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Stidster

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My Samsung Galaxy A5 was dropped on the ground yesterday, and today the screen was all purple. Because of that i went and bought a Huawei P20 lite. The problem is that i have a lot of data (pictures, notes, etc.) on the Samsung that i wish to transfer over to my Huawei. I have tried a ton of recovering tools, but all them either don't support my phones, or i need to enable USB debugging. The problem with enabling USB debugging is that the screen on the Samsung is pretty much covered in purple "blood", so i can't really see what i am doing.
If anyone here as a genius way to get those freaking files transferred i will be very grateful.
Thank you in advance.
 
I could be wrong but I don't think replacing the screen will factory reset the phone. If you send it to the manufacturer they just do it out of security purposes. So you could try a diy screen fix or take it to a repair shop as long as there's nothing sensitive on it.
 
Rule 1: always have at least 1 backup that is not on the device itself. This is one of the reasons why. Phones also fail completely, get lost/stolen/dropped in rivers, so having data on the sd card does not count as a backup (and those things fail more often than phones do anyway).

Have you any way of mirroring the screen to a monitor or TV? I've used such things plus a mouse or keyboard (via USB or Bluetooth) to control a phone with a broken screen and recover data from it. But I don't know what mirroring options that model supports, nor what setup is needed (that was the beauty of MHL, you just had to plug something in and it worked with no further intervention, but few phones still support that).
 
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