Enjoying the Blur

If you're planning on unlocking your bootloader, I'd suggest you occasionally apply for unlocking in the community app before even attempting to use the mi unlock tool. I've had my device for 536 days since I first created a Xaiomi account when I bought it. I've been applying to unlock in the community app multiple times over the last 5-6 months and not once did I use the mi unlock tool. Then yesterday, I was finally fed up with the grey control centre after HyperOS 2.0 messed up the workaround of using dark control centre themes and decided to get all the prerequisites for flashing the EU rom. To my surprise, after signing into my account on the mi unlock tool, the bootloader was instantly unlocked then I proceeded to flash the rom. I think applying in the community app over time and then finally seeing the "your account has successfully been associated with this device" in developer options saved me the 168 hours wait time that I see a lot of people complaining about. It took me less than 30min to unlock my bootloader and flash the rom. I'm loving the "Advanced Textures". Another perk is that all the mtz and restored backup files of themes that brought up errors when applying all work now, including this one theme of Harmony OS Next (frame #4). Make a backup first before flashing of course. I love how hassle free the process was.