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Android Screen Broken: How to Enable USB Debugging and Recover Data
What is USB debugging? USB debugging is a way to facilitate a connection between Android device and a computer so that you can access your phone from the computer and transfer data. Normally, you can enable USB debugging on Android in these steps. However, when your Android phone is screen broken, you can't unlock the phone to enable USB debugging and thus are unable to get photos, contacts, etc. off the broken phone. If this is what you are dealing with: a broken Android phone with cracked/black/locked screen and USB debugging disabled, here are tricks to access broken phone and recover important data.
Enable USB Debugging without Touching Screen If the touch screen on your Android phone is broken, but the display is still on (you can still see the display), you can use a USB OTG and a mouse to control the phone with broken screen and enable USB debugging. Please make sure that your phone(Samsung, HTC, Huawei, LG, Lenovo, Sony, Asus, etc.) is OTG supported. Tip: If your phone is in black screen and USB debugging is disabled, please jump to how to recover data without USB Debugging. Step 1. With a workable OTG adapter, connect your Android phone with a mouse. Step 2. Click the mouse to unlock your phone and turn on USB debugging on Settings. Step 3. Connect the broken phone to computer and the phone will be recognized as external memory. Step 4. From the computer, open the file folders of your phone and copy the photos, contacts, videos, music that you need to the computer.
Some users have succeeded in connecting a Xbox/PS3/PS4 USB wired controller to smartphone and enabling USB debugging with the controller. If you have a controller, you may want to give this a try.
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