[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SgtDubKing:
Hello everyone,

Tuesday my S2 (i9100g) broke and I'm really desperate because there is alot of important data on the phone like fotos, texts, financial information as well as all the application data which I really need and which would be a major disappointment if it was gone since I have no backup.

What happened:

My S2 was running Cyanogenmod 10.1.3 (stable) with ClockWorkMod recovery. It should also be noted that USB debugging unfortunatly isn't enabled.

Last tuesday my phone fell on a carpet floor from a height of 20-30cm. Afterwards, it appeared to me that the display was broken because it was mostly black, with some 3D looking red and blue dots as well as some lines. The whole looked kinda like a mix of modern art and psychedelic art. The only part of the screen that was still acting normal was a small area in the top left corner, which still showed what it should (my homescreen) and which also showed the Facebook Message Notification symbol in the status bar ar the top when I received a message (phone also vibrated then) and this was after it fell. Back then I thought that it might only be a software error of some kind because the phone was still showing activity, so when I was at home I took out the battery, SD card and sim card over the night. The next morning, I tried to fix the phone. I put everything back into the phone and started it. Unfortunatly now the whole screen was black and was showing no more activity at all. The only thing that was and still is lighting up is the menu and back buttons next to the home button. So here is what I then did:

1. Connected the S2 to my computer. It immediatly shows up in windows explorer as usual, but when I double click on it the folder is empty (It was always this way, both with stock OS as well as with CM until I unlocked the display then the SD card and internal memory would show up). So if there is no way I can unlock the phone (do you know one????) this seems to be a dead and.

2. Installed Samsung Kies. Kies recognizes the device and says "connection is being established" but even after 30mins, it fails to do so. I tried the "Connectionproblem search" but it didn't help. So another deathend.

3. I downloaded the android SDK to try to use the adb backup feature. Unfortunatly, the android SDK doesn't find my S2, probably because USB debugging isn't enabled. Is there any way I can backup with ADB without USB debugging or any way I can enable USB debugging without having to use the display of my phone? Is there something I can edit on the SD card to enable it or so?

I also updated the Samsung USB driver but see if that helps but it didn't.

4. Thing I tried was using androidscreencast to try to access my S2, but just like the Android SDK it doesn't find any devices to connect to (Probably because of the lack of USB Debugging).

No I really don't know what to do anymore. I hope some of you invest the time to read all of it and might come up with an idea

How to backup (even if it's necessary to disassemble the whole phone) or

How to enable USB debugging so I can hopefully use adb

And if nothing else helps and now one knows an answer atleast how I can find out if only the screen/touchscreen is broken so I can try to exchange that on my one and have a fully working phone again.

Or might have another tip of any kind. I really really hope so!

Another thing where I don't really know if it is connected to my phone falling or something else but since then, I can't really access my SD card. I took it out of the S2 and connected it to my PC via microSD to SD adapter and the SD slot of my monitor. But now when I connect it I first get this error message:

Ok now my PC doesn't recognize the SD card at all (still did it today), I'll restart my PC to see if that helps but basically what happened before is this:

I tried to copy all the data from the SD to my PC, first everything was normal and copying just fine, but then I received a error that one file couldn't be copied. I continued to copy except for that file. 1min later I got the same error message for another file and so on so I stopped copying and tried to find out what was wrong.

I opened the console (cmd) and used to chkdsk command to first check the card. It said everything was fine and there where no errors which I couldn't really believe so i reran chkdsk with the same result. So I tried the chkdsk /f command to see if this was bringing up any results. It ran until 59% without any errors and then just stopped and again said C:\Windows\system32 blabla so I could enter a new command, it just quited at 59% with now error or anything. I retried, same result.

Today when I wanted to try it again I received a windows error when I connected the card saying that the device might be broken. I clicked on check and repair. This started, but then just stopped at somewhere in the process and didn't do anything anymore.

(Pic of where it stopped)

So once again, I could really use some help. I hope some of you have the time to read my little story and hopefully come up with an idea!!! Thank you very much if you read this and try to help!