Install Twrp on Xiaomi Mi Play with MIUI 10 - Xiaomi Mi Play Questions & Answers

Hi!
I would like to seek helps with getting my Xiaomi Mi Play's bootloader unlocked and installed twrp and rooted. I have not found any guide or leads for getting twrp for this device as it only came out a few weeks or months back. Thank you!

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hello!! when the twrp comes out for mi play?

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Bump! It's a budget phone that would really benefit from a few Android rooted tricks

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yes, twrp would be good to get rid of google apps. bloatware

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any news ?

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There Is no custom recovery about this device

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Do you know who develops the twrp software?
peppinx80 said:
hello!! when the twrp comes out for mi play?
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I almost ranted about the good old days!! WHOA! jeez cool guy theres like 6 folks considering making that for you. I told em you are upset. So not too much longer ..

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trace_back2019 said:
Hi!
I would like to seek helps with getting my Xiaomi Mi Play's bootloader unlocked and installed twrp and rooted. I have not found any guide or leads for getting twrp for this device as it only came out a few weeks or months back. Thank you!
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Hi, you can unlock bootloader directly with xiaomi tools.. You need to register to xiaomi website

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hello everyone ,is anyone heard any news if someone is working in a development of an stock android rom for mi play,im not very happy with mui..

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i could only install global rom. no 1mei repair or twrp magisk flash.

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I Agree
I got mine rooted through using the guides on this site. Then i screwed up and tried to install a twrp ,,and well had to go back to stock. Now the phone is friendly to work on once you get the bootloader unlocked.
On a good note ive noticed a few folks working on it and i am too although this isnt my forte. So when it happens you better believe myself or someone on the ball will make a tutorial. Have you unlocked the bootloader yet?

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tosunkaya said:
i could only install global rom. no 1mei repair or twrp magisk flash.
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At least you could switch to global! Where did you find the ROM?

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global rom
sinemora said:
At least you could switch to global! Where did you find the ROM?
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Here is one source.
http://c.mi.com/thread-2199072-1-1.html

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Hi all, my idea is to port stock recovery to twrp. To do so I need:
1) create a ported twrp;
2) unlock bootloader;
3) try the ported recovery without flashing it with " fastboot boot ported-twrp.img"
4) If all is ok flash IT.
1) Ive downloaded the Mi play global stock rom for fastboot and then I've ported the stock recovery with Mediatek (MTK) Auto TWRP recovery porter by Team Hovatek to twrp but I've received that DM_Verity is active and i have to patch the boot with Magisk but I do not know what exactly do with Magisk. Do you have any suggestion?

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Any update about this. I am rooting for an update for this mobile device

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UPDATED 03 12 21 : I build a TWRP recovery for Xiaomi Mi play.
Unofficial TWRP Recovery 3.5.2_9-0
on https://github.com/gokur20/twrp_xiaomi_lotus_-Mi-Play-/releases you can the TWRP compiled for our Xiaomi Mi Play. It works with fw_lotus_miui_MIPLAYGlobal_V11.0.10.0.OFIMIXM_1600406463_8.1 and my be with other versions. Instructions: in...
forum.xda-developers.com
You can flash Gapps with It.
OUTDATED: No good news about flashing TWRP but I reached to install Lineageos 16 GSI with GAPPS without using any Recovery (lineage-16.0-20191017-UNOFFICIAL-treble_arm64_avN.img).
Our Smartphone seems to be compatible with GSI Aonly VNDKLITE. (I could not find any other like roms).
Steps with usb cable:
1- Reboot in fastboot mode
2- erase system, cache and userdata partition
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase userdata
3- flash lineage-16.0-20191017-UNOFFICIAL-treble_arm64_avN.img in system, original cache.img, original userdata.img and original vbmeta.img disabling encryption and verity.
fastboot flash system lineage-16.0-20191017-UNOFFICIAL-treble_arm64_avN.img
fastboot flash cache cache.img
fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
fastboot --disable-verity --disable-verification flash vbmeta vbmeta.img
4 - reboot
fastboot reboot
5 - To install the GAPPS without TWRP, we have to download gapps (Android 9) and do some work on the package to prepare to directly copy via adb the Core Apks and the permission in the right folder of the system partition. before we have to enable developer mode and in Developer option the root access over adb. Essentially you have to unzip the gapps package, unzip the packages inside the Core folder (I used lunzip with ubuntu) extract the apks and the xml files (permission), remount the system partition in rw , copy them in the right folders (you can take a look to gapps-remove.txt to have an idea, /system/priv-app/ /system/app/ /system/etc/permissions/, /system/etc/default-permissions/, /system/etc/default-permissions/) give the right permissions to apks (644) and reboot the system. Here is my script, in my example I have already divided the files in different folders on the PC.
#!/bin/bash
echo "Assicurati di aver abilitato ADB root in Opzioni Sviluppatore"
echo "Lo Script copierà gli APKs in /system/priv-app ed imposterà i permessi a 644 \n"
read -p "Premi un tasto per continuare.."
sudo adb root
sudo adb remount
sudo adb push ./priv-app/*.apk /system/priv-app/
sudo adb push ./app/*.apk /system/app/
sudo adb push ./xml/etc_permissions/*.xml /system/etc/permissions/
sudo adb shell mkdir /system/etc/default-permissions/
sudo adb push ./xml/etc_default-permissions/*.xml /system/etc/default-permissions/
sudo adb push ./xml/etc_sysconfig/*.xml /system/etc/sysconfig/
sudo adb shell chmod 644 /system/priv-app/AndroidMigratePrebuilt.apk
sudo adb shell chmod 644 /system/priv-app/CarrierSetup.apk
sudo adb shell chmod 644 /system/priv-app/ConfigUpdater.apk
sudo adb shell chmod 644 /system/priv-app/GoogleBackupTransport.apk
sudo adb shell chmod 644 /system/app/GoogleContactsSyncAdapter.apk
sudo adb shell chmod 644 /system/priv-app/GoogleExtServices.apk
sudo adb shell chmod 644 /system/priv-app/GoogleExtShared.apk
sudo adb shell chmod 644 /system/priv-app/GoogleFeedback.apk
sudo adb shell chmod 644 /system/priv-app/GoogleOneTimeInitializer.apk
sudo adb shell chmod 644 /system/priv-app/GooglePartnerSetup.apk
sudo adb shell chmod 644 /system/priv-app/GoogleRestore.apk
sudo adb shell chmod 644 /system/priv-app/GoogleServicesFramework.apk
sudo adb shell chmod 644 /system/priv-app/Phonesky.apk
sudo adb shell chmod 644 /system/priv-app/PrebuiltGmsCorePi.apk
sudo adb shell chmod 644 /system/priv-app/SetupWizard.apk
echo "Finito, ora il telefono verrà riavviato, esamina il file di log per eventuali errori /n"
read -p "Premi un tasto per continuare.."
sudo adb reboot

