Hey guys, my "locked" phone just took a tumble onto some black asphalt and now the screen is busted/no display.
Any suggestions/recommendations or ideas for retrieving the internal SD card datafiles before I claim insurance on it for a replacement? I can't unlock the phone from the busted screen because a) I can't see the display and b) the touch inteface no longer seems to react to input.
Thanks in advance.
Just a note: the break doesn't appear to be outward, but inward...other glass is OK but the actual backlight is shot.
Here's the million dollar question - was USB debugging on?
If so ADB shell will be your friend to transfer the files, especially if you're rooted.
Only other option is the program that mirrors your screen, don't recall what the program name is.
(Just remember I had to have it for the Zio at one point..)
Believe this will work even if locked...
Unfortunately USB debugging was disabled. Sounds like I might be screwed! :/
Any ideas on the deductible (if any) for a cracked screen? Note that the outward screen looks fine, just the digi display that is shot.
I made a thread about something similar months ago. It was called Kies is a life saver...
My friend shattered his screen on his SGS2 and wanted me to backup then restore his data to the replacement.
Plug it into Kies on a Windows PC, and select backup, then once you get a replacement select restore.
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Mattix724 said:
I made a thread about something similar months ago. It was called Kies is a life saver...
My friend shattered his screen on his SGS2 and wanted me to backup then restore his data to the replacement.
Plug it into Kies on a Windows PC, and select backup, then once you get a replacement select restore.
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Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately it doesn't look like Kies will let me access the Backup features until the device is unlocked. And of course, I don't regularly backup this device.
Any suggestions as a plan b or workaround your friend was able to take advantage of?
Additionally, any idea what your friend had to shell out for the replacement w/ insurance?
$100.00 for insurance.
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$100.00 for insurance.
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Ergh, don't exactly like the idea of having to swallow 100 bucks. So just for my knowledge, TEP no longer covers screen cracks? I'm curious if I could pass this off as a manufacturer flaw, as the phone itself is otherwise in perfect physical condition, just the digital AMOLED that is broken.
Take it to a corporate store/repair center and tell them the screen quit working. Maybe you will get lucky.
Were you using a case?
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Unfortunately USB debugging was disabled. Sounds like I might be screwed! :/
Any ideas on the deductible (if any) for a cracked screen? Note that the outward screen looks fine, just the digi display that is shot.
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reboot into recovery and then adb pull the data you want.
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Take it to a corporate store/repair center and tell them the screen quit working. Maybe you will get lucky.
Were you using a case?
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Yes, had a CaseMate with kickstand on it at the time of the tumble. It was literally about 4 ft off the ground, slipped from my hand while exiting the car, and landed face-first on some craggy black asphalt. I could tell from the fall that there was going to be damage, but I was expecting the outer glass to break, not the inner.
Worth a shot I suppose, there's a decent place near me...they replaced my OG Evo for free - but I think this was before Sprint's insurance policy changes. Unfortunately for my S2, if you glance at the screen at a good angle you can see clearly that the AMOLED digitizer has crack lines.
Still, seems a shame to spend a potential 100 bucks via an insurance replacement on a phone that barely fetches half of that on Ebay...
TEP might cover you for a replacement screen, but of course you're going to have to pay for it.
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Guys, I fibbed. Looks like I did have USB Debugging setup on the phone. Can anyone remind me on the internal_sd path so I can pull my data?
Thanks in advance!
Nvm...found it. For historical reference from ADB root (e.g. cd /) you can cd sdcard to gain access to the internal SD.
Need one more bit of help on this issue...
Trying to do an adb pull to no avail. Can anyone clarify why I'm receiving the error: device not found when attempting to execute adb pull /sdcard .\sdcard
adb ls gives me all files on the device, but pulling throws a "device not found" error. Is this a sign that USB debugging is, in fact, not enabled?
Can anyone advise me on what I'm doing wrong here? adb ls works fine for viewing the device directory system, but the minute I try to perform an adb pull I'm receiving a "device not found" error. Does this mean USB debugging is not enabled on my device, or did I miss a step in launching my device shell?
Reuploading missing screenshot.
Are you rooted?
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Are you rooted?
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No, device was never rooted.
I think one of the stock sw upgrades prevents you from retrieving your files with a computer, unless you are rooted. Take it to the sprint store and they may be able to retrieve your data
If it was never rooted I'm not sure what you can do to pull your data using ADB... Kies was the only thing I was able to use when I helped my friend retrieve his data.
