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Help where is the Device Admins setting located?

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Hmm - I have Device administration section just below "Visible Passwords" (above the Credential storage section)
weird..

I have it in the same place also, weird that you don't have it

It's more than likely because you guys have custom ROMs that enable it. I've not seen it on anything that was 100% stock.
 
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ok - this is almost certainly a dumb question, but for an unrooted device, what does this option do? On my device, I see lookout as a device admin - and I can enable/disable it. I don't see how to add a new device admin (guess an app has to do that during installation?) And even if I could add a new device admin, what does that really do?

(BTW, my EVO is stock - unrooted thanks to HBOOT 1.5 GRRRRRR)
 
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ok - this is almost certainly a dumb question, but for an unrooted device, what does this option do? On my device, I see lookout as a device admin - and I can enable/disable it. I don't see how to add a new device admin (guess an app has to do that during installation?) And even if I could add a new device admin, what does that really do?

(BTW, my EVO is stock - unrooted thanks to HBOOT 1.5 GRRRRRR)

It certainly is not a dumb question. I can't find any record of this being a permission noted by Google. I thought it was the 'Modify System Settings' permission, but that also appears in apps that don't use device admin. Not even in alostpacket's permission thread.
 
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