I have an Eris that is running the first 2.1 leak from RiverRunner. Yesterday the phone took a fall off a balcony onto concrete. Gravity + hard surface = phone malfunctions.
Basically, here's the problem. The phone still works fine, but the screen won't display anything. The screen won't turn on at all, actually. The menu/search/home/back buttons still light up, the phone still rings and makes notification noises and everything. I called in insurance and they sent me a new Eris.
Problem is....I don't have a backup of my old Eris, and I can't remember every app that was on the phone. Most of them were free, so the market doesn't remember my downloads. I CANNOT see anything on the screen.
Is there any way I can backup the old eris' apps without being able to see anything on the screen?
(My new eris is running 2.1 root, Ivan's version, in case that helps for any reason.)
you could try to plug in your eris and hope you left usb debugging enabled. if not, maybe mimic the presses on the touchscreen and hope youre navigating to the correct place to turn it on, then:
Code:
adb pull data/app desktop
or, i guess you don't really need the apks, you just need a list of installed apps so you could
Code:
adb shell
cd /data/app
ls
(thats a lowercase L)
mind you, if you 'pull' all the APKs, you wont be backing up any saved data, just the app itself. so in that case youre better off just installing from market.
**MOD move to general thread please**
I don't need the user data, I just need a list of what I had installed. I can't remember them all.
The touchscreen doesn't work anymore. The home buttons, etc, still respond to touch but the screen doesn't.
I'm pretty sure I didn't have USB debugging installed, but it's not a huge deal. Can I still pull a list of installed apps without usb debugging?
Also, is there a way to wipe the eris, since I can't see anything?
Sorry about the wrong forum. I forgot to change subcategories before I asked.
Raikalo said:
The home buttons, etc, still respond to touch but the screen doesn't.
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How do you know it doesnt work, you cant see it And I'm pretty sure the home buttons ARE part of the same touchscreen surface, since you can drag your lockscreen, etc into that area and you still have control of it so perhaps it IS really working. so try to mimic the touches to turn on USB debugging. (Menu > Settings > Applications > Development > Usb Debugging.) do it on both phones at the same time so you get the movements right.
But without USB debugging turned on, you can't use any ADB commands
True, I guess the home buttons etc could be the same surface.
I'll mimic the debugging movements when I get home.
The main reason I thought the scteen was completely gone was that the buttons respond with haptic feedback when pressed, the screen does not. Then again, the lock screen coulda prevented that.
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my eris lcd broke and i wish to read my texts... is there a way to show the eris's screen through usb onto my laptop? i have extreme limited use of my eris screen theres a fraction of the right that works, basically like 1/4 of an inch on thw whole right side works, is there any hope to read my messages
Palmbxr said:
my eris lcd broke and i wish to read my texts... is there a way to show the eris's screen through usb onto my laptop? i have extreme limited use of my eris screen theres a fraction of the right that works, basically like 1/4 of an inch on thw whole right side works, is there any hope to read my messages
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If you have adb installed you can run ddms by typing ddms in a command prompt...select your phone and then in the options at the top you can get screen shots. This would bring up what's on your screen. It's not real efficient but if you just need to read a few texts it should work. You would need to manually refresh the picture every time the phone screen changes.
Try Android Screencast. You can control your phone with your mouse and keyboard.
Conap said:
If you have adb installed you can run ddms by typing ddms in a command prompt...select your phone and then in the options at the top you can get screen shots. This would bring up what's on your screen. It's not real efficient but if you just need to read a few texts it should work. You would need to manually refresh the picture every time the phone screen changes.
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thanks worked perfectly, i set a refresh intervol and it works pretty well
Hi all
I've done something stupid to my phone.
Been fiddling with auto-brightness settings, and now the screen won't switch on.
Got CyanogenMod 7.1 stable for the HTC Desire HD, had it loaded for close to a month(been enjoying it).
I've rebooted, pulled battery, SD card, SIM, everything. On boot the display shows the HTC logo, and the CyanogenMod BootScreen, immediately after that, I see the screen off animation, where it would normally go to homescreen. I know the phone is still on, the notification light is flashing, and via USB I can get screenshots of my lockscreen(widgetlocker).
