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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

Install TWRP Recovery in Xiaomi Redmi 6A

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Case: You try to install TWRP Recovery in your Xiaomi Redmi 6A, but the official process doesn't work. Requisites: Xiaomi Redmi 6A phone, USB cable, computer with Windows and TWRP Cactus Tools installed . Steps: Make sure the phone is connected to the computer and in debug mode.  Open TWRP Cactus Tools: Click 'Flash TWRP' and select the right TWRP (be careful with the Android version): Click 'Start Flash' Results: The flash will finish and your phone will have the TWRP recovery.