Guide for Sh1mmer

Credits to Mercury Workshop for making this possible.

The original guide can be viewed here .

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SH1MMER is an exploit capable of completely unenrolling enterprise-managed Chromebooks. It was found by the Mercury Workshop team and released on Friday the 13th, 2023.

You Will Need

A USB/SD drive/card with at least 1 GB of storage.

A personal computer with administrator permissions on Windows or macOS.

Finding Your Chromebook Board Name

This can be done with the following steps:

Steps

Downloading a Shim

You can download a shim for your board name at chrome100.dev (CURRENTLY DOWN, SORRY).

Building the Shim

You can build your shim with a web builder (Wax4Web).

No, I don't have a list of links.

UPDATE: The original Wax4Web builder is back up at sh1mmer.me/builder and appears to be improved.

Flashing the USB Drive

You will need your built shim from the web builder and the Chromebook Recovery Utility Chrome extension.

Here are the steps for flashing your USB drive:

Steps

Using the USB on Your Chromebook

Here are the steps for using the USB:

Steps

And That's All!