Help How to retrieve information from Broken Samsung Nexus LCD & Digitizer

[John_x]

Hello,

I dropped my Sprint Samsung Nexus a week ago, both the LCD and Digitizer are broken. I am still able to receive messages, the phone is still able to power on.

unfortunately, I didn't do any backup through google+ or dropbox for my picture. The phone does have a lock screen and I'm not sure the USB Debugging is on. When I connected the phone to my PC, it does show it's connected and there's a Nexus Drive, but I opened it, there was no files in it.

I did some researches prior this post, they aren't really any clear answer for this problem. I want to know is there any possible ways to retrieve the picture from the phone? Thank you very much!

 

[dockmaster]

Replacing the LCD and digitizer is becoming a command task. I thing you can buy them for 150 or so.. That's an expensive option for sure

 

[Digital Controller]

Galaxy Nexus\Internal Storage\DCIM\Camera

Should be in there, all pictures and movies are stored there.

 

[John_x]

Thank you for replying.

I had thought about this option. You are right, this is an expensive one, so i want to make it as last resort and explore other options if possible.

 

[John_x]

Hello, Digital Controller

Thank you for replying. I'm not sure what you mean, can you please be more specific on where I can access to the DCIM folder?

Note: when I connected the phone to PC, it does show the internal storage drive, but when I opened it, it has 0 files; perhaps it's because the phone has a lock on it, it prevents me to access to the DCIM folder.

 

[Demache]

Hello, Digital Controller

Thank you for replying. I'm not sure what you mean, can you please be more specific on where I can access to the DCIM folder?

Note: when I connected the phone to PC, it does show the internal storage drive, but when I opened it, it has 0 files; perhaps it's because the phone has a lock on it, it prevents me to access to the DCIM folder.

Correct, its a security feature.

If you had been rooted, I would say you could boot into the recovery partition and recover your things over ADB, but because you didn't mention it, I doubt its the case.

You may be short out of luck unless you get the screen replaced, since these things are surprisingly hard to break into if you have all the locks and security features enabled.

 

[Digital Controller]

Correct, its a security feature.

If you had been rooted, I would say you could boot into the recovery partition and recover your things over ADB, but because you didn't mention it, I doubt its the case.

You may be short out of luck unless you get the screen replaced, since these things are surprisingly hard to break into if you have all the locks and security features enabled.

Well he could probably get fastboot on the device without ever using the screen using Wuggs Nexus Root Toolkit

Maybe, i'm not positive. Especially since Wugg's site is down and I can't look into it further

 

[Demache]

Well he could probably get fastboot on the device without ever using the screen using Wuggs Nexus Root Toolkit

Maybe, i'm not positive. Especially since Wugg's site is down and I can't look into it further

He could fastboot, but that's for flashing the device and firmware. If his Nexus bootloader is locked, all he can do is factory reset, which isn't going to help him get his stuff off the phone.

 

[Digital Controller]

He could fastboot, but that's for flashing the device and firmware. If his Nexus bootloader is locked, all he can do is factory reset, which isn't going to help him get his stuff off the phone.

Hmm yeah and he probably would need to have the screen to unlock the device, considering you have to accept unlocking it.

Otherwise he could just try and fastboot it, I know that I accidentally partially put fastboot on my device without unlocking it and it really messed up the device but I was able to get some information off it and push some files onto the device.