How to unlock Bootloader on all Xiaomi Device (Redmi and Mi series) with Mi Unlock tool, New method

Xiaomi is currently one of the largest smartphone manufacturers in the world. The company is currently ranked among bigger players like Samsung, Huawei, Oppo and Apple in terms of smartphone sales. Xiaomi's success is mostly due to the company's affordable smartphones as well its MIUI custom Android Skin.

Aside providing customers with affordable smartphones, Xiaomi also cares a lot about user's privacy and security, this is the reason Xiaomi always locks the bootloader of all it's smartphones out of the box. This will help protect user data from intruders in case of stolen or misplaced phone. With a locked bootloader, users can not flash ROMs or boot into recovery to perform a factory reset.

However if you want to flash custom or stock ROMs on your Xiaomi phone, Xiaomi allows users to unlock the bootloader on their phones. With an unlocked bootloader, users can flash custom ROMs, custom kernels, Install Custom Recoveries, Grant root access, etc. The process of unlocking bootloader on Xiaomi smartphones use to be long and tedious as you have to apply and wait for unlock permission, but now the process has been simplified.

In this post, I will guide you guys on the few simple steps on how to unlock the bootloader of your Xiaomi smartphones.

"Note:- After you unlock the device, it will become less secure. Your personal data might be leaked or lost. Unlocking your device bootloader is not advised unless you know what you are doing. So Please proceed at your own risk, and you are hold responsible for your own device."

How to unlock bootloader on all Xiaomi phones

1. Click on this LINK to download Mi Unlock tool. 

2. Extract the Mi Unlock tool to your PC.

3. Go to your phone Settings > About Phone Then tap on MIUI Version (7 times). You will see a message "Now you are a developer"

4. Now go back to Settings >> Additional Setting > Developer Options then enable USB Debugging  

5. Also enable OEM Unlocking from the Developer options.  

6. Go back to Developer options > Mi Unlock status, click on Add account and device and enter your Mi account.

* If you see error like connect to the network & try again,  then Logout the Mi Account from device & directly sign in from Add account and device page.

7.  After that, turn off your phone and boot into fastboot mode by pressing the Power button and Volume down button simultaneously.

8.  Then connect the device to your Windows PC/laptop via a USB cable

9. Open the Mi unlock tool folder you extracted in Step 2 and open miflash_unlock.exe and click on Agree.

9. Sign in to your Mi account (the same account you signed in on the phone). 

10.  In case you get error like "current account is not bound" then repeat the step 6 and make sure you sign in with the same Mi account.

11. Once the phone connects, click on Unlock.

12. You will get the error message,  Couldn't unlock, After XX hrs of trying to unlock the device.

13. You will have to wait for the given time before trying again.

14.After the XX hrs is complete, just try to unlock again by starting from step 7 and it should unlock successfully.

15. After that, just reboot your phone.

That is all guys. If you have any question, kindly drop it in the comment section below and it will be responded to as soon as possible.

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