baji

Hey guys, over the weekend my screen cracked. I have a new captivate through my insurance, so that is nice. But the issue I am facing now is that I have pretty much lost all of the data on the old phone, because I can't access it.

Is there any way I can force the SD card to mount via USB without a functional display? The phone is at the very least in debugging mode when I plug it into the USB, and I do have the SDK, and thus, a terminal emulator. With that I should be able to access some of my saved/backed up data on the SD card. Does anyone have an information as to how I might do this? Or, better yet, a link to a guide? I've searched around, but failed to find what I am looking for. Thanks for any help!

P.S. I have most of the stuff backed up via titanium backup, but from what I gather, this is all stored on the internal SD card as opposed to the removable one.

Last edited by baji; December 28th, 2010 at 03:05 PM. Reason: grammar

sremick

Titanium backup will back up the data to wherever you'd like. It only defaults to sdcard/TitaniumBackup but the first step Captivate users should do is change this to sdcard/sd/TitaniumBackup so that it's stored on the external MicroSD card instead.

This is mentioned in the Captivate FAQ:
Backup - CapFAQ

TB also can sync your backup online to DropBox. You can read about DropBox here:
Dropbox - CapFAQ

I know it doesn't help you this round, but info for next time.

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james27007

do you have adb debugging enabled? If you do, you can use ADB to pull all of the files off of your internal sdcard

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baji

Thanks for the info Sremick. It was absolutely my own fault, as I assumed that it would default to the external. Now I know! I am going to peruse the ADB shell options, perhaps I can copy over the backed up data. Otherwise, I am going to replace the screen and sell the phone to a friend, so I can just wait it out.

baji

accidental double post.