How to Enable USB Debugging on Android Phone

The hidden menu of "Developer Options" might be not valued by many people, but is essential for you to use with the settings like enable USB debugging mode. Enable USB debugging mode on your Android phones that allow to communicate and enter the developer-level options when you using the phone via a USB connection.

With USB debugging, you are able to transfer data from Android to PC/Mac, from phone to phone, or install application easily. No matter the Android phone you are using is Samsung, Sony, Huawei, Lenovo, LG, Google Nexus, etc., the USB debugging is not on automatically. If you want to enable USB debugging of your Android phone, this article can help you solve the case.

Note: To recover deleted data, or backup/transfer data from Android phones, enable USE debugging is necessary.

Now, let’s follow the steps as below to check how to enable USB debugging on Android phone.

Part 1. How to Enable USB Debugging Mode on Android 2.3 or Earlier

Turning on debugging mode on Android 2.3 or Earlier is the easiest, developer mode is enabled by default, you can go to "Settings" < "Applications" <  "Development" < "USB debugging".

Part 2. How to Enable USB Debugging Mode on Android 3.0 to 4.1

It's simply to open USB debugging on Android 3.0 to 4.1, just need three steps: Go to "Settings" <  "Developer options" < "USB debugging".

Part 3. How to Enable USB Debugging Mode on Android 4.2 or Later

For Android operating system on Android 4.2 or later, developer options are hidden by default, so you can't find the USB debugging directly, you need to open developer mode first, follow the below steps.

Step 1. Go to "Settings" and tap "About Phone".

Step 2. Click "Build number" for 7 times until you get a note that "You are under developer mode".

Step 3. Go back to "Settings" and click "Developer options", then enable "USB debugging".

For some Android phone, you can’t find the steps to enable USB debugging from the above method, you can see the below solution, you can try the similar steps to turn on USB debugging mode in a similar way.

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