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busuyi44:
Go ahead. No fear. Just have a back up of your important things to a flash drive or Gdrive. Copy d zip file to a flash drive or to your laptop
Boot to recovery
Format data (d one with yes to format) .
Wipe data davlick vendor system cache
Copy the EU ROM zip file to your phone internal memory
Flash d ROM, magisk if u want to root
Boot to system
Boooommmmmm.

Errm...
Pls o, am i meant to wipe the system and vendor?
I've been seeing scary warnings about touching those

Elder0001:
This contact saving issue...

I save contacts to my second SIM only but sometimes the contacts save on sim 1 and sometimes they don't save at all, I'll go back to resave them to sim 2 and same thing will still happen again. It's not as if my sim 2 is full sef, I have only 140 contacts on it.

What i don't understand is why anyone is bothering with saving on a sim card. Save your contacts to your Google or mi account; headache averted

And... I'm back so soon.

So i have the eu rom for mi 9 which i got from sourceforge.

I've seen a couple of tutorials about how to flash it but I'm hoping to learn from the dozens of personal experiences here so i don't walk into a pit.

Is it as simple as charging the device to 80%, booting to recovery, wiping the device, flashing the rom plus cahe wiping and sipping a cup of tea.

Will the zip file not already be removed when i wipe the device before flashing?

olayinkajnr:
If you installed the magisk zip, you don't need flash anything else. You have root. And the second question, there's no problem at all.

Okay. Thanks.

I'll be back for more tips when I inevitably wander into custom rom land

olayinkajnr:
Recovery partition it is.

The recovery thing didn't work so i installed magisk and orangefox has stuck.

More questions:

Is the phone now rooted with magisk installed or do i need to flash the magisk zip to root it, like i read somewhere?

Hope there's no problem updating the magisk? I ask cos i also saw somewhere that xiaomi devices work on some versions and not on others.

Thanks for all the help

busuyi44:
Choosing a Custom recovery over stock/inbuilt recovery, bye bye to MIUI OTA updates. Bootloop (soft brickland ) with or without loss of data may happen.
Na to download full Miui Rom whenever there's OTA update and flash with the custom recovery

CC : abdsamad

Ummm... You people should not confuse me further o.
I'm just inching my way forward through this whole modding swamp.

Maybe I'll check out another rom sef and leave ota for now. We'll see

olayinkajnr:
Apparently, you'll need to flash magisk the first time you boot to orangefox. That way, the custom recovery won't leave.

You can also follow mathefaro's suggestions, works too.

For the persist.img, just open your fastboot rom, navigate to images and copy persist.img from the images folder to your SD card.

Boot to custom recovery, navigate to where you saved the persist.img, select it and select the persist partition and swipe to flash.

This will solve all issues with sensors, camera and any other issues.

I already flashed the persist.img. Thanks. Sensors are working now. I hope the intermittent freezing and rebooting also stops

For the magisk method, i hope there's nothing complicated there.

mathefaro:
After flashing the recovery from your PC, boot immediately into the recovery and flash the recovery from your phone as well.

Thanks. So i tried to use this method and i got up to the point where i selected the recovery.img file but before swiping i needed to select a partition. I thought the recovery partition was the right option but i didn't want to guess into brickland so i decided to ask

olayinkajnr:
You won't suffer any data loss.

Just use this command:

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img and press enter.

Once done successfully, remove the phone and hold down your power button and volume up button same time. Once the phone goes off and on, release the power button while holding the volume up button.

If it boots to custom recovery, release the volume button. That's how. Meanwhile, be sure you are flashing the main custom recovery for your device.

I was about to celebrate about how I just installed orangefox and i needed to know how to install the persist.img file.

I just tried to boot into recovery again and it's back to stock recovery. It worked a few moments, dunno what happened

HowGlorious:
abdsamad

Check pages 1 & 204 to see how to flash Orange Fox recovery. Ur phone bootloader must be unlocked

https://orangefox.download/en/device/cepheus

Thanks. Just did that

olayinkajnr:
You'll have to flash persist.img via custom recovery then.

Thanks for your help so far.

Am i on the right path to installing the custom recovery with these instructions?

For the part where it says to go into recovery mode, i presume that means I enter the "fastboot Reboot" line, press enter, then go to recovery. Is this correct?

Finally, will i likely suffer data loss during the process?

olayinkajnr:
The custom ROM?

I didn't see any third image o

Picture didn't upload. Sorry

"Error:Not catch checkpoint (\$fastboot -s . * lock), flash is not done"
that's the message

olayinkajnr:
Only solution, flash persist.img.

Persist.img can be located in your fastboot ROM. Extract it and flash.

It can be flashed in two ways (do step 2 first):

1. Via custom recovery (I know you don't have it anymore since you already flashed a fastboot ROM).

2. Copy the persist.img to your adb folder. Open adb fastboot and type these commands>

fastboot devices (press enter)

fastboot flash persist persist.img (press enter)

If it flashes successfully, you issue will be solved. If it doesn't, you'll have to first flash a custom recovery and then boot to it to flash the persist.img

At the end of this, I would have become a super hacker person.
Thanks.

