Transfering from iPhone to Android

January 10, 2018 10:54 AM

I smashed my iPhone screen. Half of the screen is inoperable, preventing me from accesing the iphone through the PIN screen. I don't want to bring the iPhone in for repairs because doing so costs almost as much as a cheap Android phone (which I bought).

I would however like to retrieve some photos, transfer my Whatsapp chat history, backup and wipe the iphone, but it's a pain since I can't access the iPhone anymore without repairing it. to make matters worse, my PC (Asus F555, WIN10, CPU AMD A9, 4GBRAM), is refuting the download of ICloud For Windows as well as connecting to my iPhone through USB.

I also doubt the possibility of the backup and wipe since the iCloud For Windows application asks you to unlock the physical iPhone to command it. Even if I repair the iPhone, the problem of my PC refuting the ICloud For Windows application download remains. Leavnig me two options.

1. Use your kind advice and resolve the issue.
2. Let it go; take a hammer to the wretched invention, douse it, and return to dust both the shards and the memories at the stroke of a match.

I wrote and email to tech support and have been looking on google for 3 hours. But things are moving fast at 35 and my time is as tight as my patience for these kinds of things, I'm afraid.
Thanks in advance.

posted by Laniger to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)

Apologies if I am stating the obvious, but a 3d party fix-it place can replace the whole screen with a new one for between $75-125 depending on the model. With a fixed screen, you can access the phone and the data. And if you have resolved to stay with the cheap Android phone you can likely recoup the money you just spent by wiping the phone and selling it.
posted by AgentRocket at 11:14 AM on January 10, 2018 [1 favorite]

If you are among the dwindling number of people who regularly backs up their phone to their Mac/PC via iTunes, you can use one of several backup extractors to recover certain data from the backup fille.

If you have iCloud backups turned on and you can arrange temporary access to a second iPhone, you could format the second iPhone, then restore your iCloud backup to *it* over the air during setup, then recover your information from that however you'd like.

Finally, you could price out a repair and see how that weighs against the value of selling a repaired, used phone. You might find repairing, recovering, and reselling to be a break-even deal money-wise, or even a little in your benefit.

Good luck!
posted by churl at 3:40 PM on January 11, 2018