[GUIDE][Linux] Flashing Xiaomi .tgz

[guglicap]

Hello everyone,
I recently had to flash a stock firmware file from Xiaomi (.tgz) and being primarily a Linux user I was quite disappointed by the fact that the company only provides a flashing tool for Windows.
Either way, I booted into Windows and flashed it. I had a look at the logs later and apparently their flash tool is just a front-end to fastboot, and looking at their firmware archives I noticed there were some .sh files in there, and guess what, they're scripts which do the exact same things their Windows scripts do! So I decided to try to use them to flash the firmware on Linux and, sure enough, after ~10 minutes the device was successfully flashed.

Here's what I did, as always I don't take responsibility for bricked devices, try this at your own risk:

1. unpack the archive

 tar -xf <archive_name>.tgz

2. cd to the archive directory

3. grant run permissions

 chmod +x flash_all.sh

(in my case I was interested in flash_all.sh, I think you can follow the exact same procedure with whichever script you want, though I haven't tested it)

4. get your device id

 fastboot devices

you'll get something like this

List of devices attached
d82c2d3	fastboot

you're interested in the first column, so in my case d82c2d3

5. run the script

 ./flash_all -s <device_id>

at this point the flashing process should start and if everything went good your phone should reboot in a few minutes.
You might need to prepend the commands in point 4 and 5 with sudo.

Also, I don't know if every firmware archive has these .sh files, but it would seem logical. By the way, let me know if this is common knowledge and my googling just sucks as I couldn't find anything related to it...

 

[typos1]

Just tried it on my Mi 10 Pro and it doesnt work says device is locked just like it does if I try and flash using fastboot.

 

[basero]

Hello everyone,
I recently had to flash a stock firmware file from Xiaomi (.tgz) and being primarily a Linux user I was quite disappointed by the fact that the company only provides a flashing tool for Windows.

Thank you, it worked...