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My T989 is rooted. I use it to log my work hours in "It's About Time". I back that app's data up every day to the box folder, and I sync with box. HOWEVER, the box syncing has aparently been pretending to work and doing nothing since february, so I'm screwed right now as the touchscreen on the phone was shattered today. It has no visuals or touch ability. the gorilla glass survived just fine, but the screen behind it is gone.
What I need to know is how can I access the data in the builtin memory. I would love to use Kies, but Kies, points out that my phone is locked (I use a pattern lock) and says I have to unlock it.
Is there someway to remotely unlock a broken phone? The phone can go be a doorstop at this point, but I HAVE to have those backup files sitting in the box folder. They aren't on the microsd card.
So the display is damaged but the digitizer is fine correct? As for data just pull files with adb....I believe you can do that unless you never had USB debugging on
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CptCrackers said:
My T989 is rooted. I use it to log my work hours in "It's About Time". I back that app's data up every day to the box folder, and I sync with box. HOWEVER, the box syncing has aparently been pretending to work and doing nothing since february, so I'm screwed right now as the touchscreen on the phone was shattered today. It has no visuals or touch ability. the gorilla glass survived just fine, but the screen behind it is gone.
What I need to know is how can I access the data in the builtin memory. I would love to use Kies, but Kies, points out that my phone is locked (I use a pattern lock) and says I have to unlock it.
Is there someway to remotely unlock a broken phone? The phone can go be a doorstop at this point, but I HAVE to have those backup files sitting in the box folder. They aren't on the microsd card.
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You can always boot into recovery and pull from your data partition using ADB. Then you can restore that to another phone after you install your time tracking app.
I have been in usb debugging. It may be in usb debugging mode right now.
When I connect it, it shows the drive, but they show as empty. Which is the same thing that happens on my GS4G when it's in debugging.
If you could tell me how to go about extracting files, that would be great, assuming there is even a way.
Is the digitizer the touch portion of the touch screen? If so, then no, that's not working. The phone boots, it receives texts, makes other sounds like it's working, but the screen is black. The LCD is cracked, and it will not accept touch input. I have haptic feedback on and it's definitely not letting me attempt to do the unlock screen.
slm4996 said:
You can always boot into recovery and pull from your data partition using ADB. Then you can restore that to another phone after you install your time tracking app.
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Could you tell me how I do this? The only time I ever booted into recovery was during the rooting process. Do I need to be able to see the screen to do it, or is there a way to get into it remotely? If so, can you either tell me what to do or point me at a tutorial or something? I wouldn't know where to start.
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Could you tell me how I do this? The only time I ever booted into recovery was during the rooting process. Do I need to be able to see the screen to do it, or is there a way to get into it remotely? If so, can you either tell me what to do or point me at a tutorial or something? I wouldn't know where to start.
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To get into recovery, pull your battery then put it back in, then hold both vol up and vol down and hit the power button.
Type "help" without quotes in ADB to get a list of commands.
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try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=628138
It got me out of a jam once on my vibrant, when the same thing happened to me and needed some pictures for my work. USB debuggin has to be on though.
To backup the data from a damaged phone using ADB:
1) Enter Recovery mode:
Turn the phone off, remove the battery. Insert battery, hold volume up AND down while turning on. Plug in usb cable.
2)Open up your terminal/console. Enter the following commands (one command per line, press enter after each)
(this backs up the entire data partition)
Code:
mkdir phoneDataBackup
adb shell mount data
adb pull /data phoneDataBackup
You now have a copy of your phones /data folder, this contains the settings and data from your apps. Get a new phone and then install you app on it. Once you do that simply put the correct named folder from the phoneDataBackup back into your new phones /data folder.
Code:
adb push phoneDataBackup/data/com.rds.itsabouttime /data/data/
This should work just fine for you, I assume you already have ADB installed or can install it first.
THANKS ALL!!!
I am currently using the suggested Android commander to dump everything out of the phone. Lucky the usb debugging got left on when I was cleaning out bloatware last week!!!
Once it's done, or if even if it doesn't work, I'll be playing with the adb connection since it's not like I can break the phone worse... good learning opp!
Thanks for all the tips from everyone.
Quick update, and info in case someone later finds this thread in a search. The android commander did get back what I needed most. However, it also did some strange things. It can see a lot of stuff on the phone, but when pulling things from the phone, for some reason, some files and directories do not come over. I imagine this may have to do with permissions on those items.
