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tovask / Controll_android_only_usb.md
Last active January 23, 2024 17:38
get controll over Samsung Galaxy S4 (GT-I9505, totally broken screen, USB debug NOT enabled) from linux with the help of CWM and adb

My friend give me an android phone (Samsung Galaxy S4 I9505XXUHPK2) because he didn't want to use it any more. It was a perfectly working modern device with only one problem: it's screen was broken. It usually happens to big touch screen phone, that their screen get crashes somehow, but their other functionalities keep working fine. So i was happy, that i got a fully functionalling phone, until he describe that broken screen means it's totally broken: no touch detection and no display! But unless this small drawback, it seem to be all right: it automatically connented to a known wifi and it's alarm clock also turned on sometimes. But yet the only response from it was a status led in the top-left corner (witch helped to detect if it's currently booting); the backlight of the menu and the back button (witch was the only way to find out, if i just turned on or off the screen); and the vibration (witch was also indicated a boot start (, or a new mess