them for reading as text files instead of executing either. In fastboot mode, the phone attached over usb to my laptop is reflected in Device Manager of Windows as Android Adb Device, if I remember correctly, but no files on it are visible in computer's File Explorer or Total Commander or MiFlash or MiPCsuite, the latter in usual work mode of the smartphone shows its internal memory folders all right, but not the SD as such in its File Explorer, though it opens the phone's media, set to be stored on the SD. The original problem is that despite storage of media and downloads on the external SD card and use of CleanMaster frequently, even after deinstallation of all external apps my Redmi says it has only up to 23 mb of disk space. I was recommended resetting to factory settings, but this function says if fails to switch off device search even after I log out of my Mi account and switch off Google device search as an administrator in Privacy settings. I then tried Recovery button in MiPCsuite,, but it did not work, requiring to back up the device on the PC , but saying backup is impossible when I press its Backup button, and Update\Flash buttons on the suite don't give any results either, as update says there are no updates, which is false. Redmi 3, if it is necessary to know, xiaomi.eu , never changed. So my question is, where from did you flash your phone? Where were the ROM\bat files? On th phone or computer?
pourya_fa said:
The alternative way! (My solution )
Finally I found a way to flash my phone without Mi flash tool!
It's so simple,
You boot into fastboot mode and connect the phone to your PC, in the ROM folder (after extracting) there are some files in .bat format (flash_all.bat , flash_all_lock.bat , etc), you just need to double click the appropriate file to run and flash your phone! No need to Mi flash tool!
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Please, please, I want a video, because of the shoes, the same problem mentioned above and it has not been solved so far

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