Broken phone (two into one) - Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I purchased a Note 3 at a general auction of undeliverable post office items. I mention this only because some might wonder what I am doing with a phone locked by a PIN. It is legally mine, but I have no desire for the information on the phone...I only would like to use the phone. The phone appears to be fully functional, but it is locked at the PIN screen...however, I am able to boot it up, use the camera and know that the screen is functioning, that the audio appears intact, etc. For all intents and purposes, the phone is good to go but for the locked by PIN.
I see two possibilities to use this phone...either use it for parts from a broken second phone (say, has a broken screen) and so to use two broken phones to make one whole phone...OR, to buy a second phone and take parts from it, to replace whatever "holds" the PIN and data information on this phone (again, taking two broken phones and forming 1 whole phone). I would assume if I can get a replacement motherboard from a donor phone, that this might work to make one good phone from two "broken" phones. If not motherboard, then what part does hold the data and PIN information (I have no desire for this info...just need to know what part to toss).
I am sure there will be some who will feel that I am trying to take advantage of the original owner...if there were a way to figure out how to get it back to that owner, I would be happy to do so. This is simply one of those things that somehow happened within the post office system...and they then auction the lost/undeliverable property to the general population. Anyway, that is how I got the phone and would simply like to try to make use of my purchase.
So, can anyone tell me if there is a single item that contains the data and PIN that I could toss from this phone if I can get the same part from another...if so, what part exactly has this info? Or, alternatively, if I were to buy a phone that has a broken screen, how hard is it to move my screen (which appears to be functioning perfectly), to that phone? I see broken phones being sold all the time on eBay for a reasonable price...perhaps that would be my best option.

Factory reset the phone. From power off...hold home, volume up and power button to get to recovery and select factory reset
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donc113 said:
Factory reset the phone. From power off...hold home, volume up and power button to get to recovery and select factory reset
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What great advice...couldn't have been more on the mark. Old data gone, and now I have a phone (well, android device as i don't plan to use it as a phone...just to run some android apps (my regular phone is from the dark side (iOS)). Thank you so very much.

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screen shatterd

How would i extract pictures off of my nexus s if the screen is shattered and i cant see anything?
Also anyone know where i can get replacement for the glass, and lcd.
sotorious said:
How would i extract pictures off of my nexus s if the screen is shattered and i cant see anything?
Also anyone know where i can get replacement for the glass, and lcd.
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Install the SDK - boot it up and use ADB
specifically adb pull is what you are looking for. The default directory for photos should be /sdcard/DCIM/Camera.
So:
Code:
adb pull /sdcard/DCIM/Camera/* .
will pull all photos and videos (all files really) from that directory and place them in your current working folder.
If you want to pull any other files you can use adb shell to open up an interactive shell and navigate the file system (then adb pull to grab any files using the full path).
pics of shattered screen pl0x?
ill take some tonight. Where can i get this SDK? I may need some more assistance on this.
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ill take some tonight. Where can i get this SDK? I may need some more assistance on this.
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http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
It's actually quite easy.
Download and extract/install the SDK.
Install the USB Driver: http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html
Connect your phone via USB
Open up a terminal windows / command prompt
If you haven't added the SDK to your path navigate to the platform-tools folder.
adb devices will list all connected devices (you should see your device here - if you see one it's yours).
adb shell will get you an interactive shell (standard unix shell commands work, ls, cd, cp, mv, rm, etc...)
adb pull allows you to pull files using the full path to the file (wildcards accepted).
After you install adb, you also need to install a platform (e.g. 2.3) to get adb.
Please tell me you had usb debugging enabled when it broke.
Are you, by any chance, rooted and using ClockworkMod Recovery?
Nothing on this phone is rooted. This is actually my mothers phone and she wants to get the pictures off. This is going to be a painful process i can already 4 SEE IT! this is why every phone should have SD card
Ok, I'll give it a whirl.
I'm going to make a few assumptions here:
- The display is completely black.
- The phone is charged.
- You have whatever drivers are needed to mount usb storage.
