Hey there,
So I just got an Honor 6X to replace my bootlooped Nexus 5X. I've been trying to enable the developer options in the menu but taping the build number won't work, any idea why? I literally just started using the phone 20 minutes ago.
Thanks
Dunno if you are on Nougat or Marshmallow, but just for reference the place where you should tap is the one that i underlined on the picture in attachments, i did the same on Marshmallow. If tapping doesn't shows a pop-up message as habit about the remaining taps to unlock the dev options, it's the first time that i hear this issue. Check it
Hi everyone,
I'm on a FIDO (Canada) Pixel 4XL with OTA Android 11 and could not get the "enable OEM unlocking" to actually stick. It would ask for my screen password as if it was going to work and then immediately remain OFF. GRRRRR
After much reading and general frigging around I decided to "turn off" Developer mode and try turning it back on as that seems to fix everything these days LOL.
Bingo, most of the options became greyed out but OEM Unlock remained accessible. I toggled it to ON and woohoo it stayed there.
Turned Developer mode back on and all is well.
Hope this helps someone out there as I hadn't come across this odd yet easy fix.
think i got it in nov 20
only today i realise i had not enabled developer options
i don't think i've gone this long on an android phone being stock
Developer options?
Go to Settings, About Phone, Software Information and tap Build Number repeatedly until Developer Options gets enabled.
I have a Moto G Stylus XT2043-4 2020 edition, US running Android 11, non-rooted. I wanted to enable freeform windows so I went to Developer Options, turned on "Enable freeform windows" and rebooted. But no freeform windows, and when I looked at Developer Options again, the Enable freeform windows option had mysteriously unchecked itself.
I read about the Taskbar app and how that was supposed to get freeform windows going so I installed that, checked "Freeform window support" in it, turned Enable freeform windows back on in Developer Options, rebooted again but still no freeform windows.
Is there some trick to this I'm just not getting?
Michele31415 said:
I have a Moto G Stylus XT2043-4 2020 edition, US running Android 11, non-rooted. I wanted to enable freeform windows so I went to Developer Options, turned on "Enable freeform windows" and rebooted. But no freeform windows, and when I looked at Developer Options again, the Enable freeform windows option had mysteriously unchecked itself.
I read about the Taskbar app and how that was supposed to get freeform windows going so I installed that, checked "Freeform window support" in it, turned Enable freeform windows back on in Developer Options, rebooted again but still no freeform windows.
Is there some trick to this I'm just not getting?
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Hey, I don't know if you have figured it out yet but if not I will tell you. When you restart your device certain settings can be reset for some reason. Free form windows are one of them. A fix is just enabling it and not rebooting, seemed to work for me.
Thanks for the reply. I had basically given up on this but I just checked again and although I've rebooted multiple times since my OP, I now see that "Enable freeform windows" actually *is* checked in Developer Options. I just tried opening a few freeform windows and by golly now it's working. I still need to launch apps from the Taskbar app to get them to do freeform but at least it works.
It's very odd because I've changed nothing else, no system updates, no resets or anything like that. So that's cool. Go figure.