A little help with un-root please! - EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Ok here is what I have going on. I noticed last night that my volume down button wasnt working anymore. And I know that I have to have a completly un-rooted phone to turn it back in while under warrenty. If you havnt figured it out already, hereis the problem.
I downloaded the un-root and with the rom I have, when I go to reboot it actually gives me the option to reboot into recovery. Well with my volume down button not working, i cant get down to do anything. Is there anyway I can get un-rooted so I can get my phone turned back in?? Any help would be great,thanks!

I don't have an EVO LOL so I have no idea if this will help but maybe try and use the up button and cycle through it all backwards. Just a thought. Haven't had a HTC phone since my DInc so hope that helps
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Yea I tried that(first thing) lol, but it wouldnt cycle thru backwards.

Might try to find that official 3.29 ruu. It's an exe you run on your desktop that should put everything back to stock including the newest update, don't quote me on that but I think I lost root when I ran that, of course I was able to quickly root again height unrevoked.
It even flashes back to stock recovery, I think.
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Ruu is best bet. Clock work will let you toggle up to get to bottom
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Thanks guys. I found an in root program that runs everything thru my comp desktop. But once I try to start it, it says it does not recognize my phone. Any links to another ruu program? Thanks!
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Updated radio issue - phone not booting

I had success with the unrevoked root, so I decided to give the 2.2 upgrade a shot. I successfully reverted to a fresh stock unrooted 2.1, using the PB31IMG.zip file. This also took away my Clockwork Mod. Next I moved to the step of loading the dinc_ota.zip. After the 3 cycles it went to the HTC incredible boot screen and didnt move. I waited 15 minutes and nothing changed. I decided to pull the battery but no luck, still hangs on the white screen when i turn the phone on. I can still get into HBoot, which shows my radio as the updated 2.05 and my hboot is .79.
I've tried the RUU but I cannot boot the phone past the white htc screen so it wont work. I've also tried to load the PB31IMG.zip file from the sdcard agian, which doesnt. I get an error saying its too old.
Is there a way to restore my phone from Hboot?
Do you have any suggestions of threads I could read for the answer?
Thanks
Try the image again, then try the ota.
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i would not try the radio update again, that's pretty much a sure fire way to brick. I would wait for the opinions of others first.
PB31IMG.zip doesn't roll the radio back does it? It reverts to stock recovery and ROM, but does it roll the radio back too?
I thought you had to follows this to roll the radio back, http://androidforums.com/all-things...16-how-revert-back-earlier-version-hboot.html
k_flan said:
i would not try the radio update again, that's pretty much a sure fire way to brick. I would wait for the opinions of others first.
PB31IMG.zip doesn't roll the radio back does it? It reverts to stock recovery and ROM, but does it roll the radio back too?
I thought you had to follows this to roll the radio back, http://androidforums.com/all-things...16-how-revert-back-earlier-version-hboot.html
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Sorry, my bad. DONT APPLY THE UPDATE AGAIN!
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Try a clear storage.
jdkoreclipse said:
Try the image again, then try the ota.
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I tried the image again, same error, it reads:
Main Version is older!
Update Fail!
Do you want to reboot device?
vol up yes
vol down no
I tried the reboot and it still hangs at white screen.
k_flan said:
i would not try the radio update again, that's pretty much a sure fire way to brick. I would wait for the opinions of others first.
PB31IMG.zip doesn't roll the radio back does it? It reverts to stock recovery and ROM, but does it roll the radio back too?
I thought you had to follows this to roll the radio back, http://androidforums.com/all-things...16-how-revert-back-earlier-version-hboot.html
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As for the radio update, I agree that it would be a bad idea to try to reaplly it, especially since my HBoot shows it as the updated radio.
I also saw the thread you pointed out to me but that requires clockwork mod to be installed and that was removed when i reverted to stock.
Any helpful ideas are greatly appreciated.
Does it show up on adb?
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jdkoreclipse said:
Does it show up on adb?
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I did try to clear the storage, but it still hangs.
Also tried adb devices in hboot, at the htc incredible white screen, and in the fastboot menu, all with no luck. When I try to boot to recovery it hangs at the same white screen. Might just have to bring it to Verizon tomorrow, I'm beginning to think I may be holding a brick.
To revert your radio back to the original 1.x, you need to have access to adb and pushing to your data directory
Long story short, you dun goofed by pulling the battery
HTC Incredible, rooted w/ modified Sense 2.1
I think its a brick
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ilinfinityil said:
To revert your radio back to the original 1.x, you need to have access to adb and pushing to your data directory
Long story short, you dun goofed by pulling the battery
HTC Incredible, rooted w/ modified Sense 2.1
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Once the radio update completed, the white htc inc screen came up and hung there for 15 minutes, I didnt think I had much of a choice.
In that situation what should I have done?
aaman137 said:
Once the radio update completed, the white htc inc screen came up and hung there for 15 minutes, I didnt think I had much of a choice.
In that situation what should I have done?
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When i did the ota, it took about 7-10 min total. Yours hung on that incredible boot screen for 15 min. You did the right thing.
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I appreciate all the help, this is why I came to xda. As for my Incredible, I guess its going back to Verizon tomorrow to see what they can do for me. I'm sure I'll be waiting a good week or two until I have my Incredible back, DOH!
I wouldn't think it's bricked if you can still get into the bootloader. Bricked generally comes about when you can't even power the device on. While I have nothing to add in the way of help, I'd say don't give up on the phone yet. I'm betting one of the *real* devs may be able to help you.
Ruoh said:
I wouldn't think it's bricked if you can still get into the bootloader. Bricked generally comes about when you can't even power the device on. While I have nothing to add in the way of help, I'd say don't give up on the phone yet. I'm betting one of the *real* devs may be able to help you.
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It may be a soft brick.
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i brick it this morning, called around dinner time, and they dispatched a replacement to me. overnight free shipping!!!
Its not bricked. I had the same issue. You need to follow this guide. Basically you have to redo it to get it to work, and this is the only way that I could do it.
http://androidforums.com/all-things...16-how-revert-back-earlier-version-hboot.html
(This was the most important part of the guide for me. Solve that: error saying its too old. All glory to Adrynalyne)
Having troubles with the RUU giving connection errors? Do this.
Go to start, and in the search/run box, type
%temp%
Delete all that you can. Make sure the RUU is not running in the background.
Now run the RUU again. Once it starts to the first screen, it has extracted the files to the temp directory. You can then copy them to a safe place. It will be a long winded numbered folder, with a similar subfolder.
Once you have copied it to a safe place, you can then copy adb.exe, fastboot.exe, and adbwinapi.dll from the latest SDK into it, overwriting the older copies. Then start the RUU by executing ARUWizard.exe. This fixed the problem for me.
You can also rename the rom.zip contained within the extracted files to PB31IMG.zip and put it on your sd card. Booting to HBOOT will scan it and offer to install.
HolyGrail said:
Its not bricked. I had the same issue. You need to follow this guide. Basically you have to redo it to get it to work, and this is the only way that I could do it.
http://androidforums.com/all-things...16-how-revert-back-earlier-version-hboot.html
(This was the most important part of the guide for me. Solve that: error saying its too old. All glory to Adrynalyne)
Having troubles with the RUU giving connection errors? Do this.
Go to start, and in the search/run box, type
%temp%
Delete all that you can. Make sure the RUU is not running in the background.
Now run the RUU again. Once it starts to the first screen, it has extracted the files to the temp directory. You can then copy them to a safe place. It will be a long winded numbered folder, with a similar subfolder.
Once you have copied it to a safe place, you can then copy adb.exe, fastboot.exe, and adbwinapi.dll from the latest SDK into it, overwriting the older copies. Then start the RUU by executing ARUWizard.exe. This fixed the problem for me.
You can also rename the rom.zip contained within the extracted files to PB31IMG.zip and put it on your sd card. Booting to HBOOT will scan it and offer to install.
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This only works if he can get to recovery.
TNS201 said:
This only works if he can get to recovery.
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Your point? He can get into stock recovery, which is all he needs to start over.
HolyGrail said:
Your point? He can get into stock recovery, which is all he needs to start over.
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His tutorial says you need clockwork, so he might not be ok. You need the ability to push files to your data directory which is why he needs clockwork, unless he can do it the old way when we first got root by the time attack method. I do not know how much functionality adb would have if he was able to access ADB with stock recovery.
This is all his fault for his failure to read. From what I read in the OP, he did this
1. He downgraded with the RUU image.
2. He tried to apply the OTA
He failed to do this or at least didn't acknowledge that he did this, but he didn't install the original OTA which you will get after you RUU back to stock. If you boot your phone back up it should download the OTA from VZW and then you apply the leaked OTA. So sounds like this is the reason for his brick/semi-brick. Failure to read or understand what youre doing leads to FAIL>

