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

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  • ASUS has apparently withdrawn the ability to unlock the bootloader on its phones.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
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[-] ayaya 33 points 1 year ago

I was genuinely thinking about going with an ASUS phone next because of the unlockable bootloader, this really sucks to see.

[-] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

There are plenty of makers doing unlockable bootloaders. Honestly, just avoid Samsung.

[-] kindenough@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My EU S9+ (Exynos chip) is running a custom Android 13 rom without flaws. A lot of Samsung phones can be unlocked. Seems US models (Snapdragon) are the ones that can't be unlocked, few exceptions. Most other countries have the Exynos chipset and are perfectly unlockable.

[-] adamantris@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

i think this might be related to samsung knox and its efuse, once set not really being able to be undone and that stuff

[-] Aarrodri@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Same here. Well they lost a potential costumer.

this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2023
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