First off, forget about adb. I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say she probably never enabled usb debugging, so adb won't work. Also, make sure you're using the usb cable that came with the phone. The nexus s uses usb 2.0, and some things don't work right using a usb 1.1 cable. Fyi, I think the default screen timeout is 15 seconds. If it sits idle for longer than than, reconnecting the usb plug to the computer will turn it back on with the screen unlocked.
1. //Make sure the phone is on.
Yank the battery, and put it back in. (Use the slot on the top edge to pop the cover off.)
Hold the power button down a couple seconds till it vibrates.
Give it 2 or 3 minutes to make sure it's fully booted.
2. //Make sure the sound is on (& works)
Plug the phone into the computer (or disconnect & reconnect).
Press Volume Up for a second, then tap it again. If it beeps, the sound is on & the screen is unlocked.
3. //Check if the capacitive buttons work.
Say a quick prayer to St. Jude, the patron saint of hopeless cases.
Hold down the search button for a couple seconds to activate voice search.
Say something simple, like "Hello."
After a couple seconds, it should beep & vib.
If that worked, hopefully the touch input on the screen will work.
4. //Mount the sd storage
Mark the locations of the "mount usb storage" and "ok" buttons. The mount button is 1 1/16" above the seam at the bottom edge of the glass, or 1 3/16" above the usb port, centered horizontally. The ok button is 11/16" from the left seam and 1 11/16" above the bottom seam.
Unplug and reconnect the usb cable.
Pick the phone up to make sure it's in portrait mode.
Press the mount button.
Press the ok button.
5. Make yer mama proud.
Good luck
Maximilian Mary said:
Ok, I'll give it a whirl.
I'm going to make a few assumptions here:
- The display is completely black.
- The phone is charged.
- You have whatever drivers are needed to mount usb storage.
First off, forget about adb. I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say she probably never enabled usb debugging, so adb won't work. Also, make sure you're using the usb cable that came with the phone. The nexus s uses usb 2.0, and some things don't work right using a usb 1.1 cable. Fyi, I think the default screen timeout is 15 seconds. If it sits idle for longer than than, reconnecting the usb plug to the computer will turn it back on with the screen unlocked.
1. //Make sure the phone is on.
Yank the battery, and put it back in. (Use the slot on the top edge to pop the cover off.)
Hold the power button down a couple seconds till it vibrates.
Give it 2 or 3 minutes to make sure it's fully booted.
2. //Make sure the sound is on (& works)
Plug the phone into the computer (or disconnect & reconnect).
Press Volume Up for a second, then tap it again. If it beeps, the sound is on & the screen is unlocked.
3. //Check if the capacitive buttons work.
Say a quick prayer to St. Jude, the patron saint of hopeless cases.
Hold down the search button for a couple seconds to activate voice search.
Say something simple, like "Hello."
After a couple seconds, it should beep & vib.
If that worked, hopefully the touch input on the screen will work.
4. //Mount the sd storage
Mark the locations of the "mount usb storage" and "ok" buttons. The mount button is 1 1/16" above the seam at the bottom edge of the glass, or 1 3/16" above the usb port, centered horizontally. The ok button is 11/16" from the left seam and 1 11/16" above the bottom seam.
Unplug and reconnect the usb cable.
Pick the phone up to make sure it's in portrait mode.
Press the mount button.
Press the ok button.
5. Make yer mama proud.
Good luck
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LMAO @ the end. I dont think the capacitive buttons work as i didnt feel the phone vibrate as i touched them but ill give this whole setup a try. the voice search im guessing will confirm if the buttons are working or not. Also if they are not working i am pretty much screwed right?
Also another thing which sucks is that Asurion the insurance with t-mobile does not have this phone and they are offering me the vibrant in replacement.
What i haven't tried to do is see what bestbuy would do for me.
You forgot step 6
Picz plox :3
But in all seriousness hopes this works out for ya
Yea ill get them to you, i just been doing all this from work.
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Also another thing which sucks is that Asurion the insurance with t-mobile does not have this phone and they are offering me the vibrant in replacement.
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WTF I'm cancelling my insurance right now!!!
I agree that it was a stupid move to not use sd cards. There would have been a very good chance that everything on a physical card would have been okay.
