Ask HN: Has anyone successfully recovered photos from a broken Android phone?

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  • adb-remote-control

    Control your android device from your computer through adb

  • You mentioned USB debugging is enabled, any luck connecting up via ADB and poking around? If `adb shell` and trying to look at the filesystem doesn't work, maybe try this out to unlock the phone https://github.com/oberien/adb-remote-control

  • scrcpy

    Display and control your Android device

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  • rest-server

    Rest Server is a high performance HTTP server that implements restic's REST backend API.

  • Similar here. Termux with restic, so it does deduplication and encryption and such (also compression since a few months but haven't turned it on yet).

    On local laptop: run https://github.com/restic/rest-server/ to accept the incoming data, then (if 1234 is the port that rest-server runs on):

        user@laptop:~$ ssh -R 1234:localhost:1234 root@phone

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