Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 SnapDragon completely Dead - Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Questions & Answers

Hi,
I've bricked my Redmi Note 3 SP while I was restoring a CM backup via TWRP. I think I probably restored an erroneous partition.
At first, I was able to enter Fastboot, but my PC wasn't recognizing it (Power surge problem) and I had no one else available at the moment to test.
Probably my phone lost all the battery and now it is completely dead. I think I'm being unable to charge it.
I tried I lot of tutorials but my phone is still bricked. I have only not tested the pin test solution as I'm uncomfortable about it.
I tried this steps, but it is still not being recognized by my pc: http://en.miui.com/thread-274589-1-1.html
Anyone else with the same problem?

you can try the deep flash cable method first if you are uneasy about opening the phone up (never tried but I've heard this is what the service centers use)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmdrj4uX7gY
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0tDN20BWj-aeERBczg3QjQtUzA/view

I've opened the phone cover and unplugged the battery and usb as required in the tutorial I posted. But it isn't working.

fcsprovenzano said:
I've opened the phone cover and unplugged the battery and usb as required in the tutorial I posted. But it isn't working.
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do it properly, it absolutely works fine, did you unlocked your boot loader unofficially..? if it so, then it will not work.
Deep flash cable is the best method for you,

same problem here
send it to service center

c_/\/\_k said:
do it properly, it absolutely works fine, did you unlocked your boot loader unofficially..? if it so, then it will not work.
Deep flash cable is the best method for you,
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I've unlocked my phone officially, but it appears to be really dead.
Phone just heats but I don't see any sign it is charging or connected to pc.

fcsprovenzano said:
I've unlocked my phone officially, but it appears to be really dead.
Phone just heats but I don't see any sign it is charging or connected to pc.
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if you unable to enter EDL by any means, take it to the service centre, i hope its not old than a year,

I have my phone for just a few months, but I'm afraid they could not to repair it as it happened cause of mistake made by me.
I will try to find someone who had the same problem I'm facing and had resolved it a few more days.

fcsprovenzano said:
I've unlocked my phone officially, but it appears to be really dead.
Phone just heats but I don't see any sign it is charging or connected to pc.
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Had the same issue as yours, tried everything, nothing worked.
Finally had to go to service center, turned out that my motherboard was dead.
Motherboard will arrive in some 15-20 days, till then i have the phone in my drawer.
They said they will replace it as soon as it arrives,just have to wait now, it has already been 10-12 days!

How did it happened to you? It happens while you are using your phone normally, or after a wrong flash as with me?

devabhi said:
same problem here
send it to service center
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Is the phone already repaired? What they did to your phone?

fcsprovenzano said:
Is the phone already repaired? What they did to your phone?
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no it is with them i will inform you once i get it

I've already received the phone from the (unofficial) service center.
They just reinstalled all the software of the phone, probably using the method of the pin test.

