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Accessing pictures with broken screen

Hey guys
Last night I broke my SGS's screen. The phone is rooted and I know it still works as can hear it get texts and boot up correctly.
I wanted to just swap the phones out but I have a lot of valuable pictures etc on the phone that I hadn't backed up yet.
Is there any way to access the hard drive from the computer w/o being able to access the phone?
I tried the "Screencast" app but I cant seem to get it to work. I tried doing some searches on here but I'm not exactly sure what to look up.
I have insurance on my phone so I can get a replacement, I'd jsut like to get my pictures and any text messages i may have missed (but mainly the pics)
Any insight you guys have would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

Reboot in recovery mode. That would give you adb access to the phone and you can adb pull your pictures with "adb pull sdcard/DCIM/Camera".

thanks for the reply.
sorry i'm kind of new at this stuff. my friend rooted my phone and did all the dirty work. i have no idea how to use adb or w/e
do i need a linux machine? also, how can i reboot in recovery mode if the screen is completely disabled?

do get via ADB you need to ADB kit or the Android SDK kit, theres a helpful section on how to do ADB but it shouldnt be a problem, i also recall that after ADB is installed you might be able to use Android explorer to go to the phones pciture directory and get them like that?

i'm having a horrible time trying to get this setup lol
i think a problem i'm having is i dont know if USB debugging is enabled on my phone, and since the screen is broken i can't turn it on.

anyone else have any other suggestions?

redstar2k said:
Reboot in recovery mode. That would give you adb access to the phone and you can adb pull your pictures with "adb pull sdcard/DCIM/Camera".
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it seems i can get it into what i ~think~ is recovery mode (it didnt make the typical noise it makes when booting up, and my bottom row buttons light up if i press the power button then one of the buttons)
not sure what screen im in honestly... but even still, the computer doesnt detect that anything is plugged in and ADB doesnt detect any devices...

maybe with usb cable?

thats what im doing is using USB cable.. problem is i cant mount my usb from my phone as the screen is broken.
i cannot do it blind either i dont believe, i dont think the screen is detecting my fingerpresses at all

[Q] Completely dead screen on an SGH-I896 - Any way to retrieve data?

A friend of my brother's had a Captivate and it's screen is completely dead. Cracked and broken physically, and won't display anything. I know the phone still kinda works since there is a row of pixels at the top that kinda lights up when the power button is pushed. The lights seem to correspond to a normal boot up and screen on/off functionality.
I am not versed in this particular phone, is there any way for me to get the data off of it? The guy who used it can't remember the google account info (...yes I know...) so he's come to me, the resident techie, to try and get the data off of it.
Is it possible? It's unrooted, stock, basically untouched from what I know. So we're dealing with something that has zero root access.
Do you guys think it's still possible to get it into fastboot mode and get something off of it? Maybe using ODIN?

Well, I am guessing that it is impossible to activate USB mass storage given the condition of the screen. The best way would be to odin a kernel that has CWM, and blindly navigate through the menus in order to mount USB storage. I have seen this done before; it's easy if you know how many times to press the buttons. I suppose I could help with that if you can't find another reference.
Or you could use ADB but that relies on USB debugging being enabled, which isn't likely if the person was an average user.
BTW, I'm jealous of your current devices...

korockinout13 said:
Well, I am guessing that it is impossible to activate USB mass storage given the condition of the screen. The best way would be to odin a kernel that has CWM, and blindly navigate through the menus in order to mount USB storage. I have seen this done before; it's easy if you know how many times to press the buttons. I suppose I could help with that if you can't find another reference.
Or you could use ADB but that relies on USB debugging being enabled, which isn't likely if the person was an average user.
BTW, I'm jealous of your current devices...
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You can ODIN a kernel with CWM on an unrooted device? I did not know that! Could you kindly point me in the direction of some sort of ODIN how-to? I'm not versed in the Samsung proprietary stuff. I should also add that it's not just the "USB Storage" that needs to be retrieved, things like contacts and stuff too if possible. I tried explaining that the Google account would have the stuff synced, but that's where the "I dunno the login" comes in. -sigh-
USB Debugging is not enabled as far as I know this is purely a stock device. Nothing changed other than basic usage settings.
I'm a bit of a Nexus junkie...my husband gets my older stuff...so he's kind of up to date (only out by a year or so), and I get the fancy really new stuff lol.

