@thanostonia Better wait a like bit more.
Or backup from twrp first everything. And you can restore backup if if if something goes wrong
Alvin1983 from greek forum εδώ
Then put china stable or developer rom and lock bootloader.
You want everything on your side!!!!
And china phone and global rom and locked bootloader.
2 options you have only.
1st. China rom with locked bootloader
2d. Global rom with unlocked bootloader.
Choose and go with it.
Its not nuclear...
To unlock Chinese version with your account and to flash vua fastboot global rom is all you need to do.
And of course to leave bootloader unlocked.
But the first thing is to unlock bootloader with your account.then even if it will lock you can unlock it fine.
As hardware the phones are same...
What is happening is that
Chinese phone= Chinese rom with locked bootloader
Global version= global rom with locked bootloader
Unlocked bootloader (unlocked with your account)= any rom from any source including custom roms.
https://s-unlock.com/productsandservices/server
Go there down at the bottom of page at xiaomi sectio and to you need the first option authorised account, unbrick xiaomi..... Etc.
One friend of mine did it 1 month ago and he paid 30 dollars. Now it's cheaper thanks god.
And they will guide you...
China stable or china dev rom can be installed. Or any china rsource rom like xiaomi.eu.
But you didnt unlock the phone with your account. It came unlocked from seller right?
If you unlocked it by yourself and its locked you can unlock it back and will be fine.
But if you didn't unlock it then...
Big Mistake that you had unlocked china Mi 8 with global rom and you locked it.
Now you need only to pay for unlocking because xiaomi locked edl mode to unlock it.
you should put china rom first with your mi account at phone, then lock bootloader, then apply for unlocking and unlock.
So in...