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Just found the thread and gave it a bump.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1742419
Samsung Kies is a life saver!
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Hit up the op on this thread. He should have a screen cheaper than what you will pay for a replacement phone. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1868913
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ok, so i had an accident at work today and i was walking around someones attic and i fell through the ceiling. of course the first thing i noticed was my precious htc evo on the cement with a cracked lcd inside. now i have insurance but it is also rooted and has rooted program icons, superuser icon, s-off, all of which the tech can see once he puts the new screen on. is there a way to wipe it without the use of the lcd that would restore it back to factory and uroot it at the same time?
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ok, so i had an accident at work today and i was walking around someones attic and i fell through the ceiling. of course the first thing i noticed was my precious htc evo on the cement with a cracked lcd inside. now i have insurance but it is also rooted and has rooted program icons, superuser icon, s-off, all of which the tech can see once he puts the new screen on. is there a way to wipe it without the use of the lcd that would restore it back to factory and uroot it at the same time?
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Well are you sure it still turns on?
If its cracked... how are they going to tell if it's rooted? Especially if the screen doesn't turn on...
can't you damage it more so it won't boot?
Man one of the guys I used to work with fell through a customers ceiling right in front of me a few years ago. It was one of the funniest things I have ever witnessed.
Once he replaces the screen it won't really matter if your rooted or not. I could see the issue before the phone was fixed. But after its kind of a moot point.
It doesn't matter if it is rooted. Asurion sends you a good phone, and you send them back the broken one...done.
You can use adb through the recovery to flash unrevoked forever s-on and then fastboot for the ruu. An 'adb reboot recovery' will get you to the recovery and from there 'adb shell reboot bootloader' will get you to fastboot. No need to even touch the phone.
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Man one of the guys I used to work with fell through a customers ceiling right in front of me a few years ago. It was one of the funniest things I have ever witnessed.
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Not so funny for the guy or the company that pays to get it fixed
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ok, so i had an accident at work today and i was walking around someones attic and i fell through the ceiling. of course the first thing i noticed was my precious htc evo on the cement with a cracked lcd inside. now i have insurance but it is also rooted and has rooted program icons, superuser icon, s-off, all of which the tech can see once he puts the new screen on. is there a way to wipe it without the use of the lcd that would restore it back to factory and uroot it at the same time?
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Do you have TEP, ESRP, OR ERP for insurance? Bottom line is with tep for 7 or ESRP for 4 dollars a month you can have the screen replaced at a service center at no additional cost. Most techs prolly won't care that you are rooted. Even if they tell you that you have to go through asurion then it still don't mater if you ate rooted. Fixing cracked evo displays is done all the time age most service centers. As long as none off the shields are dented inside the phone you should be ok.
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Not so funny for the guy or the company that pays to get it fixed
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Well its a small price to pay for such a great memory
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Do you have TEP, ESRP, OR ERP for insurance? Bottom line is with tep for 7 or ESRP for 4 dollars a month you can have the screen replaced at a service center at no additional cost. Most techs prolly won't care that you are rooted. Even if they tell you that you have to go through asurion then it still don't mater if you ate rooted. Fixing cracked evo displays is done all the time age most service centers. As long as none off the shields are dented inside the phone you should be ok.
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yes, i have TEP and pay 7$ a month for it. i know i can get it fixed i am just wandering if after the repair they can say anything about it being rooted and charge me some price because i voided some agreement with the root
sand1303 said:
yes, i have TEP and pay 7$ a month for it. i know i can get it fixed i am just wandering if after the repair they can say anything about it being rooted and charge me some price because i voided some agreement with the root
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What I would do is call first, and without giving your name ask if they will give you crap if you brought your rooted phone in to be fixed. Chances are they won't give a crap considering that rooting does not shatter a glass screen. Just be cool when you go in and don't try to blame the tech for stealing your Sense and you will be fine.
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yes, i have TEP and pay 7$ a month for it. i know i can get it fixed i am just wandering if after the repair they can say anything about it being rooted and charge me some price because i voided some agreement with the root
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To the best of my knowledge the only thing they can do is flag the device dbr "damage beyond repair" which questionable. Best thing to do is find a 3rd party service center and call them ahead to see if they have the screen before you go in. There are 2 different manufactures of the screens, ask if they have both. 3rd party service and repair centers are less likely to care about rooting as they get paid by Sprint to fix phones.
