Hi, i cant install global rom, always written something like -> something about older version, or cant verify. Try from chinese stable and chinese global always cant install.
I want use global rom now
after circa 60h i will unlock my device and install fastboot rom, but i want use global rom now) can anybody help me?
I have Mi Note 3, not Mi 5x but there is no forum here
Unlock bootloader then try flashing.
SOLVED: Xiaomi block install global rom on china devices (via stock recorvery) on locked bootloader, unlock and flash via stock recorvery (not twrp) global rom
Hey guys,
accidentally bought the cn version instead of the global mi8.
i just want to use custom roms on the mi8 anyways. can i flash the global firmware on it or will it brick then?
since i am not familiar with the device, what do you guys think?
i could send it back or keep it. are there any disadvantages for me using the cn version in europe (germany).
thx in advance
You must unlock bootloader first then flash any custom or global rom .
Masoud.ebi said:
You must unlock bootloader first then flash any custom or global rom .
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after unlocking bootloader, can i use the firmware from global rom or am i forced to use the cn version? will i risk a brick? hw should be the same or not? so both should be usable i guess.
After unlocking bootloader you can install and run global ROM without any issue but never ever re-lock the bootloader with global ROM installed on your CN Version otherwise it will (hard?)brick the device.
hi there
recently i bought k 20 pro phone and made some mistakes erased the systeam whic was fake global rom and now i managed to get china stable 10.3.6 install on my phone but as you can guess i want to install rapheling global rom on my phone
i used fastboot mode and miflash tool for installing 10.3.6 china stable and can i install rapheling over rapheal to or just should i need to do some pre stuff before this
i have some experiancess from past if you flash something which has different code name than your original code name your phone could get brick and i dont want that could you give me hand here please
thanks
archeuscaine said:
hi there
recently i bought k 20 pro phone and made some mistakes erased the systeam whic was fake global rom and now i managed to get china stable 10.3.6 install on my phone but as you can guess i want to install rapheling global rom on my phone
i used fastboot mode and miflash tool for installing 10.3.6 china stable and can i install rapheling over rapheal to or just should i need to do some pre stuff before this
i have some experiancess from past if you flash something which has different code name than your original code name your phone could get brick and i dont want that could you give me hand here please
thanks
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I used the flash tool to just go straight over the top of Chinese ROM, just double check you're not locking the bootloader after!!
Check and double check
Hello guys. This may sound stupid, but I don't remember if I was on global or EEA miui since the first day I unlocked my bootloader and switched to a custom aosp rom. When I realised I did have to look for it, I had already formatted data I could only assume I was on EEA because I received MIUI 11 on the first days of november, way before the global update. I have always flashed EEA vendors since then and I had no problems overall. But I would like to clarify this question once and for all. Is there a way to know, from imei or something like this, if I was on global or EEA?
and why would you really need to know if you had EEA or Global when both are almost the same?
costorektypico said:
and why would you really need to know if you had EEA or Global when both are almost the same?
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Because I've heard that cross-flashing vendors is wrong, so I would like to know if I've been wrong all the time or not But if they're the same nevermind
BetaPix said:
Because I've heard that cross-flashing vendors is wrong, so I would like to know if I've been wrong all the time or not But if they're the same nevermind
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If you've always flashed EEA without issues then continue with that. It sounds like you probably have the EEA phone.
There seems to be very little, if any, difference between EEA and Global, so it probably wouldn't make any difference which you flashed.
Cross flashing firmware and vendor isn't 'wrong', it's just that you increase slightly the potential for things to go wrong as we're not sure what differences there may exist in hardware. Although specs are identical (with the exception of missing NFC on the Indian phone) Xiaomi may have changed supplier for some components between the Chinese, Indian and EEA/Global phones. I've lumped EEA and Global together as these were released close together so probably were manufactured at the same time.
BetaPix said:
Because I've heard that cross-flashing vendors is wrong, so I would like to know if I've been wrong all the time or not But if they're the same nevermind
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My phone came with EEA and I use Global and everything is fine.
