Samsung Galaxy S5 G900F, I am in quite the deep crap. - Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello, people.
Let's get straight to the point.
Phone's problems:
Unrooted (This was a mistake)
Stock
USB Debugging off (This is my goal)
Touchscreen unresponsive (Digitizer dead)
Broken screen (It should be obvious what this means..)
Computer not authorized. (Couldn't do anything when the RSA key window pops up.)
Not logged in with Google (Meaning I cannot install jack **** on the phone.)
So, now you know I am in quite the deep ****.
I need USB Debugging on.
I don't care about losing data, because I am a smart human being, and I got those backed up on my pc, and on cloud.
So, ODIN Flashes are no problem, but the thing is that system.img.ext4 does not have the folder I am looking for, since I wanna copy the adbkey.psa file to a certain place. (/data/misc/adb/adb_keys) (I just found this method of authorization while doing some research)
I know about editing the boot.img, and editing default.prop. (Even then, I don't know if only putting a 1 after debuggable and changing mtp to adb is enough, if not, tell me.) (Also, disabling the "protection" or whatever does nothing in the default.prop file)
So, if any of you could help me do this, it would be great.

Why don't you just flash TWRP and use adb in the phone's recovery?

mcsmart said:
Why don't you just flash TWRP and use adb in the phone's recovery?
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Already tried flashing CWM, not TWRP. Will try TWRP actually, but still, I want to enable usb debugging, and make my phone work together with my pc. I need to look at my calls and messages, alot of stuff, so I actually want to control the phone, through something like MirrorGO.
But whatever, since the phone's screen is completely dead, aswell as the touchscreen, it would be quite hard to navigate.
Edit: TWRP Recovery actually worked, and USB Debugging was turned on. Gonna see if I can push that adbkey..

Why don't you install a new screen?
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JulGer01 said:
Why don't you install a new screen?
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I will, but I am too busy right now. And since my ISP is sitting on their asses, the only source of internet is my phone.
I legit have to come to my 57 years old father to use the internet at this point.

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[Q] Screen broken, how to access my pics ?

