How to enable USB Debugging on Samsung Galaxy S5

Apr 19, 2014, 5:00 PM

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Knowing how to perform USB debugging on your Samsung Galaxy S5 allows you to connect and transfer files between your PC and your phone using your USB cable. The feature is turned on in the developer options portal. Another reason why you may want to enable this feature is that in order to use Odin with your phone and flash it, you have to have USB debugging enabled. Without being able to use Odin you won’t be able to install new ROM updates if the over-the-air update is not available.

Anyway let’s get to the point. Here is how you access the developer options and enable USB debugging on the Galaxy S5:

Go to the menu
Launch Settings
Access the “About Device” menu
Go down to “Build Number”
Then tap on the build number 7 times
After the 7th tap you will be told that you are now a developer
Now when you go back to the settings menu, the developer options will now be enabled and you can do whatever you want in there.
Now to enable USB debugging you will need to open Developer options and tick the box that says USB debugging.

If you continue to have problems connecting your PC to your phone, most likely you need to ensure that the correct Samsung drivers are installed on your PC.

Have you tried to enable USB debugging on your Samsung Galaxy S5? What do you think? Please leave us a comment below.

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9 comments

Hedver Morales Jan 24, 2017 Link to comment

Thanks for your help.....
Brandon Bates Mar 26, 2016 Link to comment

Doesn't work on my device. I have Developer Options enabled, but fore some reason, USB Debugging is unable to be ticked. It is grayed out as an unavailable option. Any suggestions? It seems my phone does connect to my PC, so perhaps it could be an automatic function? I have model SM G900P, which is a prepaid Sprint device.
alex claire Jan 4, 2016 Link to comment

Nice sharing.
Alexander Gromow Aug 15, 2015 Link to comment

Thank you very much, it worked perfectly, although this with the 7 times tapping seems more to be a crazy voodoo than any technical procedure...
Dean Beyer Jun 21, 2015 Link to comment

This still didn't help with mine. I have made sure i have the newest drivers and enabled usb debugging. Any other ideas. I can't get the pictures video's off my phone to my pc.
Fran Lar Aug 27, 2014 Link to comment

Excelent! thx!
Naidželas Rūstusis May 4, 2014 Link to comment

It is working. Thank you!
My1 Apr 20, 2014 Link to comment

Well all Android devices 4.2+ have that hidden...

But seriously, is it rly needed to enable debug for odin? For that you usually have dl mode...
Graham D Chadwick Apr 19, 2014 Link to comment

This also worked on my s3 which lost this option when updated to 4.3