How can I remove data from phone without unlocking screen (screen broken)? - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi folks,
Long time lurker but a rare poster, I hope this isn't held against me haha!
I dropped my Galaxy S3 at New Year and it has completely shattered the screen. Upon finding out that it's £150 to have it replaced, I'm going to recycle the phone and get another phone, and cut my losses that way. £150 is a lot of money for me at the moment.
Anyway, the phone still powers up but the screen stays blank. When I plug it in to my computer via USB, I am told that the phone is locked - this is because I have a pattern screen unlock and, obviously, can't use the screen! Therefore, I can't get the data off my phone since I can't put in my unlock pattern.
Is there anyway around this? I have pictures and a video of my daughter after we spent our first Christmas together which mean a lot to me, and I'd really prefer not to lose them. It also means that I can be a bit at peace when I send the phone away for recycling, that most personal details will have been removed.
Sorry to bother you all and I really hope someone can help me out. I will be eternally grateful!
Cheers,
R

Do you use a sd card? If you have and opted to save your photos to the sdcard when first using the camera, just pull the card out and all your pictures will be there.
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xcly said:
Do you use a sd card? If you have and opted to save your photos to the sdcard when first using the camera, just pull the card out and all your pictures will be there.
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Thank you for the reply!
No I haven't, which I'm sort of regretting now! That 16gb storage space was too tempting to be lazy with.
I have noticed that there are apps on the Play store which I can download to unlock my device via WiFi, but the app has to be opened for the first time which obviously I can't do. I can download and install apps on my phone through my PC though when logging in to my Google Account. Would this open any doors for me?
Or is there even any way to remotely start apps? If I could get Kies Air working this would be perfect.

If USB debugging was enabled, the adb pull command might work

On Samsung Dive you can onlock your screen.
Also you can wipe youre phone from there.
http://v2.samsungdive.com
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[Q] broken screen, memory full of baby pics an vids please help

Well, my son's mother had just sold me her extra vibrant, which included the 2gb sd card that came with it. But before she did that, she moved all her pictures and movies onto her own vibrant. That same day, before she could move all those pictures and videos onto an brand new sd card, she accidentally dropped her phone and the screen got destroyed, as in it won't turn on and is just black now.
Ordinarily we wouldn't have cared because she was going to send in that phone anyways and cancel her contract, unfortunately the pictures and videos she moved onto the phone's memory were of our first and only son, about a years worth. When he was born we didn't have a camera or camcorder, so the phone camera was our only way of capturing those early days, so they are extremely precious to us.
I'm sure it's just the screen that is broken, not the rest of the phone, so if there is any way to FORCE MOUNT the phone to my computer, please shed some light to that.
Or if I could do it through ADB using the PUSH/PULL commands, which I'm sure I could, I just need some instruction on how to do that. I'd want to pull the whole picture/video directory onto my desktop or something along those lines.
I have a PC and a MAC which I could use, so PLEASE! if there is any way I could recover those pictures/videos, please help out and let me know.
Thank you A LOT in advance
Liquid602 said:
Well, my son's mother had just sold me her extra vibrant, which included the 2gb sd card that came with it. But before she did that, she moved all her pictures and movies onto her own vibrant. That same day, before she could move all those pictures and videos onto an brand new sd card, she accidentally dropped her phone and the screen got destroyed, as in it won't turn on and is just black now.
Ordinarily we wouldn't have cared because she was going to send in that phone anyways and cancel her contract, unfortunately the pictures and videos she moved onto the phone's memory were of our first and only son, about a years worth. When he was born we didn't have a camera or camcorder, so the phone camera was our only way of capturing those early days, so they are extremely precious to us.
I'm sure it's just the screen that is broken, not the rest of the phone, so if there is any way to FORCE MOUNT the phone to my computer, please shed some light to that.
Or if I could do it through ADB using the PUSH/PULL commands, which I'm sure I could, I just need some instruction on how to do that. I'd want to pull the whole picture/video directory onto my desktop or something along those lines.
I have a PC and a MAC which I could use, so PLEASE! if there is any way I could recover those pictures/videos, please help out and let me know.
Thank you A LOT in advance
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So from reading this the precious pictures are NOT on your external sd card (the small black card) or internal sd card, the one you can pull out. If the pics and vids are on either of those you can just take them out and buy a device where you can just plug those cards into your computer. Otherwise just get the screen replaced... I'm sure a Tmobile or even maybe a Best Buy store at a mall could replace the screen for a small fee so you can get your pics back.
