P6 : HARD :screen seems dead, pls help

heartburst

hello guys,
i bought this P6 second hand about a year ago for a good price,
i instantly installed graphene on it, and it has served me through thick and thin ever since.
screen is now entirely black, but seems to respond to touch correctly, how do i log in to get my data out?
timeline :

4 days ago, i went kayaking with it(total submersion and a few medium hits against wood), and if was perfectly fine like always.
3 days ago, i just put it next to me in shower, it seemed fine, but that evening i noticed a few discoloring spots growing from the middle 4/5th down of the screen, at sleepy time the center of the spots had grown dark, so i placed the entire thing into a crystal cat litter bag and taped it shut, thinking if water can get in, it can get out. screen 5/10% black at end of day
2 days ago, screen is about 60\70% dark and the dark spots seems to follow weird patterns, not unlike what i know circuit boards to look like. next night i do the same thing but removing the sim card this time to give a easier path to the water that is seemingly in there.
-this morning, only about 5/10% of pixels still work, so i put it in the hoven at 45 degree for the entire work day, hoping to dry the damn thing,
now screen is all black, still react to touch like it should, just can't see anything, how do i interact with it to at least get my data out, or fix it if someone got any brilliant ideas.

Rootus

Connect your phone to a computer monitor or a TV via a USB to HDMI cable and you should be able to log in and back up your data for a safe transition to another phone.

heartburst

Rootus yeah i am trying that, didn't work, i am trying to connect the phone to my PC to look through it's files but even thou i can unlock the thing throught muscle memory alone, i can't set the usb to allow data transfer

heartburst

how can i get past the FKing usb power only setting, this is soooooo enraging

heartburst

can someone show me a screen shot of the select usb connection type selection box pretty please
and the notification i have to click to get there

Djob44

Latest update has caused an issue with my phone as well. Black screen and unable to connect with usb

heartburst

i think you have a different problem brother, but i am losing faith, i am buying a new one

crazysally

I won't chastise you for not backing up your P6 after it went for a swim ... because I had a "lesson learned" class too 🤣

Ever since my P6P bricked itself last fall ... I manually backup up once a week. Here's how I do it (takes all of 10 minutes):

Copy all my docs, downloads, photos, calendar, etc to my PC via USB cable (the PC gets backed up hourly),
Then backup SMS/MMS messages, contacts/call logs using SMS Import/Export (github tmo1 sms-ie) and copy that to the PC, and finally
I manually keep a list of installed Apps and any special Graphene and/or App settings in a document on my PC.

When my former P6P bricked itself last fall i was backing up with SeedVault. That recovery worked except it didn't recover SMS/MMS messages and that really sucked. So now I do it all manually because SeedVault is a weak and failure-prone backup utility. I also purchased a spare P7P in case of another bricking incident, theft or loss. But I actually use the P7P as a WiFi-only Graphene Ggle device. It has Google Framework/Play on it so I can use Waze, Maps, etc without having a SIM card in it. I don't log onto G I just use Aurora to get apps from G. That's what works for me. Anyone feel free to comment if you see a weakness or problem with my method.

heartburst

crazysally i have like a 3 month old save, but only of my files, not my tabs and i can't really transfer accounts now, that's the main problem left, so a more recent save would have protected maybe 50 pictures, but i would still have lost application data, (mainly bank 2nd factor thingy, signal, and a few contacts), well lesson learned, deep backup as soon at strange thing start happening,