Flashing stock ROM for Mi A3 from EDL mode - Xiaomi Mi A3 Questions & Answers

Hi,
The Xiaomi Mi A3 is an Android One phone, is an authorized Xiaomi account necessary to flash the official ROM from EDL mode when the bootloader is locked?
The Mi A1 and A2 / Lite phones also Android One, don't require an authorized account in the same case, what's the difference with the Mi A3, perhaps the elf programmer file?
JFCH

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RaghavTeck said:
Nope. You don't need authorization. Just tear off the back cover and short edl points
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Mi Flash is giving error "System.Exception: authentication failed

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jofrecha said:
Mi Flash is giving error "System.Exception: authentication failed
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(Dlet?)

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go to Fastboot mode & unlock
go to EDL mode using command :
Code:
fastboot flashing unlock
fastboot flashing critical_unlock
fastboot oem edl

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My phone went into bootloop without any hacking/modding. I ended up EDL but whenever I flash I get a unauthorized from the flash tool.

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jofrecha said:
Hi,
The Xiaomi Mi A3 is an Android One phone, is an authorized Xiaomi account necessary to flash the official ROM from EDL mode when the bootloader is locked?
The Mi A1 and A2 / Lite phones also Android One, don't require an authorized account in the same case, what's the difference with the Mi A3, perhaps the elf programmer file?
JFCH
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Same thing happened to me, you need an authorized Mi account to flash in EDL mode. I had to connect remotely to someone who had an authorized Mi account to unbrick it.

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mewcatchew said:
Same thing happened to me, you need an authorized Mi account to flash in EDL mode. I had to connect remotely to someone who had an authorized Mi account to unbrick it.
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hello.
if you were so kind to provide who was your contact? i have the same error and like to unbrick it too.
it just boot to fastboot mode (the one with the rabbit and the android).
thanks in advance for your comments.

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Hi, I am facing similar issue as my phone is also in the fastboot mode.
Xiaomi is telling to contact their service center but in the current scenario, this is not possible.
Can you suggest how to get some OS installed so that my phone is unbricked.
d_g_m_2000 said:
hello.
if you were so kind to provide who was your contact? i have the same error and like to unbrick it too.
it just boot to fastboot mode (the one with the rabbit and the android).
thanks in advance for your comments.
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adityachelsealahoti said:
Can you suggest how to get some OS installed so that my phone is unbricked.
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you can check this tool, is very effective.
https://www.xiaomitool.com/V2/

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Hi,
Thanks for the reply.
The problem is, i had never enable USB debugging. So no tool seems to be working.
The issue occured when i received an OTA update for Android 10 and my phone went into restart mode.
There it got stuck on the fastboot screen.
I dont know if this occured due to it having being connected to charger at that point of time.
Anyways, is there any alternate option considering the USB debugging is not enabled and neither is the bootloader unlocked.

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RaghavTeck said:
Nope. You don't need authorization. Just tear off the back cover and short edl points
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RaghavTeck said:
Yes then maybe try authentication, but however I did it on my old redmi 6 pro without authentication
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reta_d

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L1p1c1 said:
reta_d
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Man learnt the hard way :silly: