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  • ASUS has apparently withdrawn the ability to unlock the bootloader on its phones.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.
  • Whiskeyomega@kbin.social
    11·
    1 year ago

    My biggest problem with unlocking the bootloader is that many apps look for an unlocked bootloader as “Its rooted” according to that app but unlocking the bootloader and being rooted is 2 different things. I only want to run a custom rom I dont want to root. But you end up having to do the whole thing and running Magisk to hide the root and unlocked bootloader.

    • mzesumzira@leminal.spaceEnglish
      61·
      1 year ago

      I always root my phones and I found that installing those app on a cloning environment, like island, usually has them working fine

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      You usually need to go one step further and install Magisk so you can control what apps “see” about the phone.