Mobile phone: display broken - how to display content on PC

You may use your cell phone every day and for this reason have a lot of data stored on it. If your display breaks, you can no longer access the data through the phone. However, you can display them on the PC and save them here or transfer them to another device.

How to show the phone's display on the PC

If you want to back up your data on the phone, it is usually necessary to unlock it via the display. Also, the pairing with the PC usually needs to be confirmed. Therefore, if the phone's display is broken, it will be difficult to recover the device's data. However, you can display the contents of the phone on the PC via detours.

1. If you have not set a display lock, you can relatively quickly back up the data of your phone.
2. To do this, connect the phone to your PC with a suitable cable. Then you can access the contents of the device via the file manager.
3. It is more difficult if you have an activated lock screen and also the USB debugging is disabled on your device. With the help of the USB interface On-the-Go (OTG), it is still possible to access the data. Dies ist jedoch von Hersteller zu Hersteller unterschiedlich.
4. Alternativ können Sie einen Fachmann zu Rate ziehen, der Ihnen dabei hilft, Ihre Smartphone-Daten zu sichern.