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Help [Q] N4 Broken Screen, Desperate, Kit Kat 4.4.2, Stock Everything, No USB Debugge

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zhanism

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I just came back from my honeymoon and all of my pictures are on my N4. Of course before I pull the pictures, I drop the phone is the screen is cracked and the touch does not work anymore.

I'm really desperate to get these pictures. I've read all over online but my problems are this with all of the help out there:

My phone is the latest 4.4.2 on T Mobile.

It has stock EVERYTHING (bought straight form google), and the USB debugger is not enabled. (next phone I get this is the first thing I'm enabling.

I've been trying to follow instructions online but a lot of items have changed between last year and Kit Kat now and some steps such as unlocking the bootloader seems to wipe out everything on my phone.

I've been trying to use ADB and Freeboot but really havent gotten anymore.

I've also read that I can maybe use a usb mouse to substitute and unlock my phone? USB OTG? How do I know if my nexus has that enabled?

I'm even considering getting a new screen so I can try to replace the current one and get my photos. I dont care what happens to the phone but the pictures are priceless to me.

Is there any thread or guide that incorporates 4.4.2? the more detail the better of course.

Much thanks in advance.
 
An OTG connected mouse should work as long as you connect it to a powered hub - the Nexus 4 doesn't provide any power over USB so a directly connected mouse won't work. I don't have a powered hub to try it though.

A Bluetooth mouse works (I just tried it) but only if you already have one paired, which isn't very helpful I'm afraid.

Edit: found a powered USB hub. Bad news: mouse doesn't work on Nexus 4 (same setup works on another device) so you're out of luck with that option.
 
The fact that you're considering a USB mouse tells me that you are able to get the device to power on. So, why not just plug it into a PC via USB, and copy the images over that way?
 
zhanism said:
It has stock EVERYTHING (bought straight form google), and the USB debugger is not enabled. (next phone I get this is the first thing I'm enabling.
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Second thing you could try is turning on the camera upload in google+

(you might have already had it turned on, so you could check your google+ account?)
 
My post was in relation to his next phone. A suggestion to make sure he had a back up in future.

Plus you can look on a PC to see if Google + auto upload was already turned on, as the photos will be backed up already
 
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