I'm trying to access the data on a Galaxy S4 on which the screen is not working at all(no backlight and doesn't respond to touch). the data I mainly require is the contacts.db file. what I have tried sofar: NOTE: USB Debugging is disabled .
1. tried to access the data via USB but cant access the content due to the lock on the phone.
2. tried to access the data with KIES but once again failed to do so due to the lock on the phone.
3. Downloaded the ADB shell and installed the required USB drivers but cant access the phone, when running the command "adb devices" it says no devices found which I think is because the USB Debugging setting on the phone is not enabled.
4. Also tried to sync with the Google account but unfortunately it was not setup to sync contacts with the Google account.
5. Tried to make use of apps such as MoboRobo and Droid Explorer but it does not work due to the USB Debugging that is disabled
Some other suggestions were to get another S4 and connect its screen to the one in question which I'm sure will work but is there no other way to access the data or to somehow remove the pattern lock from the phone? maybe using another platform to gain full access to the phone or anything?
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Hi,
Has any one been able to connect to samsung galaxy I5801 using adb? Running adb devices is not listing the device for me. I have installed samsung kies.
thanks, srb.
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Hi,
Has any one been able to connect to samsung galaxy I5801 using adb? Running adb devices is not listing the device for me. I have installed samsung kies.
thanks, srb.
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Have you put USB in debug mode?
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Hi Slumpolo,
Yeah, i have enabled the usb debugging option and rebooted the phone.
Before doing that I also went to Settings>About Phone>USB settings, and selected "mass storage" . This options gets disabled when USB debugging is on, but I did it just to be on the safe side.
Windows device manager shows that all the drivers are installed correctly.
i also did adb kill-server and adb devices multiple times.
Oh boy....its much deeper than that. Search YouTube "how to Android adb devices"...its kinda tricky.
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Hi StaraSkola,
I went over all the videos I could find and I believe I am doing everything right. To verify my setup, I connected by friends Galaxy S I9000 and I was able to see it in adb devices.
I did the same with my GT-I5801, and it does not get listed in adb devices. I made sure I was in USB debugging mode.
One difference I noticed in device manager was this:
When I connected I9000, a device called "Samsung Android Composite USB device" showed up in the USB devices.
But when I connect the GT-I5801, I get a device called "Samsung Composite USB device" ... there is no android mentioned any where.
I have tried reinstalling the driver but Windows insists it cant find a better match.
Does this help in root causing the issue?
thanks,
srb.
I finally managed to connect to my GT-I5801, both via Samsung Kies as well adb. yay!
I will note down all the steps that I did, in case any one finds it useful.
1. I re-installed Samsung Kies and then I reinstalled the Samsung drivers. This can be done using the "Driver Recovery" option available in the top left drop down menu in the Kies window. Its a button called Kies. I did this as I had messed around with my devices and drivers trying to discover my phone. But this did not solve my problem.
2. I unmounted the SD card and re-formatted it. The SD card had a few mp3 files in it and Samsung Kies is known to have issues with some types of MP3 files. This did not solve my issue. Phone was still undiscovered.
3. My most drastic step: I went to settings > reset to default. This erased all my settings and all my installed apps and I lost all my notes etc ( .. But, after I connected my phone back to the laptop, everything came up just fine. I was able to browse the phone using Kies and then connect to ADB shell after enabling USB debugging mode. So the problem was with one of my installed apps. I dont know which but I suspect it could be a modded Navigation app (BRUT mod) , that I had installed. But I am not sure.
4. When connected using Kies, there is an option in Kies to eject the phone. If I use this, then Kies does NOT connect back to the phone when I plug it back in. I have to reboot the phone. The workaround is, never use the eject option. Always remove the phone by simply unplugging the USB cable. Then Kies discovers it on connecting back and even adb is able to connect to it. I dont know if other other Galaxy models suffer from the same problem but folks can try out this work around.
Thanks,
srb.
Im trying to access the data on a Galaxy S4 on which the screen is not working at all(no backlight and doesn't respond to touch). the data I mainly require is the contacts.db file. what I have tried sofar:
1. tried to access the data via USB but cant access the content due to the lock on the phone.
2. tried to access the data with KIES but once again failed to do so due to the lock on the phone.
3. Downloaded the ADB shell and installed the required USB drivers but cant access the phone, when running the command "adb devices" it says no devices found which I think is because the USB Debugging setting on the phone is not enabled.
4. Also tried to sync with the Google account but unfortunately it was not setup to sync contacts with the Google account.