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Well, I never did anything to it last night. Today I went and took it in to a repair center. Told them what happened and they took it and told Mr to come back in an hour. It was waiting on me when I got back. Brand new display free of charge.
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Well, I never did anything to it last night. Today I went and took it in to a repair center. Told them what happened and they took it and told Mr to come back in an hour. It was waiting on me when I got back. Brand new display free of charge.
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See, quite painless. Good to hear. I wish Sprint wasn't the only major carrier to have local repair centers.
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What I would do is call first, and without giving your name ask if they will give you crap if you brought your rooted phone in to be fixed. Chances are they won't give a crap considering that rooting does not shatter a glass screen. Just be cool when you go in and don't try to blame the tech for stealing your Sense and you will be fine.
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Damn you! I was coming to this thread specifically for that reference.
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You can use adb through the recovery to flash unrevoked forever s-on and then fastboot for the ruu. An 'adb reboot recovery' will get you to the recovery and from there 'adb shell reboot bootloader' will get you to fastboot. No need to even touch the phone.
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Is there detailed instructions on this method or maybe even a video? I have downloaded everything I need, sdk, drivers, unrevoked s-on zip, and the rru. Just need a little explanation on how to do this with adb. anyone willing to help me out, please pm me. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Way to control unrooted Evo with no touchscreen?
I have a similar problem to sand1303. First, let me describe the situation.
I have an unrooted Evo 4G. The digitizer is damaged and the ribbon is torn to the LCD. Therefore, I cannot change anything on the phone. And it cannot be read as a storage device when connected to my laptop via USB (when I last had it plugged in, I guess it was set for "charge only"). I bought a new phone and would like to retrieve my contacts (most of which were thankfully recovered through the Google sync, but not ALL). I just installed the adt screencast bundle along with the java development tool. The program runs fine, but I cannot access the phone's data. I get a permission denied message when I try to get into the opening up the interface, as shown below.
D:\Downloads\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64\sdk\platform-tools>adb shell
$ su
su: permission denied
$chmod 777/data/dalvik-cache
Usage: chmod <MODE> <FILE>
$cd /data/dalvik-cache
cd /data/dalvik-cache
$ chmod etc etc...
Is there a way to get the last of files off my phone? I would like to browse the directories on my phone...
Thank you.
Dan
A couple of days ago I threw my phone is rage.... I need to turn it in for a replacement however I cannot use my touchscreen at all. Nothing displays and none of the touches have any effect. Only the hard buttons work.
Im pretty sure I can get it into download mode and reset it to stock rom, but I was wondering if there was anyway I can access the phones internal HD without connecting USB data from the pull down menu to save my pictures and other data.
Also, the phone is going to cost me $130 to replace, since I don't have insurance. Does anyone have any suggestions that might be cheaper?
Sorry for what sounds like a dumb post and any help is greatly appreciated!!
Don't think you can access besides going into recovery and get your pics and data like that.
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You can refer to this thread
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Lo N Slo said:
A couple of days ago I threw my phone is rage.... I need to turn it in for a replacement however I cannot use my touchscreen at all. Nothing displays and none of the touches have any effect. Only the hard buttons work.
Im pretty sure I can get it into download mode and reset it to stock rom, but I was wondering if there was anyway I can access the phones internal HD without connecting USB data from the pull down menu to save my pictures and other data.
Also, the phone is going to cost me $130 to replace, since I don't have insurance. Does anyone have any suggestions that might be cheaper?
Sorry for what sounds like a dumb post and any help is greatly appreciated!!
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It costs $130 (deductible) to file a claim if you have insurance.
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Lo N Slo said:
A couple of days ago I threw my phone is rage.... I need to turn it in for a replacement however I cannot use my touchscreen at all. Nothing displays and none of the touches have any effect. Only the hard buttons work.
Im pretty sure I can get it into download mode and reset it to stock rom, but I was wondering if there was anyway I can access the phones internal HD without connecting USB data from the pull down menu to save my pictures and other data.
Also, the phone is going to cost me $130 to replace, since I don't have insurance. Does anyone have any suggestions that might be cheaper?
Sorry for what sounds like a dumb post and any help is greatly appreciated!!
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Why did you throw it?
