Unbrick or Recover Xiaomi Redmi 10A and other MTK devices

Case: Your Redmi 10A (probably other MTK devices too) is not turning on and doesn't react to any button pressed nor cable connection. Requisites:   Dead phone USB Cable  You tried tons of tutorials to unbrick the phone and didn't work This image Willingness to even use Linux to fix it (it's not hard) Steps: Create a bootable USB using the image downloaded. Make sure your computer allows booting from USB. Boot the computer from the bootable USB. When booting, a list of options will be shown. Pick the first one: Boot Live system. Once the system is loaded, go to the right-upper corner to connect to Wi-Fi. Once you have internet, use the Firefox browser (click on the icon in the left-upper corner) and download the Linux version of this tool (SP Flash) and save it in the desktop. Unzip the tool downloaded. Download the fastboot version of the stock ROM . Unzip the ROM, to have the folder and files. Click on 'MTK' icon that is in the desktop. In the command line opene

How to Use PC Inspector File Recovery

When I have problems with files missed in my PC I always use PC Inspector File Recovery to recover these files. But, from my point of view, it's not so easy to use, but with the steps shown here you will be able to use it with no problems.

When you run the application, the first thing to do is to select the language you are going to use, remember tu execute with administrator credentials.
 

Pick the language

Close the window showed after selecting the language.

Close the windows after selecting the language
 

Once you have done that, select the "search" icon located at first place in the left panel.

Select the seach icon

With this, the application will show a dialog where you have to select the "Physical drive" tab to force the program to find any logical drives. This is because we could find a formatted partition even in the chosen physical drive.

Select drive to scan
 
But finding logical drives requires a command indicating what disk physical sector will be scanned, you ca in this moment to choice all disk sectors or limited range of them, after selecting sectors, click on the "check" button.
 
Define the range to be scanned

Now you only have to wait until searching finalize, it could takes many minutes depending on your disk size.
Wait for the scanning to finish
 
In this point you will have all the logical drives (partitions) found on your disk, to check what missed files could be inside them, you have to select one by selecting it and clicking on the "check" button.
Pick the logical drive to explore
 
While the application is listing all files found in the logical driver you will see this dialog box.

Wait for the scanning to finish

As you will see, the program will list all files, the missing files will be shown in green, having the possibility to recover them.

List of the files recovered

If you want to recover one of these recovered files, you have to use the "Save to..." option which is in the right click menu on the file.

Right-click on the file to recover to save it somewhere

Just select the destination folder, and you will have your file recovered.
 
Pick the destination folder and save

Remember that not always a file is recovered as it was before deleting process so it's possible to have a non working file.

Comments

  1. PC Inspector File Recovery could not find my fixed disk's logical drive. Please help.

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    1. Hi! but... is this finding your physical drive?

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  2. PC Inspector didn't find any logical drives for my external hard drive either, however it did find my physical drives. What can I do?

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    1. Make sure you have search all the sectors that your disk has, I always recommend to look from sector 0 to max value allowed.

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  3. I have the same problem...it can find physical drive, and I do a complete search (0 to max) and select green tickbox, but nothing happens. what to do?

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    1. Oh! I don't know what is going on, I will need a kind of printscreen or similar to get involved in the problem. Thanks for reading!!! =)

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    2. Make sure you run it with administration rights. If you don't no logic drives will show.

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    3. Running it with administration rights worked for me

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    4. Make sure the drive you are selecting isn't one of the "Fixed#..." select the drive with the Letter (C: Or H: etc.) then give it a try.

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  4. My disk had WAV files on it but PC Insp just shows excel and other file types all with a 1440 size>

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    1. Hi! that's interesting, look at the application manual if there are restrictions for file recovering.

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  5. Hi 'm having the same problem, i logged on with admin props but still no logical drives shows. It looks like nothing is happing.

    I'm using a Windows 7 OS.
    What could be the cause?

    Thanks!

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  6. Hi ! I ran the File recovery as Admin, and it found my logical drives. However, after analysing everything it found no deleted files...

    Do you know how I could fix this ?

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    1. Hi! it should appear on the screen, could you try searching in all the disk?

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  7. scanning 976million sectors? holy crap? Do you know of any way i can specifically find the music/movies i deleted, that is the only thing i want, and i cannot seem to find them all in the same area, was all deleted form my desktop, so im not too sure on how to find it all, i cant go through and search each and every file that was missing becuase im not too sure exactly what all was deleted

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    1. Hi! in this case sometimes it's necessary to remember the folders in what the files were, because this is the only way this tool organizes what it recovers.

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  8. I recovered a big folder but... it was empty, with out all the files that were inside... why?

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    1. Hi! because there are files that can not be recovered, because their space are already used by new files.

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  10. The folder which I accidentally deleted was in "My Videos" WHICH MEANS IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE IN c dRIVE,RIGHT?bUT i CAN'T FIND IT OVER THERE UNDER MY ACCOUNT.i AM RUNNING AS THE ADMIN BUT I CAN'T FIND IT UNDER THE ORIGINAL ACCOUNT.HELP?

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    1. Hi! well if you can't find the folder that means that probably you can't recover it.

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  11. I also "Ran as Admin" and it worked, did not before that. Hasn't found many files yet, but I am quite sure it works as reported-just started using.

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  12. Hello!! Could you pls guide me how to find the "select sector range" option ??
    Thanks

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    1. Hi! You have first to select 'Open drive' option, once you have done that you need to select 'Physical drive' tab, under this pick on the first row and click on 'Find logical drives...'

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  15. Hi Ron, I went through the steps and PC Inspector is currently scanning my drive but it is going on 24 hours and doesn't seem to be close to finishing. I set the sector range to its max because I didn't know where the files would be and my HDD is 750 gigs. The 'time left' counter keeps going up and is currently at 1172 minutes. The cluster counter is continuing to go up and is at 85,448,465. Does this sound like it is working right? Its fine if I have to let it run for a couple days but i want to make sure this is normal. thanks in advance!

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    1. Hi Daniel! I'm not sure, but I would say that it's not normal, please try to narrow the range of sectors

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  16. It seams to me that it found everything after my SD card suddenly got everything "erased" after plug the phone to computer.
    The only problem is that all pictures are halfed, meaning half of the pictures is good but half of it is totally grey. Is there anything I can do about it by for example modifying some option?
    What is FAT no/1/2?

    Thanks

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    1. Hi! that's normal because the sectors used by the original file can be reused for others files

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  17. I ran the software and many files were recovered, but I closed the PC Inspector to return to the data later and when I returned a few hours later they were already gone. Are they saved in some temporary files folder somewhere? Thank you, in advance..

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  18. I ran the software and many files were recovered, but I closed the PC Inspector to return to the data later and when I returned a few hours later they were already gone. Are they saved in some temporary files folder somewhere? Thank you, in advance..

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    1. Hi, I'm sorry for the late response. The files are not saved as they are just got on the fly and usually they disappear as the disc is always reusing the space (so files can't be recovered).

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