so i left my phone sitting on top of my car and it blew off going about 45 mph. the screen is smashed but the phone still comes on and everything. is there a way through twrp or something that i can get the pictures and videos off of it without the use of the touch screen? i cant believe i did this but it is what it is. any ideas or help is appreciated. i also have a pin password on the phone so i cant even get to the homescreen. i figured on trying to restore an old rom in twrp back when i didnt have the pin password but i cant click restore cause of the screen. thanks
Are you able to put CWM? I don't think you need the touchscreen for CWM(not touch of course).
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ThatKawaiiGuy said:
Are you able to put CWM? I don't think you need the touchscreen for CWM(not touch of course).
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Thanks but I had to send the phone to assurion so I never did recover the stuff. Kinda sucks but I got a fresh lgog. Of course I had to pay the deductible though
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I found a few apps that tracks your phone down or even takes pictures of the person trying to unlock it, but like the title says, is there any app that blocks hard reset? It's kind of pointless if your phone gets stolen if they can just shut the phone off and do a hard reset to it and sign in with there email,
Thanks :-D
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I guess in theory you could place an app like Seekdroid in the system folder and then do a hard reset. Usually a hard reset won't affect system apps.
g2uzer said:
I found a few apps that tracks your phone down or even takes pictures of the person trying to unlock it, but like the title says, is there any app that blocks hard reset? It's kind of pointless if your phone gets stolen if they can just shut the phone off and do a hard reset to it and sign in with there email,
Thanks :-D
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you can't really avoid physical maneuvers. and anything baked into the phone's startup has to be a modification to the actual ROM. so no.
dLo GSR said:
you can't really avoid physical maneuvers. and anything baked into the phone's startup has to be a modification to the actual ROM. so no.
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I didn't think so, but wanted to make sure lol, thanks
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whats the name of the one you found that takes pics of thief, that sounds badass
Use Cerberus that app does everything that ur talking about
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whats the name of the one you found that takes pics of thief, that sounds badass
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Cerberus app in Google play
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caulton said:
Use Cerberus that app does everything that ur talking about
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Thanks
I missed the part were it said that you could set it to were the only way they can un install it is by flashing a different ROM,,but that setting is for rooted phones,I'm completely stock and not sure if I want to root this phone,
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You should root the phone it will change your life. Plus its so easy even a cave man can do it
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Check out Android Lost, it does alot of those things as well. Relies on push messaging too, so its very light. You can take a picture on demand, turn on GPS and get location, download texts/emails, etc.
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You should root the phone it will change your life. Plus its so easy even a cave man can do it
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Yea, I've rooted all my previous phones and yea I've like them a lot more, but for some reason I'm not sure to root this particular one lol
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Check out Android Lost, it does alot of those things as well. Relies on push messaging too, so its very light. You can take a picture on demand, turn on GPS and get location, download texts/emails, etc.
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I'll give that a try
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It'd be nice if we could put a password lock on the recovery. Wonder why 4ext hasn't done that yet.
stonew5082 said:
It'd be nice if we could put a password lock on the recovery. Wonder why 4ext hasn't done that yet.
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Yea it would, also it would be tight if Samsung had in app like that already installed, that way even with a master reset you'll still be able to find your $700 + phone lol, I haven't lost one yet (knock on wood) but still very nervous of loosing it, ill give android lost a try,
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Yea it would, also it would be tight if Samsung had in app like that already installed, that way even with a master reset you'll still be able to find your $700 + phone lol, I haven't lost one yet (knock on wood) but still very nervous of loosing it, ill give android lost a try,
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After I got my phone I left the box on the train with all the accessories lol. It can happen!
I'm trying to use Android Lost,, but I can't get the gps remotely to turn on when it's off,
So maybe Cerberus might be better, I might have to give that one a try,
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Android lost is free and its king of this kind of apps. Nothing is even close. Go get it try come back and hit thanks.
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This is how I got around the GPS toggle not working:
Since AndroidLost.com allows you to send texts, I have setup a tasker profile which waits for a text that says "androidlost" and if it receives it, it enables GPS.
nismax said:
Android lost is free and its king of this kind of apps. Nothing is even close. Go get it try come back and hit thanks.
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it looks good, although cerberus seems just as good and its already installed. I tested cerberus and its flawless. I guess there's no harm in having both though!
stonew5082 said:
it looks good, although cerberus seems just as good and its already installed. I tested cerberus and its flawless. I guess there's no harm in having both though!
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Its not that wise to have 2 of same kind of apps running at same time. Battery and often cause conficts. I have tryied only android lost and is one amazing ap. Newer had cerberus. I cant say much about it.
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I have broke my phone and the lcd and screen has broke so no touch screen or display works. I have insurance on it so I need to ship it out soon for a return. I want to back it up so I dont lose all of my stuff. Could I install clock work mod recovery and look at another phone I have using the hard ware keys to get to the back up selection and put the backup on my computer and when I get the new phone, put it on there and restore? Im pretty sure I can do that but will they allow the return if I had flashed clockwork mod. I dont see how they couldnt because they send me the new phone first and I send mine back after I already have the new phone so they cant deny the return can they?
