# Instructions thread for (elish) MiPad 5 Pro on ArrowOS

This blog post is dedicated to [Xiaomi Pad 5 Pro](https://www.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_pad_5_pro-11043.php) codenamed “elish”.
Pick this blog format from [Instructions thread for (nabu) Mi Pad 5 on ArrowOS](https://k001droid.medium.com/instructions-thread-for-nabu-mi-pad-5-on-arrowos-9be3c4054c0a)

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> Time for Good ol’ Disclaimer.
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We are not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards, thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please do some research if you have any concerns about features included in this ROM before flashing it! You are choosing to make these modifications, and if you point the finger at us for messing up your device, We will laugh at you.

Donations
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You can donate to me via [PayPal](http://paypal.me/edwardwu0223)

Prerequisite
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- ArrowOS 13.X, you can download from my OneDrive — (Select arrow-13.0/arrow-13.1 )
- [MIUI V14.0.3.0.TKYCNXM firmware](https://bigota.d.miui.com/V14.0.3.0.TKYCNXM/elish_images_V14.0.3.0.TKYCNXM_20230310.0000.00_13.0_cn_cc69504458.tgz)
- Backup all your apps, pictures, videos, contacts etc to cloud or external storage
- Unlocked bootloader and [ArrowOS Recovery](https://iflashing-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/personal/bluehomewu_edwardwu_xyz/EhyO3_pqoJxFnLAkPvFV2Z0BbPgdyxzd8p76YstLykMfpg?e=WKcPVB)

Instructions on how to flash:
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NOTE: This method will work on any rom, and you can flash any rom from ArrowOS Recovery. After flashing a ROM, on a A/B it will replace with it’s own recovery as recovery is stored inside boot.img.

### FIRST TIME FLASHING While being on MIUI or another ROM:

- reboot to fastboot (Remember to have latest fastboot tools, older versions may not properly support v_A/B devices)
- Open terminal, type:
`fastboot -w`
- This will properly wipe your data, metadata partitions
- Now flash boot.img and vendor_boot.img downloaded from ArrowOS Recovery folder

fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash vendor_boot vendor_boot.img
fastboot reboot recovery

- Xiaomi Pad 5 Pro’s recovery has an issue where panel doesn’t render the UI, but recovery works just fine.
`adb devices`
- This should show your device, now reboot to sideload

adb reboot sideload
adb sideload *Drag and drop ArrowOS build for elish*

- This will take about 5–8 minutes, and in the end it may get stuck at 47% but THAT IS FINE, when the flash is done it will output: “xfer 1.00x”
- That means it has been flashed! Now time to wipe data again via recovery.

adb shell
recovery --wipe_data
adb reboot

That is it! ENJOY :D

NOTE: If this still doesn’t boot I would recommand flash MIUI, booting it, rebooting to MIUI recovery and wipe data from there and then repeat all the steps from above except the “fastboot -w”

- ENJOY!

HOW TO UPDATE FROM ONE BUILD TO ANOTHER?
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- reboot to recovery
- Xiaomi Pad 5 Pro’s recovery has an issue where panel doesn’t render the UI, but recovery works just fine.
`adb devices`
- This should show your device, now reboot to sideload

adb reboot sideload
adb sideload *Drag and drop ArrowOS build for elish*
adb reboot

ENJOY!

###### tags: `Android` `ROM` `Xiaomi` `elish` `Xiaomi Pad 5 Pro`