When I click the power button a few times, intervals of ~3 seconds, the screen flashes just quick enough to see my lockscreen, but it really is a split second flash.
I've got Juice Defender Beta, I think the latest, used it for a couple weeks. Today I wanted to test the auto brightness settings it "supports"(beta feature). I noticed no changes, so I skipped over to the custom display settings for cyanogenmod, under Settings/Cyanogen .../display/Auto Brightness.
I fiddled there, as I've so done before, couldn't find the right balance , so I left my phone for a bit, it clicked the screen off, now screen is 'stuck' off.
I understand that this may be Juice Defender's doing, but since I was fiddling with cyanogen settings too, I'm posting here and to JD support, just in case. There might be a conflict.
Anyone know how I would debug this through ADB? I would really like to disable auto-brightness, that would probably eliminate Cyanogen from causing this (as the settings I changed related to Auto-Bright).
I tried this, no luck.
Otherwise, how to reset Juice Defender settings via ADB, or through a USB screenview... thing?
I've got a NANDroid backup, but its a little dusty, I've done a lot of customisation and such since, I'd prefer to avoid using it.
This is, of course, urgent. I can't use my phone at all, so any help is greatly appreciated.
EDIT: Solved it. Booted into safe mode, disabled what I changed, sorted. Still no idea what caused it, but ja, I fixed it. Android has a safe mode? Good to know...
Edit: Solved! See post #3 for information on how I solved this.
Long story short I got an AT&T Atrix from a friend with an Atrix Lapdock. I'm not 100% sure of the details but he had opened the Atrix (to replace the digitizer I think) and messed up the screen to where the backlight turns on but it's always black. The digitizer still works. He wanted me to factory restore the Atrix so I did so via the Lapdock by going into settings and selecting factory restore. After it booted up again it did not boot into Webtop mode. Well great, now I'm running the phone blind.
I think I was at the "Emergency calls only" screen since clicking the bottom of the screen above the soft buttons, then towards the top, played dialtones, so I got a SIM card (out of my Sprint Touch Pro 2, just for the sake of having any SIM card in it) and rebooted with the SIM in it. I'm at a different screen now, where I can make the motor buzz by tapping the soft buttons, and if I hold the Menu (4 squares icon, leftmost soft button) it pulls up a keyboard. I believe this is the Motoblur setup screen. As stupid as it may sound, I tried entering the "123/alt/abc/e/123/alt/abc/e/b/l/u/r/o/f/f" command by eyeballing the screen, but I don't think I deactivated it since it seemed like I could still interact with this screen the same way. I tried pressing (what I felt was) 123/alt/abc on the phone, and using the Lapdock to input the letters, but that didn't seem to do anything either.
ADB is definitely not enabled, I can launch fastboot (or any of the fastboot options, such as "Fastboot" "NVFlash" "BP HW Bypass..." etc, I wrote these down and just blindly input however many Down presses to activate it).
My next plan is to print off a screenshot of the Atrix keyboard to-scale with the screen and use that as a guide to input the "bluroff" command, hopefully doing that will get the phone into a state where it can activate Webtop.
Strangely, while I was in the presumed Emergency Calls mode without a SIM, either me spazzing out on the screen or some weird luck got the Entertainment Center to appear. However I could not navigate it at all using the Lapdock, not through arrow keys or using the mouse. I've never gotten that to happen again.
If this is a failure, my main purpose in getting these from him was to use the Lapdock as a small and luggable HDMI monitor (via adapters) so I'm not too disappointed, but it would be nice to have the Atrix working as much as it did prior to factory-restoring it.
DanAdamKOF said:
Long story short I got an AT&T Atrix from a friend with an Atrix Lapdock. I'm not 100% sure of the details but he had opened the Atrix (to replace the digitizer I think) and messed up the screen to where the backlight turns on but it's always black. The digitizer still works. He wanted me to factory restore the Atrix so I did so via the Lapdock by going into settings and selecting factory restore. After it booted up again it did not boot into Webtop mode. Well great, now I'm running the phone blind.
