Asus no longer lets you unlock the bootloader of your Zenfone
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- haha
- DGV
- 08 Aug 2023
Rooting your device in the EU won't void its 2-year warranty!!
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- Anonymous
- nU2
- 08 Aug 2023
Discoverdoe, 07 Aug 2023Dis. If Asus was as good as samsung 4/5 years of support... moreNot ok. Unlocked bootloader means unrootable phone, hence no Adaway hence unusable phones. Who cares about updates, these hardly fix anything. Look at forums, how many bugs people report and how many actually get fixed after all these years of updates. If updates can't fix bugs what's the point?
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- Anonymous
- nU2
- 08 Aug 2023
The article is about not being able to unlock bootloader, but why on earth are you only complaining about lack of updates instead of mentioned issue?
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- Anonymous
- swm
- 08 Aug 2023
So now there are only three manufacturers left that allow users to unlock bootloader: Google Pixel, Xiaomi and Samsung. What a time to be alive.
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- AnonD-454049
- XRx
- 08 Aug 2023
hmm, 07 Aug 2023I dont use custom roms too but what makes me a noob about i... more"Ppl are forgetting all mediatek bootloaders cannot be unlocked" means that you are saying NONE of the mediatek chips have unlockable bootloaders, which is a lie. maybe you need english lessons. I never said nor implied that i was a hacker. you are the one who wants to offend others by deliberately propagating misinformation noob.
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- CarrotAreCool
- 0q5
- 08 Aug 2023
AnonymousCRL, 08 Aug 2023Asus isn't Chinese. In Chinese brands, afaik, Xiaomi a... moreRealme and Oppo are not subsidiaries of Xiaomi and they don't allow unlocking their bootloader
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- Killshot
- St{
- 08 Aug 2023
Wow so sad for the 10 people who buy this phone and also the 0.01 who roots it....
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- Anonymous
- 6cA
- 08 Aug 2023
To this, the entire world smartphone market is filled with compromises.
Don't get me started on Fairphone and Purism. Fairphone removed the headphone jack permanently on current and future models and Purism will scam you on their refund policy.
Reply on any brand and I'll ROAST the heck out of it. For example if you say Samsung or Apple: 'Oh man, not those conglomerates who turned their home countries into high tech dystopia.'
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- Honk
- Nxb
- 08 Aug 2023
Also, allegedly ASUS Germany's support linked someone a random website when they asked how to unlock the bootloader of the Zenfone 10. The site said to use Mi Unlock.
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- bhikaru
- PAS
- 08 Aug 2023
CargoJoe, 08 Aug 2023A lot of smartphones don't allow unlock of bootloaders... morethere's policy with this thing, after you unlock bootloader then your phone warranty is void. Any user who unlock bootloader should already know this risk before they flashing their phone.
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- bhikaru
- PAS
- 08 Aug 2023
What? only 2 years Android update and now cannot unlock bootloader. Stuck on Android update after 2 years. It's gonna be boomerang for Asus by doing so.
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- Honk
- Nxb
- 08 Aug 2023
It's ASUS, I assume this is something that'll probably be backtracked or isn't happening due to ASUS having awful PR.
If it's not, this is probably the worst decision they could've made. How does this benefit ASUS in any way? All they're going to do is lose sales.
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- Anonymous
- R5v
- 08 Aug 2023
Welp! There goes one of my goto android phone with unlockable bootloader down the trash bin. 🤬
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- CargoJoe
- K1G
- 08 Aug 2023
A lot of smartphones don't allow unlock of bootloaders. Probably warranty issues they don't want to deal with.
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- AnonymousCRL
- rKD
- 08 Aug 2023
Anonymous, 07 Aug 2023This is a classical move that Chinese companies do, when th... moreAsus isn't Chinese. In Chinese brands, afaik, Xiaomi and its subsidiaries, Realme and OnePlus allow bootloader unlock.
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- mr stoosh
- dSV
- 07 Aug 2023
Well done Asus adding insult to injury alongside the two years update support you give to your customers.
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- kek
- GBh
- 07 Aug 2023
They are literally shooting themselves in the foot. Their poor update policy was at least salvageable by the easy bootloader unlock process.