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  • ASUS has apparently withdrawn the ability to unlock the bootloader on its phones.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
  • ComputerSagtNein@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Tbh, it has been years since I last rooted a phone. There is hardly any reason left to do it tbh.

    • godless@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Plenty of reasons.

      • System wide adblock
      • Advanced permission management
      • Backups and exports of system apps
      • Full uninstall of bloatware (instead of mere hiding them with adb)
      • Enabling screenshots system-wide

      And a bunch of other stuff I need in order to have a fully functioning device.

    • SinJab0n@mujico.org
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      1 year ago

      I have been using an old samsung tablet with lineage os (android 12), but the last stock rom was android 6.

      So yeah, for me the ability to unlock the boot loader is a must. And that’s not even mentioning getting away of spooky-ware I got as a gift a Huawei phone, really good phone but when I tried to search an app using the sistem laucher it fucking asked for a lot of data, fingerprints, etc. I was sorry to this person but I just sold it ASAP since I wasn’t able to install a Custom Rom to get away from all that crap.

    • ddkman@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Yes there is.

      If you want a cfw, which you do because your phone either comes with 2 years of updates or has touchwiz.

      If you run cfw you NEED safetynet. Even the witzair app crashes without it. If you cfw and need safetynet, you have to have magisk. Magisk needs root for the safetynetfix.