Then you also have the situation like that happened in miami. A guy starts video recording a police scene. Cop sees him doing it and demands at gunpoint the guy give him his phone. The cop smashes and stomps the phone then gives it back to him. The guy removes the sd card and puts it in his mouth so the cops won't find it. Long story.
I think the sd card slot should be on the outside of phones so that would be for easy and quick removal if need be. Taking a phone out of a case then remove the back cover then remove the battery then unlock the card then remove it is too much **** to do.
Even if it had to be under the back cover, don't put it under the battery. Put it in a spring loaded locking slot like on other phones. I also hated the HTC locking bar mechanism for cards too.
A vibrant?! I don't know T-Mobile phones well enough to know if that phone is good or not. Knowing insurance companies, if you totalled your vette and had full coverage, they'd try and pass off an aveo on you (to save them a **** load of money on a claim).
If you had insurance, couldn't you try and see if best buy would help you? If they won't give you another phone then maybe they could help you with the insurance company to make them give you a same model replacement. If you really want to be a **** about it, you could in to consumerist.com and share your story. Hopefully the bad press would encourage the insurance company to give you a new nexus just to make the bad publicity go away. It would be cheaper and easier to give you a new one than to get bad press.
I called best buy, i called t-mobile and back to asurion, nothing but the good ol run around. I even asked t-mobile if they can make me eligible for an upgrade again since i didnt want the vibrant. I explained to them why i didnt want it, stock android vs touch wiz. So i think im just going to end up buying a new phone. try to extract the photos and maybe send it in for the insurance and sell the vibrant.
It's easier to give someone the shuffle off when on the phone. It isn't as easy in person. Isn't there authorized repair centers that work with t-mobile? They would take one look at it and ask if I had insurance and then order me another one. Then they'd take the old phone and send it back. You sign a paper or two, maybe might have to pay a deductible. I know with sprint, I've never got the run around with a repair center.
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It's easier to give someone the shuffle off when on the phone. It isn't as easy in person. Isn't there authorized repair centers that work with t-mobile? They would take one look at it and ask if I had insurance and then order me another one. Then they'd take the old phone and send it back. You sign a paper or two, maybe might have to pay a deductible. I know with sprint, I've never got the run around with a repair center.
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I asked best buy that, they asked if i had their insurance plan, which i didnt, which i guess now i wish i should have gotten. I asked them if i give you the phone and pay whatever deductible you want will you be able to do it for me? they kept telling me no.
How long ago did you buy the Nexus from Best Buy? If it was within 30 days you might just try calling them and trying to add the Black Tie (or whatever it's called) replacement plan. I think they just need the IMEI, but I have never used their service.
No need to mention that the phone is borked. And to all of your moralists out there, I'm not telling him to defraud anyone- I'm pretty sure BB gives you 30 days (might be less) from your purchase date to add on that extra warranty.
sotorious said:
LMAO @ the end. I dont think the capacitive buttons work as i didnt feel the phone vibrate as i touched them but ill give this whole setup a try. the voice search im guessing will confirm if the buttons are working or not.
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The buttons might not vibrate if she turned haptic feedback off or if the screen is locked. (Plugging it into a computer will unlock the screen.) Yes, if you get a beep & quick vib from voice search, that means the touch buttons work, so hopefully the rest of the touchscreen will work.
Oh, and all this is assuming that the phone powers on, and that she didn't have a password on the phone. Step 2 should confirm this.
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Also if they are not working i am pretty much screwed right?
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You're not totally screwed, but you will have to move on to a hardware hack.
If you get another Nexus S, take the motherboard out of the old one and put it in the new one. Assuming the internals are ok, you can copy everything off of the sdcard, then swap the motherboard back into the old one & get the insurance replacement. (You can probably also get most of the data off the phone storage, but it's a bit tedious without root. Let me know if you want help with that.) Taking the phone apart is actually not as hard as it might sound. There's a pretty good guide at http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus-S-Teardown/4365/1 . Stop after step 6, and skip the NFC part of step 3. All you need is a small phillips screwdriver and a little patience. (An anti-static wrist strap is never a bad idea.) The hardest part is probably just unplugging the connectors.
