Need to salvage data from rooted Nexus with Broken screen.

whynotRaza · Jul 3, 2014

Hey everyone! I've been taking help from you people at XDA for quite a while and I never needed to make an account before this.

First off, I would like to thank everyone at the website who contributes in any way. You guys make things a lot easier. :good:

I have a Nexus 5 and I wasn't very fortunate at one of my previous football matches. The screen broke and came off. My lockscreen has a pattern which is causing all the trouble. I want to get my files back from my phone but I don't know how. My phone is rooted and running stock, I do have a custom recovery and I've backed up my ROM. Everything is working perfectly on the phone, I was getting calls, its buzzing from notifications and the notification light is still blinking. I connected it to a PC and it shows but I can't access my data as the screen is locked. Due to some problems with windows 8.1 I turned USB debugging off as my phone wasn't being detected. I have android device manager activated but my WiFi was off when the screen broke so I cant disable the lock.

SUMMARY:
Rooted Nexus 5 running stock android with custom recovery (cwm)
USB debugging may be on/ may not be
Phone working perfectly, just no screen.
WiFi is off.
I have experience with bricked phones, flashing ROMS and stuff.

I just wanted help on how I could get my stuff back. Right now services with which I can control my phone from my PC seem like a very good idea but I can't install an APK on my phone. Please help me out guys. Also, if there are any threads which have solved this problem please link them below. I'm busy trying to get into a university.

EDIT: USB debugging MIGHT be on as I don't perfectly remember turning it off.

jd1639 · Jul 3, 2014

Boot in to recovery and then from a command window on your pc try
adb pull /sdcard c:\nexus5

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whynotRaza · Jul 3, 2014

jd1639 said:
Boot in to recovery and then from a command window on your pc try
adb pull /sdcard c:\nexus5

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It says command adb not recognized. I don't have android SDK installed on my laptop.

jd1639 · Jul 3, 2014

whynotRaza said:
It says command adb not recognized. I don't have android SDK installed on my laptop.

Google 15 second adb drivers xda. That'll set it up for you.

Edit, here's the link http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=48915118

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theesotericone · Jul 3, 2014

jd, nice to see your still helping out.

OP, after you get the drivers and/or sdk set up simply type:

Code:

adb devices

If you see a serial number your good. Proceed to pull the entire sdcard.

If you don't see the serial number look up everything you can related to your OS and adb.

danarama · Jul 3, 2014

Section 5.4 in my signature

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whynotRaza · Jul 3, 2014

jd1639 said:
Google 15 second adb drivers xda. That'll set it up for you.

Edit, here's the link http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=48915118

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Thank you so much for this! I never bothered with the android SDK as I couldn't install it the first time and I didn't really need it until now. The only problem occurring right now is that I can't turn off my phone, and so I can't boot into recovery. Posting a pic of my phone lol.

rootSU said:
Section 5.4 in my signature

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Thanks a lot! This helped me understand my problem much better. I just can't boot into recovery mode.

vin4yak · Jul 3, 2014

whynotRaza said:
Thank you so much for this! I never bothered with the android SDK as I couldn't install it the first time and I didn't really need it until now. The only problem occurring right now is that I can't turn off my phone, and so I can't boot into recovery. Posting a pic of my phone lol.

Thanks a lot! This helped me understand my problem much better. I just can't boot into recovery mode.

Here's my phone:
<iframe src="//instagram.com/p/pxFT15OC53/embed/" width="612" height="710" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowtransparency="true"></iframe>

With that screen, how would you know if you've entered recovery mode?? I don't know. Can you see anything on the screen?

whynotRaza · Jul 3, 2014

vin4yak said:
With that screen, how would you know if you've entered recovery mode?? I don't know. Can you see anything on the screen?

I should have posted a better pic. The screen isn't connected anymore, it came off completely. I can't see anything on it at all.

kunaltyagii · Jul 3, 2014

after setting up adb on pc and running it wouldnt the command "adb reboot recovery" take him to the recovery section? then he can run the command "adb pull"

danarama · Jul 3, 2014

vin4yak said:
With that screen, how would you know if you've entered recovery mode?? I don't know. Can you see anything on the screen?

