Saturday, 24 October 2015

S5 Memo Recovery w/ Broken Screen & No Root



Alright, so - my wife left her phone on the trunk of her car this afternoon, it fell off on the highway, and got in a (losing) fight with a tire. The screen is absolutely destroyed, but thanks to the case she had on it, the main body is mint condition. Everything works as it should, aside from the screen.

My son is 11 months old, and all of his milestone moments from the last 6 months are on her phone. Teeth, steps, words, foods, activities - his whole history. She was using the stock Memo application (for real? why???) without having it linked to a Samsung account (because, Google).

So, I've got a Samsung Galaxy S5 that doesn't have USB Debugging enabled, isn't rooted, and has a screen that's not only non-functioning, it's probably only 90% still there. It boots and runs just fine, and I can access files (non-root) while plugged into a PC.

As far as I can tell, the memo files should be located (/dbdata/databases/com.sec.android.app.memo)

I'm at a loss here on how to recover the files - I've already paid the deductible for a new phone, which should be here late next week...

Any and all help will be appreciated - thanks in advance!

-Corey



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