As most user interaction with Android devices involve a touchscreen, things get tricky at best if you managed to break that one: How would you e.g. unlock your device, or enter your encryption password on boot? How to recover your data before sending the device to repair? What use can such a device be if it's no longer worth being repaired – but still too valued to be simply thrown away?
From those examples you can already guess some related tags:
touchscreen: questions dealing with the touch-screen in general
data-recovery: questions dealing with data recovery in general
It is a good idea to combine this tag with a related tag to make things straight: using e.g. broken-screen plus data-recovery does make pretty clear where you're headed.
The screen of my phone is physically broken, so it doesn't display anything, but the touch aspect does seem to be working, as I can unlock my phone, and get haptic feedback.
Before I go to get it replaced, I'd like to back up some personal data from…
I just broke the screen of my (unrooted) Galaxy S.
How do I get back my SMS and contacts?
PS: I tried Kies but it won't detect my phone for some reason. (Kies works fine with another Galaxy I possess but not this one)
My rooted Galaxy Nexus has a broken screen. How can I use my PC (ie, via ADB) to control the phone?
androidscreencast would be the ideal solution, but its keyboard/mouse control feature does not work in Jelly Bean. Perhaps someone knows why and we…
I own a Samsung Galaxy S3 and the display is broken and USB debugging is set to off too.
How can I enable it using ./adb commands? I have done these steps already:
data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db changed adb_enabled…
I have recently broken my Android's screen. (Again)
Its a T-Mobile G2
Trying to keep up with my busy technology related life is hard enough without losing my link with everyone.
I have rooted the phone and have the USB Debugging already turned on.…
My Android device screen got broken and I can't see what I'm doing. That's the only wrong thing with my device, the rest is apparently working OK. Is there any way to send my device screen to my computer?
I don't want to work blindly anymore!
My Nexus 4 screen met a tragic end due to violent contact with flooring tiles. Everything works except the touchscreen (which displays fine but does not react to touch any more).
I would like to get a full copy of my data partition, but my device…
I dropped my Samsung S3. Now I cannot see anything, just a white screen with purple, black, and green lines. Before it blanked out, it wasn't recognizing my finger touch. Any idea on how or what to repair? I want to save my phone so I can backup all…
I have damaged the screen on my phone, so much so, it will not allow me to get the data to transfer onto my laptop. On opening Samsung Kies, it is saying that the connected device is locked. Please enter password on the connected device. I can only…
My phone screen broke. I can't see anything, and the touch screen doesn't work. I can't buy a new phone, so I'm not looking into backing up my data. I want to be able to use it from my pc.
I have a Motorola Moto G2 running LineageOS 14.1 and TWRP…
I've tried all publicly discussed methods I could find to connect to WiFi via ADB on a phone with a broken screen (no display/no touch). The closest I have got is via wpa_cli using the method #1 described below.
Other methods that I tried are also…
I have an HTC HD2 with a completely busted screen, I tried repairing it with a replacement screen but broke the ribbon cable to the screen (oops) sad day,
I've got two of these and I've been running them as servers and ipcam cameras.
I started…
The screen on my Samsung Galaxy Ace 4 broke (running Android 4.4) and I really, really wish to get all my photos and other data off it. The phone has a pattern lock screen as well as an additional PIN if the pattern is entered wrong. I've tried…
For some reason a chunk of the digitizer broke on the bottom of my phone. I tried to use adb shell wm overscan 0,54,0,324 to resize my screen smaller until I can get a new phone, but it's giving bad results.
It seems like the overscan is working…
I have a phone whose screen broke, but I'd like to export its contacts to .vcf so I can import them to another phone. I usually do this with the built-in import/export function in the Contacts app overflow menu, but without a screen it is…
