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  • ASUS has apparently withdrawn the ability to unlock the bootloader on its phones.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.
  • XEAL@lemm.eeEnglish
    1361·
    1 year ago

    ASUS is apparently killing the posibility of me being a potential customer of their smartphones.

    • IDeserveToBeLoved@szmer.infoEnglish
      37·
      1 year ago

      Rooting users are only a small percentage of all users so they probably won’t even notice unfortunately.

      sent from rooted phone

    • Magiwarriorx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      1 year ago

      ASUS annihilated the possibility I’d ever buy any ASUS product after the way they handled the 7800X3D/AM5 VoC issue. I had never really noticed, but a pretty big swathe of my tech came from them (laptop, monitor, and motherboard among others) but no more.

      • silentknyght@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        It’s a big company. Lots of people in lots of departments doing lots of different things. Do you swear off Samsung memory or flash because of their practices around their TV’s or refrigerators?

        • Magiwarriorx@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          If the refrigerant on my fridge leaked and they refused to fix it, I’d sure swear off their ACs too, yeah.