Unbrick MI9 with Bootloader locked and "System has been destroyed" - Xiaomi Mi 9 Guides, News, & Discussion

Hello people,
After 4 days trying to save my Mi9 with 2 weeks, i've recover it.
Thanks to dj_sk, diamond member of MIUI forum.
Behind put the link that helped me.
HTTPS://en.miui.com/thread-3450268-1-1.html
I hope that help you.

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PRolo said:
Hello people,
After 4 days trying to save my Mi9 with 2 weeks, i've recover it.
Thanks to dj_sk, diamond member of MIUI forum.
Behind put the link that helped me.
HTTPS://en.miui.com/thread-3450268-1-1.html
I hope that help you.
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Thanks for this, which rom your phone came with, Chinese, global or EEA? cheers

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a post to keep warm in case of problems thank you

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vtec303 said:
Thanks for this, which rom your phone came with, Chinese, global or EEA? cheers
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EEA.
Sent from my MI 9 using XDA Labs

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PRolo said:
EEA.
Sent from my MI 9 using XDA Labs
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Ok, how did you manage to brick it ?

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With Miflash tool V2, give me a error in the end and the good notice that "system has been removed".
After that were 4 days of pain...
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Bricked Mi 9
Let me get straight to the point before I explain. I bricked my Mi 9 (had it for weeks but didn't use it till I got the bootloader unlocked) and it doesn't boot into TWRP can only get it to fastboot no matter what I tried so far. Installed an unofficial TWRP there are two types with practically 0 differences. This Mi 9 is the global version. 6gb 128gb storage
So I wanted to try Xiaomi.EU ROM as it's a debloated version as some would say. but that had a nasty camera bug, status bar notch looked cramped and unpolluted as they tried to minimise the bar. Some apps from the playstore wasn't installing like the DJI mimo app, it would just cancel halfway through the download. Then I completely forgot that my fingerprint scanner won't work on my banking app anymore, since the bootloader is unlocked. Google Pay also suffers from that and I know you can use magisk etc to sort out most of the problems like the fingerprint scanner and Gpay. So after discovering these issues, there are far too many to deal with now. I'll just go back and try something more clean and that's where all the mess began...
I haven't rooted in a few years so I'm very rusty at half the stuff that is happening. I know bits and bobs but that was with my Nexus and Pixel phones. Mi 9 is my first official replacement and I thought hey let's get back into mods etc. If only I had more knowledge on what to do. I will still try to figure it myself, so I potentially could help others but I fear I won't get far.
Anyways tried to get it back to run a beta version of the latest global or stable and so the last thing I did before all things went to . I went to TWRP and advance wiped dalvik, cache and data and was specifically told not to mark sdcard and another option which was there. (This was a thread I was reading, can't remember which site) now the phone completely 'ded' as in it is now stuck in the bootloop and doesn't go anywhere else besides fastboot. How I went about flashing TWRP and trying to install magisk was using the XiaoMiTools V2 which did some of the work (unbrick feature isn't available yet on the toolkit). But after the wipe I did, the toolkit doesn't recognise the device and MiFlash also doesn't seem to work although with that I think I get weird prompt like something didn't go well and I'm maybe not doing something right although I believe I have. Because the phone has been wiped I don't have ADB debugging on the device and I believe that could have been a solution for me to wiggle out of the mess. So I'm desperately looking for the community to help get my Mi 9 fully operational again. Anyone out there?
Only thing fastboot seemed to recognise is when I'm flashing the different two versions of twrp.img
Looking forward to your comments.

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Hello friend, I have the same problem as you. `` The system has been destroyed''. I wanted to know which Chinese version you have used, because I have the EEA V10.2.17.0 and I do not know which Chinese version to use, the ones I downloaded have given me an error. Tell me who you used your thanks. If you could make me a little guide, I would be very grateful for more than 10 days without my mi9 .. @PRolo

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I don,t have my pc with me, download the EEA original from Miui. And with Mi Tool Pro install that, follow the steps on link i put um the beginning.
If didn't work tell me and when I came home help you.

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PRolo said:
I don,t have my pc with me, download the EEA original from Miui. And with Mi Tool Pro install that, follow the steps on link i put um the beginning.
If didn't work tell me and when I came home help you.
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But what exactly did you do, I have tried it by all means and it does not recover from the brick I happened the same as you. And I've tried the tutorial and there's no way. You did the whole turorial? or just up to some step?

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Hello friend, nothing is needed. He took it out of the brick. It is taken out only with the first step of the program. What the nose is because it did not work the first time I tried it. Greetings and thank you

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domingoorta said:
But what exactly did you do, I have tried it by all means and it does not recover from the brick I happened the same as you. And I've tried the tutorial and there's no way. You did the whole turorial? or just up to some step?
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Bit of an old post to reply to... But did you manage to fix your problem? Did you note down the build of the original ROM that was on your device in the first place?

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Thanks for this post, sadly my new Mi9 is in the same condition. All I did was update to lastest EEA-ROM (which was offered automatically by system right after setup), registered for BL unlock and finally decided to Factory Reset and start afresh as did not recover data from my Google backup.
Right now I cannot use recovery mode as the recovery also throws the "System destroyed" error (presumably because the update did something awful with the recovery).
As the mentioned method does not work in fastboot mode I am a bit at a loss on what to do - besides waiting for the BL unlock timer to do its thing (which it hopefully will do despite the fact that I don't use the phone ATM). I tried a lot of tools and hints but so far with BL locked its a no-go
Any ideas/suggestions ?

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s3axel said:
Any ideas/suggestions ?
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Can you enter fastboot or recovery?
Do you know which exact version of rom your phone was using in the first place?

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reg66 said:
Can you enter fastboot or recovery?
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Fastboot only...
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s3axel said:
Fastboot only...
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do you know what your exact rom version was? Before the update...
Have you tried miFlash Tool from here, which also has instructions. On the same page is a link to latest fastboot ROMS. here's another link to fastboot roms. Does this help?

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reg66 said:
do you know what your exact rom version was? Before the update...
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No, sadly I don't recall that. Presently I cannot recover any info on the version with fastboot getvar all, the fields are empty.
I think I can remember the update had something with a "9" or "19" in it - but the "9" would mean a global ROM instead of an EEA which I expected (the phone is marked with global, though)... I do recall Google Update is from 03/19...
Well, what a mess...
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s3axel said:
No, sadly I don't recall that. Presently I cannot recover any info on the version with fastboot getvar all, the fields are empty.
I think I can remember the update had something with a "9" or "19" in it - but the "9" would mean a global ROM instead of an EEA which I expected (the phone is marked with global, though)... I do recall Google Update is from 03/19...
Well, what a mess...
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Well if its marked global you might not have any choice but to try and flash global fastboot rom. See above post for links

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reg66 said:
Well if its marked global you might not have any choice but to try and flash global fastboot rom. See above post for links
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Thanks, tried that with MiFlash but it seems unable to erase existing partitions with locked BL. I'll try EEA next, maybe it's a ROM compatibility thing...
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s3axel said:
Thanks, tried that with MiFlash but it seems unable to erase existing partitions with locked BL. I'll try EEA next, maybe it's a ROM compatibility thing...
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Fingers crossed