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Where to Start When You've Broken Your Android Phone Screen? Here's a number of strategies you can try.

There's a great number of ways to interact with a phone but being able to see what it's displaying is probably the most important.  Unfortunately, smashing a screen is an all too common occurrence and with the poor state of voice assistance, and strengthened security across Android, it's become harder to get into a phone that's been smashed.  Although the regular backup system with Google Cloud and other apps with backup capabilities has improved, sometimes you just really want to get back onto that phone to rescue data. Listed below are a number of strategies you can try to gain increased access to your broken phone. Immediately assess whether or not your phone has some life left in the screen and digitizer.  If the digitizer still works, even partially it will be helpful.  If the LCD/AMOLEDs are bleeding purple or black, you'll have a limited time before the screen completely fails... so best to enable some of the remote control options (6, 7, or 10) below. I