I think I was at the "Emergency calls only" screen since clicking the bottom of the screen above the soft buttons, then towards the top, played dialtones, so I got a SIM card (out of my Sprint Touch Pro 2, just for the sake of having any SIM card in it) and rebooted with the SIM in it. I'm at a different screen now, where I can make the motor buzz by tapping the soft buttons, and if I hold the Menu (4 squares icon, leftmost soft button) it pulls up a keyboard. I believe this is the Motoblur setup screen. As stupid as it may sound, I tried entering the "123/alt/abc/e/123/alt/abc/e/b/l/u/r/o/f/f" command by eyeballing the screen, but I don't think I deactivated it since it seemed like I could still interact with this screen the same way. I tried pressing (what I felt was) 123/alt/abc on the phone, and using the Lapdock to input the letters, but that didn't seem to do anything either.
ADB is definitely not enabled, I can launch fastboot (or any of the fastboot options, such as "Fastboot" "NVFlash" "BP HW Bypass..." etc, I wrote these down and just blindly input however many Down presses to activate it).
My next plan is to print off a screenshot of the Atrix keyboard to-scale with the screen and use that as a guide to input the "bluroff" command, hopefully doing that will get the phone into a state where it can activate Webtop.
Strangely, while I was in the presumed Emergency Calls mode without a SIM, either me spazzing out on the screen or some weird luck got the Entertainment Center to appear. However I could not navigate it at all using the Lapdock, not through arrow keys or using the mouse. I've never gotten that to happen again.
If this is a failure, my main purpose in getting these from him was to use the Lapdock as a small and luggable HDMI monitor (via adapters) so I'm not too disappointed, but it would be nice to have the Atrix working as much as it did prior to factory-restoring it.
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wow....thats something.......you still int blur account setting (it uppen when you use a different sim card)....
try to wipe in fastboot
load new rom image that can skip motoblur account set up (like nottach)
when reboots click menu and then right corner down (skip set up) then it should be able to go in webtop mode..
hope it works
DanAdamKOF said:
My next plan is to print off a screenshot of the Atrix keyboard to-scale with the screen and use that as a guide to input the "bluroff" command, hopefully doing that will get the phone into a state where it can activate Webtop.
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Posting to say this worked fine! I used Photoshop to print a screenshot 1.961" wide, carefully cut it out, taped it to the front, called up the keyboard (longpress the menu button, you'll feel it buzz long then very short), and carefully tapped out the Motoblur override. Took a few tries since you can't see what you're tapping (go slowly and use the tip of your finger) and the paper in the way makes it less sensitive. The phone doesn't buzz or anything when it does this, but if you put it on the Lapdock you'll see the swirly small red Motorola M icon signifying Webtop is loading, instead of the big red Motorola M icon that jumps around now and then. Also I had set the language to Spanish during my blind mashing, luckily I'm familiar enough with it to where I could change the language to English easily.
You can activate Motoblur through Webtop after you bypass the initial setup, I'm doing that right now.
htchd2fix I was considering loading up a ROM and seeing if that gave me more luck, but I wasn't sure how they handle Blur and all that, but anyway thanks for your step by step
I've attached the screenshot I used of the stock Atrix keyboard, and a Photoshop PSD I made that I used for printing, scaled to (more or less) the Atrix's width, cleaned up a bit, and with a black 1px border to assist in cutting. To whoever made the original screenshot (you're probably on XDA), thank you!
I'm leaving the screenshot taped to the Atrix for now so I can brag about its e-paper display
Currently, my phone is coming across as useless other than as a torch. I am trying to turn on the screen of my phone, although nothing at all happens. Sometimes, if I'm lucky, it turns on and shows me my home screen background, however it takes so long to load that the screen goes back off again. I think this problem is due to an XPosed module in Sense Toolbox 6 that I enabled, that allows you to turn on the torch by long-pressing on the power button, however I am really not sure. Another likely possibility is a lag issue from the high amount of apps I'm running. At the moment I am considering restoring one of my backups because the problem is so bad (If I can get it to turn off, that is). Please help me!
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Currently, my phone is coming across as useless other than as a torch. I am trying to turn on the screen of my phone, although nothing at all happens. Sometimes, if I'm lucky, it turns on and shows me my home screen background, however it takes so long to load that the screen goes back off again. I think this problem is due to an XPosed module in Sense Toolbox 6 that I enabled, that allows you to turn on the torch by long-pressing on the power button, however I am really not sure. Another likely possibility is a lag issue from the high amount of apps I'm running. At the moment I am considering restoring one of my backups because the problem is so bad (If I can get it to turn off, that is). Please help me!
