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I dropped my Samsung S3. Now I cannot see anything, just a white screen with purple, black, and green lines. Before it blanked out, it wasn't recognizing my finger touch. Any idea on how or what to repair? I want to save my phone so I can backup all my data.
Screen has a small crack on the lower right part of the screen:
install kies and connect your phone with usb cable. Then go to backup/restore and you can easily backup your important data from there.
FOUND A FIX!!!!! Hi Everyone, I just experienced the same thing: my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 was dropped and the LCD stopped working. However, the phone would turn on. I could not receive calls or call out. My USB Debugging was turned off. This is how I managed to retrieve my TEXTS, other Rooted info and normal files. I am not sure if the front end of this fix had much to do with the over-all fix, but it seemed to.
I turned my phone on. I pressed my "Volume Up" button until I heard it beep. While still pressing the volume button, I pressed the "Bottom Face" button, then my "On/Off" button. Pressing them all down at the same time, but in that order. This seemed to put the phone in recovery mode.
I went to this website and downloaded Kies 3 software from Samsung (free). http://www.mobile-phone-transfer.com/extract-data-from-kies-backup-sbu-file.html
I opened the software and then plugged my Old phone in. DO NOT plug your phone in until the program is opened. Choose the files you want to backup and then press the backup button (may be called something else, but you get my point)
Once the backup is complete, plug your new phone in and restore all of the selected files (you may choose which ones) onto your new phone.
It worked with no worries about the "USB Debugging" being turned on or off!!!!!!!!!!!!!Yahooooooooo.
I wanted to share this as not other option worked for me. Good luck!
Apologies for putting this on an old thread, however having spent a week paining over how to do this if your screen is locked and totally broken. Buy a USB OTG cable from Amazon (they're quite cheap), plug a USB keyboard into this and then plug that into your phone. You should be able to type the PIN to unlock it if this is what you have, then you can use Kies to backup the phone. Just worked for me (yay). This method only works on certain devices.
I broke the display and digitizer today on my Galaxy S4, without USB Debugging turned on. I used Samsung Kies to backup everything on the internal storage, apps, music, ringtones and their settings, text messages, contacts, all of it.
Not possible if debugging is disabled.