OR, I'm pretty sure a tmobile store has some special equipment to extract data from your phone.. Just gotta ask!
you're correct,
she moved them from the SD card to the phone's memory when she sold me the phone. She dropped the phone before she could move them back to a fresh SD card.
The thing with that is, she was going to send in that phone because it had a small defect, (I bought the extra phone which came from the insurance or whatever because she was going to cancel the contract with the 200$ i gave her the new phone and start up a new contract), so we have until Wednesday to recover the pictures, because she has to send in the phone then.
And thats a good idea, I'll stop by tomorrow at a t-mobile store and check,
but if i could still do it tonight that would be awesome!
Liquid602 said:
you're correct,
she moved them from the SD card to the phone's memory when she sold me the phone. She dropped the phone before she could move them back to a fresh SD card.
The thing with that is, she was going to send in that phone because it had a small defect, (I bought the extra phone which came from the insurance or whatever because she was going to cancel the contract with the 200$ i gave her the new phone and start up a new contract), so we have until Wednesday to recover the pictures, because she has to send in the phone then.
And thats a good idea, I'll stop by tomorrow at a t-mobile store and check,
but if i could still do it tonight that would be awesome!
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hmm is the screen shattered or just black? also when you cut the phone on does it ring and stuff? if the digitizer still works then you can just press home,so that you know your at the home screen. then connect the it to the computer. then make the gesture that pulls the notification bar, then connect your vibrant as well so that you can tell what part of the screen needs to be touched on her vibrant to mount the sd to the computer. that should work. i had a psp with a cracked screen but i was still able to navigate because i knew where everything was by heart lol.
shattered and black lol, and i believe she told me it doesn't ring anymore, i'd have to ask her in the morning. But yeah thats the first thing I tried when i went over today to try and fix it, which is why I'm thinking using the ABD commands in the only way to do it now
Liquid602 said:
shattered and black lol, and i believe she told me it doesn't ring anymore, i'd have to ask her in the morning. But yeah thats the first thing I tried when i went over today to try and fix it, which is why I'm thinking using the ABD commands in the only way to do it now
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You need to enable USB debugging if it wasn't done previously to use ADB.
I hope you recover your pics. If worst comes to worst you will need to repair the phone.
lqaddict said:
You need to enable USB debugging if it wasn't done previously to use ADB.
I hope you recover your pics. If worst comes to worst you will need to repair the phone.
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Yea you might as well get it repaired. Those pics are priceless
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Liquid602 said:
Well, my son's mother had just sold me her extra vibrant, which included the 2gb sd card that came with it. But before she did that, she moved all her pictures and movies onto her own vibrant.
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Here's my attempt. When she moved those pics and vids from the 2g card they don't permanently erase so you could still use recovery software to get those pics/vids off the card again.
I'll bet that's cheaper than repairing the phone too.
Drewstein said:
Here's my attempt. When she moved those pics and vids from the 2g card they don't permanently erase so you could still use recovery software to get those pics/vids off the card again.
I'll bet that's cheaper than repairing the phone too.
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Not a bad idea and worth a shot. I have had great success pulling files from a hard drive with pin 1 missing and a corrupt fat table, using Easy Recovery Pro. That (windows based) app is also very useful for retrieving deleted files, as long as the source wasn't formatted. As far as using adb, usb debugging would have to be enabled as previously mentioned. Also, if the phone doesn't ring, are you able to tell if it actually turns on? Without power and usb debugging, adb is useless.
On the off chance, does she backup her pics with Lookout?
Good luck getting your files back.
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You can try android commander. Its worth a shot. I had a similar situation before I knew about odin my phone was in a continuous boot loop and couldn't mount the sd card, I used android commander to pull some pictures that needed for my work. I just had to make sure it the device was recognized through adb. Good luck.
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Just a thought, why don't you use the screen from your Vibrant and put it on hers. That will A.confirm it's the screen and B. get your pictures.
+1 on android commander if you don't want to do the hardware swap. If your phone is actually coming on just no screen it will pick it up. Wait, don't you have to be in debugging mode for that though?
Seems your best bet is the hardware swap.