Hi,
I broke my Nexus 4 screen so I can't do anything, the touchscreen is completely down. But the display is working.
I have bought a new Nexus 4 and I want to get my photos from the broken device. The problem is that I can't unlock the phone (pattern), so I can't access to these. USB debugging is off and the device isn't rooted.
I hope someone have a solution for me. Does any virtual touchscreen exist ?
Ghuillaume said:
Hi,
I broke my Nexus 4 screen so I can't do anything, the touchscreen is completely down. But the display is working.
I have bought a new Nexus 4 and I want to get my photos from the broken device. The problem is that I can't unlock the phone (pattern), so I can't access to these. USB debugging is off and the device isn't rooted.
I hope someone have a solution for me. Does any virtual touchscreen exist ?
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Don't know if there is a simpler option, but this might help you:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2433307
Not sure if adb works with usb debugging disabled though...
That has to be the Worst case scenario. Another reason I use Google drive and keep pics synced via cloud
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It's really annoying, I just need to unlock my phone but I can't !
I'm not comfortable with the idea having my pics on Google's servers, but I will find something to backup data now..
Maybe the only way is to wait the nexus to be obsolete and find a screen for a low price
Oh wait !
USB debugging is ON ! I didn't see the bean icon because there are a lot of notifications.
But I can't use adb :
$ adb shell
error: device unauthorized. Please check the confirmation dialog on your device.
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Ghuillaume said:
Oh wait !
USB debugging is ON ! I didn't see the bean icon because there are a lot of notifications.
But I can't use adb :
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I'm assuming that because your phone isn't rooted you don't have a custom recovery or an unlocked bootloader. Is this correct?
i know with my HTC desire i run adb, when the device is turned off and connected to PC .
i think you can try it with your N4 , there are tools to do it google it .
good luck
You can try some combination of Airdroid (older version) and adb/shell command. So you'll need your device connected and older version of Airdroid - not two, because it asks for user action to accept the connection, and the older one just gives random generated password for the user to input in their browsers.
Now, you'll need to push the apk on your phone, and then just start it from your adb shell with the following command:
am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.sand.airdroid/.Splash - this should work on the old version
am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.sand.airdroid/.SplashActivity_ this works on last airdroid
At least you can try with other app that doesn't need user interaction on their display to get into the phone memory from their browsers. You can just install them from play store.
The first time that I'm writing here in Nexus forum though I am here with my 2 old DHD for about 2 years and I hope my answer could be helpful. And now I am here because of my soon to come Nexus 4
You could try to unlock, flash CWM then "adb pull" the files from there. No need for the digitizer to get it done. Fully charge the battery before starting.
You don't need root access, just adb debugging.
For everything off your phone: adb pull /sdcard/
Done.
EDIT: If you just want your pics from your camera the command would be adb pull /sdcard/DCIM/Camera/
lopezk38 said:
I'm assuming that because your phone isn't rooted you don't have a custom recovery or an unlocked bootloader. Is this correct?
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You don't need root to use adb.
You only need to for adb to access anything beyond the sdcard.
When you first use adb there is a pop up on the device that asks if you want to allow the pc access.
He can't use the touchscreen to confirm its ok. This is the reason after I flash a Rom hook up to my pc ASAP and have it remember my computer to allow me access if this were to happen to me.
illru said:
You could try to unlock, flash CWM then "adb pull" the files from there. No need for the digitizer to get it done. Fully charge the battery before starting.
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HUGE reason why this won't work:
unlocking the bootloader wipes the entire device.
Which... is pointless if you're trying to recover data.
studacris said:
HUGE reason why this won't work:
unlocking the bootloader wipes the entire device.
Which... is pointless if you're trying to recover data.
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If you flash the custom recovery immediately after unlocking (without rebooting into android in between) your data should not get wiped.
Well then... I sit here humbly corrected.
studacris said:
Well then... I sit here humbly corrected.
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Dont worry, its not really an officially documented thing...more of just a bug with the bootloader.
Also if flashing your phone makes you nervous you could try to pull from in stock recovery but I don't know if it will work. Never played with stock recovery, it dose not last on my phone for very long.
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Also if flashing your phone makes you nervous you could try to pull from in stock recovery but I don't know if it will work. Never played with stock recovery, it dose not last on my phone for very long.
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I dont think adb works in stock recovery. Only custom ones afaik.

[Q] Backup app data with broken display (no touch, no root, debuging enabled)

