The post Some users facing 2 month wait times before they can unlock the bootloader on their Xiaomi device appeared first on BardTech . While unlocking the bootloader of a Xiaomi phone running MIUI is possible, it’s not as easy as it is on phones like the Google Pixel 2 or OnePlus 6 . Excluding the Android One smartphones ( Mi A2 , Mi A2 Lite, Mi A1), you can’t unlock the bootloader of Xiaomi devices with the standard fastboot commands out of the box. Instead, you need to use their Mi Unlock tool. To combat resellers that try to sell devices with modified software, Xiaomi added checks to the bootloader unlocking process which include a waiting time after the initial request is made. Initially, the waiting time was 3 days, but earlier this year the waiting time increased to 15 days. Now, some users are seeing waiting times as long as 2 months . Several users on the XDA forums , on Reddit , and on the MIUI forums report seeing messages telling them to...