Oh, and make sure you find out how long you have to file the insurance claim after the incident. As someone who has spent many hours inside a cell phone claims center --- well, lets just say I don't buy the insurance anymore. Oh, and arcarsenal, we defined fraud as "misrepresenting a material fact (such as the date of an incident) to gain something of value." Just sayin.

Theft proofing your phone!

I've had my phone stolen more times than I'd like. Given the fact that I've had my phone stolen this many number of times may suggest to some that I'm careless. Well, that would be a correct assumption to make. However, I don't equate being careless with deserving to have my phone stolen by some low lying piece of koopa. Anyway, the last one was a Moto G and the thing that pissed me off was the fact that the device had achieved an equilibrium in all areas that are important; the right balance of applications, just the right battery time etc. It knew me and I knew it. We were familiar to each other and then it was ripped from my clawing hands, never to return again. At that very moment, I made a decision that never will I let another phone be stolen again (iA). So I decided to make my phone theft-proof, not theft-resistant but theft-proof. The phone in question is the Moto X.
This is how I did it. First you need the following:
- A handset whose battery cannot be removed (at least very easily like the Moto G/Nexus 5/Moto X)
- Root
- Xposed Framework
- Xposed Framework Gravitybox module
- Anti-theft app (the one that I use is cerberus https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lsdroid.cerberus&hl=en)
- Bringrr or any other bluetooth perimeter based tracker (optional but recommended)
It's a fairly straight forward procedure. I'll lay it out in steps.
Step 1:
- Buy a phone whose battery cannot be removed
Step 2:
- Root the phone
Step 3:
- Set a pattern or number lock on your phone.
Step 4:
- Install XposedFramework
Step 5:
- Download and install Gravitybox module from within the Xposedframework
Step 6:
Go into the Gravityox module from the app drawer, then go into "Power Tweaks" and then check the "Disable power menu on lockscreen" option. This ensures that when your phone is locked (assumption is that you keep your phone locked or secured), nobody can turn it off or lower the volume. This is crucial when it comes to theft. Usually when a thief steals a phone, the first thing he does is he turns it off or removes the battery or reduces the volume to zero, but if he can't do any of these then the thief has a tracker in his hands and he's in deep ****za.
Step 7:
- Install an anti-theft app. I recommend cerberus. It's very versatile and wholesome. I really like the fact that you can actually make it into a system app which means that even if the thief were to somehow turn off the phone and then turn it on again and crack your pass code or pattern lock and factory reset the phone from the settings, the cerberus app will still be there doing it's job of tracking your phone.
There's only one way of getting around this as far as I can tell but I don't think I'm going to tell you how. That would defeat the purpose of this little guide
Step 8:
- Get a bluetooth location trackr. I like bringrr. It seems to get better reviews than the others one floating out there. It's a bluetooth device that plugs into your car's cig lighter socket and connects to your phone's bluetooth. If you leave your phone in a cafe and come back to the car, the bringrr will warn you or alert you that your phone isn't with you. It also has small little tags which you can put in your wallet and then your wallet and your phone and your car, all can communicate with each other. So, it's a nice preventive measure.
Even if you disable the power menu you can just hold down the power button until it turns off.
True....but that's not true if you havent confirmed it yet.
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also if they have a pin they can eject the sim
than hold power til it shuts down
hold down and power get to recovery and wipe the phone
after that if they are really good change the imei and bam
cant track or black list it
i know imei is hard to change but i know it can be done
Alpha_wolf said:
also if they have a pin they can eject the sim
than hold power til it shuts down
hold down and power get to recovery and wipe the phone
after that if they are really good change the imei and bam
cant track or black list it
i know imei is hard to change but i know it can be done
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holding down the power button does turn it off but you gotta keep your finger there for a while. and I'm betting that an opportunistic thief really won't have his wits about him to figure out why the power menu isn't showing up and might freak.
and yes! these are the two flaw in this plan, the removal of the sim. however, if they insert another sim into the phone, cerberus sends a message to the designated numbers. also, imei changing IS hard and can't be done on the fly so there's a window of opportunity between the theft of the phone and the subsequent IMEI change (if there is one) to trace and recover it.
