April 2020
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
10h 12m
English
book
Practical Mobile Forensics - Fourth Edition
by Rohit Tamma, Oleg Skulkin, Heather Mahalik, Satish Bommisetty
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USB debugging
The primary function of this option is to enable communication between the Android device and the workstation on which the Android SDK is installed. On a Samsung phone, you can access this under Settings | Developer Options, as shown in the following screenshot:
The USB debugging option in a Samsung S8 device
Other Android phones may have different environments and configuration features. You may have to force the Developer Options option by accessing build mode.
However, starting from Android 4.2, the Developer Options menu is hidden to make sure that users do not enable it by accident. To enable it, go to Settings | About Phone ...