Btw I've found that on EEA there are much more bugs than on Global
costorektypico said:
My phone came with EEA and I use Global and everything is fine.
Btw I've found that on EEA there are much more bugs than on Global
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EEA and IN are most bugfull
I bought my k20pro from a person who already had flashed a Xiaomi.eu ROM on it.
1. how should i know which version its vendor and firmware are. so i could find out which version should i install before flashing an AOSP ROM?
2. does a recovery update contain firmware/vendor?
3. what is the differences between Recovery and fastboot update? i mean what does fastboot update have that recovery update lacks?
Aryamehr1366 said:
I bought my k20pro from a person who already had flashed a Xiaomi.eu ROM on it.
1. how should i know which version its vendor and firmware are. so i could find out which version should i install before flashing an AOSP ROM?
2. does a recovery update contain firmware/vendor?
3. what is the differences between Recovery and fastboot update? i mean what does fastboot update have that recovery update lacks?
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https://www.mi.com/global/verify#/en/tab/imei
Insert your IMEI and you'll see from where your product is.
costorektypico said:
https://www.mi.com/global/verify#/en/tab/imei
Insert your IMEI and you'll see from where your product is.
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Thank you
I know that my phone is Chinese version
What I don't know however is:
1. What version of vendor or firmware my phone has
2. I believe a Xiaomi.EU version Rom is installed on my phone. But i don't know if i flash last global version of vendor and firmware on my Chinese version k20pro, what would happen?
Aryamehr1366 said:
Thank you
I know that my phone is Chinese version
What I don't know however is:
1. What version of vendor or firmware my phone has
2. I believe a Xiaomi.EU version Rom is installed on my phone. But i don't know if i flash last global version of vendor and firmware on my Chinese version k20pro, what would happen?
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Are you serious? if it's K20 Pro and origin is china than there was CHINESE FIRMWARE
If you have miui.eu it has chinese vendor and firmware is from stock so obv that chinese again.
What would happen? Bootloop or bootloop into fastboot.
costorektypico said:
Are you serious? if it's K20 Pro and origin is china than there was CHINESE FIRMWARE
If you have miui.eu it has chinese vendor and firmware is from stock so obv that chinese again.
What would happen? Bootloop or bootloop into fastboot.
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oh i apologize .. i meant :
1. how should i know which version number (release/edition/date/...) of firmware and vendor my phone has?
2. it is probably chinese version i know by now. but would it be ok if i flash a last vendor/firmware release of global version?
3. would it be too harmful if i flashed an older edition of vendor/firmware by mistake? :silly:
thank you
Aryamehr1366 said:
oh i apologize .. i meant :
1. how should i know which version number (release/edition/date/...) of firmware and vendor my phone has?
2. it is probably chinese version i know by now. but would it be ok if i flash a last vendor/firmware release of global version?
3. would it be too harmful if i flashed an older edition of vendor/firmware by mistake? :silly:
thank you
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you know it by MIUI version.
Why want you to reflash vendor in first place? Do you want to hard brick it? Will it be worth?? (reflashing vendor won't brick your phone but I can clearly see that you want to play with it like with a toy so I advice you to stay with the vendor you have)
No, phone is not a person. If you flash not compatible vendor it will simply throw up or will be stuck in Fastboot until you flash correct files, but I advice you again not to test it, it's not a toy and Xiaomi phone are very easy to brick even when you do something that shouldn't brick it.
I advice you simply use stock chinese Android 9 or latest MIUI 11 Android 10 version and don't play with it.
Also, you can flash stock global, BUT DON'T RELOCK THE BOOTLOADER.
costorektypico said:
you know it by MIUI version.
Why want you to reflash vendor in first place? Do you want to hard brick it? Will it be worth?? (reflashing vendor won't brick your phone but I can clearly see that you want to play with it like with a toy so I advice you to stay with the vendor you have)
No, phone is not a person. If you flash not compatible vendor it will simply throw up or will be stuck in Fastboot until you flash correct files, but I advice you again not to test it, it's not a toy and Xiaomi phone are very easy to brick even when you do something that shouldn't brick it.
