Xiaomi MI3 Manual flashing of partitions one by one. It can happen sometime, you lost your phone in the middle of nowhere and the flashing softwares, CWM recovery or Twrp recovery, what ever you are sing not working.May be some thing you are doing wrong or it’s just not working. In these cases Manual flashing of partitions one by one will help. SO, i am going to tell how to do it on the Xiaomi MI3. However, the idea is general, you can use this on any smartphone.
First, you need to install adb(android debug bridge) and fastboot tools.
For, Debian based distro’s :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot
For, Arch Based Distro’s :
sudo pacman -S android-tools
For, Windows based systems:
Download the zip of both and extract it to a folder.
Next step is to download the fastboot version of the ROM.Download the fastboot version of the ROM.And,connect your phone in fastboot mode.In MI3 press volumen (-) + power button together and connect it to the PC. It will be connected in fastboot mode.
Now, open the linux terminal/windows command prompt and type:
sudo fastboot devices
Now, you can see your device is connected or not. It will display the ID number connected with your phone.
Ok, let’s start flashing. Type the following commands one by one.
sudo su sudo fastboot flash tz tz.mbn fastboot flash dbi sdi.mbn fastboot flash sbl1 sbl1.mbn fastboot flash rpm rpm.mbn fastboot flash aboot emmc_appsboot.mbn fastboot erase boot fastboot flash misc misc.img fastboot flash modem+modem1 NON-HLOS.bin fastboot flash system+system1 system.img fastboot flash cache cache.img fastboot flash userdata userdata.img fastboot flash recovery recovery.img fastboot flash boot+boot1 boot.img fastboot reboot
Your phone will be rebooted and wait for 5 to 10 minutes to show the screen.I hope you understands this procedure for Xiaomi MI3 Manual flashing of partitions one by one. If you have comments, questions drop it below. Thanks for reading.