Alright so last night my phone's screen broke, from the inside of it, so my touch screen won't work at all, and I can just barely see the screen, it's been acting weird since it happened, like 5 hours after it had happened i could actually see 70% of the screen, but it had a blue tint to it. Now I can't see much at all.. Attached are two recent pictures of the screen.
But all I am trying to do is recover data that was on my internal memory, is there anyway I could do this? My phone has an unlock pattern unfortunately and I can't even use the touch screen to unlock it and enable usb connection :/
If it helps, my phone is rooted, and I haven't installed anything like CWM on it.
Thanks in advance,
Gamuh and his SGS2
If you have rooted your phone then you should have CWM recovery, so turn phone off, press volup+home+power, goto Mounts&Storage, Mount USB Storage, and connect phone to PC.
You should see your internal storage.
Copy over whatever files you need to your pc.
I do not have CWM recovery, my phone is having a hard time turning on now/my screen is reeeeeeeallly bad now. Can I use adb to pull anything? I managed to get adb working and recognize my sgs2, but I don't know what command to use to get everything off of my phone.. :/
Thanks for the reply!
Don't use ADB much myself, sorry, but this is a really good tutorial
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=872128
Since you have adb working just do a pull to get the full sdcard contents. Here is the command to run on the computer.
adb pull /sdcard/ .
Another idea to get a good backup is to install CWM (I assume since you have root but not CWM that you used zergrush to root the phone) To install it just go to download mode and flash cf-root but that will void the warranty.
Then with it installed make a backup then pull it off the phone. which would come with the already mentioned adb command.
thank you for the replies! they would be great help..
but my phone won't even connect properly now! :'( I literally had over 16000 texts on my phone, pictures and some school work.. ughh is there any way I could get any of this? taking the phone apart?
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On the vibrant will the adb work in stock recovery?
I think my phone is considered bricked/ soft bricked or whatever its classified as.
If I go into odin it is not recognized by my pc, however if I go into the stock recovery (it cant find the Clockwork recovery file "update" anymore). I really have no idea how to use adb and dont really feel like struggling to find out it wont even connect.
is your phone in download mode when using ODIN?
Yes, I can put it in download mode. However it wont be noticed by odin for some reason. I plan on trying on another computer sooner or later.
I tired the oneclick lag fix via pc and it did find the phone, but what it didnt do is push the file onto the internal sd card.
Next question. Can I change the internal to the external sd card for recovery?
I'd like to think I'm pretty handy with this, having done it once or twice myself.
But..
In trying to install honey rom for vibrant, it did a full wipe of the phone, internal sd and external as well, and I lost ALL the music, photos, videos, and Backups.
I tried to reboot into honey rom, only to find that the phone can only get to the boot screen. I've already let it sit for hours, it does not load up.
I can go into recovery, but there are no backups to recover, no new roms to set up, and no way of getting into the phone to mount to my computer.
In my recovery, there's an option to mount the phone: I mount and the computer sees it but won't let me in; I can also boot into download mode.
That's great, koreanjhee, you can just odin in!
I've stock odined before so it's not like I can't use that method, except for the fact that in download mode, odin DOES NOT recognize my phone. Only in download mode does it not read.
On my computer, it flat-out doesn't recognize, and on another, serial usb (er something) won't recognize.
Scoured the forums, find some info. I haven't tried samsung pc studio yet, will someone post the links up for me please? And anyone with advice to saved my (bricked? ) phone?
P.S. I've already tried re-installing the samsung usb drivers.
Can you use adb?
Oh wow. adb on sdk? I forgot all about that.
Researching now.
Hi Guys,
Made a big mistake, I was trying to enable the HTC button on the HTC one so i can use it as a menu button, but by accident I formatted the entire SD card along with data and system. now my phone wont boot into anything, it is just stuck on HTC quietly brilliant. i can boot into recover and connect to fastboot, but there is where I am stuck. I had previously installed Jellybean 4.2.2. ADB devices doesnt show the phone on the list, but fastboot devices does. not sure how to flash back the rom to the phone since I cant copy the file to the sd card if that is the fix.
Please help!!!:crying:
I did this same exact thing by accident today. When inside recovery go into your windows device manager and tell your phone to use your adb driver. This should allow you to push your zip to sdcard and flash
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slopra said:
I did this same exact thing by accident today. When inside recovery go into your windows device manager and tell your phone to use your adb driver. This should allow you to push your zip to sdcard and flash
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Thank You, the only problem now is that my phone died, and it wont charge; it seems the problem just got worse!!!!
That's odd that it won't charge. It seems you do have a bigger problem lol all I can suggest is try a different cable and charger and a different outlet. If it doesn't charge while its off and you know those things are good then I think its time for a new phone man :/
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Had done just that, tried with a different cable and it worked, also followed your advice on the driver and i was able to push the file to my phone. Thank you, my phone is alive again. :victory:
hello
ive accidentally done the same thing today.. im only able to get into fastboot or recovery. i have tried to install adb usb driver. the picture attached is what i get after connecting my phone to computer. From here i do not understand how to transfer files to my phone,
Help!!!!!!!!!!!
Help i by accident hit format system on recovery mode on my dopo td1010 any help
PLease if you do post every file in the /device file
I don't have in front of me but install TWRP and sideload Rom.
