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I've been told that the reasoning behind this is shady resellers loading unremovable system malware to the system partition (which runs as device admin++) befor
by ev1 6y ago
I've been told that the reasoning behind this is shady resellers loading unremovable system malware to the system partition (which runs as device admin++) before reselling this to you.
Apparently this is a huge problem in China, where there seems to be quite literally no trust at all on online shopping. This actually does seem to be the case if you try buying devices from any NON-xiaomi-official store Aliexpress shop. They're usually $0.01-$1.00 cheaper, and are guaranteed to be packed with massive amounts of malware. None of which can be pressed "disable" or "uninstall" (greyed out).
They use fake reviews and fake buyers much like Amazon in the west, to inflate their order count and ratings to be sorted above Xiaomi official store
- ywei3410 6y agoJesus, do you have any sources (Chinese is fine) for this? This is horribly anti-consumer and I'm surprised there's not more of a push back if it's so common.
- ev1 6y agoTry search for phrase "fakerom" or "fake rom" or "rottensys" with xiaomi. The resellers get paid a few dollars for the malware install. I think the most common is people reselling to ship out to other countries, and not sold in China itself. The aliexpress shops get shut down, negative feedback, but they just open another. Note that aliexpress actually shuts these down in the first place and is "reputable" end of things. Never ever buy devices from gearbest, wish, etc. - ever .
- Daho0n 6y agoAnti-consumer? By the capitalist businesses? Of course. It's just like buying crap from Amazon. If you use it you support it.
- john2010 6y agoanother reason being some eBay/re-sellers buy in low cost places (like India/China) - reinstall EU ROM and sell it at high cost. (Even now many devices in Asian markets come with a label like - Only for India-SIM)
- kar5pt 6y agoThis is exactly what Android verified boot is meant to prevent: https://source.android.com/security/verifiedboot https://source.android.com/security/verifiedboot. Why can't Xiaomi just do that?