Love the flair!

Yup, same here. Bought a Redmi 5 recently, seemed like a good budget idea once flashed, was ready to wait out the two week unlock time, but oh my surprise when I saw 1440 hours.

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EDIT: It’s down to one month now (aka 720 hours). Hope it at least counts down from that normally now.

/u/matterwitu

Pepperidge Farm remembers!

I downloaded another version of mi unlock tool and it halved to 720 hours so you might try that. https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/comments/8mfgor/for_anyone_having_trouble_bypassing_the_360hr/

So now the unlocking time is 1 month, not 15 days?

you get 1440Hour + another 1440 hours

Strange thing with my account, all my devices unlocked instantly

– redmi note 4x (3 of them)
– mi mix 2
– mi Max 3
– redmi note 5 (sd636)

They were all CN sets bought in China with China room when unlocked, would that make a difference?

i would forget it after 2 months if this shi would appear to me

Remember when they stopped the delay altogether a few months ago bc people complained ? good times… It’s 60 days now ?! wtf

Hope yours Doesn’t Reset like mine xD. mine reset to 720Hours again. What should i do now ?
By the way i haven’t tried any bypassing thing

I thought you just bought it :p still a solid phone, have 1 too

I certainly hope it is 360 hours as before, excruciating as it is.

I want to know too. I bought a redmi 5+ about a month ago from gearbest and I havent had any issue at all with getting locked out of my phone. Am I at risk here?

Remember when there was no bootloader lock on mi devices?

Unlocking your bootloader allow you to flash custom roms, essential changing the phones os. For example if you don’t like miui you could get your bootloader unlocked and then flash something like LineageOS that provides pretty much stock Android with a few additional options to enhance the experience.

Xiaomi use to let us unlock the bootloader without waiting but then they changed the process and required people to wait 72 hours after linking your phone to your mi account. Then they changed to wait time to 360 hours (2 weeks) and now apparently they’ve changed it to 1440 hours (2 months). This decision comes off the heels of Huawei no longer allowing people to unlock their bootloader at all and releasing the Poco F1 source code which is required to make good device optimized roms. Dev support was one of the highlight selling points for the Poco but I doubt too many people are going to be willing to wait 2 months to unlock.

I think it’s still a pretty good idea to just try to unlock the moment you got the phone even if you have no intentions on flashing anything in the first place.

At least when the time comes when you do need to fiddle with the system, you have one less thing to worry about. The timer of when you’re allowed to unlock the phone starts the moment you attempt at unlocking it after all.

No it’s 360hrs only.

If you downloaded another one, would you have it down to 360 hours?

[This person tried with two different mi accounts.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/comments/9bmb60/1440_hours_to_unlock_redmi_note_5_bootloader/)

Then why even bother releasing the Poco F1 kernel sources?

Nah. This A1 is old. Earlier I had RN3.

Can you explain to me what is this? I haven’t used a xiaomi before

jebus! what a time!
This only happens because some stores fu\*\*\*\* the rom -.-

so only china roms can unlock instantly?

Question: is that really efective against thieves want to wipe the phone straight after they stolen?

works for me!

You knowit’s funny I had intentions of doing that before I recieved the phone, but after about a day I really enjoyed the miui. Glad to know I avoided a 2 month long unlock process. That is just bonkers to me.

lol, wrong type of lock. Unlocking your bootloader allow you to flash custom roms, essential changing the phones os. For example if you don’t like miui you could get your bootloader unlocked and then flash something like LineageOS that provides pretty much stock Android with a few additional options to enhance the experience.