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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Shuffler on July 16, 2019, 10:43:05 PM
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One of our employees cracked the digitizer on his Galaxy 8 a few days ago. The screen started flickering yesterday and going crazy, completely unusable. I checked it yesterday and realized the screen was cracked too. If it was just the digitizer I would have repaired it. Since the screen was cracked, I chose to use our insurance through AT&T. They overnited another phone that arrived this morning. Setting up the new phone was a simple task as everything is backed up to Samsung Cloud and Google....... usually. Since the phones were the same I used the sim card from the original in the new phone. I signed him in and all seemed to install and populate fine.
Later he came to me and said that two years worth of videos and pictures were not on the phone. I usually do not choose to recover pictures as I set all the phones to save them to the SD card. As it turned out, the office manager had set his phone up when he received it.... not me. She did not set the camera to save to card. Photos were not set to backup either.
With the flickering screen on the old phone we could not use the touch screen. I ended up using the OTG plug that came with the phone. I plugged it into the phone, then plugged a mouse into that. Worked like a charm. I could see the mouse cursor on the phone and was able to enter the pattern to unlock the phone even with it flickering.
After that I simply plugged the phone into my computer and copied the files over like normal. I was also able to reset the phone to factory before shipping it back.
I have handled and repaired Android phones for years and have never used a mouse or separate keyboard on one.... till today.
Thought it was worth passing along if anyone else might find it useful.
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I thought it was going to be a thread about you wearing a flowery dress :old:
Bruv wears womens dresses.
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Bruv wears womens dresses.
As in someone else's dress and they are a woman? Otherwise, technically, if he's not a woman and he bought the dress for himself ....
:banana:
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Shuffler, the screen on my Droid phone is dark and unresponsive (cracked in one corner) as a result of being dropped. So I can't unlock it to try to recover what's saved to the phone. Most was saved to Google cloud, however, and I was able to revtrieve that much. But there is some material I would like to get from the old phone. You have set me to thinking now of possible ways to try. Thanks.
Any advice or suggestions you may wish to throw my way would be appreciated. (I'm not tech-savy)
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When I got my S10+ a few months ago I tried plugging the USB-C into one of our Dell docking stations for giggles, it didn't transfer video to the monitors, but I was hilariously surprised to have full KB/M support because of it.
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When I got my S10+ a few months ago I tried plugging the USB-C into one of our Dell docking stations for giggles, it didn't transfer video to the monitors, but I was hilariously surprised to have full KB/M support because of it.
Placing the phone in USB debug mode will make it accessible on your computer screen. Used by developers. You don't want to leave that on though, makes your phone vulnerable through USB.
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Shuffler, the screen on my Droid phone is dark and unresponsive (cracked in one corner) as a result of being dropped. So I can't unlock it to try to recover what's saved to the phone. Most was saved to Google cloud, however, and I was able to revtrieve that much. But there is some material I would like to get from the old phone. You have set me to thinking now of possible ways to try. Thanks.
Any advice or suggestions you may wish to throw my way would be appreciated. (I'm not tech-savy)
If you can see anything on your screen, the mouse should work.
There are some apps that claim accessibility on completely dead screens. I have not used them before but one of the most popular it seems is Dr Fone.
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I heard a rumor about this once. :old:
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I heard a rumor about this once. :old:
Fleetwood Mac
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Shuffler, the screen on my Droid phone is dark and unresponsive (cracked in one corner) as a result of being dropped. So I can't unlock it to try to recover what's saved to the phone. Most was saved to Google cloud, however, and I was able to revtrieve that much. But there is some material I would like to get from the old phone. You have set me to thinking now of possible ways to try. Thanks.
Any advice or suggestions you may wish to throw my way would be appreciated. (I'm not tech-savy)
See if this site is of any help
https://www.androidphonesoft.com/resources/access-android-phone-broken-screen.html
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Fleetwood Mac
Thought it was Bananarama.
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See if this site is of any help
https://www.androidphonesoft.com/resources/access-android-phone-broken-screen.html
HA... The first is exactly what I did.
The second one requires your phone to be in USB Debug..... that is not secure so it is doubtful anyone would leave it in that mode... even as a developer.
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Didnt know if the 3rd one would be of any help or not