To my fellow Android custom ROM enthusiasts, I highly advise you uninstall and stop supporting @projectelixiros
To my fellow Android custom ROM enthusiasts, I highly advise you uninstall and stop supporting @projectelixiros
context: the devs of Project Elixir have paid features in their ROM. If you try to bypass it , they will wipe your internal data and esim EDIT: the devs response
Nice. So trying to look at this rom under the hood causes a device wipe? Am I understanding that right?
Sounds like fucking malware/spyware if you ask me.
It is
Ransomware
So, it seems it gets triggered by just using ADB shell???
From the ROM website's footer:
A custom ROM based on AOSP, which offers a minimal UI enhancement & close to stock pixel Android ROM with great "Performance", "Security" and "Stability".
I see now why they "quoted" stability :P
Oh, and just using ADB is enough to trigger the code to wipe the data. But that's fine according to the developer because "its just a format data, not like your phone gets destroyed"
What makes this even funnier is that on their website they say that the ROM is great and all (with very poor grammar and odd phrasing), but they don't say what they actually changed. The closest thing I could find was their screenshot gallery where they show some new icons and AI-generated wallpapers
Also corporate memphis art everywhere because why not lol
I feel sorry for anyone who was using this ROM, but this whole thing is hilarious
Who is this for really though? Any person installing roms is clued in and knows what they want. This “stable” author’s custom-rom credentials should be drop kicked into the sun.
& close to stock pixel Android ROM
Then why not just use the Pixel Android ROM?
Idk, I didn't design their website
¯\_(ツ)_/¯Elixir supported a vast amount of devices.
holy shit their site has a lot of ads
Sounds like they may have set it up to wipe for security paranoia, and maybe not to be jerks?
What the actual fuck. This is unacceptable from any dev.
Yo wtf
It's hard to trust software that places this little trust on me.
I’m a iOS developer just lurking here but, are paid features in custom ROMs common? Since they’re all downstream of AOSP, wouldn’t it be possible to bypass anything like that fairly easily by just commenting out the paywalls and building the ROM yourself?
No not really. Maybe the early access is paywalled. But that's usually it.
Interesting, it appears they archived the github repos on may 19th after that tweet.
More ironic about them wiping your data considering they credit other ROMs!
Hilarious
I've never even heard of it. Anyway, use Graphene if you have a Pixel, and ideally DivestOS if you don't