I'm basically making thsi note here in case someone finds the thread, thinks they have dumped heir whole phone... just make sure you pick through the important directories before you think you've got everything and discard the phone.
Thanks again everyone. Ass officially saved.
Hello everyone.
I also just cracked my screen and have neither touch capability nor screen lighting, so I'm effectively blind in controlling my phone.
I know I have Clockworkmod recovery 5.0.2.7 installed and rooted, but these solutions are not working for me.
I have tried removing the batt, reinserting the batt, holding UP+DOWN+POWER until the device vibrates, then let go of the POWER while holding UP+DOWN for another 10 seconds to be sure.
I then plug in the USB cable and my Windows 7 laptop does the "found USB device chime", so I know the device is on (and has not booted into Android, since the Samsung Galaxy logo jungle has not played.)
I also see that Windows 7 sees new "Removable Drives" that it adds after I plug in the device, but the drives cannot be accessed/are not available to Windows 7.
I'm definitely sure I'm in recovery because when I hit POWER, the Windows 7 "unplugged USB device" chime plays, the device vibrates and I'll hear the Galaxy S logo chime, which means I hit the 1st "reboot device" option on the recovery menu.
But when I open a console and type "adb devices" none are listed.
I have also tried Android Commander, and no devices are there either, so these 2 methods do not work. I'm wondering why adb cannot see recovery on mine if people are saying that it can.
I know that Clockworkmod recovery has a option for mounting the sdcard and data via USB. I also see that different versions of Clockworkmod have different menus.
Can someone help me by letting me know what/how many button presses I need to do to get to the "mount sdcard" and "mount data" options once I'm in recovery as I'm flying blind.
Thank you for any help.
soundwave4 said:
Hello everyone.
I also just cracked my screen and have neither touch capability nor screen lighting, so I'm effectively blind in controlling my phone.
I know I have Clockworkmod recovery 5.0.2.7 installed and rooted, but these solutions are not working for me.
I have tried removing the batt, reinserting the batt, holding UP+DOWN+POWER until the device vibrates, then let go of the POWER while holding UP+DOWN for another 10 seconds to be sure.
I then plug in the USB cable and my Windows 7 laptop does the "found USB device chime", so I know the device is on (and has not booted into Android, since the Samsung Galaxy logo jungle has not played.)
I also see that Windows 7 sees new "Removable Drives" that it adds after I plug in the device, but the drives cannot be accessed/are not available to Windows 7.
I'm definitely sure I'm in recovery because when I hit POWER, the Windows 7 "unplugged USB device" chime plays, the device vibrates and I'll hear the Galaxy S logo chime, which means I hit the 1st "reboot device" option on the recovery menu.
But when I open a console and type "adb devices" none are listed.
I have also tried Android Commander, and no devices are there either, so these 2 methods do not work. I'm wondering why adb cannot see recovery on mine if people are saying that it can.
I know that Clockworkmod recovery has a option for mounting the sdcard and data via USB. I also see that different versions of Clockworkmod have different menus.
Can someone help me by letting me know what/how many button presses I need to do to get to the "mount sdcard" and "mount data" options once I'm in recovery as I'm flying blind.
Thank you for any help.
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If you have adb setup just do adb pulls. You can get anything that way. Slow, but a plan b if nothing else. I would count for you but I run twrp and I don't have time or battery to flash it over to cwm right now.
Edit: for whatever reason tapatalk didn't load anything past the OP...disregard.
Tapatalked from my Galaxy S II.
Hello smart people. Hoping someone there has an idea for me...
This morning I dropped my GN and killed the screen. The display kinda-sorta works, but the touch sensor is non-op. OK, no problem, I've got in contact with Samsung and they'll fix it for the same price I can buy a replacement lcd/digitizer assembly anywhere I've found. Only problem: They'll be wiping the phone.
90% of what I need on the phone is synced to the cloud in one way or another, so I'm not too worried, but I WOULD very much like to recover some recent video and pictures that haven't been archived yet (daughter's dance recital). Phone is still working, except that it's pin-locked now (company policy) and I can't see the file tree to pull the stuff out.
Then I thought I'd play with the GN Toolkit. Only problem there is I guess I need USB debugging turned on, or something else I need enabled is disabled and I can't twiddle the menus to enable it.
Let's start with the obvious easy question: Any way to sync to the file system without unlocking via the touchscreen?
Failing that, is there any way to unlock/enable whatever I need to use the toolkit to pull the images out of the media directory?
