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I dropped and destroyed the screen of my stock Samsung Gs3. I can access all the data via USB but I want to continue using it as a media player connected to my TV via adaptor. However, my bluetooth is turned off and I therefore cannot use my bluetooth mouse to navigate. I have tried many things, below are my effort, along with issues.

1. I tried using an OTG cable and mouse but of course I am trying to turn on the bluetooth/register mouse blind as I have to switch the OTG cable with the TV adaptor to see what I have done. After a few hours and a rage headache, I gave up.
2. I tried accessing my phone and navigating from my PC via different programmes eg. Teamviewer (but needs device app installed) My Phone Explorer (does not recognise device when connecting via USB - debugging issues??) TightVNC (needs device IP address - but I cannot access this as it's stored on the phone......)
3. Prayer - not working (yet)

Any ideas would make a frustrated guy very happy, thanks.
 
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I dropped and destroyed the screen of my stock Samsung Gs3. I can access all the data via USB but I want to continue using it as a media player connected to my TV via adaptor. However, my bluetooth is turned off and I therefore cannot use my bluetooth mouse to navigate. I have tried many things, below are my effort, along with issues.

1. I tried using an OTG cable and mouse but of course I am trying to turn on the bluetooth/register mouse blind as I have to switch the OTG cable with the TV adaptor to see what I have done. After a few hours and a rage headache, I gave up.
2. I tried accessing my phone and navigating from my PC via different programmes eg. Teamviewer (but needs device app installed) My Phone Explorer (does not recognise device when connecting via USB - debugging issues??) TightVNC (needs device IP address - but I cannot access this as it's stored on the phone......)
3. Prayer - not working (yet)

Any ideas would make a frustrated guy very happy, thanks.
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I don't have all of the infomation in front of me, but you can connect through ADP. You would have trouble if you haven't set things up ahead of time as you would need to see things on the screen and be able to click boxes.

As far as Teamviewer, you can brows to google and install the app through the website. You would still need to access it via the phone to set it up, though.

There might be some backdoor way to do it via messing with a backup (I'm presuming you have the phone ROMed). Take the backup and go into whatever database and change things as nessesary. That would be the hardest, but would work in theory.
 
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