Sources: Prohardver, miuiandroid.hu

Installing TWRP:

  1. Download MiPCsuite from here. Install it, as it contains the proper drivers for the Redmi Note 2.
  2. Download the TWRP packet from here with the files needed for flashing.
  3. Extract the contents of the zip file somewhere.
  4. Turn off your phone, then enter Fastboot mode by pressing and holding the volume down + power button. It should look something like this if you succeeded:Fastboot mode screen
  5. Then connect the phone to your computer using the microUSB cable.
  6. In the extracted TWRP_install folder, find the flas_recovery.bat file and run it (do not run it as administrator, for some reason it doesn’t work that way).
  7. If everything goes well, you should get output like this in cmd without errors:
    target reported max download size of 134217728 bytes
sending 'recovery' (16426 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.741s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.302s]
finished. total time: 1.045s
Press any key to continue . . .
  1. Press a key and then on your phone press and hold the volume up + power button to enter the newly flashed TWRP recovery.
  2. There will be a page warning you that ve