My phone dropped and the screen is not working at all, the phone turns on, but it's black. Are there any apps or anything that I can do to recovery local data such as contacts or texts? Contacts are the most important, and no, not all were backed up. Many were saved to the phone. I am aware how to get pics and whatnot, but contacts that were stored to the phone, there has to be a way!
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Help Screen is dead. How to recover local data
- Thread starter milew666
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Did you have USB debugging enabled?
Also, what type of phone do you have?
Also, what type of phone do you have?
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Not sure about the debugging. It is a Note 3. Contacts is really I am missing since they were only stored locally to the phone.
Aren't those stored on the SIM? (and therefore easily recoverable by pulling the SIM card, etc...)
(shooting a bit in the dark here, but I'm pretty sure I've read others posting about that...will have to rely on others for confirmation)
No, they weren't stored to the SIM. already tried a swap. You can save to SIM, Phone, or cloud account. I didn't have my gmail backing up so I just want to pull them from phone storage
whoatemyshorts
Lurker
Have you tried Dr. Fone? It claims it can recover contacts. You can demo it for free.
chanchan05
The Doctor
Is it connected to the internet? If it is, try to download SideSync to it via the PlayStore, then install the companion Windows program. This will show the screen of your phone on a PC to control with a mouse and keyboard without need for debugging and all that. Of course this only works for Samsung so good thing you got a Note.
I don't think you can get SideSync to auto-run after downloading/installing from the Play Store if you can't manually launch it from the screen or haven't previously already launched it (that last worked in Gingerbread).
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svim
Extreme Android User
As you mentioned you dropped your Note and can still tell it's running with just the screen being dead there is a remote possibility the problem is just that a ribbon cable or other electrical connector became disconnected during the fall. If you're comfortable with futzing around with your Note's internals, ifixit has a nice step-by-step guide on pulling it apart to get to the display. It might be a matter of just jigging various connectors so they're re-attached and your Note's screen will be working again.
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Samsung+Galaxy+Note+3+Display+Assembly+Replacement/31020
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Samsung+Galaxy+Note+3+Display+Assembly+Replacement/31020
AZgl1500
Extreme Android User
um, SideSync won't run on my S5 unless the screen is unlocked.