How to Recover Data from Broken Note 5

Accidents don’t ask before coming. Somehow, you broke your Note 5? Don’t worry. I have two methods to help you recover data from broken Note 5. Losing a smartphone or breaking it can be really gruesome. Especially in this era, when we have all the pictures and memories stored in it.

Samsung Galaxy Note 5 is one of the most successful phones in Note Series. This phablet has everything it takes to be the best smartphone. It has a smart, sleek, elegant design and a monster processor to execute the tasks. Samsung Galaxy Note 5 is powered by Quad-core 1.5: Exynos 7420 and 4GB RAM. With such processing power, it is a beast indeed, without any doubt. On the downside, its battery cannot be removed. Another thing that some people don’t like about Galaxy Note 5 is that it does not have a MicroSD slot.

Owning such an expensive and great smartphone and imagine breaking it up. Well, accidents don’t ask before coming, and the last thing you want to do is to end up with a broken Note 5. In the guides below, I will write about a trick that can help you recover data from broken Note 5. Before that, it’s just a recommendation to be safe if you buy such an expensive smartphone. You should use an unbreakable screen protector, and side covers to save it from damage if it falls or something.

Let’s move on to the guide: If you want to Recover Data from Broken Note 5 before sending it for the insurance claim or getting rid of it.

First, if you didn’t have a passcode on your broken Note 5, you can quickly recover the data inside your broken phone by connecting the data cable and using KIES or just copy-paste the data from your Note 5 to your laptop. If you have a passcode on your phone when it gets broken, then you won’t be able to access the data just by connecting it via data cable. You will have to unlock it before you can access data. In this guide, we will talk about remotely unlocking Note 5. So you can access the data inside it.

Note: The below guide will only work if the motherboard of your broken phone is working fine. As the data is stored on the motherboard. This guide will also work if the screen is broken and the digitizer isn’t working, but your phone must turn on under the non-working screen.

Recover Data from Broken Note 5:

Now, talking about this trick to recover data from Broken Note 5, It’s not complicated. This method is just unknown to most of the people. Using this guide, you can recover everything from your broken Note 5, including the contacts, pictures, and videos.

Now, follow the steps below, and you can copy the data inside your broken Note 5 to your laptop or computer. But there is one condition: for this trick to work, you must have a Samsung account on that phone, which is now broken. Using that Samsung account, this guide will help you to unlock Note 5 remotely.

• First, using your Samsung account credentials, log in to a Samsung service named SmartThings Find

• After logging in, You will see several actions you can perform on your smartphone remotely.
• Among these services, you have to use “remotely unlock my phone”.
• Now, after selecting this service, your phone will be unlocked.
• Connect your smartphone to your laptop or PC and transfer your files to your PC using copy/paste or a smart switch.

If the above method doesn’t work for you, use the second method below to unlock and recover data from broken Note 5.

Second Method to Unlock and Recover Data from Broken Note 5:

For this method to work. Make sure your Note 5 is turned on. It is working fine despite the broken display screen and digitizer. This method will work even if the screen on your phone is dead. This method might be a little frustrating and time-consuming, but in the end, you will be able to regain all your data inside the broken Note 5.

Let me give you an overview of what we will do to recover data from broken Note 5. We will connect your phone to a TV or a monitor using OTG and HDMI cables. It will protect your phone interface on the TV. You can utilize a mouse to move around on your phone interface and click the option you want to select.

Prerequisites:

• HDMI Cable.
• MHL to HDMI Adapter
• USB Mouse.

 Note: The MHL Adapter does not work with Note 5 anymore.

Now let us move on to the guide on how to recover data from a broken Note 5 using an OTG cable and MHL to HDMI adapter:

1. First of all, you will need to connect the converter to your phone. It is a handy device. Plug one end of the adapter into the charging port of your phone.
2. Now, connect a USB mouse to the adapter’s USB port. You will be able to use a mouse on the screen.
3. Now plug one end of the HDMI cable into the adapter and the other into the TV or monitor.
4. Once you have connected HDMI to the TV, turn on the appropriate HDMI channel.
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5. You will see your phone’s interface. Currently, there is a lock screen on the TV.
6. Use the mouse to upload all the data to some cloud service. Or Connect a MicroSD card to the adapter and copy all the critical data to that storage card.

Once you have recovered data from your phone, you should wipe it before sending it for replacement. Use this guide to wipe your Note 5 broken screen remotely.

That’s it. I hope this guide helped recover data from broken Note 5. If you have any queries regarding the methods above, let us know in the comments if this method helped you to retrieve data from broken Note 5. Do give us feedback.