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[Q] My Phone got Bricked

Please help me my phone got bricked and it doesnt power on what can i do please help me.
Can you tell exactly what you did?
It may help us help you
Sent from my LG-P990 using XDA
I tried to downgrade my phone back from cm7 latest nighty so i used KDZ tool and at the end of update process it showed failed and my phone went to emergency mode.
Next i tried LGDMP tool and tried to flash kdz.
after several failed tries my phone got switched off once for all.
joseph05sasi said:
I tried to downgrade my phone back from cm7 latest nighty so i used KDZ tool and at the end of update process it showed failed and my phone went to emergency mode.
Next i tried LGDMP tool and tried to flash kdz.
after several failed tries my phone got switched off once for all.
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Turned itself or you did hlep him to turn off?
What error did you see?
Can you turn it on after pulled off battery?
Did you charged battery befory?
mastershefis said:
Turned itself or you did hlep him to turn off?
What error did you see?
Can you turn it on after pulled off battery?
Did you charged battery befory?
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I switched it off when in emergency mode and i never powered on again i removed and reinserted battery no use i tried with my friends battery he also has the same mobile. Its not powering on
joseph05sasi said:
I switched it off when in emergency mode and i never powered on again i removed and reinserted battery no use i tried with my friends battery he also has the same mobile. Its not powering on
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Try the steps from here : [HOWTO] Phone not responding at all - last chance to repair
joseph05sasi said:
Please help me my phone got bricked and it doesnt power on what can i do please help me.
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Using octopus box or RIFF box to repair boot. It's OK! I'll try and everything work.
lnthanh said:
Using octopus box or RIFF box to repair boot.
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what is that??? is it a tool??? or some kind of device???
starrscreem said:
what is that??? is it a tool??? or some kind of device???
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sent my mobile to service center as its underwarranty got my mother board replaced as they say my mother board is dead. created a story telling that it happened when i was updating to gingerbread
joseph05sasi said:
sent my mobile to service center as its underwarranty got my mother board replaced as they say my mother board is dead. created a story telling that it happened when i was updating to gingerbread
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LOL this was exactly I did when my phone was bricked. Lucky me, my phone's motherboard was replaced for free (because of the warranty). They said I must pay $200 if i was not in warranty

[Q] Htc Nexus one hard bricked?

Hi there!
This thread is my last hope, so please dont let me down folks...:cyclops:
The story short - one sunny morning i turned on my HTC Nexus One and it got stuck with te X on the screen for about 15 minutes, non of the buttons responded, so i did the first thing that came in my mind - i pulled out the battery. After inserting the battery the phone went full brick, i mean literally, no reaction on anything, even conected to the wall charger, there is no sign of life, no charging LED, nothing. Connected to the PC, it says USB device not recognised.
I dont think this is a hardware proble, the phone workwd fine until this interrupted power on. Phone runned on stock Androud, i have not played aroun with it - no bootloader unlock, no rooting.
I searched the internet for a solution, tried a lot of button combinations like in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1069032
but still no luck, i cannot restore or flash it while my PC does not recognise the phone.
Found some info about those Usb Jig things, but they work only on Samsung phones, so, is there a way to force the phone to go in recovery mode, or give any sign of life so i can try to recover it or flash a diferent ROM?
The warranty has ended, so no hope there.
Hope there is a way out of this, and, sory for my bad english. :good:
Veesais said:
Hi there!
This thread is my last hope, so please dont let me down folks...:cyclops:
The story short - one sunny morning i turned on my HTC Nexus One and it got stuck with te X on the screen for about 15 minutes, non of the buttons responded, so i did the first thing that came in my mind - i pulled out the battery. After inserting the battery the phone went full brick, i mean literally, no reaction on anything, even conected to the wall charger, there is no sign of life, no charging LED, nothing. Connected to the PC, it says USB device not recognised.
I dont think this is a hardware proble, the phone workwd fine until this interrupted power on. Phone runned on stock Androud, i have not played aroun with it - no bootloader unlock, no rooting.
I searched the internet for a solution, tried a lot of button combinations like in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1069032
but still no luck, i cannot restore or flash it while my PC does not recognise the phone.
Found some info about those Usb Jig things, but they work only on Samsung phones, so, is there a way to force the phone to go in recovery mode, or give any sign of life so i can try to recover it or flash a diferent ROM?
The warranty has ended, so no hope there.
Hope there is a way out of this, and, sory for my bad english. :good:
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Well no, bricked is a term used when you are rooted and flash a bad rom,kernel,etc. You have no root, so you cannot be "bricked". Just a software failure, you cannot flash another rom because, again, you have no root or custom recovery. Your best bet is trying to send it back to your carrier and get it replaced
ParanoidKang said:
Well no, bricked is a term used when you are rooted and flash a bad rom,kernel,etc. You have no root, so you cannot be "bricked". Just a software failure, you cannot flash another rom because, again, you have no root or custom recovery. Your best bet is trying to send it back to your carrier and get it replaced
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The warranty time is out, so there is no help from the carrier, unless for cash...
But there must be a way to bring it back to life.
Veesais said:
The warranty time is out, so there is no help from the carrier, unless for cash...
But there must be a way to bring it back to life.
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Now the screen may not show, but try booting into fastboot mode by press and hold the Trackball+Power buttons together.
I'm not sure about the nexus one, but newer nexus devices have factory images, supplied by Google. If they exist for the nexus one, you should be able to save your device by flashing them through fastboot. That is if the images exist and you can get to fastboot.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

