![]() 08/02/2015 at 15:39 • Filed to: None | ![]() | ![]() |
My phone finally died I guess. Had to buy some cheap Droid thing to keep my unlimited data with Verizon. Now how do I get about a dozen unsaved numbers from this?
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smash with hammer and extract memories with acid put by fire smash into computer hole. do computery things remove numbers and letter pictures smear into new spirit box. also first be caveman.
![]() 08/02/2015 at 15:55 |
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Didn't work.
![]() 08/02/2015 at 16:01 |
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No power? Numbers not on a sim?
![]() 08/02/2015 at 16:03 |
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Samsung has a program called Kies that might do the trick if your phone is still alive enough.
![]() 08/02/2015 at 16:21 |
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Is it an app? Screen is unreadable but I can unlock it by feel.
![]() 08/02/2015 at 16:22 |
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How would I check that? The important ones are in my texts but never added to contacts. Screen doesn’t work but I can unlock it by feel.
![]() 08/02/2015 at 16:23 |
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Galaxy S4? I’ve fixed at least 6 of them. Probably the easiest phone to work on, in my opinion.
![]() 08/02/2015 at 16:24 |
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Any cause as to why the screen did this just in the middle of a text? Damage to the top part has been like that for at least a year.
![]() 08/02/2015 at 16:28 |
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It’s a program that you put on your computer and it’ll connect to your phone when you connect to it through USB. I don’t see anywhere specifically that it can read contacts, but it can create a backup and I’m sure there’s some way to read the contacts off the backup.
http://www.samsung.com/us/kies/
![]() 08/02/2015 at 16:32 |
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Where you lucky enough to save your calls/texts/contacts on the SD card vs the phone itself?
![]() 08/02/2015 at 16:32 |
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Google backs them up to the cloud. Log in to your google account with the new phone and they should all get downloaded.
...assuming you stored them in google’s contacts app. If you didn’t...well you might be FUBAR’d on this one.
![]() 08/02/2015 at 16:47 |
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Ouch. If you can plug it into the computer the messages should be in /data/data/com.android.providers/telephony/databases/mmssms.db. But you need root access to get it.
![]() 08/02/2015 at 16:56 |
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The past couple of times that I got a new Android phone, I used the previous phone’s Contacts app to create a .vcf file with all my phone/e-mail contacts and then uploaded said file to Google Drive. I then accessed Google Drive from the new phone and opened the .vcf file to load all of that contact info into the new phone’s Contacts app.
![]() 08/02/2015 at 16:59 |
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Seems to be working. Thank you!
![]() 08/02/2015 at 17:00 |
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It is rooted. I will try later but just getting it to appear in android file transfer is impossible. Kies seems to be working.
![]() 08/02/2015 at 17:00 |
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That’s a good idea. Life caught me off guard on this one though.
![]() 08/02/2015 at 17:01 |
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Not sure. Phone works, screen just died mid text so hopefully can get them.
![]() 08/02/2015 at 17:01 |
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Not sure why but my google contacts on my new phone seem to be like 2 years old so yeah.
![]() 08/02/2015 at 17:03 |
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So your phone won’t turn on at all? If the touchscreen still responds, then maybe you could search for a video tutorial to do it by feel.
![]() 08/02/2015 at 17:04 |
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Good luck! You have a better chance than most it sounds like.
![]() 08/02/2015 at 17:08 |
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Looks like Kies is working for backing it up.
![]() 08/02/2015 at 18:34 |
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There was more damage than just the screen, probably cracked the motherboard and heat finally caused a failure. Or it could be a loose connection.
![]() 08/11/2015 at 17:22 |
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Well shit
You don’t have to bleep :p