Rage for buying a useless device.
--sarcasm
A customer recently dropped off an Incredible for repair with a dead LCD stating someone else had been in the device to repair it. After popping off the back housing, I quickly noticed the reason for her LCD problems. The actual connector for the LCD was destroyed, ripped off of the board, and sloppily taped down. This meant the LCD was not coming back (the leads for the connector are gone on one side so I'm unable to resolder it).
Long story short: She needs her pictures, etc. and cannot get USB debugging active because of both having no display and a possible locked out phone from playing with the pattern lock too much while she can't see her pattern. I was able to get Windows to recognize it as an ADB device in recovery, however it doesn't show with the normal "adb devices" command so pulling using ADB isn't an option this way.
Is there any way possible I can pull her images from her phone without USB debugging or a display? There is a confirmed pattern lock on her phone.
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A customer recently dropped off an Incredible for repair with a dead LCD stating someone else had been in the device to repair it. After popping off the back housing, I quickly noticed the reason for her LCD problems. The actual connector for the LCD was destroyed, ripped off of the board, and sloppily taped down. This meant the LCD was not coming back (the leads for the connector are gone on one side so I'm unable to resolder it).
Long story short: She needs her pictures, etc. and cannot get USB debugging active because of both having no display and a possible locked out phone from playing with the pattern lock too much while she can't see her pattern. I was able to get Windows to recognize it as an ADB device in recovery, however it doesn't show with the normal "adb devices" command so pulling using ADB isn't an option this way.
Is there any way possible I can pull her images from her phone without USB debugging or a display? There is a confirmed pattern lock on her phone.
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Try through her Google account... wait they should be on the sdcard
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Try through her Google account... wait they should be on the sdcard
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She has them on her internal memory. Normally we'd be able to access that, but the phone is locked down. She gave me her pattern, but it doesn't work. I'm assuming she's been locked out before she dropped it off from playing with the screen too much.
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She has them on her internal memory. Normally we'd be able to access that, but the phone is locked down. She gave me her pattern, but it doesn't work. I'm assuming she's been locked out before she dropped it off.
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Get her to sign into her Google account on the computer and see if you can find device settings.. like some where in Google play
The guy that fixed it last time sucked I could have done better.... I have never done it but I've read and watched instructions incase I need to
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This is a long shot but buy a cracked dinc on eBay and find the storage chip... unsoldir it and move her chip to the cracked 1.. I've seen broken screen it soft bricked 1s ie boot loop or broken ROM screen .. or only hboot able and fixable through ruu on eBay for as cheap as $10
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Get her to sign into her Google account on the computer and see if you can find device settings.. like some where in Google play
The guy that fixed it last time sucked I could have done better.... I have never done it but I've read and watched instructions incase I need to
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This is a long shot but buy a cracked dinc on eBay and find the storage chip... unsoldir it and move her chip to the cracked 1.. I've seen broken screen it soft bricked 1s ie boot loop or broken ROM screen .. or only hboot able and fixable through ruu on eBay for as cheap as $10
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An ruu should not wipe internal storage.. if you want run that it puts it to stock reset... there might b a way to take the screen and play it on the pc
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An RUU shouldn't wipe the phone, but might. If it was mine, not a customer's, I wouldn't mind. Replacing the board isn't an issue (we have stacks and stacks of DINCs here), but moving that chip has a good risk of damaging the board even further so that's a last-resort thing.
So I take accessing it through the recovery ADB isn't possible? Like this?
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An RUU shouldn't wipe the phone, but might. If it was mine, not a customer's, I wouldn't mind. Replacing the board isn't an issue (we have stacks and stacks of DINCs here), but moving that chip has a good risk of damaging the board even further so that's a last-resort thing.
So I take accessing it through the recovery ADB isn't possible? Like this?
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There is the slightest bit... figure out the folder name and try a adb pull
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An RUU shouldn't wipe the phone, but might. If it was mine, not a customer's, I wouldn't mind. Replacing the board isn't an issue (we have stacks and stacks of DINCs here), but moving that chip has a good risk of damaging the board even further so that's a last-resort thing.
So I take accessing it through the recovery ADB isn't possible? Like this?
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I have CM10 JB on my Dinc
If the adb pull doesn't work.. look up how to use it I use push a lot never used pull... you have to move the chip
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There is the slightest bit... figure out the folder name and try a adb pull
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See, I can get it to install the drivers for an "ADB" device, however I'm unable to use any ADB commands. Looks like she might be out of luck.
