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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ASUS has apparently withdrawn the ability to unlock the bootloader on its phones.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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[–] Xperr7@kbin.social 119 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh, fuck off. I'm not one to root my phone, but you own the damn thing. Once it's in your hands, the maker should have no right to tell you what to do with it.

[–] XLRV@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I'm really tired of this.

We should be able to root and install any OS on our phones like we can do on PC.

I don't use root or custom ROMs on my phone anymore but this is something that should always be possible.

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Consumers seem to be too dumb for their own good.

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Regulators seem to be too captured for consumers' good.