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

[Julian Robbins]

Hi David

Thanks for the tip. I haven't tried KDE Connect, though heard good things
about it.

Thanks

Julian


On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 at 18:10, david winterton via Herefordshire <
herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> 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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