Hi folks,
yesterday my Nexus 4 hit the ground and the front glass just bursted. Touch is not working anymore and the screen is locked (only slide to unlock, no pin or gesture). I can connect it to my PC and can access the internal storage, so backing up images, music, etc. is not a problem.
I have some apps installed of which I want to transfer the app data to my new phone. Debugging is enabled so I thought, well that'll be easy just run adb backup. Thought so... As adb backup requires a user action when it comes to entering the password I'm doomed
Does anybody has an idea or experienced the same problem on how I can get adb backup to work without being able to use the touch screen?
I'm not limited to adb backup but as my phone is not rooted I assume there are not a lot possibilities besides.
Thanks a lot for your help.
calex
calex3141 said:
Hi folks,
yesterday my Nexus 4 hit the ground and the front glass just bursted. Touch is not working anymore and the screen is locked (only slide to unlock, no pin or gesture). I can connect it to my PC and can access the internal storage, so backing up images, music, etc. is not a problem.
I have some apps installed of which I want to transfer the app data to my new phone. Debugging is enabled so I thought, well that'll be easy just run adb backup. Thought so... As adb backup requires a user action when it comes to entering the password I'm doomed
Does anybody has an idea or experienced the same problem on how I can get adb backup to work without being able to use the touch screen?
I'm not limited to adb backup but as my phone is not rooted I assume there are not a lot possibilities besides.
Thanks a lot for your help.
calex
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Do you have a custom recovery? Try flashing a non-touch one. Adb should work from within it.
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Do you have a custom recovery? Try flashing a non-touch one. Adb should work from within it.
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As I wrote, my phone is NOT rooted nor unlocked, so no custom recovery. Or do I get something wrong there?
calex3141 said:
As I wrote, my phone is NOT rooted nor unlocked, so no custom recovery. Or do I get something wrong there?
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Then you'll lose your app data.
calex3141 said:
As I wrote, my phone is NOT rooted nor unlocked, so no custom recovery. Or do I get something wrong there?
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Your outta luck it seems then... If its that important to you you could buy a replacement screen for the n4... Get your data and sell it and get the money you spent in the screen back.
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If the apps that u need data are on sdcard(their datas)then u just do adb pull /sdcard c:\sdbackup with phone on.
if not then:
@calex3141 :
1ST: IM NOT RESPONSABLE FOR ANY DAMAGE / FAIL WHILE DOING THIS METHOD, I TESTED ON MY FRIEND´S N4 BUT I CANT GUARANTEE THAT WILL WORK ON EVERY NEXUS (INCLUDING YOURS), USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
2ND: DO NOT CRY IF U CANT GET BACK THE FILES IF SOMETHING FAIL. YOU COULD JUST BUY SCREEN REPLACEMENT OR GET A JTAG DUMP
3RD: do carefuly. if you are nervous calm down b4 doing this. one single command and u can format the nand so be careful.
4TH: I hope it Works for u .
5TH: u need to have adb seted up and also drivers. if you dont know how, search google(for drivers).
for adb just install minimal adb and fastboot
6TH: its recomended to test to see if cygwin(u will know what it is in a moment) is working (do some commands on it, like cd .. (to go back)or ls (list files) )
7TH: if u have any errors contact me asap and i will try to help you
LETS GO:
unlock the bootloader: (type in cmd prompt, fastboot oem unlock, and follow instructions on phone)(DO THE MANUAL WAY, DO NOT USE TOOLKITS, KEEP READING TO KNOW WHY)(it will say that u will loose files, but it actualy dosent format, it just change the 1st´s block of userdata partition to make it unmountable normally,thats why toolkits do fastboot format userdata after unlock.and tutorials say to format data in STOCk recovery, since custom ones dosent format, just delete everything except sdcard)
(do not format anything, even on stock recovery)
flash multirom recovery:http://d-h.st/pzv (Thanks@tassadar for his great work)(the only that i use, so i cant tell others)
then do this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705
(instead of doing it with phone on, just do on recovery,adb is enabled on it)

Does ADB work through CWM?

My dad completely broke his screen and digitizer, and would like to get his data back before doing anything to the phone.
The phone is bone stock, no USB debugging, and has a word lock.
The first thing I will try will be to carefully use a USB-OTG cable and a mouse to unlock the phone, after printing a 1:1 copy of an s4 with swiftkey also installed to use as a general reference to where the keys are.
That is quite a long shot, so the other thing I thought would be to flash CWM through ODIN, boot into recovery, and now back to the title of the thread, will ADB work through CWM?
Using ADB, I will try and disable the lockscreen (although it is possible to push/pull, I need to read up on that) using, i believe, this guide:
http://aidswithtech.blogspot.ca/
If anyone can confirm this works, I will give it my best efforts.
Thanks!