Also wiping the phone won't remove cerberus. you'll have to flash a new rom to get rid of it. so they can change the imei and whatnot but you'll still be able to trace it once they've booted it back up.
however, it'll give you and your phone a fighting chance
mufakir said:
holding down the power button does turn it off but you gotta keep your finger there for a while. and I'm betting that an opportunistic thief really won't have his wits about him to figure out why the power menu isn't showing up and might freak.
and yes! these are the two flaw in this plan, the removal of the sim. however, if they insert another sim into the phone, cerberus sends a message to the designated numbers. also, imei changing IS hard and can't be done on the fly so there's a window of opportunity between the theft of the phone and the subsequent IMEI change (if there is one) to trace and recover it.
Also wiping the phone won't remove cerberus. you'll have to flash a new rom to get rid of it. so they can change the imei and whatnot but you'll still be able to trace it once they've booted it back up.
however, it'll give you and your phone a fighting chance
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i agree with you i was just throwing those out there cause there are people like us that use their power for evil lol
mufakir said:
I've had my phone stolen more times than I'd like. Given the fact that I've had my phone stolen this many number of times may suggest to some that I'm careless. Well, that would be a correct assumption to make. However, I don't equate being careless with deserving to have my phone stolen by some low lying piece of koopa. Anyway, the last one was a Moto G and the thing that pissed me off was the fact that the device had achieved an equilibrium in all areas that are important; the right balance of applications, just the right battery time etc. It knew me and I knew it. We were familiar to each other and then it was ripped from my clawing hands, never to return again. At that very moment, I made a decision that never will I let another phone be stolen again (iA). So I decided to make my phone theft-proof, not theft-resistant but theft-proof. The phone in question is the Moto X.
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Just out of curiosity how many phones have been stolen from you? And how were they stolen? Maybe there's something that you change to not get your phone stolen.
mawells787 said:
Just out of curiosity how many phones have been stolen from you? And how were they stolen? Maybe there's something that you change to not get your phone stolen.
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Well the first phone was Iphone. The very first Iphone. It was stolen from my car while I was sitting in it. Happens a lot where I am; Pakistan. I was waiting for the light to turn green at a signal when this guy showed up on the passenger side door, and in what seemed like a flash, opened the door (which unfortunately was not locked), snatched the phone (which was lying on the passenger seat), ran around the car and on to the other side of the road where there was a guy on a bike (who I had not noticed before) revving it. The thief got on to the bike and they were gone. I had in the meanwhile only gotten out of the car and managed to shout out an expletive but it was too late by then. The phone was gone.
Ever since, I keep my car doors locked at all times.
The 2nd phone was also stolen from my car while it was parked in my garage. Probably the driver. It was a Nokia.
The 3rd phone was the Moto G. Went to this cafe to get some ice cream for wife and kid. Rush hour traffic in the cafe. Some seedy types were at the counter as well and I was wearing baggy clothes and got pick pocketed. Didn't feel nothing. Last known location of the phone was the cafe according to Life360.
mufakir said:
Well the first phone was Iphone. The very first Iphone. It was stolen from my car while I was sitting in it. Happens a lot where I am; Pakistan. I was waiting for the light to turn green at a signal when this guy showed up on the passenger side door, and in what seemed like a flash, opened the door (which unfortunately was not locked), snatched the phone (which was lying on the passenger seat), ran around the car and on to the other side of the road where there was a guy on a bike (who I had not noticed before) revving it. The thief got on to the bike and they were gone. I had in the meanwhile only gotten out of the car and managed to shout out an expletive but it was too late by then. The phone was gone.
Ever since, I keep my car doors locked at all times.
The 2nd phone was also stolen from my car while it was parked in my garage. Probably the driver. It was a Nokia.
The 3rd phone was the Moto G. Went to this cafe to get some ice cream for wife and kid. Rush hour traffic in the cafe. Some seedy types were at the counter as well and I was wearing baggy clothes and got pick pocketed. Didn't feel nothing. Last known location of the phone was the cafe according to Life360.
