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Can I successfully flash a new ROM if I have a broken display??
I am currently controlling my phone via MyMobiler. I have ordered a new LCD but until it arrives (aprox 15 days) I would like to flash a new ROM, also CID unlock the phone.
Is there a way that I can do all of this blindsided ??
nnph said:
Hello,
Can I successfully flash a new ROM if I have a broken display??
I am currently controlling my phone via MyMobiler. I have ordered a new LCD but until it arrives (aprox 15 days) I would like to flash a new ROM, also CID unlock the phone.
Is there a way that I can do all of this blindsided ??
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Not being an expert, but you wouldn't be able to resinatll mymobiler to control it again afterwards, and then it would be useless until you got the new LCD? Most steps of it, I think you'd be able to do, when flashing I haven't ever had to use the touch screen/see the screen. But I think you would have issues being able to use it afterwards anyways as you would have a nice bit of guess work to get the right location when you're prompted to install mymobiler on the elf. Also, you would have to get to this point by using remote align?
But then again, someone with more knowledge may be able to offer better advice, I hope my views help.
hoping to get some ideas!!
MyMobiler was installed when the display was broken. I am not sure if it prompts a message when you install it? (after running the installer on the PC I pushed the left soft-key just in case, and it worked)
My only concern is what are the steps/messages on the first boot after flashing??! it has been 2 year since I've flashed a WM and I don't remember all the stages.
nnph said:
hoping to get some ideas!!
MyMobiler was installed when the display was broken. I am not sure if it prompts a message when you install it? (after running the installer on the PC I pushed the left soft-key just in case, and it worked)
My only concern is what are the steps/messages on the first boot after flashing??! it has been 2 year since I've flashed a WM and I don't remember all the stages.
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Did one on my lunch, from memory it seems to be calibrate (cries if one is slightly out...), date time settings, and a few annoying this is how winmo works with menus etc. then you get to the actual screen.
I have a second ELF coming tomorrow - If I can get it fixed I can see if I cna figure it out if you'd like? May take some time as I only get 30mins a day to mess around with them though. Maybe take some pics so you can get a guess for where the buttons are on the screens you won't be able to see, as from your posts it sounds like the digitiser works?
Hi all,
So, despite being careful I inevitably dropped my shiny Galaxy S2. I was more than unlucky though, and it fell in the path of a revolving door! End result is a smashed screen but working device. Nope, no insurance and I bought it without contract so I've lost a lot of pennies.
However, I am hoping to save something from this. I'm typing on my old desire so excuse the brief initial post bit I'm hoping I can at least not let the phone go to waste...
I have the MHL to HDMI cable and using this I can see the phone started ok and the pattern screen is displayed, so far so good!
However the screen doesn't respond to touch. Bummer.
So my thought is this: I've seen that you can hook up a Bluetooth mouse to the phone ... I'm wondering if I can pair a Bluetooth mouse before the pattern lock using adb and thus have a phone I can leave connected to the TV, use a mouse with and still get some use out of.
What do you guys think?
Cheers!
Its actually very doable.The problem is how to pair the mouse
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Indeed, that is very much the problem! I would hope that once its paired it will all be plain sailing, but trying to get it paired in its current state is the crux of it
Why not buy a new screen?
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Mostly because they are almost as expensive as the phone itself... That and it's not just the screen, the surrounding frame is also quite badly damaged. I figure if I wait till after xmas I can probably get a new S2 for a similar price as I would be paying for just the screen now. I have my old desire which is keeping me going in the meantime.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=971768
See if that works?
can't you just perform a hard reset? It can be done through recovery and only requires hardware buttons.
Should take care of the unlock code part, not?
sargorn said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=971768
See if that works?
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Thanks sargorn, however my phone doesn't have debugging enabled to I can't adb into the phone in anything other than recovery mode...
swiftshifter said:
can't you just perform a hard reset? It can be done through recovery and only requires hardware buttons.
Should take care of the unlock code part, not?
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Hi swiftshifter...
Yes, this is an option to get rid of the unlock part but I'd rather not hard reset if there are alternatives. I'm keeping this as a backup.
I still need to figure out the send event stuff though because I'll probably need this to 'press' the buttons required to pair a mouse.