FlareHeart said:
You can ODIN a kernel with CWM on an unrooted device? I did not know that! Could you kindly point me in the direction of some sort of ODIN how-to? I'm not versed in the Samsung proprietary stuff. I should also add that it's not just the "USB Storage" that needs to be retrieved, things like contacts and stuff too if possible. I tried explaining that the Google account would have the stuff synced, but that's where the "I dunno the login" comes in. -sigh-
USB Debugging is not enabled as far as I know this is purely a stock device. Nothing changed other than basic usage settings.
I'm a bit of a Nexus junkie...my husband gets my older stuff...so he's kind of up to date (only out by a year or so), and I get the fancy really new stuff lol.
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Yep, rooting only affects things at the OS level, while download mode has access to everything right out of the box. Do you happen to know which stock version the phone was running? That will affect which kernel I suggest.
As far as the contacts go... I suppose we can do a nandroid backup of the device from recovery, and to get the other stuff out, I figure you'd have to restore it to a different device and deal with it from there.

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Yep, rooting only affects things at the OS level, while download mode has access to everything right out of the box. Do you happen to know which stock version the phone was running? That will affect which kernel I suggest.
As far as the contacts go... I suppose we can do a nandroid backup of the device from recovery, and to get the other stuff out, I figure you'd have to restore it to a different device and deal with it from there.
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No idea what version it was running prior to crash, and I don't have another Captivate to restore a nandroid to, so I'm not sure how well this is going to work...
I'm kinda leaning towards the..."nope you borked it" answer.

FlareHeart said:
No idea what version it was running prior to crash, and I don't have another Captivate to restore a nandroid to, so I'm not sure how well this is going to work...
I'm kinda leaning towards the..."nope you borked it" answer.
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Okay, well in that case you should probably just try a froyo kernel because we don't know if you have gingerbread bootloaders or not.
And I'm pretty sure you can extract that kind of stuff from a nandroid using titanium backup.
Sent from a jelly bean

korockinout13 said:
Okay, well in that case you should probably just try a froyo kernel because we don't know if you have gingerbread bootloaders or not.
And I'm pretty sure you can extract that kind of stuff from a nandroid using titanium backup.
Sent from a jelly bean
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I plugged the phone into my PC to charge, and it's not making the chime...I know it won't pop up as a storage location, but shouldn't the PC still chime to indicate that it sees the device? Also, something appears to have caused it to cease powering up like before. The lights on the buttons don't come on anymore, and the power button no longer seems to elicit the normal pixel line at the top showing power...I think it just finished dying.
I don't think it's going to work for us.
Thanks anyway though!

remote screen: if you can figure how to install myphoneexplorer client on your cappy and then install the myphoneexplorer on you pc, it has a driver to remote the cappy screen via usb into a window on the pc. you can use the mouse to do anything you would do with your finger on the cappy screen.
search 'my phone explorer' via google play. the developer of the app may have a way for you to get it on the cappy via usb.
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XT1096 Screen Broke. Options for recovery?

Hi all.
Looking for some insight and help. I've had an unfortunate situation with my Moto X. I went to the store to buy my son a toy, and for whatever reason the price was not coming up correctly. I ended up taking a picture of the price and when I showed the older lady working the register, she grabbed my phone from my hand and proceeded to drop it, shattering the screen. She was old, and more upset about it that I was. I told her not to worry about it and went on my way. The screen and digitizer still worked at this point, but I didn't bother trying to recover my files. After a day, everything just stopped working. Doh!
Now I can get the phone into fastboot mode, and adb sideload even though I can't see the screen. I believe USB debugging is off. I really would like the pictures off the phone, of the first 6-7 months of my sons life. So here are my question:
Does the Moto X display the screen via hdmi without any interaction with the screen? Can it simultaneously use a mouse as well with the right dongle?
Does Mofo require usb debugging, and if not, can I load a rom via fastboot/mofo that would allow access to the sdcard?
Those are the only 2 options I can think of that may work, but not exactly sure.
Thanks for any help!

