How to Turn On Chromebook Developer Mode - Put Chromebook in Dev Mode

How to turn on Developer Mode on your Chromebook? In this tutorial, I show you how to enable Developer Mode on your Chromebook. This is great if you want to install APK files and extensions that aren't available with the normal Chrome operating system.
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Note: installing Developer Mode on your Chromebook will DELETE everything on it. Make sure you back up all files saved on your Chromebook before turning on Dev Mode, or you will lose them.

Note: make sure that your Chromebook is connected to a power source while as you follow the steps below.

How to enable Developer Mode on your Chromebook:
1. Turn on your Chromebook.
2. From the log in screen, press ESC + Reload key + Power button on your keyboard at the same time. Hold these keys until the screen turns off. You should see a message that says "Chrome OS is missing or damaged." Don't worry about this; it is currently in recovery mode.
3. From the error message screen, press CTRL + D on your keyboard. You should see another message that says "To turn OS verification OFF, press Enter..." Press Enter.
4. You should get a message that says "OS verification is OFF..." Press CTRL + D again. This will temporarily turn the screen off. Once it reboots, you should get a message with a count-down timer that says your system is transitioning to Developer Mode.
5. You should get a message that says "OS verification is OFF..." (again) Once again, press CTRL + D. Your screen will turn off and then it will begin to load Chrome OS in Developer Mode.
6. Once this is complete, you will need to set up your Chromebook again by selecting Lets go, connecting to your WiFi network, and logging in to your Google account. Once you've logged in, your Chromebook will be in Developer Mode.
7. Please keep in mind that very time you turn on your Chromebook, you will see the same "OS Verification is OFF" message. Press CTRL + D whenever this appears to log in to your Chromebook.

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[Paqes]

this video is 4 years ago but still helping millions of people until now. keep up the good work buddy

[acidthefox]

*Respect* he sacrificed his Chromebook for us

[jaycie]

I want to thank you very much for this. I was stuck with a "known error issue" (for an earlier version but it occurred on my later version) after I updated Chromebook. That issue was marked "fixed" a year ago and there was no help to be found that did anything. The error involved Chrome OS not able to realize it was connected to WiFi and would not allow me to log into CB but only use it in Guest mode ... I needed a powerwash, but in Guest mode Google did not want that to be possible. After plowing through all sorts of unhelpful leads turned up by G search, I hit on this video. As it said that installing Dev Mode would delete all local data, I figured that would be the same as a powerwash, so I followed your instructions. After it counted down and OS Verification was off, I hit Enter to turn it back on and it went out of Dev Mode and to Welcome screen. This fixed the error, this time I logged in to find a nice and clean refreshed OS. Yes I lost a few items I had in Files but there was no way I was going to be able in Guest mode to back them up and no other way to fix the error and use the machine without the powerwash. Again, can't thank you enough, you saved my hide.

[psychic_silverr]

imagine watching this on the chromebook that your doing this on ( I didn’t expect this to get so many likes and replies!)

[octamiemartinez]

esc + reload + off button
Ctrl + D
Enter
Ctrl + D
Ctrl + D

[hermestrismegistus]

Brilliantly simple tutorial! Works a treat. Thank you!

[genevievem]

Yay, it works!! Thank you very much for the detailed instructions.

[kennziedenki]

Omg this is the best and simplest explanation!! It worked so good! Highly recommend this tutorial

[Famoussveee]

Bro I love you so much I was so scared that my Chromebook is dead but it wasn't dead thank you so much ❤️

[heartsforspritee]

Tip: When turning on dev mode, it will delete all of your saved files and apps. If you have anything important saved to files, I would recommend keeping it on a google slides(link or image). For the apps, if you have an account on them, then you can just re download them after turning on dev mode, then sign in to the account. But you will lose your data on other apps, unless you have that saved or smthn. I have used this exact tutorial before a few months back, but something happened on my end and I have to turn it on again. Also, you might want to write down the directions.

[marib]

Thanks bro I been scared to do this for days but I finnaly did it and it worked perfectly 👍👍

[SD_Reagan]

Life saver no one can explain it in a simple way but you did tysm!!!

[Jonlyboy]

Thanks man. Also gotta love the Google Devs for making it relatively easy. It kinda seems like a game Easter egg.

[WeezerGreen]

Its gonna take 4 minutes. Thanks for the tutorial!

[breadstix]

At first, I was kinda worried when I did it. But with help from you took away my source of panic. Thank you!

[ItsEmber]

Needed this! Thanks so much for keeping it straight to the point! 🙏🏼

[TYShawn]

So much more simple then I thought it would be

[EpikSnailer]

this did not work for me... I did all the steps, but it just kept my chromebook the same, and now im worried, cus if ot goes onto chrome os os missing or damaged, i press the keys and it does nothing... please reply to this cus im scared that i scrapped my chromebook 😢

[z_v]

i subscribed because you save my whole summer, thank you so much!

[bannanamanoo]

You just got new sub....I just bought one new chromebook yesterday and I suddenly turned on developer mode because u know it will remove my all data but I was not even having data except few photos and Tysm 😘