I think my biggest hurdle at the moment, or the biggest win if I can get it, is to enable debugging mode whilst the phone is on normally as suggested in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17910067 But I haven't had a chance to try this yet...
How about going into your market account from PC and remotely install VNC server? One problem though.. how to automatically start the VNC server...
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How about going into your market account from PC and remotely install VNC server? One problem though.. how to automatically start the VNC server...
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A good idea! But yeah, hindered by the same issue. I think long term I'd prefer the bluetooth mouse but for the sake of setting everything up VNC on there would probably make life a lot easier! Can't believe I hadn't though of it to be honest!
Now just to work out how to get it started ;-)
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!
Hello all,
This is a strange request but desperate times call for desperate measures. My father recently got himself a new Samsung Galaxy S5 here in Australia, unfortunately a tragic motorcycle accident on the 1st of this month led to my father no longer being with us. This was heartbreaking for my family and I, I now have in my possession his phone, It is still operational from what I can gather, it still rings, still vibrates when hooking up to my laptop and it detects it. The screen is completely smashed and doesn't work and the phone is locked. I want to be able to access the phone to recover any photos etc he has on the phone itself, I am unaware of what type of screenlock is on it.
So far I tried Samsung Kies but due to the phone being locked I can't use that,. Nothing shows up on the phone in windows explorer. I've downloaded [email protected] and android studio and have tried to get that to show up so I can see whats on the screen and attempt to use android control to unlock the phone but so far I've had no such luck. I need usb debugging enabled but I'm going to have to assume its disabled and thus proving my attempts so far to be fruitless.
If anyone can give me any ideas or things to try I'm all ears, I'm ok with computers so should be able to figure out most things but this is my first exposure to these types of applications.
Kind regards,
Eric.
trekster83 said:
Hello all,
This is a strange request but desperate times call for desperate measures. My father recently got himself a new Samsung Galaxy S5 here in Australia, unfortunately a tragic motorcycle accident on the 1st of this month led to my father no longer being with us. This was heartbreaking for my family and I, I now have in my possession his phone, It is still operational from what I can gather, it still rings, still vibrates when hooking up to my laptop and it detects it. The screen is completely smashed and doesn't work and the phone is locked. I want to be able to access the phone to recover any photos etc he has on the phone itself, I am unaware of what type of screenlock is on it.
So far I tried Samsung Kies but due to the phone being locked I can't use that,. Nothing shows up on the phone in windows explorer. I've downloaded [email protected] and android studio and have tried to get that to show up so I can see whats on the screen and attempt to use android control to unlock the phone but so far I've had no such luck. I need usb debugging enabled but I'm going to have to assume its disabled and thus proving my attempts so far to be fruitless.
If anyone can give me any ideas or things to try I'm all ears, I'm ok with computers so should be able to figure out most things but this is my first exposure to these types of applications.
Kind regards,
Eric.
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First of all, I'm really sorry for your loss..
If he had a microSD card in his phone, it's likely that his pictures (and other documents) are on the card.
If that's the case, unless he encrypted the content, you should be able to just remove the microSD card and read it on your computer with a card reader.
Eric, do you have a MHL adaptor & HDMI tv?
You can view the screen on this via tv.
If I understand well he is able to see the screen but cannot pass the security lock. If that's the case try to connect the phone to your PC and copy all the internal SD card, I think you will be able to access the content. Also not sure if a factory reset will deactivate the screen lock but you can try it in an ultimate attempt.
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mikka06 said:
If I understand well he is able to see the screen but cannot pass the security lock. If that's the case try to connect the phone to your PC and copy all the internal SD card, I think you will be able to access the content. Also not sure if a factory reset will deactivate the screen lock but you can try it in an ultimate attempt.
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It depends on the type of security lock.
If it's swipe, then he can see the content by connecting the phone to the PC, but not if it's a password, fingerprint, pin, ...
He would have to unlock the screen before the files are available.
Sorry to hear of your loss, especially at this time of year.
The idea of copying the SD card is the first step. If I read you're message right you can't see the screen at all?? I would take the device to a repair shop and get the screen replaced - tell them very clearly NOT to wipe / reset the device. Then you should be able to see the screen and might be able to figure out the screen lock. If the fingerprint reader was used there will always be an alternative password, you might be able to reset this to the gmail account used on the phone (assuming you have access to this?).
Hope you get it sorted.
