1y ago

Mishaal Rahman: ASUS is NOT killing off bootloader unlocking for its phones

twitter.com /MishaalRahman/status/1688935735716401152

"The service team reply misunderstood the situation. Unlock tool is unavailable at this moment but we are allowing the possibility to unlock, please stay tuned."

Nitter mirror: https://nitter.net/MishaalRahman/status/1688935735716401152

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ASUS killed off bootloader unlocking back in May and has yet to fix that. If you try right now, you cannot unlock your ASUS phone. They may fix that in the future and are saying that's the case but as of right now, you can't.

Claiming that they want to allow it is pretty worthless if it has been killed off for months with no fix (and no fix in sight)...

We really need to get Mishaal on to the Fediverse.
- Hi!
  
  Yay, you're here! Now you can x-post your own tweets here lol.
  
  All that's left is to post onto Mastodon and move on from Twitter.
- Paging @MishaalRahman@lemdro.id!

Doesn't exactly reflect well on Asus' customer service but good to get confirmation at least (especially as someone who just bought a ZF10!)

Part of their Zenfone marketing is keeping "legacy" features like headphone jack and small form factor, they should allow unlocking. Hopefully they'll follow through and allow you to modify the device that you purchased.

Let's hope it's not like Nokia situation. Promise BL unlock and only the Nokia 8 get it officially

Hopefully they keep to their word. Could be another Nokia or Huawei situation here. I'm still upset about the Huawei one, just after I unlocked my phone it was stolen, and by the time I got a replacement the unlock service was taken down.

ASUS sell phones?
- Asus ZenPhone? Have you been living under a rock these past few months lol
  
  Years
  They are making phones probably for a decade now
  
  The zenphones seems pretty nice actually.
  A bit too pricey for me though.
  
  Well, it seems like I've had a roommate under that rock for years without noticing
- Not only that. They sell ✨G A M I N G✨ phones.
  Never heard of their ROG phone lineup?
  
  I've had the ROG 2, and now the ROG 6. Up there as my favorite phones ever. Even if you aren't a phone gamer, it's great for Android Phone power users too.
  Surprisingly, though I didn't originally buy with it in mind, the second side USB-C port quickly became one of my favorite features.

Hell yeah, if this is true then I might get a Zenfone 10
- I'd personally wait until they actually follow through.
  
  Same. Zenfone 9 still has no ROMs available, unfortunatley
  
  true, but Mishaal is reliable I'd say. I can always get a motorola though. Otherwise, welp, I'd get an iPhone because I regret my Xiaomi

Nitter-mirror
mishaal is already on mastodon, so don't link to that website once known as twitter
- Bro

That's good!

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