diff --git a/.changeset/device-bucketing.md b/.changeset/device-bucketing.md
index e224592b..f90efdb0 100644
--- a/.changeset/device-bucketing.md
+++ b/.changeset/device-bucketing.md
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 ---
 "posthog": minor
+"posthog-android": minor
 ---
 
 feat: add device bucketing support for stable feature flag assignment across identity changes
diff --git a/posthog/src/main/java/com/posthog/PostHog.kt b/posthog/src/main/java/com/posthog/PostHog.kt
index 15df15a5..ff02aba2 100644
--- a/posthog/src/main/java/com/posthog/PostHog.kt
+++ b/posthog/src/main/java/com/posthog/PostHog.kt
@@ -177,13 +177,13 @@ public class PostHog private constructor(
 
                 legacyPreferences(config, config.serializer)
 
+                super.enabled = true
+
                 // Initialize device_id if not already set. getDeviceId() handles lazy init
                 // by seeding from the anonymous ID, providing a stable identifier for
                 // device-level feature flag bucketing that survives identify() and reset().
                 getDeviceId()
 
-                super.enabled = true
-
                 queue.start()
 
                 startSession()