red light when charging, red flashing light when trying to turn the phone on

I just woke up to find my phone off and trying to turn it back on just isn't working.
I don't know what to do here and taking the case off has took off one of the ports on the side.
David T 19 said:
I just woke up to find my phone off and trying to turn it back on just isn't working.
I don't know what to do here and taking the case off has took off one of the ports on the side.
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Sounds like a corrupt boot partition, is your boot loader unlocked? have you recently flashed a boot image?
Reflash with fastboot else use sony's update service to reflash firmware, if that don't work then your phone may be screwed?
eViLSt3ve said:
Sounds like a corrupt boot partition, is your boot loader unlocked? have you recently flashed a boot image?
Reflash with fastboot else use sony's update service to reflash firmware, if that don't work then your phone may be screwed?
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I haven't flashed or done anything.
I've stayed well clear of anything like that with this phone.
It is on stock firmware.
Then your best bet is to use sony's update service, I think it is called pc companion and reflash your firmware, it will ask you to hold the down volume button and connect the USB cable and then it will return your phone back to factory. That's all I can think of else return the phone and get them to fix or replace it.
alright the phone just came back on by itself but it isn't charging.
Alrighty then.
David T 19 said:
alright the phone just came back on by itself but it isn't charging.
Alrighty then.
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Or yes i guess the red light could also indicate low battery, good thinking
and now it is charging because it jumped from 1% to 2%
so ye problem solved I guess I just hope to god I can find a way to put those things covering the charger port and sim card back on.