I advice you simply use stock chinese Android 9 or latest MIUI 11 Android 10 version and don't play with it.
Also, you can flash stock global, BUT DON'T RELOCK THE BOOTLOADER.
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Thank you for your effort and your advice
Ok Miui version is 11.2 Xiaomi.EU 20.2.27 I'm not sure but I don't think there is any 11.2 version for firmware/vendor.
I had Samsung and HTC Phones before. None of them had vendor partition because they weren't treble compatible
So I'd be appreciated if somebody including you my friend would tell me
1. the vendor version of my phone is 11.2 ??? If it's not, how should I know the exact version number?
2. Raphael is basically the same phone over different region except for radio frequency differential
So I could flash for example global version OR older Chinese version through TWRP (not flashing fastboot Rom by mi flash). Right?
This could be frustrating for you to answer my noob questions.I get it but I'm just worried that cross region vendor flash OR accidentally older version vendor flash could harm my beloved phone which indeed is not a toy.
Aryamehr1366 said:
Thank you for your effort and your advice
Ok Miui version is 11.2 Xiaomi.EU 20.2.27 I'm not sure but I don't think there is any 11.2 version for firmware/vendor.
I had Samsung and HTC Phones before. None of them had vendor partition because they weren't treble compatible
So I'd be appreciated if somebody including you my friend would tell me
1. the vendor version of my phone is 11.2 ??? If it's not, how should I know the exact version number?
2. Raphael is basically the same phone over different region except for radio frequency differential
So I could flash for example global version OR older Chinese version through TWRP (not flashing fastboot Rom by mi flash). Right?
This could be frustrating for you to answer my noob questions.I get it but I'm just worried that cross region vendor flash OR accidentally older version vendor flash could harm my beloved phone which indeed is not a toy.
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almost everything yes but a bit wrong.
The vendor is updated almost in every update even when it's not public stable. vendor does not have version number because, why? It's bundled with Fastboot ROM, full-ota zip or, if need, with ota zip., so. As I said, you can flash every stock ROM, Chinese, Global and EEA even via Fastboot through MiFlash but DON'T RELOCK THE BOOTLOADER, because it will hard brick. Only re-lock the bootloader with your original region.
I suggest you to clean flash through MiFlash, because it's better, you can flash whatever region you want, but don't re-lock the bootloader. That's it. You can even flash older stock ROM (CN, IN, MI, EEA) because this phone doesn't have Anti Roll-back feature.
btw you can check vendors here https://xiaomifirmwareupdater.com/vendor/
for stock rom I suggest you to use https://mirom.ezbox.idv.tw/en/phone/ there are all published (even rolled back) Recovery and Fastboot ROMs with all available regions. You don't have to disable your AdBlock like in xiaomifirmwareupdater.com
I asked @joshuah1971 on telegram. According to him, He said to check your box. you'll see a model number. ending with G: global. ending with E:eea. ending with R: russian
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Aryamehr1366 said:
I bought my k20pro from a person who already had flashed a Xiaomi.eu ROM on it.
1. how should I know which version its vendor and firmware are. so I could find out which version should I install before flashing an AOSP ROM?
2. does a recovery update contain firmware/vendor?
3. what are the differences between Recovery and fastboot update? I mean what does fastboot update have that recovery update lacks?
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If the NFC is working. you have china. else Indian (both are k20p)
1. you'll know which vendor it is from that. (i said working. not saying if some app is checking if it's enabled. ROMs enable it. but RIN can't use it cause RIN doesn't have NFC chip)
2. yes. all miui and custom miui does.
3. fastboot just erases a bit more. recovery is fine too. fastboot is just better by a bit. doesn't really matter tbh. fastboot is more thorough in wiping that's all.
