for everybody that owns a Xiaomi Mi2S and doesn’t have access to a windows box and the MiPhone flash tool, flashing the kitkat miui v6 rom through fastboot is quite easy.
first install fastboot either through the android sdk or if you’re running a debian based distro:
sudo apt-get install android-tools-fastboot |
power off you’re phone and enter fastboot mode with volume down + power
i preferred running the next steps with root so i just used
sudo -i |
so i wouldn’t always have to run everything with sudo.
now check if your phone is visible with
fastboot devices |
if you see a device and number you’re ready to go.
download the new rom from here and unpack the archive. here’s a link to the thread containing more information.
in there you’ve got some batch files, shell scripts and a folder with all the images.
make sure the flash_all_except_storage.sh is executable and just run it. it does all the work for you.
here’s what you should see:
./flash_all_except_storage.sh soc-id: 109 sending 'tz' (196 KB)... OKAY [ 0.017s] writing 'tz'... OKAY [ 0.013s] finished. total time: 0.030s sending 'sbl1' (82 KB)... OKAY [ 0.008s] writing 'sbl1'... OKAY [ 0.007s] finished. total time: 0.016s sending 'sbl2' (128 KB)... OKAY [ 0.012s] writing 'sbl2'... OKAY [ 0.010s] finished. total time: 0.022s sending 'sbl3' (296 KB)... OKAY [ 0.024s] writing 'sbl3'... OKAY [ 0.017s] finished. total time: 0.042s sending 'rpm' (136 KB)... OKAY [ 0.012s] writing 'rpm'... OKAY [ 0.027s] finished. total time: 0.039s sending 'aboot' (1020 KB)... OKAY [ 0.081s] writing 'aboot'... OKAY [ 0.049s] finished. total time: 0.130s erasing 'boot'... OKAY [ 0.011s] finished. total time: 0.011s sending 'misc' (8 KB)... OKAY [ 0.004s] writing 'misc'... OKAY [ 0.003s] finished. total time: 0.007s sending 'modem+modem1' (51910 KB)... OKAY [ 4.067s] writing 'modem+modem1'... OKAY [ 4.542s] finished. total time: 8.609s sending 'system+system1' (420865 KB)... OKAY [ 32.988s] writing 'system+system1'... OKAY [ 60.549s] finished. total time: 93.538s sending 'cache' (32768 KB)... OKAY [ 2.578s] writing 'cache'... OKAY [ 2.275s] finished. total time: 4.853s sending 'userdata' (204332 KB)... OKAY [ 16.001s] writing 'userdata'... OKAY [ 11.741s] finished. total time: 27.742s sending 'recovery' (6640 KB)... OKAY [ 0.524s] writing 'recovery'... OKAY [ 0.378s] finished. total time: 0.902s sending 'boot+boot1' (4764 KB)... OKAY [ 0.376s] writing 'boot+boot1'... OKAY [ 1.239s] finished. total time: 1.615s rebooting... finished. total time: 0.001s |
your phone should now boot into the brand spanking new beta version of miui.
your sd card storage will not get wiped but it’s always a good idea to create a backup first.
as soon as your phone has booted you can go and locate the updater app and flash the weekly multilang rom releases from here the way you are used to.
have fun!
Munzil
Thanx for this.
Please. I have a New Mi2s. I successfully updated to the above version using Windows. I then tried to update it but something went wrong. It’s stuck on Miui Logo and then goes blank. I have to pull the battery as the buttons unresponsive.
I can Boot into Fastboot but the phone is ot picked up on the computer when plugged in.
I was frustrated so had to leave it for a couple of days or I would have thrown the phone through a window.
I have Linux Mint 17 on another computer and would like to try again.
I would also like to install Clockworkmod recovery and then the new [ROM | 4.4.4][ | WIUI 6 | ][ 4.9.29 ] – MULTiLanguage | AROMA |.
Can you help me and walk through the process. Big ask I know but would be appreciated.
Thanks so much
Steve Ambrose
if you want to install clockworkmod recovery you don’t need to install any other rom first.
everything else like installing WIUI 6 should be possible through clockworkmod recovery
hope that works…
[edit]you might wanna check out this wiki
I tried Fastboot (thru Terminal on my Mac) and have CWM on my Mi2 but it gave me an “remote: image is not a boot image” in the terminal. Any idea’s?
I took this file: http://htcfanboys.com/download/acid/?action=list&folder=31828
hmmm was it possible to decompress the tgz archive? and did you use the provided bash script inside or did you manually flash the boot image alone? maybe check the file with the provided checksum first… just to make sure: you can’t flash the tgz archive, you need to flash the images inside, and if you use the provided script it will overwrite cwm recovery
-bash: ./flash_all_except_storage.sh: cannot execute binary file: Chybný formát spustitelného souboru
Something is wrong, it doesn’t work.
Ubuntu 14.04.2 :(
looks like your script isn’t executable
try
before trying to run the script…