Mithrandir007 said:
First of all, I'm really sorry for your loss..
If he had a microSD card in his phone, it's likely that his pictures (and other documents) are on the card.
If that's the case, unless he encrypted the content, you should be able to just remove the microSD card and read it on your computer with a card reader.
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I copied all of the sd card and as it was copying it died, so I have most of the data off that.
DeanonZL said:
Eric, do you have a MHL adaptor & HDMI tv?
You can view the screen on this via tv.
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No I don't have the adaptor but I do have a HDMI tv, so I will investigate this, thank you.
mikka06 said:
If I understand well he is able to see the screen but cannot pass the security lock. If that's the case try to connect the phone to your PC and copy all the internal SD card, I think you will be able to access the content. Also not sure if a factory reset will deactivate the screen lock but you can try it in an ultimate attempt.
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Cannot see the screen, and when I connect it to pc to check if there is anything on the phone itself, It won't let me as the phone is keypad/swipe/fingerprint locked.
Mithrandir007 said:
It depends on the type of security lock.
If it's swipe, then he can see the content by connecting the phone to the PC, but not if it's a password, fingerprint, pin, ...
He would have to unlock the screen before the files are available.
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This is what I am trying to find out what lock is on the phone.
MadMic said:
Sorry to hear of your loss, especially at this time of year.
The idea of copying the SD card is the first step. If I read you're message right you can't see the screen at all?? I would take the device to a repair shop and get the screen replaced - tell them very clearly NOT to wipe / reset the device. Then you should be able to see the screen and might be able to figure out the screen lock. If the fingerprint reader was used there will always be an alternative password, you might be able to reset this to the gmail account used on the phone (assuming you have access to this?).
Hope you get it sorted.
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I took it to a repair shop, its a catch 22 situation, They want $150 to pull the data off the phone, and if there is no data of use then thats a waste of money, They wants $240 to replace the screen, the phone has a very slight bend in it so if I replace the screen the phone still may not be able to be used properly so again would be a waste of money.
This is the main reason why I am trying to at least view the screen to ascertain what lock is used, I do have his gmail credentials so I can reset from there, from what I understand resetting the phone also loses any data (messages, pictures, etc) that is on the actual phone.
Last but not least thank you to everyone so far for your replies, I really appreciate you all taking the time to reply and try to help!
Regards,
Eric.
trekster83 said:
I copied all of the sd card and as it was copying it died, so I have most of the data off that.
No I don't have the adaptor but I do have a HDMI tv, so I will investigate this, thank you.
Cannot see the screen, and when I connect it to pc to check if there is anything on the phone itself, It won't let me as the phone is keypad/swipe/fingerprint locked.
This is what I am trying to find out what lock is on the phone.
I took it to a repair shop, its a catch 22 situation, They want $150 to pull the data off the phone, and if there is no data of use then thats a waste of money, They wants $240 to replace the screen, the phone has a very slight bend in it so if I replace the screen the phone still may not be able to be used properly so again would be a waste of money.
This is the main reason why I am trying to at least view the screen to ascertain what lock is used, I do have his gmail credentials so I can reset from there, from what I understand resetting the phone also loses any data (messages, pictures, etc) that is on the actual phone.
Last but not least thank you to everyone so far for your replies, I really appreciate you all taking the time to reply and try to help!
Regards,
Eric.
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No worries.
Do you know if he was using Cerberus or Theftspy or another anti theft tool?
If he did and you can find out his credentials, you should also be able to unlock the phone with a command (at least Cerberus does that) or even transfer all the data to a cloud (dropbox, google drive,...).
Could he not physically open the phone and get to the actual sd card that the phone comes with that the OS and all that is on? Or is that locked down?
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I had a idea for the lock screen but it will not help with seeing which you would have to deal with first. Any chance he left Gmail loged on any computer you have access to. You could try installing a app to bypass the lock screen.
I have never tried this one it was just the first I found that fit my theory of a workaround, although you could look around for a free one that may be better then you wouldn't have to worry about passwords to do the purchase.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.thomascannon.screenlockbypass.pro
shadowofdarkness said:
I had a idea for the lock screen but it will not help with seeing which you would have to deal with first. Any chance he left Gmail loged on any computer you have access to. You could try installing a app to bypass the lock screen.
