Re:Android malware from Amazon straight to your door
by sodality2 on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @07:09PM
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Welp. Had one running for years. ADB'd into it and no sign of an infection despite it being the exact one to be. I don't use anything important on it so I'm considering burning it. OP, do you know of any way to flash a clean OS onto it? If the malware is as deep as it is described maybe a full system reinstall would be best instead of just uninstalling known badware.
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Re:Android malware from Amazon straight to your door
by DesktopECHO on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @07:18PM
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I'm with you on that. There are efforts underway to get plain-old Linux running, but it's some time away as this chip only went into mainline as of kernel 6.0
Re:Android malware from Amazon straight to your door
by sodality2 on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @07:21PM
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Agh, your script seemed to have bricked my device. It sends it into a loop forever booting and doesn't reach anything. :/
No big loss though, it hasn't been used in years.
Re:Android malware from Amazon straight to your door
by DesktopECHO on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @07:50PM
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Wow sorry to hear that. If you can, check if the device is still available over ADB. If it is, try re-running the script.
Not sure what happened in your case, I flashed many ROMs and ran the script against them to see if anything bad would happen. No issues.
In any case it won't be a Hard Brick. Power off, hold [volume-up] insert power jack and tap the [power] button 10 times. (I think. I lost my remote ages ago and can't check.)