[HLUG] Getting data off an Android phone with broken display

[david winterton]

Just a stupid thought Julian, is kde connect installled? and could that
bypass the need to mount the partition?

On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 10:49 AM Julian Robbins via Herefordshire <
herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Hoping someone can help .
>
> My daughters android phone still powers up but you cannot see anything on
> the display. I'm looking at how or if it's worth trying to fix this but
> that's not the main problem at hand.
>
> She has some files on the phone that she needs for a college work that we
> need to copy from the phone. I can see the phone when cabling it up and
> runny sudo dmesg but if I try and mount it it's not working.
>
> I also tried android file transfer but to use this is need to change the
> mode that the phone is using when attached to my Linux laptop. But this
> can't be done as I can't see the display.
>
> Has anyone any ideas how to tackle this? I'm sure there's gonna be a way
> but I can't spend too long on it today.
>
> Also for reference there's no sdcard in the phone it's just using internal
> storage
>
> Thanks
>
> PS we're planning a Herefordshire Linux event in April regarding using open
> source and Linux for multimedia work.
> More details soon
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