<story><title>Turn your old, cracked Android phone into a backup server</title><url>https://www.hannahtech.co/post/turn-your-old-cracked-android-phone-into-a-backup-server-urbackup-linux-deploy-tutorial-part-i</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>techrat</author><text>Probably unnecessary at this point.&lt;p&gt;Nearly every phone today is sold with a USB C port.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;But this phone is older than...&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;My Moto Z Play was released in 2016. That phone is now 5 years old. It came with Nougat... and I can mirror the screen with a USB C hub with Built in HDMI. Plug in a mouse and you&amp;#x27;re done.&lt;p&gt;No need to leave adb enabled, which is a security hole that can be exploited by unsafe USB ports and bad actors. (Also, police.)</text></item><item><author>pmlnr</author><text>The lesson of the cracked screen is: always pair you phone for adb as one of the first steps in setting it up, and if possible, root it.&lt;p&gt;You might need it if the screen cracks and you want to save data off it.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes there are ways around it by dirty booting a recovery image, but it&amp;#x27;s not as simple as it sounds, and you&amp;#x27;d need an unlocked bootloader to do so: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;petermolnar.net&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;save-files-from-a-dead-screen-android&amp;#x2F;index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;petermolnar.net&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;save-files-from-a-dead-scree...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fulafel</author><text>A lot of phones don&amp;#x27;t have video over the USB C port (eg Google Pixels).</text></comment>
<story><title>Turn your old, cracked Android phone into a backup server</title><url>https://www.hannahtech.co/post/turn-your-old-cracked-android-phone-into-a-backup-server-urbackup-linux-deploy-tutorial-part-i</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>techrat</author><text>Probably unnecessary at this point.&lt;p&gt;Nearly every phone today is sold with a USB C port.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;But this phone is older than...&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;My Moto Z Play was released in 2016. That phone is now 5 years old. It came with Nougat... and I can mirror the screen with a USB C hub with Built in HDMI. Plug in a mouse and you&amp;#x27;re done.&lt;p&gt;No need to leave adb enabled, which is a security hole that can be exploited by unsafe USB ports and bad actors. (Also, police.)</text></item><item><author>pmlnr</author><text>The lesson of the cracked screen is: always pair you phone for adb as one of the first steps in setting it up, and if possible, root it.&lt;p&gt;You might need it if the screen cracks and you want to save data off it.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes there are ways around it by dirty booting a recovery image, but it&amp;#x27;s not as simple as it sounds, and you&amp;#x27;d need an unlocked bootloader to do so: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;petermolnar.net&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;save-files-from-a-dead-screen-android&amp;#x2F;index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;petermolnar.net&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;save-files-from-a-dead-scree...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmlnr</author><text>Moto E series doesn&amp;#x27;t have MHL.&lt;p&gt;No, adb is still needed.</text></comment>