Samsung Galaxy s6 Edge | Completely Broken Screen | Need USB Debugging & PC Control
Hello ladies and gentlemen. I am very grateful for the opportunity to be able to use this forum and access the infinite knowledge the community has to offer. Let me start with what I have already read and searched, then I will go into details.
I did a search here, and read the little that was related to my issue. Some of the more relevant threads that started to cover my issue where very old and left off where I needed help. I did not want to necro those posts which lead to the decision to post here. If that was the wrong choice, I do apologize. Some of the topics that turned up results for me are here (had the same issue but wrong goal. Also no replies), here (Was very descriptive and helpful. However I am too much of a novice to understand most of it. Combine that with it being over a year old and one reply, and I get a dead end.), and here (which suggests I can do it with a wireless connection, however my phone has no screen to complete some of the tasks).
I read this, and this. But I am unfamiliar with some of their terms and methods as I mentioned earlier. I have only ever rooted one device in my life and it was thanks to a program. So I have VERY little knowledge on how to use a lot of the tools and knowledge being given to me in a lot of other forums. That's why I am calling on all of you to not give me the answers but teach me so that I can do this on my own and even pass on the tricks I might learn to others in my situation. After all a simple breaking of my phone screen has put a hold on my life. I have no access to my email, my bank account (online), my business website, and every other part of my life that uses 2fa. Why?? Because I can't use my phone to get my codes to login to my accounts. Like every other dummy, I never backed up my "one time use codes" I mean after all I ALWAYS have my phone on me right??? -.-
My Phone is a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge. Sadly I do NOT have USB Debugging enabled. I bought the screen glass and was following the advice of a Tutorial that suggested I could separate the glass from the digitizer as my digitizer still worked at that time, when the digitizer snapped. Completely my fault. Now with the phone having NO screen I am left without a phone. But it gets worse because you know my handy dandy PC? Well I've had the OS for over 5 years and decided to do a fresh install. Oh but I really did.... Only to discover what I already knew and had totally forgotten. I needed to re-register all my accounts to the "New Device". Sure no problem just use that phone you always have with you to get your code and login....
I am out of options and getting more and more frustrated by the minute. I don't have enough cash to go buy a new digitizer as they are the same price as the ENTIRE phone is Refurbished. The phone number I had is useless as it was pre-paid and I switched to Metro PCs with my wife's phone. So switching sims to get a one time pass-code isn't going to work. That leaves me with trying to access the phone with no screen, which I know is possible thanks to all of you amazing people.
Im in need of desperate help so if you can teach me anything that would fix my issue I would be forever grateful. Thank you all for taking the time to read this and please just ask me what details I need to provide if I left any out.
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Hi there,
I posted the following message in the "Accessories" section about a week ago, but have had no replies. Perhaps more people look in this more general section, at least I hope so. In the meantime I have tried a couple more "pc repair" shops but without success. I appreciate that people who visit this site and offer their advice, do so on an entirely voluntary basis. It's great that so many of you have such an interest in the product/subject and that you are willing to share your experiences and knowledge with us. Even if no one can help with my problem, I must say that I have enjoyed reading the forum, and until this unfortunate accident I was starting to really enjoy using my XDA. I had upgraded the ROM, unlocked a SIM card, installed stacks of software, it was great. Ah well, maybe I will just have the memories!
"I recently dropped my xda and it would no longer power on, it seemed completely dead. Assuming it was a "connection" problem with the power to battery pins, I opened it up to see if I could see any obvious problem. During my poking and messing about (with tools which were not really suitable) I inadvertently damaged the small ribbon cables on the right hand side .
I took the unit to a laptop repair specialist but he was unable to fix it, he said he could not find replacement cables/plugs that would fit. Do you know of where I could obtain such cables, or can you recommend someone who would be capable of carrying out repairs?
I would really appreciate your advice, I'm lost without use of the xda. Yes, I did regular backups to the storage card, the last one being only a day or two before the accident.
I look forward to hearing from someone, hopefully with some positive news!
Many thanks,
Mikeyg "
Abstract
When dumping memory with adb, a device got hard-bricked by just reading it's content. Followup questions on the incident.
Best practice of dumping devices and Knox related issues concerning that process.
Inquiry of the availability of technical documentation. Advice on purchace of correct JTAG.
