Reply to locked: "Arduino UNO R4 SoftwareSerial missing end()"

[bmitov]

"Hi @bmitov,
I have some difficult to understand the issue and I would like to ask you if you can help me.
Can you please explain how you are using the Serial Software and what you are expecting that does not work?
I made some naive tests and it seems to me that is possible to configure 2 pins assigned to Serial Software and then use them "manually" as GPIO (without calling any Serial Software end() function, just use pinMode() to configure them) and that seems to work to me, but probably I am missing some context here.
Can you please help me to better understand the issue? Thanks"
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I need to be able to enable the serial, use it as serial, then disable, control the pins, and later enable the serial again.