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spdivr 		Old
6th August 2011, 10:48 PM
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Question [Q] Dropped my phone, how do I get the pictures?
Hello,
I managed to drop my phone and bust the screen soon after I bought it (luckily I have insurance). I hadn't had a chance to root it or anything, but I have some pictures on the phone I really want to get out of it. I thought the phone would have put them on the SD card but when I looked on the card, I don't see them, so I must assume they are stored on the phone itself. Since I can't do anything with the phone screen, is there any way to get the pictures off of it?
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Hello,
I managed to drop my phone and bust the screen soon after I bought it (luckily I have insurance). I hadn't had a chance to root it or anything, but I have some pictures on the phone I really want to get out of it. I thought the phone would have put them on the SD card but when I looked on the card, I don't see them, so I must assume they are stored on the phone itself. Since I can't do anything with the phone screen, is there any way to get the pictures off of it?
Thanks for any help!
If ADB works you can adb shell/adb pull the files.

Look up Droid Explorer - I believe this automatically installs adb for Windows users and has a nice frontend for file transfers. I've never messed with ADB in Windows as I'm a Linux user so I can't help you any more.
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If ADB works you can adb shell/adb pull the files.

Look up Droid Explorer - I believe this automatically installs adb for Windows users and has a nice frontend for file transfers. I've never messed with ADB in Windows as I'm a Linux user so I can't help you any more.
That worked, thanks!

I had not rooted the phone, but luckily I had set the phone to USB debugging before I dropped it. So even though I couldn't see anything on the screen, I ran Super One Click and it rooted, then Droid Explorer found it and I was able to pull off my photos.
 
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