However, it is important to remember that the Hard reset of the smartphone with MIUI, as well as other Android mobiles, must be done under the responsibility of the user, and although it is not a process that makes us lose the guarantee, but it could lead to errors that make us go to the technical service. It is essential that the phone has enough battery, since if the battery runs out in the middle of the reset, we could turn our device into a brick.
In addition, we must take into account some keys to avoid making mistakes before starting this process, since it is a very important change for our terminal. Like, for example, the fact that there will be no way to recover the files, photos or items stored on the smartphone.
And not only this, but before starting this process, we recommend that your phone has a sufficient battery level. Otherwise, some other error may occur, such as not completing. For this reason, it is preferable that it be charged to 100% or, at least, above 50%.
The steps to follow are the following, so we should not trust other processes of dubious origin:
- We start by turning off the Chinese mobile.
- We hold down the power button and the volume up button until we see the Xiaomi logo.
- This will take us to the Recovery menu where we move with the volume buttons and access with the power button.
- We place ourselves in the ‘Wipe Data’ option and choose it.
- Then we repeat the steps with the ‘Wipe All Data’ option.
- Click on confirm.
- After this process, click on the ‘Back to main menu’ option.
- In the new screen we choose ‘Reboot’ and, finally, ‘Reboot to System’.
From settings
This process is less well known, since most users use the classic method with the buttons. But, it is good that you know another way to do Hard Reset on Xiaomi. To do this, you must follow the following steps:
- Go into the phone settings.
- Go to the System Information section.
- Then tap on the MIUI version.
- Within this menu, make several clicks until the additional update options of your mobile are activated.
- Click on the three vertical dots > Reboot into recovery mode.
Once the smartphone restarts, we will already be in the long-awaited Recovery menu that we saw in the previous method, so, from here on, all the steps will be the same.
Because I can not?
The situation in which many users have found themselves and has resulted in the impossibility of following these steps has two possible reasons. Through the forums of the Asian brand and social networks we have met users who explained that after having followed the steps like the ones we ourselves have explained can’t do reset on Xiaomi since instead of appearing the recovery menu the fastboot menu appears, which we do not need in this case.
In some terminals of this brand that are older, the recovery menu does not work the same as in the current ones and the key combination is different, so what we will have to do is change the combination of volume up and power off buttons, for down volume and off.
This combination is the one used in most Android smartphones, so it is still seen in some models of the Chinese firm. Therefore, this will solve it and we can proceed to do the Hard Reset on a Xiaomi mobile without the Mitu character appearing.
Another case that users have encountered but less frequently is when, after following the steps, the system makes it easier for us to connect the mobile to the computer. This leads us to think that we are using a ROM that is not original because it is possibly a smartphone purchased outside the brand’s “umbrella”. Before this we will have to try to modify the ROM and we can only do a factory reset from Settings> About the phone> Factory reset.
Problems after doing
Once we have managed to carry out the Hard Reset on our Xiaomi, and we have wiped all data from the device, and the first inconveniences to complete it have disappeared… It is possible that we can continue to be clogged with some other situation that is complicating our lives, and that is making us suffer more than necessary to be able to use our Chinese mobile normally.
For this reason, we bring you all the problems that have arisen to users, so we will give you the different solutions that have worked for them so that you are not affected by these situations, since errors can sometimes be a real headache. head if we don’t know what the phone is asking us for.
The mobile asks me for a PIN
No matter what steps we have followed to return the Chinese smartphone to normal, there is a security system in our mobile that prevents anyone who finds it on the street from being able to do this factory wipe and use it as if they had bought it. . A tool that blocks access with the phone’s PIN or with the password of our Google or Xiaomi account, which depends on the version of MIUI and Android.
If we really are the owners of the phone and do not want to meet this error after completing data wipe in Xiaomi, we have to go to Settings > Accounts and delete our entire profile using the passwords or clicking on that we have forgotten them if that is the case, to be able to recover them by email or SMS.
stay the same
After having followed all the steps that we have explained, there are those who find that the system has not done anything, nor has it deleted our files nor has it reset the terminal. This is due to some error detected in our mobile, so the recovery menu has automatically stopped the process before it was completed.
To solve it, we will have to check if we have pending system updates, extract all the personal files that we can, even if we are not interested in saving them, and try it again. Of course, we recommend you to be attentive to what appears on the screen so that you can better understand the error.
I can’t get into my account
An also very common error after having completed the process and successfully erased the entire mobile, occurs when trying to enter our Xiaomi account. This shows us an error on the screen even if the username and password are correct, which is rarely due to our problem, although we must check it.
Some users have seen this appear error in MIUI because the mobile has not connected to the Wi-Fi network despite completing this step, which we can solve by switching from using the Xiaomi account for now and configuring it later in Settings > Mi Account.
But, most of the time it is due to an error on the Xiaomi servers and even because we cannot configure it from the mobiles themselves. If we have already used the phone with another account of the Chinese firm, it is essential that we use the same or delete it from our Mi Cloud account from the official website of this space in the cloud. We will do this by entering Settings and deleting the device that we are trying to configure from scratch after doing Hard Reset.
Later we can use another different account or the one we want, although it should also be mentioned that sometimes the error is only temporary if we are using the same account and it is due to the fact that the servers of this brand fail frequently at certain times of the day for maintenance. , so we will only have to wait for them to be fine to be able to make this change.