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1. Sucks that people just walk up to cars and steal while you're in the car. But like you said windows and doors locked will help.
2. Sucks that people steal. But assholes work everywhere. But never leave your personal property unattended.
3. Keep your wallet and phone in front pockets its harder to pick pocket. Or wear pants that are not too baggy so that pick pockets cant easily get their hands in.
I'm not sure how crime is in Pakistan but it sounds worse than here in the states. But even if you can track someone, remember its not worth getting seriously hurt or worse over property.
I guess I'd add that another step no matter what theft prevention you have, is to make a backup. Once you find that great balance of perfect apps and configurations, take screen shots of your app drawer at the very least so you know what apps you had installed. Take screenshots of your home screen so you know what icons you had where for that instinctive muscle memory of unlocking and tapping email in the lower right without really looking or thinking about it.
I've never had a phone stolen, but I've bricked and wiped enough times to know that backups are important even if your phone doesn't get stolen.
carry AK47 in front seat of car, problem solved!
Turn in android device manager with location reporting. It will track your phone down for you.
fury683 said:
I guess I'd add that another step no matter what theft prevention you have, is to make a backup. Once you find that great balance of perfect apps and configurations, take screen shots of your app drawer at the very least so you know what apps you had installed. Take screenshots of your home screen so you know what icons you had where for that instinctive muscle memory of unlocking and tapping email in the lower right without really looking or thinking about it.
I've never had a phone stolen, but I've bricked and wiped enough times to know that backups are important even if your phone doesn't get stolen.
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yea, but it's such painstaking work man. gonna do that today.
mawells787 said:
1. Sucks that people just walk up to cars and steal while you're in the car. But like you said windows and doors locked will help.
2. Sucks that people steal. But assholes work everywhere. But never leave your personal property unattended.
3. Keep your wallet and phone in front pockets its harder to pick pocket. Or wear pants that are not too baggy so that pick pockets cant easily get their hands in.
I'm not sure how crime is in Pakistan but it sounds worse than here in the states. But even if you can track someone, remember its not worth getting seriously hurt or worse over property.
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Well, all I know about crime in the States is what I see in tv shows, but yea, it's everywhere. crime and criminals that is.
I prefer keeping my phone by my side at all times....to battery sucking theft solutions.
But to each their own!!
Good info here for sure! ?
In my opinion it's better to leave the phone without a pin because, if i were an average theft who doesn't know that much about phones, I'd just remove the accounts, the Sim card and apps. Maybe I would do a factory reset and with that I'd be happy so cerberus would survive.
Also I'd recommend you to hide cerberus from the drawer and make it only available from the dialer.
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Does holding the power button for 8 seconds still turn off the device with the gravity box module disabling power? if someone could force the phone off then turning it off from the lock screen is the least of their worries.
treyf711 said:
Does holding the power button for 8 seconds still turn off the device with the gravity box module disabling power? if someone could force the phone off then turning it off from the lock screen is the least of their worries.
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I thought that just rebooted, similar to holding POWER and VOL DOWN for a while to simulate a battery pull on Moto devices.

Backup w/ Broken Screen? (TWRP Installed)

Hey guys, I recently broke the LCD on my Note 3 running stock KitKat ( :crying: ) and realized I hadn't done a nandroid backup in quite some time...
I tried the obvious adb pull, but for some reason I couldn't even get into adb shell or see my device in the device list like I had previously.
I'm all out of ideas now...
Could somebody please throw some help my way?
Does your phone even boot up? Do you get sound, vibration, anything to indicate it's still working internally beside blank screen?
Are you going to try to fix it? buy new one? upgrade to Note 4? Me and my wife used to own GS3 and when she broke her screen, I swapped motherboard with mine to copy pictures mostly and some other stuff, but we werent going to fix it, since I decided to get her GS5.
pete4k said:
Does your phone even boot up? Do you get sound, vibration, anything to indicate it's still working internally beside blank screen?
Are you going to try to fix it? buy new one? upgrade to Note 4? Me and my wife used to own GS3 and when she broke her screen, I swapped motherboard with mine to copy pictures mostly and some other stuff, but we werent going to fix it, since I decided to get her GS5.