Wiped Phone, OS is gone and phone is unrecognized

Hello everyone,
I have wiped everything using the TWR recovery boot option in a really poor attempt to unroot my phone since it was behaving strangely.
Now it look like my OS is gone and the phone cannot be recognized anymore by my PCs even if I install the appropriate drivers manually.
Since it is no longer possible for me to attempt to flash the phone with a stock firmware using odin, I have attempted transfering the file on the phone using the sd card and installing it through the TWR recovery menu however it does not seem to be a possible option.
Does anyone have any advice to propose to restore the phone with a working OS?
It should still be able to load a recovery file from TWR, I am just unsure where I could get these since they differ from ROMs available everywhere else, I can also make change directly to the device drive using the file explorer so worst case scenario, I suppose it could be possible to copy past all the content of an image over there via the sd card.
Thanks
what happens when you put it into download mode and connect it to a computer? can you even get to odin mode? there is a way to ADB an OS onto it , but its pretty particular and usually not necessary.
youdoofus said:
what happens when you put it into download mode and connect it to a computer? can you even get to odin mode? there is a way to ADB an OS onto it , but its pretty particular and usually not necessary.
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The download mode seems functionnal on the phone, however the phone is not recognized by any PC which render it useless. My guess is that some files or driver on the phone side got deleted and it is no longer sending the right information to the machines it connects to.
Loading ADB into the OS seems like a neat idea, I didnt know it was possible. I am just unsure if flashing from within the phone is functionnal, my guess is that it probably work, but it is perhaps just a little riskier than doing it from an external device.
Thanks, I will try that, if you have any further advice, let me know
Edit : Oh I just realized you said to ADB an OS into it, yeah I don't thinks its possible, since nothing recognize the phone.
Have you uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers on your computer? Tried a few different computers? And, more likely to be successful, a few different cables?
youdoofus said:
Have you uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers on your computer? Tried a few different computers? And, more likely to be successful, a few different cables?
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Yes, it also worked perfectly fine a minute before everything get wiped. I am pretty confident the only way to get it back working would be to copy the files into the phone manually, I am just unsure what files I should copy to the root since I have never seen how it usually look.
That's weird because I don't know of a way to wipe stuff in such a way to remove the capability of Odin connecting to a computer
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That's weird because I don't know of a way to wipe stuff in such a way to remove the capability of Odin connecting to a computer
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Hmmm I went on cyaogenMod and installed it on my device using the sdcard. Unsure why the stock OS wouldn't work, but at least now the phone is functional.
The phone is still not recognized but it seems like it is slightly better, it now displays as Unknown USB Device (Device Descriptor Request Failed). Which is better than getting disconnected right away from the computer. Now it probably just is a matter of fixing the drivers or the phone further since I have messed around a lot since everything stopped working.
Alright thanks a lot, it didnt occur to me that I probably could install other roms. Im still unsure whether or not I should stick with it but thats the least of my worries right now
garett_ said:
Hmmm I went on cyaogenMod and installed it on my device using the sdcard. Unsure why the stock OS wouldn't work, but at least now the phone is functional.
The phone is still not recognized but it seems like it is slightly better, it now displays as Unknown USB Device (Device Descriptor Request Failed). Which is better than getting disconnected right away from the computer. Now it probably just is a matter of fixing the drivers or the phone further since I have messed around a lot since everything stopped working.
Alright thanks a lot, it didnt occur to me that I probably could install other roms. Im still unsure whether or not I should stick with it but thats the least of my worries right now
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have you tried a different version of odin? or at least a new download of it? does your computer recognize it when its booted up?

ADB Pull data from S6 Edge + (G928F) from Recovery

Hi, I don't know if this is the right forum for this,, but you guys are my only chance of having a solution
I have an S6 Edge+, stock, no USB debugging, no OEM unlock options enabled. Is password protected, but not encrypted. Can't connect to it via USB, cause the user don't want to share the password (I fired him). There is no google account associated for reset, imagine that (it is a company phone and my employee didn't want to associate his personal one).
As part of the project, I need to get some company sensitive files from it and I was thinking pulling with adb in recovery. Can it be done?
I don't want to hard reset it, don't want to brick it and so on. I just need the files and removing/changing the PIN.
I was thinking:
- Odin a recovery (twrp)?
- unlock OEM via command
- Adb pull?
Any suggestions?
B
Wrong forum. Please delete and repost in S6 Edge + Q&A/Troubleshooting Section.
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Ok, thanx!!!
Pls, can you tell me how to delete the post?
You actually cannot delete it by yourself, Moderators have to do it. edit your whole post to "please delete, wrong forum". It will be enough.
Cheers
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Chuppaka said:
Hi, I don't know if this is the right forum for this,, but you guys are my only chance of having a solution
I have an S6 Edge+, stock, no USB debugging, no OEM unlock options enabled. Is password protected, but not encrypted. Can't connect to it via USB, cause the user don't want to share the password (I fired him). There is no google account associated for reset, imagine that (it is a company phone and my employee didn't want to associate his personal one).
As part of the project, I need to get some company sensitive files from it and I was thinking pulling with adb in recovery. Can it be done?
I don't want to hard reset it, don't want to brick it and so on. I just need the files and removing/changing the PIN.
I was thinking:
- Odin a recovery (twrp)?
- unlock OEM via command
- Adb pull?
Any suggestions?
B
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I got you man PM me as I dont own device anymore, I can get you thru the locks from where u are without erasing the data I am almost 75% sure anyhow, so for further assistance just send me a message we can discuss where you are and how to get to the files you need .

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