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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  • ASUS has apparently withdrawn the ability to unlock the bootloader on its phones.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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[–] ComputerSagtNein@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Tbh, it has been years since I last rooted a phone. There is hardly any reason left to do it tbh.

[–] SinJab0n@mujico.org 1 points 1 year ago

I have been using an old samsung tablet with lineage os (android 12), but the last stock rom was android 6.

So yeah, for me the ability to unlock the boot loader is a must. And that's not even mentioning getting away of spooky-ware I got as a gift a Huawei phone, really good phone but when I tried to search an app using the sistem laucher it fucking asked for a lot of data, fingerprints, etc. I was sorry to this person but I just sold it ASAP since I wasn't able to install a Custom Rom to get away from all that crap.

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[–] unskilledlabor@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

If I ever come across anyone in the wild who actually has one I'll be sure to warn them not to root their phone.

[–] Sygheil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In search of incredible no more.

[–] viralJ@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh I think they keep searching. They're just not always finding it.

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Asus gave an update saying the server is currently down but will be back up. But their response was not exactly the most reassuring that bootloader unlock will continue to be available.

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.

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