Samsung Galaxy A5 (2016) broken screen, recover data
facing the same problem with stock Samsung Galaxy A5 (2016), broken screen (no display, no touch functionality) and disabled usb debugging.
tried to mount the device on pc as usual, but no success since i cannot touch the "yes" button.
i followed these steps to use adb on recovery mode with a hope to reach the files, but no success:
- wait until battery is drained, cause it is not possible to turn off the phone without touching
- boot into recovery mode (vol-up + power + home)
- "adb devices" -> no devices found
- selected "apply update via ADB" option from recovery (i figured this is the second option -from a screenshot on internet, i used volume and power buttons to select, without exactly seeing anything on screen
- "adb devices" -> now shows the device!
- "adb shell" exits with "error: closed"
- only "adb sideload" is possible at this point. any other adb command fails.
i am stuck and cannot recover files on the device. i think if i sideload a custom rom it will be possible to run "adb shell", "adb pull", etc. on recovery. but i dont know what to use and dont know if it is possible to flash a custom rom without seeing anything on screen.
any help from XDA community will be greatly appreciated!
