Cant poweroff from bootloader

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hello

I am trying to install eos in redmi 9, lancelot.

Achieved unlock bootloader, rebooted in bootloader and flashed recovery with fastboot. But…. now I cant poweroff the device. If I keep pressed volumeup + power, phone reboots and recovery is not installed, but the default one. I try keeping power button pressed, but it rebbots instead of powering off.

What am I doing wrong?

Thank you.

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if you get to fastboot (via key combo), most menus have a poweroff menu item. Some fastboot implementations also have a poweroff command behind fastboot oem ..

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I am unable to rebbot into recovery. No way.

I boot in bootloader, is unlocked. I flash recovery with fastboot command, no error. Now, I try poweroff the phone but is impossible. It always reboots and… either goes on bootloop or boots system, or boots original recovery. No way. I don’t know what to do.

Phone is a Xiaomi Redmi 9

Thank you for your help.

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From https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-how-to-unlock-and-root-xiaomi-redmi-9-galahad-lancelot.4326097/ I would expect

fastboot flash recovery e-recovery.img

fastboot reboot recovery
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Tries, but reboots inmediately to system

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when I try: fastboot boot eosrecovery.img:

Sending 'boot.img' (65536 KB)                      OKAY [  2.171s]
Booting                                            FAILED (Status read failed (Too many links))
fastboot: error: Command failed
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News

I did this from bootloader:

fastboot --disable-verification flash vbmeta vbmeta_redmi9.img

and then flashed a twrp image I found …

And it worked.

But, from there…. I tried ADB sideload but then twrp restarts, strange.

I then tried flashing eos recovery but same behaviour than before.

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Try to flash recovery-e using the TWRP install feature

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Hi, any success on this issue? If yes, fine. If not, I’d like to share my experience with my XiaomiPoco X3. It is a bit tricky in terms of the handling of the buttons. For me this finally worked:

  • Start the Phone in FASTBOOT-Mode, flash the e/OS-Recovery.
  • Disconnect USB
  • Take 4 deep breath of fresh air, because everything now needs to be done without any hesitation
  • Press the Power-Button. IMMEDIATELY, when the Screen turns black:
  • Release the Power Button
  • Press 1. Volume-UP, 2. Power-Button (this has to be done within 0,5 Seconds after the Sreen went black)
  • After about 1,5 or 2 seconds with the two buttons pressed the Vibration-Motor inside the Phone is activated for a split-second. The Screen is still black!
  • Now IMMEDIATELY release both buttons. The Screen will remain black for another 3 to 5 seconds. The longer this takes, the higher the chance, that the Phone starts in E/OS Recovery
  • May the Luck be with you!
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Ok….

Thing I have tried:

Several recoveries…. The only one works is this:

https://xdaforums.com/t/twrp-recovery-lancelot-android-11-12.4531485/

But, sideload doesn’t work. It simply restarts recovery.

If I try flash zip eos from there, It seems to do it right, no errors on screen. But, when I reboot, it does boot loop.

Im gonna try the StrgW_AltF4 proposal….

This is so frustrating ….

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Do I have to reflash recovery every try or is not necesary?

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if TWRP works,
copy the recovery-e.img into the phone memory
and use the TWRP “install” feature to flash the recovery-e (choose “install image”)

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Just tried. Sounded good but…. bootloop.

I go to bed now. Here it’s 2:06 AM. Enough frustration for today. Good night.

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When i choose flash image, a list of partitions appears.

There shows 2 bootloader partitions. What if I flash eos recovery on one of them??

Would it work or break?

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should show “boot” partition and “recovery” partition !

if you flash the recovery-e.img to the recovery partition, you would have to reboot to recovery using the “reboot” menu from the TWRP main menu…

what are you expecting to break using its traditional method ?

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When I choose Flash image, and I select e os receovery image file, it shows this list of partitions:

Select partition to flash image:
System image
super
boot
dtbo
Recovery
bootloader
bootloader2
Vendor image
nvram

I select Recovery, it ends with no error. I boot into recovery…. and get bootloop.. Gonna try older eos recovery images to test, I will return woth results

EDIT:

eos recovery 2.4.1 …. nothing. Bootloop.

Anyone achieved anything more with Redmi9 lancelot ??

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Taht’s ok, but…. it hasnt lot of sense in this case…. why then the twrp version wich boots does it without that trick? Problem must be anything else.

Thank you all anyway

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I’ve run into similar behavior on some devices where the bootloader power-off option simply doesn’t respond. In a few cases it turned out to be a quirk of the specific bootloader build, and the only workaround was either rebooting back into the system or using fastboot commands from a PC. Would be interesting to know if this is device-specific or a broader issue.

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Sometimes it is just something like a USB-Wire. Did you try another one? When I rooted my Samsung, I had to use a USB-Hub, the direct “one-wire” connection produced error-messages during the ADB-Sideload. I also noticed, that running the TAR-commands (which are used to convert the .zip in the FASTBOOT-Process) in Windows11 produced another result than those I had running them from LinuxMint. So it might be something peripheral on your equipment causing the difficulties.

I did never use the TRWP Tools before, that’s why I cannot comment. But their method bypasses the Computer-Hardware and USB issues as far as possible.