Bye-bye Xiaomi Mi 3
Prelude
Last weekend was a long story, that I my Xiaomi Mi 3 is screwed! It happened like this.
I was in the car, using the phone to surf net and go through the social networks. Then suddenly, it popped up a notification saying that my phone is too hot, asked me to cool down, with a system button “Cool Down”. I cannot guarantee that this is not a virus, but I believe that my phone doesn’t have virus. (I can hardly find the Cool Down feature online, this is the only one.) So, I pressed the Cool Down button. With this press, sorry my phone. You got a stroke, and never overcome. Bye-bye!
Recovering
Because of that one press, my phone fell into the bootloop. When I went home, I searched for some possible solutions online. And found that, the possible solution is to flash the stock ROM. I downloaded everything I needed. Moreover, the most important thing is to get all my data especially photos, which I didn’t make any backup recently.
So, I followed the steps in this wonderful page for how to perform a flash. WARNING: This will flash everything, meaning, you will loss your data, including everything in the internal storage, such as photos. So, before I flash the stock ROM, I followed this forum to learn how to restore the data.
Summary:
- Get all the necessary drivers and software. Actually can be found in the official site. Important software are: MiFlash. It also requires drivers which can be found here. So that you can use “fastboot” command (and also “adb” command) and detect the phone when USB connected.
- Get the stock ROM and recovery ROM. I used TWRP.
- Boot into fastboot mode (read the instruction from the “wonderful page” mentioned above).
- Use command-line “fastboot” to flash the recovery ROM TWRP. And boot into the recovery mode.
- Once successfully boot, your computer can detect the phone (as MTP), then you can access the internal storage and copy all the files.
The luckiness within the unluckiness (不幸中的大幸), I managed to boot into recovery mode. Immediately copied everything from the phone to the computer. After this, I tried to flash the stock ROM. But failed. Tried various times, but none of them work. Even wanted to boot into the TWRP recovery mode was very difficult. But luckily, I got all the photos from the phone before these.
Searched for the solution again, I found this forum. Probably my battery got serious problem.
Yet, because my phone was bought through the mobile phone shop, not from Xiaomi official website. The phone is actually from Taiwan. And there is no nearest Xiaomi service centre at my area (and never will be). So, I can only say “bye-bye” to my phone. It is the time to “let it go”.
Epilogue
Most important thing is data. As long as you have the data, put it in any phone, then that is your phone. Just like your soul and spirit resides in any body, make it you yourself!