RN3 Kenzo - replacing motherboard to unbrick

Dear Redmi Note 3 experts,
I have totally hard bricked my Redmi Note 3 trying to unlock unofficially. No hardware damage, only hard brick.
I was wondering if it is possible to bring it back to life by changing it's motherboard.
Is there a recommended place online to buy a mother board or a service center I can ship this to replace the mother board?
Does this even make any sense? or is it even possible?
Appreciate any guidance
Use test point mathod it will be back in life easily. Tested myself
ebrehemx said:
Dear Redmi Note 3 experts,
I have totally hard bricked my Redmi Note 3 trying to unlock unofficially. No hardware damage, only hard brick.
I was wondering if it is possible to bring it back to life by changing it's motherboard.
Is there a recommended place online to buy a mother board or a service center I can ship this to replace the mother board?
Does this even make any sense? or is it even possible?
Appreciate any guidance
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can you boot to fastboot if yes then flash via fast boot or search for FASTBOOT TO EDL MODE IN guide news section and flash via EDL that might help
Something like this happened with me...thankfully my device was under warranty and my motherboard was changed in 2 hrs..now I unlocked officially after taking permission and using custom rom now
Buy a deepflash cable for 5$ in Aliexpress.
Deep flash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXai6PMmM7s
How to make deep flash cable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmdrj4uX7gY
ebrehemx said:
Dear Redmi Note 3 experts,
I have totally hard bricked my Redmi Note 3 trying to unlock unofficially. No hardware damage, only hard brick.
I was wondering if it is possible to bring it back to life by changing it's motherboard.
Is there a recommended place online to buy a mother board or a service center I can ship this to replace the mother board?
Does this even make any sense? or is it even possible?
Appreciate any guidance
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If you're unable to boot to fastboot and edl or the pc shows 9008E, get the deep flash cable from Alixpress. It's cheap and easiest way to recover your phone. This cable works fine.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/New...rts-all-BL-locks-Engineering/32785943419.html
Or you can make the cable yourself with some Youtube tutorials posted above.
I can see 9008E. So I just bought a deep flash cable and was able to flash global stable rom with success message.
When I pressed power button, nothing happened.
When I pressed -vol+power, nothing.
when I pressed +vol+power, nothing.
Then I pressed -vol +vol +power together and the screen showed mi logo and android logo at the bottom. Attached​ picture. It's been like this for 30mins already. It doesn't seem to finish booting. Should I wait?
ebrehemx said:
I can see 9008E. So I just bought a deep flash cable and was able to flash global stable rom with success message.
When I pressed power button, nothing happened.
When I pressed -vol+power, nothing.
when I pressed +vol+power, nothing.
Then I pressed -vol +vol +power together and the screen showed mi logo and android logo at the bottom. Attached​ picture. It's been like this for 30mins already. It doesn't seem to finish booting. Should I wait?
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Wait a bit more and if nothing happens try rebooting to fastboot.
If fastboot is accessible try flashing the latest dev rom.
ebrehemx said:
I can see 9008E. So I just bought a deep flash cable and was able to flash global stable rom with success message.
When I pressed power button, nothing happened.
When I pressed -vol+power, nothing.
when I pressed +vol+power, nothing.
Then I pressed -vol +vol +power together and the screen showed mi logo and android logo at the bottom. Attached​ picture. It's been like this for 30mins already. It doesn't seem to finish booting. Should I wait?
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Did you flash all partition including storage? If I remember correctly, this shouldn't take more than 10-15 mins to boot up or even less. If it's still stuck, you should select 'flash all including storage' in Mi flash.
Or
Since your phone can boot into fastboot now, I would suggest to unlock it unofficially and flash zcx twrp recovery and than flash the rom through recovery after formatting all data.
Device booted after flashing Chinese developer rom. However, another issue seems to have sprouted from this.
There is a prompt saying "Cant Get Valid Device ID"
ebrehemx said:
Device booted after flashing Chinese developer rom. However, another issue seems to have sprouted from this.
There is a prompt saying "Cant Get Valid Device ID"
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Just get a permission from xiaome and unlock your device and then flash custom recovery change the rom(sorry for bad english)
ebrehemx said:
Device booted after flashing Chinese developer rom. However, another issue seems to have sprouted from this.
There is a prompt saying "Cant Get Valid Device ID"
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You lost your IMEI and Modem. Try this -> https://forum.xda-developers.com/redmi-note-3/how-to/flash-recover-efs-snapdragon-t3406789
My phone box has only one IMEI code. I was able to restore that imei to the sim 2 slot. sim 1 slot has some unknown imei1.
However, after much effort flashing many roms trying many methods for efs/imei restore, i was not able to get the sim cards working. none of the sim slots work.
Does the "Radio: OFF" status mean it's being kept forcibly off by the system. i looked for an option to turn it on with no success...
aizen_souske said:
Something like this happened with me...thankfully my device was under warranty and my motherboard was changed in 2 hrs..now I unlocked officially after taking permission and using custom rom now
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Same thing is happened with me.
No recovery,No fastboot.
Took my phone to service center & they changed motherboard.
Now bootloader is locked & IMEI changed.
Tried to unlock using old account but now it shows error at 50%
How to unlock it again?
Yogendra Kher said:
Same thing is happened with me.
No recovery,No fastboot.
Took my phone to service center & they changed motherboard.
Now bootloader is locked & IMEI changed.
Tried to unlock using old account but now it shows error at 50%
How to unlock it again?
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50% error is prety common..bothibg to do with your device..thabkfully i never had such issues..but u can find plenty of youtube videos adressing this issue
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ebrehemx said:
My phone box has only one IMEI code. I was able to restore that imei to the sim 2 slot. sim 1 slot has some unknown imei1.
However, after much effort flashing many roms trying many methods for efs/imei restore, i was not able to get the sim cards working. none of the sim slots work.
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U did somethibg wrong..u have to use imei fixer and input your own imei given at the back of box..dont.input some random imei..imei spoofing is illegal
I have also lost IMEI, sent to service and motherboard was changed with IMEI. The problem is the new motherboard, which keeps rebooting, suddenly and randomly. When starts to reboot, it never stops and keeps rebooting on Mi logo - never get to loading MIUI. Even if I flash the MIUI (global) again through EDL, same thing happens. After some time, it will revive again by itself and starts booting. My fault is I didn't backup nvram with the build came from service, but with global stable after I have updated.
It sounds as a hardware issue, or it could be resolved by some software flashing/modification?
@Yogendra Kher Do you have any issues with new motherboard?
apriores said:
I have also lost IMEI, sent to service and motherboard was changed with IMEI. The problem is the new motherboard, which keeps rebooting, suddenly and randomly. When starts to reboot, it never stops and keeps rebooting on Mi logo - never get to loading MIUI. Even if I flash the MIUI (global) again through EDL, same thing happens. After some time, it will revive again by itself and starts booting. My fault is I didn't backup nvram with the build came from service, but with global stable after I have updated.
It sounds as a hardware issue, or it could be resolved by some software flashing/modification?
@Yogendra Kher Do you have any issues with new motherboard?
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My MiA3 is Dead, Please help me!!

