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Root Restore Functionality Taken Away by Apple vs. HTC

joshua.worth

Android Enthusiast
Taken from here:
http://m.androidcentral.com/how-restore-functionality-apple-v-htc-war-has-taken-away-root


So you have a modern (read one that has or is going to get ICS) HTC Android phone, and want to restore the hyperlinked data option menu that Apple spent millions of dollars to take away from you? Hell, yeah, you do. We don't blame you one bit --these phones were made for hackin' so hack them! You'll need to be rooted, and so far this is confirmed to be working on the EVO 3D, the EVO 4G LTE, and the One X, but it's easy to try on other devices as well. Big thanks to steal25 over at XDA for figuring out an easy method.

Back up your current system/build.prop, because we're going to edit it a little bit. You can either do this on the phone --remember to mount /system as read/write -- or pull the file with adb and do it on your computer. If you choose the latter, be sure to use a text editor that has Unix line breaks and not Windows. Notepad++ will do the job just fine. What you'll need to edit:

Find the line ro.da1.enable=true Change it to ro.da1.enable=false Directly under it add the line ro.da1.method=false Reboot

When your phone restarts, those links for phone numbers and Youtube videos and everything else in mail and messages should work like we're used to seeing them work, and all will be well with the world. The app associations in settings will also be gone, because you don't need them any longer. It's an easy way to make your phone work as designed, and a big stick in the eye of the goons in Cupertino.

If you're not sure what we're talking about here, or have any other questions, jump into the forums and ask a few questions. The fellas are there that know what you need to know and love talking about it.

Source: XDA; via Android Central forums
 
Friendly bump, because I'm not sure you guys realize the importance of this nor the annoyance created thanks to Apple. But its an easy fix. Please do read they original post for yourself. Thanks guys and happy Sunday!
 
Thanks! I was coming from a Samsung and I noticed that when I hit a phone number that it wasn't porting over to my dialer -- that I had to manually copy and paste it. I didn't know that this was part of the patent beef between Apple and HTC, but I'm glad to have the functionality back!
 
You guys are welcome. This even messed up the browser when you would click in the address bar of you it didn't highlight the current url for easy deletion instead it put your cursor over annoyingly at the front of the url. So glad this is such an easy fix let's hope it stays this easy in future soft
 
My Design came with ICS 4.0.3, and the build.prop file already reads as false on both lunes, bit thanks for the heads up.
 
this procedure no longer works. i tried it on my old evo design, and also on my new one sv. if anyone knows how to restore this functionality, i would appreciate you letting us know how.
thanks in advance.
 
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