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  • ASUS has apparently withdrawn the ability to unlock the bootloader on its phones.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
    413·
    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
      83·
      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

      • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.eeEnglish
        33·
        1 year ago

        Yes…? You can have custom roms without sacrificing security. There’s genuinely no reason to root anymore.

    • 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.