So, where to start.. I just got my redmi note 5 to test all sorts of things on, and my first goal was to successfully unlock it, install TWRP, and root through Magisk.
For this, I've used the 'Flashing TWRP on Redmi 5 Plus (and Root)' guide on the miui blog (can't post the link, unfortunately.)
I unfortunately keep running into a strange problem, which I'm going to explain briefly, because this is the second time that it happened, and I have no idea what to do, to be completely honest.
So, I successfully unlocked my redmi 5 plus, enabled USB debugging, installed ADB Fastboot on my PC, and went on to flash TWRP 3.3.0.0. This worked, the recovery image was properly read, although I could only boot it from fastboot into recovery, by holding the button combination. When trying to reboot after flashing, going into recovery from the system via the console on my pc put me in the normal MIUI recovery. So, I had to flash TWRP again, and do it the way I described. I forgot to mention, but I also copied both Magisk and no-verity to the root folder of my internal storage before installing TWRP, but, when going into TWRP to install, I could not find those zip files.
The internal storage showed as 0MB, and I read that you're supposed to wipe the data, with TWRP, which did in fact let me see the amount of MB on my internal storage, but unfortunately it did not let me find those files either. The sad part is, now my phone is stuck on a bootloop, again, and I can only run either recovery or fastboot, the latter of which I'm going to use to flash stock recovery and do a factory reset, once again.
At this point I'm lost as to what I should do, I'm following the advice from many different sources, and nothing seems to work. Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but being the noob I am, I cannot figure it out
.
For this, I've used the 'Flashing TWRP on Redmi 5 Plus (and Root)' guide on the miui blog (can't post the link, unfortunately.)
I unfortunately keep running into a strange problem, which I'm going to explain briefly, because this is the second time that it happened, and I have no idea what to do, to be completely honest.
So, I successfully unlocked my redmi 5 plus, enabled USB debugging, installed ADB Fastboot on my PC, and went on to flash TWRP 3.3.0.0. This worked, the recovery image was properly read, although I could only boot it from fastboot into recovery, by holding the button combination. When trying to reboot after flashing, going into recovery from the system via the console on my pc put me in the normal MIUI recovery. So, I had to flash TWRP again, and do it the way I described. I forgot to mention, but I also copied both Magisk and no-verity to the root folder of my internal storage before installing TWRP, but, when going into TWRP to install, I could not find those zip files.
The internal storage showed as 0MB, and I read that you're supposed to wipe the data, with TWRP, which did in fact let me see the amount of MB on my internal storage, but unfortunately it did not let me find those files either. The sad part is, now my phone is stuck on a bootloop, again, and I can only run either recovery or fastboot, the latter of which I'm going to use to flash stock recovery and do a factory reset, once again.
At this point I'm lost as to what I should do, I'm following the advice from many different sources, and nothing seems to work. Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but being the noob I am, I cannot figure it out
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