[Q] Any way to recover files from S4 with dead screen?

I have an old Canadian Bell based Galaxy s4, with a dead screen. I'd like to try to get files off it, but did not enable usb debugging mode prior to the screen breaking.

Is there any way to access the file system on the phone in this situation? I've done a bit of looking around and can see that I should be able to access it via adb if I have usb debugging turned on, but debugging isn't on in this case.

I have usb connected the phone to my fedora machine and can see via dmesg that it does get detected. I can hear the thing start up, but beyond that I can't see anything else.

Googling around it sounds like I should be able to load a recover kernel, with debugging turned on if I use the right process, but I can't find enough into to get me going.

dmesg output is below just in case it helps...

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[ 4104.343749] usb 2-2: USB disconnect, device number 6

[ 4180.261104] usb 2-2: new high-speed USB device number 7 using ehci-pci

[ 4180.376385] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=04e8, idProduct=6860

[ 4180.376390] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3

[ 4180.376394] usb 2-2: Product: SAMSUNG_Android

[ 4180.376396] usb 2-2: Manufacturer: SAMSUNG

[ 4180.376399] usb 2-2: SerialNumber: ........



Any help is much appreciated!

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