I’m an elder millennial. Distrustful of technology, but conversant.

I need to back everything up to PC. I just need an actual human to tell me which app to pick, and maybe an anecdote. The rest on my end I’m fine with.

  • paper_moon@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    depending on how bad its smashed, using scrcpy might help you back things up and use the phone with your computer, until you’ve accomplished everything you needed to. It mirrors your phone screen to your computer and you can use your computer mouse/touchpad to interact with the phone mirror.

    It saved me when i broke my screen and it started to turn purple and then black, spreading from the top side of the screen to the bottom. In a few hours the entire screen was black and I couldn’t use the phone anymore. I thankfully got scrcpy working before that, and could back up all my app data.

    Disclaimer, I’ve only used this with a Linux computer so I have no idea how well the windows or macOS versions work.

    https://scrcpy.org/download/