Hey guys it's Olivia and I'm back with another video.
So do you have an Android phone of some sort and you know it's on because these lights
on, the bottom are turning on, and these lights are turning on, but the screen is black? You
click power button as much as you want the; screen is black. And so what you want to do
is control your phone through your computer; you want to see the screen, use the cursor
on your computer, use your keyboard to control your phone through your computer. But you
can't do that because you don't have USB Debugging turned on. And you can't turn on USB Debugging
without seeing the screen, but you can't see the screen without using USB Debugging and
it's just a never-ending loop. And I'm going to teach you how you can see your screen enough
so that you can turn on USB Debugging. But before we get into this week's video be sure
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So with the phone I have, this is the Samsung Galaxy Note II this is my mom's old phone
and the screen is black as I showed you before, won't come on. And also it doesn't work when
I touch it. But the Note phones come with a stylus, and the screen does respond when
I use the stylus, but I still can't see what's going on on the screen. So I'm going to show
you how to do that. So the only 2 things you need are a charging cable and your computer.
It's optional, and this will be more efficient, if you have a computer that runs Windows 10.
If you don't have a computer that runs Windows 10, this will still work it will just take
a little bit longer. If you do have a computer with Windows 10 it's just going to be a little
faster. So first I'm going to show you the Windows 10 method because that's what I used
and I'll also explain how you can do this if you don't have Windows 10. So the Windows
10 method if you have a computer that runs Windows 10 there is an app that comes with
your computer called Connect. So if you go to search and you type in Connect, then this
will show up. So what we want to do is mirror our screen on to our computer. So what you're
going to want to do now is plug your phone in to your computer and find where the screenshots
save. So for this particular phone I'm going to click it here, and then phone, and I believe
go to pictures, and then screenshots. So for example if I unlock the phone and take a screenshot,
there we go, it's going to show up in this folder if I refresh it real quick, there.
So this is the screen that I'm on; that's my home screen. So basically, for every single
click you do you want to take a screenshot so you can see what you did. So now we want
to cast our screen to our computer, right. So what we're going to want to do is swipe
down from the top, so we're going to see if that worked. Take a screenshot. Go over to
our computer, refresh this, look at the new screenshot. So it worked; this is what's currently
on our screen right now. Then you're going to want to click the top right corner, the
squares, click that. Pretty sure that worked because I heard it, but we're still going
to take a screenshot. Then refresh, open it, and there. So you see screen mirroring and
it's about somewhere here on the phone, so we want to see if we can click it correctly
and turn on screen mirroring. Don't know if that worked, take a screenshot and we're going
to check. So we did click it and as you can see my laptop showed up. So what you're going
to want to do is click your laptop. So if we go to the Connect screen on our laptop
and then try and click the button, did we do it? There, now as you can see it connected
to my computer and there we can see our phone screen on our computer. And now as you can
see I've unplugged the phone but it's still connected to the Connect app on Windows 10.
The Connect app does not need your USB to be plugged in or anything like that it completely
works wirelessly, you don't have to be connected to Wi-Fi, I currently am but you don't have
to be. You just have to have the Connect app open on your computer and turn on screen mirroring on your phone and it will work.
And so you might be thinking why do you need USB Debugging
at this point because now you can see your phone screen. Well one thing is, you can't
control it from your computer. So if I try and click it, I get this message that tells
me that I need to turn on touch input. I haven't found a way to be able to do that, if you
can find out how to do it then you could be done this is your final step. Or another reason
why you might not want to do this is because with USB Debugging, let's say you wanted to
use a program like Vysor, right as you plug your phone in it connects to Vysor. With this,
every single time you're going to have to go into your phone and take a bunch of screenshots
so that you can turn on the screen mirroring, right. With an app like Vysor you don't have
to touch your screen ever, you just plug it in and then you can control it from your computer.
So if you no longer want to turn on USB Debugging then here you go, you can control your phone
from here. But if you do want to turn on USB Debugging now we can see our phone screen.
