mikebike Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 Hi everyone! My friend's phone got wet, really wet. The local repair shop dried it out and got it working - up to a point. Everything seems to work EXCEPT getting past the lock screen!! He is getting another phone and just wants to recover everything - especially his contacts. The internal and external SD are visible when connected to laptop so I have managed to recover photos, music, text files but the contacts are troublesome. the phone is not rooted, nor is USB debugging turned on and he did not back-up to Google... So commercial recovery programs seem to be no use... So my thoughts are: 1. Anybody know of a way to extract contacts with USB debugging off and no rooting? 2. Temporarily replace the screen so that I can slide the lock open, turn on USB debugging and proceed from there... Any thoughts appreciated. Also I have no idea of the make or model of the phone, nor the version of android its running!!! Photos of phone below. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebike Posted January 17, 2015 Author Share Posted January 17, 2015 Sorry about the title... Ghosts edited my Topic Title... I have asked Mods to fix it!! Thanks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metisdead Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 Sorry about the title... Ghosts edited my Topic Title... I have asked Mods to fix it!! Thanks!! Topic title has now been edited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesofSmiles Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 Was it synced with a google account ? If so https://www.google.com/contacts/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkleton Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 (edited) Just an idea, connect a mouse via OTG if the touch screen doesn't react. Edited January 17, 2015 by Turkleton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebike Posted January 17, 2015 Author Share Posted January 17, 2015 Was it synced with a google account ? If so https://www.google.com/contacts/ Unfortunately, as I stated in the OP, no Google back-up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebike Posted January 17, 2015 Author Share Posted January 17, 2015 Just an idea, connect a mouse via OTG if the touch screen doesn't react.I would like to try this... I assume I would need to get some sort of adapter to connect a standard USB mouse to the phone, correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkleton Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 (edited) This one: Just ask for an "OTG adapter" Edited January 17, 2015 by Turkleton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB1950 Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 Just an idea, connect a mouse via OTG if the touch screen doesn't react.I would like to try this... I assume I would need to get some sort of adapter to connect a standard USB mouse to the phone, correct? Just a micro USB adapter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichCor Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 If your friend set up the Android Phone with an email address, and if he ever had WiFi or 3G Internet connectivity, it's possible that Google automagically synced the contacts to that account ... though usually you have to invoke by checking it off as an option in the Google Account options in System Settings. Couldn't hurt to log into the account via a PC and look. He does remember the email and password used to set up the phone, doesn't he? (most sheeple don't remember or care) which makes me sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satcommlee Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 Connect via samsung kies, give that a go.. Also great suggestion about trying a mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RKASA Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 Put the sim card in another phone and see how much is in contacts there. I store in both the phone and the sim and the contact list app shows what looks like double entries but they are not really as they are stored in two places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB1950 Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 (edited) Connect via samsung kies, give that a go.. Also great suggestion about trying a mouse The pictures in the OP doesn't look like a Samsung phone. Kies will only work with Samsung phones. Different drivers are used by different companies. USB drivers are hardware specific for Android devices on a PC. Edited January 17, 2015 by BB1950 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhizBang Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 (edited) Put the sim card in another phone and see how much is in contacts there. I store in both the phone and the sim and the contact list app shows what looks like double entries but they are not really as they are stored in two places. This is an issue android needs to solve. Who wants to see double contacts, especially when the sim card one is often truncated. Android should allow the user to specify which contact list to use. Ok, to try and help the OP, there are PC programs for backing up phone data, including contacts. Might want to give one of those a try. And when the friend gets his phone sorted out, and presubably has a new phone, there are backup programs for saving the contact list in a separate file. This is what I do and once saved, I copy to my PC. The app I use is called Super Backup. All this talk of contact backup makes me realize I need to make a current backup of my own contacts. Edited January 18, 2015 by WhizBang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dddave Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 I see it's a TRUE phone so I presume a TRUE account. If he entered contacts to his SIM, then a TRUE office might be able to recover them. AIS was able to provide most of mine when I lost a phone years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RKASA Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Put the sim card in another phone and see how much is in contacts there. I store in both the phone and the sim and the contact list app shows what looks like double entries but they are not really as they are stored in two places. This is an issue android needs to solve. Who wants to see double contacts, especially when the sim card one is often truncated. Android should allow the user to specify which contact list to use. Ok, to try and help the OP, there are PC programs for backing up phone data, including contacts. Might want to give one of those a try. And when the friend gets his phone sorted out, and presubably has a new phone, there are backup programs for saving the contact list in a separate file. This is what I do and once saved, I copy to my PC. The app I use is called Super Backup. All this talk of contact backup makes me realize I need to make a current backup of my own contacts. The phone does allow me to select if I want to see only the 1 or 2 sim or the phonebook only, but it also allows to see all - I just leave it on all. The presented double entry have a colored mark with sim icon blue for dtac green for AIS and blank are the phone book copy. It reminds me to make a copy to other sim if I don't see all three. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhizBang Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Put the sim card in another phone and see how much is in contacts there. I store in both the phone and the sim and the contact list app shows what looks like double entries but they are not really as they are stored in two places. This is an issue android needs to solve. Who wants to see double contacts, especially when the sim card one is often truncated. Android should allow the user to specify which contact list to use. Ok, to try and help the OP, there are PC programs for backing up phone data, including contacts. Might want to give one of those a try. And when the friend gets his phone sorted out, and presubably has a new phone, there are backup programs for saving the contact list in a separate file. This is what I do and once saved, I copy to my PC. The app I use is called Super Backup. All this talk of contact backup makes me realize I need to make a current backup of my own contacts. The phone does allow me to select if I want to see only the 1 or 2 sim or the phonebook only, but it also allows to see all - I just leave it on all. The presented double entry have a colored mark with sim icon blue for dtac green for AIS and blank are the phone book copy. It reminds me to make a copy to other sim if I don't see all three. I had a phone with 'options' for displaying contacts, but no matter what I selected, everything always showed up. I eventually gave up and erased what was on the sim to save me the grief of looking at double entries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeverSure Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Just an idea, connect a mouse via OTG if the touch screen doesn't react.I would like to try this... I assume I would need to get some sort of adapter to connect a standard USB mouse to the phone, correct? Just a micro USB adapter Micro USB adapter.jpg He might have one. I got 2 with my latest phone. One plugs into my car charger and the other plugs into my laptop or into a wall charger - either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkleton Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 (edited) He might have one. I got 2 with my latest phone. One plugs into my car charger and the other plugs into my laptop or into a wall charger - either. I think, you confuse something.... We are talking about an "OTG adapter", not a standard USB to MicroUSB cable. Edited January 20, 2015 by Turkleton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebike Posted January 20, 2015 Author Share Posted January 20, 2015 Got one today (OTG) will try it later tonite! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazxxky Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 If your friend set up the Android Phone with an email address, and if he ever had WiFi or 3G Internet connectivity, it's possible that Google automagically synced the contacts to that account ... though usually you have to invoke by checking it off as an option in the Google Account options in System Settings. Couldn't hurt to log into the account via a PC and look. He does remember the email and password used to set up the phone, doesn't he? (most sheeple don't remember or care) which makes me sad. When you lost data from android .The first thing that you need to stop your android phone or did not add new data on android .If the data be overwritten ,you will not recover lost data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astral Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 A good lesson for us all, to backup phone data regularly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicog Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 If it's only the touchscreen that isn't working, then a MicroUSB mouse/keyboard should do the trick. Or maybe ask True how to replace the touchscreen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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