And hello again, lovers of new products from the world of gadgets! Many subscribers ask us how to extract information from a broken phone? Like numerous technical devices, a cell phone can fail sooner or later.

In the event of a fall or impact, or careless handling of a mobile phone, it is very easy to damage it. What to do in this case and how to get data from a mobile device if the phone is broken? This will be discussed in our today's blog.

How to extract information from a broken cell phone

One of the easiest ways to extract the necessary "info" from your pet is to use a cloud copy. Owners of other brands of cell phones can also use the "cloud" to retrieve lost data from Samsung, Nokia, NTS or Lenovo, as well as other Android phones.

“Getting” information from a faulty, broken phone is quite difficult. The ability to disassemble a mobile phone may require knowledge of many technical skills. However, you can use special cloud services that will greatly simplify the work of extracting the necessary data from a broken phone.

In order to use "cloud technologies" you need to pre-configure the functionality and it is quite difficult to do this. At the same time, there are a number of ready-made services that are initially installed on Fly, LG, Sony, and other phones. Of these, it is worth highlighting "Google" contacts.

The first thing to do to make your database available from another phone is to add a Google account to another mobile phone. When you connect your smartphone for the first time, during activation you will need to synchronize your smartphone with your Google account.

Select "Existing" or "New" account. To restore all old contacts, you need to specify "Existing", then enter your email and password that you used on your old cell phone.

In the event that the device already has another account, then you first need to enter the "Settings", and then click "Add account". After that, select the device you wish to "pair" with this phone.

For greater security, immediately after copying all the data, you can enter the phone settings, and then quickly remove the account link. To do this, open "Settings", click on the "Google" menu, select an account and click on the "Menu" button. After that, click "Delete account".

Now, you only need to enter the application and all contacts will be loaded.

What to do to pull all contacts using PC

It will not be possible to completely copy all the data to a computer, however, all information can be very easily viewed on a computer monitor. Then it is easy to find the necessary data and write out the necessary information.

To do this, type http://mail.google.com in the address bar. Then you need to enter your email, as well as the password for your Google account. After passing authorization, you will be taken to the Gmail interface. To see the desired telephone contacts, press the key with the image of a handset. It is located at the bottom left of the screen.

By clicking on the magnifying glass icon, you will see 8 phone contacts that are linked to the account. If you start dialing a new phone number or contact name, it will be in your list.

How to "get" information from the phone using the ADB protocol

Is it possible to get the necessary information using a special "protocol"? Of course, yes!

ADB is a special protocol for accessing the Android system. In order to extract information using the ADB protocol, you will need a computer and a USB cable. To use this method, you need to enable the "USB Debugging" function on your smartphone (it is located in Settings" in the "For Developers" section).

To go there, you need to open the “About phone” item and then click on the “Build number” item 10 times. It should only be taken into account that this method is mainly used only by advanced users.

So, in order to download data from a broken phone in this way, you will need a “computer” on the Windows operating system (from version 7 and above), a cell phone that will have the “USB Debugging” function connected with the “Mass Storage” connection mode .

Also, drivers for the phone model must be installed on the PC.

In order to extract the contacts, you should click on "Start", and then enter the value "CMD", but without quotes. After that, the system will prompt you to run "cmd.exe". After agreeing, click on "Enter". A terminal window will open up for you.

Now, move this terminal to the folder with the ADB terminal. Type "cdX://adb" followed by "Enter". Instead of X, put the letter of the non-system "screw".

The last thing you need to do is enter the following command "adbpull /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/contact2.db/home/user/phone_backup/" and then click on "Enter". Now in your folder with the specified terminal there will be a file "contact2.db", where your SQL database will be. If you want to view it, download SQL editors, or use Notepad.

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The problem of a broken mobile phone is familiar to many users. The phone accompanies a person almost everywhere, which means that the device is subject to various influences and damage. What to do if you broke your smartphone, how to get contacts from a broken Android phone? Read about it below.

If the sensor or display does not work, then it will be problematic to remove the contacts directly from the device. One of the most effective recovery options is to use the Google contacts cloud resource. The use of this option is relevant if you were signed in to your Google account, otherwise it will not work. You can copy contacts from a broken device to a PC, laptop or any device with the Android operating system.

Through another Android phone

How to extract contacts from a broken smartphone? To access the data about the contacts you have on your device, you must sign in to your Google account. With the first activation of a mobile gadget, the system itself will ask you to connect the phone to your account, because without this you will not be able to download programs and use useful options. After activating the mobile device, the system will prompt you to select an existing account or create another one.

To copy information, click on the "Existing account" button, then enter the authorization data - email address and password. This will synchronize the recorded data.

When using a smartphone that is already signed in, you need to go to the settings menu and find the button for adding a new account. In devices with an outdated firmware version, this button may be located in the Accounts and Sync submenu, starting with firmware 4.4, this button is located in the main settings menu. When the account is added, you need to click on the button - the system will offer a list of components that can be synchronized with the device.