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See, I can get it to install the drivers for an "ADB" device, however I'm unable to use any ADB commands. Looks like she might be out of luck.
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Yeah unless you pull the chip which is a pain in the a**
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Yeah unless you pull the chip which is a pain in the a**
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Plus you have to remove everything around the motherboard shields, making it almost impossible. I'll try other things. Then give it back to her.
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Yeah.. you could sell her a new inc
Wait can you cut the ribbon and soldier the uncovered wires from that to the mboard
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Yeah.. you could sell her a new inc
Wait can you cut the ribbon and soldier the uncovered wires from that to the mboard
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I would, if it had leads.
Unfortunately, the flex is okay but the entire gate/connector is gone. With about 5 of the leads to solder it down. I'd sell her a new one if we had a refurbished one on hand.
One thing you can try to do is get into recovery mode (if a recovery is installed). With most newer recoveries ADB is usable while in recovery.
I can't run commands in recovery. VOL- + Power, wait... VOL-... power... Recovery. When it installs the DINC as a new device in recovery, it recognizes it as an ADB device but I'm unable to run any commands and "adb devices" doesn't show it.
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I can't run commands in recovery. VOL- + Power, wait... VOL-... power... Recovery. When it installs the DINC as a new device in recovery, it recognizes it as an ADB device but I'm unable to run any commands and "adb devices" doesn't show it.
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Ohhhh... wait transfer a screen
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Ohhhh... wait transfer a screen
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Put a new one on?
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Put a new one on?
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Yep frankinINC
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Yep frankinINC
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You can't replace the LCD without the connection. It's been ripped off of the board. You can't put the connector back on the board without a lead to solder it to. If you look at the picture, whoever "fixed" it before did an absolutely horrible job and ripped the entire connector off of her motherboard, leads and all.
Replacing it was the first option.
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You can't replace the LCD without the connection. It's been ripped off of the board. You can't put the connector back on the board without a lead to solder it to. If you look at the picture, whoever "fixed" it before did an absolutely horrible job and ripped the entire connector off of her motherboard, leads and all.
Replacing it was the first option.
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I didn't realize that was the board
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I'm having a similar problem with an old incredible of mine. Had a fully functional handy dandy no problems at all Droid Incredible but the glass screen was cracked fairly badly. After a month or two I bought a replacement LCD screen, exactly what I needed. Except during the process a wire connector to the LCD screen wasn't put on properly and broke.
So now I have a Droid Incredible not without a cracked screen but just a black RGB gradient mish-map of a thing. But I can tell the phone functions just fine. I can start it up, hear everything loud (bootloader, etc), then on the homescreen I can hear SMS messages loading.. you know the whole spiel. And the vibration at the bottom works. And I am able to access things touching the screen - it's just the screen itself IS FUBAR'd, but the touch functionality still works.
I was thinking of virtualization methods for doing this.. in fact logged onto here for the purpose of doing so but saw this thread and saw its relevance so decided to post this reply instead. Could I use something like AirDroid or another android to desktop client to access or install it, and have it functional on my desktop PC?
The problems: installing the program, settings things up..
On the flip-side of my problem is I don't know a thing about ADB. I installed it, got it to work, tested a few commands.. so I know the basis premi s if need-be, but didn't like it or it didn't seem to fit my needs (probably to my discredit laziness and ease of access through modifications through GUI methods).
Any help/input greatly appreciated.
At first I thought these problems were nearly similar but reading it now I don't want to side-track this post if the problem isn't along the same lines in the end perhaps, but still related, sorry to OP if this is the case, perhaps someone knows a solution or has information that could both assist us.
Thanks all.
Dropped my At&t S3 at work today and the screen went black... can sometimes see a few lock screen images, but it is unresponsive to touch. I'm rooted, running CM10 and believe I have usb debugging allowed on the the phone. Is there anyway for me to locate and view the SMS's that have been sent to me through my computer? Sorry if this has been covered before, I just spent the last hour searching, but was unable to find anything. Also, does what I described on my screen sound like it will need just a glass replacement, or digitizer, and LCD? Thanks for all your help.
You can get the sms database from /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases
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You can get the sms database from /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases
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Thanks for your help, but I was unable to find the files this way. When I access my phone through windows explorer, I open internal storage, then data and the only file I can see is a titanium backup file. Am I going about searching my phone the wrong way?
