How to Unlock Bootloader of Xiaomi Mi 5

How to Unlock Bootloader of Xiaomi Mi 5

The Mi 5 is Xiaomi's newest flagship smartphone. It borrows design elements from the Mi Note, and at the same time boasts what Xiaomi calls 'Zirconium 3D ceramic body’. It features a 5.15-inch 1080p display, Snapdragon 820 chipset, 16-megapixel rear camera, 4-megapixel selfie camera, dual-SIM card slots, 4G LTE, IR Blaster and USB Type-C port.When you are attempting to root your device its very important to unlock the bootloader or unlock the device. Normally android manufacturer keeps it lock the bootloader for security and some other purpose. Now if you want to root your Mi 5 then you need to unlock the bootloader. In this tutorial, I am going to tell you how to unlock the bootloader of Mi 5, the recent flagship of Xiaomi. Unlocking bootloader is quite easy for Xiaomi Mi 5. Here I am going to show you how to unlock the bootloader of Mi 5 or Redmi Note 3 in case if you want to root your device.

How to Unlock Bootloader of Mi 5 or Redmi Note 3

Go to http://en.miui.com/unlock/

Click on Unlock and login with your MI account, if you don’t have then make one first

Now fill up this form, make sure be honest as why you want to unlock bootloader and make it lengthy not very short.

Now you need to wait till you get confirmation via SMS Once you get it confirmation, download this tool 
MiFlashUnlock_1.1.0315.1_en.zip and unzip it You will a file MiFlashUnlock.exe, just run it Now login with your Mi account, it will check the account has permission to unlock ( Don’t close this tool) Switch off your phone then press and hold both Vol Down and Power button to go fastboot mode If  it’s in fastboot mode connect your Phone to PC via USB cable Wait 10-15 seconds, you will get like this.

Hit on Unlock, it will take some time to unlock. Once done it will show like this.

Now your device is unlocked

How to check if Bootloader is unlocked or not?

Switch off your device

Press and hold Vol Down and Power button to go Fastboot mode

Now open command prompt and type this command

 fastboot devices

It will show your device if driver properly installed, now again enter this command

 fastboot oem device-info

It will return device unlocked: true mean its bootloader unlocked

So go and unlock your Mi 5 or Redmi Note 3. Just keep it mind that unlocking bootloader may void your warranty so read the term and condition before doing this.