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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
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Notifying When Battery is Full in Linux

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Case: I want to be notified by a sounding popup when the battery of my laptop is fully charged. I'm using Debian Linux and Gnome 3 . Requisites: The following applications are installed: sh, upower, paplay, notify-send. Steps: Open a text editor and put this code (adapted from here ): #!/usr/bin/env bash while true do export DISPLAY=:0.0 battery_percent=$(upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 | grep -P -o 'percentage: [0-9]+(?=%)' | grep -P -o [0-9]*) if on_ac_power; then echo $on_ac_power if [ "$battery_percent" -gt 92 ]; then paplay /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/suspend-error.oga notify-send --urgency CRITICAL "Battery full" "Level: ${battery_percent}% " fi fi sleep 60 # done Save the file with .sh extension in the user's home directory, choice an understandable name, for example: /home/ronald/BatteryCharged.sh
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