Returning to complete factory STOCK

Can someone help me with this. I'm having to return the wife's phone due to her camera being messed up. I've Already put it back to somewhat stock from CM (I don't thing I changed the radio either), but still rooted. Is all I need the esprimg file and to flash that and I'm good? Any input would be greatly appreciated. I'm not as used to her phone as with mine. Thx
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I'm not exactly sure that you can. It seems (to me) that once you change the permissions of the files in the phone they are stuck like that. "I" believe that once it is changed in firmware you can't go back even if you do a hard reset.
I did a hard reset on the phone after rooting it because I took the wrong app off and when I went to redo root the files already had permission granted to them.
i'd love to know the answer to this as well.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=713507
This SHOULD be what you're looking for... I think.
beazie0885 said:
Can someone help me with this. I'm having to return the wife's phone due to her camera being messed up. I've Already put it back to somewhat stock from CM (I don't thing I changed the radio either), but still rooted. Is all I need the esprimg file and to flash that and I'm good? Any input would be greatly appreciated. I'm not as used to her phone as with mine. Thx
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I just went through this on my return.
Grab the ESPRIMG.zip from the S-OFF thread. The link is under where it says "Still still having problems?" I'd post the direct link myself but it won't let me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=798168
Put the file in the root of your SD card and reboot into stock recovery and it should automatically start flashing. Once its done and you reboot it will be back to complete stock/pre-OTA update and will no longer be rooted.
You will also need the 1.35 update.zip if you want to update manually
You can download it here http://www.4shared.com/file/xqsDnrwl/1_35_531.html
Remember to change the file name to update.zip before flashing threw stock recovery
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TrevE.. Bricked my phone!