[Q] Found a Galaxy SII Need help getting owners info!

So I found a GSII on the train today, Nobody to been seen so I picked it up and took it with me, Got home to discover a lock screen, No smudges on the screen to guess the lock. Look at the SD Card there's a few images of a kid and some toys but that is all, Im guess everything else is on the internal memory.
Anyway to unlock this device and get any info to contact the owner, Tried the networks, they said it has not been reported as lost or stolen.
Not the kind of guy to keep this. I have a Galaxy Nexus
Could you try to set your phone like it doesn't ask for pin and then insert the sim card from that sgs2 to look for numbers like mom
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There was no sim in the phone when I found it, Which I though was bizzare.
Bouncer5 said:
So I found a GSII on the train today, Nobody to been seen so I picked it up and took it with me, Got home to discover a lock screen, No smudges on the screen to guess the lock. Look at the SD Card there's a few images of a kid and some toys but that is all, Im guess everything else is on the internal memory.
Anyway to unlock this device and get any info to contact the owner, Tried the networks, they said it has not been reported as lost or stolen.
Not the kind of guy to keep this. I have a Galaxy Nexus
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Wow, that's quite polite of you.
You're the reason I keep an "Owner's Info" message on my lockscreen (and other people are the reason that I use a 9-digit PIN).
I commend you for your honesty, but unfortunately I can't provide assistance.
It could have been stolen, which would explain the absence of a SIM. Maybe the previous 'owner' couldn't do anything with it either and gave up.
You might be able to flash a new ROM, but everything would be deleted...and you'd still not have the owner's info.
Good luck, sir and thank you for your honesty!
No phone numbers??? Try syncing with google... see if there are any email addresses or ANYTHING on the phone... Very honest though hats off...
I once found a phone like you did but found loads of pics of him cheating on his wife :S there was a message with HER address on so I delivered it.... I wonder what did happen to them lol
Just hand it into a cop shop or train station that you found it at...
Why all the drama?
Nyssa1104 said:
Just hand it into a cop shop or train station that you found it at...
Why all the drama?
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For something like this I'd exhaust all possibilities to find the owner personally first, otherwise the Lost 'n Found will "lose" it, even PD's "lose" stuff. The owner is lucky that someone whom doesn't want to keep it, or sell it, has found it.
Edit: although without a sim card it's probably a drug mule's phone and you should bring a gun to the meet just in case.
Done a factory reset, Which says it will wipe data. It failed, Now I can look at teh pictures and try figure out who they are. More childrens movies on the internal stornage
Woah, how kind of you wanting to return the phone.. Only one thing comes to my mind - all phones should be trackable by their IMEI - perhaps try flashing a full wipe base ROM via ODIN (maybe pulling all the data you can thru adb first?), and perhaps try contacting samsung officials in your country about a found phone?? That is if the guy was fortunate enough to create a samsung account or something that could identify him..
EDIT: Okay I found a thread, perhaps you can try running an ADB command like this to get the contacts database??
http://www.droidxforums.com/forum/droid-x-rescue-squad/30987-acquire-contacts-via-adb.html
Pulling the contacts database is good but if adb wasn't already enabled you would have to root it with cf-root then boot into recovery and run the adb commands from it since adb is enabled in recovery by default *may have to mount data partition*
Pin is stored in the EFS folder, and no factory reset or firmware flash will touch that. Messing with EFS can have dire consequences if corrupted (no IMEI = no network connection).
But if no choice, take a look at Hellcatdroid's solution with
ADB here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1476634
Edit as previous poster, maybe even flash a Chainfire CF-Root kernel, and then boot into CWM recovery. Mount partitions, and use windows program "Android Commander" to file explore any system partition for more info. The EFS could backed upped and even deleted. But risks outlined earlier.
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Wipe the thing and enjoy your new phone
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borolo222 said:
Wipe the thing and enjoy your new phone
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You should really grow up and also learn something about a thing called reading
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You need to hand the phone to the police.
CrashUK said:
You need to hand the phone to the police.
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^^
+ lots this. Let's face it, putting two and two together with the other thread where you seem desperate to transfer an IMEI from one phone to another (illegal), something doesn't sound right here.
MistahBungle said:
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+ lots this. Let's face it, putting two and two together with the other thread where you seem desperate to transfer an IMEI from one phone to another (illegal), something doesn't sound right here.
