Screen shattered. How to gain access without adb enabled?

jogai

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I have a MOTO z with a shattered screen. Wanted to use it as a device to fiddle with. But in order to operate it all the tools seem to require adb. It is rooted, and twrp installed, and it has been adb connected before (authorisation wouldnt be a problem), but adb is switched off now. How can I switch it back on without access to the screen (nothing to see)?
 

feiks

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boot into twrp - it has adb enabled by default. At the very least you'll be able to pull data off the device, even a decrypted one, assuming you know the key

This is still twrp you're going to be adb'ing in not your rom - from there you should be able to flash a custom rom with adb enabled before hand, manually. but then you'd have to solve authorization issue again, as the previous one wouldn't work with the "new" rom ( i think ).
 
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