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[UPDATE] Broken Screen - Extract / Backup Data [Q]

Accidentally broke my G2's screen [blank & unresponsive].
I'm getting a replacement from T-Mo ...but need to extract a some data from the phone's memory.
I've tried connecting it to my computer but I can't access anything unless I put in the Unlock Pattern on my phone (which I obviously can't)
Any suggestion on what I can do?
****Update*****
Screen went out but touch screen functionality remains [Screen Defect?].
I've been able to use ScreenCast to see my screen on my pc & use it to some degree.
Temp. rooted my 'broken' phone with Visionary, ran Titanium Backup ... now trying to do Clockworks Recovery.
...need some help with operating Clockworks w/ a Broken Screen..
More info on second page

If you install adb via the Android SDK, you should be able to extract everything you want.
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
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install adb
use adb pull to get what ever data you are looking for, probably something in /data/data/ ??
you can use adb shell to poke around on your phone
I think you might have to be rooted. I don't have an unrooted phone to test this on.

gee one said:
If you install adb via the Android SDK, you should be able to extract everything you want.
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
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install adb
use adb pull to get what ever data you are looking for, probably something in /data/data/ ??
you can use adb shell to poke around on your phone
I think you might have to be rooted. I don't have an unrooted phone to test this on.
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I've had the SDK but I can't access my phone files because they are inaccessible from my PC + my phone doesn't have USB Debugging / ADB enabled by default...
I tried running ScreenCast to try and emulate my screen on my PC (something I've done before) but it wouldn't work because, as before, the phone to be detected as an ADB device
Other suggestions?
If nothing else what's a quick way to wipe all data to factory defaults (without relying on a screen )

SmartHat said:
I've had the SDK but I can't access my phone files because they are inaccessible from my PC + my phone doesn't have USB Debugging / ADB enabled by default...
I tried running ScreenCast to try and emulate my screen on my PC (something I've done before) but it wouldn't work because, as before, the phone to be detected as an ADB device
Other suggestions?
If nothing else what's a quick way to wipe all data to factory defaults (without relying on a screen )
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If you have Clockwork recovery, you can boot into recovery mode and use adb.
shutdown
unplug the USB and shutdown- press and hold the power button for 2 seconds, scroll down on the trackpad several times and then press the trackpad button twice. it should shut down, or else pull the battery.
reboot into recovery
hold volume "down" and press the power button for a second and release. Wait 5 seconds and then press volume "down" once and press the power button. If all goes well, the phone should vibrate briefly. Wait a few seconds and then try adb.

Get a Ubuntu livedisk, boot from it and plug the phone in. You can see the phone's contents as well as sdcard. That would be the easiest. But if you can't do that and you have the latest clockwork mod, you will still need to mount stuff from recovery before you can access it. These instructions are relevant to the latest version (2.5+).
Once in recovery per gee one's instructions the menu is as follows:
Main Menu
- reboot system now <<- cursor
- apply sdcard:update.zip
- wipe data/factory reset
- wipe cache partition
- install zip from sdcard
- backup and restore
- mounts and storage
- advanced
By default "reboot system now" is select where it says cursor. Volume up/down to go up/down and trackpad to confirm. Power is to go back. The trackpad will also navigate for you, but it's hard to control so avoid using it for movement at all costs. It is also very sensitive to double clicks, try and make your click as quick and clean as possible.
Press Volume down 6 times and you will land on mounts and storage, then press trackpad (very quickly so as not to make it register a double click).
That menu is as follows:
Mounts and Storage
- mount /system <<-cursor
- mount /data
- unmount /cache
- mount /sdcard
- mount /sd-ext
- format boot
- format system
- format data
- format cache
- format sdcard
- format sd-ext
- mount USB storage
Your cursor starts on mount /system. Press trackpad once will mount system, pressing it again will unmount. Volume down will take you to data, and so forth. Then you can access those directories from adb, and do adb pull as others have suggested. Pressing it again will unmount it, and should be done. Keep in mind it will only unmount if you close all windows that point to that directory and leave the directory in adb shell (you can leave the directory by typing "cd /" to do that). If you stay in the directory or something is pointing to it, it will cause an error.
If you're unsuccessful, you can try doing a backup from clockwork.
From the main menu, press volume down 5 times and press trackpad.
The menu that appears is as follows:
- Backup <<-cursor
- Restore
- Advanced Restore
Simply click the trackpad again and it will perform a backup.
It will save the backup of the phone to the sdcard at /clockworkmod/backup/2010-12-8.x.x.x/
After that I'm not entirely sure how to extract it, hopefully someone else can help.
But simply put, get a live CD of linux and you go to Mounts and Storage and then to mount USB storage, you should have access.

