# Problems with Mi9 (cepheus) **URL:** \ **Category:** System and Apps\ **Tags:** XiaomiMi9\ **Created:** [11 November 2025 17:10 UTC](https://community.iode.tech/t/problems-with-mi9-cepheus/7207 "2025-11-11T17:10:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Marky](https://community.iode.tech/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Marky](https://community.iode.tech/u/Marky)\ **Post date:** [11 November 2025 17:10 UTC](https://community.iode.tech/t/problems-with-mi9-cepheus/7207/1 "2025-11-11T17:10:57Z")
Hi, I have a Mi9 running with Iode for quite some time. I did not use it for some months, when I wanted to run an update, it did work (always telling me I have no network connection, which I had). I then tried tried to reinstall it with the installer - same problem. Therefore I downloaded the complete fastboot package and ran the windows batch command, which also finished without errors. But afterward the MI 9 ist not booting anymore. I can still access the fastboot menu but not any recovery (most errors refer to “failed to mount”). Resetting did not work either. I realized that the whole packages (also old releases ) haben been updated 5 days ago and I wondered if there are any known issues with these updates? Best regards Marc ---
**Author:** ![rik](https://community.iode.tech/user_avatar/community.iode.tech/rik/32/1437_2.png) [@rik](https://community.iode.tech/u/rik)\ **Post date:** [11 November 2025 17:57 UTC](https://community.iode.tech/t/problems-with-mi9-cepheus/7207/2 "2025-11-11T17:57:52Z")
Users with Mi 10 T Pro have solved an issue with OTA updates failing to install by clearing their system cache using Recovery: [XIAOMI Mi 10 T Pro : mise a jour / update impossible de 6.7 vers 6.8](https://community.iode.tech/t/xiaomi-mi-10-t-pro-mise-a-jour-update-impossible-de-6-7-vers-6-8/7030) But now that you have attempted full re-flashing, please get any output from the terminal when you attempt to flash it, I suspect something didn’t complete successfully? ---
**Author:** ![Marky](https://community.iode.tech/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Marky](https://community.iode.tech/u/Marky)\ **Post date:** [12 November 2025 07:04 UTC](https://community.iode.tech/t/problems-with-mi9-cepheus/7207/3 "2025-11-12T07:04:02Z")
This is the log, there aren’t any issues shown: mke2fs 1.46.2 (28-Feb-2021) Creating filesystem with 65536 4k blocks and 65536 inodes Filesystem UUID: 560e034c-bf95-11f0-8652-530670f0c523 Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768 Allocating group tables: done Writing inode tables: done Creating journal (4096 blocks): done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done Sending ‘cache’ (184 KB) OKAY [0.021s] Writing ‘cache’ OKAY [0.000s] Finished. Total time: 0.741s \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* Did you mean to fastboot format this ext4 partition? Erasing ‘cache’ OKAY [0.000s] Finished. Total time: 0.011s Warning: metadata type is raw, but ext4 was requested for formatting. mke2fs 1.46.2 (28-Feb-2021) Creating filesystem with 4096 4k blocks and 4096 inodes Allocating group tables: done Writing inode tables: done Creating journal (1024 blocks): done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done Sending ‘metadata’ (52 KB) OKAY [0.008s] Writing ‘metadata’ OKAY [0.000s] Finished. Total time: 0.115s Erasing ‘metadata’ OKAY [0.000s] Finished. Total time: 0.016s mke2fs 1.46.2 (28-Feb-2021) Creating filesystem with 29136891 4k blocks and 7290880 inodes Filesystem UUID: 56a6aa34-bf95-11f0-b662-63f6e5c87e77 Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872 Allocating group tables: done Writing inode tables: done Creating journal (131072 blocks): done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done Sending ‘userdata’ (5277 KB) OKAY [0.165s] Writing ‘userdata’ OKAY [0.000s] Finished. Total time: 0.491s Bootloader Version…: Baseband Version…: Serial Number…: 561241c9 extracting android-info.txt (0 MB) to RAM… Checking ‘product’ OKAY [0.000s] extracting boot.img (128 MB) to disk… took 0.447s archive does not contain ‘boot.sig’ Sending ‘boot’ (131072 KB) OKAY [3.824s] Writing ‘boot’ OKAY [0.673s] archive does not contain ‘init\_boot.img’ extracting dtbo.img (32 MB) to disk… took 0.089s