Brothers, I was using stock ROM of Android 10 and fed up with the bugs and overheating issues so I decided to install customer ROM for a while. I followed the steps to install TWRP and my phone stuck in FASTBOOT mode. Mistakenly I did those steps in both the slots so my phone was not booting from neither slots. The time tried to flash TWRP I had my bootloader unlocked and USB Debbing enabled. In doing R&D I locked my bootloader again and was not able to unlock it as it was always showing me an error "remote unlocking not allowed". Now after 15 days my phone has not have enough battery to power on all it shows after pressing power button for 10 seconds is blinking notification light. When I try to charge it notification light keeps on blinking and nothing happens. In my country and state everything is shut down due to covid-19 and there is no hope for the service centers to open until 25 days. Is there anyone who can help me in getting my phone fixed as I can't buy new phone due to shut down neither I can service my device.
PS: I am not very much into mobile development and kind of nood.. Please help me!
iankitverma said:
Brothers, I was using stock ROM of Android 10 and fed up with the bugs and overheating issues so I decided to install customer ROM for a while. I followed the steps to install TWRP and my phone stuck in FASTBOOT mode. Mistakenly I did those steps in both the slots so my phone was not booting from neither slots. The time tried to flash TWRP I had my bootloader unlocked and USB Debbing enabled. In doing R&D I locked my bootloader again and was not able to unlock it as it was always showing me an error "remote unlocking not allowed". Now after 15 days my phone has not have enough battery to power on all it shows after pressing power button for 10 seconds is blinking notification light. When I try to charge it notification light keeps on blinking and nothing happens. In my country and state everything is shut down due to covid-19 and there is no hope for the service centers to open until 25 days. Is there anyone who can help me in getting my phone fixed as I can't buy new phone due to shut down neither I can service my device.
PS: I am not very much into mobile development and kind of nood.. Please help me!
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With locked bootloader, you need a service center with an authorized mi account. Find some online service, they will guide you and connect remotely to your PC to reflash the ROM.
_mysiak_ said:
With locked bootloader, you need a service center with an authorized mi account. Find some online service, they will guide you and connect remotely to your PC to reflash the ROM.
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And where can I find that guy who can do all this.. I am ready to pay him as well.
iankitverma said:
And where can I find that guy who can do all this.. I am ready to pay him as well.
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You can't promote paid services on xda so you will have to search yourself
iankitverma said:
And where can I find that guy who can do all this.. I am ready to pay him as well.
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Search for "xiaomi edl unbrick" on Google, at least 3 services are being mentioned on different forums. I have no personal experience with any of them, so you'll need to do your own research.

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