Some other suggestions were to get another S4 and connect its screen to the the one in question which im sure will work but is there no other way to access the data or to somehow remove the pattern lock from the phone? maybe using another platform to gain full access to the phone or anything?
Hello, and welcome to XDA Assist! You may want to try this tool: [Tool][Windows] Control a device with a broken screen, or possibly use a programme such as Droid Explorer to view your files. If all fails, try and ask here: General discussion Questions and Answers. You will need to register to post.
Good luck!
Mainly interested to bypass a PIN via a USB cable or SD card, not yet interested to buy a Riff Box to crack the PIN, as I didn't find any cheaper than USD50.
The phone does not have USB Debugging enabled nor do I have a Google or Samsung account.
I tried these methods that didnt work:
1. Flashing Pattern_Password_disable.zip and
2. Flashing aromafm-1.80.zip
3. I tried Flashing via USB using ADB.
4. I also tried the Samsung-Lock-Reset-Tool.exe using a virtual machine, but the software did not see any phone connected. Maybe I should have done a driver update, I don't know yet what went wrong, but some people said the .rar could have some viruses. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2468540
I've read about the option of modifying the sqlite3 database, but have not tried it yet. Are any options left to me or did I do something wrong ?
I was messing with my galaxy core prime (android 4.4.4) using a app to remove system apps that you can't with the stock app manager.. (no reason for crap like smartcard manager, bluetooth, wifi sharing..etc to be running when i haven't authorized such things, seems like security risk imo)
Was also editing the autorun list and messing with Norton applock and phone encryption settings to try to further secure it.
Welp, I f'ed things up because phone crashed and now can't do anything.. can't access home screen, settings, call/txt, nothing. So I booted into the stock bootloader and tried formatting the entire thing including cache..
Didn't fix the problem, can't finish the setup wizard without it crashing, get message saying setup, hangouts, and keyguard stopped working and then my phone bricks and can't do absolutely anything. No backup either.
I have been googling and googling for solutions but everything I read says to either:
-Reformat from bootloader (tried a 100 times)
-Wipe with TWRP or CWM (don't have either and can't access play store)
-Use Kies (won't detect my device since I can't enable MTP)
-ADB sideload twrp or cyanogen (cant, usb debugging probably not enabled since I formatted and no way to enable it since setup of android fails)
Odin can't detect anything either.. probably due to same reason. (Cant enable MTP or usb debugging)
So am I totally screwed? What are my options here?
I noticed the stock bootloader has a option to install from external storage.. can I put my sd card in a phone that does work and download twrp, cyanogenmod, (or ANYTHING else to fix this) to that, then put it back in my bricked phone and re flash it that way? That way I wouldn't need mtp or usb debugging... or won't that work?
Wasted so much time trying to fix this guys, googling and even formatted my pc removing Linux and reinstalling Windows hoping suddenly my pc would detect it.. atleast on linux when I used "adb devices" command it detected my device (trying to sideload anything didn't appear to work though, phone says error about verifying it and tries again and says completed and reboots but no sign of the rom I just supposedly sideloaded anywhere)
removing Linux and installing Window seems to have been a mistake because on windows using "adb devices" returns a blank list.. Tried different cords, ports, kies 2 and 3, reinstalling drivers, disabling firewall..etc but like I said even if I do get adb to detect it, what can I do from there without mtp or debugging?
Sorry for wall of txt, just want to be descriptive as possible so I don't get all replies telling me to try stuff that I've tried 100 times or just flat out won't work for my particular problem because of the above reasons..
will be sincerely grateful to anyone that took the time to read this and try to help me.
The display of my Xperia z3 is non-functioning(i.e. all I can see is a black screen) after an accidental damage due to water-insertion. But all other parts are working fine. The screen responses to touch, I can hear the touch sounds and I can click photographs as well with the camera key.
After connecting the phone with USB cable to my ubuntu laptop, I can browse through the internal storage files on the phone and locate the newly created image files as I click new photographs and take screen-shots. But I can't open any files(images/audio/videos) with errors like "couldn't load image" and "couldn't determine type of stream". However, I'm able to copy new files to the internal storage.
I want to install some screencasting application like vysor on my phone so that I can access it using my laptop. I know this can be done using adb commands but the problem here is that USB debugging is not enabled on my phone and hence I can't find it on the list of adb devices.
Is there any workaround for such situation?
Is your phone rooted?
do you have a custom recovery?
able to use fastboot?