archive does not contain ‘dtbo.sig’ Sending ‘dtbo’ (32768 KB) OKAY [0.872s] Writing ‘dtbo’ OKAY [0.153s] archive does not contain ‘dt.img’ archive does not contain ‘pvmfw.img’ extracting recovery.img (64 MB) to disk… took 0.405s archive does not contain ‘recovery.sig’ Sending ‘recovery’ (65536 KB) OKAY [1.845s] Writing ‘recovery’ OKAY [0.332s] extracting vbmeta.img (0 MB) to disk… took 0.000s archive does not contain ‘vbmeta.sig’ Sending ‘vbmeta’ (8 KB) OKAY [0.000s] Writing ‘vbmeta’ OKAY [0.002s] archive does not contain ‘vbmeta\_system.img’ archive does not contain ‘vbmeta\_vendor.img’ archive does not contain ‘vendor\_boot.img’ archive does not contain ‘vendor\_kernel\_boot.img’ archive does not contain ‘super\_empty.img’ archive does not contain ‘odm.img’ archive does not contain ‘odm\_dlkm.img’ archive does not contain ‘product.img’ extracting system.img (2293 MB) to disk… took 14.020s archive does not contain ‘system.sig’ Sending sparse ‘system’ 1/4 (775360 KB) OKAY [19.168s] Writing ‘system’ OKAY [0.000s] Sending sparse ‘system’ 2/4 (774312 KB) OKAY [20.068s] Writing ‘system’ OKAY [0.006s] Sending sparse ‘system’ 3/4 (769904 KB) OKAY [19.633s] Writing ‘system’ OKAY [0.008s] Sending sparse ‘system’ 4/4 (28792 KB) OKAY [13.323s] Writing ‘system’ OKAY [0.000s] archive does not contain ‘system\_dlkm.img’ archive does not contain ‘system\_ext.img’ extracting vendor.img (827 MB) to disk… took 4.379s archive does not contain ‘vendor.sig’ Sending sparse ‘vendor’ 1/2 (774820 KB) OKAY [23.228s] Writing ‘vendor’ OKAY [0.000s] Sending sparse ‘vendor’ 2/2 (72704 KB) OKAY [13.532s] Writing ‘vendor’ OKAY [0.000s] archive does not contain ‘vendor\_dlkm.img’ Finished. Total time: 136.822s \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* Did you mean to fastboot format this ext4 partition? Erasing ‘userdata’ OKAY [0.633s] Finished. Total time: 2.292s Rebooting OKAY [0.000s] Finished. Total time: 0.014s Press any key to exit… ---
**Author:** ![Marky](https://community.iode.tech/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Marky](https://community.iode.tech/u/Marky)\ **Post date:** [12 November 2025 07:06 UTC](https://community.iode.tech/t/problems-with-mi9-cepheus/7207/4 "2025-11-12T07:06:30Z")
it seems to be the same bevaviour (e.g. screen) as desribed here: > [@MI9 cepheus. Can´t load Android system. Message after installation using guided installer](https://community.iode.tech/t/mi9-cepheus-can-t-load-android-system-message-after-installation-using-guided-installer/2686): > > Hello everyone, first of all thank you for your time. I am very new to this field, and is the first time installing a rom in a device. Have chosen because of the possibility to use the guided installer. I was so happy to be able to find an OS able to substitute MIUI so I followed instructions for unlocking the bootloader of my device and then used iodéos latest installer to install 4.12 20240526 that was the one automatically downloaded to the installer. after installation the device is reb… ---
**Author:** ![Marky](https://community.iode.tech/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Marky](https://community.iode.tech/u/Marky)\ **Post date:** [13 November 2025 17:26 UTC](https://community.iode.tech/t/problems-with-mi9-cepheus/7207/5 "2025-11-13T17:26:50Z")
Hi, I found the solution (as mentioned in previous article). The recovery image included in the img was broken, it could not load up. I downloaded alternative recovery image from orangeFox: > **[cepheus - Browse /recovery at SourceForge.net](https://sourceforge.net/projects/cepheus/files/recovery/)** Unzip, find the recovery.img You can upload it to device with: fastboot flash recovery recovery.img I then did format data und rebootet, it then found the iode img which was already on the device from initial installation. Hope that helps others Marc ---
**Author:** ![rik](https://community.iode.tech/user_avatar/community.iode.tech/rik/32/1437_2.png) [@rik](https://community.iode.tech/u/rik)\ **Post date:** [13 November 2025 18:04 UTC](https://community.iode.tech/t/problems-with-mi9-cepheus/7207/6 "2025-11-13T18:04:29Z")
> [@Marky](#): > > The recovery image included in the img was broken, it could not load up. Thanks, I will pass that back to the developers!