Developer options or developer mode in
an Android smartphone allows you to
unlock hidden features in your mobile
phone. Let me show you.
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Hello, this is Mr. Mobility. Developer
mode enables you to unlock hidden
features so you can enjoy some benefits
that you were not enjoying before. to
make customizations and adjustments to
your phone. I share what these features
are and how to find and enable developer
mode in your phone. For example, one of
the improvements and one of the benefits
of enabling and using developer mode or
developer options in your phone is that
you can increase and improve the
performance of your smartphone. How?
It's more of perception. But again, at
the end of the day, it impacts how you
use your phone. So, for example, you can
reduce the animation scale of your
device such that it feels faster when
you use it. If you're using an
entry-level or mid-range Android
smartphone and it's feeling a little
sluggish, for example, enabling
developer mode and going in there to
adjust about three items means that your
phone will suddenly begin to feel
smoother and more pleasant to use.
Another benefit of using developer mode
or developer options is that you can
debug. Now, this is a developer
terminology. If you're into app
development, you already know what this
means. If you're not, you're going to
find this more technical than you
probably can handle. But it simply means
that you're able to figure out what's
going on behind the scenes in your
phone. You have access to technical
information about what's going on behind
the scenes in your phones. And it's a
great way of solving problems that
encounter with apps and with the
functionality on your phone. If you're
not a developer, don't worry about this.
Ignore this. Another benefit you can
enjoy when you enable developer mode on
your Android smartphone is that you can
achieve a great a greater deal of
customization for your phone. For
example, you can limit background
activity on your device. Which apps are
connecting online, how often they do it,
which apps are running in the background
when you're doing something, or even
when your phone is idle. You can tinker
and tamper with all of that to make your
phone more efficient, reduce your data
consumption,
reduce battery consumption so that your
battery life improves. things like that.
You can also force uh the rendering of
your graphical processing unit. Pretty
much what that means is that you can
change how well your phone displays
animations and graphics in games in
video and all of that. And for those of
you who love to tinker with custom
software for your devices, yes, you can
unlock your boot your devices
bootloadader and be able to install
custom software, custom ROMs from third
party sources. Of course, this comes
with risks, but if you're the
adventurous type, hey, what's stopping
you from doing it? So the question
you're asking next is how can you find
or where can you find developer mode or
developer options in your Android
smartphone. It's a simple answer. You
always find it in the settings of your
device. It's always in the settings of
your device. The problem is this. It's
hidden. If you scroll through your
device, you're not going to find any
section that says developer mode. You
have to enable it for it to be visible.
So the question now is how do you enable
developer mode? When you load the
settings app of your phone, go down to
about phone and then scroll down to
software information
and then scroll to where you find build
number. What you want to do when you
find build number is tap it multiple
times. Usually it's seven times,
but who knows that may change in the
future. It might even have changed as
I'm speaking. But you start tapping on
build number one, two, three, four. It
says you're three steps away from being
a developer. Six, seven.
And then it asks you to unlock your
device.
My device is unlocked. And then it asks
me allow development settings. These
settings are pro are intended for
development use only. They can cause
your device and the applications on it
to break or misbehave. Be aware of that
disclaimer if you want to proceed.
Anything you do in here in developer
mode or developer options can break, can
mess up something on your device. Yes,
we want to. So, you're going to tap
okay.
Developer mode has been enabled. Yay.
Now, where do you find it? You have to
go back
to the main
page of your settings app, right? And
then scroll down to the very bottom. And
here you are,
developer options.
That's it.
Once you tap on it, you are now in the
developer options menu and you can
access all of the different things that
you like to do. All the hidden features,
all the tinkering, all the adjusting
that you want to do here, they are
waiting for you. And whenever you're
done, perhaps you have played around
with everything you need to play around
with and you want to turn it off. At the
top of the settings, you see the toggle
for disabling it. And all you have to do
tap on that
and developer options has been turned
off. If you go back to the main settings
uh to the main page of your settings
app, you find that developers options or
developer mode which was visible at the
bottom is gone. If you'd like to enable
it again, it's the same process. Go back
to about phone.
Scroll down to software information,
build number, tap it repeatedly, usually
at least seven times till your phone
asks you to unlock and then you enter
your PIN, your password, and then you
have developer mode active again. Now I
have showed you that here on a Samsung
phone. Depending on the implementation
of the different um Android phone
manufacturers, the location of that
build number menu may differ. But here
is a phone from AGM and I am in the
settings app. I scroll down about phone.
I scroll down
and
here it is build number. So I'm tapping
one 2 3 4 5 6 7 it's asking me to unlock
unlocked.
And then I go back to main page of the
settings app. And when I scroll to the
bottom in this case I have to now look
under system
system and right here developer options.
See
at developer options
and then I can do whatever I want to do.
Play around think tinker. And then
similar to how it works on the Samsung,
when I'm done and want to turn it off,
all I have to do is disable it here and
developer options is gone. When you go
back to that system menu, you don't you
don't see developer options visible
anymore. The specific location,
depending on the phone manufacturer, it
will differ a little bit, but you can't
miss it. You know, you just can't miss
it. You're looking pretty much you're
looking under about phone or under
system or both. The build number can be
in about phone and then developer
options will show up under system or
both can show up under about phone but
those are the two places where you look
to find and enable developer options in
your Android phone. Let me know if
you've ever used this feature on your
phone before. What did you use it to
achieve? I have used it a bit. I've used
it to make my phone feel snappier. I
have also used it to limit background
apps on my device a few times uh which
led to an increase in battery life and
also reduced the quantity of data that
my phone was consuming. Let me know your
experiences with it. Thank you for
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