I have a little time before I need to send the phone to Samsung for repair, so I'm willing to mess with this a bit and learn whatever I need to learn, but I'm not sure if what I need to do is even possible.
Thanks.
Can't just plug the phone in to a computer and it appear as a media device? Should be able to just pull the internal data.
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ÜBER™ said:
Can't just plug the phone in to a computer and it appear as a media device? Should be able to just pull the internal data.
Sent from my sprint galaxy nexus
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If the phone is pin-locked, the file system shows as empty when you connect as a media device (until you unlock it).
Herbie555 said:
If the phone is pin-locked, the file system shows as empty when you connect as a media device (until you unlock it).
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Sorry wasnt aware of that. If you cant get it unlocked.. and USB debugging isnt enabled... then your outta luck.
You could get an MHL adapter and plug in a mouse, then use that to enter your pin at the lock screen. You could also go into recovery and factory reset, as that shouldn't touch your /sdcard contents.
Is there another way for enable debugging on Nexus?
I guess we can't enable debugging via adb, right?
If you just find a way around to do that, maybe you can use the line "adb pull"
(If you search for "adb commands" on Google you will find a list commands to use on developer.android.com)
Stadsport said:
You could get an MHL adapter and plug in a mouse, then use that to enter your pin at the lock screen. You could also go into recovery and factory reset, as that shouldn't touch your /sdcard contents.
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If he's on stock then yeah that will delete his internal. If he's on a custom recovery no.
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There's a plug in for the SDK called screencast which let's you use your computer screen a duplicate screen to your Android device. You can select things with your mouse. We used to use it in the early gingerbread days of my old vibrant when recovery was hidden behind the double rainbow
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mnoguti said:
I guess we can't enable debugging via adb, right?
If you just find a way around to do that, maybe you can use the line "adb pull"
(If you search for "adb commands" on Google you will find a list commands to use on developer.android.com)
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Debugging has to be enabled for ADB to be able to interact with the phone.
Glad I ran across this thread. I have a colleague in the same situation.
Stadsport said:
You could also go into recovery and factory reset, as that shouldn't touch your /sdcard contents.
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Ahh, this might be a path to victory. Didn't realize I'd be able to do a factory reset and have stuff stay intact. Might be my best approach...
ÜBER™ said:
If he's on stock then yeah that will delete his internal. If he's on a custom recovery no.
Sent from my sprint galaxy nexus
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Oops, got excited. Yeah, stock ROM. So a factory reset will wipe everything?
Herbie555 said:
Oops, got excited. Yeah, stock ROM. So a factory reset will wipe everything?
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Yes. And the only way to get anything to work is to have USB debugging enabled. Screen cast only works with adb enabled.
Looks like I might be boned on this one. Thanks much for everyone who had suggestions. Sounds like leaving USB debugging enabled might be a best practice from now on, eh? (Or at least making sure EVERYTHING syncs to the cloud automatically...)
Looking at the google policy manager, I can remotely: Lock the device (duh), Reset the Pin, make it ring, or "Wipe", which I'm guessing is a factory reset. Might try that as a last resort, but I'll remain hopefull.
I'm sure you've tried this - but if you''re on stock you may be able to boot into recovery using voldown + power (or is it volup+voldown + power? Not sure, can't remember). THEN plug it into your machine and see if it shows up in the toolbox as a connected device...
adb should be enabled in recovery. reboot to recovery [power + vol up and down] mount sdcard and then adb pull whatever files.
ipfreelytech said:
adb should be enabled in recovery. reboot to recovery [power + vol up and down] mount sdcard and then adb pull whatever files.
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Feel like I'm getting closer. I can see enough screen to scroll through to "Recovery Mode" and hit enter. It seems to reboot at that point, but then I can't see enough of the screen to navigate any additional menus. Should I be able to connect at that point?
Herbie555 said:
Feel like I'm getting closer. I can see enough screen to scroll through to "Recovery Mode" and hit enter. It seems to reboot at that point, but then I can't see enough of the screen to navigate any additional menus. Should I be able to connect at that point?
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Plug it in via USB and see if the Toolkit picks it up...
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Plug it in via USB and see if the Toolkit picks it up...
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I've apparently managed to get it mounted in the Bootloader interface and in fastboot mode, but can't figure out how to get it into adb mode, which is apparently what I need to do the pull.
The LCD has gotten worse, I have almost no visibility now. If I knew now many down or up strokes to make at each menu stage, I could probably do it blind...
