Copy pictures from phone with broken screen?

ak22 · 21 Apr 2018 at 20:57

My moto G5 screen is smashed and the battery came out when i dropped so i can't enter the password any ideas on how to move my pictures to my macbook?

ak22 · 21 Apr 2018 at 21:08

MrRockliffe said:
Should be able to plug your phone into your Mac, and with android file transfer, copy pictures from the photo folder to your computer.

Thanks for the reply I have tried that but says "Could not connect to device"

ak22 · 21 Apr 2018 at 21:23

No windows machine and motorola don't seem to have any software, such a shame just got back from holiday got lots of pictures...

Not sure why it does work as when i plug in the phone Android file transfer automatically loads up.

ak22 · 22 Apr 2018 at 16:57

Coolasmoo said:
Try plugging in a usb mouse and using that to control the phone

Can't see what I'm controlling the screen is broken.

MrRockliffe said:
I was doing a bit of brainstorming, and had an idea.

Does the phone support display out via the micro usb?

You could use it to navigate the display

Not sure good idea will look into it thanks

Sin_Chase said:
If you had USB debugging enabled try using Android ADB, command line but slightly more powerful than USB file transfer alone.

https://www.howtogeek.com/125769/how-to-install-and-use-abd-the-android-debug-bridge-utility/

Is the screen not showing anything or is it just input which is broken? If you can see something on the screen get a USB OTG cable and plug in a keyboard and mouse?

Not sure if i did will give it ago now

Edit: Didn't work

ak22 · 24 Apr 2018 at 18:34

SimonCHere said:
I'm not tried pushing anything from the play store recently, but can you install something like Airdroid from the play store?
It might install and be set up to run automatically? then you can control the phone from your pc

Issues is the phone is not connecting to the PC I will take to phone repair centre.