Enable USB debug mode on Moto G with a cracked or broken screen
This is for a Motorola Moto G XT1028. YMMV for other variations or generations of the phone, but these instructions are fairly generic. The important thing is that you are able to find the appropriate recovery image for your phone. For me, CWM and Philz Recovery didn't work, but TWRP did. A lot of posts on XDA forums and Android StackExchange have steps for enabling USB debugging mode using the ADB shell. But what if you can't even see your device in "adb devices" in the first place? If your screen is broken and illegible, like mine was, you can't navigate via touch to enable debugging. This was the problem I faced. It took me several hours to really understand the solution. I won't go into detail for most of these steps as there are many guides already: Restart the phone in fastboot mode and connect the USB cable from your PC From your PC's command line, run: fastboot devices List of devices attached TA965XXXXX fastboot If yo