Q: Need to backup TXT on phone with dead screen - Google Pixel Questions & Answers

I need help with my wifes phone. She dropped it and cracked the LCD panel. The screen no longer turns on. It is a stock Pixel on Google Project Fi. Positive that USB debugging is not turned on.
I need to get her text messages off this phone so they can be restored to her replacement on that is being shipped. However, she used Google's Messenger app instead of Hangouts, so no automatic sync'ing to her Google Account.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get these texts messages off this phone? I know her phone still "works" since it rings and you hear notifications.....just can't see them since the screen is black.

Did she happen to have the phone backup to here Google Drive? Mine backs up my SMS.

Unfortunately, no. No auto backup to drive. Really hoping there is a way to enable USB debugging via ADB or something so that I can at lease use some recovery software. Right now I am SOL.

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[Q] [HELP!] getting stuff off my phone

So i originally had my phone rooted, but after a couple months of having my phone bother me about updating, i decided to do it. Needless to say, I lost root. I was planning on rooting it again, but my phone got knocked out of my hand and fell, cracking the screen and making it useless (no more touch and screen won't power on). So now i'm trying to pull my contacts and my text messages from the phone, but since it's not rooted, I can't figure out a way to do it. Also, i tried going through adb, but it keeps saying "device not found", even though my phone still powers up and works (I can tell because I keep getting text messages and my phone rings. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get my information off the phone and on my pc? I've also tried using 'MyPhoneExplorer', but it can't find my phone either.
Your contacts will be backed up to your Google Account, but not your texts unfortunately
Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda app-developers app
I've used this app for years:
SMS Backup and Restore
It doesn't back up MMS though (picture messages). You can manually save any pics sent to you via text to your SD card using every text app I've seen, including the stock ones. That said, I suspect by now there are apps that will back up MMS.
Looks like the stock Messaging app can save text messages as well....

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My phone went dead again, I’ve lost all of my stuff. Contacts, savegames… everything!
What do you mean lost? Have you tried switching the phone on and off?
I’ve tried everything – third time this month. Think my flat electricity is terrible.
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Have you tried making backups. Try this app, I make auto backups every hour:
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if you log in google service. it will sync your contact auto. then if phone broken. you can log in your google account in other phone to sync your whole contacts
Thanks, this will help. Will probably also buy a generator and UPS. 

[Q] Unauthorised message sent from Whatsapp

Something odd happened today with Whatsapp and I just wanted to report it in case it also happens to anyone else or anyone can shed light on it.
I left the house today at 8.45am to go to work. I cycle to work and so I had the phone in my bag . The phone was on the home screen before I turned off the screen and put it in my bag. I didn't get the phone out of my bag until 9.30am. However, when I checked my Whatsapp, I noticed there was a message containing a single smiley face to one of my contacts (they happened to be the contact at the top of the list as they were the last one I contacted legitimately). There's no way the phone would have accidentally sent that in my bag because of the way the phone was placed in the bag, there is nothing else in the pocket. Even if it was accidental, the presses would have had to turn on the phone, go launch Whatsapp, click the top contact, enter a smiley face message, press send and then press the home button to get back to the home screen before the phone switching off (or timing out). That's near impossible for it to do that.
I have the Nexus 5 phone. It's using Android 5.0.1 and I have the latest Whatsapp application with the new Whatsapp calling feature. I also use Whatsapp via the web using my Home and Work PC (both of which I have sole access to and both of which were turned off). I also checked my phone settings to see what computers were connected to my Whatsapp app, and it confirmed that only those two computers had access (I removed access to all PCs anyway and re-added my work PC).
Any ideas or thoughts?
Techno79 said:
Something odd happened today with Whatsapp and I just wanted to report it in case it also happens to anyone else or anyone can shed light on it.
I left the house today at 8.45am to go to work. I cycle to work and so I had the phone in my bag . The phone was on the home screen before I turned off the screen and put it in my bag. I didn't get the phone out of my bag until 9.30am. However, when I checked my Whatsapp, I noticed there was a message containing a single smiley face to one of my contacts (they happened to be the contact at the top of the list as they were the last one I contacted legitimately). There's no way the phone would have accidentally sent that in my bag because of the way the phone was placed in the bag, there is nothing else in the pocket. Even if it was accidental, the presses would have had to turn on the phone, go launch Whatsapp, click the top contact, enter a smiley face message, press send and then press the home button to get back to the home screen before the phone switching off (or timing out). That's near impossible for it to do that.
I have the Nexus 5 phone. It's using Android 5.0.1 and I have the latest Whatsapp application with the new Whatsapp calling feature. I also use Whatsapp via the web using my Home and Work PC (both of which I have sole access to and both of which were turned off). I also checked my phone settings to see what computers were connected to my Whatsapp app, and it confirmed that only those two computers had access (I removed access to all PCs anyway and re-added my work PC).
Any ideas or thoughts?
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May someone family member of yours did it accidently
Sushant Rohan said:
May someone family member of yours did it accidently
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Phone was in my bag while I was cycling and I have sole access to my PCs.
same happened... a message containing a contact was send to one of my groups from my account.... wat the hell is happening...
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same happened... a message containing a contact was send to one of my groups from my account.... wat the hell is happening...
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It's very strange but it hasn't happened since I reported this message. Do you use the Web interface for Whatsapp? I am only speculating, but I think it may have been something to do with that. I have since factory reset my phone a number of times and did not install a number of games/apps that I had previously. Therefore, it's plausible that it may have been caused by some malicious app on my phone.
If you wanted to list the apps you have installed (either here or in a PM) I can tell you if any of them sound like ones I had installed previously.