Some (probably already known) information regarding the disproportional illegal actions caused by Samsung. A hello to Steve!
Hello,
My friend had a problem when Samsung pushed an update she didn't ask for, she got panic, pulled the battery, which of course resulted in a
bad flash.
I tried to save her data, first by installing a different rescue partitions, but it failed so I guessed that the partition info was gone as well.
Since she had important material on her phone, I saw no other alternative then to try to dump the whole phone and try it from there.
The phone still answered on adb so I started to dump the phone.I usually always do a 2>&1 and when I got back the prompt quite quickly and the
file was small so I thought that I probably missed something in the command and rechecked it but it was good and should have produced a full dump.
It didn't spit out any error. Like when you dump a broken drive that shows I/O and you use the noerror flag.
Here I made an error since I should by now know how sinister SS is to it's consumers and I also blame the insane high quantities of morphine I'm
forced to take each day, together with excellent company that took my attention away from a normal dumping of a phone, done before Knox and
on my former devices that always been HTC. (Since the "real" work would be trying to restore the fs, spitting, hexedit etc).
So I restarted it without giving a though of the "rubbish" and it got overwritten. This time by with the size of zero.
Further checking showed no contact with the phone. And the phone had turned itself off and was not in the "Flashing error" (guess bootloader).
The phone was dead. Didn't react to the power button. The usual "battery reset". It was dead. Hard-bricked,
So I missed the size of where it stopped and I should chastise myself by learning all the options of tar and find or something.
So by a READ of a phone I managed to brick it. This has never happened to me. Ever. From dumping memory, FPGA, EPROMS etc.
Is this something that is known? Has anyone experienced this or heard about this? It was a READ. So I don't know if this is a flux or some
Knox related. In their confused post, where they talk about "e-fuse data" (Interesting that a flag needs a data-area).
Dumping a device
What is the practice of dumping a device? I know many does it using the block-devices but the raw-dumping of the phone?
I guess most use a JTAG? Can anyone, please, give me some advice on what JTAG to buy? There are gazillions of them.
Does the board even have pins or do I have to weld? Will the use of a JTAG trip Knox?
I want to take the next step towards the unenviable demise of Knox in one way or another, and here I want to raw-dump 2 phones, but if this
is common and a possible second E-fuse it feels a bit risky, and I don't want the block-devices, I want a full dump since I want (of course) to
re-partition my I9506 that has a too small /system (true). And I need to compare them not by the partitioning, but the full EEPROMS.
Samsung's "VIP-treatment" of it's consumers
We know that the "flag" is so much more. Besides the active intentional (and illegal) destruction of hardware (There are much more but most
notably is the WIFI that either stops to work totally or as for me reminds me of a US Robotics 56K modem) they also run malicious code with the
sole intent of sabotaging the OS to a unusable state and to make it work you need to reflash/reroot it to get to some kind if "normality".
SS is on deep water here.
Samsung's great transparency and cooperation
I've tried to get an address-range to avoid this "e-fuse data" but I get the prefab-answer that we all get on inquiries, from "Steve" @ "Fort Knox".
"I am sorry but we cannot divulge that information". That is on anything. Even the question that I think that needs to be answered, asked
repeatedly, from more then me, "What damage is done to my phone?". That will be asked by many next year when we claim hardware failure.
I got as far as "heavy damage" before "the crazy Swede" got to >/dev/null but I'll give Steve the holidays to gather strength because he will need it
next year that will bring SS interesting times indeed,
Documentation
I also looking for technical info. I tried at Samsung (HA!), but even Qualcomm doesn't have it available at their dev-site?
I find this so strange, since all that I done so far always had 250 pages of documentation from the timing of the stepping with the oscillator to the
intricate details about the thermal expansion so you can cad the marginals right.
Here I find none. Does anyone have something? Anything? Please?
I can't even find the info about the bootstrapping process, the bootloader, if the kernel is baked into it, since all companies have different
methods. I find the lack of information from the biggest mobile company, at the moment, very frustrating,
HI Steve!