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I believe you "clamped" him ...
Not been clamped on anything, On the phone there were several named files of a child (baby xxxx and little zzz stuck the names together then I looked on facebook the woman had made the boy a facebook and from there I checked her pictures, Same person and told them about there phone.
She said it was nice of me to do so, Told to me to keep it as it had been replaced, But she would be greatful if she could get the pictures so On to a flashdrive and in the post they went.
So I now have a large MP3 Player.
So congragulations on 2+2 together and getting 5.
We are not all a-holes. Despite what you think.
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Too be fair, i did see that thread, what were we suppose to assume lol??
But fairplay... i would miss my pics more than anything
Bouncer5 said:
Not been clamped on anything, On the phone there were several named files of a child (baby xxxx and little zzz stuck the names together then I looked on facebook the woman had made the boy a facebook and from there I checked her pictures, Same person and told them about there phone.
She said it was nice of me to do so, Told to me to keep it as it had been replaced, But she would be greatful if she could get the pictures so On to a flashdrive and in the post they went.
So I now have a large MP3 Player.
So congragulations on 2+2 together and getting 5.
We are not all a-holes. Despite what you think.
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I'll give you €100 for it. ;-) But no seriously. I would.
I was nice enongh to not only try to get the phone back to the owner and data instead of being lost in the lost and found, People really shouldnt assume the worst.
Im still left with a GSII that was crushed by a bus but has a valid IMEI a GSII thats barred from network best I can do with it is use it like a iPod Touch. Or pull the battery for a spare in my Nexus.
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[Q] Bad Situation w/ my gs2

So ive had my galaxy s 2 for a few months now, downloaded hundreds of songs, taken near a thousand photos, and yesterday the digitizer/lcd was shattered after being sat on. I can't replace this phone, and my parents who own the contract didn't purchase insurance for it. I am nearly broke, and the repair costs for this part is over 200$, and my parents refuse to pay for this. All I need to do is copy all of the files from my phone to my computer, but i cannot enable mass storage to access the pictures/music on the internal storage because the screen is out. Does anyone have an idea as to how I could fix this, or move the files off of the phone? A thousand thanks to whoever could help me in this/:
DaltonCope said:
So ive had my galaxy s 2 for a few months now, downloaded hundreds of songs, taken near a thousand photos, and yesterday the digitizer/lcd was shattered after being sat on. I can't replace this phone, and my parents who own the contract didn't purchase insurance for it. I am nearly broke, and the repair costs for this part is over 200$, and my parents refuse to pay for this. All I need to do is copy all of the files from my phone to my computer, but i cannot enable mass storage to access the pictures/music on the internal storage because the screen is out. Does anyone have an idea as to how I could fix this, or move the files off of the phone? A thousand thanks to whoever could help me in this/:
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Is Android Debugging on? Then you probably could get ADB to work.
If not, then...
Thats the thing. the screens black on my phone cause its broken, so i cant check if its on or not. idk how to use mass storage w/o this):
Droid VNC server may be an option, if you can somehow get it to work.
You have to download the app on the market to vnc with the computer, it would work if I wouldve already downloaded it.. I cant do anything on my phone at all. Thanks for the attempt though
DaltonCope said:
Thats the thing. the screens black on my phone cause its broken, so i cant check if its on or not. idk how to use mass storage w/o this):
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sure you can, plug it in to your computer and just run adb devices, if it shows up, then debugging is on, if it is off it will tell you no device found
so to pull all the files off your sdcard assuming debugging is on..
1. in adb mount the sdcard (I forget the command off the top of my head, but google is your friend)
2. adb pull /sdcard some_folder_name_in_your_sdk_directory
DaltonCope said:
You have to download the app on the market to vnc with the computer, it would work if I wouldve already downloaded it.. I cant do anything on my phone at all. Thanks for the attempt though
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Assuming I understand this correctly, you can still download apps to your phone by logging in to the market from your computer. This may still be an option.
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I'm stupid when it comes to this stuff, but if your using stock-based rom you could use kies air
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glad4pie said:
I'm stupid when it comes to this stuff, but if your using stock-based rom you could use kies air
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he can't use scree. Kies you need to run it from a I.. phone so it connects with pc
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If you boot into recovery mode and use some pictures of recovery mode to get to USB mass storage option, maybe that would work?
