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Mount Android encrypted data partition on PC
I can confirm with 100% certainty that the numbers are indeed 1-9 for the pattern unlock.
My Nexus 4 met the same unfortunate end (except on concrete) and after some Googling, I found this post and ...
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Control Android with broken screen from PC
Looks like these days the best solution for controlling an Android phone from a PC is scrcpy. It is being actively maintained, has very high performance (framerate, latency), is available cross-...
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Mount Android encrypted data partition on PC
Apparently there is no tool on PC to decrypt Android's encryption at the moment, but the TWRP recovery can be used on the device to decrypt everything... Even with a broken touchscreen, as long as ...
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My phone's touchscreen is damaged. Is it possible to control it remotely?
Use an OTG mouse and keyboard.
From a thread:
I can confirm that using an USB OTG adapter a wireless Logitech mouse
and keyboard combo works for me without problem using Fairphone Open
OS 17.03 (...
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Control Android with broken screen from PC
adbcontrol can do this. It opens a window containing the phone screen on your computer, so you can use it when the phone screen is broken, and you can click and type in the window to control the phone....
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Control Android with broken screen from PC
One word: Vysor
Using the vysor to control my Xperia Z2. See the state of my phone, but Vysor came to the rescue.
*if phone reboots and won't connect after plugging in, try removing the micro sd ...
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Solution for "ghost touches" - Procedure to disable a small portion of the screen from being sensitive to touch?
Connect your phone to a PC via ADB and use this command: adb shell wm overscan left,top,right,bottom where left, top, right and bottom are the coordinates upto which your screen works properly.
For ...
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Android interfacing with phone with a broken screen
If you have a working adb connection you can use scrcpy to mirror the phone screen to a connected PC or Mac.
Scrcpy is an open source tool. The only problem that can arise is that typical scrcpy ...
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My phone's touchscreen is damaged. Is it possible to control it remotely?
If you can manage to get usb debugging working, try scrcpy.
Its features include:
audio forwarding (Android >= 11)
recording
mirroring with Android device screen off
copy-paste in both directions
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How to power-off Motorola phone without screen
Came upon this when I was looking for a way to shut down my Moto Z with a broken screen and the method described by Dale (thank you) almost worked, but then I figured out it required one extra step. I ...
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How to power-off Motorola phone without screen
I can't be sure that this is the optimal way to power-off the phone, but it seems to work.
Press and hold power until it buzzes or about 15 seconds, then
release.
Press and hold volume-down and the ...
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Control Android with broken screen from PC
You could try to use AndroidScreenCast for you purposes - it's maintainable version of original androidscreencast.
It requires only Java and ADB, no phone client, so just run it and use it.
I've just ...
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Enabling ADB on Nexus 6 with dead screen
I followed this guide
I went into fastboot mode by holding down the power button (force restart) and the volume down key (recovery mode)
I downloaded a twrop image from: https://dl.twrp.me/shamu/
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Exporting contacts via adb
The contacts database can be queried using the ADB shell:
adb shell content query --uri content://com.android.contacts/data
The command will dump all the content of the database only if the shell ...
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Change MTP/PTP for a Galaxy S4 w/ a Broken Screen
i know you have probably fixed this by now but if not try typing *#0808# into your phone this will bring up a menu where you can select mtp
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How to disable PIN lock in android device without touching it
So when you say broken screen, but then "everything is working except touch", does the display work?
Below I've written a solution that'll work with a broken display and touch, if your display does ...
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Is there a way to turn my phone to landscape mode in the lock screen?
Your device seems to support USB OTG functionality. Given that, you can buy an OTG cable and use a mouse (any mouse would work) to control the device, just like you control a computer using a mouse.
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How to fully back up a phone's content to a PC, possibly for restoring on a similar phone
LG provides different Software (or maybe just different names)
- LG-Bridge
- LG PC Suite
- LG Mobile Switch
- LG ANDROID BACKUP
For experts also there is LGUP flash tool which may shipped with ...
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Recovering Phone Data after Hardware Failure
Copying data from a phone which is not detected by adb and has no screen info to tell what is happening is not going to take you very far from where you are.
Either try to get it to show on system ...
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Galaxy S6: It just won't wipe
in TWRP you can format data from cmd line with mke2fs. you can double check current file system type with df
adb shell
df -t ext4 /data
umount /sdcard
umount /sdcard
umount /data
mke2fs -t ext4 /dev/...
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How can I access my phone with a broken screen when TWRP decryption is unavailable?
You can enable ADB by editing certain build.prop options which can be done without data access. Then, like you already mentioned, you can easily control your phone with scrcpy.
For an in-depth ...
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How to do a factory reset on Xperia Z with broken screen?
See whether your phone supports OTG. If so, use an OTG cable and then connect the mouse to your phone. In place of touch you can now use the mouse and then reset it via normal way.
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How can I do adb backup without a visible screen?
(For later Android versions)
You may want to try ways to mirror the screen. (Method 2 involves mirroring over WiFi)
Or narrate the screen.
With a totally blank screen, you can:
# enable USB debugging (...
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Change MTP/PTP for a Galaxy S4 w/ a Broken Screen
Change the cable.
I had a noname cable and did not worked, it only charged and the phone was not available as storage. After replacing cable with a trusted one (BB or Samsung i tried) it worked.
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Disable touchscreen area (root available)
you can use wm size (WIDTH)x(HEIGHT)
the difference between size and overscan is that any input outside the screen area will be ignored if you use size to change the display resolution
first you have ...
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Change MTP/PTP for a Galaxy S4 w/ a Broken Screen
try typing the following into your Samsung phone to get access to a hidden USB connection menu
*#0808#
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Is there any way that I can see what is on a phone that has a cracked screen
Assuming the phone has no security lock enabled, you should be able to see the media it contains if connected to a computer. If it has a memory card, you can try and use it on another device.
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xperia z5 broken screen locked need data
Turn off the phone with power button and volume+ (hold them together), connect the mouse or keyboard with OTG cable and than turn on the phone. Then you can use the mouse to do everything.
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How to set MTP mode on phone with broken screen in USB charge-only mode
Probably its too late. I had exactly the same problem and i used a Bluetooth keyboard with a touch pad / a Bluetooth mouse should also work. Use the OTG to connect the Bluetooth device then disconnect ...
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