To prevent your account from being linked to the phone with which you are performing the operation, after completing the steps, you must remove the link. To delete, go to the settings menu and select the Google section. Then you need to click on your account and go to the menu, this is either a key in the form of three dots or a key directly on the smartphone. Erase your account information. When you follow the steps for one of these methods, wait 2-3 minutes and go to contacts or restart your gadget.

Using a PC

How to transfer contacts from phone to computer if the first one is broken?

Using a computer, you will not be able to recover all the lost phone number data, but you can find the most important numbers and write them down:

1. Through a browser, go to mail.google.com.
2. A window will appear in which you will be prompted to enter your email and password information to log into your account. When authorization is done, you will go to the Google mail interface. This service manages your mail and contacts.
3. After that, you will need to switch the mail to the mode of searching for information about contacts. To do this, click on the button in the form of a tube, it is located at the bottom left.
4. After completing these steps, you need to click on the button in the form of a magnifying glass, it is located above, so you will receive a list of the first eight subscribers, they are automatically linked to the account. To view other contacts, you need to enter the beginning of the number or the name of the subscriber one by one in the field, this will lead to the appearance of the number in the field (the video was published by Vladimir Novikov).

Using the ADB protocol

This method of transferring information allows you to extract data directly from the device, and not from a cloud service. The method makes it possible to obtain information even in the absence of account data. Using the ADB protocol will only give results if the phone turns on and boots up. ADB itself is a protocol used to access system information via a USB cable.

For this feature to work, the USB debugging option must be enabled on the mobile. If it was not enabled in advance, then the method may not work. This feature is located in a hidden menu for developers, which can be accessed from the main menu. To do this, go to the About phone menu, after which you need to click on the Build number field about 10 times. We will not consider the process of installing and configuring the ADB protocol here, since this procedure is performed in accordance with a specific device.

If you don’t know how to get lost contacts from your gadget, then we will briefly tell you what you need:

1. Computer or laptop with Windows 7 OS. On versions 8 and higher, there is no guarantee that the method will work.
2. Mobile device. As we said, the USB debugging option must be activated on the smartphone in advance.. The smartphone must be connected to the computer via a cable. If the system asks which connection mode to use, then select Mass Storage.
3. You need to install ADB drivers on your computer. These drivers work with a specific phone model.
4. The archive with the ADB terminal must be unpacked on the PC. It is important that this archive is located in the X:// directory, where X is the letter of the logical drive. The partition used must not have Windows OS installed (the author of the video is Ivan Zadornov).

Lost data recovery is performed as follows:

1. First, go to the Start menu on your PC or laptop, in the window that appears, find the search field and enter the letters cmd into it to launch the command line. The system should offer to run the file with the .exe extension, agree.
2. A new command line window will open. The next step is to transfer the opened terminal to the folder with the installed ADB terminal. In the window, type cd X://adb and Enter. Remember that X is the name of the local drive where the archive is located.
3. Now you need to enter the command adb pull /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/contact2.db /home/user/phone_backup/. Press Enter. This will lead to the appearance of a file called contact2.db in the directory with the terminal, the file will contain a database of contacts in SQL format. This file is opened by the SQL editor. If there is no utility on the PC, you can use the standard Notepad.

Conclusion

Summing up this material, it should be noted that each user must back up data from time to time, this point should not be neglected. This will allow you to quickly restore data in case of loss or breakdown of the mobile device. Link your phone to your Google account and enable background sync.

I broke the screen on my phone, how now to pull out the contacts that are left on it? Thank you

Answers (3 )

If you want to do it quickly, then use Viber. Install the Viber program on your computer.

If the Android screen is completely broken and there is no image, then you will have to do this:

• Charge your Android smartphone and turn it on.
• Bring the Android to the monitor with the back side (screen towards you, camera towards the PC) to enter the account (it will scan the QR code).
• In the "Contacts" tab, you will see all your contacts.

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   To pull contacts out of a broken device, you will need: a computer with ADB installed, drivers for it, and a USB cable. Before manipulation, the smartphone must be charged as much as possible. This method has a feature - it will work if the user first turned on the debugging mode on the device, and then broke the screen.

   I’ll tell you how to pull out contacts after the instructions for installing ADB:

   
   
   • we connect the phone to the PC via a USB cable;
   • we find a smartphone - in the search for programs we write "task manager" and press "enter";
   • a list will open in which there will be an android device with the name of the company or another name;
   • right-click on it, select "update drivers";
   • a window will appear where we click "update automatically", the installation will take place, after which we click "done";
   • then go to the ADB folder, hold down "shift" and press the right mouse button from scratch;
   • a menu will appear in which we select "open command line";
   • a window should appear, in it we write “adb pull data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/contacts.db” - this command will copy the contacts to the ADB folder;

   

   • press "enter";
   • the resulting file is a database with the db extension, you can open it with a table reader, right-click on it and “open with Excel”;
   • a table with phone numbers will appear from which it can be copied.

   Next, I’ll tell you how to pull contacts from a broken Android phone if its display does not perceive touch, but the information is displayed and custom recovery is installed. The essence of the method is to create a backup copy of the entire system, from which contacts are then pulled out. It is implemented like this:

   
   

   Using ADB and recovery, other information can be obtained from the phone.

