How to Enable USB Debugging on Android with Black Screen?

USB debugging must be enabled in order to perform actions on your phone from your computer. This guide takes a look at how to enable USB debugging on Android with broken black screen using a couple of different ways.

- Part 1. Enable USB Debugging on Android with Black Screen Using ADB Command

- Part 2. Enable USB Debugging on Android with Broken Screen Using OTG Cable and Mouse

- Part 3. How to Recover Lost Data from Android with Black Screen

**Part 1. Enable USB Debugging on Android with Black Screen Using ADB Command**

One of the ways to enable USB debugging on your Android phone with a black screen is to use an ADB command. There is a command that you can use with ADB toolkit and that should help turn on the USB debugging option on your phone.

The following describes how to enable USB debugging on Android with black screen through computer.

- Download theADB toolkitfor your computer and extract its contents to a folder.

- ADB requires you have USB debugging enabled on your phone. Since your phone has a black screen, reboot your phone into recovery mode to accomplish this. Press the Volume Down and Power buttons at the same time to enter recovery mode.

- Connect your phone to your computer, open a Command Prompt window in the ADB folder, and type the following command.

adb devices

- You should see your device listed there. Run the following commands one by one.

adb shell
mount data
mount system

- Use the following command to pull the persist.sys.usb.config file from your phone to the PC.

adb pull /data/property/persist.sys.usb.config C:\Users\\Desktop/build.prop" /system/

- Reboot your device using the following command.

adb reboot


You are all set. Your phone will boot up with USB debugging enabled.


**Part 2. Enable USB Debugging on Android with Broken Screen Using OTG Cable and Mouse**

If your phone has support for OTG, then you can actually plug a computer mouse into your phone and use it to navigate around on your device. This way, even if your phone has a dysfunctional black screen, you can still perform various actions on your phone. The following shows how to enable USB debugging on Android with a black screen using a mouse.

- Connect your mouse to your Android phone using the OTG. Make sure your phone supports the OTG feature.

- You will probably need to mirror your phone's screen to your computer, if you cannot see anything on your phone.

- Use the mouse to head into Settings > About phone > Developer options and tap on the Build number 7 times to enable the Developer Options.- Back to About phone section and you should find the USB debugging option. Click on the option to turn it on.

USB debugging is now enabled on your device.