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Asus has removed the ability to unlock the bootloader (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 3 years ago by [M] to c/digitslfreedom@exploding-heads.com
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cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/660115

from now on you can not unlock the bootloader on new asus phones, i guess custom roms are slowly going to die. They already work on very specific phones and the custom rom support is not as good as it was back in the day.

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ASUS is apparently killing the ability to root present and future Zenfones (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/android@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/3429727

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  • ASUS has apparently withdrawn the ability to unlock the bootloader on its phones.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

Well, there goes our hope for the Zenfone 10.

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  • ASUS has apparently withdrawn the ability to unlock the bootloader on its phones.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