SeaJ@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoASUS is apparently killing the ability to root present and future Zenfoneswww.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square122fedilinkarrow-up1496arrow-down118file-text
arrow-up1478arrow-down1external-linkASUS is apparently killing the ability to root present and future Zenfoneswww.androidauthority.comSeaJ@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square122fedilinkfile-text
TL;DR ASUS has apparently withdrawn the ability to unlock the bootloader on its phones.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
minus-squareZuberi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoGoogle shouldn’t be our shining light on phone rules lol
minus-square👁️👄👁️@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agopixels 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
minus-squareSused@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoOneplus? Bootloader is easily unlocked and it can be debloated easily after root
minus-square👁️👄👁️@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down5·1 year agoRooting 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.
minus-squareZuberi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoLol this is the technology page and you’re going to try to make the argument to not root(/jailbreak) a phone?.. Genuinely lold
Google shouldn’t be our shining light on phone rules lol
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
Oneplus? Bootloader is easily unlocked and it can be debloated easily after root
This 100%
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.
Lol this is the technology page and you’re going to try to make the argument to not root(/jailbreak) a phone?.. Genuinely lold