Saturday, March 4, 2017

How I Got the Adware/Malware ROM 7.8.21.8(MALCNDE) off of my Redmi 3s Using Archlinux

My Redmi 3s came from some unscrupulous vendor on Aliexpress with the MIUI 7 rom 7.8.21.8(MALCNDE).  This rom has adware, and crap that prohibits you from updating the rom.  It might have spyware for all I know.

I downloaded the appropriate fastboot rom for my phone from here..
http://en.miui.com/a-234.html

It happened to be:
land_global_images_V8.1.1.0.MALMIDI_20161108.0000.00_6.0_global_cd3d94ba1e.tgz

sudo pacman -S android-tools
tar -zxvf the_rom_you_downloaded.tgz

Connect phone to computer.  Hold the power button and volume-down button until the phone reboots.  It should boot into fastboot.

sudo sh flash_all.sh

Ta-da!

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