Pic Please

How about "mount /system" or "mount /data" from the adb shell? This should be enough to poke around to extract files.

gee one said:
How about "mount /system" or "mount /data" from the adb shell? This should be enough to poke around to extract files.
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*facepalm*
or that. if you go into adb shell, you can mount whatever directory and cp it to the sdcard. you can use 'umount' to unmount.
adb push/pull will not work when in adb shell, but you can easily copy it over to your sdcard with the cp command.

funkeee said:
*facepalm*
or that. if you go into adb shell, you can mount whatever directory and cp it to the sdcard. you can use 'umount' to unmount.
adb push/pull will not work when in adb shell, but you can easily copy it over to your sdcard with the cp command.
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I just tried finding my G2 using an ubuntu 10.10 installation- it wouldn't find my phone unless I enabled USB mode, and then it would only find the sdcard. I'm still pretty new to ubuntu, so I might be missing something. It's like a brown version of my Mac!
adb push/pull will work from the terminal command line on your computer, not the shell.

Had some obligations I had to take care of but ... thank you for all the suggestions, I'll be trying them all to see which one I can get going!
I just got my replacement today & the first thing I noticed was the Z-Hinge issue.
Its looser than my original 'broken' phone right out of the box, even though the original has been thoroughly used for about 2 months...
so I gotta go thru Another replacement process ...
I suppose I'm going to keep getting replacements that people sent back for the Z-Hinge issue

gee one said:
If you have Clockwork recovery, you can boot into recovery mode and use adb.
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^ I don't have any recovery programs on my device (unfortunately).
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@ funkeee: I'll def. try this, seems promising.
ddgarcia05 said:
Pic Please
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^ of?
gee one said:
How about "mount /system" or "mount /data" from the adb shell? This should be enough to poke around to extract files.
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^ how would I go about and do that?
and as I mentioned before my device is simply set up for mass storage mode & I'm certain I need to get past the Unlock screen to access anything (but I obviously cant)

What kind of data are you trying to extract? It might seem obvious, but I think I should ask for the sake of completeness- is the data actually in the phone or on the memory card?

gee one said:
What kind of data are you trying to extract? It might seem obvious, but I think I should ask for the sake of completeness- is the data actually in the phone or on the memory card?
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Well I can get the data from the memory card via my replacement G2 or an Sd adapter...but its mainly messages and some miscellaneous content / apps I had saved on the phone itself & the settings; its not a Big deal, but its something I'd like to port over.
If I didn't have a lock on it I could've managed my way through the menus using hard keys w/ my replacement as a guide but I have no way of doing it.
I wish there was an easy way to make a backup... still haven't got time to try the methods mentioned before, but I'm going to try and give it a go tonite.

Do you have a stock, unrooted phone? If you installed hboot-eng.img then there might be a chance.

gee one said:
Do you have a stock, unrooted phone? If you installed hboot-eng.img then there might be a chance.
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yup, stock & unrooted... any hope?

SmartHat said:
yup, stock & unrooted... any hope?
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I'm out of ideas, for whatever that is worth.

Thank you very much for the input, everyone.
I managed to get my phone into USB Debug mode & I've been able to open up a lot of options... (since I can finally use ADB).
So, Now I'm using my previously installed Android ScreenCast to see my previously Dead Phones Screen! -- Gotta love Android!
-- Now, can anyone suggest the best method for me to a image of my device, so I can flash it onto my replacement?

