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My screen is broke and i need to get some stuff off of it

I accidentally dropped my phone the other day and the screen broke. The screen is completely unresponsive (stays black all the time) the only action i get is that the Menu, home, back, and search buttons light up. I need to get to some files on the phone and im having an issue with remotely accessing them.
I cant access anything on the phone cause the screencast tool i have requires the phone to have USB debugging turned on. When the phone was dropped it was turned off.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

What is your phone?
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zanderman112 said:
What is your phone?
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Whoops sorry I didn't mention that. It's a SGS vibrant.
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Ok, maybe later I can post screenshots of where to tap on the screen to get usb debugging on. I have a samsung epic, so it shouldn't be hard. That is if the screen will still register taps. What home launcher were you using?
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zanderman112 said:
Ok, maybe later I can post screenshots of where to tap on the screen to get usb debugging on. I have a samsung epic, so it shouldn't be hard. That is if the screen will still register taps. What home launcher were you using?
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I believe it was the touchwiz gtg launcher. I believe the menus are set the same. Also that would be very helpful.
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Home>Menu>Settings>Aplications>Development>Usb Debugging>Yes
This is the TWlauncher from the epic, all I have is a theme, so this should be the same for you.
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Awesome man thank you... ill let you know if it works
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ironlood said:
Awesome man thank you... ill let you know if it works
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Alrighty then I'm subscribed to the thread
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Unfortunately after multiple attempts I realized that the LCD screen is severed and and unresponsive.
I do appreciate your help
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ironlood said:
Unfortunately after multiple attempts I realized that the LCD screen is severed and and unresponsive.
I do appreciate your help
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I'm sorry. I can't think of anything else
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becareful next time these new phones are not like k750 wich u could play vollyball with it

S/W Upgrade!

Well maybe it is here?!!!
Woke up this am and my phone battery was dead. Connected it to the charger last night but didn't realize the charger was unplugged. So I connected it to my laptop via USB and went about the morning activities.
I just looked over and on the screen it says
S/W Upgrade
Please wait
While upgrading...
Been that way for 10 minutes. I'll keep you posted.

Seriously? WTF. Hmm, I wonder if it could look like anything in this guys post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1166507
Notice he changed it to false alarm and request that it be deleted. OTA updates don't automagically start, you get informed and a choice how to download them.

yeah you may wanna take this down asap

Yeah, unless you get prompted to update while your phone is on, I doubt its legit.
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derekedw said:
Yeah, unless you get prompted to update while your phone is on, I doubt its legit.
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That was the only thing curious to me was that I hit the power button to make sure it was charging and it was. I never turned it on though. Looked over again when I heard the USB connect sound from my laptop and saw the message. Still on the screen at this point.
Not sure.....

Such thread should be locked down ASAP because it's just another "cry wolf"!

Pull your battery or it will stay on this screen. You fat fingered some buttons is all that happened.
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mmandros said:
Well maybe it is here?!!!
Woke up this am and my phone battery was dead. Connected it to the charger last night but didn't realize the charger was unplugged. So I connected it to my laptop via USB and went about the morning activities.
I just looked over and on the screen it says
S/W Upgrade
Please wait
While upgrading...
Been that way for 10 minutes. I'll keep you posted.
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Mine just did the same thing.

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No offense OP, but we have been down this road many times already.

I called T-Mobile. No such Upgrade / Update at this time for LG G2x.
Pull battery, reset phone, wait for the real update to arrive.

Again. Can't belive it!!!
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KRAZYADROIDMASTER said:
Again. Can't belive it!!!
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I'm a fan of calling the of T-Mobile since obviously people are wrong when they tell you there is no update. As if one of these threads doesn't actually pop up once a week...

Happened to me once to. I turned on the phone and got the software upgrade screen. Left in on all night, finally reset (it still had the screen), low and behold, no update.
Not sure why the screen came up.

so when you went to start this thread and typed s/w upgrade into the thread title box and you got the little search window that opens up and warns you not to post a new thread without checking those out first you did what exactly?

Mr clown murder this thread.!!!
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My Galaxy goes into factory mode while charging

Has anyone experienced this, while i have my gs2 skyrocket off and plug it in To charge it it goes into factory mode. Is this normal?
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You mean the recovery mode? Like Clockwork mod right? Are you rooted and using a custom ROM?
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Ur charger just works as usb jig and it will come handy when you have soft bricks. Do not worry there is nothing wrong with ur phone.
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Has anyone experienced this, while i have my gs2 skyrocket off and plug it in To charge it it goes into factory mode. Is this normal?
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He means dload mode. His charger works as Usb Jig. Really helpful tool.
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You mean the recovery mode? Like Clockwork mod right? Are you rooted and using a custom ROM?
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Are you guys rebooting while charging?
Mine only does this if i
Power on while holding volume up+down with the charger plugged in. I noticed it the other day when trying to get into recovery while charging.
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This is not even remotely normal. It's likely that either your phone or your usb cable is defective or damaged.
I'd get a warranty replacement...

