Comment on ASUS is apparently killing the ability to root present and future Zenfones

stefenauris@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• ayaya@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • kindenough@kbin.social ⁨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 models and are perfectly unlockable.

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      • adamantris@lemmy.world ⁨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

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• synceDD@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah no reasons besides only tiny stuff like being only flagship under 6", better speakers than samsung, better cooling and less throttling than samsung, headphone jack, near stock android. More like there are no compelling reasons to root anymore, enjoy your 1k samsung throttling tho

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  • z2k_@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    2 years of updates means you’ll quickly end up with a phone that’s waiting to be hacked

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    • synceDD@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They offer 4 years of security updates, what are you on about? It’s even better than sony

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• tonytins@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I remember owning their Transformer tablet back when Honeycomb first launched.

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