Unbrick or Recover Xiaomi Redmi 10A and other MTK devices

Case: Your Redmi 10A (probably other MTK devices too) is not turning on and doesn't react to any button pressed nor cable connection. Requisites:   Dead phone USB Cable  You tried tons of tutorials to unbrick the phone and didn't work This image Willingness to even use Linux to fix it (it's not hard) Steps: Create a bootable USB using the image downloaded. Make sure your computer allows booting from USB. Boot the computer from the bootable USB. When booting, a list of options will be shown. Pick the first one: Boot Live system. Once the system is loaded, go to the right-upper corner to connect to Wi-Fi. Once you have internet, use the Firefox browser (click on the icon in the left-upper corner) and download the Linux version of this tool (SP Flash) and save it in the desktop. Unzip the tool downloaded. Download the fastboot version of the stock ROM . Unzip the ROM, to have the folder and files. Click on 'MTK' icon that is in the desktop. In the command line opene

Recovering Complicated Hidden Files

There was a time when I had on my hands a USB memory which was supposed to be infected by a virus, and looking at it I realized that this malware had been erased many folders and files, but I first tried to see if they were only hidden.

Let's suppose that this was the USB file structure, with no virus.
 
USB structure

Once the virus infected the USB, the situation changed into this. As you can see, there was no files inside, but going to the folder properties we could look at the line that it actually had 1 file and 1 directory.

No files or directories in USB

Once the virus infected the USB, the situation changed into this. As you can see, there was no files inside, but going to the folder properties we could look at the image that it actually had 1 file and 1 directory.

The next thing I did was to show all hidden files but it didn't work, so I disabled the "Hide protected operating system files (recommended)" option , having as result this.

Show hidden operating system files

Therefore, the virus hadn't erased them, but only hidden them,  however, using the properties dialog of the file or folder couldn't be used because the "Hidden" property was in read-only mode as they were classified as system files.

To solve this, I had to use the "attrib" command to remove the system file mode from these files, to make this happen it's necessary to use the "-h" (unhide) and "-s" (system file) to remove these features to the files.

Use the command line to show files

After this, the files will be normal as used to be. Remember that you have to use this command in the command line window that you can find in your "Start" menu.


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