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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

Alternative for Screenshoting in Windows

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If the default way to get screenshots in Windows is to basic for you, let me introduce you Greenshot , a lightweight open source tool to make screenshots with the option to take a portion of the screen and then edit it. Once you make the screenshot, it's saved in the clipboard so you can use the capture immediately, but if you want, you can right click in the application icon in the taskbar and open the editor:   And add some marks and more: It's straightforward and has many options like capturing the mouse pointer, notifications, sound, default destination and more:   I use this tool as it's really practical, with many options and doesn't eat your memory, very recommendable.