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ASUS is apparently killing the ability to root present and future Zenfone, Updated (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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ASUS has apparently withdrawn the ability to unlock the bootloader on its phones.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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[–] synceDD@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

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