A Nandroid backup would be perfect, but you don't have root.
adb pull /data/app /somewhere/on/your/pc/app
will back up non-system apps, but not the settings or data
adb pull /data/data /somewhere/different/data
will grab your settings and data, but there is mix of other stuff in there as well that doesn't restore so well because it also contains other data. I think someone who is well versed in sqlite might be able to put it all back together.
Are there any data that you are looking for specifically? SMS? Browser bookmarks? etc?

gee one said:
A Nandroid backup would be perfect, but you don't have root.
adb pull /data/app /somewhere/on/your/pc/app
will back up non-system apps, but not the settings or data
adb pull /data/data /somewhere/different/data
will grab your settings and data, but there is mix of other stuff in there as well that doesn't restore so well because it also contains other data. I think someone who is well versed in sqlite might be able to put it all back together.
Are there any data that you are looking for specifically? SMS? Browser bookmarks? etc?
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well I just temp rooted my 'broken' g2 ... ran titanium backup; Flashed clockworks recovery & now am backing up again(just to have all my bases covered)
When I went in to 'backup current ROM' in the Clockworks app, phone turned off and my Screen Cast disconnected... So I have no means of checking if I need to do anything else before my Rom's backed up
*ed-*
...but then again, since I have Visionary Temp root, wouldn't Clockworks loose its super user privileges when it restarted?
Answered my own question.
So it looks like nothing else will be possible unless I permaroot, which would void my warranty, meaning I won't be able to send it back in to T-mo

You can check the clockworkmod folder on your sd card to see if the backup completed. There should be 4 or 5 .img files if it ran.
Sent from my CyanogenMod Vision

[Q] Other than Wi-Fi access to Internal Storage, how can I access it via USB?

I realize the phone uses MTP now which IMO is a complete downgrade from the whole Android experience when it comes to moving the files you want.
Right now, I'm trying to figure out how to move a 1.5 GB file (Nandroid backup) to my desktop without going over wi-fi since that will take... I don't even know how long. I let it sit for about 35 minutes, and it only got to about 90 MB.
I have 3 freaking folders I need to view to get my Nandroids, but I can't get to them due to the fact that I can't access them any other way than Wi-Fi. Seriously, what can I do to make these stupid folders show up in MTP?! I've tried moving them and renaming them and putting them in different directories that show up in Windows, and I can't see them at all.
What do I have to honestly do? This is just ridiculous.

you could always use "adb pull". It'll be slow (that's just how ADB is) but you'll be able to do it.
use it like this:
Code:
adb pull <Nandroid File> <to this directory>
for example:
Code:
adb pull /sdcard/thisfile.zip thisfolder
will create a folder named "thisfolder" in your platform-tools folder (where ADB is located) with thisfile.zip inside it.

martonikaj said:
you could always use "adb pull". It'll be slow (that's just how ADB is) but you'll be able to do it.
use it like this:
Code:
adb pull <Nandroid File> <to this directory>
for example:
Code:
adb pull /sdcard/thisfile.zip thisfolder
will create a folder named "thisfolder" in your platform-tools folder (where ADB is located) with thisfile.zip inside it.
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+1
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

Sorry for posting stupid questions: Even windows based apps like myphoneexplorer don´t work, do they?

Cracked Screen.

Ok long story short i was getting the Power button mishaps. So i banged my phone to fix it worked great a few times but last night while doing so i cracked my screen Stupid move ever lol. KIDS DONT TRY IT !!!!
Its all black now and i want to be able to retrieve my pics on the phone.Cause when i connect it to my PC it does nothing just charge.
How can i so since i cant see nothing?

Broken screen
Colombia81er said:
Ok long story short i was getting the Power button mishaps. So i banged my phone to fix it worked great a few times but last night while doing so i cracked my screen Stupid move ever lol. KIDS DONT TRY IT !!!!
Its all black now and i want to be able to retrieve my pics on the phone.Cause when i connect it to my PC it does nothing just charge.
How can i so since i cant see nothing?
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Did you save your photo's on your internal storage or on an external SD? If you saved them externally you can put your Micro SD in a flash drive and pull it up that way.