Could also try adb pull-ing.
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You could always look around eBay craigslist or anywhere else you can think of and you might get lucky in finding a cheap gs2 that doesn't work but the screen is still intact or maybe if you know anyone that maybe willing to let you borrow their screen from their phone for yours if you know how to. I just haven't pulled apart any phones since I came
To the US in 2002 so I'm not sure if its still that simple to do.
I haven't tried it yet so some of the others may be able to chime in but what about the possibility of using the HDMI adapter. I have looked at purchasing one and they are not very expencive depending on the source. I just do not know if it will automatically output the video when connected or it needs to be enabled.
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Mounting SD in recovery sounds like your best bet
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jpruett79 said:
I haven't tried it yet so some of the others may be able to chime in but what about the possibility of using the HDMI adapter. I have looked at purchasing one and they are not very expencive depending on the source. I just do not know if it will automatically output the video when connected or it needs to be enabled.
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it automatically works. nothing needs to be enabled
1) If you had USB debugging enabled, you can use ADB. If you're not sure - try it.
2) If you had a custom kernel with CWM installed, you can use ADB from within recovery. Recovery does not normally mount the sdcard but you can do it manually via ADB. I can provide info on this IF you can get ADB connecting first
3) HDMI is another possibility - although controlling the device will be problematic if the touchscreen is also failed. (It's possible that touchscreen is semiworking and main AMOLED is busted.)
For getting ADB installed and running, try Droid Explorer.
Been there done that.
Unfortunately, it'll cost some money to do a diy fix with this phone.
Last summer I dropped my htc aria onto gravel and the glass shattered. I googled around and found an oem digitizer for 30 bucks on ebay, and some great how-to-tear-apart your phone videos on youtube. 5 hours and multiple clumps of hair ripped out later, I got the thing fixed. Granted the light from the soft keys now bleeds onto the screen (thankfully CM7 let me disable them) and the trackpad became recessed in too far to use. But it still got me through until I got my SGS2.
Only thing is, my lcd still worked, it was just the glass digitizer that broke.
MikeyMike01 said:
If you boot into recovery mode and use some pictures of recovery mode to get to USB mass storage option, maybe that would work?
Could also try adb pull-ing.
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+1
This is probably your best bet if adb doesn't work.
I have CWM flashed, but I cant tell if im in recovery after holding down the buttons. And im not sure how to view the pictures after i take them in the mode..
You should be able to plug it in to your computer and MTP should connected automatically allowing you to copy your files

Retrieve data from water damaged phone

Hello,
I jumped in a pool when may daughter fell in. My phone was in my pocket.
Now the phone is not powering on. I did let it dry. Put it in rice and all that. I have lot of photos of my daughter on the phone and I was wondering if there's anyway of physically accessing the internal memory to get the photos.
Is there anyway I can retrieve the photos?
idotdot said:
Hello,
I jumped in a pool when may daughter fell in. My phone was in my pocket.
Now the phone is not powering on. I did let it dry. Put it in rice and all that. I have lot of photos of my daughter on the phone and I was wondering if there's anyway of physically accessing the internal memory to get the photos.
Is there anyway I can retrieve the photos?
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If you can somehow get your phone to power on i can certainly help you out. Broken screen...no problem...damaged usb port...well consider it impossible.
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I would expect these things to survive a brief pool-dunking. I suggest you let it sit in the sun for a while with cover off and all cards out. If it is still dead, I suggest sending it to the unbrickable mod guy. If he can't bring it back, probably no one can.
Thanks. I can't get it to power on at all. Who is the unbrickable mod guy?
Google unbrickable mod by Adam Outler...there is a thread in vibrant development section also
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Naaa unbrickable mods not gonna save a burnt mb
Theres no reason for it to.
You can try a diff battery, boot while holding recovery combo, then navigate the menus blindly to usb storage and plug your phone into comp.. maybe youll get lucky and its just dead screen
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Oh but before you waste your time chasing ghosts, i just realized that if it is just a dead screen, you could just 'turn it on' and plug it in and the comp should say something about found hardware.. just make sure you have it completely off, ie take batt out for a couple secs, then put in and hold power button for a reasonable ampunt of time.
