ASUS is apparently killing the ability to root present and future Zenfones
www.androidauthority.com
ASUS is reportedly telling customers they can no longer unlock the bootloader on their phones, including the Zenfone 9 and Zenfone 10.

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  • ASUS has apparently withdrawn the ability to unlock the bootloader on its phones.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.eeEnglish
      16·
      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

        • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          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.worldEnglish
            9·
            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

                  • rubenEnglish
                    1·
                    1 year ago

                    Some people need/want root for something be it customization or tinkering with advanved configurations or whatever. Root can be selectively allowed only for select applications.

          • dsmk@lemmy.zipEnglish
            3·
            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.