Hello!

So I noticed that the recovery in the other thread is not working, at least not for Android 12 with MIUI 13.
Therefor i did some searching around, and i found some reliable sources which i will put down below.

The original thread/author: The recovery files: A_11 is for Android 11
A_12 is for Android 12

I take absolutely no credit, i just felt that this needed to be shared.
This worked wonders for me.

Detrol said:

Hello!

So I noticed that the recovery in the other thread is not working, at least not for Android 12 with MIUI 13.
Therefor i did some searching around, and i found some reliable sources which i will put down below.

The original thread/author:

[TWRP][RECOVERY] List of relevant recovery in one place

https://sourceforge.net/projects/recovery-for-xiaomi-devices/files/ I have compiled a list of relevant recovery in one place, i think it will be useful. Updates are monitored each day. Welcome, friends!

xiaomi.eu

The recovery files:

Recovery for Xiaomi devices - Browse /lancelot at SourceForge.net

List of relevant recovery in one place

sourceforge.net

A_11 is for Android 11
A_12 is for Android 12

I take take absolutely no credit, i just felt that this needed to be shared.

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Thanks for this, I'll be trying it later today

dataworx said:

Thanks for this, I'll be trying it later today

Mate still waiting for your thoughts and experiences on this recovery.

Thanks.

hackares said:

Mate still waiting for your thoughts and experiences on this recovery.

Thanks.

Sorry man, snowed under with work , haven't had a chance yet

I have tried this Recovery and I can confirm that it works on Miui 13 Android 12.

NB: For Redmi 9, Android 12

Good job, hopefully I'll get a chance to install it before new year, I really need to backup my IMEIs before loading up another custom ROM.

So I can get this recovery installed and boot into it. There is menu option for imei backup, so I selected that. It launches, tells me it is taking imei backup but then puts up an error messoge:

E: Unable to load '/twres/languages/zh_CN.xml

and just hangs for a few minutes before rebooting to MIUI.

I have seen on other forums to issue :

fastboot --disable-verification flash vbmeta vbmeta.img

after loading the recovery - is this necessary in this case or is there some other action I should take.

All I want to do is take and store an imei backup but it seems to be a difficult task for some reason.

Also, unless I'm doing something wrong (like maybe I need to disable encryption from recovery??) then the adb sideload function also returns the error:

E: Unable to load '/twres/languages/zh_CN.xml

How difficult can it be to take a backup of the imei? I'm not surprised so many people don't have backups, considering how I'm battling to do this.

dataworx said:

Also, unless I'm doing something wrong (like maybe I need to disable encryption from recovery??) then the adb sideload function also returns the error:

E: Unable to load '/twres/languages/zh_CN.xml

How difficult can it be to take a backup of the imei? I'm not surprised so many people don't have backups, considering how I'm battling to do this.

This Recovery has some bugs.
You can try to flash this script via twrp. https://telegra.ph/IMEI-Backup-Script-09-12

WARNING: REALLY BACKUP YOUR IMEI BEFORE DOING ANYTHING.

hackares said:

WARNING: REALLY BACKUP YOUR IMEI BEFORE DOING ANYTHING.

Managed to get a IMEI backup after installing Magisk. Ready for the custom ROMs again...

Managed to flash this recovery on a Remdi 9 with MIUI 13.

Couldn't get sideload to work, adb sideload would reboot the recovery.

After flashing linage using adb push / install, redmi 9 is stuck in a bootloop, not sure if this is the fault of the recovery tho.