Are they auto backed up to Google+ Photos?

cal196 said:
Those are the only 2 options I can think of that may work, but not exactly sure.
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When you turn the phone on and connect it to your computer does your computer recognize the phone? Do you have Motorola Device Manager installed on your computer?

chrisrozon said:
Are they auto backed up to Google+ Photos?
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They are not unfortunately.

JulesJam said:
When you turn the phone on and connect it to your computer does your computer recognize the phone? Do you have Motorola Device Manager installed on your computer?
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Yes and Yes. I have everything set up on the computer and can get a response from fastboot devices. I can get the phone into recovery as well and put it into sideload mode in adb. I already have a 2nd Moto X that I am using to show me the exact volume down up button pushes I need to get me where I'm going.

cal196 said:
Yes and Yes. I have everything set up on the computer and can get a response from fastboot devices. I can get the phone into recovery as well and put it into sideload mode in adb. I already have a 2nd Moto X that I am using to show me the exact volume down up button pushes I need to get me where I'm going.
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Why don't you just turn the phone on regularly and plug the phone into your computer - you should see the internal storage. The pictures you took with your camera are in the DCIM/camera folder.
Can you see the pictures that way? If so, try to copy the pictures to your computer.

JulesJam said:
Why don't you just turn the phone on regularly and plug the phone into your computer - you should see the internal storage. The pictures you took with your camera are in the DCIM/camera folder.
Can you see the pictures that way? If so, try to copy the pictures to your computer.
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I checked with my working Moto X, and it requires that you unlock it at least once before it shows up as internal storage. I have a pattern passlock on the broken phone.

cal196 said:
I checked with my working Moto X, and it requires that you unlock it at least once before it shows up as internal storage. I have a pattern passlock on the broken phone.
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If you can get into recovery, then you may be able to do an adb pull of the /sdcard/DCIM/Camera folder.
adb pull /sdcard/DCIM/Camera
If it works, that would leave all of the photos in the directory where you have navigated to in the command prompt.
But I am not sure if you can pull if you have pattern passlock on the broken phone. If you could, that would make the pattern passlock worthless. All you can do is try.
If you can't access the phone, then take it to a repair shop and pay to have them extract the photos if the photos are that important to you. I am sure they can either fix the screen to enable you to enter your pattern or they may have a way to bypass those passlocks to pull the files.
If there were some easy way to bypass the pattern passlocks, then they would be worthless so I doubt you will be able to get anything off of that phone without either paying to fix the screen or paying a repair shop to use equipment to bypass the passlock.

JulesJam said:
If you can get into recovery, then you may be able to do an adb pull of the /sdcard/DCIM/Camera folder.
adb pull /sdcard/DCIM/Camera
If it works, that would leave all of the photos in the directory where you have navigated to in the command prompt.
But I am not sure if you can pull if you have pattern passlock on the broken phone. If you could, that would make the pattern passlock worthless. All you can do is try.
If you can't access the phone, then take it to a repair shop and pay to have them extract the photos if the photos are that important to you. I am sure they can either fix the screen to enable you to enter your pattern or they may have a way to bypass those passlocks to pull the files.
If there were some easy way to bypass the pattern passlocks, then they would be worthless so I doubt you will be able to get anything off of that phone without either paying to fix the screen or paying a repair shop to use equipment to bypass the passlock.
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Thanks for your suggestions. I was just able to solve my own problem. I ordered an OTG cable and plugged in a wireless mouse. I practiced a few times with my other phone, and then tried with the broken phone and was able to get the passlock on the 2nd try, unlocking the phone, and allowing the media drive to show up after plugging into my computer. I pulled my photos and all is good.
Thanks again

