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    Default Data recovery from android cellphone?

    Yo peeps, kids android cellphone is busted. Pixel 3aXL model. Wife says it's only the display, not sure how she knows that. Any method to recover information from the phone with no display? Can you just hook it up to an external monitor?

    Is that a thing? I my pixel backs up everything relevant at least once per day, I guess that wasn't happening on this device.

    Thoughts?

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    Pretty sure once you physically connect it to a computer the icon will appear on laptop and you're golden.

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    Pretend I'm stupid. So if I plug a USB cord into the phone and a computer, then it'll show up on the computer, like an extenal drive, orrrrrr?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ExtraSlow View Post
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    Yes, precisely. Then you open it like an external drive and start copying.
    Unless it's broken and cannot turn on.

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    Well, for instance, the pixel phone I use, which IS working, does show up in the windows explorer, but when I click it, there's no files or directories, just an empty folder. So, I'm missing a step here.

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    Oh... That's not been my experience.
    I can always still down a few folders and get into the "DCIM" and see all the sweet, sweet crank shots I've ever taken

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    I cant imagine that would work without the phone being unlocked, or you could just grab anyone's phone and download their dick pics

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    is there any way to access the display and enter the unlock code from an external device? We know the unlock code, it's our phone.

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    The phone will need to be unlocked, and there is usually a prompt that you need to click on to enable data transfers after plugging in the USB cable. Only exception I think is if you have USB debug mode enabled via developer options.

    You can hook the phone up to HDMI cable and use external screen to unlock the phone and enable USB debug mode then you should be able to go back to using the USB cable blindly and accessing all the contents via computer.
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    Ya you need to unlock the phone.

    If the screen is fucked, you could try cutting your kids thumb off and holding it to the fingerprint sensor. Not sure if its temp sensitive so you might have to microwave it a bit first or tuck it in your armpit for a while.
    Tap, Rack, BANG!

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    Oh fuck, of course!!
    I was failing to realize that you couldn't unlock it. I am sorry for my poor advice!

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    I can unlock it IF I have some way to put in the lock code. I guess if the screen sensors are fucked them I'm fucked either way, right? Can't recall if thise one has the fingerprint sensor or not.

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    Fingerprints only work of that was setup.

    You can get an adapter to hook up a usb keyboard to have that function to type stuff.

    Then use the hdmi method

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    If your screen is completely broken (no display/no touch sensitivity) you can access with Android SDK on your computer so no, you're not fucked as long as the phone is still working.
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    Yes to android sdk.

    The other thing you're missing if it was unlocked, is you can define in the settings how a plugged in USB functions.
    I charge off my work USB port. So I disable the file access part.
    My crank shots R safed from the peeping CEOs.

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    I send dick picks directly to my boss. Removes the middleman

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    Quote Originally Posted by ExtraSlow View Post
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    I send dick picks directly to my boss. Removes the middleman
    With balls and face ala Blue Mountain State?
    "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age."

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    Its been a while since i have had to recover android files but here are some thoughts:

    - If the LCD is damaged, its still likely the digitizer works as they can get quite damaged before not working. So you likely still have touch input. And external display should let you unlock it.
    - For you to view it as a disk in windows, it MUST be unlocked.
    - Access via the SDK won't work as you would need USB debugging enabled

    If you can't control it via external display, i would download a pirated version of the Dr. Fone software. Their tool will work. Else, just replace the screen. A phone of that age should be relatively cheap.

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    Quote Originally Posted by spike98 View Post
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    Else, just replace the screen. A phone of that age should be relatively cheap.
    That would be the path of least resistance, looks like one Canadian repair shop is $219 - https://www.cellclinic.ca/google-pix...-repair-prices

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