So as I said this works if you have Windows 10. If you don't have a Windows 10 computer
do you want to know what you do? You just continue to take screenshots. So for every
single click, take a screenshot, refresh the folder, check to see where you are in your
menu, and then make another click. That's what you have to do. And it honestly seems
a bit tedious but it doesn't take very long. We only took 4 screenshots to get up to this
point and then now we can see our phone screen. But if you can't see your phone screen because
you don't have Windows 10, all you have to do is take a few more screenshots and it seems
time-consuming but it's not. So regardless of whether or not you can now see your screen,
this is what you're going to want to do. Keep in mind if you can't see your screen you're
going to take a screenshot between every single one. We're going to go to apps in the bottom
right corner, settings, you're going to go to More, and as you can see I already have
Developer Options but yours isn't going to say that because you haven't turned it on
yet. So you're going to go to About Device, and then you're going to find your build number,
and you are just going to click it a bunch of times. So when I click it you're going
to see it says, "No need to developer mode has already been enabled," because mine has
been enabled, but yours isn't going to be. So you're going to just click it a bunch of
times. And when I originally did it I counted and you only have to click it 7 times, but
if you still can't see your phone screen at this point you might just want to hit it a
bunch of times in case you miss click sometimes because you can't see your screen still. Then
when you go back, then your Developer Options will show up. So then you go to Developer
Options, and as you can see my USB Debugging is already on, but I'll just turn it off to
show you what happens, and then turn it back on. So then you're going to get this message,
click OK, and now it's on. So now you have USB Debugging turned on and now regardless
of whether or not you have Windows 10, if you have the Vysor program on whatever computer,
you just plug your phone in and you'll be able to see your screen. So that is how to
turn on USB Debugging if you can't see your screen. Long story short, take a screenshot
every time you touch your screen so that you can see where you are in the menu. So if you
don't have a computer with Windows 10 then you wouldn't do the first part of this video;
you wouldn't scroll down, click the squares, and then turn on screen mirroring because
you're not going to be mirroring your screen. You just going to go straight to your settings
and find the USB Debugging settings, and take a screenshot every single time so you can
see where you are in your menu. So as I said with this phone the screen doesn't turn on
and it doesn't work when I touch it with my fingers. Luckily it has a stylus. If you have
a phone where the screen is off but touch input works, then this will work for you.
If you have a phone where your screen is off and the touch doesn't work you're going to
need a little bit more equipment. You're going to need an OTG to USB adapter which is basically,
one end is going to plug into the bottom of your phone and then the other end you're going
to take a USB mouse and plug it in. And then there's going to be a cursor on your phone
screen that you can now use to navigate, but you still can't see your screen so you're
going to need to do the screenshots. But something is already plugged into the bottom of your
phone, so how are you supposed to plug your phone into your computer? This is one of two
things you can do. You can plug the mouse in, make a click, unplug the mouse, plug in
your phone to your computer, and then look at your screenshots, and do that every single
time. Plug in the mouse, click, then plug it into your computer, check. You can do that,
or you can buy a splitter. So it would have 3 ends, one end would go into the bottom of
your phone, one of the other ends will have a USB so then you plug your mouse into that,
and then the other end will look just like this and then you plug your charger into that
and then the other USB end into your computer. So you could do that so that you can have
the mouse and your computer both plugged into your phone at the same time. So I'll have
a link below for the adapter and the splitter on Amazon and it shouldn't cost more than
$20 even after shipping. But the splitter is optional, the splitter is just to make
it easier so you don't have to keep plugging in and unplugging two different things into
your phone. But you can just get the adapter, plug the mouse into your phone, and navigate
it that way. Basically what you need, the most important thing is to be able to touch
your screen in some way. Whether that's with your finger, or with a stylus, or with a mouse.
And then use the screenshots in order to navigate your menu. So yeah, that's how to turn on
USB Debugging without being able to see your screen. You're basically seeing your screen
through a series of pictures, which is essentially what a video is. A video is just a bunch of
pictures put together very smoothly, which is kind of like when your phone display is
moving, it's kind of just a bunch of pictures moving together fluidly. So just take a bunch
of screenshots, find out where you are in your menu, and turn on USB Debugging, and
then you can control your phone from your computer. So, this isn't a video I would normally
make, but this was frustrating me, and there were no videos, at least no videos that I
saw, that had this specific solution, so I hope that this helps you guys because I was
literally working on this from Friday and now it's Monday. So, with all that being said
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