Since "Steve" reads this about the same time as you, and if you don't want him to read a reply with a pointer, help that I really need right now,
I would be very grateful and happy for a PM as well. I have some ideas how to make it harder for Steve to read but that is better left our here
Thank you for any input I can get in those matters
/Abs
Mods, please don't move this post to "General" or "Q&A". This is a highly technical post and reading the rules of this board it belongs here,
where the wizards sits, read and can, if they wish, enlighten and help me moving forward in my project.
If not here then please PM me and point me to an another technical section where it "fits" better, please
First confirm its hard bricked (no led , doesnt boot in any fashion, if it "vibrates" or shows anything at any point on the screen then its not bricked) and is currently in Emerg. Host D/L mode. You can do that either using lsusb or dmesg | grep usb in linux or check what Windows reports for the COM port. In both instances you should see QDL download mode. I'm pretty sure no one has figured out how to activate the "Boot from SD mode" or found what to short in order for the T-Flash method to work. Though they do both exist for our device, confirmed by the strings found by querying the output of using an invalid signature.
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Surge1223 said:
First confirm its hard bricked (no led , doesnt boot in any fashion, if it "vibrates" or shows anything at any point on the screen then its not bricked) and is currently in Emerg. Host D/L mode. You can do that either using lsusb or dmesg | grep usb in linux or check what Windows reports for the COM port. In both instances you should see QDL download mode. I'm pretty sure no one has figured out how to activate the "Boot from SD mode" or found what to short in order for the T-Flash method to work. Though they do both exist for our device, confirmed by the strings found by querying the output of using an invalid signature.
Sent from my SCH-I545 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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It's actually gone to the shop now (and then the graveyard that Samsung soon need to widen).
But the answer was no, nothing. Didn't react to anything, It was totally black. Like it would be turned off without a battery.
The serial port was blank. Not a single bit back. It was a brick.
There I would need a JTAG, but what to buy?
I hope they can save some of her info. Sent an note with her with what I wanted back from them (A dump if possible). But my guess is that they
just connect it. Dead? Ok. Return to Samsung. Give her a new. But she rather have a Ericsson SH688 (I must find it. It's somewhere...) and her
data back.
Oh poor Samsung, besides this "nobody, clueless and crazy Swede" (I'm adding each "deep analysis of me", to my designation. Clueless was today's ) they got on their neck, they don't know who they angered. They should check where people work before they pull stunts like this.
I thought that was the intent and purpose of the "unique certificate"? Now they just confuse me.
/Abs
/Abs
I bought a used Verizon Samsung galaxy s4 (model sch-i545) online a few weeks ago from ebay for $119.99 and just received it this morning and when i booted it up it won't let me past this Samsung account screen. I created a Samsung account on my PC and registered the galaxy s4 product with the IMEI and I still can't get past this Samsung account screen to set up my new phone, I've tried literally everything for 5 straight hours now with no success. Please I beg you to find it in your heart to guide me past this issue,I have no clue whatsoever what to do,my s3 I had thru Verizon never had this screen on it. I've been working on this issue for 9 straight hours now and the seller refused to either remove his account from it so I can use the phone or even allow me to just do it for him to get this nightmare over with,its not like I want or have a hidden agenda for his petty insignificant login info,I just want to login with the info than clear his info off it and sync it to my account that's all. I have done absolutely everything that's even remotely possible for an amateur tech enthusiast who's learning by trial and error and I am now down to just two hopefully promising tricks left up my sleeve at the moment. I have an android app called DEVELOPMENT SETTINGS (download the apk to another phone then connect both phones together using an otg cord and run the program, it actually works on the host phone so im hopeful)that on its own supposedly opens up the phones settings for me but I unfortunately gave away my only otg cord to a friend 6 months ago so I'm screwed on that option apparently. And my final option is to just have my app developer/Linux code writer/programmer acquaintance guy give it a shot with all his professional programs and whatnot that the general public doesn't typically have access to without cash,credentials,and a college education. Please email me at Mod edit: Email address removed if anyone can please find it in your heart to help an up and coming fellow tech lover out with ur proud vast intellectual prowess and undeniable utmost respectable expertise that ur proud to possess! SHOW ME AND ALL OUR OTHER FELLOW XDA MEMBERS WHO THE REAL TRIED AND TRUE TECH GENIUS IS BY ACCOMPLISHING WHAT ABSOLUTELY NOBODY HAS SO FAR BY FIGURING OUT A BADASS BYPASS FOR THIS INCREDIBLY CHALLENGING CONUNDRUM!!!!!