Or if for some reason you do not have access to an sdcard adapter you could use adb and pull them from the phone from a terminal.
Sent from my SGH-T989 using xda premium

bseager said:
Did you save your photo's on your internal storage or on an external SD? If you saved them externally you can put your Micro SD in a flash drive and pull it up that way.
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codecaine21 said:
Or if for some reason you do not have access to an sdcard adapter you could use adb and pull them from the phone from a terminal.
Sent from my SGH-T989 using xda premium
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Most of the are on my internal SD ... How would i go using ADB method ?

Colombia81er said:
Most of the are on my internal SD ... How would i go using ADB method ?
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Reboot into recovery(Not download mode). open a terminal and use adb's pull command. You could use adb's pull command in conjunction with the find command. Something like
Code:
adb shell find / -name "*.jpg" -exec adb pull {} ~/Documents +
This will pull all files ending with the jpg extensions. You can of course pull whole folders.
I just wrote that off the top of my head and it wasnt tested. I have to get to bed. I have to get up at 4:30am for work and it is now 11:30. Damn computer is so addicting! The one liner might not work but you get the point. Google adb pull and adb push.

codecaine21 said:
Reboot into recovery(Not download mode). open a terminal and use adb's pull command. You could use adb's pull command in conjunction with the find command. Something like
Code:
adb shell find / -name "*.jpg" -exec adb pull {} ~/Documents +
This will pull all files ending with the jpg extensions. You can of course pull whole folders.
I just wrote that off the top of my head and it wasnt tested. I have to get to bed. I have to get up at 4:30am for work and it is now 11:30. Damn computer is so addicting! The one liner might not work but you get the point. Google adb pull and adb push.
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Thanks the issue will be to see if im on recovery mode since i cant see nothing

Colombia81er said:
Thanks the issue will be to see if im on recovery mode since i cant see nothing
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A friend had the same issue a few weeks ago and I just popped her battery out and popped it back in. Then held the power + vol up + vol down till i felt vibration and held on for another 2 seconds. Then waited 20 seconds just to be safe. I connected my phone. I ran sudo adb devices in a terminal to make sure it was connected. Which is was and then ran the necessary commands.
Sent from my SGH-T989 using xda premium

codecaine21 said:
Code:
adb shell find / -name "*.jpg" -exec adb pull {} ~/Documents +
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Yeah that didnt work its in recovery now. Im trying to figure this out i just dont want to d/l the pics. I dont mind backing up the whole entire thing. How would i go on doing that.

Colombia81er said:
Yeah that didnt work its in recovery now. Im trying to figure this out i just dont want to d/l the pics. I dont mind backing up the whole entire thing. How would i go on doing that.
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That's a tough one... for me at least. I mean you are able to reboot into recovery but I am unaware of a method that will allow you to back your system up from a terminal. Adb has a backup command but you need to be able to see your screen to use it.
You could use the dd command over ssh ->
Code:
[B]sudo adb shell dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 | sudo ssh [email protected] "dd of=/~/Documents/recovery.img"[/B]
and check the progress with
Code:
[B]while true; do readarray -t array < <(pgrep -l '^dd$'); var=$(echo "${array[@]}" | sed 's/ dd//g'); kill -USR1 $var &>1 && sleep 5; done[/B]
but I "think" the FAT32 FS is limited to 4GB file transfers. So you will receive an error after 4GB's and the transfer will abort. Also, I am unsure of the t989's pit layout. Which blks you would need to backup if you did decide to dd single partitions. Like cache, system, recovery, boot, etc.
Maybe some computer whiz will be able to help you. I am sorry I couldn't help. Maybe one of the more experienced Linux/android users/devs can help you if you haven't already figured this out.
If someone did know, it would be cool if you could post the solution. I am curious as how to one would go about doing this.
Sent from my SGH-T989 using xda premium