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I'm getting a replacement through the phone insurance. It does turn on and function perfectly normal, the screen just has a tiny, tiny fracture point with a crack spanning across the screen horizontally, rendering the bottom half unusable. The top half is functioning though.
I cannot unlock my phone or make a backup with the bottom half not working.
Try using a bluetooth mouse or wired mouse with otg cable
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2786395
Could help, made for exactly your problem. If you manage to get it working download Nandroid Offline backup, which allows you to make a Nandroid backup from Android itself, rather than CWM/TWRP.
EDIT -- Just checked and it works an absolute treat. Providing you had USB Debugging enabled before your phone got broke, it should work fine. It even has the option to swipe to unlock or disable a pattern unlock if you had one enabled.
Pagnell said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2786395
Could help, made for exactly your problem. If you manage to get it working download Nandroid Offline backup, which allows you to make a Nandroid backup from Android itself, rather than CWM/TWRP.
EDIT -- Just checked and it works an absolute treat. Providing you had USB Debugging enabled before your phone got broke, it should work fine. It even has the option to swipe to unlock or disable a pattern unlock if you had one enabled.
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Thank you for the link - it looks like it would be a great solution, but unfortunately I cannot enable USB debugging with the code given :\. I may be out of luck
Well, if nothing else works and data on the phone is that important, then you need to convince the insurance company to send you new Note 3 first and swap the MB as I suggested to retrieve the data, then put everything back to original. I have not done this on Note 3, but GS3 was probably one of easier electronics repairs I've done, just follow one of many youtube videos, to make sure you don't break some wire, before disconnecting. Possibly a shop could do that for you.
Well, freakin sweet deal. After being on the phone with the insurance company and US Cellular for two and a half hours and having them tell me everybody was out of Note 3's and they would only give me $400 bucks for my old phone minus my $175 deductible, I received another call from management at the insurance company apologizing and letting me know that they'd offer me $725.
It just so happens the new Note 4 is $770, so thank the Lord I'm in a good spot!

How reliable is the Yotaphone 2 Hardware???

I am asking this because I have my YP2 for 2 months now and it´s already the second time I have to send it in for repair...
The first issue was a clear hardware defect - I left it on the kitchen table around 4 weeks after my purchase with the e-ink on top, and when I returned later during the evening, the clock was ~90 minutes behind, did not move, and the device was not reacting to anything. I´ve tried the 10 seconds reboot thing on the on/off switch (a few days earlier I managed to get me into a software loop while fiddling with the stupid multi-user mode of Android 5... and the hotline guy gave me the idea for a reset with this 10 second thingy) and nothing happened... I had to send the device in.
10 days later it came back, "new mainboard" with a new IMEI, from the outside it was still the same (even my sticker was on).
Then a few days ago, only 2 weeks after the return, my camera did not switch on. Standard Android failure message. Then I realised that if I press the two screens a bit together _sometimes_ the camera comes back, from time to time with a dizzy, blurry picture, sometimes with a strange split screen (upper half of the picture down, lower half up) and sometimes just snow. And then again most of the time the Android failure message and no pic at all.
So the phone is going back to the service AGAIN... Seriously, I have never had any kinda bad luck like this with any other phone in my last 20 years before! Of course the whole setup/install procedure has to be done again (and since I am using the phone professionally, with that amount of files and apps and widgets that takes at least 3-4 hours - although I am starting to develop a sort of routine here... ) and so on.
In conclusion - because in some other topics some of you already mentioned RMA issues... - my question would be: How reliable is YP2 in your experience? Does it make sense to keep using mine, or should I sell it as quickly as, and with the smallest possible loss possible on ebay and return to more satisfactory models? I mean, I LOVE my secondary e-ink screen and things I can do with (and thanks to) it! This makes my decision even harder, since the other contestants with double screens have next to NO software support on their devices for a proper use of the e-ink, at least compared to Yota who really invested into that as well...
Sounds like you've been cleaning out Yota's monday models for everyone.
Personally, I've had mine for 6 months now and only run into some software related problems. Yota has said that they are working on bringing Android 5.1 for yotaphone 2. Hardware has been working flawlessly.
