How to Bring back A Dead Redmi 2 Back To Life

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><div style="text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;"><ignore_js_op style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img aid="263289" file="data/attachment/forum/201501/20/171729zcavckviics71hca.jpg.thumb.jpg" id="aimg_263289" initialized="true" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201501/20/171729zcavckviics71hca.jpg.thumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201501/20/171729zcavckviics71hca.jpg" /></span></ignore_js_op></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"> This tutorial will teach you how to restore your Redmi 2 to a perfectly working state when you soft brick your device. </span><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">A soft brick may be a result of flashing the wrong ROM, wrong recovery image or accidently messing with system files which should have been left alone. And a soft brick does not require you to head over to the service center because you can fix it in under an hour. So without wasting much time, lets get on with the tutorial. </span><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;"><u style="word-wrap: break-word;">Requirements:</u></span></span></span><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><br /><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">A bricked Redmi 2 with USB cable</span></li><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">A Computer running windows operating System (Win 7 preferred)</span></li><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">MiFlash tool. Download it from here - </span></span></li></ul><div class="showhide" style="border: 1px dashed rgb(255, 154, 154); margin: 8px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px; word-wrap: break-word; zoom: 1;"><h4 style="color: #ff6666; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://bigota.d.miui.com/tools/MiPhone20140509.exe"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">MiFlash Tool</span></a></span></h4></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">Redmi 2 fastboot ROM. Download from here -</span></span></li></ul><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">Stable ROM</span> -<a href="http://update.miui.com/updates/v1/fullromdownload.php?d=wt88047&b=F&r=cn&n=" style="color: #336699; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"></a></span><br /><div class="showhide" style="border: 1px dashed rgb(255, 154, 154); margin: 8px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px; word-wrap: break-word; zoom: 1;"><h4 style="color: #ff6666; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://update.miui.com/updates/v1/fullromdownload.php?d=wt88047&b=F&r=cn&n="><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Redmi 2 Stable Fastboot ROM</span></a></span></h4></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">Developer ROM</span> -</span><br /><div class="showhide" style="border: 1px dashed rgb(255, 154, 154); margin: 8px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px; word-wrap: break-word; zoom: 1;"><h4 style="color: #ff6666; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;"><a href="http://update.miui.com/updates/v1/fullromdownload.php?d=wt88047&b=F&r=cn&n=" style="color: #336699; text-align: left; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Redmi 2 Developer Fastboot ROM</span></a></h4></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">A bottle of Soda and some chips to kill time. </span></span></li></ul><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Procedure:</span></span></span><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><br /><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">Download and install Mi Flash  tool.</span></span></li><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">Download and extract the fastboot ROM to a folder on your D drive. Do not extract to desktop. For example extract to D:/Xiaomi/ folder.</span></span></li><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">Open MIflash Tool, click on browse button.</span></span></li><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">Select Advanced.</span></li><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">Select ONLY "FLASH ALL.BAT" (for complete new system) or "Except DATA STORAGE.BAT" (for saving the user DATA) ---[ BETTER DO FLASH ALL ] from the extracted FASTBOOT ROM , in FASTBOOT SCRIPT OPTION.</span></li><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">Now leave the second option BLANK [ Nv boot script ]</span></li><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">Now browse and select proper files from image inside fastboot rom folder folder for MSIMAGE.MBN , MPRG.MBN , RAW0 programming.XML and Patch0.xml in appropriate options</span></li><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">now browse and select proper files from image inside fastboot rom folder folder for MSIMAGE.MBN , MPRG.MBN , RAW0 programming.XML and Patch0.xml in appropriate options.</span></li><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">Turn on your Phone in Fastboot mode. To do that, press power + volume down button.</span></li><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">Connect the device to pc via the USB cable.</span></li><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">Drivers will install , let them finish</span></li><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">Press refresh On Mi flash , if you get a device as anything "0" or "324ehvh2" or just COM # --- JUST PRESS FLASH BUTTON</span></li><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">The phone is now being flashed , after operation completed,  connect the battery if you had removed it, assemble phone and boot (if mi logo come your phone is fixed )(if battery discharged it will not boot - put it on charge if red led blinks - it means phone fixed)</span></li><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">If some driver fails during installation or you dont see any device on miflash , check device manager for any driver not installed properly and install it manually and browse the driver from /programfile/xiaomi/miflash/qualcomm/ "here" .</span></li><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">If miflash gives some error like reached end of fie, receive Hello packets, give the pc a reboot , but be sure to again press f8 and disable driver verification. Is still problem persists, do try another pc running XP or windows 7.</span></li><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">If you face any problem with driver installation - make sure you disabled driver signature detection while booting windows by pressing F8.</span></li><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;">If problems persists try contacting me ;)</span></span></span></li></ul><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;">Visual Guide for the Mi Flash Operations:</span></span></span></span><br /><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">Select the appropriate options as mentioned in this image and leave the Nv Boot Script option Blank- </span></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;"><ignore_js_op style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img aid="263229" file="data/attachment/forum/201501/20/165646le77ixo1h2ex43ei.jpg.thumb.jpg" id="aimg_263229" initialized="true" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201501/20/165646le77ixo1h2ex43ei.jpg.thumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201501/20/165646le77ixo1h2ex43ei.jpg" /></span></ignore_js_op></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;"><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">Click on browse and select the appropriate files for options selected from where you have extracted your ROM. </span></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;"><ignore_js_op style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img aid="263240" file="data/attachment/forum/201501/20/170147t2awip6ivpi85566.jpg.thumb.jpg" id="aimg_263240" initialized="true" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201501/20/170147t2awip6ivpi85566.jpg.thumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201501/20/170147t2awip6ivpi85566.jpg" /></span></ignore_js_op></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;"><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">Now connect your Device. Drivers would install. Once installation is complete. Click on refresh. You should get a device.</span></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;"><ignore_js_op style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img aid="263228" file="data/attachment/forum/201501/20/165628s4iozfctiucujttk.jpg.thumb.jpg" id="aimg_263228" initialized="true" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201501/20/165628s4iozfctiucujttk.jpg.thumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201501/20/165628s4iozfctiucujttk.jpg" /></span></ignore_js_op></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;"><ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; text-align: left; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">Click on "Flash". Your device will get flashed with the new Fastboot ROM and voila you have fixed your device. If you had removed the battery, connect it back. Turn on your phone. In some cases battery may be drained, so give your phone a good charge. </span></span></span></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 21px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;"><ignore_js_op style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img aid="263226" file="data/attachment/forum/201501/20/165617xl2pnr2qrmlvmkr1.jpg.thumb.jpg" id="aimg_263226" initialized="true" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201501/20/165617xl2pnr2qrmlvmkr1.jpg.thumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201501/20/165617xl2pnr2qrmlvmkr1.jpg" /></span></ignore_js_op></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 21px;">source: <a href="http://en.miui.com/thread-78806-1-1.html">miuiForum</a></span></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div>

How to Bring back A Dead Redmi 2 Back To Life

 This tutorial will teach you how to restore your Redmi 2 to a perfectly working state when you soft brick your device.  A soft brick may be...

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