Need help with my Mi Box (MDZ-16-AB) International version (Beige box) after flashing MiBOX3_USA_once_r454 - Not booting up.. Please help?

by dre10g

I followed this guide perfectly.. everything went fine until step 8, the reboot. It's stuck at the black screen with the faint mi logo in the middle and the mi, dolby, dts and hdmi logos at the bottom. I tried to reboot into recovery by unplugging the power, holding back and power on my remote, and plugging the power back in but still getting the same black screen.

After a while, I finally got in, but it was hanging on the home screen, so I did an adb reboot recovery, and flashed it again, as well as wiping/erasing first. It then rebooted to the logo screen again for a bout 10 seconds, then black screen. After about 20 retries of rebooting it finally got to the android animation, then the "press button on the remote" screen, then to the "select language" screen. But then it just hangs on there. The remote doesn't do anything from here on and the screen stays on the "language select". Rebooted again and now it just sits on the black screen again. Can't adb into it anymore as when i did the wipe before the flash, adb usb settings/wifi settings are erased.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

koshergoy

That's an unfortunate but very predictable outcome.

What do you expect with a device with a locked bootloader?

There are some very capable users here. Have you found anyone in this reddit actually endorsing this approach?

Let this be a cautionary tale to other users....

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BTW, your machine can still be placed into recovery mode using the normal process. What you do with that is a test for your minor hacking skills.