help me recover my smartphone files, dead LCD

[DiTBho]

... a few days ago I had a very bad accident with my racing bike.

The front wheel slipped on an oil slick that I didn't see, it was late, very dark, I was tired after more than 8 hours of pedaling (120+110km) and I didn't have the reflexes to avoid it, the steering was understeering, I wasn't ready to properly oversteer, the bike went into a dive, and I literally flew into the flowerbed.

I had my smartphone in my backpack open pocket, it flew out and crashed first into a concrete pole, then onto the asphalt

I didn't hurt myself almost anything, scratches on my arms and legs, right knee bleeding enough but not so much that more than 6 stitches could fix, bruises here and there, plastic glasses destroyed, but the list of damages is huge, the wheels need to be changed as well as pedals, right crank and saddle, and the smartphone is to be thrown away.

The impact bent the steel fork and the smarphone chassis, umm, you have an idea about what 45Km/h can do on an impact.
The display was crumpled, the sim was ejected and can no longer be inserted.

Something in the smartphone, however, still seems to work: the white flashing LED continues to flash and at least the Bluetooth works because I see "Motorola G60" when I scan for nearby Bluetooth devices on my laptop.

hope+=2 

The problem is that I had installed Android v11 without ever having enabled either Bluetooth file sharing or file sharing via USB-C cable.

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I would like to recover some of the documents (pdf and doc) and photos.

Any ideas on how to do it? 

[mendip_discovery]

GWS, I guess you are already looking at new bike parts to build the next one.

With the phone I can't help but I would ask the local lads at the market, iirc crap phone whorehouse has a specific team that can do data recovery. But you might find your house, or other insurance might cover data recovery.

[nali]

Ouch!

Did you enable developer options by any chance? You may be able to use ADB if so:

https://www.thecustomdroid.com/adb-push-pull-commands/
https://technastic.com/unlock-android-phone-pin-pattern-adb/

[DiTBho]

Did you enable developer options by any chance?

unfortunately no 

[mendip_discovery]

Login to your google account, I think there is a way to get a backup via that.

or use a USB OTG cable to connect the USB-C to a HDMI screen and log in that way and enable data sharing,

[DiTBho]

use a USB OTG cable to connect the USB-C to a HDMI screen and log in that way and enable data sharing,

brilliant 

[ustaad]

Login to your google account, I think there is a way to get a backup via that.

or use a USB OTG cable to connect the USB-C to a HDMI screen and log in that way and enable data sharing,

Motorola G60 does not have USB-C to HDMI functionality

https://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_moto_g60-10861.php

[Halcyon]

Unless your phone supports MHL or HDMI over USB-C, you are fresh out of luck getting video output from your device.

And unless you enabled developer options to allow USB debugging and access to the memory without unlocking the device, your only really solution is probably going to be replacing the LCD.

The LCD completely dead? (i.e.: You can't see anything at all even under bright lighting?) If not, you can connect a keyboard/mouse via a USB hub to control the device enough to copy data elsewhere.

[Messtechniker]

I always expect a dead LCD. This is why I have a VNC server (VNC = Virtual Network Computing) installed and ready for a remote session. This won't help you this time. But always expect a next time round.

[ustaad]

... a few days ago I had a very bad accident with my racing bike.

The front wheel slipped on an oil slick that I didn't see, it was late, very dark, I was tired after more than 8 hours of pedaling (120+110km) and I didn't have the reflexes to avoid it, the steering was understeering, I wasn't ready to properly oversteer, the bike went into a dive, and I literally flew into the flowerbed.

I had my smartphone in my backpack open pocket, it flew out and crashed first into a concrete pole, then onto the asphalt

I didn't hurt myself almost anything, scratches on my arms and legs, right knee bleeding enough but not so much that more than 6 stitches could fix, bruises here and there, plastic glasses destroyed, but the list of damages is huge, the wheels need to be changed as well as pedals, right crank and saddle, and the smartphone is to be thrown away.

The impact bent the steel fork and the smarphone chassis, umm, you have an idea about what 45Km/h can do on an impact.
The display was crumpled, the sim was ejected and can no longer be inserted.

Something in the smartphone, however, still seems to work: the white flashing LED continues to flash and at least the Bluetooth works because I see "Motorola G60" when I scan for nearby Bluetooth devices on my laptop.

hope+=2 

The problem is that I had installed Android v11 without ever having enabled either Bluetooth file sharing or file sharing via USB-C cable.

-

I would like to recover some of the documents (pdf and doc) and photos.

Any ideas on how to do it? 

Have you tried logging into your Google account you used on the mobile from your PC? Hopefully if Google Drive and/or Google Photos were enabled to upload data on server you might have some or most of your data already there

[abeyer]

I always expect a dead LCD. This is why I have a VNC server (VNC = Virtual Network Computing) installed and ready for a remote session. This won't help you this time. But always expect a next time round.

I'd be hesitant to leave that on all the time... at a minimum make sure you have a very strong password. I think it leaves the port open on any wifi you connect to, and didn't have any brute force protection last I looked at it...so any scanner on any network you use that recognizes a vnc server can sit there and hammer on passwords continuously.

[DiTBho]

Have you tried logging into your Google account you used on the mobile from your PC? Hopefully if Google Drive and/or Google Photos were enabled to upload data on server you might have some or most of your data already there

unfortunately Google Drive was disabled.
Everything is local, on the internal flash storage.

[DiTBho]

The LCD completely dead?
You can't see anything at all even under bright lighting?

It crashed into a concrete pole at 45 km/h with a dull thud that sounded like Thor's hammer thrown at speed.

I didn't see it crash, I was busy crashing to the ground in a livid cloud of dust and blood and shivers down my spine,
but I clearly heard the noise it made as it scraped across the asphalt.
It was something that sounded bending like a banana, with most of the pixels
- including those that blink the moto-rolllla logo even when the phone screen is off -
turned into a cloud of splinters.

The only thing that emitted light was a the front LED.
Blinking like a wounded animal, dying, waiting for the plug to be pulled.

Days later, what's left is a black thing that bleeds out something from the battery
and smells like the low quality ink used for the worst newspapers

[DavidAlfa]

Search used displays in ebay. SOmetiems people sell partially damaged screens for data recovery purposes.
Two years ago, I recovered a friend's data from his S22 with a $30 screen instead of $300 this way.

[DiTBho]

The data cable from the motherboard to the LCD was torn during the impact: is it replaceable?

[DavidAlfa]

Buy the whole display assembly, it'll come with the ribbon cable. As long as the connector in board is ok.

This will refurb it almost as new: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166930111655

Also: As long as you don't remove any sticker or label, you can usually return it.
So, before anything else, plug the display to the board and see if it turns on.
Unplug the battery first!