Turn your old, cracked Android phone into a backup server

Re:Turn your old, cracked Android phone into a backup server by rjzzleep on Monday June 21, 2021 @03:35AM (#27577101)

I have a rooted phone that I use to get information I need root for with a broken touchscreen. The other day I was stupid enough to try to reset it to see if I could part of the screen working. Obviously that didn't work.

Re-enabling USB debugging was the following process:

1. use USB-OTG to go into the bluetooth menu to connect a bluetooth device to.

2. enable usb debugging using mouse

3. connect to PC and use the bluetooth keyboard to allow USB debugging

4. use scrcpy to control the device

Obviously this only works reasonably well if you can see at least some portion of the screen.

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Re:Turn your old, cracked Android phone into a backup server by sippeangelo on Monday June 21, 2021 @04:22AM (#27577298)

It also only works if your phone is on an old enough Android version where they haven't put OTG behind a manual toggle yet.

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Re:Turn your old, cracked Android phone into a backup server by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday June 21, 2021 @11:15AM (#27579976)

What versions of Android have a toggle to allow USB OTG?

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