On a brighter note, I did just find a program called myphoneexplorer which gave me quick access to everything I needed, so problem solved. Now I just need to figure out how I'm going to fix my phone.
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Dropped my At&t S3 at work today and the screen went black... can sometimes see a few lock screen images, but it is unresponsive to touch. I'm rooted, running CM10 and believe I have usb debugging allowed on the the phone. Is there anyway for me to locate and view the SMS's that have been sent to me through my computer? Sorry if this has been covered before, I just spent the last hour searching, but was unable to find anything. Also, does what I described on my screen sound like it will need just a glass replacement, or digitizer, and LCD? Thanks for all your help.
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This is definitely more than just the lens (glass), everything would still work if the lens were the only problem. Although unlikely since you say sometimes you see the lock it screen it could be just a loose cable(s). The reason i say this is if it were just a bad connection you would probably get flickers more often that just the lock screen. More likely it sounds like the LED panel is blown. I feel your pain, i actually just dropped mine today and broke my lens...argh. Depending on your skill level with electronics you could attempt to disassemble the phone and check the connections. If it comes back to life and you just need to replace the lens, they range from 10 to 30 bucks. You can pick up a lens/led assembly for around 200 bucks online, or Samsung does it for 175.
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Thanks for your help, but I was unable to find the files this way. When I access my phone through windows explorer, I open internal storage, then data and the only file I can see is a titanium backup file. Am I going about searching my phone the wrong way?
On a brighter note, I did just find a program called myphoneexplorer which gave me quick access to everything I needed, so problem solved. Now I just need to figure out how I'm going to fix my phone.
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That's because the data folder you accessed is actually /sdcard/data. You will have to use adb pull to get it off.
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This is definitely more than just the lens (glass), everything would still work if the lens were the only problem. Although unlikely since you say sometimes you see the lock it screen it could be just a loose cable(s). The reason i say this is if it were just a bad connection you would probably get flickers more often that just the lock screen. More likely it sounds like the LED panel is blown. I feel your pain, i actually just dropped mine today and broke my lens...argh. Depending on your skill level with electronics you could attempt to disassemble the phone and check the connections. If it comes back to life and you just need to replace the lens, they range from 10 to 30 bucks. You can pick up a lens/led assembly for around 200 bucks online, or Samsung does it for 175.
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Just took it apart and tried re-securing most of the connections, but still no luck. I think I'm going to ship it off to Samsung, as that seems like the best price. Fortunately I have an old 3gs iphone that I left unlocked just in case to get me by in the mean time, unfortunately I'm back to using ios. As much as I hate apple, I have to say I dropped my 3gs hundreds if not thousands of times over the 3 years I used it, and only broke the glass once which cost less than $10 to repair. I've had this S3 for 3 weeks dropped it once and now I'm looking at close to $200 to repair it... kind of lame. That being said, now that I've gone android I could never go back.
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That's because the data folder you accessed is actually /sdcard/data. You will have to use adb pull to get it off.
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Aha, I see. Still learning... thanks!
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mynameisnoah said:
Just took it apart and tried re-securing most of the connections, but still no luck. I think I'm going to ship it off to Samsung, as that seems like the best price. Fortunately I have an old 3gs iphone that I left unlocked just in case to get me by in the mean time, unfortunately I'm back to using ios. As much as I hate apple, I have to say I dropped my 3gs hundreds if not thousands of times over the 3 years I used it, and only broke the glass once which cost less than $10 to repair. I've had this S3 for 3 weeks dropped it once and now I'm looking at close to $200 to repair it... kind of lame. That being said, now that I've gone android I could never go back.
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It just really depends on where and how it lands, i've dropped all of my smartphones, some that i expected they were destroyed, you know on asphalt with pieces flying off in different directions, and managed to get a way with just a few scratches. This time my GS3 dropped no more than 36 inches onto a carpeted floor but manged to catch a sharp corner just on the edge of the screen and that was all she wrote. One of the biggest disadvantages to larger screens on our devices is more chance of the screen being damaged in a fall.
