Posted: 1/7/2011 5:48:05 PM EDT
Somehow the screen on my phone broke.  I need to get the data off the internal SD card. I cannot see anything on the screen except for a colored line at the top (This is not a bad setting or me being stupid, is it a broken screen.) Is it possible to get the data off the phone's internal SD card without using or seeing the touch screen? Normally, I would mount the card and go from there, but I can't see what's going on. Is there a way I can mount it from my computer? I am going to the AT&T store tomorrow to see if they can get the data off and replace the phone. I did take out the removable micro SD card already. If worse comes to worst, and they can't fix/won't replace the phone, can I take it apart and get to the internal SD card to remove it? Or is the memory built into the board? Anyone know? Please Help!! ETA - Many updates below |
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Quoted: Unpossible Androids are the tears of Baby Jesus... they are perfection to Apple's crap... or so the sycophants always tell us. Sorry for your issues man, sucks to spend $$$$ on a smart phone and not have it work. I know, right? What annoys me the most, is I've had it since they came out in August or September last year with no case. I just got an Otter Box 2 weeks ago to PROTECT IT from shit like this, and it breaks while in the Otter Box  The screen does not appear to be physically cracked. There are no breaks on the part you can touch. Don't know if that's the case underneath though. Must have broken on the back of the panel or something. |
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Quoted: Try holding down both volume buttons and the power button for like 20 seconds then plug it in. I think that may make it mount. I tried that and it reinstalled the driver, but it didn't mount the card. Thanks though. Any other suggestions? Do you know of any software that will let me mount it remotely, via the computer, to access the data? |
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Quoted: Quoted: Unpossible Androids are the tears of Baby Jesus... they are perfection to Apple's crap... or so the sycophants always tell us. Sorry for your issues man, sucks to spend $$$$ on a smart phone and not have it work. I know, right? What annoys me the most, is I've had it since they came out in August or September last year with no case. I just got an Otter Box 2 weeks ago to PROTECT IT from shit like this, and it breaks while in the Otter Box The screen does not appear to be physically cracked. There are no breaks on the part you can touch. Don't know if that's the case underneath though. Must have broken on the back of the panel or something. You need to ask this on the xda-dev forums in the vibrant Q&A area. |
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That screen is tough as hell, you most likely cracked the inner lcd which is not to hard of a fix if someone has the amoled lcd. I have beaten on a few faulty ones to get the actual lcd to crack but my god it takes some abuse.
Now you could also just have a fried SD card and AFAIK there is no recovery for the sd being fried. Try popping the battery out and leave it out for a good 20 seconds. |
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Quoted: You say internal sd card. Is this stuff that is on the supplied mini-SD card or the phones actual memory? Phone's actual memory. I removed the removable sd card. Do you know if the internal card is removable, if I break open the phone? I might just have to do that... |
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Thanks for the link, but it's actually the phone's internal memory that I'm having trouble with. ––- Right now I am installing the android sdk (or adb) to see if I can gain access to the memory. Looks like I may be able to run this command to pull the data: "adb pull <remote> <local>"... still surfing dev boards |
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Quoted: Quoted: You say internal sd card. Is this stuff that is on the supplied mini-SD card or the phones actual memory? Phone's actual memory. I removed the removable sd card. Do you know if the internal card is removable, if I break open the phone? I might just have to do that... After the first couple of times, my Droid X would save the setting and will automount my phone. I'm assumiing you don't see the disk drive show up in your computer's explorer window when you plug it in? I'm not sure what ATT can do. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: You say internal sd card. Is this stuff that is on the supplied mini-SD card or the phones actual memory? Phone's actual memory. I removed the removable sd card. Do you know if the internal card is removable, if I break open the phone? I might just have to do that... After the first couple of times, my Droid X would save the setting and will automount my phone. I'm assumiing you don't see the disk drive show up in your computer's explorer window when you plug it in? I'm not sure what ATT can do. They show up as "Removable Storage" x 2, but say "Insert disk" when you click on them. I think this means that the computer detects something is there, but the drives aren't mounting |
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Quoted: Was the screen damaged or just now won't turn on? Google will backup contacts, apps, etc. Is this like pics, music, work files, etc? screen is damaged... Possible issue with the internal storage I was able to pull some of the contents of the root (/) dir off using adb, but not all of them. I had google backup set to Off - good news is that most of my contacts are saved on the sim card. currently typing away in the adb shell... |
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Quoted: Buy an SD card reader and take the SD card out of the phone and hook it to your PC. You can move all the files from the card to your PC. Thanks, but I can't take it out, it's internal storage. I already took out the one that is removable. I can't get the data off the internal storage though.  |
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Any linux/android gurus out there? I'm using ADB in the android SDK to pull files from / In the shell: I'm unable to ls /sdcard - I get a permission denied error. I tried "$ su ls sdcard" and get the same permission denied. I tried rebooting the device in root using adb by typing "adb root" but I get an error that says "adb cannot run as root in production builds" FML |
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So it looks like I am unable to get super user rights through the shell. I even tried pushing su to / with no luck. Gave up on this for now.  Going to AT&T store tomorrow to see what they can do. If they can't get my data, I'll be back here with a membership for someone that can. Really lame because I had a stick of ram die on me this week too. ––- Side note, anyone seen these yet? http://www.att.com/shop/wireless/devices/htc-inspire.jsp http://www.att.com/shop/wireless/devices/motorola-atrix.jsp#fbid=iWt52zb7iJb |