There are several more or less working ways to restore contacts if the phone with a broken screen is functioning and allows you to access the memory.

One of the difficulties is that when you connect your phone to a PC, to manipulate files and access the Android file system, you need to enable USB debugging (USB debugging). Of course, it is impossible to do this on a phone with a broken screen or a non-working touchscreen.

We will describe how to “pull” contacts from Samsung without enabling USB debugging. The advantage of the approach is that you do not need to root the phone, install dubious applications.

Warning. This method will not help if USB data transfer was not initially enabled on the phone.

Step by step instructions for recovery

Owners of Samsung devices are lucky - there is excellent software for restoring and backing up contacts.

All we need is two official programs from Samsung:

• - a proprietary program for saving a backup copy of messages, SMS, Android user data on a PC
• Samsung Kies - works in conjunction with Smart Switch, its functions are similar.

It's great if these programs are already installed and you have used them before. If not, follow the next instructions.

1) Download and install (in any order) Smart Switch and Kies on your computer.

2) Launch Smart Switch and back up user data on Android.

Attention! If Smart Switch does not install, you most likely need to download the app on your mobile device as well. To do this, after installing Smart Switch on your PC, you need to click in the center of the screen (you will be asked to confirm the download of files to your phone). It may not be possible to do this the first time, since the actions are performed blindly. If you did everything correctly, the Smart Switch installation process will complete successfully.

3) The backup file - it's called Contact.spb - is available at: C:\Users\[Username]\Documents.

The file with contacts Contact.spb can be opened through the Samsung Kies program, in the “Contacts” tab. Through the main menu, we indicate to the program a file with a backup copy of contacts on a PC. As already mentioned, it is available at C:\Users\[Username]\Documents\Backup\. As a result, Samsung Kies will display all phone numbers and contacts stored on the phone, you can view them with all related information.

4) To save contacts, click the "Save As.." button and select a convenient save format.

The following extensions are available to choose from - .spb, .csv and .vcf. This file can be easily imported to another mobile device or saved to Google Contacts.

This completes the restoration of contacts. By the way, in the same way it is convenient to make backup copies of your phone book on a computer. We recommend doing this regularly.

If Samsung branded software did not help to return contacts

Try also contact recovery apps from 3rd party developers - . Among them there are both paid and free tools. They require root access to work. In most cases, they only work with the working screen of the device.

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How to extract data if the display is broken on an Android phone. If you accidentally drop your smartphone or tablet and then your Android display breaks, the cost of replacing it is exorbitant, and you urgently need to get all the data from it? Then let's read this article!

Very often on the Internet you can find the following question:

Now we will deal with this problem, since at the moment there are no clear and formulated solutions!

Problem Solving Instructions

Method number 1 [simple, solution time 1 - 2 minutes]

If you “didn’t sin” on your Android, to be more precise, you didn’t set Root rights, then in your case everything is solved very simply! All you need to do is download and install the manufacturer's proprietary device management software!

• For Samsung - Kies
• For HTC - HTC Sync
• For Sony - PC Comanion

Method number 2 [simple, solution time 1 - 2 minutes]

To do this, you need a USB mouse and an adapter from the USB connector - microUSB, or a USB mouse with a microUSB connector.

After connecting the USB mouse, press the power button (so that the display lights up) and then perform all the controls with the mouse.

Method number 3 [difficult, solution time 40 minutes - 5 hours]

There is a rather interesting program like MyMobiler. The interest lies in the fact that with the help of this software it is possible to view and control Android through a computer.

For MyMobler to work, you will need:

1. Enabled "USB debugging" on the Android device

2. The presence of installed Root rights:

3. Install the MyMobiler application (or via update.zip)

Possible problems if something is disabled or missing:

If debugging is not enabled?

You can turn it on by trying the following:

a) Download and install custom Recovery (not TWRP, only CWM No Touch)

b) On the network, find the build.prop file for a specific model with the same firmware version that you have installed and enter the following data into it:

c) Create update.zip by placing the file build.prop to the root /system

d) Flash this update.zip

After that, debugging should work!

Root received, but I can not confirm the request?

If the display does not respond to pressing in any way, then you can try installing this xml file eu.chainfire.supersu_preferences (located in the 7zip archive) via update.zip from the Recovery menu along the path: /data/data/eu.chainfire.supersu/shared_prefs

Press the power button (so that the display lights up) and then perform all the controls using the MyMobler program!

Method number 4 [simple, solution time 20 minutes]

The method works as follows: Android connects to the computer and using the program, the Android screen is displayed on the Windows desktop. For this method to work, it is necessary that "Debugging via USB" was previously enabled!

Required tools:

1. Windows computer
2. USB cable;
3. Previously installed Android drivers;
4. Previously enabled "USB Debugging";
5. Installed program Adb Run;

Instructions for working with Adb Run:

1. Launch adb run;

2. Go to the menuManual Command -> Control Android out Windows;