Get data off a Samsung Galaxy S2

tranmererovers

I am trying to recover Calendar and contacts of a Samsung S2 for a friend.

The screen is smashed and has no display. I cannot use samsung kies as I am unable to see anything on the screen to change the phone connection to MTP.

I have googled and downloaded a few other utilites but they all want MTP mode

She does not have a samsung account so I cannot remote unlock that way and I used the android app but it can't find the phone as gps is also switched off

I can see the phone in windows explorer but can't determine the right data from there.

Any suggestions please

flashg67

Might be a silly question but does she have it linked to her Google account - contacts & calendar etc are synced to the account and accessible from any internet browser? (Might be a good idea to do this going forward anyway)

Is there a folder on the phone called (or similar) - data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/contacts.db

tranmererovers

No damaged one not linked to google. I have done that on her new phone now though

There are folders in the data directory but none that appear to be related to contacts or calendar. Have ticked to show hidden files and searched the phone for contacts.* too

esuhl

I think on my S2, the contacts list was stored in a file with a .vcf extension close to (or maybe inside) the root directory.

I remember accidentally deleting it because it wasn't named contacts.vcf or anything that would make me think it was the contact list. I thought it was just my own virtual "business card".

I don't know if that helps at all... :-/

tranmererovers

Thanks - worth a try but no *.vcf files found either

cookie365

There might be an adb command that can force the phone into MTP mode.

Though you'd probably need to have USB Developer mode already turned on.

esuhl

cookie365 wrote: »

There might be an adb command that can force the phone into MTP mode.

Though you'd probably need to have USB Developer mode already turned on.

If you connect the phone in download mode, you could flash a custom recovery (which would have the "usb debugging" enabled).

Then use adb to try to extract whatever files you can find.

Installing adb: https://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Doc:_adb_intro
Command list: https://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Adb_--help