I have never tried this one it was just the first I found that fit my theory of a workaround, although you could look around for a free one that may be better then you wouldn't have to worry about passwords to do the purchase.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.thomascannon.screenlockbypass.pro
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If you know his samsung account information, you can login to their web service and remove the lockscreen passcode. From there, you should be able to USB the files off of it.
Hi everyone.
I've had my 6P for two years, and a couple of weeks ago it fell out of my pocket when I was climbing into the roof to look far a water leak. 2.5 metres straight down with a quick bounce off the ladder on the way. Much to my extreme surprise the screen didn't crack, but it is really buggered - it only comes on for maybe 1/4 of a second every ten seconds or so.
And hence the problem; I need to access the internal memory to get some work records but I can't see the screen long enough to be able to select anything. I did, however, manage to get the wifi working and so retrieve all the photos, vids, etc. Getting to the system screens that turn on USB access to the phone is going to be extremely difficult to do.
So, does anyone know how I'll be able to access the internal memory, by any means? I can kind-of see the menu screens by videoing the phone and playing it back slowly. Difficult, but it might be the only way.
BillzillaAus said:
Hi everyone.
I've had my 6P for two years, and a couple of weeks ago it fell out of my pocket when I was climbing into the roof to look far a water leak. 2.5 metres straight down with a quick bounce off the ladder on the way. Much to my extreme surprise the screen didn't crack, but it is really buggered - it only comes on for maybe 1/4 of a second every ten seconds or so.
And hence the problem; I need to access the internal memory to get some work records but I can't see the screen long enough to be able to select anything. I did, however, manage to get the wifi working and so retrieve all the photos, vids, etc. Getting to the system screens that turn on USB access to the phone is going to be extremely difficult to do.
So, does anyone know how I'll be able to access the internal memory, by any means? I can kind-of see the menu screens by videoing the phone and playing it back slowly. Difficult, but it might be the only way.
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cast you screen to a chrome cast or something to see from what your saying seems like touchscreen still works so once you do that turn on show touches and that way you see where your finger is
billycar11 said:
cast you screen to a chrome cast or something to see from what your saying seems like touchscreen still works so once you do that turn on show touches and that way you see where your finger is
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That has been suggested before, but it doesn't have the Chromecast app installed. It would need a few screen presses to work, thus still making it a very tricky thing to do. Ta anyway.
BillzillaAus said:
That has been suggested before, but it doesn't have the Chromecast app installed. It would need a few screen presses to work, thus still making it a very tricky thing to do. Ta anyway.
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well i just link a thread where i help a guy navigate his phone with a broken screen you can get some ideas from there and what worked for him also you can you a keyboard to open apps easily you cant see just by typing
https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/help/125-reward-help-to-usb-debugging-mode-t3694253
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BillzillaAus said:
That has been suggested before, but it doesn't have the Chromecast app installed. It would need a few screen presses to work, thus still making it a very tricky thing to do. Ta anyway.
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also you dont need the google home app to cast your screen its built in to the os since 5.0 its in the quick tiles with flash light i uninstalled the app to make sure it stays it stayed
billycar11 said:
well i just link a thread where i help a guy navigate his phone with a broken screen you can get some ideas from there and what worked for him also you can you a keyboard to open apps easily you cant see just by typing
https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/help/125-reward-help-to-usb-debugging-mode-t3694253
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also you dont need the google home app to cast your screen its built in to the os since 5.0 its in the quick tiles with flash light i uninstalled the app to make sure it stays it stayed
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Thanks for that - I'll get a USB cable and try it tonight. And maybe the Chromecast option as well. I'll let you know ....
Okay, all done now - I got it working with casting to my Chromecast unit on the telly. I had to get used to guessing exactly where to put my finger on the blank screen but it all worked and so I've got all the data I need off the phone. I'm quite sad that this is the end of the line for my 6P, it was a fantastic phone. I have to say that I'm still tempted to pay the money to get a new screen fitted to it though.
BillzillaAus said:
Okay, all done now - I got it working with casting to my Chromecast unit on the telly. I had to get used to guessing exactly where to put my finger on the blank screen but it all worked and so I've got all the data I need off the phone. I'm quite sad that this is the end of the line for my 6P, it was a fantastic phone. I have to say that I'm still tempted to pay the money to get a new screen fitted to it though.
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nice glad it worked out for you