[Brian_K_White]

Was there a point to this story?

I have a pixel 5a with a dead screen that runs but can't be used because the dead part is part of the motherboard not the screen. It's a known problem with this model. So it still runs, but I can't recover any pics or texts from dead people from it because I can't respond to the screen prompts to allow the USB connection.

I don't see how I'm any better off.

[simonh]

Commenter was pointing out a design problem. Your phone has a different design problem. Are you arguing that a device being able to fail in one way makes it ok for it to also be able to fail in other ways?

[throwaway48540]

Use USB-C to connect a hub with display and mouse, copy data over internet.

[m463]

Could usb-c also connect an ethernet port and/or a flash drive?

[narvalotech]

I managed to use scrcpy's awesome KVM feature to do just this: it simulates a keyboard and mouse, so fumbling through hitting tab multiple times and enter, the phone showed up as MTP device and I could download the pictures.

Phone had dead display+touchscreen like yours.

Couldn't manage to enable usb debugging so no backups of texts though :/

[2muchcoffeeman]

Nothing solves for data loss except a half decent backup strategy.