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ASUS is apparently killing the ability to root present and future Zenfone, Updated (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by 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  • ASUS has apparently withdrawn the ability to unlock the bootloader on its phones.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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[–] 14 points 3 years ago (12 children)

Google shouldn't be our shining light on phone rules lol

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (10 children)

    pixels are by far the best to degoogled your phone and to have privacy/security/freedom actually

    they go above and beyond letting you unlock your bootloader

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (9 children)

    Oneplus? Bootloader is easily unlocked and it can be debloated easily after root

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  • [+] -9 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    Rooting is a terrible security risk and there's no point in doing it. You won't see the popular roms like GrapheneOS, /e/, or CalyxOS supporting it.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Lol this is the technology page and you're going to try to make the argument to not root(/jailbreak) a phone?.. Genuinely lold

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Yes...? You can have custom roms without sacrificing security. There's genuinely no reason to root anymore.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    What Asus broke here was the bootloader unlocking. Without that, there's no custom ROMs or root. Root and bootloader unlocking mean different things.

    Regarding root being a terrible security risk or not, I guess it will depend on the user? I never had any issues and only see it as one more thing that isn't as safe as it could be... my bootloader is unlocked, the recovery isn't stock, I'm running a custom ROM so I have to trust the developers/building process, etc.

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