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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

Fix unauthorized message with adb devices

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Case: You connect your Android phone to your computer, run the command 'adb devices' and your device is unauthorized. Even if you authorized the device. Requisites: Android phone, USB cable, computer with Windows and adb installed. Steps: Make sure the phone is not connected to the computer.  Remove the previous authorizations given into the phone. Kill the adb server. Remove the key files. Connect the phone to the computer with the USB cable. Run the command 'adb devices'. In the phone, accept to give the authorization. Results: When you run the command 'adb devices', it will show your devices with the status 'device' instead of 'unauthorized'.