Unlock a Samsung Galaxy Note Phone when Your Screen Is Broken
Edited by Doug Collins, Dougie-1, VC, Sean and 17 others
I am going to show you my Samsung Note3 which I ran over with my car yesterday. I had a big problem because I could not get into the device and I am sure you are here for the same reason. I needed to get my data off the device and onto my new phone.
Steps
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But there's a problem -- although you can see the images through the glass a little bit to figure out what is going on I can't interact with this device at all. My fingers on the screen are being ignored entirely.As you can see I did manage to get it unlocked. - 2
What I discovered is the pen works even when finger input on the screen does not.Luckily if you have a note device (Note, Note2, Note3, Note4) or any note device you do have a pen. - 3
What I did was draw my pattern unlock even though I couldn't fully see what I was doing in the dead areas of my screen and it worked to unlock my phone. As you can see it does respond to the pen. I can scroll around and everything works with the pen, so the key is to use your pen.As you can see I don't have a pattern unlock on the screen like I did before and I can't see my entire screen because part of it is completely dark.
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How to Remotely Unlock any Samsung Phone with Samsung's Find my Phone App
The second thing that I want to show you is the find your phone app. The Android device manager has a find your iPhone app in it. That is the one I was using. It turned out to be a really bad idea considering Samsung has pretty much the exact same app however Samsung's version has features in it that would have saved me.
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It turns out I could have used the "Unlock my screen" option from Samsung Find My Phone app so I could easily have gotten into my phone and backed it up.What would I have done if I was using a phone that doesn't have a pen? - 2
It has other options as well such as guardian settings if you want to monitor your child's device.It also has other features like finding your phone, lock my screen and wipe my device.
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How to make your device useless to anyone who steals or finds your lost phone with Samsung's Reactivation Lock
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Go into settings->security on your phone and activate the Reactivation Lock.
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Questions and Answers
LCD is broken on Galaxy Note3. Is there an app for laptop to remotely control my Android?
LCD is broken & my phone has password on it. I can not get into my phone to even open up my phone to retrieve my data. is there an app to do so?. I have tried: Plugging it into laptop but nothing registers on my computer. I think it was caused by: I broke the LCD when working in attic. I sat on the phone & inside screen is cracked in pieces
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See more questions like this: My question is: how can I transfer my Pictures, and view my Text messages and such From My PC, which is Running Windows XP professional
Is there a way to recover pictures, videos, and music on an Samsung Galaxy note 3 with a cracked LCD that is also locked?
LCD is broken & my phone has password on it. I can not get into my phone to even open up my phone to retrieve my data. is there an app to do so?. I have tried: Plugging it into laptop but nothing registers on my computer. I broke the LCD screen by dropping it from an elevated position multiple times in a few days. My situation is not covered in the article. The question was asked but nothing is in response to the question. I have tried: I've plugged it up to my laptop and nothing is registering. I can not see the screen after I turn the phone on. Some of the lights on the phone turn on but the screen is blank from cracked LCD. I think it was caused by: Having the LCD cracked from falling from elevated position a few times in a few days.
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