Copy contents of an Android phone with a broken screen

adminAndroid, hardware0 Comment
6 min. reading

I have just accidentally put a heavy glass of New Year’s Eve wine on my phone’s screen. Well… shit happens!

Crushed screen or no Internet access won’t prevent you from getting files from your broken Android device. Provided that you have all the “tools” and have prepared yourself for the situation like that in the past.

You need to have:

  • An USB-C cable
  • Broken Android device with Developer Options enabled
  • Windows PC with Android Debug Bridge tools installed (should work on other OSes as well)

If you don’t have any of these, especially if you haven’t enabled Developer Options in the past then — sorry to say this — but you are screwed. Without Developer Options enabled, for security reasons, no one and nothing can access your phone. You can even pay hundreds of dollars for a “Professional Repair Service” and they will most likely fail as well.

In this case you have two options — paying for replacing a broken screen and continue using your phone normally or saying “bye-bye” to your phone and data, purchasing a new one and starting from scratch. Sorry!

But, provided that worst case scenario isn’t happening your case, read-on to see how can you copy data.

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Restarting Windows does NOT restart Bluetooth!

adminhardware, Microsoft0 Comment
< 1 min. reading

A memo to future self or a not to other people not aware about this simple fact.

If you Bluetooth connection or devices start getting wako in Windows 11, restarting the whole system in many scenarios won’t change anything. While turning Bluetooth off and on again can do the magic.

I had a situation where after getting Windows 11 24H2 update all my Bluetooth devices were gone (empty list) and not connecting and using “Add device” to pair them again resulted in not finding any new device.

Restarting Windows brought no change. Restarting Bluetooth adapter solved everything.