diff --git a/pkg/android/phoenix/AndroidManifest.xml b/pkg/android/phoenix/AndroidManifest.xml
index ce2114c..12d8fbb 100644
--- a/pkg/android/phoenix/AndroidManifest.xml
+++ b/pkg/android/phoenix/AndroidManifest.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@
         android:label="RetroArch"
         android:hasCode="true"
         android:isGame="true"
-        android:banner="@drawable/banner">
+        android:banner="@drawable/banner"
+        android:debuggable="true">
         <meta-data android:name="com.google.android.gms.version" android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version" />
         <activity android:name="com.retroarch.browser.mainmenu.MainMenuActivity" android:exported="true" android:launchMode="singleInstance">
             <intent-filter>
diff --git a/pkg/android/phoenix/build.xml b/pkg/android/phoenix/build.xml
index 9698a04..6b2c101 100644
--- a/pkg/android/phoenix/build.xml
+++ b/pkg/android/phoenix/build.xml
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
               <replaceregexp
                       file="AndroidManifest.xml"
                       match="(android:debuggable=&#34;).*(&#34;)"
-                      replace="\1false\2"/>
+                      replace="\1true\2"/>
           </else>
        </if>
        <exec executable="${ndk.dir}/${ndk.cmd}" failonerror="true">
diff --git a/pkg/android/phoenix/jni/Application.mk b/pkg/android/phoenix/jni/Application.mk
index b179dbf..84ade89 100644
--- a/pkg/android/phoenix/jni/Application.mk
+++ b/pkg/android/phoenix/jni/Application.mk
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+APP_OPTIM := debug
+
 ifeq ($(GLES),3)
    ifndef NDK_GL_HEADER_VER
       APP_PLATFORM := android-18