There are differences between e-2.9-s-20250321478216-OFFICIAL-herolte and the newly created, as yet untested e-2.9-s-20250423-UNOFFICIAL-herolte referred here to as “update”, e.g. in the digital signature, and there is no OTA update for this UNOFFICIAL-herolte.
My Galaxy S7 has /e/OS e–2.9-s-20250321478216-OFFICIAL-herolte installed along with e-Recovery v2.9. Nevertheless: This UNOFFICIAL “update” by @ronnz98 works. Murena MDM is not pre-installed.
All right ! So I did install the ROM @ronnz98 gently made and MDM did disappear, which is great news. However, my device still belongs to an organization, and it’s still impossible to setup shelter, which I was previously able to do.
Looks like the bug is a bit deeper than what we thought. This build should do the job for most S7 user that would just like to get rid of this spying app, but it doesn’t fully solve my issue. Thanks anyway for the ROM !!
i think there is something related to MDM activation written into /data or /data/sdcard (aka available “internal storage” for normal user)
Maybe document your findings so far on the gitlab issue:
I’d like to bu i can’t connect my regular gitlab account… Says that this username is incorrect…
As I noticed it, murena mdm went back when i restored the boot image (when i tried to uninstall it using debloater app and a rooted phone). I think something is stored in the boot.img file.
The GitLab instance for e.foundation is hosted on their own servers, it’s not the same as gitlab.com. You need to create an account on their instance. Unfortunately they’re blocking just about every email domain outside of Murena so you have to use a murena.io email. If you don’t have one already, set up a workspace account at murena.io and use the email supplied by the workspace.
If you have difficulty registering the regular way Report an issue with this difficulty Getting an error message in new ID creation on /e/OS Gitlab? you can follow the advice there and ask for help from admins here.
Alright, I’ve shared a little summary with screenshots of what has been happening here until now. Hope that will help the team to find out what’s causing the bug.
Gael finally posted his 2025 roadmap. He’s talking about MDM in it. Murena tries to enlarge and offers solutions for companies and businesses.
I just noticed that after installing the umofficial /e/ by @ronnz98, my phone got rooted again and mdm is shown as removed in the debloater app history, which means that it has not really been removed. If i unroot my phone, it’ll be back… Can’t I get rid of this ?
Ps: I’m thinking, is there a way to get the log from a specific app ? Maybe i could get the logs from shelter and see where it fails in the process despite mdm being deactivated ?
Also, seems that my admin is still doing lot of things on my smartphone…
Greaaaat… Still haven’t found a solution
