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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  • ASUS has apparently withdrawn the ability to unlock the bootloader on its phones.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.
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why do so many phone manufacturers hate letting you unlock their bootloaders? Every Google phone lets you do this, and they probably have the most secure Androids of them all.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Google shouldn't be our shining light on phone rules lol

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

See why GrapheneOS only supports pixels

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Probably because they know their OS is a duct-taped piece of garbage which could fall to pieces if you look at it wrong while unlocked.