codecaine21 said:
Reboot into recovery(Not download mode). open a terminal and use adb's pull command. You could use adb's pull command in conjunction with the find command. Something like
Code:
adb shell find / -name "*.jpg" -exec adb pull {} ~/Documents +
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Im hoping you are still around for some more assistance. Im actually in the middle of the same issue as OP, except possibly that the phone was completely stock with android debugging disabled, and the touch interface is also non-functional. You'd think that would be great for getting stuff off the phone, but I was unable to use the on screen menu to actually turn on usb mass storage.
I decided to try and use push / pull from recovery, however I found out that the directories I want arent available in recovery mode (DCIM / Download with a very very important 0000001.vcf in it).
I was able to get into recovery and use "adb reboot download" and Odin'd "recovery-cmw-hercules.tar" to the phone to give me a working CMR environment (v5.0.2.6). I thought I could feel my way through the menus after another "adb reboot recovery" to blindly guess - Vol Down x 6, Pwr x 1, Vol Up x 2, Pwr x1 - type thing, to navigate"mounts and storage" and then find "mount sdcard".
However, I have been unsuccessful. I did manage to mount system / data / cache , just not sdcard, and I dont know why.
TLR No screen, no touch. Odin'd CMR. Am sitting in Command Prompt with ADB Shell / Pull working. Still can't access ~/DCIM folder on internal SDCard. Hoping for some help. What am I missing? Bonus: A screen shot of the CWR mounts and storage menu would be very helpful!

Ok so i got it....
So I first used this comand:
Code:
adb shell find / -name "*jpeg"
It gave me this
/sdcard/Download/155546_394801767258170_1181721421_n.jpeg
Then i used this command to pull everything from my internal sd-card
Code:
adb pull sdcard C:/Docs
Worked like a Charm

[Q] Samsung GT-I5510 display cracked, trying to recover files

Hello fellas,
I've ran out of ideas at what to do. My old GT-I5510 got screen cracked and in order to recover my files, memo app and calendar app data in particular (both stock), I tried to root it with KERUK to gain access to /data where it should be stored, but it's no use when I don't see what I'm doing in recovery mode. ADB does communicate but only in recovery mode, otherwise I believe USB debugging is needed, which I did not enable before it got screen cracked. In fact, /data is not accessible at all ("opendir failed, Permission denied"). The backup command from ADB does not work (supposedly without root) either ("adb: unable to connect to backup"). I also tried to copy everything with "adb pull / C:/recovered-files/" which started copying all the files from accessible folders but aborted as soon as it tried to open a restriced path/file. I checked all of the subfolders and none seemed to have write permissions. /sdcard seems to be accessible but inside there are no files shown through the ADB shell although the SD card definitely has stuff on it.
What should I do? Thank you so much in advance!

I'm not quite sure, but am I even posting in the right forum? Seems that noone knows even a tip for this. After all, my "guest thread" (http://forum.xda-developers.com/general/xda-assist/samsung-gt-i5510-display-cracked-trying-t3132014) was answered right away. Sorry for double post, but I thought this possible misunderstanding needed a push for people to see.

I think the forum is correct, there are only a few people using a Galaxy 551 left now, and I presume all of them have rooted their device at an earlier stage.
If you canNOT "su" in an "adb shell" in normal operation mode, you could still attempt to find the mount points, and run the necessary mount commands when rebooted into (CWM; or TWRP - I'm pretty sure stock recovery won't do anything you'll need) recovery. Check that you're having superuser status by running "id" (which should return UID zero).
You probably will be more successful if you could copy everything to the SDcard (which has to be mounted by hand), either using "tar" or "rsync" (that one can be found in several places).

Broken Display

Hi,
my OnePlus 3 got crushed. Felt down while driving motorbike and then at least 3 cars did drive over it. Display splintered in thousands of pieces and digitizer is dead. Home button with fingerprint also seems to not work.
By miracle the phone itself still works. . How I can enter the phone? I tried to boot into recover and browser with ADB but I dont know where my files are.
BTW USB Debugging was not activated, not rooted and Pattern lock is activated. The phone also asks for pattern lock on boot (I am worried that this means that my files are encrypted)
What else I can do?