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As long as you have ADB enabled you should be able to connect it to you pc via ADB and type "adb reboot recovery" this will reboot you straight to recovery where you can restore your backup or disable Xposed framework see link here https://seo-michael.co.uk/how-to-disable-xposed-installer/ for howto . I think you can even disable certain modules via ADB then "adb reboot" but I can't remember the detail you would have to google it.
MiniBlu
i can feel the vibration and hear it turn on but i cant see whats on my screen
I am running Blastagator TWRP 3.3.0-0 on an LG G2 with a screen hardware problem. The screen is no longer touch sensitive in the center of the lower part of the screen. Updates to Lineage on this device do not automatically install Magisk, so it needs to be installed manually through TWRP each time I update Lineage. The problem is that installing any zip file through TWRP requires confirmation by moving the slider across the screen, through the dead spot. When I try to do that, the slider drops back as if I lifted my finger off the screen. The same thing happens if I let the screen time out - I can't get past the lock screen without the slider, so I have to crash TWRP and reboot.
Is there an alternative to sliding across the bottom of the screen? I can recompile TWRP if there's a flag in the source code. I've tried sideloading Magisk, but I can't do it because I have to swipe across the bottom of the screen to start sideload mode. If I try it through the ADB command line on a connected LInux system, I get "sideload connection failed", presumably because I haven't put the phone in sideload mode. All roads lead through that sliding bar.
It would be frustrating to have to trash the phone just because of a single bad spot on the sensor. Once in a blue moon the bar slides and I can get Magisk to install, but it's frustrating to keep trying for five or ten minutes hoping I get that one shot.
mobilityguy said:
I am running TWRP 3.3.0-0 on an LG G2 with a screen hardware problem. The screen is no longer touch sensitive in the center of the lower part of the screen. Updates to Lineage on this device do not automatically install Magisk, so it needs to be installed manually through TWRP each time I update Lineage. The problem is that installing any zip file through TWRP requires confirmation by moving the slider across the screen, through the dead spot. When I try to do that, the slider drops back as if I lifted my finger off the screen. The same thing happens if I let the screen time out - I can't get past the lock screen without the slider, so I have to crash TWRP and reboot.
Is there an alternative to sliding across the bottom of the screen? I can recompile TWRP if there's a flag in the source code. I've tried sideloading Magisk, but I can't do it because I have to swipe across the bottom of the screen to start sideload mode. If I try it through the ADB command line on a connected LInux system, I get "sideload connection failed", presumably because I haven't put the phone in sideload mode. All roads lead through that sliding bar.
It would be frustrating to have to trash the phone just because of a single bad spot on the sensor. Once in a blue moon the bar slides and I can get Magisk to install, but it's frustrating to keep trying for five or ten minutes hoping I get that one shot.
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I believe you can disable the lock screen in the options totally (the slider thing). Not sure though but yes, it's a crap design. Hope someone is able to help
Did you trying to use mouse through otg cable..?
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eyobaaa said:
Did you trying to use mouse through otg cable..?
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Wow. Does it work? I didn't even knew it did lol. Thanks for the tip. Hope OP sees your post and gives it a try
Brilliant! That worked. It appears the mouse has to be plugged in at boot time, but if it is, the arrow appears and the mouse and slider are fully functional in both system and recovery.
By the way, I get around the dead spot on the keyboard when booted into the system by using one of the many Set Orientation apps that allow me to turn the screen upside down. I haven't found an app yet that needs touch sensitivity at the top and bottom of the screen at the same time. Well, games, but I don't play games on an LG G2
I wonder if a Y cable will work on the USB port, so I can plug in a thumb drive for storage and still use a mouse to move the slider to start the backup?
BTW, I checked the TWRP settings screen. There is no setting that affects the slider.
Thank you, eyobaaa.
Glad to hear that the Y cable things i didn't test it why don't you give a try..
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I'll have to buy one to do that. Probably next week.