It’s screen size, which is just 5.9 inches! This could easily quality as one of the best compact phones to date. Add to it, the Zenfone series has always been known to be quite an active player in custom development. And there’s every reason to believe that its ninth iteration would follow in the same footsteps as well. Be it for flashing custom ROMs, installing custom recovery, or rooting your device via Magisk, there are a whole lot of tweaks to try out. However before you could try out any of these tweaks, you will have to checkmark an important prerequisite off the list- the bootloader on your Asus Zenfone 9 needs to be unlocked. And in this guide, we will show you how to do just that. Follow along.
Benefits and Risks of Bootloader Unlocking
Unlocking the bootloader is the gateway to extract the maximum benefits of Android’s open-source ecosystem. For example, you will be able to install a custom ROM or flash a custom recovery like TWRP. Likewise, you will also be able to get access to the system partition as well as administrative privileges by rooting your device via Magisk. This will then allow you to flash Magisk Modules, Xposed Framework, Substratum Themes, and Viper4Android among others. Likewise, you will also be able to flash a different region firmware. However, carrying out these tweaks brings in a few uninvited risks as well. To begin with, it will wipe off all the data and could nullify the device’s warranty as well. Along the same lines, it will degrade the Widevine L1 certification to L3, thereby preventing you from streaming content in HD [FIXED]. The SafetyNet will be triggered as well [FIXED], thereby preventing you from using banking apps [FIXED]. So if that’s well and good then let’s get started with the steps to unlock the bootloader on the Asus Zenfone 9.
How to Unlock the Bootloader on Asus Zenfone 9
The below process will wipe off all the data from your device. So please take a complete device backup beforehand. Droidwin and its members wouldn’t be held responsible in case of a thermonuclear war, your alarm doesn’t wake you up, or if anything happens to your device and data by performing the below steps. That’s it. These were the steps to unlock the bootloader on your Asus Zenfone 9. If you have any queries concerning the aforementioned steps, do let us know in the comments. We will get back to you with a solution at the earliest.
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