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  • ASUS has apparently withdrawn the ability to unlock the bootloader on its phones.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

    • Sused@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      Oneplus? Bootloader is easily unlocked and it can be debloated easily after root

      • mammut@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        OnePlus does not do a good job keeping up with security updates, though.

        Sure, a custom ROM can fix some of that (for security issues that are part of Android), but the bigger problem is that there are hardware-specific security issues that can’t be patched in a timely manner unless the vendor bothers to do so.

      • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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        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.