Please re-write the op if you want anyone to actually help you. Keep it short and to the point and try to use photos. Describe your phone and problem as much as possible while cutting out anything that won't help people understand your situation.(I didn't post this to offend you, just to help you)
Well, this is an attempt to possibly access more information. I may have read somewhere that stated in so many words, a little participation, or, even just an introduction, may get you a long way here on XDA. Now, whether or not there's any truth to this, isn't really of any importance. What's of importance, is how unimportant one may consider what someone else views as important. Setting that aside for a moment, what about the the truth that's actually quite commonly found leaving the liars mouth? I'll give examples in a moment but before I do, ask yourself if one were to actually tell the truth but believing it to be a lie, would what was said be considered by you, to be honest? I mean it is the truth, just delivered with dishonest intent, right? I am a newb, on an iphone 6+...iOS 11.2.5 just until I can put together the $100 deductible for the MOTO Z I dropped. I haven't been very active in these past years being with Verizon, but I wasn't very active before i made the switch. I was a DROID X2 bricker and I will always be. Just recently found a junkyard of old phones, that I or friends bricked, or dropped without insurance, cracked screen, no battery, etc.
What I am and have been working on, with no success is an On5 SM-G550T (A.R. MMB29K.G550TUVU2AQC4 samsung/on5ltetmo/on51tetmo) updated to 6.0.1/MMB29K/G550TUVU2AQC4
FRP and can't enable debugging with anything I have found thus far...I have used the enabler but may be flashing the wrong files as I have come across plenty G550TUVU1?????? but nothing found for G550TUVU2??????? I'm sure my recovery (TWRP) file is correct but until I can enable USB it's really not doing me any good. Any chance of someone(anyone that made it this far is respected!) possibly shootin me instructions or even just pointing me in the right direction. I have attempted flashing with odin and even OTG with other suggested files. Objective is to bypass frp by enabling debugging and flashing stock 5.0 firm so I may then install twrp and depending on my mood and position of the moon, maybe a super user and some ROM tryouts. You guys are awesome, even if you decide not to help. Developers, my thanks only goes so far and so do the rest of these words, so Ill be about it soon and wont talk about it now. But seriously, hat's off and I appreciate the countless hours, painful blinks and most importantly, the late arrivals and drop offs associated with such sacrifice. Thank you!!!
Hello all,
In my circle of friends there was a suicide case and I was asked by the family if I would be able to remove a screen lock from a Samsung Galaxy S21. The family can't explain why their son killed himself and would like answers to all their questions. They assume that there is information on the phone or reasons for the suicide.
Are there any serious ways to get around such a block? I don't have much information about the device yet, nor do I currently have it with me. Maybe there are exploits or bruteforce toolkits to bypass the lockscreen. Programs like Tenorshare 4uKey or PassFab Android Unlocker are probably scam or?
I will get the device in the next week and could provide more information then.
Currently the following information is available:
Device Model: Samsung Galaxy S21 5G | Samsung SM-G991B | Android 11 | One UI 3.1
Mobile contract: active
SMS PIN & PUK: available
Google account credentials: available and valid and linked to the device but no backups available in Google Drive
Samsung account credentials: present and valid but not associated with the device so no backups available
Does the approach via Kali Nethunter and a HID keyboard attack work with a current Android Samsung Galaxy S21 bruteforcing or do you always get into the temporally increasing lock?
A data recovery $pecialist might be able to, ask the police for assistance.
Find the password for the lockscreen, or maybe through their Gmail or Samsung accounts, again passwords needed.
I think if they wanted you in the phone they would have unlocked it...
blackhawk said:
A data recovery $pecialist might be able to, ask the police for assistance.
Find the password for the lockscreen, or maybe through their Gmail or Samsung accounts, again passwords needed.
I think if they wanted you in the phone they would have unlocked it...
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This is not a helpful answer.
The police in this country does not help in such matters if it is assumed that no outside influence was involved.
A data recovery specialist also only executes toolkits or exploits. I am also able to do this if someone gives me a hint which toolkits or exploits would come into question for this model. I work as a sysadmin myself and therefore I am not completely untalented technically. I just lack information about which approach would be the best.
