Bricked Xiaomi MI A2
Bricked Xiaomi MI A2
(26-02-2023, 10:50 AM)ludemon I have been trying to unbrick a Xiaomi MI A2 phone using QFIL, but always get Sahara fail error. I have tried all six suggested fixes in https://www.hovatek.com/blog/how-to-fix-...r-in-qfil/ but still get the error. As the bootloader is locked I get into EDL mode by the test point method.
I have also tried MI Flash and the error there is can not read from port COM5.
Can anyone help and suggest what might be causing the errors?
(28-02-2023, 04:07 PM)ludemon(26-02-2023, 10:50 AM)ludemon I have been trying to unbrick a Xiaomi MI A2 phone using QFIL, but always get Sahara fail error. I have tried all six suggested fixes in https://www.hovatek.com/blog/how-to-fix-...r-in-qfil/ but still get the error. As the bootloader is locked I get into EDL mode by the test point method.
I have also tried MI Flash and the error there is can not read from port COM5.
Can anyone help and suggest what might be causing the errors?
Further to my post above I have since been able to flash MI 6X (wayne) firmware using MI Flash tool, but the phone still seems to be bricked. A MI logo appears on the screen for a few seconds then a white line progresses across the screen with numbers above counting from zero to 99.99% then stops.
I can get into Fastboot and a few commands are available, however I can't flash anything as the bootloader is locked.
Please help if you can.
(26-02-2023, 10:50 AM)ludemon I have been trying to unbrick a Xiaomi MI A2 phone using QFIL, but always get Sahara fail error. I have tried all six suggested fixes in https://www.hovatek.com/blog/how-to-fix-...r-in-qfil/ but still get the error. As the bootloader is locked I get into EDL mode by the test point method.
I have also tried MI Flash and the error there is can not read from port COM5.
Can anyone help and suggest what might be causing the errors?
(09-03-2023, 03:15 PM)maxpayne(26-02-2023, 10:50 AM)ludemon I have been trying to unbrick a Xiaomi MI A2 phone using QFIL, but always get Sahara fail error. I have tried all six suggested fixes in https://www.hovatek.com/blog/how-to-fix-...r-in-qfil/ but still get the error. As the bootloader is locked I get into EDL mode by the test point method.
I have also tried MI Flash and the error there is can not read from port COM5.
Can anyone help and suggest what might be causing the errors?
Are you using No Auth firehose?
(10-03-2023, 10:08 AM)ludemon Thank you maxpayne for your response.Yes I'm now using No Auth firehose files and so able to flash successfully with QFIL. However still not able to unbrick the phone as described in my 2nd post. See attached images. Do you think that there is a hardware problem?
(16-03-2023, 07:50 AM)maxpayne(10-03-2023, 10:08 AM)ludemon Thank you maxpayne for your response.Yes I'm now using No Auth firehose files and so able to flash successfully with QFIL. However still not able to unbrick the phone as described in my 2nd post. See attached images. Do you think that there is a hardware problem?
Boot into recovery mode and factory reset
(16-03-2023, 10:44 AM)ludemon Unfortunately recovery mode is not available via buttons, and I can't boot anything in fastboot mode because the bootloader is locked
(20-03-2023, 09:03 AM)maxpayne(16-03-2023, 10:44 AM)ludemon Unfortunately recovery mode is not available via buttons, and I can't boot anything in fastboot mode because the bootloader is locked
Are the firmware you've flashed for your phone's region? i.e Global, India, China, etc