fxppas said:
Hi,
my OnePlus 3 got crushed. Felt down while driving motorbike and then at least 3 cars did drive over it. Display splintered in thousands of pieces and digitizer is dead. Home button with fingerprint also seems to not work.
By miracle the phone itself still works. . How I can enter the phone? I tried to boot into recover and browser with ADB but I dont know where my files are.
BTW USB Debugging was not activated, not rooted and Pattern lock is activated. The phone also asks for pattern lock on boot (I am worried that this means that my files are encrypted)
What else I can do?
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send it back and pay money for repair or you can buy yourself a new display + digitizer
for the glass oneplus take ~100 dollar. someone in this forum had the same problem.
you can ask the support first

Without debugging and with encryption you really can't do much ...
Sent from my OnePlus 3 using Tapatalk

@panther124
I just want to have my data back.. I dont really want to fix it. The mobile phone is slightly bended and has tons of scratches on the backside and a big bump. If you see the phone you will be surprised that it is still working As far as I understand is the data lost if I send the phone back.
Isnt it possible to connect just another cheap display on the phone to just for passing the lock. So I can enable debugging.

fxppas said:
Hi,
my OnePlus 3 got crushed. Felt down while driving motorbike and then at least 3 cars did drive over it. Display splintered in thousands of pieces and digitizer is dead. Home button with fingerprint also seems to not work.
By miracle the phone itself still works. . How I can enter the phone? I tried to boot into recover and browser with ADB but I dont know where my files are.
BTW USB Debugging was not activated, not rooted and Pattern lock is activated. The phone also asks for pattern lock on boot (I am worried that this means that my files are encrypted)
What else I can do?
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Hi
did you unlock the bootloader?
maybe you could still root it and adp push / pull stuff from it

AlexLebowski said:
Hi
did you unlock the bootloader?
maybe you could still root it and adp push / pull stuff from it
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I can enter shell with adb if I use power+vol up to boot into bootloader. But I dont know where my files are. "/sdcard" /media / mnt" I dont find anything.

fxppas said:
I can enter shell with adb if I use power+vol up to boot into bootloader. But I dont know where my files are. "/sdcard" /media / mnt" I dont find anything.
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try look into "/storage" or "/data", or any other directories, use "adb pull" to copy everything you can to your computer.

Internal storage is at /storage/emulated/0
Sent from my OnePlus 3 using Tapatalk

Explorer23 said:
Internal storage is at /storage/emulated/0
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[email protected] ~/on3bu $ sudo adb shell
[email protected]:/ $ cd /storage/
[email protected]:/storage $ ls
sdcard0
[email protected]:/storage $ ls -l sdcard0
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-04-23 10:16 sdcard0 -> /sdcard
[email protected]:/storage $ exit
[email protected] ~/on3bu $ sudo adb pull /storage/sdcard0
failed to copy '/storage/sdcard0' to './sdcard0': No such file or directory
[email protected] ~/on3bu $ sudo adb pull /sdcard
failed to copy '/sdcard' to './sdcard': No such file or directory
[email protected] ~/on3bu $ sudo adb shell
[email protected]:/ $ ls /storage/
sdcard0
[email protected]:/ $
Not with my phone

Hey, sorry for the late reply, i've been sick the last day.
First of all a stupid question
Have you seen that all your data is there under /storage/sdcard0? or is it an empty folder
try specifying the output directory of adb pull like
Code:
adb pull /storage/sdcard0 /home/username/
I'm thinking maybe it's a linux related problem, since linux doesnt always automatically create folder structures. So if your error message changes keep me posted.
Also:
my data is directly under /sdcard
so if i
Code:
adb pull /sdcard
I get
Code:
pull: building file list...
pull: /sdcard/ViPER4Android/DDC/Custom_jmxc23.vdc -> ./ViPER4Android/DDC/Custom_jmxc23.vdc
and Last but not least
maybe the sdcard isn't mounted correctly...
try
Code:
mount -a
in adb shell and leaye the shell open, then open a new one and try pulling the stuff from it.
I'm also new to XDA so until now i only had to solve my own problems but maybe it helps just give it a try
I'm also not shure if your pattern lock has encrypting your data (/sdcard).
but there is also a solution for removing lockscreen patterns via adb shell.
Good Luck,
Alex