How To Unlock Bootloader, Root, and Flash TWRP Recovery Xiaomi Mi A1.

Unlock Bootloader, Root, and Flash TWRP Recovery Xiaomi Mi A1. For a mobile phone technician, modification and customization of a mobile phone is something that must be understood. This also applies to you as a beginner if you want to modify the phone. Due to minor errors in the modification process, may cause your Android phones to stop working. Surely you do not want this to happen on your phone. Therefore, you need recovery installed on the mobile phone. But, default recovery does not have a backup restore feature. For this case, you have to install a custom recovery and we suggest to install TWRP recovery.

TWRP recovery offers many advantages in managing recovery on Android phones. And now, we'll show you how to install TWRP recovery on Xiaomi Mi A1 phone. If you need the following information, please continue reading the detailed guidelines below. This device is known as Xiaomi Mi 5X.

Let's starts proceeding the tutorials.

Unlock Bootloader, TWRP, Root Mi A1

Prerequisite.

1. Always make a full backup everything stored in internal phone memory before install TWRP, in order to avoid data loss.
2. USB cable Type-C
3. Then, enable Developer Option on your Xiaomi Mi A1.
• How to enable USB debugging on Xiaomi Mi A1?
• Power ON the device.
• Connect your phone to the computer via USB cable
• Tap Settings.
• Tap About Phone.
• Tap 7 times on Build Number (until you see pop up message no need, you are already a developer)
• Back to Settings
• Tap Developer Options - here you can enable OEM Unlock & Enable USB Debugging.
4. TWRP for OREO
• TWRP recovery Xiaomi Mi A1 (This TWRP is for Oreo Only) - Oreo_3.2.2_recovery.img Rename it to twrp.img
• An alternative link - TWRP recovery Xiaomi Mi A1 (This TWRP is for Oreo Only)
• TWRP for Nougat TWRP 3.1.1-1
• TWRP 3.2.1-1 
• Download ADB (Minimal_adb_fastboot_v1.4.exe)
• Download Magisk zip file - For Root
• Download twrp-installer-tissot.zip - For Root

Step #1.

Enter Fastboot Mode Xiaomi Mi A1.

1. Turn off your devices.
2. Once your Xiaomi Mi A1 completely Powers off, then enter your device into fastboot mode.
• How to boot Xiaomi Mi A1 into fastboot Mode?
• Press and hold the Power button + Volume down button at the same time.
• Release all button when your phone enters fastboot mode.
• You will see the following picture on your phone.



root xiaomi Mi A1

• Then, connect your phone to the computer using the USB cable.
• Now, the computer will automatically install the driver for Xiaomi Mi A1.

Step #2.

How to Unlock Bootloader Xiaomi Mi A1.

1. Make sure USB Debugging and OEM unlock is enabled
2. Make sure your Xiaomi Mi A1 in fastboot mode and connected to the computer via USB cable.
3. Then, install (Minimal_adb_fastboot_v1.4.exe), Once it successfully installed now run it by double-click the desktop icon.
4. It will open a command prompt window.
5. From the command prompt window, type the following command and press enter.

• fastboot devices

6. Once your device listed, now type the following command and hit enter.

• fastboot oem unlock

7. If command prompt return to finished.total time: 0.15s it means you have successfully unlocked the bootloader on Xiaomi Mi A1.
8. Then, type the following command again and hit enter.

• fastboot oem device-info

9. This command will show you bootloader status on Xiaomi Mi A1.



root Mi A1

Step #3.

Install / Flash TWRP Recovery Xiaomi Mi A1.

1. Make sure your Xiaomi Mi A1 in fastboot mode and connected to the computer via USB cable.
2. Now go to C:\ADB
3. Move or copy TWRP recovery (twrp.img) to the ADB folder
4. From the platform tool folder, open CMD window How to do it?
• Press and hold shift button, then right-click your mouse
• Now, select Open command window here
5. From the command prompt window, type the following command and press enter.



• fastboot devices

6. Once your device listed, now type the following command and hit enter.



• fastboot flash recovery twrp.img

7. Then, type the following command again and hit enter. (this command is used to enter TWRP recovery via fastboot command)



• fastboot boot twrp.img

8. This command will force your device into the TWRP recovery menu.

Step #4.

How to Root Xiaomi Mi A1.

1. Move or copy (Magisk zip file) and (twrp-installer-tissot.zip)to the Phone storage or SD Card. Use the USB cable to transfer it from the computer to your Mi A1.
2. Power off the phone.
3. Then, enter your phone into TWRP recovery.
4. From the TWRP main menu, tap Install.
5. Then, browse the file which has been copied before.
6. Tap the file (Magisk zip file) and then swipe to start to install the file.
7. Once it finished. Tap back.
8. Repeat step 6 to flash twrp-installer-tissot.zip
9. Then reboot your phone.

Video guide.

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