The screen is the most important part of the Android mobile phone. If the screen is broken, we will not unlock the touch screen of the mobile phone. How do you do that next? Are you going to give up your photos, videos, contacts and messages? Or looking for a way on how to get files off a broken phone? I’m sure many Android users will choose the latter because memory is priceless. However, how do you recover data from Android's broken screen?
1. Using USB Cable to Retrieve Data from Broken Android Phone
AutoPlay is an easy way that occurs in one’s mind to get data off Android devices. Please follow the steps below to recover your phone data from the computer.
Step 1: Connecting the cracked Android device to PC via USB cable
Step 2: An AutoPlay will pop up on the PC once your mobile phone is recognized. Just click the “Open folder to view files” option.
Step 3: Copy and paste the files you want to restore from the broken phone to the PC
Attention here, you can’t recover contacts from Android phone as well as SMS, WhatsApp etc. in this way; but they are so important that nine out of ten persons don’t want to lose them. No worries, the best Android data recovery software of Gihosoft, so far as I know, will help you out there for free. Please sit tight and read the following tutorial patiently.
Note: This software can’t fix the other device to normal like HTC, Motorola, LG, Sony, Huawei, ZTE, Google Nexus, Google Pixel, ZTE, Xiaomi, Sharp, Windows phone, except the bricked Samsung(Galaxy S6/S5/S4, Galaxy Note 5/Note 4/Note 3, Tab Pro 10.1).
2. Using Android Recovery to Recover Data from Broken Android Phone
First, download the trial version of the Samsung Phone Data Recovery for free, then follow the data extraction steps below to try：
Before recovering data from your black screen Samsung phone, you need to make sure your Samsung phone can be recognized by your computer and has at least 20% battery. Now let’s begin to recover data from the black screen Samsung phone.
Recover Data from Samsung Phone with Broken Screen:
Method 1: Recover Data from Broken Android via Android Data Extraction
Method 2: Recover Lost Data from Broken Android with USB Cable
Method 1: Recover Data from Broken Android via Android Data Extraction
Step 1: First of all, free download and install the program on your computer with the above link. Then the program will automatically launch when it is finished. Choose Broken Android Phone Data Extraction on the left of the interface.
Step 2: Connect your Xiaomi phone to the computer with a USB cable. Click Start if your Android device stays in a broken screen, black screen or non-responsive screen, you cannot enter a password or cannot touch the screen. Otherwise click Fix Device if the system of your Android device is damaged, and you cannot operate it. Here you should choose Fix Device.
Step 3: Choose the situation that your phone is facing with: Stuck in Startup screen, Stuck in the Download mode, Stuck in the FoneGo interface, Black screen and so on. Click Next to move on.
Step 4: Make sure that you choose the correct information of your Android device including the device name and device model. Then click Confirm to move on.
Step 5: The program will download a recovery package and then repair the frozen Android system. After it is done, you can navigate to Android Data Recovery feature to access and scan your Android data, including the deleted files.
Step 6: Check Messages and Message Attachment on the left pane to view details and mark the items you want to recover and click Recover to save them onto your computer.
With the help of this software, you can get Android photos off a frozen phone, recover data from dead phone and so on. Why not get it on your PC now?
Method 2: Recover Lost Data from Broken Android with USB Cable
Screen-broken Android phone is one of the most common cases we can see among Android user. In such a case, part of the screen doesn’t respond to finger touches, so you can’t do backup operation on the phone. However, you can recover the data from the phone with a USB cable.
Step 1: Carefully, attach your USB data cable with your Android Smartphone and connect it to your PC.
Step 2 : Wait until your PC installs necessary drivers and show your smartphone as a new driver.
Step 3 : Open My Computer and find the name of your Android smartphone.
connect Android to PC.
Step 4 : Double click on your smartphone name and here you can find all the multimedia files and documents are stored in your internal and external memory.
Step 5 : Select all the items that you want to restore and copy them. Now go to your computer driver and paste the file in your desired location.
However, this method can only recover multimedia and documents files. Text messages, contacts, notes, call logs, can’t be retrieved using this method.
