MTKClient on SailfishOS?

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Hi all,

For a long time i have been trying to unbrick my redmi note 10 5G, that one day went into a bootloop to the recovery. Unfortunately a laptop that grew a little bit heavy on me whilst traveling had an accident.
So i’m trying to do it with a second phone.
I had been messing around with termux before, but no such luck. Fortunately i have a redmi 5 plus and installed Sailfish.

But gotten stuck at step:
“pip3 install -r requirements.txt”

ERROR: No matching distribution found for pyside6
After i tried some things, not sure what to be honest, it complains about shiboken6.

Getting a bit lost here, don’t know how to proceed.

device: Xiaomi redmi 5 plus (vince)
Sailfish OS 4.6.0.12 (sauna)
python3 version 3.8.18

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python 3.8.18 is too old, you need a more recently version.

Or use an older mtkclient version without pyside6 requirement, like 1.52( I never tested).

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When i installed python3 i automatically had this version.
Could you care to tell me how to get a different version?

I actually did try 1.52 also, but it seems it also needs pyside6.

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Wait til SFOS 5.1 is out, that should include Python 3.11.

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You can try download python3.12 or 3.13 from Download Python | Python.org , install build requirements, and compile it on your vince, but this make things complex.

Why not borrow a friend’s computer?

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Unfortunately for me yes. Tried with pyenv but getting some errors. Now looking into Penumbra. Seems like it doesn’t need python.

Not sure if what i’m trying is correct, but i did..
git clone https://github.com/shomykohai/penumbra.git
cd penumbra
curl --proto ‘=https’ --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
cargo build --release
(Some errors could not find cargo, maybe my mistake should not have been root.)
(Uninstalling with rustup self uninstall, and reinstalling.
error: could not amend shell profile: ‘/home/defaultu
ser/.bashrc’: could not write rcfile file: ‘/home/def
aultuser/.bashrc’: Permission denied (os error 13)
[defaultuser@Redmi5Plus penumbra]$

A bit lost here sorry. Anyway thanks.

Why not borrow a friend’s computer?

A pity when these devices are capable computers on their own, especially with maybe SFOS.:sweat_smile:

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