nexus 6 broken screen

[Stephen Partington]

For the future you can enable this,
http://www.androidcentral.com/how-set-android-device-manager-lock-and-wipe-your-phone
and remote wipe your device.

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 10:11 PM, der.hans <PLUGd at lufthans.com> wrote:

> Am 16. Jul, 2015 schwätzte Nathan England so:
>
> moin moin Nathan,
>
>  From my experiences with encrypted hard drives in both the windows world
>> and linux land, I have been hesitant to encrypt my phone. I use the Moto G
>> on a prepaid verizon plan, so if the phone dies, I can pick up a new one
>> for $60 bucks at walmart, meaning I'm not concerned about sending it in...
>>
>
> My phones cost a bit more :). I also generally use them for several years
> if the provider is sufficient.
>
>  Regardless, I've pondered encrypting it, but dreaded the performance
>> loss. What has your experience been on the 6? Is there a significant
>> performance hit? Do you just feel it is worth the privacy protection and
>> deal with it? Is it not even noticeable?
>>
>
> I haven't noticed. I'm also not that critical. I'm not a gamer except that
> I've been getting into sgt's puzzle collection, especially galaxies :).
>
> Phone calls work, camera works. Playing music works. Haven't stressed it
> much beyond that. I do use lots of f-droid apps, but the only things that
> were sluggish were a few of the games I tried.
>
>  My windows machine with bitlocker is unbearably slow, at least compared
>> to my SSD machines. And the encrypted HDD with Fedora is painful as well,
>> though not near as bad as windows.
>>
>
> Debian with full disk encryption was fine.
>
> Using $HOME encryption bit me as I use unison and both the encryption and
> unison make longer file names. As a result lots of files couldn't be
> synced because the file name was too long.
>
> Could I get a functioning display and screen reader, I would be fine on
> the phone as well, but I can't, so the encryption is causing me problems
> in this particular case. Then again, I'm fairly certain my data is safe.
> Nothing of value to anyone else, but still...
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
>
>  On 2015-07-16 15:35, der.hans wrote:
>>
>>> Am 16. Jul, 2015 schwätzte Stephen Partington so:
>>>
>>> moin moin,
>>>
>>> it's encrypted :).
>>>
>>> At least OEM will have to work hard to get my data. Well, unless they
>>> have
>>> a back door from the NSA...
>>>
>>> ciao,
>>>
>>> der.hans
>>>
>>>  If you encrypted the device. Not likely. If you have no encryption you
>>>> can
>>>> unlock and flash a bootloader and the push a backup and gain  access via
>>>> usb/add and pull your backup.
>>>>
>>>> That's the best i can think of.
>>>> On Jul 16, 2015 1:55 PM, "der.hans" <PLUGd at lufthans.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  moin moin,
>>>>>
>>>>> broke the touchscreen on a nexus 6 and the screen went out as well :(.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a pattern lock on booting, but can't input the pattern or see if
>>>>> the phone has been unlocked. Certain it hasn't, but would like to get
>>>>> it
>>>>> unlocked and booted.
>>>>>
>>>>> The nexus 6 doesn't have mhl. It does have slimport, but you have to
>>>>> root
>>>>> the phone to enable slimport.
>>>>>
>>>>> Aside from ripping it apart and hooking up a new screen, anyone have
>>>>> some
>>>>> ideaѕ on how to get it to boot?
>>>>>
>>>>> I want to get final backups and wipe it before returning it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a super-secret button combo to get a reset?
>>>>>
>>>>> ciao,
>>>>>
>>>>> der.hans
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