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I've apparently managed to get it mounted in the Bootloader interface and in fastboot mode, but can't figure out how to get it into adb mode, which is apparently what I need to do the pull.
The LCD has gotten worse, I have almost no visibility now. If I knew now many down or up strokes to make at each menu stage, I could probably do it blind...
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Can't do adb in Fastboot mode. While in flastboot mode. Hit the volume up twice and hit the power button. This will boot into recovery. Then try using the
Code:
adb devices
command. If you get a gibberish code next do device ID. Then your good. Go ahead and
Code:
adb pull /sdcard/
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After performing the USB short trick, my touch screen doesn't respond to touch. I can get it into recovery, but can't choose any of the options. I can also get it to the unlock screen of the kindle, but the screen doesn't respond to my swipe. I know the screen isn't frozen because the time still updates in recovery and on the unlock page.
I checked all the cabling to make sure I didn't accidentally unplug something, and everything seems to be exactly as it was when I opened it. Please help, I was so close to unbricking my Kindle... :crying:
dmp2007 said:
After performing the USB short trick, my touch screen doesn't respond to touch. I can get it into recovery, but can't choose any of the options. I can also get it to the unlock screen of the kindle, but the screen doesn't respond to my swipe. I know the screen isn't frozen because the time still updates in recovery and on the unlock page.
I checked all the cabling to make sure I didn't accidentally unplug something, and everything seems to be exactly as it was when I opened it. Please help, I was so close to unbricking my Kindle... :crying:
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this is what I would do go here http://loadbalancing.modaco.com/down...d088324a46.zip download this mount your sd card in twrp transfer this rom file to your sd card then unmount go to wipe wipe factory reset wipe cache wipe dalvik go to install install rom when finished reboot and your set
thanks for the advice pooch. the link you posted doesnt seem to be working (i think it interpreted the ... as part of the url). also, is there a way to do a factory reset and wipe dalvik cache from adb or the KFU? even when i am in recovery, the touch screen wont work.
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thanks for the advice pooch. the link you posted doesnt seem to be working (i think it interpreted the ... as part of the url). also, is there a way to do a factory reset and wipe dalvik cache from adb or the KFU? even when i am in recovery, the touch screen wont work.
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Here is the link that Thepooch provided.
I am also having this problem! would prefer not buying a new kindle fire just cause of the screen not working due to the usb short trick
Make sure your digitizer didn't get unplugged and that the connector is seated properly.
brand new digitizer. looks to be seated correctly. even tried moving it around to see any results. But still the same. Might need a full restore. But can since the screen doesnt work. Might be able to find a soultion through ABD platform tools
I've just FR my phone and am selling it. My screen is broken so I can't get past the activation page. So I'm unable to confirm.
I ask this because for some of reason, my Nexus 4(rooted ) did not erase the photos. I wiped my nexus thru the settings menu. Is this a root feature? Not deleting photos?
My g2 was wiped from hardware buttons. I tried to connect to my computer but it will only download charge only driver and I manually downloaded drivers but it will not show up on my computer under lg g2.
This is a rooted phone and currently on startup screen.
If the digitizer is damaged as it sounds since you can't get past activation. You won't be able to change the phone to mtp as it is initially on charge only.
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If you're just trying to get your photos gone, and it's rooted. Perhaps you have a custom recovery, and you can use the buttons on the back to put it into usb mode and proceed to delete your files from your pc? Maybe I just misinterpreted.
I actually always connect my phone with TeamViewer, in case my digitizer ever breaks.
hey everyone! new to the forum. needed help bad.
i have been running CM 10.2.0 for awhile now, pretty much since it was released without any issues. yesterday for whatever reason while surfing the net my phone restarted. now it keeps restarting every 15-20 secs. my main concern at this point is saving my photos before i reset my phone and start from scratch. any ideas as to how to back up photos?
some notes on my rebooting condition.:
phone keeps rebooting even when booted up in safe mode.
-in safe mode i do have more time before it reboots itself
phone does not reboot itself when in bootloader mode or recovery mode
i tried to back up to sdcard while in recovery mode but it fails when it tries to back up data. i also tried using nexus root toolkit but to no avail.
any help would be much appreciated. feels weird to not have a phone.lol. thanks in advance
lilzed_747 said:
hey everyone! new to the forum. needed help bad.
i have been running CM 10.2.0 for awhile now, pretty much since it was released without any issues. yesterday for whatever reason while surfing the net my phone restarted. now it keeps restarting every 15-20 secs. my main concern at this point is saving my photos before i reset my phone and start from scratch. any ideas as to how to back up photos?
some notes on my rebooting condition.:
phone keeps rebooting even when booted up in safe mode.