No you can't mount USB drive from recovery.
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No you can't mount USB drive from recovery.
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But you can write and restore a back up
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But you can write and restore a back up
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Actually im pretty sure you can do both, my main question is will they notice this and deny the return or charge me fo an extra phpne or something?
So I used Freegee to unlock booloaders and Adri's Root method to root the phone and everything went smoothly.
Now I usually turn off my phone to charge at night and when i do this it seems that the phone goes off, but the screen is black but glowing like the light is on inside the phone.
Is there away i can fix that? I hope this makes sense.
TIA!
Why turn it off in the first place???? And I have no answer.
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This has already been discussed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2226884
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i know cwm used to have that bug back in the day
This phone was my dads until he got a new one, but he only has a limited amount of time to retrieve the data before it goes back to T-mobile or else he has to pay money for the broken phone core. It was dropped, and broke the digitizer but not the screen. As of now, the display doesn't work at all, but I can hear the phone turn on just fine. I have been trying to think of how I can access the internal storage without tearing the phone apart and getting to the storage directly(not sure if that would work either).
- Not rooted
- USB debugging not enabled. I thought I might be able to get to the storage via adb, but that will be useless without usb debugging activated.
If I need any more information, let me know.
This this homie.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1979097
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This this homie.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1979097
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Unfortunately, a solution was never found in that thread. Same exact problem though. The only difference is that my screen doesn't work at all. Completely black. The only thing that reacts to touch is the very very bottom of the screen below the capacitive buttons. Without USB debugging enabled, I'm in the same boat as the other users in that thread.
It's been a while since I used kies, so I don't remember much about it, but is there a way to make a backup using kies?
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Does the digitizer recognize anything, or is it really FUBAR?
Edit - actually read the last post by OP...
Is there a way to turn debugging on in stock recovery?
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Well, I tested it myself and I was able to connect the phones to kies and create a backup without ever touching the device. I don't have any security lock on my phone though, so it might not work if the screen is locked? I'm also not sure if you can back up everything, or just photos, videos, etc. Hopefully at least that will help someone with the same problem who searched and found this thread...
Digitizer is completely screwed up. No responding to anything on the screen, and the screen is completely black. Even if I was able to get to stock recovery, I wouldn't be able to see what I was doing. I'll look into Kies and see if it will work.
Well seeing as how stock recovery responds to side buttons, someone with stock recovery could map it out for you...
Also, can't you get to ADB from recovery?
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Is it possible to get to adb through recovery? I still don't have usb debugging enabled, so unless there is a way to activate it in recovery, then I don't know if it'll work.
It may work... Its worth a shot. Also, Google is your friend on this topic.
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Anyone ever have the home, menu, back, and search keys not function properly? Doesn't seem to be an issue with the ROM as I have tried a couple and have the problem on both all of a sudden.
By not function properly, I mean not function at all. Hitting those buttons has no effect.
Any ideas?
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Anyone ever have the home, menu, back, and search keys not function properly? Doesn't seem to be an issue with the ROM as I have tried a couple and have the problem on both all of a sudden.
By not function properly, I mean not function at all. Hitting those buttons has no effect.
Any ideas?
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Let's start with the basics in order to help u. What ROM ? What have you tried ? We do need more info to really help u. You could even put in in ur signature
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Started happening on ascension oblivion after about 3 weeks of using the ROM. Switched to chillybeans cm10.1 to see if that would fix it but no luck. I have also tried doing a few full wipes and reinstalling both ROMs.
Thinking about going back to stock to see if that fixes it, but really don't want to.
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bschemmel said:
Started happening on ascension oblivion after about 3 weeks of using the ROM. Switched to chillybeans cm10.1 to see if that would fix it but no luck. I have also tried doing a few full wipes and reinstalling both ROMs.
Thinking about going back to stock to see if that fixes it, but really don't want to.
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Look up liblights fix. works for me every time. flash in recovery boot go into terminal emulator
type
su(enter)
liblights.sh(enter)
n choose zero
type "reboot" (no quotes)https://www.dropbox.com/s/cxg5emnjhhsc7bh/Lights_Library_Config.zip
Turning them on didn't seem to fix my issue. However turning them off completely and using the navbar in cm 10.1 is working for me for now. Thanks for the tip.
Is it possible that the buttons not working is a hardware issue?
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Turning them on didn't seem to fix my issue. However turning them off completely and using the navbar in cm 10.1 is working for me for now. Thanks for the tip.
Is it possible that the buttons not working is a hardware issue?
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Do you have a screen protector on? I've never heard of em having issues though sorry to say.. of course i twist mine a little side to side outta boredom.. Semi take it apart you might have dust or dirt in there
No, don't have a screen protector on. I haven't heard of them not working either. Unfortunately, my phone is my only source of internet access for the next few days. So its not easy to do much research.
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No, don't have a screen protector on. I haven't heard of them not working either. Unfortunately, my phone is my only source of internet access for the next few days. So its not easy to do much research.
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Probably a hardware issue , you might have to replace the buttons
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