This is what happens. If my sg2 skyrocket is off and i plug it in to charge this screen comezs up at the very top it says Factory mode in red
Custom binarydownload: no
Current binary: samsung offical
Then it has the android guy
Then it says Downloading
Dont turn off target.
No my phone isnt rooted i just got it a couple of days ago. I just was wanting to know if anyone else has experienced this. Thanks for any help you can give me
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Dude i told you its download mode. It looks like this.
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This is what happens. If my sg2 skyrocket is off and i plug it in to charge this screen comezs up at the very top it says Factory mode in red
Custom binarydownload: no
Current binary: samsung offical
Then it has the android guy
Then it says Downloading
Dont turn off target.
No my phone isnt rooted i just got it a couple of days ago. I just was wanting to know if anyone else has experienced this. Thanks for any help you can give me
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I got that. I just dont know whats its used for. I am a little new to android.
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Newbie Android said:
I got that. I just dont know whats its used for. I am a little new to android.
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It's used to flash custom operating systems (roms), kernels, etc. You should take it back to store if you just got it a couple days ago and get a replacement.
Bring your cable with you so they can test at the store if it's the cable causing it to go into download mode or if the phone itself is the problem. At any rate, you paid too much money to have a buggy phone and if this is happening there are likely other problems with your device. Replace it.

Thanks everyone for the input. it wound up being a detective cable causing the issue i was having.
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I know this is old, buy WHAT! Defective cable. Damn there are some people who would have bought that lol
What I mean is that cord.....defective or not for charging...it is pretty much a jig. It is what people use to recover their phones when they have bricked them (funnily enough "bricked" is no longer bricked anymore....hmm I wonder how many people threw out phones thinking they could never work again?)

Jarmezrocks said:
I know this is old, buy WHAT! Defective cable. Damn there are some people who would have bought that lol
What I mean is that cord.....defective or not for charging...it is pretty much a jig. It is what people use to recover their phones when they have bricked them (funnily enough "bricked" is no longer bricked anymore....hmm I wonder how many people threw out phones thinking they could never work again?)
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I'm thinking it was a cable for factory use in development at Samsung and got packaged up by mistake.
EDIT: Also wanted to add, "bricked" is still "bricked". It's just that people "soft-brick" and think it's a brick, when usually it's just a boot loop. Hard bricks do happen, unfortunately...
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I just really hard bricked my phone

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What to do? Parts anyone?

Dammm....

Can you still boot into download mode?

what in the world did you do?
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Lol, cracked screen. I am pondering if it is worth it to replace the screen. $65 for the LCD screen though.

gizmoscoop said:
Lol, cracked screen. I am pondering if it is worth it to replace the screen. $65 for the LCD screen though.
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Motherboard still good? My usb port is broken so I need a new MB. If its still good would you sell it?

JEEZ!!!! Please go read the General Forum...
As someone mentioned before, please go reboot in to download mode.
From there you can use things like Heimdell One-Click and other goodies. Then flash a new ROM and your good! Your phone will be like new
Hit thanks if I helped you with your issue, because I just did

dgmoodey said:
JEEZ!!!!
Hit thanks if I helped you with your issue, because I just did
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how? by assuming without reading?
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dgmoodey said:
JEEZ!!!! Please go read the General Forum...
As someone mentioned before, please go reboot in to download mode.
From there you can use things like Heimdell One-Click and other goodies. Then flash a new ROM and your good! Your phone will be like new
Hit thanks if I helped you with your issue, because I just did
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OMG, JEEZ yourself and read the post. He broke his screen. Is Heimdall going to fix that? Is one click going to fix a broken screen? I must have missed that option in there.
The brick part was a joke that was lost on people like you who don't even read the thread.

sRs DoLLaR mEnU said:
Motherboard still good? My usb port is broken so I need a new MB. If its still good would you sell it?
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Somebody with some soldering skills could fix that. I fixed mine and it was completely ripped off with the traces from the board and all.
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Motherboard is still good. USB port and power button are broken.

getochkn said:
OMG, JEEZ yourself and read the post. He broke his screen. Is Heimdall going to fix that? Is one click going to fix a broken screen? I must have missed that option in there.
The brick part was a joke that was lost on people like you who don't even read the thread.
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I was kidding... there is no need to get all worked up... I thought I would have a little fun. Obviously I knew it was broken hardware wise.
I will see what I can do for parts though.

My infuse has passed

Well it's been fun peps. This morning i woke up to a dead phone.( didn't change anything for months) When i powered up all i would get is the samsung logo then when i tried to cwm it brought up a weird blue red and yellow recovery that used the home key as the select. When i tried to odin back to stock it wouldn't take even sitting ther for an hour:banghead:. Then when i tried to restart the procces it never powerd on again. Time for an upgrade anyway. :beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer: thanks to everyone that has helped me with making this phone so cool and fun.
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Sorry to hear that... How long have you had it?
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Bubonic78 said:
Well it's been fun peps. This morning i woke up to a dead phone.( didn't change anything for months) When i powered up all i would get is the samsung logo then when i tried to cwm it brought up a weird blue red and yellow recovery that used the home key as the select. When i tried to odin back to stock it wouldn't take even sitting ther for an hour:banghead:. Then when i tried to restart the procces it never powerd on again. Time for an upgrade anyway. :beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer: thanks to everyone that has helped me with making this phone so cool and fun.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44501001&postcount=902

I have been contacted by him already. Unfortunately we had a bad storm yesterday and a tree fell on my house and came thru the roof where the phone was stored
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afraid its not even worth parts :banghead:
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Deyinka said:
Sorry to hear that... How long have you had it?
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2 years
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