New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Has anyone successfully recovered photos from a broken Android phone?
Ask HN: Has anyone successfully recovered photos from a broken Android phone?
10 by mahathu | 14 comments on Hacker News.
The topic of data recovery from broken phones seems to be a prime target from SEO optimised blogspam so I'm posting here in hopes that someone had a similar issue in the past and may be able to help me out. I am tasked with restoring some photos from a Huawei P30 that has a broken screen/touchpad. The photos were stored on the device directly, unfortunately not on an SD card or on a cloud provider. The phone does still turn on (it vibrates when plugged into a power outlet and shows up on Windows). However, it's only showing an installer for HiSuite (which did not help), not the file system. USB debugging is enabled. Things I tried so far and didn't work: - shining a flashlight at the screen to see if only the backlight is broken (it seems the whole screen is done for) - eyeballing it and trying to blindly enter the passcode - connecting phone to external monitor and keyboard via USB-C -> HDMI (monitor stays black) Is there anything that may still have a chance of working short of replacing the screen to unlock the phone? Thanks and happy holidays.
10 by mahathu | 14 comments on Hacker News.
The topic of data recovery from broken phones seems to be a prime target from SEO optimised blogspam so I'm posting here in hopes that someone had a similar issue in the past and may be able to help me out. I am tasked with restoring some photos from a Huawei P30 that has a broken screen/touchpad. The photos were stored on the device directly, unfortunately not on an SD card or on a cloud provider. The phone does still turn on (it vibrates when plugged into a power outlet and shows up on Windows). However, it's only showing an installer for HiSuite (which did not help), not the file system. USB debugging is enabled. Things I tried so far and didn't work: - shining a flashlight at the screen to see if only the backlight is broken (it seems the whole screen is done for) - eyeballing it and trying to blindly enter the passcode - connecting phone to external monitor and keyboard via USB-C -> HDMI (monitor stays black) Is there anything that may still have a chance of working short of replacing the screen to unlock the phone? Thanks and happy holidays.
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