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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

Managing Disk Partitions

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Today I want to write about disk partition, probably you have seen that a computer has one or more drives (C:, D: and more) but it doesn't mean that there is actually such amount of physical drives, therefore they are called partitions. I consider that it's a best practice to always have an exclusive partition for your operating system and one o more for all you data, because if you have a problem that will require your system to be reinstalled then the reinstallation is not going to delete your data just the operating system. What do I have to do if I save my data and my operating system in one partition? Well, you must create a partition and for that I'm going to show you Gparted , this is a free tool and I recommend you to use the live version because it will be better to have it in a CD just in case. With the CD in your computer just turn on it and Grub will show you a screen like this, select the first option (the other ones are advanced).    Here select