Hi there, I’ve had a broken phone lying around for ages, only kept it as I know there are some pictures and files I wish I could gain access to again. I’ve tried a variety of methods gaining access to the files, but it doesn’t seem possible as I cannot actually use the screen to “allow usb transfer” etc… Is there any methods I might have missed or something that could help me retrieve these files?

It’s an Huawei Mate 10 Pro.

Any tips, tricks and recommendations are appreciated 🌻

  • Hiro8811@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    If you have USB debugging on then yes. If not try to see if you can mirror display with USB and a TV/monitor. If that doesn’t work a USB mouse will have to do if you know that layout of your phone. A keyboard could also work for the pin. I always suggest leaving USB debugging enabled and paired to your computer so in such cases you could just do

    adb pull /storage/emulated/0(or another number if you have different users or work profile /path/to/desired/location

    This way you’ll pull all the data from everywhere and delete what you don’t need. With USB debugging enabled you could also use SCRCPY, it’s a neat tool that’ll mirror your screen and you can control the phone with computer mouse and keyboard. If you do want to try and enable it’ll be in Developer options/settings, if you have them enabled if you don’t you gotta press on Build Number in your about phone section in settings.

  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I assume you don’t have adb enabled? Or maybe even a custom recovery?

    Otherwise the best shot would be a usb-dongle with hmdi and keyboard/mouse.

    • Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I never tried using an usb to hadmi dongle but I always assumed that unless you confirm sharing the screen from the phone itself then nothing would be shown. I doubt old android versions even allowed sharing the phone screen.

      • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        8 months ago

        I only did once a long time ago, so… I dunno if you need confirmation or something more than just pluggin in.

  • Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    8 months ago

    With usb debugging on ? Doable but not guaranteed

    Without usb debugging ? Almost impossible.

    Of course, there’s some softwares that use loopholes and exploites to extract data/unlock tge phone and other stuff ( basically what the police would use ) but they’re not cheap so the price would be high, and even then it’s not guaranteed.