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ASUS is apparently killing the ability to root present and future Zenfones (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 1 year ago by SeaJ@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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ASUS has apparently withdrawn the ability to unlock the bootloader on its phones.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

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[–] Whiskeyomega@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.space 1 points 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