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

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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.

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It is

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Ransomware

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So, it seems it gets triggered by just using ADB shell???

https://x.com/TheNotesOfJosh/status/1791738816362848517

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I cannot open that, it shows a login page. Could you post a screenshot of what this is supposed to contain?

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thx and wtf.
How can people even use android without adb shell?

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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

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& close to stock pixel Android ROM

Then why not just use the Pixel Android ROM?

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Idk, I didn’t design their website ¯\_(ツ)_

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Elixir supported a vast amount of devices.

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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.

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holy shit their site has a lot of ads

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Sounds like they may have set it up to wipe for security paranoia, and maybe not to be jerks?

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What the actual fuck. This is unacceptable from any dev.

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Yo wtf

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