[Q] Xiaomi mi3 bricked

sabbo28 said:

I'm Italian and I wrote this post with google translate.
my phone will not turn over. the display will not turn on. when I connect the phone to the PC, the red LED turns on for about 3 seconds and then turns off. the phone is recognized by miflash. What can I do?

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Shahan_mik3 said:

Yes dealing with mi3 is kinda diff and bit tuff without sd card.

i had soft bricked the 2 days old phone with cwm recovery and bootloops.
sadly was not able to flash via cwm recovery due to status 7 error.

SO Best method is Hold vol down+power and enter into FAST BOOT mode.

and then download a fastboot rom and flash it through miflash and voila it must work "

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poran123 said:

bro which fastboot rom you have flash... there are so many version i'm confused which to download...
my phone is india version.

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Shahan_mik3 said:

You can download the latest developer version or the stable version.

Developer version

bigota.d.miui.com/4.8.8/cancro_images_4.8.8_4.4_cn_73ccb4f742.tgz

Stable version

bigota.d.miui.com/KXDCNBF23.0/cancro_images_KXDCNBF23.0_4.4_cn_91b31b38e5.tgz.

also I hope you know how to flash in fastboot right?

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poran123 said:

but i think its a chinese version, are you using it right now? Is it having in english and have google apps?
And ya i know how to flash fastboot files... For me its safer to have fastboot files.

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Shahan_mik3 said:

No it is global version not chinese. Yes as you mentioned u have indian version hence it is Mi3w (Canro). So you should have no problem.

F.Y. I developer version you will need to download google apps installer separately from Mi store.

Stable it should have the google apps.

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poran123 said:

ok thanks..

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Shahan_mik3 said:

No it is global version not chinese.

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AndroGeeker said:

When dont have enough knowledge, please dont suggest anyone! The links you provided for fastboot ROM are for Chinese MI3 not Indian (See the CN code in build number, Indian will have DMI). Yes, you can use any variant of fastboot ROM but each country have their own fastboot ROM and have different data partitions. So Chinese fastboot ROM will have different data partition when compared to Indian one.
Its recommended to use Indian fastboot ROM for Indian MI3.
Heres the download link for Indian fastboot ROM for MI3:
http://bigota.d.miui.com/KXDMIBH34.0/cancro_global_images_KXDMIBH34.0_4.4_in_c941119fcf.tgz

Source: http://en.miui.com/thread-52126-1-1.html

And please have a look on the link below to know the difference between different fastboot ROM:
http://en.miui.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=28640 and see the second last question.

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