How to recover data from a screen-bricked phone?

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Situation

I've got a Samsung Galaxy Fame with a broken touch screen. The owner had it protected with a pattern, and as I am unable to make this pattern with a broken screen, I cannot mount the storage in order to backup/recover data.

Some information:

Power, volume and home button are still working
I can get into recovery and download mode
The phone is stock (No custom/unlocked bootloder and no CWM)
USB-debugging is (unfortunately) disabled

What I've tried:

Connecting a mouse using OTG
Connecting to the phone using ADB This did not work because I could not mount the sd card because I had no sudo permissions.
Using a magnet on the screen

I would like to refer to the following question that concerns the same problem but did not give me a solution: Android ADB Shell Recovery Mounting

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 16 '15 at 14:31

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This should help you: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2786395. Its a program that can mirror your phone to computer. There is also information to enable USB Debugging if you had that disabled.

Hope my answer helps!

answered Jun 16 '15 at 14:31

Thomas Vos

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This requires usb debugging to be enabled – Peter Jun 16 '15 at 14:56
This requires usb debugging to be enabled. The trick mentioned to enable that requires me to be root. – Peter Jun 16 '15 at 15:06
@Peter and why don't you root your device... Install CWM from fastboot... – Thomas Vos Jun 16 '15 at 17:15
@SuperThosmasLab Is that possible without usb debugging turned on? – Peter Jun 17 '15 at 07:04
No, not always. And have you already tried the trick? I don't think you'll need root because its from the recovery mode... @Peter – Thomas Vos Jun 17 '15 at 08:25

How to recover data from a screen-bricked phone?

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