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I think it should be way more prominent that:
- You have to unlock your phone with Xiaomi tools + account
- You have to wait several days to proceed
- Shortest waiting period is 7 days not 30 - or at least it was in my case
I mean - like at least first two points should be visible already in devices list.
In the section “Flashing additional partitions”, the documentation states “unzip the /e/OS Recovery file linked in the section marked Downloads for cupid” but only a recovery image is available. It then says to flash files boot.img, dtbo.img, and vendor_boot.img which are not provided. I assume these refer to the files that can be downloaded from LineageOS ( LineageOS Downloads ). If that is correct, it would be useful to mention this.
From Install page Install /e/OS on a Xiaomi 12 - “cupid” we see
Tip: In case the partition files are not available in the /e/OS recovery zip, users can try and download them from the LineageOS wiki install page specific to this device and OS build.
Alternatively there is
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@Manoj this method using payload dumper should be part of the install documentation!