TrevE you do great work.. and yea i know that this is my own fault for flashing and im not blaming you... BUT i installed (and bought the pro version) your "logging test app v7" and ran the ICQ remove... rebooted my phone like it said to and now its a paper weight... I gets stuck at the "Samsung screen". I tried putting it into "download mode" and odin back to stock and nothing. It goes into the download mode screen but my PC will not pick it up at all. Yes i have the right drivers (I am not a complete noob). I tried it with odin3 v1.85 and v1.61.
Any advice on how to fix it? Any of you guys know if sprint will be able to tell it was rooted when I take it in for a replacement (I have protection).
Phone specs..
epic 4g
stock II22 rooted
persistence pays off. after trying to get my phone into CWM about 50 times it finaly worked! flashing a new rom now... I will not be reloading the app.. but im not going to get a refund either.. keep the buck, you do great things! But if you figure out why this app does not like the epic 4g let me know.
Did you use this? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1247108
TrevE develops for HTC devices as far as I'm aware.
If you are looking for the original mod for CIQ removal by k0nane, then go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1340083
Try removing the battery for a bit before going into download mode. Try both with wall/usb cable connected and/or sd card removed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1359647
First off, if you don't blame Trev you should change the title...kind of rude. CIQ removal is not the same for all phones. You should have read more. Now to restore your phone follow this thread and if Odin isn't recognizing it no matter what then go to post 2 on using Heimdall to restore your phone:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813
I have had many of issues with odin, from not picking up to my screen turning random colors during odin flash.
You wouldn't by chabce have windows 7 64bit because its a pain with that os for some reason.
I would suggest uninstalling the drivers and reinstalling them and it should run through the steps to rehook the drivers for odin, does for me everytime I flash with odin I have to reinstall drivers
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Of coerce i dont balm treve... Thats the risk we take when we start to mess with our phones! But his app did crash it!! I sent him a PM so hopefully he will figure it out.. He does amazing this for Android, i have nothing but respect for him! If he tells me he has a problem with my title ill change it..
The first thing i did was take out the SD card but thanks for the heads up.
Odin has never once given me any problems and it now picks up my phone fine.
Thanks for the battery advice! I was only taking out for a minute or so, Ill try it for longer if i have any more troubles.
The phone is working great now.. just had to try to get into CWM about 50 times.
So say you don't blame TrevE yet your title says you do.
Pull the battery leave it out for a say or so and try again.
NissanNick said:
Of coerce i dont balm treve... Thats the risk we take when we start to mess with our phones! But his app did crash it!! I sent him a PM so hopefully he will figure it out.. He does amazing this for Android, i have nothing but respect for him! If he tells me he has a problem with my title ill change it..
The first thing i did was take out the SD card but thanks for the heads up.
Odin has never once given me any problems and it now picks up my phone fine.
Thanks for the battery advice! I was only taking out for a minute or so, Ill try it for longer if i have any more troubles.
The phone is working great now.. just had to try to get into CWM about 50 times.
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Dude. That is not for our phones. HTC only. TrevE has nothing to do with samsung phones.
Let's just throw an htc sense framework over touchwiz...it'll be fine!
*scoffs*
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zanderman112 said:
Dude. That is not for our phones. HTC only. TrevE has nothing to do with samsung phones.
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He should change the title to "I'm an idiot and bricked my phone using an HTC mod by TrevE because I can't read". Much more accurate.
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Clockworkmod should still work if you installed a bad framework.
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marcusant said:
Clockworkmod should still work if you installed a bad framework.
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He said it did.
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USB Not working & LOST Clockwork Mod Recovery
Assistance please!!! Need to take back Epic to Sprint.
I was trying to flash the lastest recovery on my my wifes phone and in the process lost recovery(see images) I downloaded ROM Manager and tried reflashing and nothing. I need to take the phone back to SPRINT because the USB stopped working, No ODIN, Wont connect via USB at all........
I need to return system to stock with no USB support at all. Please direct me to the right thread if you have heard of this before.
you used the wrong method for the wrong phone!
NissanNick said:
Of coerce i dont balm treve... Thats the risk we take when we start to mess with our phones! But his app did crash it!! I sent him a PM so hopefully he will figure it out.. He does amazing this for Android, i have nothing but respect for him! If he tells me he has a problem with my title ill change it..
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No dude, his app didn't crash it. You did because you used the wrong method for the wrong phone!
The app couldnt have.
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Looks like to me that you are one stock recovery so u should be Ok... someone correct me if im wrong
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Assistance please!!! Need to take back Epic to Sprint.
I was trying to flash the lastest recovery on my my wifes phone and in the process lost recovery(see images) I downloaded ROM Manager and tried reflashing and nothing. I need to take the phone back to SPRINT because the USB stopped working, No ODIN, Wont connect via USB at all........
I need to return system to stock with no USB support at all. Please direct me to the right thread if you have heard of this before.
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phatryan69 said:
Looks like to me that you are one stock recovery so u should be Ok... someone correct me if im wrong
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He was on clockworkmod and he is still on a custom rom...
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This is not a beat treve app up.. This was just to get advice on how to unbrick my phone and see if maybe he could fix it for the epic... This thread is great lol. I named the title that to mainly get everyone attention because i was worried about not having a working phone....
I dont blame treve or his app really... as a matter of fact i took full responsibility for it.
And yes i did brick my phone because im i moron that used the wrong app... but i am still finding all this great.