Ensure device is off

Hold vol down + Power until you feel vibration
Press vol up twice
Press power (Will feel another vibration)
Connect USB
run adb devices should see something like:

Code:

H:\>adb devices
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached
03105ef70935976465        [B][COLOR="Red"]recovery[/COLOR][/B]

---------- Post added at 12:46 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:45 PM ----------

kunaltyagii said:
after setting up adb on pc and running it wouldnt the command "adb reboot recovery" take him to the recovery section? then he can run the command "adb pull"

Maybe, ROM settings / USB debugging / Root dependent potentially though

vin4yak · Jul 3, 2014

whynotRaza said:
I should have posted a better pic. The screen isn't connected anymore, it came off completely. I can't see anything on it at all.

How do you know whether the phone is turned on or not? Notification sounds work? Try what @kunaltyagii suggested.

kunaltyagii said:
after setting up adb on pc and running it wouldnt the command "adb reboot recovery" take him to the recovery section? then he can run the command "adb pull"

Yes it will. That's an excellent idea as long he has USB debugging enabled. :good:

---------- Post added at 05:42 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:16 PM ----------

rootSU said:
Ensure device is off

Hold vol down + Power until you feel vibration

Press vol up twice

Press power (Will feel another vibration)

Oh yeah! Good one. Didn't strike me.

jd1639 · Jul 3, 2014

theesotericone said:
jd, nice to see your still helping out.

OP, after you get the drivers and/or sdk set up simply type:

Code:

adb devices

If you see a serial number your good. Proceed to pull the entire sdcard.

If you don't see the serial number look up everything you can related to your OS and adb.

Yep, still around. You still have the rocket?

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whynotRaza · Jul 3, 2014

rootSU said:
Ensure device is off

Hold vol down + Power until you feel vibration

Press vol up twice

Press power (Will feel another vibration)

Connect USB

run adb devices should see something like:

Code:

H:\>adb devices * daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 * * daemon started successfully * List of devices attached 03105ef70935976465 [B][COLOR="Red"]recovery[/COLOR][/B]

---------- Post added at 12:46 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:45 PM ----------

Maybe, ROM settings / USB debugging / Root dependent potentially though

Thanks a bunch! I dont think my hardware keys are working properly. I turned my phone off by disconencting the battery conenctions. I tried booting into recovery but my phone turned on normally instead. I tried "adb devices" and luckily it showed my serial number followed by "device". I just randomly tried "adb pull sdcard/music" and it worked! So now I have access to all my files. Could you guys post some links to advanced push and pull commands? I dont want to pull everything, I want my folder trees so that I can only take out the important stuff.

jd1639 said:
Google 15 second adb drivers xda. That'll set it up for you.

Edit, here's the link http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=48915118

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Thanks again! I wouldn't have gotten anywhere without this!

New problem: I did all that on my friends pc which has windows 7 and all the Nexus 5 drivers installed. I myself have a windows 8.1 laptop and after one of the recent updates my phone stopped showing. I tried Wugfresh's Nexus root toolkit but I didn't get anywhere. Help? XP

danarama · Jul 3, 2014

There aren't really any advanced adb push or pull commands.

Regards to new problem see link in signature. Read section 1b.

On windows 8.1 I had to do 1b1 and 1b2 today

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whynotRaza · Jul 3, 2014

rootSU said:
There aren't really any advanced adb push or pull commands.

Regards to new problem see link in signature. Read section 1b.

On windows 8.1 I had to do 1b1 and 1b2 today

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I just uninstalled my previous drivers, updated windows and then reconnected my phone. Surprisingly the phone started showing! I had already done 1B1 earlier today. Thanks a lot guys. Everything has been solved. :good:

EDIT: I tried "adb pull sdcard/folder" and only the subfolders of that folder got copied, the files inside that folder didn't. Also, it said "no such directory exists" halfway through.

danarama · Jul 3, 2014

Awesome

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