But the system was still broken. The bootloop was caused by a corrupt dalvik cache . One more command:
But ADB needs the OS to be awake to authorize the connection. My OS was comatose. adb tools xiaomi
I held the button combo: . The screen flickered. A miracle. Fastboot mode. A tiny, blue-backlit text menu. It wasn't much, but it was a door. But the system was still broken
Not a paperweight. Not a dead phone. Worse. It was stuck in a bootloop, vibrating every seven seconds, the Mi Bunny logo appearing only to vanish into blackness. The culprit? A debloating script I’d found on GitHub. I’d gotten cocky. I’d removed com.miui.cloudservice without checking the dependencies. blue-backlit text menu. It wasn't much