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 opened, run this command: python mtk payload
  • Connect the phone with the USB cable and keep pressed the volume up and down at the same time until you see that the command line detects the phone.
  • Let the command finish.
  • Open the folder of the SP Flash and look for the file 'flash tool.sh'.
  • Drag and drop this file to the terminal window, and hit enter in the keyboard.
  • SP Flash starts.
  • In the tool, go to 'Options' - 'Option... ' and in 'Connection' pick 'UART', close the window.
  • Go to 'Download' tab and load the scatter file (inside 'Images' folder in the ROM folder).
  • Click 'Download' and wait for the tool to finish.
  • Disconnect the USB cable and turn on the phone.

Results: The phone is turning on and loading the stock ROM.


Comments

  1. Techo SlayerSeptember 26, 2023 at 4:55 PM

    Which MTK icon ??

    ReplyDelete
  2. Ronald MirandaSeptember 27, 2023 at 9:55 PM

    When you are in the system running, you should see few icons in the desktop, one of them should say MTK.

    ReplyDelete

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