Good luck
Oh and one more thing, as a last resort, you can try booting uup the phone wwith the least amount of part plugged in.. the water may have damaged aa part which may now be shorting it and inhibiting boot. I would say that if possible, boot it just mb and power button and usb port (idk if its a separate module)... maybe if youre lucky, you can do what i said with the recovery-> mount usb storage like that
Again good lluck
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The unbrickable mod guy clearly knows vibrant hardware. If he can't get your data from the phone, then it probably can't be done. If you sent him two phones, he could probably move the flash memory chip to the live phone. Maybe Samsung could also do something. Probably cost more.
Thank you all for your suggestions. I have tried connecting it to the computer etc but no luck. I'll try some other suggestions in this thread.
As always this community is very helpful.
Good luck. Let us know how it works out.
Hello All...I just wanted to let you know that I managed to retrieve data from my phone. After staring at my phone in dismay for 2 weeks I gave up. Until today when I happened to put another battery in my phone. To my surprise the screen showed some lines but the phone was still unusable. I then downloaded a lifesaver of a software called Android Commander and could access and copy the files from the phone.
I hope this information helps someone.
idotdot said:
Hello All...I just wanted to let you know that I managed to retrieve data from my phone. After staring at my phone in dismay for 2 weeks I gave up. Until today when I happened to put another battery in my phone. To my surprise the screen showed some lines but the phone was still unusable. I then downloaded a lifesaver of a software called Android Commander and could access and copy the files from the phone.
I hope this information helps someone.
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Android Commander looks promising. I use the Ole stand-by:
Droid Explorer
Hold your volume buttons and connect the USB(THE OTHER TERMINAL CONNECTED TO PC) see if your are able to get to the download screen.......if yes then pm me
idotdot said:
Hello All...I just wanted to let you know that I managed to retrieve data from my phone. After staring at my phone in dismay for 2 weeks I gave up. Until today when I happened to put another battery in my phone. To my surprise the screen showed some lines but the phone was still unusable. I then downloaded a lifesaver of a software called Android Commander and could access and copy the files from the phone.
I hope this information helps someone.
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Thats great, im glad for you
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idotdot said:
Hello,
I jumped in a pool when may daughter fell in. My phone was in my pocket.
Now the phone is not powering on. I did let it dry. Put it in rice and all that. I have lot of photos of my daughter on the phone and I was wondering if there's anyway of physically accessing the internal memory to get the photos.
Is there anyway I can retrieve the photos?
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If you can use your iPhone again, you can try to sync the data to iTunes after connecting to pc. But if you can not use it, you just can recover the photos from your iTunes backup. The best is that you did backup b4.
kaissa said:
If you can use your iPhone again, you can try to sync the data to iTunes after connecting to pc. But if you can not use it, you just can recover the photos from your iTunes backup. The best is that you did backup b4.
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This thread is a year old and the guy said he was able to get his files back. Please don't bring back dead threads for no reason. I encourage you to help others but no need to revive this thread.
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FIRST thing you need to do is turn off your phone, dry it out and put into a bag of rice for 24 hours.
then you can try to use a data recovery tool to get back the lost photos.
Read the post before you. Take his advice. Problem was solved. But yes. Leave it in rice and it coaxes the Chinese people to come and fix it for you.
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Android Commander seems like an app i need to get familiar with. Never had an issue with water damage but would be beneficial to have knowledge of a great app just in case. Thanks
yes, it is possible see this step by step phone data recovery solution:
how to recover data from water damaged phone
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[Q] Threw phone at wall, wont turn on, can get data?

I was very mad and threw my phone across the condo, when I decided to find the pieces a few days later and put it back together it wont turn on.
Any idea if I can retrieve my data from the phones memory?
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I was very mad and threw my phone across the condo, when I decided to find the pieces a few days later and put it back together it wont turn on.
Any idea if I can retrieve my data from the phones memory?
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Well if your motherboard is broken then you cant But i think that s2 has sdcard on motherboard and you can take it but if im wrong correct me
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Well with no turning on do you mean it does not boot into the Rom or is it not even going through your bootloader ? try to charge it and see if it responds
Um....sensitive micro electronics meets immovable object at high velocity....... something's gonna break....and it ain't gonna be the immovable object.......
The S2 does have internal storage....however it's not removable.....it also has a slot for a removable micro SD card...if that was in use at the time of collision, then *some* of your data *might* be recoverable...if not......
Well......next time, just throw a coffee cup or something, and mark this down to experience.
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