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I gave it back the data it wanted to decrypt xD
Okay yeah, nope. Last RX should have been [ 00 00 ]. Guess we can't just skip SLA :(
So I'm at yet another service center and they are ready to look into my 8 Pro without a bill. What do you think? Will they diagnose it correctly as a software flash or as a dead motherboard?
Final Results
38%
Software flash/hardbrick
62%
Dead motherboard
(Potentially) good news. They were trying to flash it. They were unable to however, because they were trying to load the global firmware on the indian variant. Showed them the right firmware and told them the steps to flash just in case. They're trying again now xD
They showed me the error, and it was yet another BROM cmd fail. Looks like BROM verifies things itself too, before starting the flash.
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Okay they may have fucked something up
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It's not detecting Sim cards/has no IMEI
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Fml
On the Redmi Note 8 Pro, If you ever lose your IMEI and have a full TWRP backup, restore the following partitions:
- nvcfg
- nvdata
- nvram
- persist
- protect_f
- protect_s
Most notable protect_f and protect_s. This apparently contains modem files. Restoring the others fixed an issue where it didn't ask for MIUI account login after factory reset.
What in the world was Xiaomi thinking when they introduced the "Sounds of nature" feature in MIUI 11? With notification sounds like these, I think I'd NEVER know I got a notification.
Just another casual unbrick trip to the service center. Thanks, Xiaomi :)
And today they can't figure out how to put the phone in download mode. Can I just kill myself already?
And now they're getting weird error codes trying to flash to the phone. Guess who has to travel tomorrow again for them to try flashing MIUI 11 begoniain firmware ๐Ÿคก
Okay, unbricked again and they're charging me this time lmao. They're doing "testing" right now ๐Ÿ˜‚
And no, ARB isn't at play at all. They were probably just derping with auth login yesterday. They flashed MIUI 10, the device was running MIUI 11 prior.
177 Rs + 3 hours later, unbricked again ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ
I am stopping work on begonia(in). As much as I want to work on it and play around, this is straight up annoying. Also, in 2 days, I won't even have a service center near me.
I'd be happy to help out anyone else making an effort. Most of my work is now public on my GitHub.
fucken finally
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