Just realized this is a dated topic...
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Hi,
So on mothers day I smashed my phone.. anyways, upon turning the phone on I cant see the screen, and the touch functions are broken.
I connected the phone to the pc, but it wont show up, I think I have to unlock the phone in order for my pc to access the contents of my phone. Is there anything I can do? I don't have a pin or screen lock, just the slider. My phone IS rooted, and I'm sure I can run adb, but I don't know what commands to do. If anyone can help that would be awesome, I'm open to ideas.
CWM Mounting?
One thing you can attempt is, boot into recovery and mount your device as USB drive.
If you run CWM, you will find this in Mounts and Storage. If you mount as USB drive, you can access the SD card...
FeRoCiiOuS said:
Hi,
So on mothers day I smashed my phone.. anyways, upon turning the phone on I cant see the screen, and the touch functions are broken.
I connected the phone to the pc, but it wont show up, I think I have to unlock the phone in order for my pc to access the contents of my phone. Is there anything I can do? I don't have a pin or screen lock, just the slider. My phone IS rooted, and I'm sure I can run adb, but I don't know what commands to do. If anyone can help that would be awesome, I'm open to ideas.
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Hi all,
I wonder if somebody could help me.
At the moment I have a Z5 compact with a broken screen (totally black) and touch. I know it still can boot, because it responds to my fingerprint when booted up. However, it does respond to my finger, but still needs a patern on first boot, which I cannot do on account of the broken touch screen. Also, my computer detects the phone.
I want to access my data, but for that I would have to use the onscreen menu which pops up when I connect the phone with usb. That's impossible.
I looked around on the internet and it is possible to remotely control the screen or access via adb. However, for that I either need to install some app on the phone, enable usb-debugging or authorise access via adb. All of those are impossible.
My phone has un unlocked bootloader and is rooted, so as a last resort I've tried to flash a modified kernel to enable usb debugging by default. This fails. Probably because I make some mistake in modifying the kernel, but I don't know. There's not a lot of response from my phone, as you understand ... Besides, I've absolutely no experience modding myself.
Anybody any idea, please?
So I just fixed the same issue you're having this week. It required opening up the phone.
Basically the ribbon cable that connects the screen to the motherboard had become unseated and needed to be plugged back in for me.
The Z5C isn't the easiest phone to take apart but it's not that difficult either. Just requires some basic tools (Hair dryer, tweezers and some precision screw drivers). There's a bunch of videos showing you how on ifixit or youtube. You just have to go all the way to the part where they flip over the motherboard and unplug the two ribbon cables, one of those two will be the culprit.
This is the first and only phone I've taken apart so any amateur can do this.
Boot to recovery and connect your phone to PC
Nutchos said:
So I just fixed the same issue you're having this week. It required opening up the phone.
Basically the ribbon cable that connects the screen to the motherboard had become unseated and needed to be plugged back in for me.
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Yes, actually I've had problems with a broken backlight before and opening the phone and re-adjusting the cable solved that. Not in this case however. Thanks for your suggestion, anyways.
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Boot to recovery and connect your phone to PC
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Would recovery provide me with some way to enter my pattern via a PC, e.g. with ADB?
Actually, I'm not sure I had any recovery installed at all. I've tried this before and just tried it again. I press the on/off-button while holding volume down. After that no response whatsoever. My computer does not see any device when connected. I suppose my recovery does not work properly, but without screen I can't be certain.
mlleemiles, you are a _hero_!
After reading your post I decided to try flashing another recovery to try if that might work. Now I can access my files without ever having entered any pattern .
Nevermind that it turns out my files weren't encrypted and I thought they were.
If anyone has a similar problem in the future, this is what worked for me:
My exact situation:
- My phone runs a stock rom (downloaded from XperiCheck) with version 32.4.A.1.54. When my phone was still running ok I had the bootloader unlocked and my device rooted with Rootkernel.
Working solution:
- I downloaded Twrp, version 3.2.1, from this page:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/z5-compact/development/twrp-twrp-3-2-1-z5-compact-t3748952
- Shut down my phone by disconnecting the battery and reconnecting it again
- Started my phone in fastboot mode and flashed recovery to my phone with:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery_suzuran_220218_2.img
- Booted my phone in recovery with volume down + on/off-button.
- Connected my phone to my PC, et voila.
Turns out I can also access my phone with ADB as root, so after backing up the entire internal memory, I might try to get some remote screen tool working.
So thanks for the help and if I find something interesting and new, I'll post that too.
Small update:
After successfully flashing Twrp I backed up the internal memory, so must of the important stuff was safe by then.
However, it turned out that my phone now wouldn't boot into anything other then Twrp. I decided to flash my rom again. First I installed my apb keys using Twrp:
Code:
adb push adbkey.pub /data/misc/adb/adb_keys
It turned out I already had usb debugging enabled.
I then flashed my original firmware again, and connected with adb. This time it connected correctly, without me having to click any dialogue on my phone. I fiddled with several remote control Android tools most of which didn't work. Finally, it turned out Vysor does exactly what I want to do. It is a bit unstable, but workable.
Anyways, I've finally managed to copy all the stuff I wanted from my phone.