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ASUS is apparently killing the ability to root present and future Zenfone, Updated (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by SeaJ@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Update from Asus

The service team reply misunderstood the situation. Unlock tool is unavailable at this moment but we are allowing the possibility to unlock, please stay tuned.

**TL;DR

  • ASUS has apparently withdrawn the ability to unlock the bootloader on its phones.
  • As per the company’s technical support team, Zenfone 10 and Zenfone 9 users won’t be able to root their phones.
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[–] stefenauris@pawb.social 69 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Well there goes any compelling reason to buy their phones lol

[–] ayaya@lemdro.id 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I was genuinely thinking about going with an ASUS phone next because of the unlockable bootloader, this really sucks to see.

[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There are plenty of makers doing unlockable bootloaders. Honestly, just avoid Samsung.

[–] kindenough@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

My EU S9+ (Exynos chip) is running a custom Android 13 rom without flaws. A lot of Samsung phones can be unlocked. Seems US models (Snapdragon) are the ones that can't be unlocked, few exceptions. Most other countries have the Exynos chipset and are perfectly unlockable.

[–] adamantris@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

i think this might be related to samsung knox and its efuse, once set not really being able to be undone and that stuff

[–] Aarrodri@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Same here. Well they lost a potential costumer.

[–] synceDD@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah no reasons besides only tiny stuff like being only flagship under 6", better speakers than samsung, better cooling and less throttling than samsung, headphone jack, near stock android. More like there are no compelling reasons to root anymore, enjoy your 1k samsung throttling tho

[–] z2k_@lemmy.nz 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

2 years of updates means you’ll quickly end up with a phone that’s waiting to be hacked

[–] synceDD@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

They offer 4 years of security updates, what are you on about? It's even better than sony

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 0 points 2 years ago

I remember owning their Transformer tablet back when Honeycomb first launched.