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gokur20 said:
No good news about flashing TWRP but I reached to install Lineageos 16 GSI with GAPPS without using any Recovery (lineage-16.0-20191017-UNOFFICIAL-treble_arm64_avN.img).
Our Smartphone seems to be compatible with GSI Aonly VNDKLITE. (I could not find any other like roms).
Steps with usb cable:
1- Reboot in fastboot mode
2- erase system, cache and userdata partition
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase userdata
3- flash lineage-16.0-20191017-UNOFFICIAL-treble_arm64_avN.img in system, original cache.img, original userdata.img and original vbmeta.img disabling encryption and verity.
fastboot flash system lineage-16.0-20191017-UNOFFICIAL-treble_arm64_avN.img
fastboot flash cache cache.img
fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
fastboot --disable-verity --disable-verification flash vbmeta vbmeta.img
4 - reboot
fastboot reboot
5 - To install the GAPPS without TWRP, we have to download gapps (Android 9) and do some work on the package to prepare to directly copy via adb the Core Apks and the permission in the right folder of the system partition. before we have to enable developer mode and in Developer option the root access over adb. Essentially you have to unzip the gapps package, unzip the packages inside the Core folder (I used lunzip with ubuntu) extract the apks and the xml files (permission), remount the system partition in rw , copy them in the right folders (you can take a look to gapps-remove.txt to have an idea, /system/priv-app/ /system/app/ /system/etc/permissions/, /system/etc/default-permissions/, /system/etc/default-permissions/) give the right permissions to apks (644) and reboot the system. Here is my script, in my example I have already divided the files in different folders on the PC.
#!/bin/bash
echo "Assicurati di aver abilitato ADB root in Opzioni Sviluppatore"
echo "Lo Script copierà gli APKs in /system/priv-app ed imposterà i permessi a 644 \n"
read -p "Premi un tasto per continuare.."
sudo adb root
sudo adb remount
sudo adb push ./priv-app/*.apk /system/priv-app/
sudo adb push ./app/*.apk /system/app/
sudo adb push ./xml/etc_permissions/*.xml /system/etc/permissions/
sudo adb shell mkdir /system/etc/default-permissions/
sudo adb push ./xml/etc_default-permissions/*.xml /system/etc/default-permissions/
sudo adb push ./xml/etc_sysconfig/*.xml /system/etc/sysconfig/
sudo adb shell chmod 644 /system/priv-app/AndroidMigratePrebuilt.apk
sudo adb shell chmod 644 /system/priv-app/CarrierSetup.apk
sudo adb shell chmod 644 /system/priv-app/ConfigUpdater.apk
sudo adb shell chmod 644 /system/priv-app/GoogleBackupTransport.apk
sudo adb shell chmod 644 /system/app/GoogleContactsSyncAdapter.apk
sudo adb shell chmod 644 /system/priv-app/GoogleExtServices.apk
sudo adb shell chmod 644 /system/priv-app/GoogleExtShared.apk
sudo adb shell chmod 644 /system/priv-app/GoogleFeedback.apk
sudo adb shell chmod 644 /system/priv-app/GoogleOneTimeInitializer.apk
sudo adb shell chmod 644 /system/priv-app/GooglePartnerSetup.apk
sudo adb shell chmod 644 /system/priv-app/GoogleRestore.apk
sudo adb shell chmod 644 /system/priv-app/GoogleServicesFramework.apk
sudo adb shell chmod 644 /system/priv-app/Phonesky.apk
sudo adb shell chmod 644 /system/priv-app/PrebuiltGmsCorePi.apk
sudo adb shell chmod 644 /system/priv-app/SetupWizard.apk
echo "Finito, ora il telefono verrà riavviato, esamina il file di log per eventuali errori /n"
read -p "Premi un tasto per continuare.."
sudo adb reboot
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I downloaded the official rom from stockrom.net (it didn't have data.img and cache.img), so I continued the other steps, when I finished my device was still in bootloop, I flashed the stock rom's boot.img to try to fix it, but now my device is in black screen, the logo doesn't appear and I can't even go back to fastboot anymore, do you know how to solve it?

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felipeelive said:
I downloaded the official rom from stockrom.net (it didn't have data.img and cache.img), so I continued the other steps, when I finished my device was still in bootloop, I flashed the stock rom's boot.img to try to fix it, but now my device is in black screen, the logo doesn't appear and I can't even go back to fastboot anymore, do you know how to solve it?
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You can always fix It.
I had the same problem even without vibration. I followed this:
NB. in few word you have to block reboot with this tool and then use MT Flash tool to flash again the stock ROM.