A friend busted his phone screen and came to me since I'm supposedly the technical one. I told him I'd give it a shot, but I'm getting nowhere with it at all. He has a Pixel 6 Pro. It seems to work except the screen. It beeps on notifications. I didn't think to get him to try voice commands. Voice commands (i.e. me saying Hey Google at the phone) don't trigger for me. I don't know if they are voice specific though? Plugging and unplugging from my computer makes it beep but it doesn't show up as accessible as a disk. I tried plugging in a USB C to HDMI and putting it on my monitor but it doesn't work (seriously, Google...).
The screen is non-functional for at least display. Touch may work in places but inconsistently, but I think I triggered an emergency dialer somehow by poking at it and it would beep. He did not have backups turned on (or at least when I asked if he saw backups in his Google Drive he said no). I cannot get USB Debugging turned on. scrcpy otg will connect and let me use mouse and keyboard, but there is no way I can do the steps to turn it on. It doesn't show as a device in adb with USB debugging, so I don't think I can get a screen mirror working. I think I can get it unlocked with the mouse/keyboard in scrcpy otg, but can't really do anything from there. I cannot get it to act like a disk when hooked up to my computer. I assume it has a prompt or something and don't know where to click. I do not have access to another working phone to practice on or see what I'm trying to do.
Mainly I think texts are what needs to be rescued. Pictures are on google photos and passwords in google passwords, contacts in google, mail in gmail, etc. So I think texts are the main thing that I don't think are in any cloud service. I'm fairly sure I have almost no hope of getting into this phone without replacing the screen, which was a $400 quote at the local phone place or it looks like I can order a kit for $200 and maybe do it myself.
Do I have any other options here? I don't need to end up with a working phone. He's already getting a new one. I really just want the texts off this thing, preferrably in a way that I can reimport into his new phone. Is the voice assistant locked to his voice? If I take it back to him can I ask him to say anything at the phone that will help? Can you trigger a backup with the voice assistant? Can anyone give me a screenshot of the prompt you get when you plug in to a computer and want to treat the phone as a disk so maybe I can try to tap the right place or use the HID mouse?
Thanks for any help anyone can give, even if it is just "Give up, you're screwed." Also if there is a better place to ask this stuff with an actual friendly community, I'd appreciate pointers. I've tried a couple places on Reddit and my posts are getting deleted.
The screen is non-functional for at least display. Touch may work in places but inconsistently, but I think I triggered an emergency dialer somehow by poking at it and it would beep. He did not have backups turned on (or at least when I asked if he saw backups in his Google Drive he said no). I cannot get USB Debugging turned on. scrcpy otg will connect and let me use mouse and keyboard, but there is no way I can do the steps to turn it on. It doesn't show as a device in adb with USB debugging, so I don't think I can get a screen mirror working. I think I can get it unlocked with the mouse/keyboard in scrcpy otg, but can't really do anything from there. I cannot get it to act like a disk when hooked up to my computer. I assume it has a prompt or something and don't know where to click. I do not have access to another working phone to practice on or see what I'm trying to do.
Mainly I think texts are what needs to be rescued. Pictures are on google photos and passwords in google passwords, contacts in google, mail in gmail, etc. So I think texts are the main thing that I don't think are in any cloud service. I'm fairly sure I have almost no hope of getting into this phone without replacing the screen, which was a $400 quote at the local phone place or it looks like I can order a kit for $200 and maybe do it myself.
Do I have any other options here? I don't need to end up with a working phone. He's already getting a new one. I really just want the texts off this thing, preferrably in a way that I can reimport into his new phone. Is the voice assistant locked to his voice? If I take it back to him can I ask him to say anything at the phone that will help? Can you trigger a backup with the voice assistant? Can anyone give me a screenshot of the prompt you get when you plug in to a computer and want to treat the phone as a disk so maybe I can try to tap the right place or use the HID mouse?
Thanks for any help anyone can give, even if it is just "Give up, you're screwed." Also if there is a better place to ask this stuff with an actual friendly community, I'd appreciate pointers. I've tried a couple places on Reddit and my posts are getting deleted.