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Aryamehr1366 said:
Thank you
I know that my phone is Chinese version
What I don't know however is:
1. What version of vendor or firmware my phone has
2. I believe a Xiaomi.EU version Rom is installed on my phone. But i don't know if i flash last global version of vendor and firmware on my Chinese version k20pro, what would happen?
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1. It has china vendor obviously. you can check your current vendor version in /vendor/build.prop file.
2. EU roms have modified china vendors. flashing gl vendor will just loop you back into recovery and won't boot into rom till you change back to cn vendor.
I advise you don't do that.
Hi All,
I recently purchased a new Redmi K20 Pro off a friend who by mistake bought what I believe to be a Chinese ROM phone due to opening up apps in Chinese...
I have unlocked the bootloader and am ready to progress to flashing a new rom. However, I have seen in videos and read that you need to flash the correct rom in order not to brick the device. You can create issues by not using the correct vendor rom? I'm wanting to flash a global rom in order to not have a chinese rom with Chinese apps...
What I am hoping to achieve is to flash a global or rom that is in english with google apps ready to go.
I also want to know if I will be able to lock the bootloader once I have flashed the new rom or do I not worry about locking it? I assume if I lock the bootloader, I will be able to use google pay etc?
I have searched and I am unable to find a correct guide that will work for the device I bought...
Can anybody please point me in the right direction with what I need to do in order to get my phone to a global rom where all apps are in English please?
MIUI Version - MIUI 11.0.8 Stable
11.0.8.0 (QFKCNXM)
Android Version - 10
Baseband version - 1.0.c3-59.1-0322_2
309_f9ef867
Kernel Version - 4.14.117-perf-gc8b9
843
Hardware version - V1
I've been looking and found this guide - May I confirm this will be what I need to convert to a global rom and not brick my device?
Simple Beginners Guide to Raphael(in) Custom ROMs
https://forum.xda-developers.com/k20...aelin-t4020543
Thank you in Advance !!!
JP_Defy said:
Hi All,
I recently purchased a new Redmi K20 Pro off a friend who by mistake bought what I believe to be a Chinese ROM phone due to opening up apps in Chinese...
I have unlocked the bootloader and am ready to progress to flashing a new rom. However, I have seen in videos and read that you need to flash the correct rom in order not to brick the device. You can create issues by not using the correct vendor rom? I'm wanting to flash a global rom in order to not have a chinese rom with Chinese apps...
What I am hoping to achieve is to flash a global or rom that is in english with google apps ready to go.
I also want to know if I will be able to lock the bootloader once I have flashed the new rom or do I not worry about locking it? I assume if I lock the bootloader, I will be able to use google pay etc?
I have searched and I am unable to find a correct guide that will work for the device I bought...
Can anybody please point me in the right direction with what I need to do in order to get my phone to a global rom where all apps are in English please?
MIUI Version - MIUI 11.0.8 Stable
11.0.8.0 (QFKCNXM)
Android Version - 10
Baseband version - 1.0.c3-59.1-0322_2
309_f9ef867
Kernel Version - 4.14.117-perf-gc8b9
843
Hardware version - V1
I've been looking and found this guide - May I confirm this will be what I need to convert to a global rom and not brick my device?
Simple Beginners Guide to Raphael(in) Custom ROMs
https://forum.xda-developers.com/k20...aelin-t4020543
Thank you in Advance !!!
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Look here for the fastboot ROM
https://xiaomifirmwareupdater.com/supported/miui/
Choose the fastboot ROM for either European or Global raphael
Use this guide to flash it
https://c.mi.com/oc/miuidownload/detail?guide=2
View the page in desktop mode if viewing on a phone.
IMPORTANT
You must not lock the bootloader. You will brick the phone if you lock the bootloader with any ROM other than Chinese.
The default flash option in the Mi Flash Tool is to lock the bootloader when flashing. You must change this.
In step 5 of the guide make sure you change the flash option to 'clean all' in the Mi Flash Tool before hitting the flash button.