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  • ASUS has apparently withdrawn the ability to unlock the bootloader on its phones.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.
  • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    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

    • Sused@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

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

      • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        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.

        • Zuberi@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

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

        • dsmk@lemmy.zip
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          1 year 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.