SO... My wife recently learned that it's not a great idea to charge your phone with a frayed USB cable. Had I known she was doing this, I would have put a stop to it. Sadly, the OG doesn't work. I can get a flash from the LED and a flash from capactive keys, but no download mode, battery pull does nothing and can't get the computer to recognize it. I'm going to make a few more efforts to revive, but I think it's done. PM me if you are interested and once I'm certain that it's completely gone I will donate.
The silver lining here is that my OG still works and I love it as much as ever.
Hey I've heard a legitimate battery pull fixes this if you're willing to do a tiny bit of manual labor
stevek216 said:
Hey I've heard a legitimate battery pull fixes this if you're willing to do a tiny bit of manual labor
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hmmm.... Have not seen the legitimate battery pull done. Do you know where I can find instructions for this?
Xiutehcuhtli said:
hmmm.... Have not seen the legitimate battery pull done. Do you know where I can find instructions for this?
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I think it's this one. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2108154
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I think it's this one. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2108154
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No, that's the write up that I based my video on. I assumed stevek216 was referring to actually removing the battery from the phone.
Thank you though!
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No, that's the write up that I based my video on. I assumed stevek216 was referring to actually removing the battery from the phone.
Thank you though!
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Oops. Guess I should have read it before posting. Anyway... Nice video.
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I'm not sure where to find instructions. It takes a weird screwdriver but other than that I think it's just a matter of taking out the bottom screws, removing the back, and carefully disconnecting and reconnecting the battery
You try taking it to sprint? Has it been a year since you got it?
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PartimusPrime said:
You try taking it to sprint? Has it been a year since you got it?
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No and No. We didn't buy the phones from Sprint so we have not spoken with them about it. Certainly doesn't help that there isn't a corporate store or repair facility anywhere near me.
If you don't want to do anything with it, send it to me. Would love spare parts lol.
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SO... My wife recently learned that it's not a great idea to charge your phone with a frayed USB cable. Had I known she was doing this, I would have put a stop to it. Sadly, the OG doesn't work. I can get a flash from the LED and a flash from capactive keys, but no download mode, battery pull does nothing and can't get the computer to recognize it. I'm going to make a few more efforts to revive, but I think it's done. PM me if you are interested and once I'm certain that it's completely gone I will donate.
The silver lining here is that my OG still works and I love it as much as ever.
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I recently sold my LG and moved to the Moto X; however, if you donate it to me. Hopefully I can try to revive it and see if I can start some builds with it.
Can you send me a back cover? Mine is cracked and I want to replace it.. Thanks!!
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AdriVelazquez said:
I recently sold my LG and moved to the Moto X; however, if you donate it to me. Hopefully I can try to revive it and see if I can start some builds with it.
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I will keep you updated, have a few last things I am going to try before officially giving up.
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Can you send me a back cover? Mine is cracked and I want to replace it.. Thanks!!
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Maybe something could be done to coordinate swapping the backs since it sounds like you just cracked the glass and he would only be using it as a dev phone. Like I mentioned in the previous post, I have a few last ditch efforts to try and then will be officially giving it up if they don't work.
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Maybe something could be done to coordinate swapping the backs since it sounds like you just cracked the glass and he would only be using it as a dev phone. Like I mentioned in the previous post, I have a few last ditch efforts to try and then will be officially giving it up if they don't work.
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I don't mind you sending it first to him to remove the black plating and then mailing me the device with the cracked back plating.
Also, if I happen to revive and you still want it, I'll send it back to you.
sprint doesnt usually care if its warranty or not, ive gone in and had them fix just about anything and they charge me the standard 35 dollar fee if you dont have insurance, the only thing they dont cover is screen/water damage. screens are 100 i believe to swap.
damn i need the back plate too
I'd be willing to send you some money for your front assembly! I got screwed by a Chinese seller when I bought a replacement for my cracked screen. The new screen registered touches constantly when I'll not touching the screen, scratches and discoloration on the ACTUAL LCD (ie not the glass) and my volume buttons got borked during the swap $95 well spent... So I'd could definitely use it since its my daily driver right now. I'd love you man!
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Take it by a Sprint Store or even call over the phone to Customer Care. If you have Insurance they will replace it for free, if you don't they will charge you $75 to replace it!
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Take it by a Sprint Store or even call over the phone to Customer Care. If you have Insurance they will replace it for free, if you don't they will charge you $75 to replace it!
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Will they open it up and see that I have taken the tape off the battery terminal and tell me to take a hike? Also, does it matter that I didn't purchase it from Sprint?