Retrieve Contacts and Gmail Account - Broken Screen

Hi, my partners dad has a galaxy s3 where the screen remains black even though the phone is still receiving messages and calls, his work have now provided him with a new S5 and he wants to retrieve his contacts. The only thing is, he doesnt know what the gmail account is that he used, when setting up the phone he created one because he had to but has never used it since so we have no idea.
Is there any way at all of retrieving the contacts or finding out what gmail address is registered on the phone? Its a work phone so wont be rooted or have debugging and another obstacle is that he may have had a passcode lock on the phone.
Are there any software downloads out there or will KIES help at all? Im wondering if he may have a software update due and can run that through KIES which may hopefully fix the black screen somehow but thinking the passcode lock may stop us.
Really not sure what we can do, he has some contacts on there that he doesnt know and will not be able to get again.

How do I save all of the text message image attachments in bulk

My mom decided to be a dumbass and keep a bunch of photos stored permanently in the text messaging app. Whenever someone sent her something, she wouldn't actually save it, just leave it in the messaging history and dig through the relevant messages whenever she wants to use the photo again. Now, she has a new phone, and she wants all of the pictures that are currently in the text message app on her old phone to be stored in a folder on her new phone, or at the very least to be on her new phone in some form. Ideally, what I want is to get a tarball of all of the messaging app's data that I can then cp *.jpg all of the images out of, and then I can email her the images. I am unwilling to try to root the phone because there are no backups of it, so I don't want to risk breaking anything.
The first thing I tried were the SMS transfer apps from the play store, such as this and this. In theory, these would be the easiest to use solution, and while they wouldn't be out of the messaging app, at least they would be on the new phone. I tried about 10 of them, multiple times each. Every single one would claim to have succeeded in transferring over the messages, but absolutely nothing ever appeared on the new phone.
The next thing I decided to try was LG Switch, since both phones were made by LG. Unfortunately, that didn't work out either. It wanted to wipe the new phone and basically set it up to be an exact copy of the old one. My mom has already started to use the new phone, so nuking the entire phone and copying everything over is not acceptable. Additionally, the radios on the old phone only work intermittently (one of the reasons that the phone was replaced), so I don't want to do anything that will take more than a minute or two over wireless.
Next, I tried Helium. The desktop app opens fine, but the app on the phone doesn't work. Sometimes, I get the application homescreen with a popup claiming that it is waiting for the desktop application and a cancel button that doesn't work. Sometimes, I get a solid white screen. In either case, the desktop app doesn't see it, the phone slows down and gets hot, and eventually I get a "Helium is not responding" popup. This has persisted across multiple attempts to wipe Helium's data and reinstall it.
The final thing I tried was LG Backup, which was buried in the settings menu. The old phone created a backup just fine, but the backup is in a proprietary format that I can't open on my laptop, and LG does not make it clear whether restoring on the new phone will keep the data that's already there or not. Additionally, this will still have the images trapped in a messaging app, except on the new phone instead of the old one.
I'm out of ideas. Anything else I can try? Any way I can fix the issues with something I already tried? Any way I can do this manually with ADB? In case it matters, the old phone is an LG G2 from T-Mobile (Model LG-D801) on Android 5.0.2, and the new phone is an LG K40.

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