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

[Julian Robbins]

Hi Roy

How are you ? Hopefully there's a few more things I can try first, but
thanks for idea just in case I need it

Hope we see you at another LUG meeting sometime when it warms up a bit
perhaps ?

Thanks

Julian

On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 at 18:27, Roy Meddings via Herefordshire <
herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

>
> If all else fails there is
> Mobile solutions, Malvern  01684 565161...no fix no fee
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "david winterton via Herefordshire"
> <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> To: "Herefordshire Linux and Open Source Users Group"
> <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Cc: "david winterton" <davidwinterton at gmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, 4 Mar, 23 At 18:14
> Subject: Re: [HLUG] Getting data off an Android phone with broken
> display
> 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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