Need help unbricking/restoring phone

i have the droid incredible 2 and i bricked it
i can turn it on and the white screen with the green htc lettering comes up and then it just plays the cyanogenmod 7 load screen in a loop, please help me out, if you can provide dumbed down instructions that would be great
edit: UNBRICKED IT WOOT
edit 2: however now when i try to activate it i cant enter the 4 digit pass code because there are no dial keys while making a call, so i still need help :/
You should be able to long press the settings key and that normally brings it up.
yea i got it activated thanks, i was wondering, is it possible to get it back to htc sense, also i dont know how to get the google app store onto my phone
simple29 said:
yea i got it activated thanks, i was wondering, is it possible to get it back to htc sense, also i cant download apps from google it says they are installed but they arent
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If you backed up before you flashed cm7, then you can just restore your backup. Otherwise, you'd have to flash an ruu and lose stuff... Or there's always andyBONESTOCK.
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tylerlawhon said:
If you backed up before you flashed cm7, then you can just restore your backup. Otherwise, you'd have to flash an ruu and lose stuff... Or there's always andyBONESTOCK.
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That's what I would suggest. Also I have only seen one true brick in my experience, and I've rooted close to a dozen different android phones between my own and friends.
After I rooted my friends galaxy s, I told him to wait before he installs any roms since there were multiple carriers with that phone. He installed a rom later that night that was for another carrier. Obviously the phone would not work properly. So I gave him the instructions on how to fix it (go back to completely stock since he didn't make a backup). while flash through Odin (I think that's what it was, well whatever correct program is called) the usb cord came unplugged half way through the flash.
He had a true brick. After that it wouldn't even power up. It was nothing more than a paperweight, or in this case, a brick.
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[Q] Volume Down + Power = no bootloading screen?

Sprint Evo 4g Supersonic will not load my boot screen. Im not sure what is going on I do know that one of my phones is stock and the other is a rooted phone. What the hell is going on. Im not a noob to root FYI. I build gaming rigs and other computer related issues I can solve fairly easy. However, this is getting under my skin because I want to UNROOT so i can activate service on the one phone and then Root it again back to where I had it. The other phone that is Stock RUU sprint is having the same issue. For the love of God I just want to be able to unlock my stock and root! Awaiting a sound answer to my question and I do hope I posted this in the right catagory of the forums because I saw nothing of this issue for Supersonic RUU EVO 4G. Thanks!
So holding power and volume down at startup doesnt bring up the bootloader screen correct?
I know this may sound obvious, but power off the phone, pull out the battery, put it back in, then try again.
Did you make sure that Fastboot was disabled in your phone's Settings? Cuz that will keep it from booting into your bootloader
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You don't need to unroot to activate a phone.
Thanks for the suggestions I already had it off fastboot and I took the battery out and swapped with another one and it worked fine after. Its been a while since I messed with my phones technically.
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You don't need to unroot to activate a phone.
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Captain,
other then the obvious "thanks" Sprint is the one that messed my rooted phones network when changing phone numbers. if I remember correctly its stuck on "Hands Free Activation" continually having the icon circle and "contacting the network" times out and I get code 1012. I can cancel this and use the phone just no service. I went back to a stock rom to do this in order to add a line and switch numbers on both evo 4g supersonics. the rooted failed connection and sprint stock is now my phone. I am going to root this one since it has hboot 2.16 but I have to downgrade windows 8 to 7 ultimate first. NOTHING is compatible with that OS... yet anyways. I will check out your methods as well. I was looking for a forum that would be able to explaine how to activate a rooted phone. Ill get back to you if I have an issue! Thanks
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Capt. Throwback,
If you wouldn't mind please email me specifically how to bring my phone in. Unless OTA ROOT APP works I need to know in order to restore the phone to its line. In forum mail is ok to reach me at. Thanks.
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No Bootloader Screen
DB13 said:
Did you make sure that Fastboot was disabled in your phone's Settings? Cuz that will keep it from booting into your bootloader
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I have the same problem with being unable to bring up the Bootloader Screen.
So I tried to follow your advice, but I don't see how to disable Fastboot.
I don't know how it was enabled in the first place. I certainly was smart enough to do it.
I went to 'Settings' but see nothing related to Fastboot. Where can it be found?
If this is a common problem, wouldn't it be a good idea to address it in the instructions?
hsfrey said:
I have the same problem with being unable to bring up the Bootloader Screen.
So I tried to follow your advice, but I don't see how to disable Fastboot.
I don't know how it was enabled in the first place. I certainly was smart enough to do it.
I went to 'Settings' but see nothing related to Fastboot. Where can it be found?
If this is a common problem, wouldn't it be a good idea to address it in the instructions?
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Usually, it is in menu/settings/apps depending on what rom you are on.
I'm on Decks Reloaded and I think it is disabled by default, therefore, no option to enable it.

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