You should create a full backup of your phone before sending it in. Then when you get it back just restore it and you're up and running within minutes.
If you keep running into problems but appreciate the epd, you could sell your yp2, get some cheap replacement phone for 6-12 months and then buy yotaphone 3.
Well, in the first case when the phone completely froze there was no way backing it up
I considered doing so however the last time before I sent it in for the camera issue, but specifically _because_ of all these Hardware-issues I wouldn´t want to mess with the rooting option - and without root, there is only so much you can backup...
Still, my K9- and Nova launcher settings were done within seconds, as were the messages and call logs and google-related stuff. For the rest... well, as I said, I´m starting developing a routine Hopefully it is worth the effort and once it comes back now, it will do it´s job like ALL my previous phones did. Otherwise I will sell it and return to Samsung and never touch a Yota again...
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Well, in the first case when the phone completely froze there was no way backing it up
I considered doing so however the last time before I sent it in for the camera issue, but specifically _because_ of all these Hardware-issues I wouldn´t want to mess with the rooting option - and without root, there is only so much you can backup...
Still, my K9- and Nova launcher settings were done within seconds, as were the messages and call logs and google-related stuff. For the rest... well, as I said, I´m starting developing a routine Hopefully it is worth the effort and once it comes back now, it will do it´s job like ALL my previous phones did. Otherwise I will sell it and return to Samsung and never touch a Yota again...
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To create a full backup, you don't need to root, but you will need to unlock the bootloader. Basically you would first unlock the bootloader, then boot (not flash) into a custom recovery, create your backup, transfer it to your computer, and you would be done. The only thing that would have changed and detectable afterwards would be the unlocked bootloader. However, I don't think that they would turn down your hardware related RMA because of that. That is not a verified assumption though.
Edit: It would seem that some manufacturers might turn down the RMA for unlocked bootloader, and some might not. Yota has not made their stance clear on this.

Backup broken GS5

I dropped my phone and the screen shattered and fell off. I assumed it was dead, but when I replaced the battery and held the power button, it came to life!? I have my wife's old GS5 that I'd like to restore mine to. Anyone have a link or guide that I could follow that doesn't require changing things on the phone which require the screen?
My photos are safe as they were saved on SD, but I'd like to recover settings for apps (contacts, app settings, save games, etc). It wouldn't be the end of the world if I lost that stuff, but I'd rather have it!
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I dropped my phone and the screen shattered and fell off. I assumed it was dead, but when I replaced the battery and held the power button, it came to life!? I have my wife's old GS5 that I'd like to restore mine to. Anyone have a link or guide that I could follow that doesn't require changing things on the phone which require the screen?
My photos are safe as they were saved on SD, but I'd like to recover settings for apps (contacts, app settings, save games, etc). It wouldn't be the end of the world if I lost that stuff, but I'd rather have it!
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The following link is what I had used to replace the Daughterboard (Micro-USB Port) on one of my Galaxy S5 devices.
https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Samsung_Galaxy_S5
The process for the Digitizer Display is almost the same...
For the Digitizer Display, the guide (within the above link) is probably the best one you'll be able to locate (that also has very helpful images for each step too).
Take your time and be very careful! There's really no alternative shortcuts to perform this process and (to add) I will agree that Samsung didn't make this device very "repair friendly" for the Digitizer Display either.
I do wish you the best of luck! :thumbup:
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Are you suggesting that the only way to recover the data is to replace the screen/digitizer? I already have a replacement phone in working condition. I was hoping I could transfer the data over to the new one. I have now confirmed that the phone can connect to the computer in download mode but Kies and Smart Switch both complain that it's not a supported device (neither is the new identical phone). I think if I were able to connect the new phone successfully to a PC software in download mode, I'd be able to use the same approach to connect the old one and recover the files.
I tried Smart Switch but it wouldn't connect to the phone. I updated the drivers from the menu and it connected to the new one. I switched and it updated drivers automatically but is now connected and backing up!
Since I didn't find a ready made solution, I came up with my own.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=78883506&postcount=4

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