BTW, the flashing of the custom rom ended with an error message. The third one in the image. I wonder why that happened and if it is related

From one problem to another.
Now most of the sensors are not working; light, accelerometer, gyroscope.
Someone said something about flashing a persist.img file but i don't know what that is and I don't want to accidentally kill my phone because of sensors.
Any help?

Done. Back to stock rom.
Thanks for all your inputs

olayinkajnr:
Don't relock bootloader oooo. Else, your phone system will get destroyed. Rendering it unusable unless you unlock it again.

Thanks. I'll proceed with extreme caution

Adex2442:
After I deal with her, she will never ever give room to the devil.

She has even threatened me that I will never ever get my item.

This matter is serious o.

I can imagine writing that letter and giving it to her, saying "Oya, take! Use your hand to post your sack letter yourself. Put plenty stamp o, so it'll get there quickly"



But seriously, please try to find the Jesus in you so that you can overlook her misdeed even if she doesn't come close to deserving it.

Adex2442:
The behavior of those nipost staffs are very Bad. I have just been insulted by a nipost lady. I Need to teach her a lesson.

Who has an effective medium in which I can report her??

Tanks

I was about to praise their workers for being courteous and helpful.

If she didn't slap you, just chill and go about your life. Maybe it was the devil

genius43:
If it has both it will pick band 28 over 3. But Glo have been poor for some days now.

Use this app

That worked. Thanks.
I'll see how it does when I'm moving again

HowGlorious:
https://bigota.d.miui.com/V12.0.2.0.QFAMIXM/cepheus_global_images_V12.0.2.0.QFAMIXM_20200820.0000.00_10.0_global_c30a08c0e6.tgz

That's d ROM

Oh. Thanks!
I was about to start looking for that one

New question: is there a way i can check which lte band my sim is currently using.
The reason i ask is that glo seems to be performing poorly on mi 9 compared to what it was like on the p30.
It's significant enough that i can't listen to an online radio while driving without constant buffering whereas the p30 performed smoothly on the same sim.

So I'm wondering if the mi 9 is preferentially using band 3 (which i would expect this kind of poor quality from), despite supporting both band 3 and 28.

Yes, I've verified that the phone is indeed global version, via the official xiaomi page

GrandMufti:
Fastboot rom method.

But be sure the previous owner deleted his mi account details from the phone and mi cloud

Thanks. I'll let you know when I brick my phone

HowGlorious:
Which phone?
Mi account removed by d previous owner?
A fastboot Rom will do but don't re lock d bootloader while flashing it

Check page 201 to see how to flash a fastboot ROM

It's a mi 9 and I've signed in with my own mi account.
Do I need to remove that before attempting to flash the rom?

Okay, heading to page 201 now

Hello all.
Pls i need to remove custom rom from a MI device.

I didn't install it myself and i don't want to break the thing.

I just want to go back to the official rom and undo any magisk magic that they've put on the device

tonyson010:
I wish I can help you. Mine started having the issue of rebooting once it comes close to water, cold surface or cold weather. It stated when I traveled last 2 months and answered call under the rain.

Your phone needs to wear sweater and apply Robb every morning

vickfrankjnr:
Please Which of redmi note is best, RMN8 or RMN9. I want to make a choice between them, but you can suggest other good alternative
Thanks

But.. But.. But, why!
Please go to gsmarena, okay? U can do a comparison there

Hope you can find your way to that website without directions

LadyExcellency:
With President Trump, what you see is what you get.

No hypocrisy, no deception and no hard feelings.

Braindead people arousing again.

No hypocrisy... Hmm, let me see. Is it hypocrisy if you say Obama golfs too much but you end up golfing about 3 times more.
Is it hypocrisy if you say you're the president of law and order but you've broken more laws as a president than most citizens? Shall I go on?

How about deception?
Do i really need to bring out a calculator to add up all the times orangeman has deceived people. But maybe you should inject bleach to treat covid19 since he obviously got that one right.

Braindead people following zombies! Rubbish!

iKingsley:
cult is cult. There is no Nigerian version of it

Mortal Kombat!

Verbal Kombat!

Weirdoo:
300k bawo
Y u think say I de find open box or used one when new na 250

Faster better delivery

jboixxx:
[color=#0000ff]All I can say is, May God not shame us and may He ease our affairs. Emergency need of cash can make us see how life truly is outside our reasonable comfy corners.

If we must bargain, let's compare the prices of new and that of the used. Don't forget, some new deals here are cheaper than what's avail in the market. Let us not exploit the unexpected happening around distressed sellers.

Again, God no go shame us.

Meant no disrespect to anyone, here. [/color]

Thank you for the wise words.
I just hope we all learn from it

Queen's style don't gat the location covered: go to the xiaomi thread store, for advertising

Weirdoo:
Nawa oo

Pple still de enjoy mi 10

Una no go like sell for m

Hehehe. Bring 300k