This is a community of people who like to hack their phones, not hack into other people's phones... which is considered unethical.
Are you serious?
You really think it's unethical when a 21 year old boy takes his own life overnight and the family just wants to know why their son did it? Sure, the boy was of age at 21 and can do with his life what he wants. Nevertheless, any clear-thinking person can understand that the family wants to know why the son did that.
I have no bad intentions and I am only trying to help the family. This is not about hacking a stolen cell phone. Then I would just do a factory reset and use the phone normally and not write this post here.
Yes, well... be that as it may.
With a screen lock in place you can't simply factory reset as you still be locked out.
I believe my original response was valid. It's not an easy nut to crack... by design.
Hello, i own a phone repair shop and i'm a relation with a person specialized in unlocking phones. He said me that he can bypass the lock screen and keep data on all samsung phones and he can do it remotly. Being in this business i don't trust him a lot about keeping data. One of my customer's son is dead and his family want to access his phone, they gave me his phone and they are agree to loose data if things dont go good so i'm gonna try with this guy and if you want i will give you a feedback.
Hi sorry to hear that this terrible situation happened around you.
I am in a similar situation. My cousin died suddenly and his sister asked be to recover pictures and videos because he filmed himself before try to end his life and she would like to find if there is any video that could help us understand better.
I'm trying to find ways to do that and so far I haven't but I wanted to share some information in case it could be helpful to someone.
I tried the iMobie Data Extractor. It is supposed to help recover data from "broken phone". I guess it's the closest thing I found that didn't look scammy and could work. After about a month of back and forth with their support person, I managed to replaced the OS using Odin (because the official software left my phone in a non-bootable state) replacing all partitions except User Data. Unfortunately, that didn't remove the lock (PIN). I'm not surprised since I didn't wipe the User Data.
From a security perspective, it is good that it is hard (impossible) to access data of a locked phone, but from a family emotional perspective, it is hard to have to tell my family that I failed.
I wish you good luck and please post here if you find a way.
be safe
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Hello, i own a phone repair shop and i'm a relation with a person specialized in unlocking phones. He said me that he can bypass the lock screen and keep data on all samsung phones and he can do it remotly. Being in this business i don't trust him a lot about keeping data. One of my customer's son is dead and his family want to access his phone, they gave me his phone and they are agree to loose data if things dont go good so i'm gonna try with this guy and if you want i will give you a feedback.
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I don't have easy-to-hear information for you. But I offer these words as a way to think about this situation.
I believe Samsung intentionally builds phones which are extremely hard to break into. This is a conscious design decision they make. Why? Because so many users do things like credit card payments, banking, and social media, where, if you lost your phone and a bad person found it, an easy-to-break-into device would have potentially catastrophic results. Aside from the harm to a user who lost a phone, Samsung themselves would be subjected to great reputational damage, too. It's bad press when it's easy to break into and steal something.
Also, you may not be able to break into the device, even with the help of a commercial vendor. Exploits in Android, when found, are patched regularly. A very smart person might have had a way to crack into a phone last week, last month, or last year. But again, Samsung intends to continually patch the software to keep it secure. They make a point to telling people that Samsung phones are patched for several years, so users will feel confident their data will be secure.
One suspects certain governments have police or security organizations who likely could break in, but they are unlikely to help in a personal situation, as you described.
Although this doesn't seem to apply to you, it's worth saying that Samsung phones are also backed up (by default) to their "cloud." It's possible that a lawyer might be able, with proper documentation of the owner's death, to get access to Samsung's (or Google's) cloud backup(s). I don't think it's easy though. Google, at least in the USA, allows the owner of an account to specify how Google should handle their data if they stop accessing their accounts. (I think Google treats an idle account as "dead" and for reasons like this, if you no longer want to use a vendor like Samsung or Google, you should proactively delete your account, not merely let it go idle.)
Anyone reading this post, might want to consider having what can be an uncomfortable conversation with your friends and family: "How would you like your friends and family handle your electronic, financial, and social accounts in the event of your death?"
Please, forgive me if any of this sounds insensitive. My father worked in insurance and as part of his job he knew all to well that all people eventually die. And how hard it is for those left behind to pick up the pieces, especially when secrets are involved. My family knows where to find my keys.