A friend recently dropped his phone and ended up with a cracked display. That isn’t always a death knell for a smartphone, but in this case it meant that he couldn’t unlock the phone because the ...

“How to recover the contact from Android with broken screen? I cannot wait to repair the broken screen of my Android. What should I do?” When you save some important files on an Android phone, you ...

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Even if the display of your phone or tablet with iOS/iPadOS or Android is damaged and operation is impossible, there are various ways to recover your data. However, there is no guarantee of success.

You drop your phone and the screen shatters. Ugh. While you’ve probably been smart about putting your critical data on the cloud—right?—there might be some things you still want to extract from your ...

If you’ve smashed up your Android phone and it won’t work, or respond to your touch input, what’s the best way to recover the data stored on it? It happens to everybody. You try and take the best ...

Cracked or broken mobile device screens can be costly to fix, but a few inexpensive do-it-yourself strategies can eliminate a repair shop visit and salvage your tablet or phone. Third-party repair ...

How do you fix that which is broken? Specifically, how do you access your smartphone—to wipe all of your important data off of it, presumably before shipping it off for repair—when you’ve destroyed ...