Hi all, can anyone help? I smashed my phone at the weekend and really want to get back in to it if only to turn on contacts sync and see who keeps texting me, but for some reason USB debugging isn't on. Phone is stock.

Plugging in with USB = recognised in device manager as Xperia Z3. I've tried to download Android SDK, and install the USB drivers from the Sony website (says best driver already installed - the ones from the Sony website don't have any kind of installation program so not sure what I'm supposed to do with them!).

I know this isn't easy but can anyone guide me through getting in to it and getting USB debugging on so I can use Android Control? It seems I need to get the phone in to recovery mode so that it automatically enables USB debugging? If I hold down power/volume up a few times or in a weird combination, the LED goes blue and the phone comes up in device manager as 's1boot' and then 's1boot fastboot'. I've tried installing the drivers I've found from DooMLoRD but they don't help me access the phone at all, it still says unable to find the device. adb devices from the adb folder command prompt says no devices (i presume because USB debugging still disabled). I feel like I have made progress but need a bit more progress still to get in, if it is at all possible!

New thread because I can't find anyone with a Sony Xperia Z3 trying this, with the same steps taken/blue LED etc.

So I wanted to make some use of old Galaxy S1 that is not rooted, has broken touch/display and stock ROM, but I'm stuck. :( I'm able to turn it on/off, turn it in download mode, connect it on pc and transfer files. All I want is to control it with my PC via usb. I found some ways, but every required a usb debugging on on phone, and guess what, i dont have it turned on. So, my question is - Is there any way to turn on usb debugging on my phone(without buying anything, hdmi cable or god knows what)? Or do you maybe know the way to control your phone even with debugging turned off, or rooting your phone without debugging on and putting custom rom which would, hopefully, turn it on? :confused:

Can not seem to get debugging working :(

It tried installing a driver ONCE .. when I connected the usb cable.
But didnt work :( Now nothing happens.

Any help would be great !

I have a gt-p5113 that is stuck in a bootloop. I've read many many forums on bootloops and have tried many of the suggestions until I discovered that my tab is supposed to have usb debugging checked.
Unfortunately, I never did any customization with my tablet so the usb debugging did not get checked before my tab started doing the boot loop.
So here's the question: Is it possible to recover my tab without having the usb debugging checked? If I can, how do I do that?