cal196 said:
Thanks for your suggestions. I was just able to solve my own problem. I ordered an OTG cable and plugged in a wireless mouse. I practiced a few times with my other phone, and then tried with the broken phone and was able to get the passlock on the 2nd try, unlocking the phone, and allowing the media drive to show up after plugging into my computer. I pulled my photos and all is good.
Thanks again
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Ok so then after you unlocked it, you were able to just copy using the copy function of your PC or did you have to use adb?

JulesJam said:
Ok so then after you unlocked it, you were able to just copy using the copy function of your PC or did you have to use adb?
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Yes, after unlocking the drive shows up on my PC. :good:

way to backup sms?

Hi,
I dropped my phone on the corner and the LCD broke and leaked through the screen. As a result the phone works, but the screen is dead.
I was able to check ADB USB in dev tools prior to the screen leaking through.
Is there any computer way to access and copy over the sms to another droid turbo, or does it make more sense to just replace the screen? The phone is currently turned off, has a pattern lock screen (since digitizer works, i can technically unlock the phone - i think )
Thanks,
Chris

you should be able to make a backup of the entire phone using ADB, But I don't know the exact steps to do it. Ive seen it done on nexus devices

use this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore&hl=en
I used it to migrate all my messages from my old phone to the new one and it worked good
it was the pro version though

£ngland said:
use this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore&hl=en
I used it to migrate all my messages from my old phone to the new one and it worked good
it was the pro version though
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That may be difficult to use with a dead screen.
As for using adb, there's an issue. Although you enabled adb, a confirmation screen will still pop up on your phone the first time you use it. So if you've never used it before, you'll still need to accept that confirmation screen, which is a problem. I'm pretty sure that sms messages are stored in /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db and /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db-journal. I'm running RR, so I'm not sure if this is the correct location on the stock rom, but I think it's pretty standardized. If you can get adb working, I think the correct commands would be the following:
adb pull /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db <path to where you want it to show up on your PC>
adb pull /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db-journal <path to where you want it to show up on your PC>
There's also a chance that you might need to be rooted to do this, but I think you should be okay. Good luck.

my thought is running it on 2 devices at same time sa to know where to click
Chris

Broken Display Question About Data Recovery

So I shattered my display and the screen wont turn on but it still vibrates when i get notifications, i was wondering if anyone would know of a way to sort of project the display onto a TV or PC so i can use apps that i installed to backup messages and app data and stuff?

I'm pretty sure if the phone still works you can run it in ADP on your PC and basically click through the phone. Then do whatever you need to do and back it up.

BlueForce64 said:
I'm pretty sure if the phone still works you can run it in ADP on your PC and basically click through the phone. Then do whatever you need to do and back it up.
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Here's the problem with that:
ADB doesn't work unless you first enable it in developer options. Once you do that, you have to click yes on a confirmation dialog the first time you use it. Both of these processes require a functioning screen.
If you have an unlocked phone with TWRP installed, and you can blindly convince the phone to boot into TWRP (maybe by booting into bootloader and using fastboot reboot-recovery, but I'll have to check and see if that command works when I get home. I think it does.), you'll be able to access the data on your phone by simply plugging it into a computer. If you do not have TWRP installed, and you have no lockscreen set up (no swipe, no password, no pin, no nothing), you might be able to access the data by plugging it into a computer after it boots.
If none of those situations apply, and the data is worth about $100 to you, you might want to look into a screen replacement service. Sometimes you can find little electronics places in malls or shopping centers that will do it, and I'm pretty sure there are businesses that you can mail your phone to and they'll mail it back once the work is completed. A friend of mine even found a service that sent someone to her house to replace her screen then and there.

Thanks, booting into TWRP worked and I was able to get most of the stuff I needed. I completely forgot I could get into it that way.