Tuesday, July 29, 2014

How to enable developer options on Android 4.2 and Above

Android OS developers at the time of release of OS 4.2 made a change in settings section due to which developers options are hidden in new phones running on OS 4.2 & above, this option is very useful for developers and testers for capturing logs etc.
Steps for enabling developers option:
  • Go to Settings section on device.
  • Tap on About phone
  • Look for “Build number” row under About phone
  • Tap on Build number for 7 times then you will see “You are now a developer” toast appear on screen 
  • Now tap on back and you will see Developers options above About phone 
  • Tap on Developers options.
  • Look for USB debugging option and tap on check box, you will see a popup, tap on ok
  • Now you can use this device for testing and log capturing using monitor tool or adb command of android sdk.


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