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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

Create a Folder Grouping Messages From Different Accounts in Thunderbird

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Case: You have several accounts in Thunderbird and you want to have one folder that will show you the messages from all the accounts. In this case the folder will show all the emails in the sent folder of each account that where sent in less than 7 days. Requisites: Thunderbird. Steps: Go to 'Local Folders' and then to 'Search Messages...'.     Click on 'Save as Virtual Folder'.   Put a name to the new folder and click on 'Choose...'.   Check the folders you want the messages to be collected from and click 'OK'.       Tick 'Search Online' and put the criteria, in this case all the messages that were sent less than 7 days. Then click on 'Update'. Results: The 'Sent' folder will be created and will show the messages in the folders defined that comply with the criteria.