-in safe mode i do have more time before it reboots itself
phone does not reboot itself when in bootloader mode or recovery mode
i tried to back up to sdcard while in recovery mode but it fails when it tries to back up data. i also tried using nexus root toolkit but to no avail.
any help would be much appreciated. feels weird to not have a phone.lol. thanks in advance
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Hate when a rom just goes bad for some reason.. Could you supply the error messages you get when your backup fails? I'm guessing it might have to do with file names having weird symbols. Also you might want to backup different folders of your sdcard at a time to avoid failure; i.e., "adb pull /sdcard/Download <some_directory_on_computer>".
7175 said:
Hate when a rom just goes bad for some reason.. Could you supply the error messages you get when your backup fails? I'm guessing it might have to do with file names having weird symbols. Also you might want to backup different folders of your sdcard at a time to avoid failure; i.e., "adb pull /sdcard/Download <some_directory_on_computer>".
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thanks for the reply. system backup finishes then it goes to back up data. after while it says that there's an error making backup image of /data
is it possible to just to use command prompt to just pull my pictures? would it just be adb pull /sdcard/dcim <some directory>?
also for some reason i am unable to communicate with my phone using adb prompts. yesterday i typed in adb devices and my phones serial number would come up as connected. today under "list of devices" its just blank....not sure what to do.
UPDATE: i was able to get my pictures off of my phone. i launched CMD through the nexus toolkit and it seemed to detect my phone.
i flashed my phone back to stock using the toolkit. for some reason after everything was said and done my phone wasnt actually set back to stock. my phone still has all my apps etc. it still restarts every few seconds.
i tried a couple force flashes using the toolkit again but still same phone. nothing has changed or been fixed. not really sure what my next plan of attack should be. any guidance is very much appreciated.
lilzed_747 said:
UPDATE: i was able to get my pictures off of my phone. i launched CMD through the nexus toolkit and it seemed to detect my phone.
i flashed my phone back to stock using the toolkit. for some reason after everything was said and done my phone wasnt actually set back to stock. my phone still has all my apps etc. it still restarts every few seconds.
i tried a couple force flashes using the toolkit again but still same phone. nothing has changed or been fixed. not really sure what my next plan of attack should be. any guidance is very much appreciated.
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Glad to hear you got your pictures off. As far as wiping your phone. If you got everything off your sdcard that you want, you can do a fastboot wipe.
-press volume up + volume down + power to get to fastboot mode
-connect the phone to your computer and enter in the command window "fastboot devices" to see if it's connected
-enter "fastboot -w" to do a full erasure of the phone's /data partition
Then use nexus toolkit, recovery, or fastboot to flash a new rom from there. This has saved me in the past in a similar situation. Definitely make sure you have everything off your sdcard you want to keep before trying this though.
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Glad to hear you got your pictures off. As far as wiping your phone. If you got everything off your sdcard that you want, you can do a fastboot wipe.
-press volume up + volume down + power to get to fastboot mode
-connect the phone to your computer and enter in the command window "fastboot devices" to see if it's connected
-enter "fastboot -w" to do a full erasure of the phone's /data partition
Then use nexus toolkit, recovery, or fastboot to flash a new rom from there. This has saved me in the past in a similar situation. Definitely make sure you have everything off your sdcard you want to keep before trying this though.
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thanks so much for the help so far. unfortunately everything you have told me so far has not worked.lol. i followed the steps like u said but the phone just stays on the "google" screen after i install a stock rom. left for 2.5 hours in hopes of it doing its thing.lol. had to pull battery and start it up. nothing changed, phone still restarts i also tried using toolkit to flash stock + unroot (both in bricked mode and normal mode), flashed zip stock images and installing in recovery mode. i also used CMD to push stock images to my phone and installing but still nothing.
i also followed the instructions extactly on this forum http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34552123&postcount=1
all of the steps successfully completed but after a reboot my phone was left unchanged.
i may have screwed up my description of the problem earlier. the phone restarts after my phone stop responding/freezes. i also find that there almost always is a program that stops working. i find handcent sms is having the most errors. tried to uninstall but phone freezes. tried in fastboot/adb but nothing happens.
thanks again for the help so far.