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Question

How can I get into my locked & partially broken phone

Feb 20, 2016 7:50AM PST

Hi guys, I have a faulty Smart Ultra 6 (random haptic feedback & unresponsive screen) that I still have a lot of important photos on that I now cant access. Half of the screen is unresponsive now so theres no way I can pattern unlock it- But it needs to be unlocked so I can take my stuff off of it. It also isnt rooted or anything and I cant remote unlock it so im really stuck here.

Any help would be appreciated

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For almost all of us
Feb 20, 2016 7:56AM PST

You plan ahead for this. You setup your PC and phone to sync when connected or put your stuff on the memory card that you remove and read elsewhere.

It does NOT require rooting if you plan ahead.

This planning is done before the failure. After that you try asking a service counter to clone your phone to the new one.

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Try this. For ten bucks, I promise it will work
Mar 8, 2016 9:07PM PST

Go to RadioShack, or even a BestBuy, and ask for an accessory called a USB to-go; one end is a male micro USB that you insert into your phones charging port and the other end is a female USB port. Insert the microUSB into that port, grab any old fashioned wired mouse, plug the mouse into the other end. Soon as this happens you should see an arrow on your phones screen, hold the mouse button down and connect the dots in the specific pattern you set, and voila! Your phone is now unlocked. =)

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Good point. That should work if the phone supports USB OTG
Mar 16, 2016 11:52AM PDT

It's actually called USB On-the-Go though.

cheers

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This is how you can do this...
Mar 16, 2016 11:08AM PDT

First thing you have to is to find a proper application for your phone to attach with a pc and that you know better ) and then connect your phone to pc and operate your phone by your pc and transfer any data to the pc that you want..