If you are the Xiaomi Mi 4i phone user and facing some problem with the phone or want to install the latest MIUI 6 update on your phone. Here is the step by step guide to flash the latest build on your phone. In this guide we show you two different methods to flash the MIUI 6 on your phone. First Recovery Method – One of the easiest and fastest way to install the latest build on your phone, all you have to flash one file on your phone with the help of updater app and you are done. Second Fastboot method – If you are facing some problems with your phone like stuck in fastboot mode, bricked or dead mi4i than fastboot is the best way to solve all these kind of problems. All you have to flash MIUI 6 file with ADB commands on your phone.
Before following this guide, do take the backup of your phone. Go to Settings > Additional Settings > Backup & reset > Local Backups > Backup. The backup folder will be created under File Explorer > Phone (Internal storage)> MIUI > backup > AllBackup, copy this folder and save it to computer or external device. After flashing, you can restore his folder later back to the original path mentioned above. You can also do backup and restore using the official MI Suite.
Flash Latest MIUI 6 Update on Mi 4i With Recovery Method
NOTE:- You can also use Mi PC Suite to flash the ROM
Step 1. Visit this page and download the latest MIUI 6 Stable rom on your desktop.
Step 2. Now Connect your device to the Windows PC/laptop with USB cable, and copy the ROM file downloaded in Step 1 into the folder ‘downloaded_rom’ in the internal storage of your device.
Step 3. After this launch the updater APP on your phone and Click the ‘…’ icon at the top-right corner, select ‘Choose update package’, and choose the ROM file you’ve put in ‘downloaded_rom’ in Step 2.
Step 4. After choosing the ROM file, Flashin process will start on you phone and our device should automatically boot to the new version when the update is completed.
Flash Latest MIUI 6 Update on Mi 4i With Fastboot Method
Step 1. Download the latest Fastboot ROM for MI 4i Here and extract the folder on your windows desktop.
Step 2. Now the next steps are very important so read all the instruction very carefully. To Flash the Fastboot ROM Check out the complete guide here “How to Flash Fastboot ROM on Bricked Xiaomi Phones”
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My Xiaomi mi4i has this room V6.4.10.0.LXIMICB. I would get more recent rom like 6.6.1 global, what’s best way to update: recovery or fastboot ? I don’t want risk to brick phone thx!